Waking Up
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What has the Christian Way to offer these days, to people who are searching for a spiritual sustenance but have run up against the failure of the mainstream church based expression, at best incomprehensible to many, at worst abusive in one form or another. For an organization whose prime focus is about creation, what has it got to say about the two greatest dangers to creation today; nuclear war and climate war. Dangers, the silence over which is now starting to be broken by young people with the courage to confront their future. And for which sacred pneuma has been, for people with ears to hear, constantly calling for urgent change.
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The failure of the Christian Church to rework its foundational stories in language, symbols, rituals, celebration etc that young people of today can understand and respect has been a catastrophe. When the church joined the Empire in the fourth century and after the first seven ecumenical councils, the existential Jesus got progressively left behind.
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How does one re-engage with that existential Jesus and his experience of dealing with a Jewish church that he perceived had lost its way?
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To get some idea, a good starting point might be the first gospel (Mark) and its rendering of who Jesus was.
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A man who taught what it was meant, to BE.
A modern day hero who walked a lonely path, misunderstood by even his closest followers, but a man in whom sacred pneuma had been able to work to bring about a union of the human and divine natures as much as this is possible in human beings. And through this union, the communication of what the kingdom of God might look like in action. Maybe something like the young people mentioned above.
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The good news, is that if it happened to one; to be able to raise his level of consciousness to the level needed for this, it is open to others to follow suit and become human expressions of the mysterious Cosmic Mind like consciousness some call God.
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Have a read of the linked article by Caitlin Johnstone and see what you make of it.
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Do not let automatic rejection get in the way of the uncomfortable-ness of having to engage something off of the normal path. It seems that pneuma works everywhere and this might be another example.
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One is always conscious of not letting the unknown stranger walk on past. That stranger may be the one for you.

Who worries or cares today?
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Have you noticed the increasing amount of concern being expressed overseas of late? The linked article by Col. Andrew Bacevich is just one of many starting to appear regularly on the more main stream alternate media blogs in the US and Europe. The increase in internal US cultural stressors, particularly evident in the current implosion of the Mueller debacle and the continuing increase in identity politics fragmentation, coupled with the need for the US military to start looking at having to recruit 16 year old youths, triggers some anxiety. Additionally, the increasing proliferation of gun related massacres in the US is frightening.
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This of course is not isolated to the US. The recent revelations concerning the Malaysian Government rejecting the professional conduct of the MH17 joint inquiry, seems to put a previous and current Australian Foreign Minister in a somewhat embarrassing position.
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Poor Old Blighty also seems to be in a real pickle, what with teetering government, then a new Executive after a bloodbath massacre of the old Theresa May crew and, the ongoing BREXIT fiasco.
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Additionally, an article penned by Roberto Savio in Italy The Precipitous Barbarisation of Our Times also doesn’t skirt the issues.
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All of the above of course is only talking about the antics of “squabbling politicians as reported mainly by scavenging newspaper scribblers”
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The critical thing is, who cares, who even takes any interest these days as long as there is a perception that there is still something to get out of the trough?
I guess that I am too old not to remember that not so many decades ago there was an idea that was current in society, that in life, it is better to live for a purpose greater than oneself.
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The collapse of religious meaning in Western European culture of both Catholicism of the Roman rite and Protestant variants of Calvinist persuasions is finally realistically looking as if heading into a terminal phase.
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Take a moment to read the linked articles and see how good an argument you can mount to counter Bacevich’s and Salvio’s assertions.

Heroic Greta Thunberg
One of the most obvious things that hits one when attending Church services is the predominance of the older age group making up the congregations.
Some of the Pentecostal Churches do have a greater number of young people attending and while they are growing in size, word of mouth indications are that there is also a relatively, not insignificant, turnover of young followers. Additionally, while this growth is good news, they make up a fairly small percentage of the whole Church going population.
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With the Baby Boomer generation that currently seem to make up the bulk of congregations, there is but about 15 years left before the thinning out becomes terminal.
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Now the only glaring conclusion I can come to, is the passing on of the Christian message to younger generations has seemed to have sadly failed.
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I feared failure when I was working for a living, but since retirement I have come to fear it more. And this sense of failure is not about the demise of the organisational Church, but the failure to let young people know that “Whether or not we survive is irrelevant. How we each live is an imperative”. For in the living is the measure of who you are and that goes with you into the Cosmic Mind/Memory of God in eternity.
I find this personally a devastating thought. How one can work out this failure when one becomes disembodied, the mystics tell us is very difficult.
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In the business world there seems to be an axiom that says, there’s no standing still. You’re either moving forward or you’re moving backward.
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If one is in the “business” of passing on the Way, you look for the potential young leaders of tomorrow and then do everything you can to support them. From sociology comes an idea that somewhere between 5%-10% of society lead change; about the same percentages will not change at all, and the remaining 80% will tend to follow where the leaders go.
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For us older ones, the need to not let fear and the pursuit of comfort – emotional and psychological comfort – get in the way of letting the younger budding leaders start to experiment.
Christianity is currently going through the 5th/6th great change in its history, and its name that describes it is Liberation.
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It is the young people who now know that we “olders” have let them down. The threat Extinction is its name. And wilful ignorance will not change that.
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Identify the potential young leaders in your communities; get out of their way by accepting change in the way that the Way gets promulgated; and give them total focused support in the best way that you can.
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A beatific eternal life may depend on it!

Lets Fight God: We are Exceptional

Exceptional is on the rise
while Capitalism is on the decline.
What a debatable scene
while everyone ignores the right to green
preferring green-house gas it seems.
That is on the table as we speak
climatic forces un-precedented.

The world ignores those facts
but then shopping malls are over-packed.
The fact as is … is we are blind,
ignorant all of the time
when in fact wealth enormous inside our brain.

How possible we operate on only the exceptional
and on wisdom shut the gate?
So when alone and miserable think of how to operate
on both the value of a single life, earth, the sun,
the waters too
for that apart is what keeps you alive. Don’t you know?