As the old joke goes: What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact? 6 months. That was funny 3 years ago. Now the joke is on us. It is amazing how much has been hidden in plain sight for so long. Now the West's push to make the DL such a recognized figure makes sense...the embattled Holy Man can direct attention away from what need to be looked at in earnest. Thanks for taking the slings and arrows and sticking to the truth.
Making DL and Buddhism cool also had the added benefit of pushing a politically more maleable religion to replace/check the influence of the politically inconvenient traditional religion (associated with the rigid Right) in the West - Chirstianity. Hollywood and all the cool lefties loved themelves a lot of DL and Buddha.
Of course the whole thing is now moot, because traditional Christianity in the West has now folded like a cheap suitcase and is all aboard the leftie woke bandwagon playing catchup.
An excellent point. It reminds of an observation that was made by Joseph Farrell (Giza Death Star), a PhD in Patristics: Everything is downstream from culture. There is a concerted attempt to overlay a synthetic (in the Hagellian sense) culture over the existing culture. By eradicating or overwhelming the dominant culture, you can more effectively dominate all aspects. Hence the full-spectrum transmission of pedophilia, transhumanism and synthetic minority "rights".
The Catholic Church has been completely subverted over the centuries. Hence all the pedo stuff and vileness of the Vatican Bank. You can be sure that the Church will back this nwo fantasy which is being pushed on us.
For my entire life, for no obvious reason, I felt it was best to stay away from him. I haven't trusted him and felt that he was a fake and was completely puzzled by why. I haven't read his books, or listened to his talks.
The recent tongue thing had a resonance with me. I came from a family that was cult-like in its behaviours around sex, and I was reminded of that energy.
Thank you for putting some substance to intuition/feeling/resonance.
In an odd synchronicity with 'cult' I just finished reading The Buddha From Brooklyn. A NY woman was proclaimed a reincarnation of a big Buddhist monk. Speaking of all the energy of a cult. So interesting.
For whatever reason, in this life, I have been instinctually repulsed by any type of "group think".
I dont know if its some type of natural reflex, if everyone goes over there, and there is no one over here, there will be food for me. I don't know where it comes from.
But "hero worship" is glaring, and this smooth skinned octogenarian glows like a lightbulb.
Yes. Once I was out of the 'family-group' for long enough, the cult-like nature of my immediate and extended family became crystal clear and solidified as a deep distrust of groups and anything that looks gooder than good. Our family had been the model of perfection in the extended cult, and was totally messed up. My leaving shattered the narcissistic image and I was, thank God, totally shunned for 15 years, and shunned by my mother for 25 years until she died. So I haven't joined groups.
Part of my young trauma was to look to the hero in novels. Then to 'good' movies. Beginning around 2016 that fell away with my yoga/meditation practice.
Recently, with the entire covid plandemic theatre/script, I become very aware that the hero model is indeed a psyop that has been pushed in our culture for millenia, and more recently by the CIA through Mockingbird. The hero requires the victim to be saved.
Tina Turner's 'We Don't Need Another Hero' is so true.
I recall about 20 years ago, a friend of mine handed me an audiotape when at the library together, with a knowing gaze....I had just found out a deep family secret that held lots of healing potential for me. The tape was a John Bradshaw one with the title I believe was "Family Secrets, What You Don't Know Can Hurt You". Boy she knew what I needed to hear. She had her own experiences, similarly. I recall in the listening of the tape Bradshaw stating emphatically, to consider anyone spoken of as a saint or a sinner when referenced, to swap the terms. He was emphasizing the covering up of truths. I was the canary in the coalmine of my family and could smell a bad vibe easily....but was always thought of as the problem or black sheep. It was my survival sense. I don't follow the crowd if my sense says not to. It is frequent. Listen to those whispers. It is what I've learned. To me it seems like a similar sense as you are speaking of.
Bradshaw. Yes. When he was popular I was still too traumatised by the power of our narcissistic/sociopathic mother to actually have the courage to open his books. I came to my own co-dependency issues a few years later through other means. [Headshake.] I would look at his books, pick them up, and then put them down again. Fortunately, the desire to see truly is the energy that the Universe loves, and will provide alternative paths as our eyes begin to open with more and more courage. Amazing process.
I grew up with a llama. We called him Llama Bean. He would eat lit cigarettes. And you could ride him. The sheep thought he was God. He would follow humans and the sheep would follow him. Made field changes very easy. Feed the llama a cigarette, open the gates, walk out, llama follows, sheep follow llama, into the next field, close gates.
I never thought about how this unique little ritual in my childhood mirrored the Tibetan story so well.
Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford
I admit...I fell for it, but not to the point of worship. I thought the dalai lama was a holy man. I was only made aware of things not being what they seem when he joined forces with the evil climate crisis federation, several years back. There will always be new bubbles to be popped, but all of mine have been. Maybe I'll get better at spotting them as they float into my world. Articles such as yours help me navigate the perils of manmade bulls**t. Thank you.
I find it interesting that this and the current state of affairs, of disintegrating institutional trust and all the social contracts seemingly being nullified, is MOST disturbing to those that seek sanctuary outside themselves.
I applaud anyone willing to dig in the abyss and drag the darkness out into the light, although you will rarely be thanked for the task, and especially never from those that need their iconography to make meaning in this world.
When people realise that they have everything they need to be happy inside of them already, then they will realise that the "gods/leaders" they are looking for and to, are them selves.
My own thoughts are that true God/gurus/gods/leaders, want their followers to be independent, fully functioning beings and ultimately stop following them. Much like good parents, want their children to grow up to the point where the parents are not needed. Instead, we have institutions and icons, guru's, politics and individuals, aimed at keeping the average person a dependent child forever.😐☹
You're describing the short-lived guru, which is like a person who does their job so well that they're out of job. It doesn't pay so well, but it's the gold standard.
Regarding your comment about “people need to wake up to the way that religions have been hijacked, and cults have been employed as tools for secretly running the world.”
Recently someone posted a link to a new age podcast wherein the hosts discussed the uniform behavior across the entire new age, yoga, zen, and like communities regarding covid, masks, and jab mandates. I didn’t realize it was as bad as it was and still is even now. Makes sense, but hearing the specific details added to my awareness.
And just now another famed guru with a following of 366k has posted on FB that the truth about the “beloved and compassionate” Dalai Lama has been twisted and she offers the 2 expected videos. Of course, comments aren’t open.
Wall Street funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Rockefeller financed Mao's Cultural Revolution. It's also interesting, how quickly both insurrectionists, Mao and Stalin, purged all their rivals. The slaughtered millions were for the most part passionate "genuine" revolutionaries. After decades of bloodshed both societies adopted gangster capitalism as its style of government, obviously molding themselves into the image of their creators, "Western psycho banksters" leaving humanity in quite a pickle, or more popularly known as the new multipolar biosecurity nightmare governance.
When the Pope and the Dalai Lama got behind mRNA kill shots as a gift from God/godness, and DL enthusiastically dismissed the right of children to object to and refuse anything adults want to do to them for their (the adults') own good, I knew.
I suspect that the Hollywood crowd knows full well that Tibetan Buddhism was chosen as a model because those people were eat ze bugs poor, amd often at the sexual whims of the privileged class.
Exactly. I even thought Pope John Paul II was a good guy. Gandhi, too. ARE there any good guys, or are they all constructs, playing parts? How much of our world is actually what it seems? Are those in the public eye ALL actors playing on a global stage? I'm not quite ready to ponder that one. Close, though.
Your discussion over Locals yesterday was good. There is so much subversion. I found the video interview you partly played at the end and watched it. People need to know how infiltrated organizations are, including churches, but will they believe it.
You are correct. My father, the Dean of a small Catholic College in Lesotho (Basutoland at the time) was recruited by the CIA in the early 1960's. Many years later he said the CIA's favorite recruiting pool were University professors.
A link won't do it. You'd need to drink the kool-aid to believe it and then you'll believe anything that fits your confirmation biases like all the other nutcases.
Was the Revolutionary War a psyop? Why does The Catholic Church wield so much power, in spite of their horrific history? Why is the U.N. viewed as a beneficent, charitable institution, helping the less fortunate, around the globe, when there is no proof of this, whatsoever? Can anyone point to concrete evidence of the U.S. actually helping any other country? Are there any genuine spiritual leaders in modern times? Any from the west? Who's checking under the hood, indeed.
The catholic church wields so much power because of the dedicated ignorance of the masses. Tell them about NDE which is actually their own peers going and returning and telling what is. Then the CC will crumble.
Ester Hicks, Sadhguru... they are all bought... sure things they say may help, until you hear that one sentence that puts your spidey senses on high alert...
I've seen Sadhguru on YouTube, but Esther Hicks I've never heard of, so I looked her up. She sounds a bit extreme, with her views on the Holocaust and rape. I'm very wary of those who claim spiritual knowledge, yet seem to put a high premium on material wealth. Sadhguru is quite easy to spot, especially with his close globalist ties. I haven't seen a true spiritual leader in many years. Are there any?
Not any who live like Jesus did. You know, poor? Hungry, with the downtrodden. Except Mother Theresa. Then again, I heard Mother Theresa was selling children, recently reported. So. Burst another bubble. Also suffered from a crisis of faith eg, no faith. If she DID knowingly sell children or look away from bad situations that she was sending children into, then that's on her soul karma for the next life.
100% agree. I don't believe mere men can live as Jesus did, but we can aspire to and that gives meaning to our lives. I too have heard bad things about Mother Teresa. I too have had all of my bubbles burst. Yes, she's in the hands of her judge and she's escaped any earthly punishment, but she'll reap what she sowed. As we all do.
Albeit very controversial. A bit much with the fleet of Rolls Royces, too. That crazy woman, Sheila (?) he hired to manage things, toward the end, didn't help his cause at all. He'd be welcomed in today's Oregon, for sure.
Gandhi was actually quite good; he recognized that he was not enlightened and was quite vocal about the fact that he could be wrong on many points. Ramana Maharshi did not encourage followers. There are some real gurus; they don't get too big. I also met the Vatican astronomer and asked him about the spiritual mojo of the last several popes. His take was that the current pope does have much, but that John Paul II really did have a profound spiritual aura.
I think the problem comes in when we elevate these people to saintly positions. Which is different from expecting them to be exemplary human beings, who possess honor, integrity and strength of character, even beyond the everyman. It's not too much to ask. At the very least, free from sexual foibles and financial corruption, if they assume their part as spiritual leader. I was naïve to think they possessed these traits intrinsically. They're mortals, mere men, no more, no less. We need to remember this, always.
In truth, I know nothing about the Catholic Church and what little I know is not good. I watched the three minute video about sedevacantism bc I'd never heard of it. May I ask when it occurred?
The Church has been infiltrated, corrupted by Satan. Read Fr. Martin's book Windswept House. He lays it all out thinly veiled as fiction. Satanists and black masses rule at the Vatican. No God but the one who lives below being seriously worshipped. Pope Leo I think it was wrote the prayer to Archangel Michael to defend the Church and the unwary from the snares of the devil....after supposedly over hearing the devil and Jesus conversing. The devil said he'd corrupt the church and Jesus gave him 100 years to accomplish the job. I'd say the Devil won that round handily. And I was raised Catholic - till I figured it out. Those Middle Ages Popes, the Borgia (sp) gave it all away to me. Can't be a very spiritual church with that going on at the top of the organization dedicated to your spiritual enlightenment...
there's millions of good guys. maybe billions. they work and love and care for people all their lives. they'd care for you, too. And they tell the truth.
It's not a good guy you're looking for. I don't know what it is, of course. But my guess would be superman or similar. the return of JC?
Yes, I believe there are billions of good guys in the world. Way more than there are bad ones, for sure. I'm always looking for good guys, but I'm not (consciously) looking for a personal savior. Maybe a general one, to put the world to rights, but don't we all wish for that?
Thanks for publishing this. I had missed your previous article. It reminds me of the book about Mother Teresa of Calcutta written by Christopher Hitchens. When I first heard his views about her, I couldn’t believe it could possibly be true. Having read it, I believe he is sincere and has given an honest account.
John Paul II’s rush to beatify her was indecent and entirely misplaced.
One of the mysteries about the Left is how they will cancel historical figures with flawed characters who nonetheless did enormous good. Yet they deify modern villains living in plain sight.
The beatification of Mother Theresa was neither rushed, nor misplaced. It was to leave her and everyone around her no out, but to go along with the story. This is how the Matrix building process works. And just as with the Dalai Lama and any number of gurus, there will be thousands of people who met them and witnessed their awesomeness. And who are all very good judges of character---and never taken in by charming psychopaths or psychopathic networks. Because that could never happen to them.
JPII was something of a record holder according to Wikipedia
“Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) markedly changed previous Catholic practice of beatification. By October 2004, he had beatified 1,340 people, more than the sum of all of his predecessors since Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590), who established a beatification procedure similar to that used today.”
Totally. Been done w him long ago. Although I did see him speak live once maybe 20 yrs ago. He was very intelligent better than his books and I was impressed at the time. He's gone way off the rails
As the old joke goes: What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact? 6 months. That was funny 3 years ago. Now the joke is on us. It is amazing how much has been hidden in plain sight for so long. Now the West's push to make the DL such a recognized figure makes sense...the embattled Holy Man can direct attention away from what need to be looked at in earnest. Thanks for taking the slings and arrows and sticking to the truth.
I'm guilty, I participated in the experiment. Many distractions everywhere, I agree.
Making DL and Buddhism cool also had the added benefit of pushing a politically more maleable religion to replace/check the influence of the politically inconvenient traditional religion (associated with the rigid Right) in the West - Chirstianity. Hollywood and all the cool lefties loved themelves a lot of DL and Buddha.
Of course the whole thing is now moot, because traditional Christianity in the West has now folded like a cheap suitcase and is all aboard the leftie woke bandwagon playing catchup.
An excellent point. It reminds of an observation that was made by Joseph Farrell (Giza Death Star), a PhD in Patristics: Everything is downstream from culture. There is a concerted attempt to overlay a synthetic (in the Hagellian sense) culture over the existing culture. By eradicating or overwhelming the dominant culture, you can more effectively dominate all aspects. Hence the full-spectrum transmission of pedophilia, transhumanism and synthetic minority "rights".
aka Nihlism
The Catholic Church has been completely subverted over the centuries. Hence all the pedo stuff and vileness of the Vatican Bank. You can be sure that the Church will back this nwo fantasy which is being pushed on us.
hahaha!
Interesting.
For my entire life, for no obvious reason, I felt it was best to stay away from him. I haven't trusted him and felt that he was a fake and was completely puzzled by why. I haven't read his books, or listened to his talks.
The recent tongue thing had a resonance with me. I came from a family that was cult-like in its behaviours around sex, and I was reminded of that energy.
Thank you for putting some substance to intuition/feeling/resonance.
Your "cult Bat Signal" was going off
LOL! Something like that.
In an odd synchronicity with 'cult' I just finished reading The Buddha From Brooklyn. A NY woman was proclaimed a reincarnation of a big Buddhist monk. Speaking of all the energy of a cult. So interesting.
For whatever reason, in this life, I have been instinctually repulsed by any type of "group think".
I dont know if its some type of natural reflex, if everyone goes over there, and there is no one over here, there will be food for me. I don't know where it comes from.
But "hero worship" is glaring, and this smooth skinned octogenarian glows like a lightbulb.
Yes. Once I was out of the 'family-group' for long enough, the cult-like nature of my immediate and extended family became crystal clear and solidified as a deep distrust of groups and anything that looks gooder than good. Our family had been the model of perfection in the extended cult, and was totally messed up. My leaving shattered the narcissistic image and I was, thank God, totally shunned for 15 years, and shunned by my mother for 25 years until she died. So I haven't joined groups.
Part of my young trauma was to look to the hero in novels. Then to 'good' movies. Beginning around 2016 that fell away with my yoga/meditation practice.
Recently, with the entire covid plandemic theatre/script, I become very aware that the hero model is indeed a psyop that has been pushed in our culture for millenia, and more recently by the CIA through Mockingbird. The hero requires the victim to be saved.
Tina Turner's 'We Don't Need Another Hero' is so true.
All the best,
I recall about 20 years ago, a friend of mine handed me an audiotape when at the library together, with a knowing gaze....I had just found out a deep family secret that held lots of healing potential for me. The tape was a John Bradshaw one with the title I believe was "Family Secrets, What You Don't Know Can Hurt You". Boy she knew what I needed to hear. She had her own experiences, similarly. I recall in the listening of the tape Bradshaw stating emphatically, to consider anyone spoken of as a saint or a sinner when referenced, to swap the terms. He was emphasizing the covering up of truths. I was the canary in the coalmine of my family and could smell a bad vibe easily....but was always thought of as the problem or black sheep. It was my survival sense. I don't follow the crowd if my sense says not to. It is frequent. Listen to those whispers. It is what I've learned. To me it seems like a similar sense as you are speaking of.
Bradshaw. Yes. When he was popular I was still too traumatised by the power of our narcissistic/sociopathic mother to actually have the courage to open his books. I came to my own co-dependency issues a few years later through other means. [Headshake.] I would look at his books, pick them up, and then put them down again. Fortunately, the desire to see truly is the energy that the Universe loves, and will provide alternative paths as our eyes begin to open with more and more courage. Amazing process.
so what's this 'Bradshaw' ? An author we should look for, many books or one particular? a video maker - Youtube vids we should search?
I tried this 'family secrets' and go nothing...
I'm going to listen to that song right now. Thank you for the memory.
Da nada, as they say in Mexico. :-) I've been listening to it again in the last couple of months. TT sure could (can?) sing.
It is a natural reflex for sure. I have it too.
There is no abuse worse than when it is done in the name of "God"...
To me it's equally bad when done in the name of "the common good", which we've been experiencing for the past three years.
I grew up with a llama. We called him Llama Bean. He would eat lit cigarettes. And you could ride him. The sheep thought he was God. He would follow humans and the sheep would follow him. Made field changes very easy. Feed the llama a cigarette, open the gates, walk out, llama follows, sheep follow llama, into the next field, close gates.
I never thought about how this unique little ritual in my childhood mirrored the Tibetan story so well.
Excellent piece, Mathew.
I admit...I fell for it, but not to the point of worship. I thought the dalai lama was a holy man. I was only made aware of things not being what they seem when he joined forces with the evil climate crisis federation, several years back. There will always be new bubbles to be popped, but all of mine have been. Maybe I'll get better at spotting them as they float into my world. Articles such as yours help me navigate the perils of manmade bulls**t. Thank you.
I find it interesting that this and the current state of affairs, of disintegrating institutional trust and all the social contracts seemingly being nullified, is MOST disturbing to those that seek sanctuary outside themselves.
I applaud anyone willing to dig in the abyss and drag the darkness out into the light, although you will rarely be thanked for the task, and especially never from those that need their iconography to make meaning in this world.
When people realise that they have everything they need to be happy inside of them already, then they will realise that the "gods/leaders" they are looking for and to, are them selves.
My own thoughts are that true God/gurus/gods/leaders, want their followers to be independent, fully functioning beings and ultimately stop following them. Much like good parents, want their children to grow up to the point where the parents are not needed. Instead, we have institutions and icons, guru's, politics and individuals, aimed at keeping the average person a dependent child forever.😐☹
You're describing the short-lived guru, which is like a person who does their job so well that they're out of job. It doesn't pay so well, but it's the gold standard.
Regarding your comment about “people need to wake up to the way that religions have been hijacked, and cults have been employed as tools for secretly running the world.”
Recently someone posted a link to a new age podcast wherein the hosts discussed the uniform behavior across the entire new age, yoga, zen, and like communities regarding covid, masks, and jab mandates. I didn’t realize it was as bad as it was and still is even now. Makes sense, but hearing the specific details added to my awareness.
https://veilofreality.com/2023/01/24/why-did-so-many-spiritual-leaders-fall-for-the-psy-op-tcm-101-part-1/
And just now another famed guru with a following of 366k has posted on FB that the truth about the “beloved and compassionate” Dalai Lama has been twisted and she offers the 2 expected videos. Of course, comments aren’t open.
Many historians say
Wall Street funded the Bolshevik Revolution and Rockefeller financed Mao's Cultural Revolution. It's also interesting, how quickly both insurrectionists, Mao and Stalin, purged all their rivals. The slaughtered millions were for the most part passionate "genuine" revolutionaries. After decades of bloodshed both societies adopted gangster capitalism as its style of government, obviously molding themselves into the image of their creators, "Western psycho banksters" leaving humanity in quite a pickle, or more popularly known as the new multipolar biosecurity nightmare governance.
When the Pope and the Dalai Lama got behind mRNA kill shots as a gift from God/godness, and DL enthusiastically dismissed the right of children to object to and refuse anything adults want to do to them for their (the adults') own good, I knew.
And the FBI is infiltrating traditional Catholic communities.
You can tell who is FBI because they always pay the 10% exactly.
😂😂
And dont eat meat on Fridays.
And they are in the Boy Scouts and YMCAs too!
Richard Gere must be very disappointed.
I suspect that the Hollywood crowd knows full well that Tibetan Buddhism was chosen as a model because those people were eat ze bugs poor, amd often at the sexual whims of the privileged class.
I've read sus things about him as well.
Superb, thank you. Reminds me a bit of this: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19751229,00.html
Exactly. I even thought Pope John Paul II was a good guy. Gandhi, too. ARE there any good guys, or are they all constructs, playing parts? How much of our world is actually what it seems? Are those in the public eye ALL actors playing on a global stage? I'm not quite ready to ponder that one. Close, though.
I believe that the only way out is to ponder that question, amd research.
How much history can we trust?
Did the British East India Company prop up the Manchurians, only to crush them later?
Is Scientology used as a tool for spying on Europe as Russia, Germany, Greece, and others alleged?
Why do we believe Hitler died at the bunker?
9/11?!
Who doesn't see that Queen Elizabeth was replaced by a Grey alien? Okay, just kidding on that one. But who's checking under the hood, anyhow?
Your discussion over Locals yesterday was good. There is so much subversion. I found the video interview you partly played at the end and watched it. People need to know how infiltrated organizations are, including churches, but will they believe it.
You are correct. My father, the Dean of a small Catholic College in Lesotho (Basutoland at the time) was recruited by the CIA in the early 1960's. Many years later he said the CIA's favorite recruiting pool were University professors.
I'm still shook from last night's presentation on Locals, It was very educational.
Can you share a link for that?
A link won't do it. You'd need to drink the kool-aid to believe it and then you'll believe anything that fits your confirmation biases like all the other nutcases.
Huh?
It is hard to deny the patterns we have seen over the centuries, isn't it?
Mathew Crawford:
Was the Revolutionary War a psyop? Why does The Catholic Church wield so much power, in spite of their horrific history? Why is the U.N. viewed as a beneficent, charitable institution, helping the less fortunate, around the globe, when there is no proof of this, whatsoever? Can anyone point to concrete evidence of the U.S. actually helping any other country? Are there any genuine spiritual leaders in modern times? Any from the west? Who's checking under the hood, indeed.
The catholic church wields so much power because of the dedicated ignorance of the masses. Tell them about NDE which is actually their own peers going and returning and telling what is. Then the CC will crumble.
It is said, “the winners write history” . . .
That will surely change in our lifetime to “The Truth Tellers Write History.”
However, the Akashic Record Is and Always Will Be . . .
Ester Hicks, Sadhguru... they are all bought... sure things they say may help, until you hear that one sentence that puts your spidey senses on high alert...
I've seen Sadhguru on YouTube, but Esther Hicks I've never heard of, so I looked her up. She sounds a bit extreme, with her views on the Holocaust and rape. I'm very wary of those who claim spiritual knowledge, yet seem to put a high premium on material wealth. Sadhguru is quite easy to spot, especially with his close globalist ties. I haven't seen a true spiritual leader in many years. Are there any?
We all lead ourselves spiritually... sometimes we just need a little help
Not any who live like Jesus did. You know, poor? Hungry, with the downtrodden. Except Mother Theresa. Then again, I heard Mother Theresa was selling children, recently reported. So. Burst another bubble. Also suffered from a crisis of faith eg, no faith. If she DID knowingly sell children or look away from bad situations that she was sending children into, then that's on her soul karma for the next life.
100% agree. I don't believe mere men can live as Jesus did, but we can aspire to and that gives meaning to our lives. I too have heard bad things about Mother Teresa. I too have had all of my bubbles burst. Yes, she's in the hands of her judge and she's escaped any earthly punishment, but she'll reap what she sowed. As we all do.
Spiritual leader is a contradiction in terms because if they really teach spirituality then they become less of a leader and more of a friend.
Having said that, Osho Rajneeshi was pretty cool.
Raj/Osho is a fraud CIA plant
Albeit very controversial. A bit much with the fleet of Rolls Royces, too. That crazy woman, Sheila (?) he hired to manage things, toward the end, didn't help his cause at all. He'd be welcomed in today's Oregon, for sure.
Gandhi was actually quite good; he recognized that he was not enlightened and was quite vocal about the fact that he could be wrong on many points. Ramana Maharshi did not encourage followers. There are some real gurus; they don't get too big. I also met the Vatican astronomer and asked him about the spiritual mojo of the last several popes. His take was that the current pope does have much, but that John Paul II really did have a profound spiritual aura.
Pope Francis has spiritual mojo? I find that extremely hard to swallow.
Lb:
I think the problem comes in when we elevate these people to saintly positions. Which is different from expecting them to be exemplary human beings, who possess honor, integrity and strength of character, even beyond the everyman. It's not too much to ask. At the very least, free from sexual foibles and financial corruption, if they assume their part as spiritual leader. I was naïve to think they possessed these traits intrinsically. They're mortals, mere men, no more, no less. We need to remember this, always.
In truth, I know nothing about the Catholic Church and what little I know is not good. I watched the three minute video about sedevacantism bc I'd never heard of it. May I ask when it occurred?
The Church has been infiltrated, corrupted by Satan. Read Fr. Martin's book Windswept House. He lays it all out thinly veiled as fiction. Satanists and black masses rule at the Vatican. No God but the one who lives below being seriously worshipped. Pope Leo I think it was wrote the prayer to Archangel Michael to defend the Church and the unwary from the snares of the devil....after supposedly over hearing the devil and Jesus conversing. The devil said he'd corrupt the church and Jesus gave him 100 years to accomplish the job. I'd say the Devil won that round handily. And I was raised Catholic - till I figured it out. Those Middle Ages Popes, the Borgia (sp) gave it all away to me. Can't be a very spiritual church with that going on at the top of the organization dedicated to your spiritual enlightenment...
there's millions of good guys. maybe billions. they work and love and care for people all their lives. they'd care for you, too. And they tell the truth.
It's not a good guy you're looking for. I don't know what it is, of course. But my guess would be superman or similar. the return of JC?
Yes, I believe there are billions of good guys in the world. Way more than there are bad ones, for sure. I'm always looking for good guys, but I'm not (consciously) looking for a personal savior. Maybe a general one, to put the world to rights, but don't we all wish for that?
Thanks, Mathew. I had no idea. Totally creepy.
Thanks for publishing this. I had missed your previous article. It reminds me of the book about Mother Teresa of Calcutta written by Christopher Hitchens. When I first heard his views about her, I couldn’t believe it could possibly be true. Having read it, I believe he is sincere and has given an honest account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position:_Mother_Teresa_in_Theory_and_Practice
John Paul II’s rush to beatify her was indecent and entirely misplaced.
One of the mysteries about the Left is how they will cancel historical figures with flawed characters who nonetheless did enormous good. Yet they deify modern villains living in plain sight.
The beatification of Mother Theresa was neither rushed, nor misplaced. It was to leave her and everyone around her no out, but to go along with the story. This is how the Matrix building process works. And just as with the Dalai Lama and any number of gurus, there will be thousands of people who met them and witnessed their awesomeness. And who are all very good judges of character---and never taken in by charming psychopaths or psychopathic networks. Because that could never happen to them.
JPII was something of a record holder according to Wikipedia
“Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) markedly changed previous Catholic practice of beatification. By October 2004, he had beatified 1,340 people, more than the sum of all of his predecessors since Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590), who established a beatification procedure similar to that used today.”
If only NXIVM were better run.....
Haha
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That Deepak Chopra is a con artist too.
Totally. Been done w him long ago. Although I did see him speak live once maybe 20 yrs ago. He was very intelligent better than his books and I was impressed at the time. He's gone way off the rails
Yes indeed. I call him Deepak WEF Chopra.