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You Won't Believe Who the Body Is.

7/25/2025

The following interaction was the first time Ramakrishna's 'biographer' met with the Hindu sage privately. It is a good introduction to Who God is, how close He remains, and why, for some reason, we do not notice.

MASTER: "Well, do you believe in God with form or without form?"

M., rather surprised, said to himself: "How can one believe in God without form when one believes in God with form? And if one believes in God without form, how can one believe that God has a form? Can these two contradictory ideas be true at the same time? Can a white liquid like milk be black?"

M: "Sir, I like to think of God as formless."
MASTER: "Very good. It is enough to have faith in either aspect. You believe in God without form; that is quite all right. But never for a moment think that this alone is true and all else false. Remember that God with form is just as true as God without form. But hold fast to your own conviction."

The assertion that both are equally true amazed M.; he had never learnt this from his books. Thus his ego received a third blow; but since it was not yet completely crushed, he came forward to argue with the Master a little more.

M: "Sir, suppose one believes in God with form. Certainly He is not the clay image!"
MASTER (interrupting): "But why clay? It is an image of Spirit."
M. could not quite understand the significance of this "image of Spirit". "But, sir," he said to the Master, "one should explain to those who worship the clay image that it is not God, and that, while worshipping it, they should have God in view and not the clay image. One should not worship clay."

MASTER (sharply): "That's the one hobby of you Calcutta people � giving lectures and bringing others to the light! Nobody ever stops to consider how to get the light himself. Who are you to teach others?

"He who is the Lord of the Universe will teach everyone. He alone teaches us, who has created this universe; who has made the sun and moon, men and beasts, and all other beings; who has provided means for their sustenance; who has given children parents and endowed them with love to bring them up. The Lord has done so many things � will He not show people the way to worship Him? If they need teaching, then He will be the Teacher. He is our Inner Guide.
"Suppose there is an error in worshipping the clay image; doesn't God know that through it He alone is being invoked? He will he pleased with that very worship. Why should you get a headache over it? You had better try for knowledge and devotion yourself."

In calculus or chemistry class my mind would fall into a dreamlike trance--like dreams where the exit ramp was too tight and the tires didn't hold the road or running with legs that seemed like they would not move no matter how I coaxed them.

BEWARE:

The following information could turn the reader's mind into a non-stick surface.

HOLD THE BRAIN LEVEL SO THE IDEA DOES NOT SLIDE OFF!

God is the body. There--I said it.

The evidence is more than circumstantial. [The usual drill] Move your hand--did it do what you 'told it to?' Of course not. It went all over the place in ways you did not specify. Did it perform EXACTLY as you wanted it to? Probably--even though you didn't specify the rotation, twists, flourishes etc..it just 'did that on its own.' Are you telling yourself some vague story about the nervous system, brain, and some command center that you apparently occupy? Probably-maybe--but then the material slides right off the Teflon onto the floor--"Move on! Unsolvable! Who cares?!"

HOLD THE BRAIN LEVEL...

Comment then-- if it is not God, who moves the hand?. That is the practical portion of the presentation. Now look at the circumstantial evidence.

1. The body provides an accurate mirror of the mind.
It does whatever you want it to, all the while providing exacting feedback on the wisdom of, let's say, 5 instead of 3 drinks, driving past the point of total exhaustion, giving an extra angry turn to the new faucet in the bathroom, taking on a profession for the money-a relationship for the sex-a lifetime for a gold watch or paying too much or not enough attention to anything, based on a little voice that says, "Maybe a little more would be good" or "Maybe this is good enough." Scars, zits, hangovers, brain death are just a few graphic illustrations the body gives as feedback. You say, "Of course, so what," as the idea finds itself rubbing elbows with 'why men wear ties' and 'what does sex mean.' We take the symbolic, precise feedback for granted.

2. All bodies are connected physically.
Think about the air, water, food cycles. Excrement flowing into sewers, along with blood, semen, dead skin cells, or like Charlie Brown told Pigpen about his dust, along with other body observations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkXaSgrTXSg
We are all in the mix from beginning to end, regardless of how many boundaries and safeguards we set. Per ACIM THIS IS SYMBOLIC! It is not a 'physical fact' it is a metaphysical teaching about something we hate. We take proximity for granted.

3. All bodies are energetically enmeshed.
It's just a fact that people move in simultaneous synchronization with each other when they are engaged in conversation etc...That movement of the hand whose mobilization defies a clear origination extends to the interweaving of human energy that lacks hard edges or controllable gateways. The Rockefeller research Cabal has figured it out but its used for weapons and advertising, as if there were a difference. We take embedded inter-communication for granted.

4. Molecular biology is not other than 'Deus in machina.' We are clueless as 'worms in a watch' about DNA, RNA, and genetics. Learning how to saw the 'Pieta' into pieces, cast molds and recombine those into other sculptures is not the same as Michelangelo's original work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY&list=WL&index=17&t=24s
We take our incomprehensible microbiological platform for granted.

"Body" is a word. That is all. A word is a symbol--or as Jesus in ACIM says, "a symbol of a symbol" since the thing it names is a symbol of separation. That's why 'a body can't be God'--it is a symbol of something that God is not. There is sticky nuance in this. The body has to 'not be God' since that is the intention, but like every other earthly aspiration examined in the Course, does our idea about the body succeed in 'eliminating God from body?' More accurately, did 'The Son" succeed in making something [a body] that was not God? Of course the answer is, "No, So what?" So is the body 'inert?' Does it have any agency? You have to say, "Yes." Bullet points one through 4 are not inert, non-intelligent, random fluxes of mindless-bonding. The precision of the body makes the mind dull in comparison. Nature is, for practical purposes, "perfect in every way," especially when compared to human motivations, endeavors, and outcomes.
"God is the body," or as the Paramahamsa said in the opening, " But why clay? It is the image of Spirit." We have to call this thing something, and we settled on "body" to obfuscate the absolutely blindingly obvious experience that it is not at all a 'body' as even we would define the bounded boundary of mortal flesh. Spirit--not clay implies, as does the Course, that form is irrelevant to content. "Bone, muscle, and blood" are words, like "the body." Microbiology gives way to molecular biology, then molecules, then quanta, then light--there is no 'flesh' there is no 'body'--but we have to call it something. The hazard of 'calling it something' is that the mind clings to the concept as real in order to invest in it, crunch, grok and work with it. But the only true reality of a body is that it 'symbolizes the separation' and that it is made out of light. Evolution, Pleiadean interventions or The Grays and Archons might be historically accurate. That would not negate the basic 'light formed into symbol."
It is our vehicle whose possibilities we explore from the first moment of conception. It quickly becomes a tool for navigation, then accomplishment, then enjoyment, and eventually a thing to 'train' by stretching its envelope of original possibilities; mentally, physically, in endurance, in tolerance of the intolerable, in acceptance of what we once found unacceptable. We indulge 'our will' to 'read the riot act' to this body-thing, then beat it one way or another, ignore or ridicule it in a variety of civil or debased idioms, then identify the hill to die on. Then we screw and glue it to our fucked-up, wooden idea of what this whole thing is about, hoist it up in the air and say--good for us, 'Life it a bitch, and then you die."
Notice we never-the-hell talk to it. Sit down with it like the loyal man or girl Friday it is and say, What about you? Oh, thanks by the way. Ouch, I'm sorry about that". Wanna know why? We know this 5D interconnected environmental suit is God, The Almighty God who refused to abandon his shit-heel Son who has to take the gift for granted or he would die of shame and grief. God loves His Son and doesn't mind the crucifixion and all the other shit we do to Him, our Royal, Loyal Partner in this crime--until we look at Him and say, "What about You. Do you have any ideas about this thing?"
If we have that heart to heart, He will remain mute. The body will look back at us like a hound dog, blinking soulful eyes, waiting for us to take charge--in a way, that's been the problem all along. "Okay mutt, it's you and me--let's go birdin'." The partner endures wind and weather with tail wagging absolutely happy and purposeful to shag down whatever the master manages to shoot out of the sky. "That's my God" we say and wonder if we could train it to 'bring me my slippers.' Christians call God as dog the suffering servant, well acquainted with grief. The Almighty Lord has such a small ego His only interest is to exhaust us of our desire to manipulate Him in our fantasies." His love endures forever" spells out the curse/blessing situation. Like so many ideas in A Course in Miracles, if a student locks down the understanding that God is NOT the body, the ego can easily confiscate that unclaimed resource for itself, believing it IS the body.
A mind whose goal is to navigate a world of forms has no choice but to 'own' the body as resource. The mind that changes its goal to 'think with the New Mind of Holy Spirit' receives the revelation: God did not leave His Son and actually safeguarded his adventure by becoming the seat of the son of God, to inform, accompany, and reward him on a physical journey to answer every impossible question. Then the now-time will arrive when the last interesting realization arrives. "I never did anything. It was always Him." The person on the porch, his slippers, a dead pheasant at his feet and a Blue-Tick Coon Hound with baleful eyes fold into light.

Christopher, David, and Ken

7/14/2025

This is all about Ken, (Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, editor of ACIM)--Christopher and David are incidental to the goal--here are three guys who, unlike Abraham, Martin, and John, will not get the public legacy they deserve, not even a false one based on half-truths. At least the social justice heroes in the song merited a mythos which may or may not have anything to do with what they really accomplished. And unlike the namesakes in the Dion anthem, Christopher, David, and Ken were not tools of larger forces--they were tools of the largest Force.
Christopher Alexander rejected a placard among famous architects to inherit a kooky reputation for reimagining the entire profession. His trilogy of beautiful books dedicated to that cause read like scripture--and get just about as much wear from a clueless public. His book, A Pattern Language is an ambitious template for fragmented moderns to reclaim beauty and control over their own environments--from window seats to cities. The Last whole Earth Catalog called it the best book in the of 1970's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbwnDdPWjig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlo0Lva5AU

'David' refers to Dave McGowan, a personal hero of mine who maybe paid with his life for exposing the games behind major social narratives, particularly, 9-11, The Lincoln Assassination, the Moon Landings, The Boston Bombing and spectacularly, the rock and roll industry as a manufactured social engineering project of the military industrial complex. His You Tube deliveries are a dazed and confused everyman who spends nights on his blogsite, writing in hugely entertaining fashion about the surprises he uncovers for we the uninformed.

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzA8iZkpixQ&t=3416s

I include these unrelated creators with our subject to make the syllabic-conceptual parallel with classic song work--and to link Ken in with 2 others who will never get the credit they deserve. Arguably all three were tapped by a divine hand to throw a wrench into something that begged tweaking.
The messages from Helen came into an atheistic, barely humanist milieu. Ken happened into the situation, fresh-off dedicating himself to writing and contemplating St. Theresa of Avila's mystical revelations mostly in Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection. The godless, scientific, secular context makes Ken's appearance all the more miraculous, baked-into the form Jesus desired for the teaching. Arguably, Ken is as important to the process as Bill who hired Helen and Helen who received the dictations from Jesus ; without him, the text, lessons and book structure could have been like the Seth Material, a meandering message that faded in and out of personal observations for the scribes and straight teachings. Clear thought aimed at the illusion, the structure of the real world, and the essential relationship of Creator and Created could well have been lost. Did we get lucky or is Ken's role ordained? I think the latter.
The importance of this is easily understated by those who saw him as heavy handed in his editing choices, That he hid juicy discourses by Jesus about psychology and personal notes to Helen and Bill. Thank God, literally, that Kenneth Wapnick got hold of it in the vacuum one can imagine around that pile of dictation. With anal-retentive precision that few possess, he coaxed reams of paper into what stands now as A Course in Miracles, Lessons for Students, Manual for teachers, and Clarification of Terms. Apostle Ken conducted his seminar, 'Duality as metaphor in A Course in Miracles' as a reaction to distortions perpetrated by well-intentioned students-as-teachers of the Course.
Errors are rife among on-line presenters of ACIM--not on nuances of interpretation, but glaring pivots from Jesus himself on the nature of forgiveness, miracles, and our role as saviors. If A Foundation for Inner Peace, and a Foundation for A Course in Miracles had not grappled aggressively with the 'final form' of the three Blue-books--7 years of profound insight into the structure of mind and phenomena could have been diluted among extraneous comments to the scribes. Dr Wapnick's work set it apart as Holy Writ, qualitatively different from other channeled messages. As the Apostle Paul is axiomatic to Christian thought in spite of questionable credentials and doubtful methods, critiques of St Ken have to be weighed against his anointing from beyond as 'first eyes' on the teaching, integral to the fixed form of the Course. Carol Howe, Gary Renard, Robert Perry, Marianne Williamson, David Hoffmeister, Emily Bennington, Keith, Alan Cohen, and every other presenter should be held accountable against the classic text, if not the interpretations of that text by those first eyes. Ken emphasized points that one may differ with--but the more exposure I get to Course teachers at large, the more affection I feel for Dr. Wapnick's methodical insistence on core concepts, seeing past the narrative aspect of the channel and adhering to pure scripture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWkHOYxd7q4&t=302s

Scriptures Always Seem to Begin in Conspiracy

7/13/2025

As Julie Andrews sang to her adopted family in The Sound of Music, "Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start, when you read you begin with ABC, when you're God you begin 'Con-spir-a-see'..."
It seems like God decides to talk directly to people whenever huge forces of social manipulation are at work. Now, wait a second! I didn't say what you think I said--you added the part about "Religion is a tool of the state and the scripture they spin-off is fakery." There's no way to prove it, but I'd say that God opportunes Himself of such fissures in the collective mind to make collective statements about the truth. Further, the more intense the effort at lock-down social control by massive imperial gears, the clearer and more pristine His message, as in A Course in Miracles. Before returning to the well-worn urban legends about Helen and Bill's call out to spirit, let's look at the the theme of conspiracy in scripture using a couple of earlier examples.
Take The Vedanta Society, instituted by Swami Vivekanda who was the anointed devotee of Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Naren Datta was a Freemason and member of the Brahmo Samaj, a British inspired group that intended to civilize the wild cultic religious of India toward measured views of God and reality that were befitting of this 'Jewel in the Crown'--in other words, Vivekananda was tapped by forces of social control to transmit a garden variety of Hinduism to the Western world. He did this in 1923 at the World Council of religions in Chicago. The comely version of esoteric thought was itself a social control wedge designed to temper white, protestant sensibilities in the US toward broader, more globalist ways of thinking. Not ironically, Annie Besant was setting up theosophical head-quarters in South India to temper Hindu sensibilities, while Swami V was establishing Hindu hubs around America.
"Who really knows? and So what if it's true?" I agree. The pattern is interesting and throws no shade whatsoever on the value of Vedantic teaching or Theosophical ideas. The main question might be, "What is God doing here?"
Something similar happened in Christianity. Jesus was a little known blip in time and teaching if it had not been for Paul, the devoted apostle who had at one time been a diehard antagonist-persecutor of those very Jews turned Christians. Like Vivekanda, he blew out the sides of the tiny sect and turned it into a global phenomenon. This took place in the context of a waning Roman Empire that split into Eastern and Western aspects, a Jewish elite who could help or hinder the floundering Imperial cause, and the Silk Road that connected Europe and Asia. Just saying--these observations are not intended for Encyclopedia Britannica--it is to notice a pattern of religious flowering in the context of powerful people trying to move the minds of populations for their own benefit.
As a formula state it thus; Bid for Global Empire> Social Control Engine> Manipulation of indigenous belief systems> emergence of powerful hybrid, aka, 'Revelation.' The recent historical pattern is 'Cecil Rhodes willed his fortune to Lord Rothschild to establish round table groups that plotted strategies to shape the world in the image and likeness of the British Empire. This created covert coporate/media/political cabals within every institution on the planet to shape societies according to plan. This effectively tilted every '-ology' toward interpretations of science and history in favor of a centralized Anglo-American elite who put human society on a lathe. In this context there have been no organic wars or uprisings, scientific developments or economic/political theories proposed since 1885. The French Revolution, American revolution, all the color revolutions, the World Wars, Viet Nam, Korea, Hiroshima, Holocaust, everything is not what it is advertised and has been a part of a larger schematic . I would be surprised if Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Zoroastrianism were not similarly enhanced to promote some bigger picture. As the Ultimately Comprehensive Opportunist, God does not notice.
Along the way we should mention Julian Jaynes and his book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It's a broad theory to explain how traumatic mind fractures led to our egoic understanding of acting alone in the world. In short, he implies that self-consciousness resulted from extreme stresses on the tribal mind, caused by a cataclysmic flood or similar around 2000 years before the Christian era. Anthropos went from a collective awareness of his essential identity to a fragmented, schizophrenic split where he 'heard the voice of God.' Do a shred of interpolation and one can deduce that stress induces revelation under specific circumstances. It was probably as true for Helen as for Ramakrishna and the Apostle Paul. Given the CIA associations and Columbia University, one would be safe to assume a conspiracy pass that includes severe duress that may have looked like torture to a fly on the wall.
My wife tells me this all sounds like I'm discounting the reality of vision, revelation, even hearing God's Voice--I'm not! I'm saying God works Himself out in our world according to the available forms in this world. One man's emotional breakdown is another man's softening of the heart--one person's mental split is another person's crack in the cosmic egg. Was Ramakrishna crazy when he 'became Hanuman' the monkey-god and allegedly grew a bit of a longer tailbone in the process? Did Jesus appear to Paul on the road to Damascus or was it a guilty conscience? is it a coincidence that Catholic cultic expressions look a lot like Mithraism, which was centered in Tarsus, which was Paul's home-town?--and that good St Ignatius' Jesuit codes were used as a basis for 'Round Table groups' funded by Cecil Rhodes to Anglicize the world? The goal is not to vicariously recreate the fly on the wall in any of those settings, fascinating as that might be. We are trying to get back to Helen and Bill as they argue there must be a better way to get along-- and out pops ACIM, all 1200 page, all at once, over 7 years, literal phrasing intact.
Why this exercise in loose historical opportunism? A Course in Miracles, like other powerful scriptures, emerged from U.S. imperial ambitions through social manipulation by way of CIA funding to complicit universities like Columbia in NYC where Bill Thetford worked. Probably it was MK Ultra related, had to do with child psychology--Helen Schucman's area, and had something to do with other CIA operations related to the manufactured consciousness revolution of the 1960's--work on the Course spanned the years 1965 to 1972.
And what does the Seth Material have to do with it? Three and a half hours drive away in Elmira New York a female writer/poet channels provocative, coherent material to her visual artist/ husband between 1963 and 1984. Robert Butz, her scribe said Jane's health suffered when she refused to admit Seth material on the historical Jesus. She did not want the controversy. What is God doing? Is He? Doing? Let us close with a prayer:
Oh God, whose only begotten Son seeks Your Face in the millions,
Grant we beseech thee to guide Your Son toward that Holy Face that causes all to fall silent in the joy of true knowledge.
Thank-you heavenly Father for the gift of Helen your daughter, Bill your son and Kenneth your Holy Apostle who form your will in the Trinity of Source, Receiver, and Interpreter. Thank you for this and for those 1200 pages that offer us Your Word. "Love is All."