Dude this internet is killing me. Where is the real world? I'm addicted to Facebook. I'm taking a month off. No more. That's it. I'm never going to write a book with all these outlets for my blatherings. I just blah blah blah on this blahg, or a nice little 120 character intellectual fart on facebook... blah blah blah. This is ridiculous. We are trapped in front of these screens. Slaves to this digital world. Aren't we going to have enough time out in eternity... disembodied spirits? Do we really need to be entering this ethereal realm when we have nature, paradise outside. People to meet. Places to go? No it's just this online trap. I'm tired of it.

Humans have this amazing capacity to just say "this is normal" to just about anything. Take, packing ourselves onto planes and just taking off into the sky. Wee. Here we go.

The atom is enlightenment itself. Man is ignorance himself. If through humility we can at least come to see that we are no "greater" than atoms then maybe we can transcend our ignorance. We are made of atoms, but have, through our ignorance, separated ourselves from nature and are destroying life and the perfection of the gifts we were given by the creator. Follow the trail of our "enlightenment," trying to be more than we are, and you will find the road to hell. When we were One with the gifts of life, living and dying in harmony with creation, it was already paradise. The only thing that is not enlightenment is man and his ignorance and separation. It's all harmony but we are raping it by thinking we can transcend it. Trying to become more than man is unconsciously striving for hell, thinking you are looking for heaven. Heaven is all around you, you can't get any higher than right now. It's an illusion. Think about 7 generations from now, our descendants, and all our striving on this earth, cars, planes, plunging metal tubes into the earth to suck out oil to burn into smoke in the atmosphere, starving the top soil by monocrop farming and killing the forests, all to try and become more than man. Are we creating heaven or hell for them? You aren't going to be born anywhere else. We are just sperm and egg, made of atoms, unions of dancing DNA. Trust me, ground your spaceships. You don't want to be born on mars. There is nowhere else to go. It's all right here. And you can't get any higher than right now. You can't become more than man. You can only become yourself. And who we really are will rebel against the savage rapists we have been taught to be.

Call me white and hang me from a tree. Just some things for us to think about.

As I sit here procrastinating on all the papers I have to write, all the studying I need to do, I can't help but think about how much work our species has to do here on earth. My friend Dan was just telling me how modern clinical psychology (he's studying to be a psychologist) doesn't match up with his spirituality. Psychologically speaking the ego is a healthy thing, he said, something that keeps us sane by being able to compare ourselves with others. His spirituality focuses on how everything is an illusion and we are really just One. Now I am all with him there, but even though none of this is happening and this is all an illusion (spirituality) this is also really happening (psychology). As the saying goes: before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. So we're all connected, we are all one, this is all an illusion. Yep. So what, we are also destroying the life giving properties of our planet, we are teaching selfishness, greed, and ideologies of separation and disharmony between our fellow brothers and sisters. This is really happening. We can know that we are all ONE, and that we are going to die, and this is all an illusion. Great. OK, it's true. But then what? We have to see things as they are. We are really here, conscious creators in the midst of creation, totally fucking things up. It's all connected, it's all perfect on some higher realm, yea, that's all true, but so what!? We have work to do. We are being fools. We are serving selfishness, delusion, greed. We are slaves to darkness. We have to get to work returning our people to the land, developing harmony once again, cleaning the water, living simply, destroying the corporations which are keeping us enslaved. Sitting and meditating on how perfect everything is, is not the answer. It's nice, it feels good, but there is work to be done. You have realized that everything is perfect and it's all connected, and we're all ONE, and life is impermanence, good, nice, fine, well done. Now take the next step and see things as they are. Foolish, insane, WE, as ONE, are being terrible creators. We have to work to do. We have to unite to stop this savage beast of darkness and delusion, selfishness and greed. So you know we are ONE. Good. Now go and tell someone about it. Don't sit in your meditation chamber and do yoga. That's just more selfishness, although, I could probably do with some more yoga and meditation, and these can be constructive things, but we have to be engaged). If we just isolate in the emptiness and bliss of meditation or yoga, we let delusion continue to do its work. Chop wood (not literally, at this point with all the deforestation, it's probably a better idea to replace this adage with "plant tree") and carry water. We have work to do. Let's save the world (boy that sounds cheesy). Let's save ourselves (WE ALL OF US) not me myself or you yourself. We are meaningless. We are nothing. We as individuals are temporary. The individual is the illusion, we don't need to sit and meditate all day because we don't even exist. True. But actually we do exist, and this is really happening, so what do you want to do with your time, sit and meditate to experience non-existence (you'll have eternity for that) or do you want to step out the door, open a book, think, learn, act, and engage in this trip that IS REALLY HAPPENING!?

The Loon in the Coop.

Oh this savage beast should be writing a paper right now! Well, instead, old swine herds, claws of infinity, slouchers and preachers, and magicians, I thought I would write to you. Enough with these weak little response papers I've been posting, here is something straight from the monkeys mouth, and on out to you my darlings. So craw breath, haw flair, slew drab, and lench. Many blessings. Here is a song.

Question Response About Racism for Seminary Class.

Hello Class,

Racism is a terrible consequence of ignorance and the hatred that it can create. While we are still dealing with racism today in many forms, I think it is still important to remember how far we have come. It is remarkable how humankind can change when they are given new information and new education. The biggest problem with racism, at its root, in its earlier manifestations, and in its lingering effects today, is that people are taught to see themselves as different from people who look, or talk, or act different than themselves. I do not believe that people are born racist. They are brought up and are taught racism by the ignorance of their society or their culture, or on a smaller scale by their family group or general community. As we have come far as a world, with an almost universal consensus against sanctioned slavery or segregation, we still have a long way to go to eradicate the roots of these terrors. It is an amazing thing to think that only 50 years ago people of color could not have lunch in certain restaurants, sit in certain seats on buses, or could not even drink out of the same water fountains as people with a light enough skin color, and today there is a person of color in the White House. Yet there are groups of white supremacists, many who even call themselves Christians out there in this country training with guns and ranting and raving about racial purity.

I went to the Museum of the African Diaspora today in San Francisco with a group from PSR and one of the first things that the lady who took us on a tour made clear was that every one of us, every human being on earth no longer in Africa, is a member of the African Diaspora. She asked where the human race began, and pointed out the Great Rift valley to us on the map. That is where our entire race is from. It was pointed out that there is more genetic diversity among human beings in Africa than there is between human beings (the rest of us) outside Africa, because there was such a small group that first left and those of us who have covered the earth outside of the home continent are all descended from them. There is more genetic diversity between two neighboring groups of chimpanzees than there is between any two human beings on earth. Every single one of us human beings on earth are 99.99(and probably a few more 9's) genetically identical. Race is a social construction. We are one human race, and depending on how far our later ancestors moved from the equator, how far north or south they went, what they ate, what sort of climate they lived in, and who they were mating with, determined their shade of color. If we want to eliminate racism as people of faith, in religions, and to foster social justice, we simply need to teach this truth. So long as we look to history we will find someone to blame. They did that, they did this, and the truth is, we are they. We are all relatives if you go back far enough, and nobody is from anywhere, we have been so busy identifying with the illusions of society and culture, we are so habituated to a tribal mentality, that we have become addicted to the ignorance of the fact that we are all one tribe. If racism continues we will destroy ourselves, because we will continue to act out of ignorance if we are incapable of acting on the new information we have at hand. Can we transcend an addiction to thousands of years of ignorance which has kept the truth hidden from us? If religion and people of faith will update their ideology with the information we have at hand, that we are one human race, one people, living on one small fragile planet that we are highly interdependent with, then we will make great headway in eliminating racism. To combat racism and racist groups, we must teach, preach, and spread this new knowledge with every ounce of energy we have, to become free from the fetters of a history of ignorance.
As Paul wrote:
You, my brothers [and sisters], were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful [we might replace this word with ignorant] nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other." Gal. 5:13-15

all the best and many blessings,

Andrew Scott

One day after another and nothing remains the same
sitting quietly as the little tear drop soldiers
rise slowly from the ashes
and march down memory lane

What is this some sort of flying colony of ants?!!

Response to question of violence in society in relation to Gandhi for Religious Autobiography class

Well,
In regard to this question... I think we are still at about the point MLK described when he said:
"This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of atomic annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless calvaries; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism." MLK

That was in 1963. Violence, non-violence. It almost seems impossible to imagine a world without violence, because ever since our species learned to write things down it appears we've been murdering each other. Maybe ever since we got booted from the "garden of eden" we've been acting like a bunch of savages. At least that appears to be the story we have told ourselves. The story of mankind, written by mankind, is a violent bloody affair, interspersed with love and beauty.

We are all going to die. Is death itself violent? If it is, then we are by our very nature violent. If death is something we are taught to fight against, then we are trained for violence to combat the ultimate inevitable violence.

From birth, here in Western patriarchal Christiancentric universe, we are raised from birth with the implicit idea that we are violent by nature, that we are born sinful, and that a man had to die to get our sins forgiven. And yet as a people, we have not stopped sinning. So it seems his death was in vain.

To be transformed non-conformists in the words of Rev. MLK, maybe we need to radically alter even our basis for ideological understanding. If we want to create peace, maybe we need to tell ourselves a different story. Instead of teaching ourselves that we are inherently violent and that we need to resist our true natures and ask some higher being to help us not be violent, maybe we should begin teaching ourselves that we are by nature perfect, loving, divine, glorious creations of God, who at our core are non-violent. It would actually be closer to the truth. because if we actually look at the world, especially considering 70,000+ nuclear weapons sitting around out there, the millions of guns, bombs, fighter jets, racism, sexism, hatred, you have to admit, we are surprisingly non-violent as a species, at least to each other. If that wasn't true, if we really were such savage murderers, how can we explain that the human population doubles on earth at this moment every 50 some years. In 1950 there were 2.55 billion people on earth. Today there are 6.84. So we really aren't that violent. At least to each other, especially considering that the overwhelming ideology in the west is that people are not inherently good. We worship "the perfect man" as if He was really so different from ourselves. I'm just not sure that's what he was telling us. But if we look at Considering that by 2067 we'll have over 13 billion people on earth. Maybe true non-violence, at least to our mother earth and fellow species, will be for us to figure out a way to cut our population down and reduce our numbers, which some might argue is violence.

If I see every other human being on earth as a reflection of myself, as another manifestation of God, it becomes difficult for me to legitimate killing them. Maybe non-violence as articulated by Gandhi can be understood in terms of offering himself as a sacrifice for the greater good, like Jesus, he could not defend his life with violence because he had so much love for his fellow man.
he said: "non-violence implies as complete self-purification as is humanly possible [which suggests that he understands our pure being as non-violent] Man for man the strength of non-violence is in exact proportion to the ability, if not the will, of the non-violent person to inflict violence."

So maybe it comes down to, "love each other, or else..." "be nice, or prepare to be thrown into the volcano."

Sorry I went on so damn long. Interesting exercise. I guess I fall into the non-violent category. But we may have to drink the cool-aid to be ultimately non-violent.

Happy Easter... Good Friday, Crucifixion day, and the people go to Church.

Everyone is walking around bewildered, because we don't know what we're doing here, what we are teaching here. We don't know if we are part of the problem or part of the solution. So we want to hide. So we seek pleasures of the mundane, and we try and worship something outside us to get relief as we have been taught to do. Are we teaching that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, separate from us? If we are teaching what so many religions, especially Christian Religion has taught us, we are really teaching a blasphemy of what Jesus really taught.

He was an enlightened master who tried to wake everyone around him up, tried to challenge institutional religion, which kept man in bondage by making God something separate from him, separate from Mother Earth. They raped and killed the Goddess, to subjugate spiritual man and fortify institutional religions, governments, nations. This is the Devil, darkness incarnate. Jesus came to teach that God is within you, that you are the spirit, that you have every potentiality of the universe within you. He told us to love each other.

He came to teach that what we have been taught by our religious leaders is a lie, and that they are just as lost as the rest of us. Isn't that what you are discovering here? So he spoke out, rejected the lie all around him, and he was crucified for it. Then the Church told a story about how Jesus was God, the god who was separate from us, from Mother Earth, who was judgmental, part of something angry, who had been punishing us for thousands of years for eating the fruit of knowledge. But this was the lie. Because this is still the Garden of Eden.

This is what Jesus taught, that this is the Kingdom of God. Here and now. God loves us and gave us life, and death is part of life, not some punishment we receive from an angry God. So they killed Jesus, the enlightened one, the Messiah of the Jewish faith. They did not want to be forgiven.

The darkness, the "devil" delusion, was too powerful, so we killed Jesus. Then we were told a story about how he is part of that God who he was trying to liberate us from. I and the Father AM ONE. They set Jesus up on the most High to judge us. They put him in a position he would never take, because Jesus forgives! He would not punish. He would die before he killed. And even when we killed him, he begged for our forgiveness.

So we were told this story, and 2000 years later we are still in bondage, still unconscious of our divinity, the divinity and the love of our Mother the Earth, and the infinite love of our Father in Heaven, manifest in the SUN. 2000 years later and we are still killing each other, still lost in thousands of years of the lie that we are separate from God, that God is not all around us, our very nature, that which made us, and that which we are made of.

Science is just as lost. They are looking for the smallest particle, they too are searching for God. But they will destroy us all in the process, because the power they are searching for, in their ignorant, spiritless hands, will destroy the very gift of God, our mother earth, our life giver, our sustenance. They work also at the dark power of ignorance, just like the Church itself. Nietzsche tried to tell us this in the Anti-Christ, which simply illuminates the Church built up in Jesus name, the false teachers using his name to continue our bondage and make us weak.

We must free ourselves. We must ask ourselves what we are teaching here? We must search for our own divinity, free ourselves from mental slavery. The Kingdom of God is within you, as it is also all around you. This is the great self we have to realize. There is nothing to fear.

The underlying message of Christianity, the implicit teaching, is that if you confront the institutions which subjugate you and lie to you, you will be killed. But we need not be afraid, we are already dead, and eternal life is not something that can be taken away. You are made of infinite material. You are a creature of the Light. Stop killing each other, love each other. Stop hiding from yourselves. And if you go to Church to find yourself, stand up in that Church and refuse to celebrate the murder of the innocent man who came to save you, not with his death, but with his life.