A Brief Version of the Soul Evolution Manifesto

Selections from the Soul Evolution Manifesto:
Excerpts from:
The Nature of Good and Evil, Souls, Public Philosophy, Paradigm Shift in Consciousness

On the Nature of Good and Evil:

Life, whether or not we’d like to admit it, is about redemption and salvation. I prefer to call it learning and evolving our souls by expanding our consciousness until we reach enlightenment, but why not just stick with the Christian terminology, because it means the same thing.

We are born, and we crap all over the place and hit people because we don’t know any better. They call this innocence. Then, if we’re lucky, we learn right and wrong from our parents, but we often pick and choose in a game called situational morality. It’s not okay to lie, except when the truth will hurt someone’s feelings. It’s not okay to kill, except when your country sanctions it. It’s not okay to steal, unless you really need something. And we often are irresponsible, ignorant, immature, and quick to doing something we later regret. Situational morality is a steam-fogged forest we are lost in unless we can stand on the mountain of eternal morality, but the clouds also dip onto the mountains and fog it up as well. Religious fanatics, those rigid, dogmatic and holier-than-thou preachers who stand on these mountains, are just as blind as those situational moralists on the ground who too have good intentions.

People don’t always make the right decisions by others and by themselves. Unexplainable urges caused by hereditary instinct and hard-to-break-with-an-average-willpower habits caused by social conditioning both lead to automatic responses to situations. Fear, temperaments, arousal, wanting something physical like sweet foods or abstract like acceptance or domination; they all take the wheel in our zombie auto-pilot-mode selves. Some of these urges are here to help us: fear, for instance, is a natural instinct designed to save our butts from getting hurt. But sometimes we are afraid of things we need to face, like responsibility or truth, because sometimes the truth hurts. We can put it off until we die, leaving the truth in the inbox like an unopened email, but anyone can still read the truth about us after we die. The natural tendency of the truth, it seems, is to come from the dark out into the light, no matter how many years it takes.

Sometimes the truth isn’t the truth at all. Out of context, the truth might seem unforgivable, but given the context, understandable. Sometimes the truth just is what it is, a cold hard fact that is neither bad nor good. The truth means different things to different people. I may not be able to tell you the absolute truth, but I sure can tell you what it means to live a lie, even if that lie made things on an even keel and kept peace and cohesion for the greater good at the time. I’m talking about my reaction to a bi-sexual orientation and the sexual frustration of being predominantly attracted to men. But as we know, what we know about our selves changes over time, and I am no longer dominated by the fear of my own sexual desires.

Sexual orientation and the truth- they both change with time for many people. It’s a known unknown- nobody understands it well enough to explain to me the definitive truth about sexual orientation in no more than three to five sentences, at least not without somebody else arguing something else. Maybe it’s because everyone’s personal story involving homosexuality is different that nobody understands it, and people usually fear what they don’t understand, and hate what they can’t conquer. These urges make up part of the story of my life, but ultimately, my story is about morality. I wasn’t brought up religious, so how did I find God and God’s morality?

Morality is learned, and most people never get past the morality of man-made convention, because it requires them to do some hard thinking about moral relativism and moral absolutism- does an Eternal Law of God exist, and if so, what is it? Or is God just superstition, and both a gift and a curse on the collective imagination of the fearful and rebellious masses? Regardless of the answer to this, we often come to a point in our lives where moralities are conflicting and we are asked to make a choice. Either we make a choice and stick to it, or we make a choice and switch teams mid-game, or push the problem aside for another day and sit on a fence until we are forced to make a choice. When the situation comes, some people are ready with their ready-made excuses for making their choice, and others panic and arbitrarily make a choice.

We hear of stories where people believe in some kind of source of values that transcends interests of the self and comes from some unknown outside source, therefore applying to all of mankind for the good of mankind. These people live and die for a code, even if it conflicts with the laws of their sovereign authority or their family or their tribe of friends or their community. We are inspired and horrified by these stories. From Robin Hood to Jesse James, from Jesus to Al Pacino in the Godfather, from Joan of Arc to the Protestant Reformation; from the Shawshank Redemption to Johnny Depp in Blow; from the slave revolts to the civil rights movement; they could be martyrs, warriors, folk heroes, oppressed minorities or men and woman looking back at their personal sins and asking the people they wronged for forgiveness.

Polluting the earth. Making fun of people who are different. Snapping at people. Living a lie. Stealing from my family. Reinforcing other people’s negative behavior. Ignoring problems until they get huge. Being careless and at times downright reckless. I have many sins; we all do. They are our personal vices. We tell ourselves how to be perfect, but we don’t act on it. Sometimes we have no excuse. It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t get other people in trouble. It would be a victimless crime of character flaw if it didn't hurt anyone. But when something happens to me, I have discovered, it happens to everybody. Whether I know it or not, I am a role model and a standard by which people judge. Whether I know it or not, I am responsible for not only having than good intentions behind everything I do- I am also responsible for examining my actions and correcting my mistakes when I make them. I ask for forgiveness, and though I may not obtain it, I will at least have forgiven myself for admitting I did something wrong.

We do things until we get caught. Then we feel the hot shame on our cheeks and a dead feeling in our stomach, like the floor dropped out beneath it and all our intestines and guts are riding a roller coaster. Our heart beats so fast, we don’t know why it hasn’t exploded yet. Our ears widen with fear, our ears perk up, and a sound that cannot be detected by human ears escapes our vocal chords. We are a sorry bunch. I’ll be the first to admit my own stupidity, but I’ve come to terms with it, knowing it is temporary, an awkward phase of foolishness I find beautiful in retrospect.
““To feel trivial and idiotic and to live with this feeling is to be a hero in a way that no god can be” – Stevie Smith
That is why I celebrate my stupidity.

“It's not a matter of right and wrong, really there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take-what you do or say or how you choose to appear-is automatically right the moment you act. Because you can do nothing wrong, you are always right. Even when you say, ‘I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong...’ your right. Your right about being wrong. You’re right even when your an idiot."
Whoever realized this, I hope, also realized responsibility. Surely they felt the shame of guilt gnawing at the back of their throat. It’s not what happens- what happens is either inevitable and therefore uncontrollable, or it is you attempting to do the right thing. But when you make a mistake- and you don’t fix it – it carries a weight. A secret burden on your soul, keeping you down, keeping you in pain. Making things right means reaching inside to find a strength you didn't know you had. It means defying the odds and possibly being scorned. It means being your own hero…

Because looking at our archetypical heroes, we see all that is good and decent about humanity. The human who by definition isn’t perfect lives a life full of trespasses both done unto them and by their own hands unto others, and even themselves. These trespasses are ignored, justified, stored in the back of our minds, made a big deal about, celebrated by certain factions of society, and the source of embarrassment. They make the drama of the world go round and round, because they all have to do with our bruised, holy egos; our self-image and our-self esteem; our definitions of respect, praise and blame. In history, wars, inventions, songs, poems, and whole lives have been built on pride, prejudice, treason, vengeance, jealousy, lust, admiration, praise and blame. What I’m saying is, our heroes were beyond the inflated and bruised egos have had much to do with the terror and beauty of the history of humanity. Religious wars, class struggles, school shootings, imperialism, art, dance and comedy have all often been employed by our egos and what they have to say about truth, rights, pride deserved and undeserved, and the need for emotional security. Our self-esteem is fragile. Our ego, which is the many I’s of our self-image, seem to be defined by how we feed our many urges.

But our heroes teach us not to do things because it will please ourselves or the crowd. They teach us to do things because there is some kind of morality, some kind of karma, some kind of eye watching and listening to us. We should do good for the sake of doing good, or for the sake of God. Not even because of the selfish reason that it will get us into heaven, or that it feels good to give, but just because we keep evil alive every time we are irresponsible enough not to seek redemption for our mistakes. Our mistakes are irreversible, but that doesn't mean we shouldn’t try to compensate the world for our misdeeds. Ignoring the problem by being ignorant and apathetic is all that is needed for evil to exist.

Is it egocentrism and lack of empathy that causes evil? Is it shortsightedness? Is it vain glory, fear and preventative strikes during heated competition? Is it the lack of a referee to keep two parties in check when an argument gets out of hand? Is it when the balance of power and resources and means of production are not shared equally by humanity? Is it when people pretend to have a false explanation to life and attempt force that explanation into reality? Is it when people with power abuse that power? Is the carelessness of people who can’t afford to be careless? Is it imitating something that hurts other people, be it physically or emotionally, because you don’t know any better? Is it the fact that morality is often relative? Is it because people misunderstand other people and act on false pretenses? Is it when one person or peoples ignores the cries of help coming from another person or peoples? Is it when ignorance or half-truths are attempted to be passed of as the absolute truth, thereby confusing humanity and leading them into dichotomization and dehumanization? Is it immaturity gone on too long? Is it when something that was once functional and is now dysfunctional is forced beyond its appropriate means and not eschewed in favor of the practicality and yet complexity of change? Is it laziness? Is it self-absorption? Is it failure to deal with the inevitable events of life in a healthy way? Is it failure to deal with negative, intense emotions in a healthy way? Is evil caused every time a cycle of deceit, abuse, fear and hatred is perpetuated?

Cold-blooded killers who kill for profit are rare. Criminally insane persons with frontal lobe deficiencies are rare too. Crimes committed in the heat of passion are less rare. Crimes committed by brainwashed subcultures such as gangs or religious fundamentalists are less rare as well. And then there is the mainstream brainwashed culture- people like you and me who laugh and perpetuate bad karma because it has been positively reinforced by the immature factions of society. We make lines of appropriateness, and then we cross them. We pollute, we act out of fear of having to think for ourselves, and we hurt ourselves by neglecting obligations. I believe I just covered most of us. So what’s wrong with looking at our heroes, be they objective ones like Martin Luther King, Jr. or folk heroes like Buddha and Jesus who did the right thing by spreading a transcendent morality. Sure, they had sins, too. MLK maybe cheated on his wife; Jesus maybe doubted his worth as he died on the cross and asked why God forsook him; Buddha maybe lived a lavish, excessive lifestyle before he became Buddha. But they all pointed to a dude upstairs as the source of their values. They might as well have been pointing to the stability of the collective body of mankind or the ground beneath their feet. Wherever this ineffable being is, it goes beyond the self-absorbed ego.
(See Pt. I. On the Nature of Good and Evil) http://ageofmurdanstorm.blogspot.com/2008/03/soul-evolution-part-i-on-nature-of-good.html

On the Nature of Souls:

Personally, I believe we all have souls that pre-dated our births, as do creatures (even invertebrates!); everything goes in progressive expanding cycles where negative or positive overlap, but if you don’t learn and grow, you can’t evolve to the next cycle of awareness. The more aware you are, the more your soul becomes conscious of itself, and the more you realize your soul is an energy particle that exists within an infinitely larger energy structure made up of telekinetic spirits that use each other in some vast dynamic super-structural grid that has no end to its largeness or smallness; an interconnected being that shares experiences the same way telepathy theoretically allows us to share thoughts. The laws of Euclidean space-time, Newtonian physics, and Einsteinian relativity only govern one particle of energy (that is the universe as we know it) and exists to become conscious of itself through its own particles of energy (souls); and the unseen forces of the energy of the universe condenses part of itself into matter so it can use the elements of hydrogen and helium to provide the material basis for the souls to exist.

The souls themselves slow down their energy vibrations to a point where they produce an outer shell of matter and mass, simultaneously manifesting and conditioning themselves through DNA to survive on the earth and be built in, through the faculties of the brain, with reason and logic to discern form from emptiness, cause and effect, and relative motion. This kind of thinking was needed for self-awareness and to discover the laws of nature, but, as metaphysical scientists agree, this world of matter in motion is not all there is. Now that we are aware that humans are genetically 99.9 percent the same and have cracked the human genome, we are ready for the next stage of awareness that comes from new advances in science and cultural realizations of unity and mysticism. Gottfried Leibniz spoke of spiritual atoms called monads, and astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious unseen force called dark matter and dark energy which makes up most of the universe, the existence of many more dimensions than previously considered. Many are calling gluons, kind of like a microscopic dark matter, the “God-particle”. Mystics both sober and psychoactive drug taking speak of higher dimensions of consciousness. The world seems to be headed toward a paradigm shift in consciousness where we are becoming so populated that if we don’t learn how to get along with each other and be happy we will kill each other off and drain our planet’s resources while doing so, leaving cockroaches to be the only creature on earth.

If we don’t learn to have a positive self-esteem, respect our selves, other people and the earth, get along with our irreconcilable differences, celebrate what makes us different and discover our underlying spiritual unity, then how can we evolve our universal ball of spiritual energy?

The light of our collective spirits, if they expand to the point where they shine at the final stage of consciousness all together at the same time, will surely cause an illumination in the overall self-consciousness of the universe and allow for new possibilities- heavenly possibilities. Like a world where our wildest and purest dreams come true.

One of these days, the universe is going to wake up. Our souls will take their place on a uterine wall of sorts, ready to be born again. Right now, our imaginations and attitudes, the way we perceive things and the limits we impose on our dreams, will conceive of the new universe in which we will be born into. Our souls will ride the wave of our perceptions/attitudes into the experience of our imagination. Our thoughts, pure and full of love.

Listen, an experience on earth has to have pain in order to appreciate the pleasure. I’m not saying a little pain isn’t good, or a little drama doesn't make good times feel as good, because it sure as hell does. We live in a beautiful world, a world of meaning and purpose. Even if we don’t have a soul, seriously, what could be better than riding a wave with pure respect for the ocean? What’s more beautiful than seeing some exotic natural environment and wandering around its ancient forests? What’s more fun than the things we do for pleasure? I’m presupposing the existence of a soul because I can read into the ancient phrase “form is emptiness and emptiness is form” and also my own experiences with a mystical plant called salvia that seems to show the link between the earth (and therefore the universe) and the brain. If a plant can unlock the limits of experience by accessing receptors built into the brain, there must be some plan. Humans, being the offspring of the earth and therefore the offspring of the hydrogen and helium involved in the starburst of the first cause, are invariably connected to all the matter and energy seen and unseen in the universe; and matter and energy are eternal and interchangeable. The notion of a first cause, at least for our universe as we understand it, implies only the first cause of matter, so is it so silly to doubt energy preceded the first cause, and that that energy is the constant emptiness capable of manifesting itself in the form of matter and becoming conscious of itself by dividing itself into individual souls (temperaments?) And that dark matter, dark energy, gluons, and spirit guides are the means of invisible tools and energy by which the eternal source keeps its own matter and souls stable? That a soul’s sole purpose is to use its sentient powers to evolve through different circuits of consciousness to the final universal consciousness through science and mysticism working hand in hand, or mind in mind?

Is it silly to assume the concept of good and evil is that the path of good is the path that keeps a person on path of happiness and growth and that the path of evil is the path of growth-stunting cycles and angst? Is it silly to assume that for every soul there is a soul mate that intertwines? That everyone has a place, and to find one’s purpose and self is to find one’s place among the soul grid divided up by temperament quadrants that will share a new universe called “heaven” once the great universal rebirth is conceived? And that this is reached when one is no longer stuck in a lower level of consciousness dictated by attachment to the world of form (C.S. Lewis’ “purgatory” being equivalent to the “samsara” reincarnation cycle of Hinduism and Buddhism)? That the ego is the means by which the soul manipulates matter, matter that is here to help us leave our shell behind?

To quote an essay I wrote for my English class:

The following I learned from a movie called Waking Life. When we die, we have seven to ten minutes of brain activity. Keep that in mind. Now, when we go to sleep, our brain drops a tiny bit of dreaming fluid (DMT/melanomin?) into our brains to satisfy us for the whole dreaming period during REM (rapid-eye movement sleep). You ever notice how when you wake up in the morning and fall back asleep, the dreams are long and intricate? But you wake up and only two minutes have gone past! Your energy seems to have surpassed space-time perceptions. (Or maybe it is our mortal lives that produce the illusion of limited energy…) When you die, all of that fluid gets released into your brain. If one drop of the fluid can sustain you for a night’s worth of dreams, then think about the effects of the whole shebang! Seven to ten minutes of such an influx of this power could determine your next life as you chose to interact with it.

I had where I felt like whole centuries went by as I stared at a silent universe and watched it go from brightness to darkness to illumination again. Time is relative during life, the temporal plane of existence. But in death, is it wrong to assume time is eternal, and that waiting for all the souls to join the eternal will be not waiting at all? I’m talking about those who are stuck in “purgatory” and need either a clairvoyant to tell them to go to the light, a spirit guide, or to be reincarnated until they reach the enlightenment called “moksha” or “grace” during the “end times”. When we reach the top of Jacob’s Ladder it will be a minute or two in relation to eternity that all the souls make it to the soul-grid. This grid will possibly look different to everyone, but will be the same eternal grid.

To quote Wikipedia:
Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), also known as N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is a naturally occurring tryptamine and potent psychedelic drug, found not only in many plants, but also in trace amounts in the human body wherein its natural function is undetermined. Structurally, it is analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin and other psychedelic tryptamines

Several speculative and as yet untested hypotheses suggest that endogenous DMT, produced in the human brain, is involved in certain psychological and neurological states. As DMT is naturally produced in small amounts in the brains and other tissues of humans, and other mammals,[11] some believe it plays a role in promoting the visual effects of natural dreaming, and also near-death experiences and other mystical states.

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the theory that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience (NDE) phenomenon. Several of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or visual hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.

To quote my essay again:
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross worked at a hospital and recounted instances of peoplewho have died and been resuscitated. Some people saw the face of God, some Buddha, some felt the love of Jesus- it depended upon their religious beliefs. People who committed suicide, though, saw nothing. This suggests that life and death are a natural cycle and we should not mess with it. It also suggests that ones beliefs shape their destiny.

You know how when you look into a cloud and you see some beautiful form in it, and your friend sees some entirely different beautiful form? That is what heaven must look like. Like some kind of formless eternal grid of spiritual energy wherein which a collective consciousness shares telepathic experiences of eternal love, truth and beauty (not the relative senses of the word here in the temporal plane). Depending on what forms they experience the divine through, that is what forms they experience in the eternal heaven, but it will be the same place. All the Buddhists will have their shared perceptions, the Christians theirs, and so on and so forth. Personally, I’m very open minded and can conceive of all sorts of psychedelic forms I would love to experience when I die, and because of my mind over matter attitude, I believe I will experience this when I die. My perception of death governs my death, and the more conscious I become in different rebirths here on earth, the closer I am to moksha and joining the eternal. As for my imminent death, I will probably spend some time in heaven and then chose to either join the world of form (Earth) again or stay in heaven, leaving the awesome experience of Earth for the even more awesome experience of heaven, and I will probably say I wish to be reincarnated just to teach people how to reach enlightenment just like my hero the Dali Lama. Can you imagine a soul so parent-like that it shepherds the confused souls into the light instead of staying in heaven? The Dali Lama is a spirit guide I would love to learn much more about, and I would love to spend a little time in heaven before following in his footsteps. Reincarnation, I believe, is always a choice, and we can leave the eternal as human angels (spirit guides in the flesh) or energy angels (sprit guides as pure spirit) that act as a voice of guidance or manipulate matter to act as a “sign” to keep souls on the right track. Our spirit guide could be a Master (Jesus or Buddha or the Dali Lama) or a soul mate who keeps us growing in our soul; it could be our future selves, too! Any manifestation we perceive that the divine can speak to us in…Is this concept of every having a spirit guide like this impossible?

I am a pantheist, I hold that everything is God. The Holy Trinity is God the Father (the eternal cause of the first cause immanent in nature and is our collective union of souls), God the son (the formal manifestation of the divine; matter- the planets and stars and earth; our outer shells; also the soul which experiences the life created by God the Father by manipulating matter until he becomes conscious he is the father); and the Holy Spirit (the forces of energy used by God the Father that stabilizes the son through spiritual guidance). They are all one in the same ineffable being.

I have to give credit where it is due to Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, for inspiring me with his trinity, which I dabbled with. To quote his conversation with God-

God: -Can you simply agree that on some of the questions of life the mystery is too great for even you to solve? Why not hold the mystery as sacred? And why not allow the mystery to be sacred, and leave it alone?

We are now trying to do the impossible, which is to speak of the unspeakable. It is what religion seeks to do. Have you ever looked down into a high powered microscope, and seen pictures or movies of molecular action, and said, “Good heavens, there’s a whole universe down there. And to that universe, I, the now-present observer, must feel like God!” Have you ever said that, or had that kind of experience?

Walsch-Yes, I should imagine every thinking person has.

God -Indeed. You have given yourself your own glimpse of what I am showing you here. And what would you do if I told you this reality of which you have given yourself a glimpse never ends?

-Explain that. I’d ask you to explain that.

-Take the smallest part of the universe you can imagine. Imagine this tiny, tiny particle of matter. Now cut it in half. What have you got?

-Two smaller halves.

-Precisely! Now cut those in half. What now?

-Two smaller halves.

-Right. Now again, and again! What’s left?

-Smaller and smaller particles.

-Yes, but when does it stop? How many times can you divide matter until it ceases to exist?

-I don’t know. I guess it never ceases to exist.

-You mean you can never completely destroy it? All you can do is change its form?

-It would seem so.

-I tell you this: you have just learned the secret to all of life, and seen into infinity. There is no end going up, any more than there is going down…There is no end to smallness and no end to bigness.All of it is God, and there is nothing else. You cannot not be. You can change form all you wish, but you cannot fail to be. You can only fail at not knowing Who You Are, and in this failing, experience only the half of it.

-That would be hell.

-Exactly, yet you are not condemned to it. All that it takes to get out of hell, to get out of not knowing, is to know again.

HOLY SPIRIT = INSPIRATION = CONCEIVEFATHER = PARENTING = CREATESON = OFFSPRING = EXPERIENCE

The son experiences the creation of the fathering thought, which is conceived of by the Holy Ghost. What you experience changes what you conceive. It is a cycle. Can you conceive of yourself as one day being a God?
-In my wildest moments.
-Good, for I tell you this: You are already a God. You simply do not know it. Have I not said, “Ye are Gods”
(see Pt. V. On the Nature of Souls) http://ageofmurdanstorm.blogspot.com/2008/03/soul-evolution-part-v-on-nature-of.html

Shared Values: A Public Philosophy

Augustine wrote of free will of choice. You don’t need to read it; let me explain it to you in one sentence. We don’t know the future, and we are responsible for our own actions. Freedom, then, is God’s gift to man. But in relation to the purpose of mankind, soul evolution through mind consciousness to reach enlightenment, God’s Law would be freedom, liberty to pursue happiness, and fellowship. Freedom means freedom to live; freedom to live means freedom to grow and evolve in one’s unique way; growth means a fertile environment, a livelihood and freedom of choice. Liberty to pursue happiness means finding one’s unique golden mean; the golden mean is balance between ego and spirit, awareness, and self-esteem; it means freedom to be unified with a person who they love regardless of caste or class or tribe or gender or race; it means liberty to make mistakes; it means not to be denied rights in a double-standard system. Fellowship means equality and unity; it means celebrating our differences, because differences make us beautiful; it means respect for self, mankind, the earth and the universe- in other words, respect for God. The laws of man should be in accordance to this- the primary virtues of God. Freedom, liberty and fellowship. I speak of primary and secondary virtues, an adaptation of Voegelin’s concept, to create my public philosophy at my blog. (see Pt. II. Shared Values: A Public Philosophy) http://ageofmurdanstorm.blogspot.com/2008/03/soul-evolution-part-ii-iii-shared.html

A Paradigm Shift in Consciousness:

The mind is a window with the temporary ego (the “I” who “does”) and the temporary world of the existence of the form of matter on one side and the eternal essence (the part of you that is God) in the world of the existence of eternal energy on the other. The eternal energy world and the matter world co-exist, but we cannot see the energy world.

The best we can do now is find a balance- between our ego and our soul, the profane and the sacred, the city of man and the city of God, the temporal and the eternal, our weaknesses and our strengths. Everything in moderation, including moderation. Happiness is an art accrued from these simple virtues. To find our soul mates, to find our purpose- God’s plan/our soul’s plan (the same thing), to find balance- in doing so we find ourselves and God.

That means making mistakes. That means being bold and exploring our selves, no longer afraid of what we'll find. It also means being afraid and living with our fears but knowing that everything will be alright in the end. Our fears are here to protect us from harm, but to find our irrational fears and kill them by understanding what causes the anxiety is part of our plan. Our temptations are here for a reason, too. Our imagination and God can turn temptations into dust by replacing them with mystical visions of a future place where we have all we desire, multiplied by 100,000,000 trillion percent.

A new world is at hand, one where we cannot tolerate irresponsibility from those who seek to murder on the basis of our differences, those who seek to destroy the planet, those who seek to turn men into machines, those who seek to cause harm and promote social injustice. Sports is healthy, politics is unhealthy; wars should no longer be personal and over Gods and territory and resources, but for fun and done through competition.

Mankind is the body politic, there are no borders; there is only earth, and the only God goes by many names, to which all religions and science study. But to fight the war for unification, we must also fight the dark side of our ego (being absorbed in the temporal self): irresponsibility, ignorance, fear, selfish desires, vanity, spite, arrogance, indifference, jealousy, lack of self-respect, laziness, hopelessness, boredom, and any kind of immaturity that prevents us from growing or living life truly free or that causes harm. We all have these voices; the key is not to let them take over. We hear them, we examine and understand them, and then we let them pass, knowing this kind of thinking stunts our growth into God's loving arms.

Everything that is matter is no-thing because it is temporary; matter comes from energy and energy is the Source, the Force, the Chi; the way in which our universal consciousness acts. To look into an object and find the Holy mind that crafted it by turning its energy into matter is to find eternity in a grain of sand. The bodies we have are temporary and yet they are the product of our eternal soul, as are our material creations, if we are conscientious in making them, reflecting the divine inside of us as we create.

Things that are made in haste are not Holy. But even every piece of junk is made from the same stardust as our planet and that same stardust is a material form from the Source, when it exploded into the periodic table of elements, the first-cause of matter in our universe. So then even the profane will turn into sacredness when its matter is broken down into quarks and gluons and beyond that into spiritual energy...broken into eternity

What is profane about man is the ego. The ego is necessary- it is the tool of the soul to manipulate matter to reflect God inside of the soul, the essence who only can be. Our eternal essence, our soul, since it can only be, cannot manipulate matter, so it hires the ego, the doer, to create. Our ego is then necessary to experience life (to live in a world where one can perceive and manipulate matter)

But to remain attached to the ego and this world of matter means to divorce from God into purgatory until you see the light within you. There are many who are trying to get you to see the light- one being me right now. Find your spirit guide- your mental manifestation of God- both inside of you (a voice of God) and outside of you (your meaning and purpose). My spirit guide is my voice of inspiration, and guides me to reach within and find strength I didn't know I had. My spirit guide is the collective love, truth and beauty of my day. My spirit guide has no distinct face- it is like Buddha and Jesus shapeshifting and creating Holy Coincidences that show me the Way. When I am in tune and balanced, my spirit guide sings to me in the songs stuck in my head. When I tell someone something that makes their day, when I say something so real that I can't believe it's my own words, when I glow beauty and create beautiful bodies of words, my spirit guide is channeling me directly to God.

Some say my spirit guide is my pineal glands, a divine antenna. It picks up the divine in everything within and without. My spirit guide lives vicariously through my environment and my internal voice of God, every moment. I perceive with my six senses. It's a matter of mind over matter: I believe, I ask for guidance and answers and knowledge, knowing I already have them, and they pour into me. I ask, and I receive; I seek, and I find...

There are different levels of consciousness. To experience the world through higher circuits of awareness of dimensions is our ultimate purpose, once we all leave the world of form behind. We find our that our collective, cohesive web of souls have created life on earth, experienced life through DNA, which contains our collective memories, and share our experiences in a new reality of heaven.

I assume our universal consciousness will create a reality like a dream that not only contains only the highest experiences of human and animal life, but also makes anything conceivable possible in this new world. Our life is like a straight video game now, with us as the players but our collective souls as the creators, so I can imagine that this new world would be like a video game with all the cheat codes on, so we can free fall through endless beautiful skies and then listen to a choir of mountains perform a rock song through a synchronized earthquake and we sing along as a booming voice of thunder. It will be a lucid dream, where we experience the softwares that provide the setting for this dream, softwares created by our soul’s final trip to earth in all its imagination and love. Can you imagine the peaceful, serene dreams Jesus must have had? Those dreams, governed by his thoughts and experiences, must have been Jesus developing the “software” so to speak to experience the Matrix of heaven. People with wild temperaments, on the other hand, who dance until they reach a trance and love movement and shouting and crying out, their heaven will be a place with louder activity than the heaven of those with a mild-mannered and mellow temperament. And those, I think most people, who are torn between both wild and calm, Dionysus and Apollo temperaments, can have a peaceful yet colorful dance across the matrix of eternity. Our temperaments, banded together, moving past the speed of light to a universe governed by laws limited only by our imagination and full of extreme joy and freedom...heaven...the mind of God...the universal consciousness.

To get in touch with this universal consciousness, join those who seek to experience the divine through trance, only to feel the awe of life, the awe of nature, the awe of the universe and its future possibilities. Dancing, shouting, skiing, snowboarding, skating down a slope, catching a wave, praying, meditating, being in awe of nature, practicing yoga, conducting scientific experiments, taking mind-expanding drugs (none of that opiate, speed, alcohol crap), automatic writing, lucid dreaming, free falling, praising the word of the masters of God (If you praise specific people as God, do it because they represent the status that mankind, all being manifestations of the divine, will be one day because eventually we will all be just as aware as these masters) and taking part in other religious-mystical-scientific-concentrating-conscientious-channeling methods to experience the divine. Get sensual self-esteem high from running or making love or other physical feats- how you feel when you put your health first and give to people is how you should always feel because that is always who you are, you just lose that state of mind when you change your attention to focus on something else you still need work on. Being in love is a way as well; in loving a single person you can love all that is good about the world, knowing they are they same and your spirit guide has finally reached the manifestation with which you wish to live with, be it a soul mate or an energy love like Jesus or Buddha or Jah etc. Tantric sex is another way to contact the eternal source.

As our souls progress toward liberation, through many lives and many methods, and as we respect and begin to understand the ways of nature and the universe, celebrating its differences but realizing its holy unity, we will become less attached to the emptiness of the world of form and more attached to our universal consciousness that is the seemingly formless empty space. Telepathy will become possible as we all share our experiences and leave our bodies and the world of form behind. We will all become the angelic souls we are trying to be now.

The mind will no longer be a window into the world of form, but a window unto its own imagination and soul. Who knows what kind of specific realities I am speculating, all I know is let's get there and find out! Let the paradigm shift in consciousness begin!
(taken from Pt. IV. A Paradigm Shift in Consciousness) http://ageofmurdanstorm.blogspot.com/2008/03/soul-evolution-part-iv-paradigm-shift.html

Other parts of my manifesto critique politics (Why America is Heading on the Wrong Course / Liberation Theology / Just War Policy) and religion (The Eternal Damnation Lie / Experience vs. Dogma). I still have much to learn about politics and organized religion. Hopefully you can give me constructive criticism. But I especially want you to critique my metaphysical, spiritual-mystical stuff because I am really focused on that aspect of my manifesto. It is my cosmology, and therefore the groundwork for all the rest of my political-religious-moral writings. Please let me know if I am fundamentally flawed or missing something, because solving the existential crises by proving the existence of a soul, setting a moral absolute standard everyone can agree on, setting a public philosophy up in America and working to save the planet from environmental destruction, inequality, genocide and identity confusion are all probably more achievable than changing the political system of America! My social critique doesn't call for destroying anything; it works to change the system from the inside out with a clear standard of spiritual right and wrong.