Walter Muller

Who rules a country, is it religion or does the governments rule? In most modern day countries the people are told that government rules, church is simply a place where you choose to go should you wish to worship and pay tribute to an entity named by specific religious groups, or the group you choose to support and worship with. In the U.S.A. debates regarding inclusion of religious subjects in schools have been ongoing for quite some time, some parents don’t want it, and others do. Governments are supposed to make the final decision based on the, economical, and educational benefits to all living in a country irrespective the religious or cultural background of its people.

In South Africa which is considered one of the more open minded newly accepted democracies on the planet the constitution states the following. Freedom of Religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of sexual association, is among the constitutional rights of the people of this country. In this fairly new economy the people are already becoming dissatisfied with the lack this government is displaying to enforce those freedoms on the various institutions under its rule.

If the people who placed those governments in charge of their lives do not inform that government that certain individualistic tendencies is being enforced below a blanket of deception unto the people then ultimately the democracy is being stabbed in the back, by the very people who fought for freedom, individuals who is suddenly realizing that they have given up their specific brand of “freedom”! What is that brand of “freedom”?

Specific religious perceptions, and more specifically, Christian Religious perceptions! In most Afrikaans primary schools in this country, on the application and acceptance forms of those government schools it is stated that those schools is Christian orientated! The children entering those schools at age six is forced to listen to Christian history and preaching for half an hour each day. On Monday mornings and the last day of each term the local preacher is invited to those schools to come and perform a sermon! Children who are not Christian is forced to listen to those preaching’s and sermons! If a parent go to those schools and ask the principle or administrative leaders of those schools why they are doing it, the answer is; if you do not want your children to be subjected to it they will go and wait in another room or go and play outside while this specific brand of religion is taught to the rest.

The other alternative is to take your child and put him or her in a school where his or her religion is taught or no religion is taught. To find such an Afrikaans primary school in South Africa is close to impossible. In this country there exists Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Folklore, and a host of other religions. For schools to cater for every single one will be a highly costly undertaking. The question here is; why allow any single one to do it in the first place? The constitution states- “freedom of religion”!

What does the word “freedom” means? Freedom states that whatever is being described as being free to practice by a countries constitution those people is free to practice in such a way that no other person is being neglected or denied the right to practice their freedom in that field. How do a government employ the law in order to allow every person in that country to practice that freedom? They allow the different people to go and create a place where every person can go to, to practice that freedom among likeminded other people. In this it means that where different minded people is forced to coexist inside an institution where the main purpose is similar but different from the other freedoms of the group, those other specific freedoms is not allowed to exist, simply because it can cause disharmony in regards to the main purpose of the whole.

Freedom of association and coexistence means to have respect for the others in that group, if there is no respect coexistence is threatened. The people who voted the government in, also agreed that experts would be employed to create a peaceful constitution in order for the whole to coexist together. If any one should afterwards ignore that constitution those who do that becomes guilty of a crime against humanity. If a parent or a religious group want to preach their religion they have the freedom to preach that religion in a place independent from other institutions where the main purpose is not religion, why don’t the governments apply the rule of law and stop those individualistic institutions to force their ideology down the throats of innocent children! The Christian religion advertise that people are free to join based on their personal perception of life.

Is it not wise to let one choose his or her life by taking a person, and assist that person to see the bigger perspective in order for that person to then make a choice on his or her perception? In most religions it is the purpose of that religion to get their followers to accept their religion and forsake all others! Why go to the children and teach them before they have any prior knowledge about anything else that one specific religion is the only and correct religion and all others are subject to it? Doing that is denying that child the right to learn on his or her own time, and is the perfect breeding ground to raise a biased society.

Is this what we want, another generation raised with preconceived ideas against their neighbour! how does that work towards creating world peace!

Walter Müller.    

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Why are we so afraid? We as humans is a fearful specie, we fear tomorrow, our partners, how our children will grow up, what will the boss do tomorrow, will the business make enough money to support the family, will the world last until we die, is Jesus coming back, have we sinned too much to be forgiven?

I can write a book just stating our fears! But why are we so afraid, what caused it, do we ever try to get to the root of this incredible emotion that rule us, making our every waking moment literally a hell? Most of us will say; but we have to be afraid, because we don’t know what will happen in a minute, a day, a week a month, a year, ten years, etc! Others will say History proved that fear is not without merit, many others will say only God is not afraid, and he said that we must fear him, or else!! A religious answer!

Religion is probably the main reason for the most people on earth’s fears! Religion however will be the first to scream at the top of their lungs that it is not true, religion gives you peace of mind, it creates harmony, it soothes away your problems! DOES IT!

Religion teaches that only they know the truth, that only they can take away the fear, but they also tell you to be afraid of the sins of this world, to be afraid of God, because God will punish you forever in hell if you try to find the truth’s you are looking for outside of religion, and they do this to their followers from a very young age, by the time those poor children are grown up, they live in a hell created by religion! If they see a book with a title like; “THE LIES OF RELIGION” they won’t even read it, they don’t even want to be in the close proximity of that book, God might see them looking at it, because he is everywhere, he know they are looking at it, and the library might crash in on them, and they flee, filled with terror!

The Catholics run to church asking for forgiveness, the other Christians say a silent prayer, and hope God forgives them this terrible sin! In their hearts they pray for the author and hope God punish the poor soul! If they happen to read who the author was and know him they start gossiping, this gossip reach the work place of the author and a few days or weeks later he is dismissed, for various reasons, including blasphemy against God, a good worker, but he’s got to go, before God close the doors of the business!

Are you shocked; don’t be, its normal, its called, the fear of God! The real question in this instance is; who fired the man, God or the gossiper? Who gossiped, who believed the gossip, who is guilty of sin? The man who wrote a book, or the person who is afraid? A person was found guilty, judged and given a sentence which ultimately will cause this person to starve to death, by religion, condemned to death! “But he sinned”, the religious say! “On who’s authority”, do I ask, “on God’s”, they will reply! “Show me God”; is my request, and then they produce a book, its called, the Bible; written by men, inspired by other men, who claimed they saw God, in a dream, or a vision, thousands of years ago!

Today, people like that are taken care of in homes for the mentally distorted!! They are questioned by experts, people declared experts by governments and religious leaders! But a book written and compiled by people like that is above any law existing today, and the leaders of that religion and governments who sponsor religion are declared sane, and doing God’s will! People who question that religions logic is regarded as blasphemous, outcasts; yet people who act like the compilers is taken out of society in order to protect society from them!

Is there any logic in the above paragraph? Is there any logic in fearing a God no man has ever laid eyes on, is it logic to kill, cast out and allow your neighbour to starve to death because a book called, holy scripture, compiled by the kind of people spending their lives in homes for the mentally disturbed says, yes, kill the heretics? The fear most religious people live in is proof of the immense damage those books and their authors and past and current leaders force their followers to live under, to submit to, in order to be faithful to a idea, an idea created thousands of years go by a couple of clever ambitious men in order to rule an unsuspecting people needing leadership.

In the past they simply killed their opposition, today they force them out of circulation, cut off their economic viability, allowing them to die a slow painful death, and to soothe their conscience they feed those hobos bread and soup from time to time, but they make sure they don’t give enough to enable those enemies/heretics to stand up and fight again, and they proudly advertise those deeds to show their love for their neighbour by these deeds of caring for the needy!

The incredible fear they have created in their followers allow them to do these things and their followers pay for it, making them feel they are doing the right thing.

In the year 140 A. D. a man called Marcion started his own church, preaching the New Testament, banning the Old Testament from his church, in 144 A.D. he was excommunicated by the church. Between 1209 and 1229, a period of twenty years the church started a crusade against splinter groups who believed in what Marcion preached, two groups; Albigensis and the Cathari was targeted, between two hundred thousand and a million people were killed by the church in their efforts to submit these people and destroy their belief system.

There are many other similar things that were done by religion, but we will not go into specifics here, the above was included to give an example. Do we need to keep on killing, because we fear the church; yes the church, not God, this worlds true creators is not known by man and never were, they will not intervene here and kill to prove their point. A man called Jesus, who is known as the saviour by the Christian religion was the one man in that religions history who had the guts to stand up and call their bluff, he did so much damage they were forced to not only kill him, but huge efforts were made to work him into their religion, in efforts to sell him as the son of their so called God or Lord Almighty.

This same man told the people in his time that they have never known his father or God in Heaven, yet the church is till today adamantly trying to sell the opposite, they even wrote in the last book of their “holy scripture” called Revelations that Jesus will be in the new Jerusalem when it will be lowered to earth, accompanying God! Jesus warned in Matthew that it will not be him. The apostles confirm Revelations, against what Jesus stated, the world worship Jesus, but reject his words and take what the apostles stated, because the church say so! Jesus said; my father is a loving forgiving God, the church say; our God is a fair God who will kill everybody and everything who do not worship him!

Will you kill your children if they do not obey you, or will you leave them to go and find out about life by themselves, give advice when they ask, and be there if they fall? The father Jesus talked about sound like the father who leave his children to go and learn and only give advice when asked, the God or father of the church and the originators there off takes no prisoners, you choose, stop living in fear, and start asking questions, investigate and hold on to that which makes sense, if it is not religion, then so be it, your creator will not come and destroy you, he will allow you to live, and learn, to die in peace.

Here is some humour. According to mythology good spirits go to heaven, heaven is a place above our heads, up! If a spirit was a bad guy his spirit would go down into the netherworld, down into the earth! According to religion or rather the Christian religion Samuel was a good guy, harbouring a good spirit, and he was supposed to go to heaven; up! When Saul was about to fight the Philistines he went to see the witch of Endor, and asked her what would happen to him in that war? She pointed to a place in front of them and exclaimed in fear “someone is coming up out of the earth”, Samuel appeared, out of the earth, and told Saul that he and his sons would soon join him; Samuel! In the netherworld or hell!

First, we have a King visiting a witch, a king appointed by God, in a book which deny occultism, yet selling it, a book denying reincarnation, yet their saviour Jesus advocate it when he said that John the Baptist was Elijah in a previous life. And we fear this book and its God! Our ancestors killed for it, should we carry on their good work, or can we be bold, and start asking serious questions?

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Walter Müller.

We question life, and all things included in that four letter word. But why do we, why are we not satisfied with what we know? In the past two hundred odd years information started to become more readily available to the common people. More of the working people started learning more about themselves and their history, and this is probably the one thing responsible for the current search for better, or more logical “truths”.

For the past two thousand years Religion reigned supreme, this planets people were ruled by a partnership between state and religion. Today, two main religions exist; the Christian and Muslim religions, between these two they influence governments by working with them to get their message across. This has been a comfortable agreement for both religion and state. Countries prospered, or rather those countries which subjected themselves by pressure applied by these religions and their governments. Strife exist between the governments ruled by these two religions, we only need to look at modern day Iran verses Israel and the western nations backing last mentioned in relation to the Muslim nations backing Iran.

A war which will negatively influence the people on this globe is threatening between these nations simply because of power play between them. Presently Israel, backed by western nations holds the power and rules this worlds economy to the detriment of many other nations not included in their quest for power. Iran a Muslim nation is on the up rise, and Israel feeling threatened, brought in their biggest ally, the U.S.A. into their fight. This might end up in war, we do not know yet. Religion is playing a huge part in this conflict!

Both countries is by way of religious propaganda, gathering supporters. Should we take religion away from that equation, peaceful solutions might be more easily reached, but that subject have in all likelihood not even been given a second thought. And it is right here where this conversation turns to us; yes, us, me and you!

We are not all from the same religion or religions, some of us is not religious at all, but we all live together, work together, some are married to a partner who is from a different religion or not religious at all. Our children go to school together, compete in sport, in educational competitions etc! we do all these things in peace and harmony; easily, but mention religious differences, and right there a war of words start, a war which usually develop into a full blown heated argument, and enemies is born, mostly for life; just look at the Middle East, is that what religion does, is that what and who we are? Religious predators; just waiting for the other to make a mistake! What in religion turns perfectly normal people into killers? Why do the followers of the two leading religions declare “holy wars” and kill their neighbours? Why do we turn on our own next door neighbour because of religion, why do we tell our children not to mix with their friends anymore because we as parents have religious disputes, why do we have “religious” disputes?

Both these two leading religions require absolute discipline, and faith, if you are against them they claim to have authority from their God to kill you, apparently their God is the one and only and gave them permission to kill all else who differ or go against their intent, an intent to make everybody else believe and follow them! Without proof, without knowing if what they say really happen; “if they die, they go to heaven”, up till this very second no one has come back to tell us they are a hundred percent correct!! Metaphysical “experts” can not, and have not to date, given this world proof of the religious claims, neither have they, but they kill and threaten to, regardless; in the name of their God, they even tell us, if they don’t, He will!

Both these religions claim to be right, but that the other is wrong! Scientifically and historically neither have been able to lay concrete proof on the table! And yet we follow, we make enemies, teach our children to take over our fights, and keep up the “good” work! Without proof, no logic, no sense, just pure faith and ugly hatred! We never think about it, but in church you are given a bunch of rules and beliefs, and told to promise to follow and adhere to those rules regardless, and we oblige, without giving it a second thought, and as the years pass, we keep on going to church, we listen, and our faith becomes all consuming, ignoring all else, including common sense!

We never stop to think, some do, but one explanation for this thing called faith, which take over our lives and rule us, just never comes to mind! It is something called repetition; placing a “placebo” in the worshipper, make him or her listen to the message over, and over, and over, until they take that “placebo” as the one and only truth! They tell their followers day, after day, after day that their “holy scriptures” is the only and ultimate truth, and just to “keep you” from “questioning anything”, they add that God works in “mysterious ways”!

If a stranger comes along and express a logic which is in contrast to that belief they get passionately angry, and call the stranger a heretic and worse, in the not too distant past they killed the strangers, making war with them, enslaving them, but they also planted “salesmen” in the heretics countries to sell their religions, and if those countries did not oblige, they gathered allies and attacked and enslaved those countries, then they proceeded to shove this “medicine” down the throats of the poor unbelievers and call it “caring” for their “after lives”! of which they have not a single iota of proof! They do however also claim to have prophets who have “insight” in these matters and he or she confirms, or have confirmed in the past that all these things are true, but not even those prophets comes back to confirm!

Before you think I disregard and make everything in religion out to be myth or metaphor, or sun worshipping let me explain that I do regard both the Christian Bible and the Holy Qur’an as great help in determining history for both the nations they derive from! Both do help in giving a perspective on history where proof is absent. Without having concrete proof I also accept the possibility that persons portrayed in those books did actually live, like Jesus for instance. The Bible give this man to us as our Saviour, the man who died for this worlds sins! The Torah give Mohammed as their last and biggest prophet, he apparently did live, and some proof exist regarding him. Jesus is still in debate, recent research on what is known as the Talpyot Cave regarding his and his families remains holds the possibility that it just might be the remains of Jesus and his family that was discovered in 1980, but the research is not complete yet.

Scholars is still very much in debate regarding it and James Tabor one scholar giving indication that the proof to date is very much in favour, is getting strong winds blowing against him lately. This is not surprising, the Christian dogma is built on the precept that Jesus went to heaven in the flesh and should it be proved to be false the Christian church will face serious questions, and might possibly die a quick death. The other problem is that millions of people will loose their jobs and credibility, the Vatican will go up in smoke and the billions they make every day will just simply dry up! The Jewish people where this originated will also face ridicule like they have never experienced before, even though they themselves do not accept him as their Saviour they have allowed and promoted this idea into the known world! All in order to be sold into the hearts of everybody as the chosen nation, which they never were!

In the Nag Hammadi Library it is stated that Jesus actually died in the flesh, these scriptures was discovered in 1957 and published in English in 2003 or slightly before that. It is also stated there that he appeared to his followers or some of them after his death, not in the flesh, but in a spiritual manner. The Bible in a manner confirms this where it is stated that he appeared and disappeared into thin air from time to time until he eventually just did not appear anymore. Effectively his appearances can be metaphysically explained as astral projections. The other interesting thing this man Jesus also mentioned in both the Bible and the Nag Hammadi, but is never much discussed by the clergy, is his statements that the Jewish nation was lied to since their conception and that the people who created them were “men” and not “Gods”! He confirmed this by stating that they, the people never knew his Father in Heaven, which is a clear indication that their God Almighty was definitely not his father.

The clergy will however rather plead totally ignorant of these statements than going into debate regarding them, if they do talk about this they explain it as a metaphor explaining “Satan”, or the Devil, confirming what Jesus said regarding who they actually worshipped! He just made it clear that this Devil, God Almighty, or El was actually human in composition! In the Nag Hammadi and the Bible he called them “men” and people resembling what his father stood for, but that they climbed into this world in a different manner, as in Ezekiel, in chariots, or as they took Elijah, in a Chariot of fire! That is according to the holy scriptures what the Israelites actually worshipped!

He, Jesus, was born here, claimed to have a Father in Heaven, a spiritual being, who never knew us, but that through him we now know each other! What he actually taught was that the Israelites were created physically by man but their “life” or spirit were supplied by another force which he called the “Holy Spirit” and without this no creation by man, or our Physical creators would have been able to live. This is true for everybody, but the original Jews were never taught this, they were taught that their God made everything and will be back to kill everything, just read Zephaniah chapter 1! The father of Jesus just wanted them and everybody else to go and sit in a quiet place for a minute, and think about it. And then he reminded man about love your neighbour and your creator, a concept which existed long, long, long before Jesus.

Jesus however is the last big prophet who managed to get that message implemented once again in order to create a more peaceful world population. Religion has managed to close the eyes and ears of this world, as they were ordered to do throughout the Old Testament! In doing that, religion created wars in excess, killing in excess, and everything else that go with it! Worshipping is the other vice religion sell. In the Bible this man, Jesus told the people if they “want” to pray they can pray to their father in heaven using the prayer “Our Father”. This prayer is to a spiritual being. The other very good thing about this prayer is that it creates a decent “placebo” one which initiates good behaviour by the practitioner, creating respect, which creates understanding and eventually love, bringing full circle his message to love your creator and neighbour.

In the book of John and also in the Nag Hammadi Library this man Jesus taught that if we understand life and what he is trying to tell we will become his “friends”. This statement have very far reaching implications, the most important being that ultimately becoming his friend, we become the friends of his father also, and this makes worshipping obsolete, nobody worships their friends, but we do respect and love them! Effectively he taught us to think for ourselves and reject religion, it will eventually fall, in the book of Matthew he warned religion, that a nation divided against itself will eventually fall, this is true for a nation, a church, a community, a town or a family, religion creates strife, the world wide debates amongst their own since its conception, is eventually going to destroy it.

This Saviour died for no man’s sin, he was killed to prevent religion from falling apart sooner, it seems he was not lying! Effectively I as a non believer have the greatest respect for what he tried, if he did indeed live, if not, then for those who made it their business to include the words attributed to him in the Christian Bible speaking against that religion! Should we discard our quest for a better truth, simply because “God works in mysterious ways”, or should we question until we find something better, something which makes sense, the Jesus figure suggested the latter, why do the religious worship this man but ignore his advice! Do we have to keep on killing because God said so, or should we start to think and follow the advice the Saviour and many others before and after him provided!?

Some irony- in apartheid South Africa the rulers of then and their religious leaders stated; “God will keep us in good stead, he gave us this land”, in the new dispensation the rulers of now and their religious leaders state: “God gave us the victory, and the latest political leader mentioned that they will rule until Jesus returns”!! Both worshipped the same, prayed for the same, to the same God, did he listen, or did the allies had something to do with it! Think about it! Did a God actually stop by in his chariot of fire and said, “now you rule”!!

Walter Müller.    

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Wat ’n titel! Kan ons bewuste denke apart sit van die onbewuste denke, gaan dit van ons mense maak wat in die nou en hier alles duideliker en beter ervaar?

Sielkundiges en filosowe spook al vir so lank as wat daar sulke beroepe bestaan met hierdie vraagstuk. Uit die filosofie kom die gedagte dat die totale mens in groepe verdeel moet word, een is die entiteit wat met die fisiese werklikheid deel, die ander deel is die een wat met die onderbewuste en geestelike deel, dan is daar die groter self wat verbind is met die oorsprong van skepping. En dit is hierdie laaste een wat uiteindelik wanneer die liggaam dan sterf, weer deel word van die groter begin van alles volgens die filosofie!

Die sielkunde is in ’n mate ondersteunend aan die filosofie en probeer ook om die totale mens in kompartemente te plaas, een onafhanklik van die ander, maar tog ook verbind aan mekaar.

Dr. Abel Pienaar het in sy jongste artikel in die rapport ook hierdie onderwerp aangeraak. Hy begin waar hy in sy motor wag vir sy dogter en ’n vrou in ’n ander voertuig sien wat in alle erns besig is met ’n selfgesprek. Hy noem dat hy met pyn na haar gesit en kyk het, “in sy eie gedagtes versonke”, maar hy was nie eens bewus daarvan nie, vandaar hy nie eens agterkom toe sy dogter aankom nie, maar eers besef sy is daar toe sy direk met hom kontak maak.

Op haar vraag met wie hy praat het hy eers besef dat hy net soos die vrou in die ander voertuig ook besig was met sy eie selfgesprek. Die blote feit dat toe hy vir ’n tweede keer in sy eie gedagtes versonke raak en daarop gewys word deur sy dogter, in humor reageer het in ’n lagbui, is ten minste ’n aanduiding dat daar niks met sy mens wees verkeerd is nie.

Dr. Abel se verdere verduidelikings en verwysings het my egter gedwing om te gaan dink oor wat van die mense wat hy aangehaal het werklik sê! Eckhart Tolle beweer meeste mense se onbewuste herhalende denke is niks werd nie en skadelik!

Anthony de Melle beweer dat meeste mense aan die slaap deur die lewe gaan!

Bertrand Russel beweer slegs die wyse man dink onbewustelik aan sy probleme wanneer dit nodig is en op ander tye dink hy of sy aan ander dinge!

Hierop vra Abel; “is dit nie so dat ons dit wat voor ons afspeel baie kere mis, juis omdat ons nie bewustelik teenwoordig is nie. Teenwoordig in ons eie liggame, verhoudings, pyn, vreugdes en verliese sonder om te ontvlug in ons koppe in?” Die antwoord hierop is heel moontlik teenwoordig in die eerste verduideliking van Abel terwyl hy vir sy dogter gewag het! Voor hy vertel het van die vrou, het hy genoem dat so ’n wag gewoonlik langer neem as wat hy dink, en net daar was hyself alreeds in sy eie gedagtes versonke, nog voordat hy die vrou opgemerk het.

Russel Bertrand, Anthony de Mello en Eckhart Tolle is van mening dat onbewustelike denke eintlik niksseggend en skadelik is, tog het Abel terwyl hy ook onbewustelik besig was met sy eie gedagtes ’n ander mens opgemerk, ’n mens wat besig was om haar eie frustrasies, pyn, verliese, passie en vreugdes te verwerk. Dit het hom so geraak dat hyself hardop begin praat het met homself en in daardie oomblikke het sy onderbewussyn gedoen wat doodnormaal is, sy vrese, liefdes, frustrasies, hartseer, pyn en heelwat wat homself gepla het georden, en die humor agter alles ook sommer verklaar, vandaar sy lagbui toe sy dogter hom ’n tweede keer op sy eienaardige gedrag wys.

Ek gebruik die woord eienaardig, miskien moet ek dit ’n “tydjie van leërs orden”, noem. Hierdie gedrag is so normaal soos asemhaal, ons almal doen dit, daarsonder sou die huise vir geestes gestremdes oorvol wees. Die blote humor wat dit verwek by die betrokkene en die toeskouer is bewys van die genesende effek wat dit het, Abel se natuurlike reaksie daarop wys dat hyself op daardie oomblik nodig gehad het om sy eie leërs agtermekaar te kry en wat beter tyd as die minute wat hy vir sy dogter moes wag!

Abel noem ook in sy artikel dat hy “vergeet het” dat hy besig was om te bestuur nadat sy dogter in die motor geklim het en hulle op pad was huis toe. Sy eie gedagtegang het hom basies toegelaat om in outomatiese bestuur te gaan, en sy jare lange ondervinding en ingeboude kennis het oorgeneem en werktuiglik laat optree in die veilige bestuur van sy motor. M.a.w. sy probleme was van so ’n aard dat die bestuur van die voertuig onbenullig was in vergelyking met sy eie worsteling. Daardie vrou het ’n indruk op Abel gemaak en hom gedwing om na homself of die mens in sy geheel te kyk op ’n wyse waaraan hy voorheen nog nie gedink het nie, die artikel is bewys daarvan.

Onbewuste bestuur van ’n voertuig mag klink soos uiters onverskillige gedrag, die naakte werklikheid is dat die oorgrote meerderheid mense dit doen; daagliks! Ongelukke gebeur, ongelukkig word hulle veroorsaak deur mense wat bewustelik bestuur, mense wat kanse waag; bewustelik, mense wat drink en bestuur; bewustelik, en laastens, mense wat aan die slaap raak a.g.v. drank en ooreising, selde, uiters selde deur mense wat op outomatiese bestuur is a.g.v. verwerking van probleme, of ordening van hulle leërs.

Ekself was al in ongeluk of twee betrokke, albei kere was ek totaal bewus van wat om my aangegaan het. My kinders woon in Gauteng, ek woon in die Wes-Kaap. Twee keer per jaar ry ek na hulle toe, op die pad gesels ek en my vrou uiters selde, die oorgrote meerderheid van die pad word in stilte afgelê, gelukkig hou nie een van ons van die radio of musiek wanneer ons ry nie. Beide van ons gebruik daardie ure om ons gedagtes georden te kry, na twee of drie ure se ry sal ons die aankomende dorp sien of die ligte daarvan as ons in die nag ry, dan sal ons ’n eerste aanmerking maak en moontlik noem dat ons hier sal brandstof ingooi of gou bene rek. Elke keer sal die vraag by my opkom; maar hoe het ek dan die vorige dorp “gemis”, dan het ek deur daardie dorp gery, gestop by elke verkeerslig, stopstraat, geduldig gewag vir stadige verkeer, mense wat oor die pad geloop het kans gegee, uitgeswaai vir ’n hond of kat, maar geen fout gemaak nie. My vrou bestuur nie, as ek haar vra verduidelik sy hierdie dinge aan my, as ons aan die gesels raak sal sy nou en dan sê, pasop vir hierdie of daardie, maar in daardie ure van onbewuste, bewuste denke; nooit ’n aanmerking nie!

Wat hierbo gebeur, vind plaas elke dag met alle mense, oral, voor jou lessenaar, onder die motor waar jy besig is om ’n ratkas uit te haal, in die fabriek waar jy grondstof/ruwe/onverwerkte materiaal in ’n oond of vervaardigings monderings huls plaas, in die hof waar jy besig is om te veg vir ’n kliënt. In die kerk waar jy besig is om vir twee, drie honderd of ’n duisend mense te vertel hoe almagtig God is. Ons almal, sonder uitsondering leef onbewustelik, bewustelik, dit help ons om normaal te bly, ons is so gemaak, as dit nie vir daardie kapasiteit was nie, sou weinig van ons dertig jaar oud geword het, ons sou heel waarskynlik meestal gesterf het a.g.v. selfmoord! Om die magdom inligting wat ons elke dag mee gekonfronteer word bewustelik te verwerk, is net ’n saak van onmoontlikheid, ons dink bewustelik hopeloos te stadig en ons is te besig met bewustelike dinge daarvoor.

Dr. Abel noem ook in sy artikel die Christen monnik “Broeder Lawrence”. Hy sou gesê het; “ons “moet” bewus word van ons innerlike wêreld van gedagtes, maar sal ook moet leer om dit te laat verbygaan sonder om te veel aandag daaraan te gee”!

Eerstens; hoekom bewus word daarvan net om te vergeet daarvan, dit is ’n sinnelose aanmerking! Tweedens, is ons innerlike gedagtegang dan op die een of ander wyse van die bose of niks werd nie, dit is ’n soortgelyke stelling as die van Tolle, de Mello en Russel!

“Broeder Lawrence” was ’n Christen en het vermoedelik maar net gepraat wat geloof geleer het; “luister “bewustelik” en julle “siele” sal lewe”, dit laat nie toe vir debat nie.

Daar is ’n baie ou gesegde wat lui; “in enige geveg tussen die verstand en die verbeelding, wen die verbeelding altyd”.

Dit klink dalk snaaks soos dit geskryf is, maar dink vir ’n oomblik; wat is die verstand? Die verstand is die bewussyn of bewuste. Wat is die verbeelding? Verbeelding is die onderbewussyn, of onbewuste gedagtes. Wat hierdie gesegde sê, is die volgende:

Dit wat in die onderbewussyn of onbewuste verwerk is en gestoor word, is klaar verwerkte kennis, kennis wat ons onbewustelik, bewustelik bymekaargemaak het, vermeng het met alles in die databank en geliasseer is, 100% korrek. Dit alles behels die dinge wat ons in die verbygaan opgelet het, na geluister het, oor gaan dink het, antwoorde uitgewerk het oor lang tydperke, self gesprekke wat ons gehad het, en ook alles wat ons bewustelik mee te doene gekry het. Al daardie inligting is in die onbewuste gestoor.

Die bewussyn of bewuste is dit wat ons in bewuste oomblikke “ontdek”, nuwe kennis, en sou ons daardie nuwe kennis neem en dit vergelyk met wat ons reeds “weet”, m.a.w. dit in die onderbewuste; as hierdie nuwe ding ons wilskrag en bewuste so beïnvloed dat ons dit onmiddellik wil doen en daar is iets mee verkeerd en ons laat die onderbewuste toe om deel te neem aan die gesprek, gaan die bewuste hierdie debat baie beslis verloor. Die dinge wat ons doen wat faal, word gewoonlik voorafgegaan deur ’n stemmetjie diep binne ons wat ons net eenvoudig ignoreer want ons wil hierdie nuwe ding doen. Dit is waarna die gesegde verwys.

Ons kan nie as ’n onafhanklike bestaan suksesvol sonder al ons fakulteite nie. Bewuste en onbewuste is een eenheid, een mens. As jy een of die ander afskeep of ignoreer, sal ons slegs werk soos ’n rekenaar, wanneer iemand anders die knoppies druk.

Ons is almal onbewuste, bewuste wesens, die sielkundige navorsers het vasgestel dat die mens maar slegs een tiende bewus is, die ander nege tiendes is die verwysings netwerk, ’n netwerk of verwerkings ‘lokaal’ wat volgens die mense wat Abel aangehaal het nutteloos en skadelik is, m.a.w. ons kan dit net sowel afskakel, want dit slaap dan soos Anthony de Mello beweer! Niemand slaap nie, daardie ander nege tiendes hou die een tiende op sy voete en lewendig, saam vorm dit ons, die totale mens!

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In 1980 a cave was discovered in Jerusalem, and subsequently research was started. Inside this cave there were 10 ossuary’s or stone coffins. This cave was called the Talpiot cave, but what made this discovery significant?

Six of these ossuary’s had inscriptions on them, two had decorations, four has been stated to be those of fairly poor people and the two with the decorations that of more affluent members of a very old society. The society in question is dated to be the one in which Jesus and his kinfolk lived in 2030 B.C. in and around Jerusalem. This cave was apparently discovered by a building company, who called the Israeli antiquities department who sent out a team to investigate.

A respected archaeologist, Shimon Gibson were part of the team, and the man who recorded the inscriptions. What he wrote down was this; first ossuary or stone coffin; Jesus, son of Joseph.

Second ossuary           Maria.

Third ossuary               Mariamene.

Fourth ossuary             Matthew

Fifth ossuary                 Judas son of Jesus

Sixth ossuary               Jose, a diminutive of Joseph.

Years later another ossuary or stone coffin was discovered but not in a grave, this one was found in the possession of a man called Obed Golan an antiquities dealer. This coffin had an inscription on it which grabbed a lot of attention, the inscription was, “James son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”. This was discovered in 2002. Tests done on the remains found in these stone coffins were tested, but only two delivered positive results, those found in the coffin marked “Jesus son of Joseph” and “Mariamene”. D.N.A. tests were done and the results were that these two were not related as brother sister, or mother son. Which leads to the next indications.

Mariamene, or Mary Magdalene from scripture, as is stated in Luke 8 verse 3, travelled with Jesus in company with “Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod’s court, and Susanna, and many other woman who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples”. This indicates that Mariamene/Mary Magdalene was financially more independent than Jesus, the decorations on the coffin with the name Mariamene if it is her, is confirmation of what is stated in Luke. Should the other coffin bearing the name Judas son of Jesus, be their son, then the decorations is not strange at all, but bearing proof that these two can indeed be related.

The various ossuary’s found in the cave was tested for dating purposes and found to be almost two thousand years old, but older than 70 A.D. To be accurate scientists have to use all kinds of variables, one such variable is to determine how many graves or burial caves have those exact names dating to the exact time as these six that were discovered in 1980. The answer was that the chances were 600 to 1 in favour of it being the “holy grave” of Jesus and his family; but then the James ossuary was discovered in 2002 in the possession of Obed Golan!

This James ossuary or stone coffin had the inscription “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus” on it as stated above. This ossuary was confiscated by the Jewish antiquity department and Mr Golan was charged with fraud in 2004. The trial lasted until the beginning of March this year 2012, when Mr Obed Golan was found innocent on all counts by Judge Aharon Farkash in Jerusalem. This finding means that the coffins inscriptions was not forged and have also been tested for Patina content which was found to be from the same place and time than those found on the other six coffins or ossuary’s found in the Talpiot cave!

Patina is layers of microscopic dust particles which accumulate on stone or any other object over a long period of time and used to determine the age and geographical place where such articles is found. (I will include a technical description regarding the coffins in discussion). In short, the outcome of this legal case has multiplied the chances that the Talpiot cave discovery is indeed the final resting place of Jesus and his family to the extent of multiple thousands to 1,(take into consideration that variables is not facts, but simply assistance to help one make a decision on the facts) which is an indication that all the incredible theories against the finding is of almost no value at all. Factually most other discoveries relating to biblical figures found to date were given approval on much less facts than this specific case.

Will this research just end up somewhere in a dusty corner of some research centre again. Why has the religious groups in Israel and elsewhere decided to boycott further research on these artefacts, what are they trying to prevent?

Is it better to keep on worshipping a religious dogma that is faulty, or is it better to try and determine the facts?

Technical attachment

The Connection of the James Ossuary to the Talpiot

(Jesus Family Tomb) Ossuaries

Each of the examined caves and each cave’s associated ossuaries in the Jerusalem area, exhibit in their patinas a unique elemental fingerprint. The patina of the unprovenanced James Ossuary exhibits geochemical fingerprints consistent with the patinas of the Talpiot ossuaries. This strengthens the contention that James Ossuary belong to the assemblage of the Talpiot ossuaries.

By A. Rosenfeld

Geological Survey of Israel,

Jerusalem, Israel

C. Pellegrino

Time Gate, Inc.,

Long Beach, N.Y.

H. R. Feldman

The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School,

Touro College, Division of Paleontology, N.Y.

American Museum of Natural History,

N.Y.

W.E.K. Krumbein

Department of Geomicrobiology, ICBM,

Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet, Oldenburg,

Germany

The most important indication that the inscription “Ya?akov Son of Josef Brother of Jesus” is authentic is the beige patina that can be found inside the letters, accreting gradationally into the inscription (Rosenfeld and Feldman, 2008; Rosenfeld et al., in press). The patina can be observed on the surface of the ossuary continuing into the engraving. The patina on the ossuary is also composed of the following minerals apatite (calcium phosphate), whewellite (hydrated calcium oxalate), weddelite (calcium oxalate) 2

and quartz (silicon dioxide) (Krumbein, 2005; cf. Ilani et al., 2008). These minerals and the circular pitting within the thin layers of the beige to gray patina were found on the surface of the ossuary and, more importantly, within the letters of the inscription. They indicate biological activity and are the product of airborne and/or subaerial geo-bio activity that covers all surfaces of the ossuary (Krumbein, 2005; Ganor, 2009; Rosenfeld et. al., in press). The presence of microcolonial long-living black yeast-like fungi causes the alteration and biological weathering of rocks and minerals surfaces (patination) and is indicative of slow growth over many years. Additional archaeometric criteria indicating the authenticity of the James ossuary inscription are discussed in Rosenfeld et al., (op. cit.).

In 1980, a burial tomb was unearthed in Talpiot, east Jerusalem, containing 10 ossuaries, 6 of which bear inscriptions such as Yeshua bar (son of) Yehosef, Mariya, Mariamne (also known as) Mara, Yose, Yehuda bar (son of) Yeshua and Mattya (Matthews)-names that are consistent with those of the New Testament, but were commonly used during the first century CE (Kloner, 1996; Tabor 2006). The Talpiot Tomb cave (=Jesus Family Tomb; JFT ) has 6 niches (Kloner, 1996). The Golal (Rolling stone) that was used to seal the tomb was not found. The niches (2 eastern, 2 western and one northeastern; “kochim”) contained the 10 ossuaries. The 2 meter long northwestern niche was empty of ossuaries when discovered in 1980. One meter of soil from the floor of the cave covered the ossuaries when it was first explored and was removed in a salvage excavation.

Pellegrino (in press) examined samples from 14 caves in the Jerusalem area (including the Talpiot cave) and discovered that each of the patinas develops its own 3

chemical signature. He based his analysis on 14 separate elements “patina fingerprints.” No two patina?s caves exhibit the same elemental distribution. These quantitative elemental “fingerprints” are consistent with the patina on the ossuaries found in each cave. In other words, each ossuary can be matched to the cave in which it was buried. Even caves in close proximity to one another, within the same rock formation, exhibit in their patinas different elemental fingerprints. This makes it easier to match the ossuaries to the host cave and is a powerful tool for linking unprovenanced artifacts to their cave of origin. This promised preliminary observation should be researched further in order to have a clearer probability geochemical signature on patina layers of caves and ossuaries.

Among the examined 14 burial caves was also Talpiot cave. Six Talpiot tomb wall and ceiling patinas were sampled December 14th, 2006 (op. cit.). The elemental spectra of the samples were examined by SEM-EDS in the Suffolk Crime Lab (NY). Each sample was analyzed (SEM-EDS) in at least 3 different locations. The differences between tombs were easily discerned by the elemental fingerprints. The quantitative variability of the elements (patina fingerprint) within an individual tomb (wall patina, ceiling patina, ossuary patina) were small, 5% or less.

Pellegrino (op. cit.) also examined the elemental distributions of the patinas of the 3 ossuaries found in the Talpiot cave: “Jesus son of Josef” (5 samples), “Mariamne” (4 samples) and “Matthew” (3 samples) (stored in the Israel Antiquity Authority warehouse since 1980). By comparing these 3 ossuaries and the chemical fingerprints of their patinas to the walls and ceiling patinas of the Talpiot tomb the same distinctive elemental “peaks” were consistently identified (silicon, phosphorous, titanium, iron, aluminum, and potassium). The patinas of the ossuaries are unique, reflecting, the same elemental 4

development of the Talpiot cave (op. cit. figs. 1-3), including a final phase of patina formation based on agricultural „red soil” that entered the tomb during at least 200 years. The variation between all Talpiot tomb walls ceiling and ossuaries patina samples was less than 5%.

The patina of the unprovenanced James Ossuary was analyzed by three different laboratories: by the SEM-EDS method (Rosenfeld and Ilani (2002) in the Geological Survey of Israel; Pellegrino (op. cit.). examined in Suffolk crime Lab. NY; and by. Prof. Vertolli, of the Royal Ontario Museum. The results were consistent in all labs. The characteristic elements of the James Ossuary patina are silicon, phosphorous, titanium, iron, aluminum, and potassium. The only tomb including the ossuaries? patinas with which the “James” ossuary patina fingerprints appeared to be consistent is the Talpiot Tomb.

The phosphorous peak originates from the dissolution of the bones whereas the titanium and aluminum peaks can be linked to clay particles and the silicon peak originates from quartz grains that come from atmospheric exposure to dust and soil.

The James Ossuary is very similar in size to the missing 10th ossuary (Kloner 1996). The measurements of the width and the height are identical, but the length falls short by 3-4 cm. Dimensions of carved stone ossuaries are not typically identical on parallel sides; moreover, the length of JO has changed between measurements as a result of having been broken and repaired along its length. Based on similar size and the elemental fingerprints it is possible to conclude that the James Ossuary is the missing 10th ossuary from the Talpiot cave (Pellegrino, op. cit.). However, we also suggest that the 5

James Ossuary could in fact be the missing 11th ossuary. The fact that the James Ossuary was weathered intensively, and cracked suggests that this cave was breached a long time ago and another adjacent niche of the JFT (possibly the empty northwestern niche) with the same chemical history held the 11th ossuary. The Talpiot cave could have very well been looted before it was discovered in 1980 because it was exposed to atmospheric conditions by a partial collapse and the penetration of soil and water for at least 200 years (Krumbein, 2005). The massive pitting and striations as well as the intense weathering of the James Ossuary are not found in the other 9 ossuaries. Only the Mattya Ossuary exhibits sporadic pitting; the diameter of the pits is between 1-3 mm but they are very shallow. No ossuary of the Talpiot tomb was affected as much from climatic conditions as the James Ossuary and it could possibly be considered the 11th ossuary.

The fact that the patina of the James Ossuary exhibits the same geochemical fingerprints as the Talpiot cave and the patinas of its ossuaries is a very important observation in regard to the Jesus family tomb. According to statistical calculations (Feuerverger ,2008; Kilty and Elliott, 2010), the probability that Talpiot tomb is the Jesus family tomb is rather high [ 3% to 47% according to Kilty and Elliott]. Adding the James Ossuary with the inscription “Ya?akob Bar Yoseph Akhui d?Yeshua” to the cluster of the names found in this tomb has a great statistical weight. It raises the calculated odds to a compelling level of certainty that it is really the historic holy family tomb.

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