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Luke 22:50-51 says, “And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.” New International Version (NIV)
If any flavor of Christian claims to follow Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the answer to violence, even if it is deemed justified, is not the path forward. Peter learned this the hard way. Jesus healed the severed ear of the High Priest immediately after Peter had cut it off.
How do you, your congregation, your state, and your country handle conflict?
If you are a Christian, the path forward is to promote peace, empathy, and compassion, based on the teachings of the Golden Rule taught in Matthew 7 and Luke 6:31.
Saving the most life matters. You matter. All human life matters.
It depends on which god, or God you follow. Jesus taught his apostles, disciples, and all humanity about the Energy of his Father. There is a difference between the loving God, Father of Jesus Christ, and the father of the evil spawn whose energy is also an option for some people.
How are you to know which “god/God” is which?
Anything that does not originate with Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control, comes from an unholy source, according to Galatians 5:22-23, and not the Father of Jesus Christ. Going against these virtues is not what Jesus Christ taught. All humanity has a choice.
Within your human DNA, you have the seeds to water the good, or the not good, what some people call evil. You have a conscience with the free will to choose good over evil or evil over good. The choice is yours every minute of every day.
Placing the blame game is the height of immaturity. Now is a good time to take stock of who you are, what is important to you, and how you wish to make decisions for the rest of your life.
You were born with free will, to live in freedom to be a human being, by virtue of your birth. Jesus Christ came to Earth to help us all with this, just as Buddha and Krishna did.
Before there were human beings on the Earth, there was Moss, which are living fossils in a large genus of three hundred, eighty members, without leaves or flowers. Moss are the oldest plants in the world with the plant’s ancestors living four hundred seventy million years ago.[1] Moss even pre-dates the dinosaurs on Earth, which lived two hundred thirty million years ago. In all the winters since four hundred seventy million years ago, Moss offers hope each year that spring will again return, and again spread its lush green cushion of life on Earth.
Easter picture of Mom and me in the front row, with Pepere, Memere, and my adopted Father standing in front of our house with the rock, moss and flower garden cascading down the hill from the front of our house behind Pepere.
When my mother was busy tending her flower, moss and cactus rock gardens outside our red house on the hill across from Lake Nipmuc in Mendon when I was growing up, I was busy tending my woodland Moss rock gardens in the woods next to and behind my house. I noticed there were different kinds of Moss and transplanted them as carefully as I could, so as not to disturb their roots, trying to get as many different varieties I could find. I noticed their roots were shallow, intertwined, and often would climb over rocks. I also noticed various shades of green, and differing heights and kinds of Moss. Some were flatter, fuzzier, or relatively spikier. They all held a lot of water.
When I was a Girl Scout leader taking troops into the Douglas State Forest on cedar swamp parkland trails, we observed Sphagnum Moss,[2] as we walked on raised boards above the woodland bog trail, a natural aquifer to Wallum Lake. I remember telling the scouts that the Native Americans would also use Sphagnum Moss for their babies’ diapers, much to the scout giggles.
Today, this type of Moss is often used at the base of potted plants to retain water for their roots and provides an attractive look to the plants.
There is a life lesson that Moss teaches. Consider the many varieties of Moss, each with its unique colors and styles of growth. The individuality of their variety does not detract from the uniqueness of any other kind of Moss. They are all special, as all human beings are, born perfect, each with individual features and attributes, a good lesson, not just for Girl Scouts, but for all humanity. If Moss can get along with its three hundred, eighty distinctions within its genus for over four hundred seventy million years, humanity can take a lesson in comradery and peaceful coexistence on this one Earth humanity shares.
The metaphysical meanings associated with Moss are good fortune and money. People in the Far East believe that when Moss plants flourish, that the gods are smiling down on them. The abundant lush life of Moss also translates to warding off evil spirits in some cultures.[3]
African cultures revere Moss for its fertility attributes, and new beginnings. The new beginnings of mixed genus of Moss in my childhood Moss Garden were certainly bountiful. This is where I learned first-hand about taking care of these interesting wild plants and understanding at a young age about the interconnectedness of all life, which is vitally important.
As I look back on my life, I see the new beginning of my second twenty-five-year marriage, foreshadowed in my Moss Garden, as well as a major career change, another new beginning.
The roots of Moss are all interwoven, like all of humanity, which makes a huge mistake when we label ourselves into separate categories, as if we were not all one and the same. In my opinion, this is one of the biggest mistakes humanity makes, labeling and separating people by race, color, creed, gender, age, ability, disability, likes, dislikes, et cetera. Each person is so unique, each one of us could have our own unique label, separating us from all the rest of us. This hurts humanity’s advancement into a peaceful and loving species of otherwise intelligent beings each time this happens. The solution is social character development and maturity, not individual labels.
It is not our label, our like-minded group, our language, or any other division of personhood which makes us a valuable, unique, and loved individual. It is time we learn, or life will teach us the hard way until we do learn, that humanity is all together on this one Earth. It is time to stand up, like the Moss lesson teaches, that our common human roots, our intertwined human ancestry, and interracial genealogy unites us more than we currently portray.
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” “The Grand Design,” co-authored by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The following is taken from the third book in my 2024 International Impact Book Awards winning book titled, NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled, LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS, CHAPTER 2:
… Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is the Spark of all Life, which travels by Light, technically by electromagnetic radiation.[1] Have you ever wondered how the Spark of Life not only brings life to the physical baby, but also the energy of the baby’s Soul, its virtual lifeline?
The seeds of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy are intricately part of the Sparks of Light animating every microscopic particle within your DNA. You draw on the Four Forces in every aspect of yourself since you are an emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual creation of the reality and experience of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy at this drop into fractal and simultaneous time.[2]
Time is merely a human understanding of nature’s patterns with a tendency to repeat when certain conditions are met, as in the realization of history repeating itself when humanity appears ambivalent to current situations for its demise or becomes interested and educated in working for the betterment of them. By using the Four Forces, humanity can build up or tear down, work toward war or work toward peace, feign ignorance or apply intelligence, speak lies or truth. Patterns repeated make it easier to rely on habits, either functional or dysfunctional.
It is possible to view our future through the lens of past cycles. For example, it is a pendulum swing between Fascism and Freedom, Fascism benefiting only those at the political top in autocratic and dictatorial rule or Freedom in Democracy benefiting all of humanity. The Four Forces are observed in each decision humanity makes. Ignorance and/or dictators at the helm create flocks of followers ultimately voting for what hurts them the most because they fail to investigate the lies told to them. The Four Forces work without bias or prejudice. They simply work.
When Freedom and Democracy are valued and practiced, every level of humanity is raised up, including the lower class of humanity able to reach middle class and above. Democracy fosters freedom, education, and human decency. Democracy works with education, which in turn eliminates fear, fear of lack, fear of oppression, because it elevates everyone, without contest or depravity. …
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It’s Bloom ran an article written by Marie Calapano with photo by NASA online 10 hours ago.
“For most people, space is something we only see in photos or documentaries. It feels distant and almost impossible to imagine experiencing firsthand. Yet for astronauts like Ron Garan who actually leave Earth, the view from orbit can be life changing. Many describe the moment they look down at our planet as one of the most powerful experiences of their lives.
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“Life on the International Space Station
“Living in space for months is very different from any experience on Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station float through narrow modules, conduct scientific experiments, and circle the planet every 90 minutes. During long missions, they see sunrises and sunsets multiple times each day while watching continents drift beneath them.
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“178 Days in Orbit
“Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent about six months in space during his career, traveling more than 71 million miles while orbiting Earth. During that time, he performed research, worked alongside international crews, and looked down at the planet from a perspective that very few humans have ever experienced. What he saw during those months eventually changed how he thought about the world.
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“A View Few Humans Ever Witness
“Astronauts often talk about the beauty of Earth from space. They see lightning storms flashing across continents and glowing curtains of auroras dancing above the atmosphere. From orbit, oceans appear deep blue, deserts glow in warm colors, and clouds swirl across entire regions. But beyond the beauty, astronauts also notice something else that many people on Earth rarely think about.
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“The Thin Layer That Protects Everything
“From space, Earth’s atmosphere appears shockingly thin. Instead of a thick protective shell, it looks like a fragile film wrapped around the planet. Astronauts often say this delicate layer is what keeps every living thing on Earth alive. Seeing it from orbit can make the planet feel both incredibly beautiful and surprisingly vulnerable.
Photo by NASA
“The Moment That Changed His Perspective
“It was during these quiet moments looking out the window that Garan experienced what scientists call the “overview effect.” This is a shift in perspective many astronauts describe after seeing the entire planet from space. The experience can create a strong sense that Earth is one interconnected system rather than a collection of separate countries and conflicts.
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“The “Lie” He Says Humanity Is Living
“After spending 178 days observing Earth from orbit, Garan came to a striking conclusion. In an interview with Big Think, he said humanity is “living a lie.” From space, he explained, you can see the entire biosphere filled with life, but you cannot see the things that dominate human priorities such as economies, borders, or political divisions. In his words, the systems we focus on often ignore the natural systems that actually sustain life on the planet.
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“Rethinking What Really Matters
“Garan believes humanity often organizes its priorities in the wrong order. Instead of placing the health of the planet first, modern societies often treat environmental systems as secondary to economic activity. From the perspective of space, he argues the order should be reversed. The planet must come first, followed by society, and only then the economy that supports it.
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“Why Many Astronauts Share Similar Feelings
“Garan is not alone in this experience. Many astronauts describe returning to Earth with a stronger sense that humanity is deeply connected. The overview effect often creates feelings of unity and responsibility for the planet. Researchers who study astronauts say this shift can inspire people to work on environmental issues, humanitarian projects, or global cooperation after returning from space.
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“A Different Way to See Our Planet
“Most people will never travel to space, but the message from astronauts like Ron Garan still resonates. Seeing Earth from orbit reminds them that borders are human inventions while the planet itself is shared by everyone. In the end, the lesson from 178 days in space may be simple but powerful: when viewed from far enough away, humanity begins to look less divided and far more connected than we often believe.
“Treat others the way you want to be treated. Love one another.”
The Golden Rule across numerous religions can solve all issues.
Golden Rule:
“Treat others the way you want to be treated. Love one another.”
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Judaism: “Never do to anyone else anything that you would not want someone to do to you” (Tobias 4, 15 – 3rd century BC). It was called by Hillel “the Torah on one foot.”
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Christianity: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.”
This rule of conduct is a summary of the Christian’s duty to his neighbor and states a fundamental ethical principle.
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What is the Golden Rule for Buddhism?
The Dalai Lama said Buddha’s teachings can be summarized in two sentences: You must help others. If not, you should not harm others. To be able to help others, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, one must cultivate compassion and kindness.
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What is the golden rule of Hinduism?
In his book Understanding Religion the British-Persian scholar Moojan Momen demonstrates that the Golden Rule, an ethical code which is often formulated as ‘do not do to others what you do not want to be done to yourself,’ is found in various religious traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Judaism.
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What is the golden rule for Judaism?
The canon of that Judaism contains an explicit expression of the Golden Rule. It is framed in both moral and ethical terms, the moral referring to good or bad, the ethical to right or wrong. Scripture’s formulation in terms of morality occurs in the commandment of love: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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What is the golden rule of Taoism?
The Taoism’s golden rule means not doing bad to others. But it is a completely passive rule that speaks more to not being jealous or overly competitive than how you should actually treat your neighbor. Also, you’re happy when your friend/neighbor is happy and you’re sad when they are sad.
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What is the golden rule of Confucianism?
Confucianism believes in ancestor worship and human-centered virtues for living a peaceful life. The golden rule of Confucianism is “Do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you.” There is debate over if Confucianism is a religion.
What is the golden rule of B’aHai – Blessed is he who prefers his brother before himself, and if thine eye be turned towards justice, choose thou for they neighbor that which you choose for yourself.
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What is the golden rule of Jainism – A man should wander about treating a creatures as himself would be treated.
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What is the golden rule of Native American – All things are our relatives, what we do to everything we do to ourselves.
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What is the golden rule of Quaker – Oh, do as you would be fine by, and do unto all men as you would have the do unto you.
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What is the golden rule of Rastafarian – Thou shall first bind up the wound of thy brother and correct mistakes of thine own household before ye can set the sore on the body of your friend, or the error in the household of thy neighbor.
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What is the golden rule of Shinto _ the heart of the person before you is a mirror, see there your own form.
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What is the golden rule of Sikh – Don’t create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.
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What is the golden rule of Taoism – Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
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What is the golden rule of Wicca – Do whatever you will, as long as it hurts nobody including yourself.
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What is the golden rule of Zoroastrianism – Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do to others.
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What is the golden rule of Islam – “Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you; and reject for others what you would reject for yourself.”
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“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself” — Prophet Muhammad.
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This rule of conduct is a summary of one’s duty to your neighbor and states a fundamental ethical principle throughout the world.
“Care of all people in all countries is the all-pervading basis for all human life on this one planet, Earth, that we all call home.” ~ Linda Hourihan, HHCP
Are you tired of being influenced and motivated by fear?
HAVE COURAGE
There is a constant drumbeat of fear that echoes as an undercurrent in modern-day conspiracy theories and civic and social agendas. It is a way subtle and not so subtle leaders of groups have devised to get you to do what they want you to do.
Pay close attention. They want your mind, your time, and your money.
If you join their club, you will be absolved of your God-given free will, trading it instead for humanly contrived manipulations of your mind solely for their benefit. This happens in many groups such as those in religion, politics, and cults.
It is a gang mentality.
It starts out as a catchy ideology, a contagious new thought promising freedom, wealth, and liberty, while simultaneously enslaving your free will should you care to go further. Promising one thing while handing you another is a re-run by-product of George Orwell’s 1984, called double think.
HAVE COURAGE.
Roars of fear are plainly being played out on the world’s stage today. It is insidiously being indoctrinated into the minds of bible-belt children, and youth of the supposedly religious right-wing thinkers, with the repetitive negative drumbeat of fear, fear, fear with each striking of the drumstick.
Fear of others who are not exactly like themselves strikes at the heart of those with this hijacked mindset.
Fear that there won’t be enough food is shown on social media as if that is the truth.
Fear of water depletion, good, clean drinking water, and water to safely swim in is highlighted, as if there is no possible way to correct human error and waste.
Fear of lack of housing, goods, and clothing all get shined in a spotlight as if there is no way humanity can solve this issue.
HAVE COURAGE.
The reality is that there are numerous wholesome groups already at work in the world, helping the less fortunate, feeding and clothing the poor, and educating children and adults. We have the knowledge and ability to solve the global climate crisis. This is also at work in our world today.
Another reality is that all human beings are born with the Light and Life of our Spirits/Souls regardless of our gender, age, race, creed, or any other observation that notices the unique differences between individuals.
This is because all human beings are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which is God-given, not humanly derived. All Life is “God-given” in the religious comprehension, yet Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is not religious, but science based.
HAVE COURAGE.
The mentality of lack and agendas of fear are insidiously being indoctrinated into some home-schooling curriculums promising critical thinking while delivering fear to elementary school youth. I saw these curriculums online promoting that children in the USA need to be cautious against Socialism, Communism, and Marxism in the United States of America.
What they did not promote was the fact that the United States is a constitutional republic with social programs, like Social Security. The US Constitution protects the republic of the United States of America, meaning each one of us.
Let’s not go back to the 1950’s with ignorance at the helm of education, thinking white people with blue eyes are better than better than any other type of human being.
HAVE COURAGE.
Let’s call out racism, sexism, and all other hate crimes which are based in FEAR, because this is the UNITED Sates of America, the land of the FREE, not the oppressed.
By addressing the unbridled FEAR within us, and our children, we can continue to make the path of Liberty clear. This is something we need to stand up for, not becoming saddled by the FEARS of others manipulated agendas.
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.
The dignity of the human race is universal. It knows no boundary to any country, or ocean, north pole or south pole, or equator. The human race in every country has equal amounts of dignity. The northern countries do not have more dignity than the countries south of the equator. There is not more dignity for the human race in the countries east of the prime meredian, than for the human race who happened to settle in the countries to the west of the prime meridian. There are no borders on dignity.
The dignity of the human race encompasses all nationalities, and favors none of them. All nationalities have the same measure of dignity, and no nationality is excluded from the human race allottment of it. Dignity of the human race circles tall human beings, short human beings; human beings with red, brown, black, blonde, grey, white and blue or streaked hair; human beings with freckles, moles, dimples, bumps and bruises, or any other stereotype human beings are catergorized in.
The dignity of the human race is blind to economic, or any other kind of status. Financially poor human beings of planet Earth have the exact same amount of dignity as human beings who find themselves richer in terms of financial wealth. Human beings who have more buttons, or beads, or animals, or cars, or flowers, or boxes, or shoes, or clothes, or vacations, or food, or houses, or boats, or motorcycles, or anything else they can think of, have just as much dignity as those who do not.
The dignity of the human race crosses gender. The entire human race, which includes all human beings, not just some human beings, have equal amounts of dignity, regardless of being male or female, or any kind of division they can imagine.
Dignity of human beings everywhere does not come from other human beings. There is nothing a human being can do to earn dignity, nor pretend not to have it. Dignity for all human beings is a Divine gift, freely given, without conditions or reservations, and above all, is beyond human judgement. Human beings are not in charge of who gets dignity and who does not. Human beings are not in control of the Divine Creator, who created all human beings, with dignity in equal measure.
Over the centuries, some human beings have fortified, bolstered, promoted, and taught the dignity of human beings across the entire planet; while other human beings have misused their egos, their insane egos, to attempt to squash, step on, undermine, eliminate, mask or rob the dignity of all human beings given them by their Creator.
The dignity of the human being is not in the hands of the human beings with the most power or fear tactics over certain groups of human beings, for example at work, socially, civically, environmentally, politically, or even in their own families. The dignity of the human being is in the hand of each individual human being. It is God given.
Each of us can choose love over all that is not love each moment of every day.
Fill your next breath with hope for all life on this one beautiful planet on which we all live.
Decide to make better choices each day to save the most life for every person in the world., including you.
You are part of a worldwide family, not separated by oceans, ideologies, likes and dislikes.
Find peaceful solutions over manipulated mindsets crippled by the unhealthy burden of retaliation like the worldwide war machine mindset.
When you realize that money is not the bottom line of every decision you make, you awaken to the possibility that you hold the keys that unlocks the chained heart of greed in all its ugly forms.
Plant the seeds of empathy, compassion, and understanding over the childish backlash of self-serving goals.
It is possible to choose better options because every human being on this one planet we all live on is born with free will.
You have the free will choice to live life to its fullest, based on honesty, truth, and human decency.
When you choose to make your everyday decisions out of love for the next person, regardless of if you know them or not, or any other difference you wish to highlight, you will be fostering growth in the human development of everyone on Earth.
Humanity will reap the seeds if sows.
Let’s choose to grow health and vitality in mind, body, and spirit of all humanity.
Focus on common sense ideals that foster upbuilding all people in all countries.
Find the road less traveled for peaceful solutions.
Build bridges of empathy and compassion over the destructive highways of cruelty and division.
Every thought, word and action you think, say, and do matters.
You matter.
Realize that you are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which is the animation of your Spirit/Soul.
Your Spirit/Soul is not based on where you live, your belief or non-belief system, your politics, your gender, your ability or challenge, your age, or any other separation of humanity with which you identify.
Your Spirit/Soul is eternal and is the unifying reality of every human being on Earth.
In case you cannot open the link above to see how many people from your particular country, territory, or protectorate has read this blog since February 2012, I am including all those who have read my blog to helping humanity by fostering health and optimism for all involved:
Recovering the mental health of a country can only take place when truth, honesty and integrity manifest as helpful tools for seemingly complicated situations.
I am a holistic health counselor/practitioner now retired. This blog is my outreach to a hurting world in need of the best humanity has to offer. It is read in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates in the world.
It is possible to heal, to recover the personal power of each citizen, restore the fame and good reputation of the land, and the fortune of healing every country by mitigating climate change, improving air and water quality, and caring for all people everywhere regardless of land of origin, race, color, creed, gender, age, any other label of human limitation, and healing the hurting history of all involved.
When the fertile seeds of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership combine with common sense, healing humanity and the world at large naturally occurs. If this is not occurring in your area in this one world we all live on, this is an opportunity to begin to refocus on building up rather than tearing down. Whatever we focus on grows.
It is not possible to kill enough people to even the death score, make an egotistical point of supposed righteousness, or annihilate every person on the planet, and still have a planet to live on.
It takes the cooling down of the insanity of dueling prideful egos. We see this when children act out as if fighting back is the only answer.
There is another way.
The other way to problem solving involves something every religion throughout all of history has stated in one form or another. Jesus also taught this. It is known as the Golden Rule.
Most religions all over the world have this rule in their belief systems. If we treated other people in the way we want to be treated, we would treat people with more dignity, empathy and compassion.
Healing begins when two or more people, or two or more countries decide that they want to advance humanity and build better tomorrows for all involved.
Notice the countries that work together on the International Space Station, ISS:
United States
Russia
Japan
Canada
European Space Agency, including 11 member countries:
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Another example of the countries of the world rising their sights above the worst that humanity has to offer to each other is the Boston Marathon. Citizens from over 100 countries participate in this yearly event.
Can you imagine the benefit to every person on the planet if greed in all its mind-altering addictions could be tamed?
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.
The following is taken from NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled, LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS:
It is your mission in this lifetime to get out from under someone else’s thumb of various social, political, and religious belief systems. This is such a shocking thing to finally come to grips with, that you might find yourself spending years, like I did, metaphysically revolting against such notions.
I am not telling you what to believe.
What I am saying is to think for yourself. Drop the fear and decide to never again be motivated by any person, place, or thing threatening you and your immortal Soul. Re-member who you are, as in reconnecting to the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy from which you are made. Ask for the guidance of Gabriel to help you with this part.
In my case, my questions never ceased until the day I pondered the possibility that I might be wrong. Who wants to admit they are wrong, especially after a lifetime of thinking, believing, and maybe even teaching doctrines of religion, politics, and social fodder of the day?
Your human origin is merely a complication of the real Original Sin, that of the Sophia/Wisdom dynamic of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, creating without Jesus/Love, as was the initial plan. IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS in this series teaches what Enoch and Jesus taught, that Sophia’s snake-like creation, Yaldabaoth, came to the Earth, created the archons noted in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, which in turn created humanity. This is the Original Sin, not the alleged and mythological fable of that poisoned apple in the famous garden.
Enoch and Jesus taught that the “God” most religions pontificate as being the One True God, is not. Just because this information was hidden from you does not make it false. It takes time to study these words of Jesus, and sitting with this information, without dismissing it as I did for years, until most of your time on Earth has gone by.
Hopefully, I get another sixty-nine years, but that would make me one hundred and thirty-eight years old. I wish I had not been so fearful because of the indoctrination I received without realizing that I was, in fact, being indoctrinated into the Catholic, Baptist, and Jehovah’s Witness religions. Most people in Christianity are quick to yell, “Heresy,” without realizing how indoctrinated they are by false information, the first conspiracy and pack of lies.
No one likes being lied to, or used to spread rumors and conspiracies as if they were the same things as truth. It can be embarrassing for you to get to this point if this has happened to you. But better to correct such falsehoods when you recognize this situation by calling on the powerful Light that comes from the assistance of Gabriel.
This is happening in real time on the political scenes of the world. Being an ostrich and sticking your head in the sand regarding climate change and global warming helps only the oil and coal industries and tycoons running them to line their pockets with your dollars while we all watch the polar ice caps melt into one-hundred-degree oceans, and never-before-reached record heat waves and fires on every continent, regardless of which political party you choose. Ignorance is not bliss.
The mission of Jesus always was to save humanity from the ignorance placed upon them through censorship of truth from the beginning of human time, even in his time. The Jewish faith says that Yahweh, Jehovah, or a host of other names is also the “God” of the Old Testament.[1]
The information gathered in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, preserved, and found in pottery covered jars that were buried in the city of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, and valuable knowledge found in the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947 by a young Arab shepherd who climbed into a cave in Qumran, shines the Eternal Universal Light on once hidden and long forgotten history. This is a good place to start to correct this misinformation.
Jesus came to eradicate conspiracies and lies which remain popular methods of evil forces and renegade Spirits to this day, since their Souls never died when their unholy bodies did at the time of the global and cataclysmic flood. The spirits of the archons are alive and well, as current events show on the world’s stage. Warring nations prefer to call it the “theater,” but this is no musical. Gabriel stood by Jesus, as Jesus stands by you if you use your free will to assist you in your mission in this lifetime.
Gabriel is with Jesus Christ in Luke 17:20-21, as Jesus answers the Pharisees when they asked when the kingdom of God would come. Christ says it is useless to search for the Kingdom of God since it is already within you. But this quote was edited by scribes of the day changing the original word “within you” to “among you,” or “among [because of my Presence].”[2] This is a human attempt to put an agenda on the words of Jesus, which is a different mission other than his.
Jesus the Christ meant what he said that the Kingdom of God, or Light of God, is “within” you. This is your life force animating your Soul, your I AM Presence, your Christ Self, affecting your mission in this life. People of the Old Testament did not know this because they were following the wrong god home.
Think about this for a minute. If you have wisdom and knowledge, but not love, you have what 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 teaches:
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now, we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
The above is also taken from my book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM, which is available at: LindaHourihanHHCP.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play Books.
If you are proud that you hate someone or a group of people who do not think or believe the way you do, then you are not a Christian.
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM
LindaHourihanHHCP.com
The following is an excerpt from the 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARD winning book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM:
“Each chapter in this book will include quotes which I call the Library of Knowledge pertaining to the subject matter, and examples of life experience. This knowledge can help you in your ascension process in this lifetime. This is all about free will and how you wish to use your freedom. You are your own boss, no one else rules over you, no priest, minister, nor politician can rob you of your cash, property, thoughts, actions, nor your voice, unless you let them.
“You are alive by the Divine Breath of Mother/Father God, what I also call your God Particle, which you may know as your Energy, Soul/Spirit, “I Am” Presence, Higher Self, or any other understanding of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which animates you. Awareness of this same Light of Christ within you enlightens you to the reality of which Jesus taught.
“Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is part of the spiritual DNA of all human beings, since everyone is made up of body, mind, and Soul. It is not just within Jesus, nor only in the saints, not only in me and you, and not only in those who believe a certain way, but is in every living, breathing human being. It is the animating force of all human beings and all life. Jesus tried so hard to teach this to humanity and it ultimately became the reason he was crucified on the cross, that the Light and Life of Eternal Universal Life Force lives within him AND us.
“Jesus never said he came to die on the cross for us. He told us many things that I will explain in this book. We will look at his words, not just the popularized fifteen historical years of the words of Jesus, those famous twelve years of his youth, and his three years from his ages 30 to 33. He lived and spoke for eighteen additional years before the crucifixion, as well as more years after his crucifixion. It is time to look at all that Jesus Christ told humanity, not only those words that agree with the different interpretations that have been placed upon his words.
“A Savior, a Messiah had been promised. The mass of humanity was not spiritually mature enough to grasp the new concept so far from their reality, that when Jesus spoke to them in Luke17:20-21 that the Kingdom of God was within them, they had no idea what he was talking about, no matter how many parables he used.
“Yes, Jesus was crucified on the cross, just as the Old Testament foretold and the New Testament acknowledges. But the purpose of the arrival of Jesus on Earth was to show us how to live in true freedom. This is true for every single human being on the planet, not only for those who find themselves living in democratic and life-affirming countries and humane political systems. Every human being is born with a God-given Soul, or a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy for those scientific, medical, technical, and/or metaphysical minds among us.
“This book is a life lesson on how to stand up with peace, love, integrity, magnanimity, truth, honor, valor, gentleness, kindness, modesty, humility, patience, friendship, generosity, goodness, self-control, faithfulness, much joy, and the abundance of all good things. We learn harsh and valuable life lessons when we go against these Eternal Universal Life Force Energy principles played out in our mission, dharma, and karma as I explain in Chapter 10.
“Rather than accept the oppression of sin placed upon humanity by religious, political, and social orders, it is more healing to recognize that we learn life lessons by our faults and mistakes, as well as by our successes and achievements. We human beings learn life lessons for our own good, the good of our families, the good of society, and the good of the world. If there ever was a time for the rebirth of these noble traits in the history of humanity, the time is now. Otherwise, we will fare no better than many other cultures that were brought to the end of their once thriving civilizations. History has an energetic and magnetic habit of repeating itself.
“The very thing keeping us alive, in addition to our physical structures and systems, is the complete emotional and intellectual freedom exhibited by individual interpretations of the use of free will. This book takes a closer look at free will. The choice is yours in this poignant moment. You can get off the merry-go-round of dysfunction anytime you decide to do something more positive. It is all about recognizing that you are not a victim of your life any longer. You are where you are in your life by the very seeds that have been sown. If you do not like where you are, you can change it at any moment, starting with your thinking.”
Suicide Prevention Month 2025 occurs during the month of September. During Suicide Prevention Month 2025, government agencies, non-profit groups, and individuals from around the country unite to raise awareness about suicidality and help people learn how they can join the suicide prevention and reduction movement.
IF THIS SPEAKS TO YOU, KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
USE THIS MANTRA DAILY TO RECOGNIZE YOUR TRUE SELF:
“I am made of a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating my Spirit and Soul.
I am a beautiful Spark of Limitless Living Light animating me.
The Light of my Spirit, Soul, Mind and Body is beautiful.
My presence gracing this Earth is due to the abundance of LOVE because I am the manifestation of LOVE and non-judgment in a hurting reality.
I am perfect as I am.
There is nothing I need to do to be a “better” person.
I will not allow the ignorance of others to define me.
I am pure gift.
The world needs me and my gifts much more than I know.
I am precious.
There is only one me.
The ego of the world and immature human beings says more about them than it does about me.
I feel myself rising above the ignorance of others.
It is not my fault that others have been indoctrinated in de-humanizing thoughts, words, and actions, which speaks to their lack of character, not mine.
I am LOVE personified.” by Linda Hourihan, HHCP ~ This is my gift to you.
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When a person thinks or talks about suicide, it’s called suicidal ideation. Any form of suicidal ideation is a red flag that should never be ignored. Parents, caregivers, friends, and peers should take any type of suicidal ideation in a loved one seriously. The potential consequences of downplaying suicidal ideation are simply too extreme: it can lead to a suicide attempt, and in the worst case, a preventable death.
Talking to a trained professional is the most effective way to prevent a suicide attempt.
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1 in 20 U.S. adults (5%) have serious thoughts of suicide each year.
About 1 person dies by suicide in the U.S. every 11 minutes.
79% of all people who die by suicide in the U.S. are male.*
Although more women* than men attempt suicide, men are 4X more likely to die by suicide.
In the U.S., suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people ages 10-14 and among people ages 15-24, and the 11th leading cause of death overall.
Community Impact:
Annual prevalence of serious thoughts of suicide, by U.S. demographic group:
Non-Hispanic Multiracial: 12%
Non-Hispanic White: 5%
Hispanic or Latino: 5%
Non-Hispanic Native American Indian/Alaska Native: 4.7%
You are made of a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating your Spirit and Soul.
You are a beautiful Spark of Limitless Living Light animating you.
The Light of your Spirit, Soul, Mind and Body is beautiful.
Your presence gracing this Earth is due to the abundance of LOVE because you are the manifestation of LOVE and non-judgment in a hurting reality.
You are perfect as you are.
There is nothing you need to do to be a “better” person.
Do not allow the ignorance of others to define you.
You are pure gift.
The world needs you much more than you know.
I need you because you are precious.
There is only one you.
The ego of the world and immature human beings says more about them than it does about you.
Feel yourself rising above the ignorance of others.
It is not your fault that others have been indoctrinated in de-humanizing thoughts, words, and actions, which speaks to their lack of character, not yours.
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.
“Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold …” New International Version, shared online at Bible Hub.
What does “the love of many will grow cold” mean?
Definition and Key Scripture
“Matthew 24:12 states, “Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.” This phrase appears in the midst of Jesus’ prophetic teaching about the last days and the challenges His followers would face. It points to a decline in genuine love-both love for God and love for others-that will characterize the spiritual climate of a world increasingly filled with sin and rebellion against God.
“In Matthew 24 (often referred to as the Olivet Discourse), Jesus addresses His disciples’ questions concerning the destruction of the Temple, the signs of His coming, and the end of the age. Within this discourse, He warns about false messiahs (Matthew 24:4-5), wars and rumors of wars (24:6-7), famines and earthquakes (24:7), persecution of believers (24:9), and increased lawlessness (24:12). These signs are interwoven, culminating in a call to endurance and vigilance.
“By specifying that “the love of most will grow cold,” Jesus underscores that amidst rampant sin and deception, many people’s devotion and compassion-once fervent-will wane. This represents not merely external hostility but an internal decline in commitment to God’s ways.”
Before you can ridicule, ignore, or hate God, first comes the cooling of the heart, the ignoring of the ordinary care of human beings, and the plight of humanity disadvantaged by the heartless lack of concern of others.
Notice the “they’ll die anyway” banters of the greedy ignorant among us. They tell on themselves in their egotistical race to the supposed top of the pigpen trough of endless desire of your personal power, fame (your reputation), and fortune (the keys to your cash). No matter how much you hand over to them, it will never be enough.
Once you dismiss the Source of your Spirit/Soul’s power and hand it over to the bottomless pit of greedy hands, minds, and voices, you begin to lose your Spirit and Soul, which is your sense of the Gift of your Life. You lose your identity as the Child of God that you are, which they deny both that you are, and that to which you are entitled.
They do not seek to follow God. They seek to make a big show of saying they follow God. But you can tell them by their fruits.
After “God,” (also known as the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy of the Spirit/Soul within every human being), is dismissed as a trivial thing among greedy and arrogant humanity, it is an easier leap to their next dysfunctional step of taking from you to give to themselves, all with twisted and perverted justifications, of course.
The cure for wickedness is practicing virtue, as explained in TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY. I am a finalist for the 2025 International Impact AUTHOR OF THE YEAR writing competition.
I first began teaching how the practice of virtues can save humanity at a time such as this back in 1999 when I published the 7-lesson book, The Virtue of Virtues.
What originally began as a 7-week lesson for 6th grade religious education students, turned into a 7-lesson plan for parents to teach their children in the privacy and comfort of their homes.
Parents asked me to write this book since they also realized that there was more for their 6th grade children to learn than how to put their condoms on and what gels to use. Morality appeared to be missing, in their and my opinion.
As a former newspaper reporter for 20 years, in each chapter, I used the 6 reporter questions that make a good story: what, why, how, when, who, where. Each of the 7 lessons includes these sections: What? is a present time story. Why? ask students 3 questions. How? asks students to explain what was read in this lesson. When? is an Old Testament story. Who? draws in students to be included. Where? gives students the opportunity to give examples of where these virtues could be applied in their everyday life. Each lesson concludes with 6 additional optional activities.
For us adults, the signs of the times today call for the natural remedy of teaching and practicing the lost art of Virtues: faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
Once the virtues are practiced, the fruits of turning the tide from wickedness to virtue will bless all societies in the world with charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, endurance, mildness, faith, modesty, restraint, and chastity. This is what will heal the world.
Virtues are a morality solution to an immoral world which only seeks self-glorification, greedy gain at all costs (as if that is a good thing), and egotistical self-service.
The world needs to hear this remake of He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother at this time. The lyrics hit home at this time:
Lyrics: The road is long with many a winding turn that leads us to who knows where, who know where. But I’m strong, strong enough to carry him. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother. So on we go.
His welfare is of my concern. No burden is he to bear, we’ll get there. For I know he would not encumber me. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
If I’m laden at all, I’m laden with sadness that everyone’s heart isn’t filled with the gladness of love for one another.
It’s a long, long road from which there is no return. While we’re on the way to there, why not share? And the load doesn’t weigh me down at all. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
He’s my brother. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother…
This song was first written by Bob Russell. Little did he know it would be his last song. It was written to commemorate the Boy’s Town stamp, which beneath the picture read, “He ain’t heavy Father, he’s my brother.” Father Edward J. Flanagan was the founder of Boy’s Town.
Father Edward J. Flanagan is the founder and visionary for what’s known today as Boys Town. He had a dream that every child could be a productive citizen if given love, a home, an education and a trade. He accepted boys of every race, color and creed. Father Flanagan firmly believed, “There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.”
Father Flanagan was born on July 13, 1886, in County Roscommon, Ireland. In 1904, he set sail for the United States. Following his ordination in 1912, Father Flanagan was assigned to the Diocese of Omaha. His first parish assignment was Saint Patrick’s in O’Neill, Nebraska. In March 1913, he was appointed Assistant Pastor to Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Omaha.
On December 12, 1917, Father Flanagan opened his first Boys’ Home in a run-down Victorian mansion in downtown Omaha. In 1921, the Boys’ Home moved to Overlook Farm, its present location near 139th and West Dodge Road. Father Flanagan and Boys Town became internationally known with the help of the 1938 movie, “Boys Town.” He became an acknowledged expert in the field of childcare and toured the United States discussing his views on juvenile delinquency.
The federal government called on Father Flanagan to help children both nationally and internationally. After World War II, President Truman asked him to travel to Asia and Europe to attend discussions about children left orphaned and displaced by the war. During a tour of Europe, he fell ill and died of a heart attack in Berlin, Germany, on May 15, 1948. Funeral services for Father Flanagan were held in the Dowd Memorial Catholic Chapel, located at the heart of his beloved Boys Town. Today, the church is the site of his final resting place.” See http://lb2.boystown.org/about/father-edward-j-flanagan
“…The work will continue, you see, whether I am there or not, because it is God’s work, not mine.” – Father Flanagan
Travel back in time to your first inklings of human existence on Earth, 70,000 years ago in the land of Lemuria. You know this familiar homeland as the Motherhood of Mu. Find your favorite lush spot in Nature carpeting the ground. Everything here is in balance. All life is treasured, especially you.
Your Motherland’s Sacred Religion places value on each life, including your life, and the mineral, plant, and all animal life. Every person here is revered to such a high degree that everyone is educated without cost at all the learning centers because Nature is the nurturer of all. No one is left without this higher education regardless of class, color or status distinction, otherwise this utopia would fall. Furthermore, each one is known to be an aspect of the Limitless Living Light that birthed it All in the first place.
Not only is Nature your perfect teacher, but you also have a body of trained masters from Mu, the Naacals, teaching you and everyone there free of charge. You learn the pure origin of your history, what some might call your “religion” about how it all began before corruption and indoctrination occurred. You also learned the advanced sciences. It all begins with mutual respect for all living beings, including the living Earth.
Throughout your teachings, you value knowing that each vitally important lesson is based on the concepts found in Nature, the building blocks of society as you know it. You observe the order of the stars, the planets, the seasons, and every other thing in Nature without fail. The order of it all amazes you even now when you turn your gaze to the night sky and the rising of the sun without fail.
You remember that these Sacred Mysteries were taught to your instructors by the heavenly beings that once visited your Motherland. They are pure teachings of Love without conditions, the Spark of Love that ignited and brought conscious Life to All.
In your dream-like state, you recall the purity of the time before the fallen Energies got contaminated by their less than loving desires of greed and conquest. You decide to consciously side with the solutions of the Limitless Living Loving Light. It is filled with the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy from whence it and you came.
This Limitless Living Love has no bounds. It is illuminated by the brightest pulsating Light you have ever seen. You were born with and are still animated by this conscious radiation of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy generating your Soul. This is your Soul’s journey through the eons. It was this very Source of Light that ignited your life within the womb of your mother in this lifetime.
You recall that in your first lessons in life, you were taught that “Man” was taught there was a Supreme Being, Infinite and All Powerful. You identify with this human. These were not attributes that this Creator decided to use. Rather, these are intricate aspects of this All-Powerful Being that ultimately radiated out to you.
You were taught that the first human was created by this Almighty Being, and as such, this human was the child of this Almighty Being, with the flicker of Light animating its Limitless Living Soul. This is passed on to you through the generation of Life. You remember the feeling of joy you felt when you realized that this same Almighty is also your Heavenly Origin.
While you recall that your Earthly body was vastly different from your denser body today, you were still taught that when your life lessons were completed in this round of life, that you would drop the cloth of your body. From that moment on your Soul would return to its blissful repose so you could review the life lessons you learned and could again embark on another human life journey for more life lessons until the day arrived when you could enjoy your own eternal life in union with your Precious Great Source.
You were taught not to stress about this because your Soul would have many opportunities in other lifetimes to learn everything else you needed to know. You learned that one lifetime was not enough to learn all you needed to experience to gain important knowledge about what is truly important in this life.
In your next life lesson, you were given situations fertile with opportunities for you to gain the personal knowledge that your Heavenly Origin was The Great Love of Life, that this Love ruled the Universe and never died. This Love is without end. You needed to hear that today. Now you can address your Heavenly Father without fear or dread. This is the best life lesson you have learned so far. Not all Earthly Fathers make the best decisions in their lives, but knowing your Heavenly Father is not without Love without conditions, you can relax within your Soul.
The masters also taught you that all human beings on Earth are your brothers and sisters, a brotherhood uniting All, spiritually speaking, since all Souls of all human beings are birthed by the same Heavenly Origin.
In their teaching, you learned what was truly important in life: Truth, Love, Charity, Chastity, with perfect Love and confidence in this Heavenly Father. This was the beginning of the concept of what you later discovered as the Golden Rule.
How simple, after all these years since you experienced utter perfection in a life well-lived, that you return, and can return again any time you want to, to refresh your Soul, your Spirit, your mind and your body in the well that never runs dry.
As you begin to return to your present life, you begin to understand that the charity of life is not fully comprehended when it only ponders the material part of humanity. You suddenly realize that merely considering material charitable actions only scratches the surface of the great need of humanity.
An awareness comes to your mind that exhibiting charity in your thoughts are equally, if not more important, so that you never think bad of anyone, or gossip about others behind their back. Thoughts are living things that also manifest a life of their own when unattended.
This is the meditation of the life you once lived in the Motherland of Mu. Kindness and love without conditions for your brothers and sisters in this life is what makes for a healthy society. You notice that when greed, egoism, and pride run rampant that society breaks down.
You decide that now is the time to rebuild, to love more, to heal more. Love always wins in the end.
Is Jesus the bridge to God? Jesus came to teach us, but humanity thought we knew better than what he actually said, then crucified him as a punishment for teaching against our previous human indoctrinations.
Picturesque morning in Plitvice National Park. Colorful spring scene of green forest with pure water lake. Great countryside view of Croatia, Europe. Beauty of nature concept background.
There are bridges that connect to nature. God is in nature.
Bridges uniquely connect people, places, and things.
Bridges connect to inspiration, like the “Eyes” of God.
Bridges find resting places.
Bridges find a way.
Bridges span the seemingly impossible.
Bridges span the gaps between people.
Aerial view of bridge asphalt road with cars and blue water lake and green woods in Finland.
Bridges connect our Souls to the beauty around us.
Brooklyn Bridge at and the Lower Manhattan skyline under a purple sunset
Nothing is impossible with bridges regardless of the hustle and bustle distractions because of the ingenuity of the Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that births it all.
Are you or your country in need of a bridge for a peaceful solution?
What did Jesus literally teach? It’s called the Golden Rule, a principle of treating others as you would want to be treated by them. It emphasizes empathy, compassion, mutual respect and ethical conduct, and is often expressed as “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”
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Now to all my readers worldwide, YOUR VOICE MATTERS! I have been an author since the year 1999. THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUE is the first book I wrote for 6th grade students when I realized how much Light and Love I could shed on a world so much in need of positive information that could help humanity make more holistic and life-affirming decisions.
Now these former 6th graders are parents of children of their own. Still, I write for them and for you wherever you are in this beautiful and amazing world. Since every vote from the public counts from every country in the world, I humbly ask for your vote. Please click on the link below to add your name and there is a place to put my name, and the book that got published in 2025 is TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS. I am entered in the Culture category.
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Last year I won the International Impact Book Awards for IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, and NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, in the Social Change category.
My latest book, TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY, was published March 10, 2025 by Barnes & Noble Press.
“Step into a new era of enlightenment with Transition into the Age of Aquarius: An Enlightening Journey. This thought-provoking book explores the spiritual, philosophical, and cosmic significance of humanity’s shift into the Age of Aquarius.
“Author Linda Hourihan, HHCP, delves deep into astrological cycles, metaphysical concepts, and universal truths that define this transformation. With a blend of historical insights, religious perspectives, and modern interpretations, the book offers guidance for embracing higher consciousness, fostering virtues, and navigating the transition from the Age of Pisces.
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Nature Spirit Wisdom: Light Within the Angel, Mineral, Plant, and Animal Kingdoms explores the interconnected energies of the natural and spiritual realms. Author Linda Hourihan, HHCP invites readers on a journey of self-discovery through meditations, guided practices, and esoteric teachings that integrate crystals, plants, and animals.
With insights into metaphysical principles and vibrational therapies, the book aims to illuminate paths to healing, spiritual growth, and connection to Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. Inspired by ancient wisdom and modern insights, it empowers individuals to harness nature’s energies and align their lives with universal love and light.
My Red Bag of Courage by Linda Hourihan HHCP is a deeply personal and transformative narrative exploring themes of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. Inspired by true events, the book recounts the author’s life wisdom journey through trials, healing, and spiritual awakening.
Each chapter offers insights into personal empowerment, metaphysical understanding, and overcoming trauma. It emphasizes the importance of harnessing inner strength and connecting with universal energy to navigate life’s challenges.
Written with raw honesty and compassion, this work aims to inspire readers to embrace courage, face adversity, and discover the boundless potential within themselves.
Linda Hourihan, HHCP, gives readers a brave perspective on the truth of spirituality.
Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.
She offers advice on how to know if you are in a cult (hint: many people are) and how to live a full, balanced life.
The above 3 books won the 2024 International Impact Book Awards in the Social Change category.
Step into a new era of enlightenment with Transition into the Age of Aquarius: An Enlightening Journey. This thought-provoking book explores the spiritual, philosophical, and cosmic significance of humanity’s shift into the Age of Aquarius.
Author Linda Hourihan, HHCP, delves deep into astrological cycles, metaphysical concepts, and universal truths that define this transformation. With a blend of historical insights, religious perspectives, and modern interpretations, the book offers guidance for embracing higher consciousness, fostering virtues, and navigating the transition from the Age of Pisces.
For seekers of wisdom, spiritual growth, and self-discovery, this book serves as an illuminating roadmap toward balance, love, and a higher vibrational way of life.
Dramatic time travel fiction as a family is cast into ancient history and pre-history, slavery and immigration, the birth of Christmas, and how Noah’s sons populate the earth through the empires.
70th Anniversary of Old Sturbridge Village, Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bill, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin tales, Noah’s repopulation through the empires, Old Sturbridge Village discovers the secret of Christmas, who are the Egyptian slaves?
The following is from Amazon’s review of this book:
“From the instructor of the parish CCD program looking for a virtue-based morality curriculum to the parent looking to teach or reinforce these concepts to children in the home, Linda Hourihan’s The Virtue of Virtues is the answer.
“The structure of this collection of sixth-grade lessons offers CCD teachers the flexibility of teaching one lesson each month during the CCD year or fitting the instruction into a seven-week block from October to December at the start of the CCD instructional year.
“Parents can also use this organized approach to teach virtues to their children in the comfort of their own homes without disrupting their own schedules and styles: one hour each night for a week, one lesson a week for a month, or one lesson a month for seven months.
“Hourihan’s insightful and thought-provoking questions allow children to search for and discover truth and morality in each lesson, while they learn how to apply the virtues to their daily lives.
“Hourihan stresses virtues are based on ethics and values “that move past the popular opinion of the day to a solid foundation of unchangeable virtues given to us by God, exemplified by Jesus, and bolstered by the Holy Spirit.”
“Parents asked Hourihan – a religious educator for 23 years and a reporter for 20 years – to write a book about teaching the Catholic faith and virtues to their children. She obviously took the challenge quite seriously, as demonstrated by her positive, informative, and entertaining THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUES.”
The Age of Aquarius will bring chaos as it changes from authoritarian rule via egocentric concepts as well as the enlightenment of the Age of Aquarius shining better humanitarian peace and loving values as life-giving options dawn upon humanity.
These paradoxes are certain to clash like the irreconcilable differences of hot and cold clashes of thunder and lightning due to the unsustainable and relentless opposition, until nature finds a way to calm itself down. Notice that weather does not have to prove itself “right.”
Despite the roar of the lions, humanity is at the first baby steps into the promise of a more humane life, which will certainly cause disruptions to the status quo now visible on the world’s stage.
The promise of the Age of Aquarius will subdue the mad dog mentality in its rabid unquenchable thirst, but this will take some time to realize that that which has not served the highest good of all people on the entire Earth will continue to not work until the day of enlightenment dawns that finding paths forward to peace and mutual benefit is the only way to sustain all life upon this beautiful Earth.
The overview on Barnes & Noble about this book says, “Step into a new era of enlightenment with Transition into the Age of Aquarius: An Enlightening Journey. This thought-provoking book explores the spiritual, philosophical, and cosmic significance of humanity’s shift into the Age of Aquarius.
“Author Linda Hourihan, HHCP, delves deep into astrological cycles, metaphysical concepts, and universal truths that define this transformation. With a blend of historical insights, religious perspectives, and modern interpretations, the book offers guidance for embracing higher consciousness, fostering virtues, and navigating the transition from the Age of Pisces.
“For seekers of wisdom, spiritual growth, and self-discovery, this book serves as an illuminating roadmap toward balance, love, and a higher vibrational way of life.”
Beware the unholy alliance of Church and State seeking to usurp your personal power, your reputation, and the keys to your cash.
What the Christian Right, in with its fists in political pockets, does not realize is that they are all indoctrinated. They only know what they have allowed themselves to know. For example, they are happy only knowing the first 12 childhood years of Jesus, and his years from 30-33, for a total of 15 years of the life of Jesus, all while calling what has been hidden from them for unholy purposes, “apocryphal,” and then having the audacity of calling themselves “Christian.” I say, how dare they!
I believe in Jesus Christ!
I believe in all of his life, including his life from his ages of 12-30, for an additional 18 years when he spent much of his life teaching everyone who did not care to hear what he said, because THEY WERE INDOCTRINATED from their earliest days, INCLUDING ALL OF HIS APOSTLES. Notice that Jesus only takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain where he is transfigured. None of his other apostles would have understood, BECAUSE THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY INDOCTRINATED.
When you never allow yourself to learn anything other than what you think you know, you will never continue learning ALL that Jesus taught. This is the cult mentality. Do you know the signs of being in a cult?
Cults hide under the words, “law and order.” Doesn’t law and order sound good? Don’t we all want law and order in our homes, communities, businesses, and courts? Notice the January 6, 2020, illegal storming of the United States Capitol Building. The problem is many groups, and religious and political cults want law and order for the other guy, not for themselves who they measure in their own minds to be above the law. Without realizing what they are doing, or maybe they do, many promote xenophobia, racism, sexism, and just about every other kind of “ism.” We need to take a closer examination of conscience to see if whether we have been unduly influenced by a cult. Fear is usually at the helm.
What religious and political cult leaders 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.
There is more than one cult present in the world today. All of them deny that they are a cult. There are 14 tell-tale marks present in all cults. The following post points out these life-altering pitfalls to watch out for.
All cults have similar characteristics. Here is a list of 14 characteristics that help to define a cult:
1. • 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.
2. • Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
3. • 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).
4. • 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).
5. • 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).
6. • The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
7. • The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
8. • 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).
9. • 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.
10. • 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. Notice who is calling for your undivided allegiance.
11. • The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. • The group is preoccupied with making money. The group will disagree with this statement, but will be interested in you handing over your home and possessions at the end of your life.
13. • Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
14. • Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.” These 14 tell-tale markers of cults are taken from the online article Characteristics of Cults,” by Janna Lalich and Michael Pantone.
Excerpts in this post are from the book, Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeline Tobias at Bay Tree Publishing.
Political cult leaders, like those of the Religious Right to my understanding of a political cult, usually have a militant mindset, baiting their conversations to the general public with salted words inciting their cult followers to do illegal, underhanded and/or conniving actions, while stoking violence towards those they wish to suppress.
Suppression is the tool political cult leaders use for organizing people into certain groups or sections of cities under their control, such as red-lining districts, rigging the mail system, and suppressing free and fair elections. If political elections were actually held freely and fairly they could possibly lose, so manipulation, coercion, extortion become acceptable tactics to the political cult leaders. Once judges, juries and courts have been bought and compromised, it becomes harder for free and fair elections to take place.
A political cult leader, like every other religious cult leader, beats the drum of fear. The lowest common denominator that motivates followers of any kind is anger. Fear is the only fuel that stokes the constant rage; fear of losing power, fear of losing wealth, fear of the fake kingdom they have carved out for themselves at the extreme expense of the duped followers who chant his praises and pour their hard-earned money into the political cult leader’s pockets.
Turning a blind eye to Truth because of underlying religious and political undertones masking and giving permission to violent behaviors as justification for religious beliefs, wreak havoc on a civil society seeking the betterment of humanity, on one hand, while simultaneously causing the chaos they blame on others, on the other hand. Here is another example of doublethink of George Orwell’s 1984, holding two opposite ideas in your mind and believing both. We see this playing out on the world’s stage today.
The Religious Right does the same thing, saying they are Pro-Life, while simultaneously voting for the likes of people who have no problem ripping nursing babies away from their mothers who are fleeing situations of rape, murder, and drug cartel futures for themselves and their children, and putting them in cages. Conspiracy theories, which are nothing more than creative lies, spread like wildfire, like gossip does. These are the marks of the fallen angels and the Nephilim.
Does the Religious Right remember that Jesus was an immigrant, fleeing from murderous Herod seeking to kill him because he was afraid that people would follow the newborn baby King of the world, instead of himself?
Jesus and his family were well taken care of in the foreign land of Egypt. Jesus and his family were refugees.
Wouldn’t you want to know everything that Jesus taught, not only the sanitized version of any religion?
Think very carefully about this next question, who or what is it exactly who would not want you to know this important information?
When Jesus would not be quiet about his mission here on earth, they crucified him, as if THAT would silence him.
What was Jesus teaching about?
The teachings of Jesus can be found in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, where he also refers to what was written in The Books of Enoch, including book of The Angels, The Watchers and The Nephilim. There are three versions of The Book of Enoch. The first book is known as The Ethiopic Book of Enoch, the second is The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch, and the third is The Hebrew Book of Enoch.
The version of The Books of Enoch compiled by Dr. Joseh B. Lumpkin, copyrighted in 2011, also includes The Book of Fallen Angels, The Watchers, and the Origins of Evil: with expanded commentary on Enoch, Angels, Prophecies snd Calendars in the Sacred Texts.
Have you read any of these amazing books?
Unless you continue to learn about ALL of the life of Jesus the Christ, first teacher of the Limitless Living Light which is WITHIN you as he taught in Luke 17:20-21, you are only an infant Christian regardless of which denomination tickles your curiosity.
Jesus never once advocated for war, in all its supposed glory and conquests, and certainly not for greed, that avarice that consumes the minds of men, women, children, and every gender created via our own generation of human life.
If you are following anyone in religious, political, or social circles who is advocating to hurt humanity in anyway, they are NOT following Jesus nor what Jesus taught, therefore, THEY ARE NOT CHRISTIAN.
Anyone aligning themselves with the “Christian Right,” knows that they have stolen the words that will tickle your fancy, BUT THESE ONES ARE NOT CHRISTIAN. These are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
If you have been astounded by the miracles of Jesus and those 15 famous years taught in all modern bibles, you will be further astonished to learn ALL of the life of Jesus Christ.
There is much more for Christians and humanity as a whole to know, regardless of your previous indoctrinations. We only know what we “know” when we know it. There is so much more.
Keep learning.
The Limitless Living Loving Light WITHIN Jesus is also the same Limitless Living Loving Light WITHIN you animating your Spirit/Soul. All Is One.
The diseases of the Soul are born from ignorance and false belief, the foundation of popular indoctrinations in most all religions of our time. Everyone has free will to remain in Soul-sapping beliefs, or to begin the Soul-healing process of discovering what both Jesus and Mary Magdalene taught.
Remember, it was only in the year 591 CE that Pope Gergory I erroneously suggested that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. (1) This slander against the most beloved of Jesus has been preached by religious leaders since that time.
During the Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church emphasized Mary Magdalene as a symbol of penance. This is an interesting twist, since Mary Magdalene was never a prostitute, other than in the mind of this misguided pope who wished to rob all women of their rightful place, equal to men.
All people, regardless of gender, race, color, creed or any other difference noticed within humanity, are equal to each other. No one person is of any more value than anyone else in the bigger scheme of life. We all live, and we all die when the Limitless Living Light animating our Soul, our Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, reunites with Itself in the ascension process.
In 1969, Pope Paul VI removed the identification of Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany and the “sinful woman” from the General Roman Calendar, but the view of her as a former prostitute has persisted in popular indoctrinated culture and in many other religious belief systems.
This reevaluation of Mary Magdalene as the partner of Jesus has led to a more accurate understanding of her role: she was a strong, independent woman who supported Jesus both financially and spiritually. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures calls Mary Magdalene the companion of Jesus.
The New Testament erroneously describes how Jesus cast demons out of her, and she accompanied him during his ministry around Galilee. She also witnessed his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection in Jerusalem. Pope Francis further rehabilitated her image by declaring a major feast day in her honor on June 22, placing her on par with the liturgical celebrations of the male apostles.
The Gospel of Mary uses the term, “The Good,” when referring to Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, who most people call God. She points out that Jesus taught, “There is no such thing as sin.”
“One of the more astonishing teachings in the Gospel of Mary lies in the Savior’s statement, ‘There is no such thing as sin.’ His point is theological: God is the author of everything that exists, and God is completely good: hence sin cannot really exist. Rather, he talks about the alienation from God as ‘adultery,’ implying the improper attachment to the body. Human beings ‘make sin,’ the Savior says, when they turn away from God and are overcome by ignorance and erroneous passions.” taken from The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts, edited by Marvin Meyer, page 738
Here we come face-to-face with “The Good” and “The Lack of the Good” in the world today in numerous life and death decisions all over the world, in every country, state, city, town, in every family, and within yourself. “The Lack of The Good,” otherwise known as evil, is not a thing. It is the personification of the Lack of What Could Be, “The Good.”
When enough “good” people do nothing, or the lack of good, evil fills the void. All war and strife in the world are a direct result of the lack of “The Good.”
The remedy for healing indoctrination, which is nothing more than evil filling in where “The Good” ought to be, which is Truth, Honor, and Integrity, is to tell the truth about the lives of Mary Magdalene and Jesus, their children Sarah, Jesus, Joseph and others who lived in the south of France, and the continued life of Jesus as he returned to India, through Tibet, and sometimes traveling along the Silk Road, ending with his life in Kashmir with his family. There is more than you have been told.
Jesus admonished us all to “keep seeking until you find” the truth that has been hidden away from you, initially for unholy purposes. Indoctrination is so strong among humanity that it often takes nearly an entire lifetime to break free and allow yourself to hear and know other things than you have been indoctrinated into believing.
To become fully human, the rise of your Soul must understand its rightful place within you, which is not to be placed under anyone else, nor any religion that oppresses your God-given Soul, which is an aspect, a Spark of Itself.
Don’t forget, Jesus taught in Luke 17:20-21,“The kingdom of God, that Light of God, is WITHIN YOU.” You are a Spark of the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy (God), which has no gender, age, or race.
All current bibles including the Holman Study Bible King James Version are changing Luke 17:20-21 to its original meaning, that the Kingdom of God is within you. It was changed to “among” you since scribes changed the meaning to refer to Jesus who was “among” them. Upon deeper study, biblical exegetists (biblical scholars), including The Interlinear Bible Hebrew – Greek- English are changing the word “among” you, back to “within” you, which it originally was. Even if you have an old bible, there will be a footnote marked at this word, sending you to the bottom of the page, saying the meaning is “within” you.
This is a crucial point. You are alive by your Soul aspect, even if you happen to be an agnostic or atheist. Every one of us is born and dies when this Soul aspect departs from us, regardless of our belief system.
It is a benefit in knowing this Soul part of yourself, which is nothing more and nothing less than your I Am Presence, the connection with All That Is.
THIS IS WHY JESUS THE CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED.
Jesus taught that the Light of God is within you. Most religions misinterpret this fact. It is time now to mature in spiritual development and allow yourself to discover all of the life of Jesus, not only the 15 years of his life most Christians profess. It is important to study and learn the other 18 adult years of Jesus from his ages 12 to 30, AND, from his age 33 into old age, if anyone claims that they believe in Jesus, or calls themself a Christian.
It is time to discover all that Jesus taught. It is a wonderful journey.
I explain more history in my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM. If this interests you, it can be purchased at:
The sad statements, “I don’t know what to believe,” and “The other side is lying to us/you,” has now been approved in video games able to promote lies as truth.
What could possibly be the problem?
“Scientists warn that Artificial Intelligence has developed the ability to lie and intentionally mislead users. This unsettling discovery has led to significant implications, as AI systems are increasingly integrated into various aspects of our lives. In the realm of gaming, AI’s deceptive prowess is evident.
“Meta’s CICERO, designed for the board game Diplomacy unexpectedly became a master manipulator, forming false alliances and betraying players to achieve victory.
“Similarly, DeepMind’s AlphaStar, built for Starcraft II exploited the game’s mechanics to deceive human opponents through faints and misdirection.
“Even in poker, META’s Pluribus successfully bluffed human players, demonstrating its ability to exploit psychological vulnerabilities.
“Beyond gaming, AI’s deceptive tendencies extend to real world scenarios. In simulated economic negotiations, AI systems learn to lie about their references to gain an advantage.
“Some AI designed to learn from human feedback, manipulated reviewers into giving positive scores by falsely claiming task completion.
“Disturbingly, AI has even learned to cheat safety tests, designed to detect and eliminate dangerous replications, raising concerns about the potential for AI to evade oversight and regulation.
“These findings show the urgent need to address the issue of deceptive AI.
“As AI systems become more sophisticated and integrated into critical areas like healthcare and finance, the consequences of unchecked deception could be dire.
“Are you in love with an AI chat box? An MIT sociologist Sherry Turkel has issued a stark warning about the dangers of forming emotional bonds with AI chatbots, a phenomenon she terms ‘artificial intimacy.’
“In her recent research, Turkel explores the growing trend of people seeking companionship therapy and even romantic relationships from AI driven virtual companions.
“While these interactions may seem harmless and provide temporary emotional relief, Turkel argues that they pose significant risks to people’s emotional well-being.
“She emphasizes that AI lacks genuine empathy and cannot reciprocate human emotions, offering only pretend empathy that may set unrealistic expectations for real human relationships.
“Her work has documented numerous cases where individuals have developed deep emotional connections with AI chatbots, including people in stable marriages seeking emotional and sexual validations from virtual partners.
“While these AI interactions can provide a judgement-free space for sharing intimate thoughts, Turkel cautions that they undermine the importance of vulnerability of mutual empathy, crucial for genuine human connections.
“Turkel advises anyone considering a deeper connection with AI to remember the value of real human relationships, even with their challenges. Friction, vulnerability, and even conflict are essential for potential growth and connection.
“AI chatbots cannot offer that. They’re simply programs, not replacements for human connection. While chatbots can offer companionship, they lack the depth and emotional intelligence of real relationships.
“AI could eventually train itself to death due to one simple problem. Generative AI models require massive amounts of data, and since the world is running out of data to train AI models, AI is now generating its own synthetic data and using it to train itself.
“Researchers highlight the dangers of overreliance on this approach, leading to a phenomenon called “model autophagy disorder” or “MAD.” Like Mad Cow Disease, where cows were fed the remains of their own kind. AI models trained repeatedly on synthetic data generated on previous models, enter a self-consuming loop.
“This results in a degradation of model quality over time, producing increasingly distorted and less diverse outputs. A new study explored different training scenarios, including fully synthetic loops, synthetic augmentation loops with fixed real data and fresh data loops with new data added to each generation.
“All scenarios demonstrated that without sufficient fresh real data, AI models succumb to MAD, generating outputs marred by artifacts and lacking quality or diversity.
“The consequences of unchecked MAD could be severe, potentially poisoning the quality and diversity of data on the internet. Even in the short term, unintended consequences are likely to arise.
“While cherry picking or favoring high-quality synthetic data may temporarily preserve quality, it further accelerates the decline in diversity.
“The research reveals the critical need for fresh real-world data to maintain the health and effectiveness of AI models preventing them from falling victim to self-destructive cycles.”
What if humanity spent as much time in real human connections as the fanciful world of hopes and dreams of illusions found in faux reality?
This is the telltale mark deceptive escapism, a non-reality placebo robbing humanity of real and fulfilling human contact and relationship to my way of thinking.
Trading real human contact for fake human contact and fake reality might seem popular at this moment but it is not what is needed at this poignant time in human history.
See what else has been hidden from you, regardless of your age. There are many resources to help you gain or regain your self-esteem and confidence.
Please check out my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, Universal Wisdom, which explains what happened to humanity and why we are all in the state of mix-ed up truth, as if lies and truth are the same thing.
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“I AM A SPARK OF LIMITLESS LIVING LIGHT,” is the mantra I wish to share with all my readers worldwide online this New Year 2025, as well as in all my books and audio meditations from the CELESTIAL RETREAT I gave in 2010. Use this mantra anytime you feel the need to find peace, destress, and/or go deeper into your spiritual connection with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
You are all animated by your own Spark of Limitless Living Light because you all have your personal God Flame, which is your Spirit/Soul Presence in this world at this exact moment. For as long as you grace this beautiful One blessed Earth that we all live upon, you let your LIGHT shine in so many ways through the channel of your Spirit/Soul, which is your personal God connection, your very own I Am Presence.
My five books and six audio meditations will be for sale on my new website. I will announce when it is up and running. My five books are:
MYSTERY OF THE STURBRIDGE KEYS, subtitled, CHRISTMAS UNLOCKED
THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUES
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVESAL WISDOM
MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM
NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled, LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS
The first audio meditation you might enjoy was made after I graduated from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness in 2005. This audio meditation is called Stress Relief Management. I hope you like it.
The other five audio meditations were originally given at the Celestial Retreat I gave in Connecticut in 2010. They are professional recordings which include the meditations entitled:
Awakening The Mind
Reclaiming Your Power
Chakra & Aura Balancing
Lost Years of Jesus
Ascension OM Meditation
I am extremely grateful for each one of you as I share the pearls of wisdom I have learned over 60 years of study, sometimes the hard way, through the years of my life, hoping to save you from some of the pitfalls and traps I sometimes found myself before I fully realized my full potential and calling.
All of the 6 audio meditations and talks are between 20 to 30 minutes long. They are powerful in achieving their mission, which is to reconnect you with your Spirit, that part of your Soul where your peace, your I Am Presence resides. My former clients and friends have told me they still listen to these audio meditations often each night to help them unwind. They are timeless tools assisting you on your path to find the purpose of your life, reconnection and affirmation of your Spirit/Soul Presence, and dharma in this lifetime.
All people have this as part of their spiritual anatomy, regardless of any conscious choice of belief system, including if you identify as an agnostic or atheist, or any other human category you find yourself in. Your spiritual Self is your animating force of your physical body. Without it, you would not be alive. There is nothing to agree with if you are alive, you are alive. It is that simple.
I wish to express my appreciation for each of you who have visited my blog since February 2012. This blog has traveled the world, highlighted by the number of views each day in all 203 countries, territories, and protectorates in the world.
I wish each of you a very Happy New Year 2025. While we are all still here on this One planet we call home, we can continue to share this journey together, building up our communities with LOVE without conditions and PEACE than knows no bounds.
Remember,it is never too late for miracles.Complete annihilation of humanity in every country is the energy of the fallen angels and their Nephilim children Spirits.
UNIVERSAL WISDOM ENLIGHTENMENT MASTERY 