“I have a dream for people, regardless of their race, color, creed, and gender, for the betterment of humanity and the planet, to promote life; and for all to have respect for all human life including mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual differences among all people of the world, who edify these same principles.” Linda Hourihan, HHCP
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Following the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, civil rights leaders met with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to discuss civil rights legislation and posed for this picture. In the front row are Floyd McKissick (CORE), Whitney Young (National Urban League), Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC), Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress), A. Philip Randolph, President John F. Kennedy, Walter Reuther, and Roy Wilkins (NAACP). Other notable people in this photograph are John Lewis (Student Nonviolent Coordinating or “SNCC”), Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice), Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, W. Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor), and Vice President Lindon B. Johnson.
President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on civil rights on June 11, 1963.
Taking a moment to appreciate courage, justice and nonviolence in the face of cruelty, injustice and violence.
Antidote: Never hand over your God-given personal power or relinquish your God-given free will to any person, place or thing at any time for any reason, ever.
Beware of modern-day cults, especially those that tell you they are not a cult.
I am writing this for the many people in these modern times, who, for some reason, were looking for that something more in life, and got caught up in a web of diversion and dark human inspiration, a cult, and who desperately wish to get out.
YES, YOU CAN GET OUT!
There is more than one cult present in the world today. All of them deny that they are a cult. But there are 14 tell-tale marks present in all cults. The following post points out these life-altering pitfalls to watch out for. Most cults are under the flag of religion, like the cult of the “Rosary” within the Catholic Church, while some entire religions are also steeped in cult practices. The late Bishop George Rueger taught me that the Rosary is a cult within the Catholic Church.
However, cult followers can also carry the cult flag by following political leaders. This political type of cult leader is transformed by his “followers” into a god-like leader, when in fact, he is merely just another human being. Any rebuttal is met by his faithful cult followers, no matter how much truth there is in the facts, with the cult-like wave of resistance. They support the cult leader, no matter what truth and facts point out.
People’s Magazine sponsored a television show in 2019 on the cult, Word of Faith Fellowship, (under the disguise of religion) which oddly enough is attracting modern day men, women and children into its criminally abusive practices. This cult is one of many popping up these days.
Hitting a man, woman or child with an 18-inch-long wooden paddle for four straight hours while getting screamed at as if one has the devil himself inside the victim is not sanctioned by God, no matter what reasons cult ministers give to support their aggressive, self-serving and deranged goals, like Word of Faith Fellowship, in my opinion.
In some cases, as mentioned in the above People’s Magazine article stated, other “parishioners” push, hit and scream at the offending party for hours on end. No one has a right to put their hands on you or scream at you for hours. This is torture and criminal.
Whether you have been involved with this or any other cult-like religious or political group, reclaim your mental, physical and spiritual self as soon as possible. Fear of being abused in any or all of these forms is not the path to freedom and free will. Fear of being abused is a faulty human-manipulation-tactic used as social-structural, social-psychological, inter-behavior patterns to get you to submit your will to the misguided will of the cult group.
Fear, lies, and control freak threats are the ultimate weapon cults use.
It was never the intention for you to become a slave to someone else’s idea of how to live your life. Cult ministers are not more worthy of being human than you, nor are political cult leaders more worthy of a dignified human life than you deserve to have. They are simply another human being.
They certainly do not know more than you know about dealing with humanity fairly, with equity, common sense, empathy and compassion, especially if they are showing to you their opposite values of self-serving greed, despite what their forceful words erroneously may imply.
One day in the presence of cult ministers, leaders or any other title they use to inflate their own self-worth, is enough to shine a light on the soon to erupt volcano of emotional, physical and spiritual harm they eventually unleash.
Physical abuses can be seen. But the seemingly invisible mental abuses they inflict on their unsuspecting subjects is not God-inspired, at least not by the Good God, Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Theirs is an un-holy god of deception, manipulation, fear, obligation and guilt.
Listen to that inner voice inside yourself, your conscience, and realize you are right to escape the cult. Cults are evil personified, no matter what they say to the opposite. Cults are heavy into fear mongering and guilt motivation, but that does not make them right. You already know this.
What cult ministers do know is how to exert concerted effort to influence, bully, control, manipulate, exploit, and in the worst cases to abuse your body, mind and spirit in their unholy aim. This is abuse. This is mental abuse. This is physical abuse. This is spiritual abuse.
Escape from these abusers as soon as humanly possible.
Abuse in all these forms is criminal and must not be tolerated by any human being on earth.
All cults have similar characteristics. Here is a list of 14 characteristics that help to define a cult:
“• The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
• Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
• Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
• The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
• The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
• The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
• The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
• The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
• The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
• Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
• The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
• The group is preoccupied with making money.
• Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
• Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.” Taken from the online article Characteristics of Cults,” by Janna Lalich and Michael Pantone.
“The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave — or even consider leaving — the group,” say Janja Lalich and Michael Langone in their online article Characteristics of Cults.
Excerpts are from the book, Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeline Tobias at Bay Tree Publishing.
Stand up for your God-given gift of free will. Use your free will to get out. No one owns the rights to your life. Your life, body, mind and soul belong to you. God loves you. God forgives you. You are a child of God here on earth. Only you can live your life. If you have given over the rights to your mind, body or spirit to other religious or political groups, or any other group claiming rights over you, use your free will to walk away. Those are not your friends. Friends do not usurp your God-given rights.
For all Bible and religious believers out there, it is important to know that Jesus never said one word against gay or any other label of LGBTIQQ people. If Jesus had anything to say about this segment of humanity, he would have. It certainly would have been recorded, but you will not find it anywhere in his teaching.
Why?
Jesus did not teach one word against gay, lesbian, homosexual, bi-sexual, pan-sexual, or any other myopic negative stereotypical view of humanity unlike your own.
Jesus did teach to treat other people the way you want to be treated. It is known as the Golden Rule in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31. Are you doing that?
Yes, one word was spoken against homosexuality in Leviticus, chapter 20. Let’s discuss this.
Jesus did explain this in The Second Revelation of James on page 336 of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer.
Jesus said, “Your father is not my Father, but my Father has become a father to you.”
What?
You haven’t read that yet?
Why not?
Have you handed over the power of your free will allowing other people to tell you what you can and cannot read under some kind of threat to you and your immortal Soul?
It is time to wake up. You are an adult. It is time to grow up. You are no longer in the sandbox of childhood anymore.
I wrote about this in my INTERNATIONAL IMPACT AWARD winning book series IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, and NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM.
This book tells if you have been conned by a cult, even a political, religious or social cult and how to get out:
I give personal examples in the second book in this award-winning trilogy in MY RED BAG OF COURAGE. It is now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and soon on Google Play Books in all versions, Kindle and eBook, paperback and hardcover.
I continue this series reminding humanity how to regain your personal power by examining examples of Limitless Living Light within the Angel, Mineral, Plan, and Animal Kingdoms as seen below.
Notice that the rose does not revolt against the geranium, nor does the Jade revolt against the Clear Quartz gemstones. They are all part of Creation, however it started. So are all people, as unique as each God-given beautiful snowflake, not to be confused by certain segments of humanity now opting to take something beautiful and turning it into something derogatory for self-inflated and judgmental purposes.
Just because both religious and political powers hid important knowledge from you for eons does not mean that the only thing to know are the childish versions of history they wish to pontificate. Jesus taught more for you to know than only 3 years from his ages 30 to 33.
Jesus explains in these writings that His Father of Love and Light decided to adopt wayward humanity who was only partly created by Sparks of this same Love and Light. Jesus truly is the Savior of humanity of every religion, not only mis-guided Christians. If you claim to be Christian, then read everything that Jesus said, not only what some denominations teach.
What is the tip off of cult-like indoctrnation?
Indoctrination begins with denouncing every other word Jesus taught other than his famous 3 years of preaching and teaching. Censorship, book banning, and all forms of hiding information from you are the clues.
Jesus said to “Keep seeking.” There is a reason for this. It is the same reason he was crucified. If you do not allow yourself to read or even hear something different other than that with which you have been indoctrinated, the pearls of wisdom coming straight out of the mouth of Jesus will slide right off your indoctrinated ego.
There is a much deeper reason for the depravity found on Earth and concentrated more in some human beings than in others. However, Jesus loves us all and truly shows us the way. “The Way” taught by Jesus is through non-judgment, and non-violence as he dramatically showed by his example when Peter cut off the ear of the Roman Centurian and Jesus healed him, as well as at the crucifixion of Jesus.
The Way involves Love with no conditions. Anything that is not Love can be dissolved by this Love, but only if we all DECIDE to love, and not fall into the negative and sometimes attractive trap of ruthless treatment of others, sparked by the less than Loving “god” of all negative energies. All that they are is the lack of Love. You will know them by their fruits, their lives, and their decisions.
You have the ability to be the fulcrum, the turning point from not love, to LOVE. It is a decision you make. It is the Love you share for all your neighbors regardless of if they look like you or believe the way you do or were created different from you in any way.
Every human being is made with a God-given Spirit/Soul, which is a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. No human being can claim to know more than God about the creation of any human being. That would be a fool’s errand.
Equality has no gender. It is something we are born with. No one in this world gives anyone else equality. Equality is God-given because we are made in the image and likeness of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, what some call God, regardless of belief system. Social systems in every corner of the world that have usurped personal and social power through both just and unjust means are not the end of the journey of social consciousness.
The value of a person does not depend on someone else’s opinion. The value of a person is within the person, something no one else can know. We can get glimpses of what makes a person tick by listening to their words and getting a better understanding by the actions they take. Still, the onus, the value of who the individual is, in totality, belongs to the individual.
Let us not forget that Spirit, that Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that fuels each human Soul, exists within each and every person, not on the conditions one person places upon another. We have free will to wake up to this fact, or to deny this fact, but personal opinions have little bearing on the life of the Spirit/Soul within each one. It is the animating force of the individual life, without which we cease to be.
“What is man that You think of him, And a son of man that You are concerned about him?” Psalm 144:3New American Standard Bible
Yes, Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiences through all of us. How we choose to weave the tapestry of our lives is wonderous. No one needs anyone else’s permission to live their life the best way they see fit.
Who individuals are in their unique presentation of themselves is no reason for others to drum up drama regarding their own ignorant opinions. More education is required in this life. Personal growth and development is part of that.
Social growth and development is equally important for the success of society, otherwise social growth leans on the flimsy and dysfunctional foundation of racism, xenophobia, and a host of other hate issues.
Gender is not a religious agenda item. All counseling issues do not find their remedies in arcane remedies known to mankind many thousands of years ago. Healing the conscience of society requires up-to-date knowledge based on human wellness rather than misinformation.
It will be a glorious day when all of humanity reaches higher understanding of unity where labeling people one way or another will be seen as harmful. I foresee the day when it will be unnecessary for census forms to label whether people are male, female, Caucasian, black, Latino, or any other variety of humanity, including gay, straight, gender fluid, bisexual, transgender, or every other classification of personhood. Employment opportunities will not be able to hold prejudices against new hires, nor will the bigoted opinions of others hold others back. It will not be any reason for discussion, because the worth of the person depends on their own achievements, as opposed to hollow opinions.
All societies are working towards the betterment of humanity, whether covert or out in full view of the eyes of the world. Trying to hold humanity down to the level of corrupt, racist, and powerful tyrants results with the same ending as the beachball being submerged underwater. It is only a matter of time that the beachball resurfaces to the top with the force and truth of what is taking place. Denying reality only works for so long. Oppression of people only works for so long. Truth always finds a way no matter how long it takes.
Stay true to who you are. You cannot do otherwise. All humanity is working on themselves in one way or another, through continuing education, creative endeavors, meaningful relationships, rewarding employment, positive social action, and sharing life with others.
Bantering labels, discussing differences, and pointing out divisions, plus what has not worked in the past, is not the way to build bridges, nor get things done. Equity is finding solutions that begin right where you are, finding common ground, and working for the benefit of all of humanity regardless of race, color, creed, age, gender, and every other unique human trait that makes each one of us unique.
Ancient and antediluvian histories say there used to be a Matriarchy before there was a Patriarchy. There were female goddesses, women warriors, including Diana, Isis, Artemis, Athena, Helen of Troy, Boudica and Joan of Arc.
Over time Matriarchy was taken over by Patriarchy, down to this day. Today humanity is awakening to the realization that it is not by fighting or militantly taking a stand opposing the current system of rulers that moves mountains. Arguing with, labeling, and insulting those different from ourselves solves nothing.
What is making positive progress forward in raising women in today’s world?
EQUITY. EQUITY EQUALIZES MARGINALIZED CONDITIONS THAT TIP THE SCALES TOWARD INJUSTICE AND INHUMANITY.
Equity is the balm that soothes all injustices, oppression, removing the insidious “glass ceiling” in business, finance, technology, medicine, law, politics, and all other boundaries aimed at women and other compromised segments of humanity seemingly under the thumb of others.
Oppressed people can remedy the suppression of their voice and silence the oppressors and unfair treatment in society by voting. No, the election was not stolen in the last election, but oppressors would have you think so. We need to stand up for human rights. Women’s rights are human rights.
Working together for unity, harmony, and equity opens more doors of opportunity than voicing opposition ever can. Promote problem solving over problem creating. It works. Lamenting the past does not heal the future, no matter what the issue.
If you ever get the chance to work with any of the local Conferences For Women in your area, that is an affirming, community building, positive project worth your consideration.
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