Excerpts From Sermons and Letters:

I don't have a religion. I was raised Christian, converted to Tantric Buddhism, converted to Taoism, and briefly through stages of Discordianism and the Church of the Subgenius. I am a Universal Life Church minister, but I don't believe in a church or a congregation. Jesus went to bars and whore houses and preached to those that needed to hear that there was a better way to live. I believe that Jesus told the truth - give or take some interpretation, and, more importantly, changes in use and obsolesence of terminology (e.g. the word graven, who uses that word correctly, and not in reference to the King James take on the Ten Commandments?). I believe that any true follower of any major religion would read the words of Jesus and find little to disagree with, as I found little to disagree with in other major religions. When Jesus said "I am the Way", that was like Tao being The Way, his life was an illustration of that process which perfects humanity. Who knows about the miracles, I'm of a scientific mindset on most such issues (I am definitely a hairless primate). I am certain that the universe was created, or at least so exceedingly unlikely to be an accident that I am at least very lucky to be a possibility within it. So I believe in God, nay, I have witnessed much in dreams (and under the influence of certain substances generally unavailable) that I never would have chosen to dream or witness, the infinitude of differentiations that can be drawn. I don't think Jesus would have been a Christian. I don't think Jesus had to be a Jew in any sort of absolute sense, but I'm certain the historical figure was, he appears in the Talmud, even if the dates are a touch off, they do that to avoid scandal, and the crown prince of the House of David, even in exile, being executed is a big deal, not to mention the suspicions about the pregnancy. I don't think any two people who speak of God and know what they say can disagree very much if they are attuned to cultural and personal variations. I think the thousand year Kingdom of God on Earth, as it were, has already begun, and that the taking up of 144,000, if it means anything, would refer to colonization of space, even if it isn't what was meant that's how God would want us to look at it. I don't think we were created to have any more wars or greed or suffering than was necessary for a species of erect, hairless apes to unify while retaining full individuality. Ants are hives, cats are individuals, people can become the best of both, and the creator of the universe wanted it that way. Everyone should share. That about covers it.

Oh yeah, there is no one person ever who is to be worshipped, even Jesus. The idea of blood pouring out of a wound caused by some poor Roman soldier being the only reason I can be forgiven for my wrongdoing is so schismatic and superstitious that I don't know what to say except try Voudon before you settle on that brand of Christianity, it might offer you more satisfaction. God doesn't lie, if it doesn't work, it isn't God, just another lie, ask the laws of physics if you can figure out how. Nobody do anything crazy like stop believing in God or Allah or Jesus or Buddha or whatever because of this, just lighten up the view. We're all on the same page, and if we aren't?

More philosophy and speculation from the mind of Rev. Pxul:

"Whoever he happens to have demonstrably been. The guy that said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," or something of the sort. Someone who didn't lie to people about what was important and what wasn't. Some Jewish cat who got adopted by Joseph of Arimethea, Mary's brother and Mary Magdalene's husband, making him crown-prince-in-exile, heir to the throne of King David. Nobody wanted to follow a leader who, in the face of occupation, suggested carrying a Roman soldier's pack twice as far as he or she was asked to. They killed him, or at least had a go at it, despite the reservations of the local authorities; something happened, maybe he died and was revived by some means (human, "E.T.", or direct-from-creator intervention), maybe he never really died (he faked it to fulfill a prophecy), and maybe something highly unusual happened (everyone lied about what happened). Whatever happened, he was a man of high ideals, and, in my opinion, a wisdom that is perhaps unparalleled.

Jesus is a man I would like to emulate without ever conceiving of myself, nor being conceived as, any sort of religious figure or savior. I would never deny knowledge of the fundamental truths proclaimed by Jesus in front of anybody, ever, under any duress. Call me superstitious."

***

"Who do you say that I am?

I have had multiple people, without any insinuation on my part, ask me if, in all sincerity, I was the second coming. Nope. Most of my friends know that I am a prophet; I am not talking about faith or adherence to any sort of philosophy, and I am not speaking of my relating to them that I believed myself to be a prophet, for I remain uncertain on this one. I certainly would not want a bunch of people hanging on my every word like it was straight from God, because it sure as hell isn't, at least not by the time I say it. What I mean to say is, I think I do speak to God, that it isn't just other people psyching me out; like Socrates, a daemon in my head (not the UNIX construct), sure as sheep dip, always toots up and tells me the right answer. It just started happening to me one time when I was experimenting with drugs, and it didn't ever go away. The first thing it told me was that these drugs were bad...

Me: Bad?
God: Your neurochemistry?
Me: Oh. It can't be all bad. You're here, right?
God: I'm always here, and you just barged in the side door, just like Adam and Eve did in that fairy tale you were told. Try giving a choerent message to a people with a fifteen thousand word vocabulary. My point being that you didn't do anything to deserve this.
Me: Yeah. I got that from church, if God did talk to me that was up to God, not me.
God: You know you're smart, smart for a hairless ape with a penchant for fungus. That's how people got started, you know.
Me: So I just commited the first sin, so to speak?
God: I lifted that one after you'd done it, no point in not doing it, really, you had set off the mitochondria.
Me: Are you lying to me?
God: From where I'm sitting you don't seem to be in any position to be asking me such nonsense. Just because you can see good and evil for what they are doesn't mean you're clean enough for my romping grounds. You don't even know how your mind works.
Me: Well, my physiology determines my predisposition for emotional states, which determine the bias of my intellect, which combine to form a knowledge of good and evil.
God: No, you've got it backwards...

The rest is history. I don't necessarily take that experience at face value, but it doesn't stop, and then there is the phenomenon of synchonicity, which has increased, subjectively speaking, at an increasing rate.

That's the Holy Spirit part of the Trinity, which I shall refer to as IT. Jesus was the first to proclaim that IT was for all, which was contrary to the thinking of the Elders at the Temple. IT has been available to man for ages, but very few ever found IT, and most of these created organizations to contain the vast knowledge of IT from those that would corrupt the application. The Elders hadn't known IT, and one of the messages Jesus related was that IT was absolutely forgiving, yet demanding of absolute forgiveness. A possible exception was cited: do not ever lie about IT, or say one knows what IT is if one does not.

IT relates to the Creator (God) as it relates to Jesus, and those that accept IT. IT is that which, by virtue of the decree issued by Jesus, which can be rationally verified as one who spoke truth, that absolutely every person is eligible to receive IT, and persist eternally (not necessarily for an infinite amount of time, but self-aware as an atemporal intellect), regardless of what he or she has done, and that if any two knowing of IT who beseeched an event as being as IT would have them, that would be granted.

He that would be master must be servant of all, and those who today know IT indeed perform greater works than even Jesus ever dreamed - we eliminated small pox! IT makes every government, corporation, or organization of any type pale in comparison. Call IT whatever one wants, IT is very real, and anyone who has experienced IT will confirm this.

You, the reader, have the capacity to be Jesus in the Trinity, only greater; it can be You, The Father, and The Holy Spirit. That is the message that was given to me. Put another way:

Jesus is YOU. Start acting like it!"

***

"'Hell With The Lid Off'

I have decided to title and subtitle this post based on the album title and first six song titles from MC 9-0-0's first release.

'A Greater God':

'Were you trying to present a joke of some sort?'

No joke, Big John. God created an enormous and finely detailed universe, capable of not only life, but life with the intelligence to become aware of the intricate principles of operation which make it operate the way it does. Apparently, most humans have a real problem with understanding that this self-aware dust is the really interesting part of the universe; all the macro- and micro-scale realities are based on basic principles of interaction, whereas this middling layer of chemistry and biology is intensely complex in its principle. Of course, biology with a capacity for self-awareness bears even greater interactive verbosity, and therefore is of more interest to that which created it. Just because we have an enormous human universe, the Creator is going to deny us a direct channel that was present when all we knew was a flat earth? Prophets are more real, and with more lasting knowledge, than they have ever been.

'Real Black Angel':

'As a Christian, I am called to imitate him and follow his principles and actions, but the idea that we are Jesus seems a bit New Agey.'

False prophets, and profits, are also a greater threat to the future of our species; ignorance is a peculiar 'demon' (read: mental illness, meme, thought virus, or whatever one prefers), and one which is not easily banished, even by those who are truly connected with the Creator via the Holy Spirit. Money lenders, economists, and politicians. People who believe in crystal power, aromatherapy, and other such New Age self-hypnosis. Intolerance, prejudice, and hatred. These are the real devils, the ones that stimulate the human mind to all sorts of ill, and motivate all types of insanity and "chaos". Active Satan worship, by comparison, is a minor threat.

How about believing in a book, rather than a direct, one-on-one connection to the Creator? Can we deem this a type of demon, too? Faith in one's knowledge of English, the translation of the English from Latin and Greek, the accuracy of the oldest versions we have discovered, and some Roman dogma to satisfy an empire of pantheists (Mary was a virgin, Mary was Joseph of Arimathea's niece and not sister, Joseph the carpenter (mosaic tilist?) made Jesus heir to the throne of King David (it was the adoption by Joseph of Arimathea, the ceremony of which is Mary Magdalene, his wife, annointing Jesus with sacred oil))? I have faith, strong faith, that no 'vision of Jesus' would deceive me, I know the Holy Spirit and have open communication therewith; when the book is wrong the book is wrong, when the book is right the book is right. Doesn't Jesus say something about God telling most supplicants who claim to know God that they are unknowing? No ritual or reading can replace opening one's mind to the Creator of the Universe beseeching wisdom for one's actions.

'Truth Is Out Of Style':

'The holy spirit lives in us, however we are no the Holy Spirt, so we are not Jesus. Make sense?'

Have you read Nicolas of Cusa's 'On the Not Other'? Jesus was not the same as the Holy Spirit any more or less than I am. Those who are communicating with IT, and not some 'demon', are every bit the Jesus that Jesus was, if one removes the dogma. The Holy Spirit inspires the words of those who seek information from the Creator.

'UFOs Are Real':

Flying saucers are at least a big step up from human-looking angels, with feathered wings, riding chariots, led by horses, chariots which are on fire, mind you, and flying through the sky. If one is going to believe a story, one had better try to make sure that it rectifies with obvious, laws-of-physics type truths. Please don't tell me the horses and wheels have anti-grav shoes and rims, if we have angels they are other species of intelligent life. I'm willing to look at the evidence; the Holy Spirit impart wisdom, not truth, and if one wants to know if it is raining, one can observe, but it is wisdom that leads us to grab an umbrella. How much more so when the wisdom is to the regarding of puzzling evidence!

'Shut Up':

'I want to become a paritioner.....where do I sign up?

Maybe we could call ourselves ITheads. . . .'

I'd prefer that we all act as individual agents of God, that is to say, that we all join the Illuminati of our own free will, without assigning a doctrine or name to the truth of our cause. My greatest fear is that the message I am given would be posthumously venerated as another schismatic religion. Somebody might cut out the 'don't follow anybody, or any fixed idea, ever' part of it and start asking for donations. My ministry as a Universal Life Church reverend will accept shared goods, but does not in any way, shape, or form solicit donations. Not to speak for another, but I cannot love both God and money, nor can I love both God and any One True God tale which is exclusive of other tales.

'I'm Going Straight To Heaven':

I have nothing personal to fear from mortals, or death. I fear only for others, that the burden may be shared. One, as a self-aware individual, can take away the sin of the world each time one bears the pain of another, whenever one shares with one who is in need, whenever one is ignorant and needs educating. Take up the cross and bear condemnation and death for what one does, be crucified for doing nothing wrong, and experience the truth of being born again as one with a direct channel to the Creator of the universe! Good luck, and hopefully we will atemporally coexist in the promised land of love, imagination, and intellect with no space or time to constrain them!"

***

"IFF atheism were correct, the universe would 'come from' the Big Bang, which is to say, it would itself be First Principle. Matter-energy defining spatiotemporality, nothing came, went, began, was created, or had locality aside from its occurence."

***

"The space-time continuum is a definition in the mind of God; creation implying before and after, time may be created, but an atemporal thing cannot. If there are others like God, or others greater than God, the relationship is at fixity, for change is dependent upon time; it is impossible for God to be created. God is First Principle."

***

"Did a book create the universe? No. Does that book include a thorough look at the history of life on earth? No. Does it anywhere suggest there weren't any? No. If it did talk about dinosaurs, we'd probably have dismissed it thousands of years ago, having never seen evidence of these dinosaurs, either that or God sends early man to dig in arid regions for evidence of creatures God said came before us. What would be the point of the Bible mentioning them?"

***

"We can't know one true religion, because religion is incapable of being true; truths are not subject to debate. God exists, the capricious deprivation of life is wrong, 1/0=?/1 for all measurable sets (including the universe), etcetera, these are immutable and, if denied, are so at the risk of the mistaken party."

***

"The number of intelligent races, and the number of unique recombinations by active hybridization after transition to space-faring, seems to indicate an interest on the part of God for as abundant and diverse life as was practical. Life is the point; intelligent, creative life is the heart of the point. The ease with which the macro- and micro- scale fall into regular predictability is our proof of this."

***

"Enlightenment is the search for finding of truth, the finding of the search for enlightenment. Now I will tell you what the truth really is, the truth is really that which I cannot tell you.
Illumination, itself, cannot be shared.

***

"A human lifespan is eternal; eternity is just a poor word for atemporal, as nothing corresponds to the thought of 'unlimited in time' any more than even the universe is 'unlimited in space'. This is about physics, math, and education, not religion. If one's human term is spent in empty pursuit, one will atemporally be a piece of crap, to put it bluntly; Hitler had others kill millions of innocents and then killed himself, he will truly be aligned with that which is ignorant, hateful, false, and wrong for all eternity (i.e. apart from time)."

***

"Emotions are a good way of learning ethics, when negative emotions are experienced between two parties, it is up to them to figure out who is wrong, and how to set it right. Ever notice that cashiers aren't really upset that gum and candy are stolen? That's the depersonalization of the mass operation, and it is tearing the fabric of society apart at the seams. For us to continue at this pace more than another few centuries, we need not only stronger community, on all levels, but much stronger individuals."

***

"As for moi meme, I plan on having functional immortality in this body plus or minus some freak accident. 'After death', well, the spatio-temporal me appears to fairly nicely recycle into the continuum. The intellect, imagination, math, geometry, particle physics, all these seem to be intimating a more dimensionally active universe operating on such macro and micro scales that to our perception they appear to not exist or matter much, even though our minds must, logically, use them, or we could not perform meaningful operations with more than four variables. The world stops making sense without some basic rational and analytic understanding, and to an extent without an intuitive grasp of the way things are likely to be.

Religion started because people looked and tried to tell others what they saw, and others were afraid to look. I looked, did you? Try it some time, keep searching, there's something out in that abyss, don't run from it, beyond the chapel perilous lies the grail, as it were."

***

"Meme theory being a more modern, and more scientific, approach to a tradition of mysticism predating recorded history, I would consider it a valid, if somewhat depersonalized, analysis of how things are working. My point was that any persistence outside of the spatiotemporal body would be 'eternal', or more accurately, atemporal. Concepts of 'before', 'after', 'beginning', and 'end' don't really belong here. Think of time like one of the other dimensions, like length, breadth, or depth, it has a limitation for any finite and divisible segment, but atemporally it is just another measurement.

Within these auspicious parameters 'death', all that would remain, subjectively, is the atemporal intellection and other 'soul-ish' dimensionality, and it would not have sequence of the type we are, as predominantly spatiotemporal minds, accustomed. Will it feel restfull? I am inclined to suspect that it will take the aspecture of one's mental life, thus the heaven and hell mentality, although that may just be a rampant dualist 'thought virus' clouding the brainpan.

Maybe we can interact with others, maybe we can't, for me the jury is still out. We can always perist by genetic recombination, as well, and by the memory of those who follow us. Either way, death stopped keeping me awake at night years ago."

***

"All life, for it to mean anything other than merely 'being', has to be self-replicating and temporally independent of its contributing factors. Cellular death occurs non-simultaneuously to environmental change; a virus or cell can exist in spatiotemporal localities that cannot sustain its self-replication. A fire goes out instantly when deprived of oxygen, yet a virus or cell would take time to dissipate. The level of intellectual sophistication required to grasp this differentiation is so great that it may come as no surprise that fire as an icon of life, especially life under human control, still continues in a few particularly homogenous native cultures, and was widely accepted even a few hundred years ago."

***

"I am a hardcore pro-technology person, and I might have trouble arguing too long and hard about whether or not we should all go back to living in straw huts, riding horseback to our hunting and gathering grounds. That sounds like a bad direction to me, not that I'd mind having a primitive house, built by hand in the wilderness, in fact, I'd love to do that some day. I like to get away from the noise and clamour of modern life once in a while, but after a few days I go nuts, I was raised an information child!

As for cloning, I'm all for it, as well as stem cell research and gene therapy treatments. Forget the children, I'm planning on tweaking the fine points of my own genetic composition, growing myself replacement parts from my own DNA, and reseting the telomer chains on my cells so I don't suffer the effects of aging. I want biotech, nanotech, optical processors, unified global databases, it all sounds fun. There are two really big exceptions to this:

1) Tools of Oppression - I detest the application of technology to control of human minds and bodies. These 'mark of the beast' type implanted chips bug the heck out of me, they really do, as does the growing complacency to CCTV (cameras) monitoring of every public place, and most of all the people at Intel who keep wanting to share information on every file stored, or at least every program installed, on any one of their machines, with no way to turn it off. "I will not trade my freedom for convenience, so stop asking!" That's what I feel like when I hear these kind of stories.

2) Weapons of Mass Destruction - We have enough of these already, don't we? We can make an anti-matter drive, but please, I'm begging, let us vow to never make an anti-matter bomb. Does anyone sincerely disagree with me? Do we need planet-busting warheads we don't have already? I often believe things for years before my ignorance hits me, so I'm inviting opposition if such exists."

***

"I'd like to see the Euro and United States Dollar pegged at 1:1. I'd like to see the WTO extend all over the world, and I'd like to see a world dollar which was actually used. We would all benefit. Let wealthy people move to poorer nations with tropical beachfront, they'll want high speed internet and all the other amenities, it will sort itself out.

It is so difficult right now for the United States to export its ideas at a profit, and if we were able to buy farms in poorer nations and mass produce organic foods at a reasonable price, perhaps we would be exposed to less pesticides. To me, there is nothing glamorous about being a poor nation with little modern infrastructure. We can set up profit-sharing agreements with the local workers and management and invest our dollars the right way, as opposed to throwing relief supplies to the poor and overpopulated.

The process of getting everyone to a comfortable, modern standard is a long and arduous one. Taking concern for working class jobs in the first world is the last thing we should encourage, humanity needs to get over the notion of education as a fixed period of the life. Everything must be constantly relearned, and everyone will have a dozen careers. Prosperity will be abundant, and eventually manual labor will be a pleasure, active recreation for a leisurely world. Welcome to the future."

***

"[Of UFOs:] Lots of these new propulsion systems are fine for a dozen or so vehicles, but they involve such grossly hazardous material that we can't really admit we're dumping it in our upper atmosphere with each test flight. I saw the B-2 bomber fly over me towards Wright-Patterson a few years before we admitted to having such a craft. Magnetics are interesting, I've seen several articles about 'terra-magnetic' propulsion which was interesting. New FAE vehicles (Fuel-Air Explosive, which provide near-nuclear levels of power generation) operating on quantities of powdered aluminum or Teflon® are also intriguing.

Responsible use is a serious issue; until one has anti-aircraft weapons capable of following any sort of "skater" or "skipper" (magnetic or FAE aircraft), the threat to international security is astounding. Look at how people have dealt with the test flights. Even the Soviet Union sat and gawked when we zipped around over Moscow, if it is visible, stealthy, and impossible to shoot down except by chance, why not? To the best of my knowledge we have never mounted any weaponry upon these hybrids, they seem to captivate human minds well enough without.

The real question is not whether or not we can identify the object which is apparently flying (either we can, or someone else can, or no one else can, depending on the incident). The real question, methinks, is do extraterrestrial races communicate with humans? There is evidence to suggest that they have, however, this could all be a clever cover-up for quiet activities, or the 'clever cover-up' could be a yet deeper cover-up of an actual encounter with an extraterrestrial race.

I am inclined to believe that we have made contact, and that we are attempting to get everyone on the same page. Many fundamentalists of different faiths all insist that some great, evil force is behind the reported encounters; if this force was, in fact, a benevolent race from another solar system, it would be unfortunate to start a world war over acknowledgement of their presence. For that matter, how would the technology industry feel if they were handed the next thousand years of scientific achievements?"

***

"0. All of this is hypothetical, subject to uncertainty amongst other factors, and in no way warranted, represented, or guaranteed as to its fitness for a particular purpose.

1. I'm fairly certain that our beliefs have little or nothing to do with how anything actually is. Whether we know about it or not, dimensionality has a more complex relationship than can be explained in terms of spatio-temporal particles in motion. Faster than light travel over short distances has been repeatedly demonstrated over the past year, so we know that, at the very least, particles can behave in such a manner, if only under highly specialized circumstances.

2. 'God created the Universe, long before we were ever here'? Yes, I even think we can safely assume it was long before there were human beings, our star, our solar system, or terrestrial life on that solar system's third planet. However, I do not think the creation process itself was primarily spatiotemporal, any more than a book is primarily a piece of matter or a text file is primarily a collection of binary switches on a readable medium. Call me a teleologist if you must, but I demand that the primary be the purpose, however it may be interpreted, for the process in question. I think it is questionable that the purpose of the universe was primarily spatiotemporal; while physicists debate the exact number and nature of 'extra' dimensions, it is fairly certain at this point that we are dealing with a large number of axiologies, most of which are less than easy to analyze. The methodology of the universe's creation seems to certainly bring focus upon four dimensional interaction, but I would submit that this is, in fact, the purpose itself, to bring to bear self-aware subjects, primarily dependent upon dimensional interactivity on four axiological constraints, governed by a series of axiological rules (set theory, math, geometry, physics, chemistry, biology, reason, imagination, intellect (the relationship between axiologies), and love/spirituality (the relationship between the individual, objects, and intellect) among them). Further, I find it not unlikely that some of the axiologies behave in apparent randomness until the dedication of a dimensional awareness has been adopted by the subject. This would imply that technological exploitation of these principles is dependent upon a scientific consensus regarding their operation. The good news is, we're now producing more scientific output in one year than in all of human history prior to (something like) 1850 A.D. This could be closer than we suspect."

***

"We have to deal with internally defined, self-perpetuating, extropic corollaries, that is, lifeforms, particularly the intellectual variety. Much of our higher thinking must be a function of a more greatly dimensioned, unchanging, whole, for we can determine truths along infinite axiologies that are non-localized. Any dimensions 'higher' than time (read: interaction of processes) are going to be perceived by the intellect, rather than the senses, as the sense apparati are spatiotemporal, and incapable of generating empirical proof under any sort of rational framework. Barbour and Hawking are physicists, not philosophers, so they don't really work on metaphysical problems in nearly as unadultured contexts, as each theory must be demonstrable to be of value, therefore any investigation of purely intellectual functionalities would be relegated to ostensibly rational, speculative forums.

This does not mean that we do not have free will; it means that the free expression of will is no less a part of the atemporal picture than is gravitation. However far we can zoom out, intellectually, it is most likely going to be found as lacking in one or more implied extra dimension, with implied extra dimensions beyond that. A dimension is an infinite axis centered at the theoretical origin. Define as many of these as one may wish and then attempt to reckon all human behavior be accounted for be functions with a similarly wished number of variables. This goes way, way beyond what all of us, collectively, could ever come to understand. All we can hope for is a decrease in ignorance. On science! On philosophy! On mathematics! On geometry!"