Judgment and the Mystic

I like judgment.  I like to judge and to be judged.  As a mystic who is comfortable with the reality of the unknown or the mystery of life, I am free to PLAY with pretending that I know something and to judge based on that knowledge.  I don’t know anything, life is an illusion and so am I, but it is a wonderful illusion to play with.  The greatest or richest thing to play with is love, compassion and caring.  Judgment offers all this for those who are awake to experience it.

I do see that my perspective is in a very small minority of humanity.  Most people are terrified of judgment.  Many major religions have created the fear of God in people by talking about Judgment Day, as if every day was not judgment day.  By making people afraid of judgment it means that one can intimidate them with the threat of judgment or control and manipulate their behavior through judgment.   I see this as a sickness in humanity that can be cured by confronting the lies that are the foundation of the fear of judgment. 

I really enjoy playing with other people who think they know something and can judge me.  For one, I have found that on occasion they actually have something to offer me in their judgments.  That is great, for they are only showing me where I have gone back asleep and can wake back up again, which I do from time to time.  If their judgments upset me, then it is only upsetting my slumber, waking me up, and I say “Thank you, you have done me a service.”  So, please judge me, criticize me, “attack” me with your words…they cannot hurt me, they can only help me.

Most often I see that people judge me based on what THEY want from me, not looking out for my interest but their interest.  Again, this is good judgment too, for it shows me that they are hurting or needy.  This kind of judgment is call for help from those doing the judging. 

Sometimes people who judge me are judging based on beliefs or delusions that they are carrying around that are also causing them suffering.  Again, this is a call for help, they are trapped in the dark cave of their mind and its beliefs and they are looking for help. 

I do unto others as I would want them to do unto me (because I experience I AM them).   So I judge others.  In judgment I look for what they are projecting into the world to see if there is any aspect of their ways of thinking that are not healthy or beneficial to them. 

As a Master Mystic (a title I made up for myself just to piss off the unconscious people :) )  I am overjoyed when somebody confronts, challenges, criticizes, judges or ‘attacks’ me with their words.   These are only opportunities for me to practice being in a space of love and caring and inner peace IN SPITE of what the world is offering me.  I love the opportunity to practice.

I see that when there is any type of personal interaction between people in this manner then there is some opportunity for raising the level of consciousness of humanity.  Judgment is a good thing to me and I would like to see it continued.

So now that I have put this out I am waiting for feedback.  Let the play begin. 

 

Jesus the Abuser

Jesus was a massive abuser and he was rightfully put to death for these sins.

In the culture of Jesus’ time Judaic law had 613 documented “sins” from their scriptures.  One of those sins was called “Ona'as Devarim,” which is Hebrew meaning “words that hurt.”  It simply states that if you say something and anyone takes offense at it, it is YOUR sin.  It further states, “If your words hurt lots of people then this is a capital crime and you should be put to death.”  

This wonderful ‘law’ came from Leviticus that has given us other wonderful gems of wisdom, such as we should kill people who work on Saturdays; we should kill people who are homosexuals; we should kill those who pray to a different God; we should kill people who blaspheme God,  among many others.

Jesus’ words ‘hurt’ lots of people, for many people took great offense at his words.  Jesus hurt people when he blasphemed God by calling himself one with God, for people took great offense at that.  Jesus hurt the scribes and Pharisees when he called them names, like hypocrite and blind guides.  Jesus abused people by advocating doctrines that were not approved by the ruling classes causing people to turn away from “sound doctrine” and be punished by the hierarchy of authority. 

Jesus was rightfully put to death for his offensive behavior.

And, please, let us ignore the fact that theme of Jesus’ teachings, which pathetically made in the Sermon on the Mound, was the value of blessedness.  One of the beatitudes that Jesus talked about said “Blessed be those who do not take offense at me,” which puts the onus of responsibility back on the person who CHOOSES to take offense at Jesus or anyone else.  Let us forget this for it was not the doctrine of the day and Jesus, trying to show a more peaceful and blessed way, was only offending people by preaching something outside the accepted doctrine or the boxes in their mind, which only future upset them. 

The true and “sound doctrine” was that people were to be ‘slaves and good servants to their masters’, to quote a famous law book that is worshipped even today. 

YES, Jesus was a massive abuser and he was rightfully put to death for his hideous crimes.  And let all remember that if they are to emulate Jesus’ way, truth and life in any way that they too will be punished harshly.  Let us remind one another of that by caring around figures of Jesus being crucified on chains around our neck and by putting them in our sacred building.  Let us remind one another that your words DO hurt people and that you too will be harshly punished if you say anything that is outside of accepted and proper speech. 

We would not want to upset the paradigm of those who take advantage of our innocence and ignorance and subtly stimulate our self abusive behavior so that they can intimidate, control and manipulate us to their own bidding.  Let us curse those who attempt to show us a way out of this subtle abuse, for they only want to disrupt the status quo, to change that which we can all see is working so perfectly well. 

Yes, Jesus was an abuser and a petty tyrant who was rightfully tortured and put to death for his brutal sins.

If you are gullible enough to believe this then you deserve the hell you are creating for yourself.

 

Bill Clinton on Plant Based Diet

Wolf Blitzer: How did you lose so much weight? What kind of diet are you on?

Bill Clinton: I went on essentially a plant-based diet. I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit. I drink a protein supplement every morning — no dairy — I drink almond milk mixed in with fruit and a protein powder so I get the protein for the day when I start the day out. And it changed my whole metabolism and I lost 24 pounds and I got back to basically what I weighed in high school.

     But I did it for a different reason. I wanted to lose a little weight, but I never dreamed this would happen. I did it because after I had this stent put in, I realized that even though it happens quite often that after you have bypass [surgery] you lose the veins because they’re thinner and weaker than arteries, the truth is that it clogged up, which means that the cholesterol was still [causing] buildup in my vein that was part of my bypass. And thank God, I could take the stent. I didn’t want it to happen again.

     So I did all this research and I saw that 82 percent of the people since 1986 who have gone on a plant-based [diet], no dairy or meat of any kind, no chicken, turkey. I eat very little fish; once in a while I’ll have a little fish, not often. If you can do it, 82 percent of the people who have done that have begun to heal themselves. Their arterial blockage cleans up; the calcium deposit around their heart breaks up. This movement has been led by a doctor named Caldwell Esselstyn at the Cleveland Clinic, Dean Ornish who you know out in California, the doctors Campbell (father and son) who wrote The China Study, and a handful of others. But we now have 25 years of evidence and so I thought that, well, since I needed to lose a little weight for Chelsea’s wedding, I’ll become part of this experiment. I’ll see if I can be one of those that can have a self-clearing mechanism—we’ll see.

BILL CLINTON, Wolf Blitzer television interview, CNN, 22 September 2010. Clinton, 64, had quadruple bypass surgery in September 2004. In March 2005, he underwent surgery for a partially collapsed lung. In February 2010, he was rushed to a hospital after complaining of chest pains and had two stents implanted in his heart. Excepting CNN, mainstream media has virtually ignored Clinton’s switch to a mostly vegan diet. Given the soaring obesity rates, chronic-disease rates and healthcare costs in the U.S., his example — had it been widely reported — might have benefited many people.