Thomas Jefferson: “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
James Madison: “The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
Theodore Roosevelt: “I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed.”
Barry Goldwater: “By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.”
George Carlin: “I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
John Adams: “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion… it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
1st Amendment to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: …”
The concept of separating church and state is often credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). However, Roger Williams was first in his 1636 writing of “Soul Liberty” where he coined the term.
Locke expanded on this. According to his principle of social contract, Locke argued that the government lacked authority in the realm of individual conscience, as this was something rational people could not cede to the government for it or others to control. For Locke, this created a natural right in the liberty of conscience, which he argued must therefore remain protected from any government authority. These views on religious tolerance and the importance of individual conscience, along with his social contract, became particularly influential in the American colonies and the drafting of the United States Constitution.
Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Comm – caption: ‘Leviathan’
On the original cover of Thomas Hobbes’s work Leviathan (1651), he discusses the concept of the social contract theory.
In the past, the wall of separation metaphor has been used to silence people speaking from a religious perspective in the public marketplace of ideas. You see this in court cases limiting the rights of students to express their faith in public school settings. You see this in public forum cases where religious groups want to use public forums on the same terms and conditions as secular groups. The courts are restricting that ability.
The tide is turning, as you see on today’s Supreme Court, where right-wing Christian religion has chipped away at the once sturdy bricks in the wall of separation between church and state, replacing those valuable bricks of integrity with bricks made of sand and one-sided religious agendas pontificated by political push.
The religious right is not so holy in its hatred of the non-white, non-straight, non-pre-existing US citizen. Those underlying deceptions now have infiltrated agendas supposedly pretending to support the very citizens they are hurting.
It took until Thomas Jefferson came to the rescue to stop the Baptist religion from being a state religion. Danbury, Connecticut was collecting taxes from people in religion and paying it to this “state religion” until all the other churches complained of this unfair practice, resulting in the common practice that all religions do not have to pay taxes now.
Religion and politics can work in a symbiotic relationship, helping humanity in homelessness, hunger, and efforts to help the general public, as long as religious bias does not interfere with the human rights of all USA citizens, not just some of them.
Sepphoris are shorter Palm trees native to Bethlehem at the time Jesus was born. Sepphoris is also the ancient Greek name of the town which has the Hebrew name of Tzipori. Hist0ry shows the Magi visited Jesus, Mary, and Joseph when he was 2 years old in Bethlehem, which is why Herod sent the order out for his henchmen to kill all baby boys ages 2 years and under. They were not part of this popular Christmas scene. I teach about this accurate history in my 2024 International Impact Book Awards winning book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM.
No one knows the real birthday of Jesus. But one thing is for sure. It is not on December 25. Several facts point to the actual birth of Jesus taking place in September or October. Some sources speculate perhaps it was in the spring. Humanity glosses over a lot of facts when it wants to believe something that is not true, but popular especially if it is based on tradition.
Let us look at the facts. At the time of the birth of Jesus, when that big new star was shining in the night sky, shepherds were out in the fields, watching their flocks by night. Shepherds were able to keep their flocks of sheep out in the fields day and night during warmer weather, until the rainy season began. They went by the Jewish months in the Torah. The rainy season was called Heshvan, in what is now autumn. When the winter months arrived, it was too cold with frost and snow to keep the sheep out in the fields. Shepherds were not out in the fields during the winter.
Remember that the reason for Mary and Joseph to go to Bethlehem, as this bible story is told, was to register for the census. It was the first registration of people of the earth of its kind. Caesar Augustus sent out a decree for all the inhabited earth to be registered. Even the Syrian Governor Quirinius was interested in the outcome. Everyone belonging to the house of David had to register in Bethlehem. This census would not have taken place in the winter when the roads would have been treacherous with ice and snow. However, other than the bible, history does not have a record of such a census.
So why was the celebration of the birth of Jesus put on December 25?
The decision to put the birth of Jesus on December 25, the Iranian god Mithra’s (their sun god’s) birthday, was to Christianize it, if there is such a thing.
The original December 25 celebration was established by none other than Nimrod of Babylonian fame. Nimrod and his wife, Ishtar, pronounced “Easter”, who self-dubbed herself as “Semiramis, Night Goddess of the Moon,” began the ungodly celebrations. They also created popular new customs that became instantly popular, like cutting down evergreen trees and decorating them with silver and gold ornaments, putting up wreaths and mistletoe, and Yule logs.
Sound familiar?
At the time of the birth of Jesus, approximately 6-4 BCE, people did not want to give up these popular customs, except for the child-sacrificing part. By this time, they also included celebrating the god of sowing and harvest, Saturn, which was celebrated on December 17 (in today’s calendar). This is the famous Saturnalia festival. Nimrod expanded the celebrating time between December 17-25 as a time of unbridled revelry, anything goes, wild parties, drunken orgies, decadent food, and, of course, his fear-based sacrificing their first-born children to the fire so they, the parent, would reach enlightenment. It was also a power-play of fear to obey Nimrod. If they did not sacrifice their first-born child, they were made to “walk through the fire” themselves.
What kind of “god” would require this horrible tradition?
When the Roman government wanted to rule over the entire world, it was decided to put the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Mithra’s feast day, December 25, as a way to entice new Christians to switch over to belief in Jesus, instead of celebrating Mithra as the “Sun god.” They thought they could trade the “Sun god,” for the “Son of God.” However, all of the customs and traditions that celebrate the false, man-made god Mithra (man-made by Nimrod and Ishtar), remain to this day, like Easter, the famous “Ishtar” celebration with “Easter,” as in “Ishtar” eggs and celebrations in the spring.
All of the other religious holiday traditions likewise replaced secular feast days and celebrations, like the Spring and Fall Equinoxes and the Summer and Winter Solstice celebrations.
Many Christians today are taking a closer look at Christmas as the “reason” to celebrate the birth of Jesus. If Christians truly believe that Jesus is the “reason for the season,” then we ought to be celebrating the birth of Jesus when he was actually born, in September, October, or any other month when crass grows in the field, not on a false, pagan god holiday, complete with all of the false God’s customs and traditions, on December 25.
This babe, Jesus, came to shine the Light of God and to inform humanity that the Light of God also is within everyone who adopts his profound example of peace, forgiveness, and genuine love. This is the Christ Eternal Universal Life Force Energy he came to share. It invokes a metanoia of the heart, from the seed of Nimrod inclination (a seedling remnant of Nephilim genealogy) to the Christ Energy illumination which this new-born babe later taught in his life’s example.
Was the world ready to hear this?
The words of Jesus were conveniently changed to “among you” for a few centuries, changing the meaning of the words of Jesus, but all bibles are currently correcting this error, in Luke 17:20-21.
Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many Roman Catholic Churches in every city and state in the world?
As mentioned earlier, the Roman government wanted to rule the world. The bishops at the Council of Laodicea had to get their changes also approved by the Roman Emperor. It was not merely a religious consideration. Today we would call this the union of church and state. My book,IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS goes into detail about exactly how this happened.
There is much that has been misunderstood about the life of Jesus, including what has been neatly omitted from modern bibles, which does appear in the hidden scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Books of Enoch hold such pearls from which even Jesus has quoted.
Some groups wanted to preserve those poignant words of Jesus, like the Cathars. Hiding these words of enlightenment would preserve them until the time came for them to be understood by humanity.
Other groups in power did not want the empowering words of Jesus to continue to spread. It is understandable why certain religious and political groups wanted to suppress the words of Jesus from his ages 12 to 30, as well as his years from 33 to 120. This is one of the reasons for the Crusades, which paint the extreme measures religious and political leaders went to silence those who believed all the words of Jesus.
These supposedly “missing” years and words of Jesus Christ are simply too empowering. They were buried so that religious and political leaders of Jesus’ day could retain their power, fame, and fortune. The same is true for what is occurring on today’s stage in every country in the world.
There is so much more for us to know than the convenient stories that have repeated on an infinity loop since what has been taught since sixth grade. This is exactly why I wrote my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS. This is the first book in this trilogy.
Read this book if you want to learn more about accurate history found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, 52 mostly Gnostic treatises, 3 works belonging to Corpus Hermeticum, and a partial translation of Plato’s Republic. It was discovered that these codices may have once belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery.
Religious censorship, coupled with political censorship, prohibited humanity from learning empowering knowledge that would have advanced historical knowledge for nearly 2,000 years. Since 367 AD Athanasius preferred humanity only know the first 12 years of the life of Jesus and his last 3 years, for a total of 15 years, while burying the other 18 years of the life of Jesus prior to his age 33, as well as those additional 87 years from his ages 33 to 120.
Who is it exactly who would not want you to know this?
How old are you?
This is adult censorship. You have the right to think for yourself, not be spoon-fed the pablum that has placated humanity since the Savior, Jesus Christ graced this planet.
The personal power that Jesus taught to everyone worldwide for their own empowerment was such a threat to religious and political leaders worldwide that freakish control systems were established with long reaching tenets that strangle humanity still today in many cases.
It is unconscionable that humanity has been kept in the constrictive bounds of grammar school knowledge concerning the life of Jesus. I wrote IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS so humanity can finally learn all that Jesus taught, not only the sanitized and manipulating version that places the flocks of religions and political groups under the controlling thumb of oppression, fear, obligation, guilt, and threats to their immortal Spirits/Souls.
It is time to come out of Plato’s allegorical cave of ignorance. Give yourself a special Christmas present and learn all that Jesus Christ came to teach you. It is all explained in my book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM, available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play Books and anywhere books are sold.
My New Year’s resolution is to publish IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM as an audio book like I did with the ever-growing-popular book, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM.
This HEALING AUDIO MEDITATIONS ALBUM includes 6 meditations totaling 3 hours and 32 minutes, PLUS you may download the 28.24 minute 21st Century AI talk I gave virtually in Portugal in September 2025. My talk empowers you to regain your personal power, your reputation, and the keys to your cash.
You can choose to create your own time out retreat in your favorite healing get-away place in nature, decide to include any one of them during your break or lunch time at work, or finally conclude your day in a relaxing and blissful way to enter your sleep time anytime you wish.
These meditations are digital and be listened to anywhere you have reception with your cell phone and/or laptop. You can purchase individual meditations or the entire album.
Relax at your leisure with the meditation of your choice. The first meditation, STRESS MANAGEMENT, was professionally recorded at my business, The Massage Clinic in Stratford, CT in 2008.
STRESS MANAGEMENT: 17 minutes
It’s time to relax as never before, melt away stress from every cell and fiber of your being, and find that place deep inside you allowing your Soul to bask in Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This meditation was recorded after I graduated from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness.
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The Celestial Retreat collection of professionally recorded 5 meditations took place as a winter retreat in February 2010 at the Guest House in Connecticut.
AWAKENING THE MIND: 34 minutes
Activate your mind, body, spirit tripod. Soften the sharp blades of opinions. You are a Creation of Divine Breath. Be the observer of yourself. What are your self-messages? Use I AM Statements to advance in your personal power. Get off the mundane dysfunctional treadmill of life in a healthy and robust way to eliminate what is no longer serving your highest good by transmuting lower vibrational energies into the Limitless Living Loving Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
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RECLAIMING YOUR POWER: 30 minutes
Heart centered and compassionate counsel with me, mind-body-spirit integration, assessing your paradigms, belief systems, belief in yourself, working with solar plexus, inner power and decision-making process. Use all your senses, breathwork, looking at habits, I Am statements, be the observer of yourself. What triggers or buttons do others push? Flags to pay attention to. Drop self-judgment. Living your truth. Listening to your inner voice. How to make positive changes in your life. How to stop allowing others to push your buttons. How to live in the present moment. It all begins with conscious decisions. Who are you really?
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CHAKRA AND AURA BALANCING: 45 minutes
Take an inventory of your energy centers, 9 chakras and aura. Release what holds you bound, mental, physical and/or spiritual traps. Do you feel energy bottle-necked or depleted? Your Divine blueprint, Spiritual DNA, water for cleansing, mental cleansing, strengthening your energy field, expand your Limitless Living Light and Love vibration and energy field, 8th Chakra the Seat of your Soul, I Am that I Am, one foot below your feet – interacting with the earth, grounding, releasing what no longer serves your highest good including fears, concerns, worries in each Chakra. Absolutely never make any decision based on fear. Rather make your decisions based on the most Light and Love possible. Love cords are much stronger than fear cords. Breath in forgiveness for Self and others. Have compassion, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness for yourself and others. Remember who you are.
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THE LOST YEARS OF JESUS: 30 minutes
How do you like being handled? Discover what else Jesus taught and why humanity hid his empowering words that can now empower you. As Jesus told us all, “Keep seeking!” Join with Jesus in the Buddhist Temples during the so-called missing years of Jesus when he was between the ages of 12 to 30 years old. Jesus taught all about freedom, but how free are you in your own thoughts? Allow new information to shift the reality of what you know. Jesus said to keep seeking, not settle for his first 12 years of his childhood, and then only his years from his ages 30-33. Discover what has been hidden from you. The words of Jesus written at this time of his life are stronger than what the writers of the New Testament accounts written many years after the crucifixion of Jesus say. There’s one race of people, the human race. Travel with Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, his uncle, and a trader of tin to the East, through India and to the monasteries of Tibet. Jesus there was also known as Issa. Jesus referred to himself as a prophet. Jesus edified women in Ladaka. Jesus’ Spirit, the Christ Light, is in your and my Spirit. Discover the journey of Jesus through the Far East during his missing years from 12-30 where he studied the knowledge of the Buddhas. You are part of this divine adventure. You are co-creating with divine Source.
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ASCENSION OM MEDITATION: 42 minutes
This Ascension OM Meditation comes from THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME, by the late Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. “This is an extraordinarily complete and comprehensive meditation. It is guaranteed to invoke the ascension energies. It is a meditation and treatment I would recommend working with every day, either once or twice a day, on a consistent and ongoing basis. I will guarantee you that this meditation and treatment will completely transform your consciousness, your four-body system, and your reality,” said Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. at the beginning of Chapter 27 of THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME.
The 21st Century Talk given in Porto, Porto in September 2025, and in Chicago, Illinois December 2025, remains free of charge and may be downloaded separately. I have offered this meditation to be included around the world in upcoming 21st Century Women’s Entrepreneurship, Leadership, AI Conferences in Sydney, Australia; Venice, Italy; Toronto, Canada; and Oman among others.
Stress manifests when you least expect it. These meditations help you in your everyday life, during major life changes, and any time you feel like taking a break and fueling your Soul with positive encouragement.
Wishing you the abundance of all good things.
You are a Spark of Limitless Living Light.
NAMASTE
Namaste means the God in me acknowledges the God in you, because both your and my Soul/Spirits are animated by this SAME LIMITLESS LIVING LIGHT SOURCE OF ALL CREATION, REGARDLESS OF BELIEF OR NO-BELIEF SYSTEM.
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago. As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia.
The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida.
The old map above gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe. For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century.
At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages.
The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.
“Before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They were among the first to traverse what became known as the Oregon Trail. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec.” taken from Songs Upon The Rivers
After I traced my genealogy, I discovered several Daughter’s of the King in my bloodline.
“The meeting between the Canadians and indigenous peoples shake up traditional history. Meriwether Lewis found it abhorrent. Yet that encounter had already left an indelible mark before the Oregon Trail opened in the 1840s.” taken from Songs Upon The Rivers
“Songs Upon The Rivers raises the curtain on a story waiting more than a century to be told. The authors force us to reexamine certain mythologies and theologies that define American historiography,” said Dean Louder, coauthor of French America: Mobility, Identity and Minority Experience Across The Continent.
In this seminal work, Songs Upon The Rivers, Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette scrutinize primary sources and uncover the alliances between early French settlers and voyagers and the indigenous nations. When Native Americans were rounded up and put on reservations, the European women who had married Native American men, were also treated with the same disrespect their husbands received.
Likewise, French soldiers who came to settle what was then known as New Canada, under the authority of King of France, and who had married Native American women were also put on reservations if they chose to stay with these women.
PIX – King Louis XIV of France sent rich women with large Dowreys to populate New Canada along with the French soldiers he sent in this land conquest.
This book is the buried history of the French-speaking Canadians and Metis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River who crossed this vast country to the Pacific Ocean.
How far back to you care to research? Please know there is more to know.
CAMDEN, NJ – OCTOBER 11: A homeless man named Bob waits for donations from passing motorists on October 11, 2012 in Camden, New Jersey. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Camden, New Jersey is now the most impoverished city in the United States with nearly 32,000 of Camden’s residents living below the poverty line. Camden, which sits just over the bridge from more affluent Philadelphia, also has a chronic crime problem with 48 recorded homicides this year alone. A lack of jobs has been a feature of life in Camden since the city lost most of its manufacturing base in the late 60’s and 1970’s. While the state unemployment rate is about 9.9 percent, Camden’s is estimated at 19 percent. Camden is not alone. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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