I hope my former teacher and current friend will forgive me for this slapdash, compare-and-contrast conclusion, but I need to get on to posting pictures from my high school class reunion for the clamoring masses.
If you read much of the Shelley Yates tale and the Fire the Grid stuff [you can get there from here], you may have been struck by how closely it parallels fundamentalist Christianity.
A non-believer experiences baptism and spiritual transformation.
Unseen beings appear selectively to offer words of guidance, consolation and reassurance about the future. Surrender and follow me, they say.
We hear of miraculous healings and Resurrections.
Parables from the apostles begin exciting susceptible people around the world.
The newly converted begin sending into the ether their thoughts and energies, which they believe can change things in the material world.
They don't listen to science or reason, proclaiming the wisdom of following the teaching s of a higher being in the face of unfathomable mystery.
They begin pilgrimmages. (In October, Samuel will be in a group of 100 retracing the routes of the retreating Knights Templar and Mary Magdalene. Their work will reverse the flow of energy that... well, I let some of the explanation flow past me.)
A Day of Reckoning is fast approaching as various forces fall into alignment.
You get the idea. If I were God, I'd be calling George Harrison's lawyers right about now.
As for the contrast part, I only noticed a few differences:
They want to heal the earth, not see it consumed in a global conflagration.
No one asked me to join or send money.
They aren't hurting anyone.
Among the people I know, Samuel is most open to his daily experience. He is deliriously happy being in his late sixties or early seventies with hardly any means of support. He is love.
The school's loss, the earth's gain.
The end of this one kind of jump started the comment I was going to put on the previous one (dinner part 3). Basically, waiting for December for the Healing Energy to make the world a better place beats waiting until September or whenever for the Surge to work.
Posted by: serns | July 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM