Attending a wedding
8 hours ago
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
December 2013
Our eyes are pretty much useless..
If our mind is closed or blinded by the social norm
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Aspirations
In Nature every voice can be heard, there is no exclusiveness.
Even the smallest whisper becomes a rousing chant in the silent wild forest
Friday, 29 November 2013
Sunday, 28 March 2010
ATTENTION
Use the Power of Attention
matter is nothing other than a field of potential and possibilities.
Embrace Your Creative Power
Now the magic happens!
Experience the Magic of Turning Your Desires into Intention
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
EARTH
Stone is weak to water and will
It wears then washes away
In many years of permanence pertaining still
The ebb, the flow, the sway
Iron is wrought twisted to shape
Created protected preserved
These hands are tied by binding tape
Coated nicely in elegant words
Wood is the saviour substance of cross
Versatility runs through its grain
Continuous hope no matter the loss
The demon or holiest name
Earth is eternal moving in space
Though many do not see the gate
The pergatory prayer is gathering grace
Inevitable change a clean slate
Faith is weak to realities chill
Crafted for current demand
Long years surpressing the human thrill
Killing off that they do not understand
Sunday, 21 March 2010
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (The history behind the mystery)
From the 4th Century onwards, the Christian Church was accepted within the Roman empire and changed to suit its elite. Sucat (St Patrick) came to Ireland and began to spread his message of delusion in the 5th century. Through measures of stealth and the whisperings of fear they converted the many who were illiterate in latin and basic farmers in occupation. All land on earth is borrowed and never owned by humans.
The right to elect bishops and to share in communal property was abolished. The clergy gained greater control and from the 6th century onwards won the right to collect tithes – 10% taxes on the poor and illiterate.
By the Middle Ages, the Church had accumulated enormous wealth and had formed a close alliance with the absolute monarchs of that time
The institution now mirrored the hierarchical structures of the feudal society. Pope, cardinals, bishops, deacons, and priests dovetailed with kings, princes, barons and knights. Church and state hand in hand to oppress and control.
To preserve its wealth, the Catholic Church introduced rules of celibacy.
The rationale for this was perfectly simple and had nothing to do with the teachings of Christ. If priests could not marry and have children, then the wealth would remain concentrated in the church.
Increasingly, the negative side of religion came to the fore as humanity was deemed to be evil, sinful and in desperate need of “ spiritual guidance“.
All of the good qualities of human beings – the ability to love, to forge solidarity, to create and be artistic – were transferred to a God who lived above in heaven.!
The more God grew in power, the more humanity itself was demeaned to be sinful and base. Unable to function without a blessing from the God. Or his representatives on earth. Through peer pressure they forced others to conform with witch burnings and drowning. Natural alchemy was ridiculed and reinvented as mythical legend.
Human sexuality was a particular target, pleasure and self gratification were a taboo.
The ability of two adults to enjoy each other’s bodies was seen as a dangerous subversion of the power of God. Sexual passion and reciprocal love detracted from humility and “giving yourself to God“.
It subverted their idea of natural order where life itself was seen as ‘a gift’ from God.
The clergy made a virtue of their own celibacy and spiritually elevated themselves over the rest of humanity – simply because they claimed to have no sexuality or sexual urges
This was always a fiction, of course, but it led to a tradition where sexuality was seen as sinful, demeaning and messed up with all manner of nonsense about power and obedience between a man and a woman.
A pattern of child rape arose directly from this terrible history. Children were particularly vulnerable because they could be silenced by a clergy who pretended to have a special access to God above – even while having the most distorted and sick images of human sexuality
To be fair, only a minority of priests broke the strong social taboo on raping children. But those who did, knew that they would be protected by vows of secrecy designed to protect holy reputations and assets. They could also be forgiven by the institutional magic of ‘confession’.
The conspiracy of silence on child abuse therefore goes very deep. It did not spring from a few bad eggs at the top. It did not arise because of a lack of understanding of ‘correct procedures’
It arose from an institution that survives only by demeaning real human sensual and sexual feelings – while accumulating wealth through hypocrisy.
We are all children of nature a part of the cosmic cycle of birth, life, death and renewal.
In Ireland, the Catholic Church won huge power over people because it was an ally of the state and an oppressor of sexual freedom.
The state used the church to terrify the children of the poor into social obedience. Working class children, for example, were incarcerated in industrial schools and used as slave labour, simply for missing days at school or for not having proper clothing on Sundays at church.
To this day, Cowen’s Fianna Fail government is still protecting the church and its assets. Recently, Education Minister, Batt O Keefe TD, said there is ‘no legal way’ to force the church to pay more than €128 million to its victims. Instead the Irish people will pay €1.2 billion to prevent the dissolution of Church assets.
Fianna Fail, and their pathetic allies in the Green party, will not call for the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady or refuse to meet him in any official capacity.
Their only response for victims is to say “Sorry“.!
Well I am not sorry to see the demise of this sick charade called religious belief!
The right to elect bishops and to share in communal property was abolished. The clergy gained greater control and from the 6th century onwards won the right to collect tithes – 10% taxes on the poor and illiterate.
By the Middle Ages, the Church had accumulated enormous wealth and had formed a close alliance with the absolute monarchs of that time
The institution now mirrored the hierarchical structures of the feudal society. Pope, cardinals, bishops, deacons, and priests dovetailed with kings, princes, barons and knights. Church and state hand in hand to oppress and control.
To preserve its wealth, the Catholic Church introduced rules of celibacy.
The rationale for this was perfectly simple and had nothing to do with the teachings of Christ. If priests could not marry and have children, then the wealth would remain concentrated in the church.
Increasingly, the negative side of religion came to the fore as humanity was deemed to be evil, sinful and in desperate need of “ spiritual guidance“.
All of the good qualities of human beings – the ability to love, to forge solidarity, to create and be artistic – were transferred to a God who lived above in heaven.!
The more God grew in power, the more humanity itself was demeaned to be sinful and base. Unable to function without a blessing from the God. Or his representatives on earth. Through peer pressure they forced others to conform with witch burnings and drowning. Natural alchemy was ridiculed and reinvented as mythical legend.
Human sexuality was a particular target, pleasure and self gratification were a taboo.
The ability of two adults to enjoy each other’s bodies was seen as a dangerous subversion of the power of God. Sexual passion and reciprocal love detracted from humility and “giving yourself to God“.
It subverted their idea of natural order where life itself was seen as ‘a gift’ from God.
The clergy made a virtue of their own celibacy and spiritually elevated themselves over the rest of humanity – simply because they claimed to have no sexuality or sexual urges
This was always a fiction, of course, but it led to a tradition where sexuality was seen as sinful, demeaning and messed up with all manner of nonsense about power and obedience between a man and a woman.
A pattern of child rape arose directly from this terrible history. Children were particularly vulnerable because they could be silenced by a clergy who pretended to have a special access to God above – even while having the most distorted and sick images of human sexuality
To be fair, only a minority of priests broke the strong social taboo on raping children. But those who did, knew that they would be protected by vows of secrecy designed to protect holy reputations and assets. They could also be forgiven by the institutional magic of ‘confession’.
The conspiracy of silence on child abuse therefore goes very deep. It did not spring from a few bad eggs at the top. It did not arise because of a lack of understanding of ‘correct procedures’
It arose from an institution that survives only by demeaning real human sensual and sexual feelings – while accumulating wealth through hypocrisy.
We are all children of nature a part of the cosmic cycle of birth, life, death and renewal.
In Ireland, the Catholic Church won huge power over people because it was an ally of the state and an oppressor of sexual freedom.
The state used the church to terrify the children of the poor into social obedience. Working class children, for example, were incarcerated in industrial schools and used as slave labour, simply for missing days at school or for not having proper clothing on Sundays at church.
To this day, Cowen’s Fianna Fail government is still protecting the church and its assets. Recently, Education Minister, Batt O Keefe TD, said there is ‘no legal way’ to force the church to pay more than €128 million to its victims. Instead the Irish people will pay €1.2 billion to prevent the dissolution of Church assets.
Fianna Fail, and their pathetic allies in the Green party, will not call for the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady or refuse to meet him in any official capacity.
Their only response for victims is to say “Sorry“.!
Well I am not sorry to see the demise of this sick charade called religious belief!
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