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A Course in Miracles

Scriptures Always Seem to Begin in Conspiracy

7/13/2025

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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."

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JuanitoViejo
7/14/2025 11:17:50 am

test comment

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JuanitoViejo
7/14/2025 11:36:33 am

Awesome! Your mind is on fire with the Holy Spirit, filtered and attenuated via the Phil Hamilton expression.
Tech notes:
It's Thetford.
Like button didn't work when I clicked on it.
FACIM 3rd ed. text-only is 666 pages long ! cf Workbook 1 thru 6

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Jonathan Williams
7/16/2025 11:17:43 am

While I was getting a root beer, Perplexity AI analyzed PH blog entry and rearranged the words according to its own algorithm. I'm not sure that I actually understand either the human or the machine.
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AI analysis:

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

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Jonathan Williams
7/16/2025 11:19:54 am

sorry, technical problems....moving on...

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