Religion's Role in Violence and Individual Spirituality

Religion fosters division and violence, urging individuals to seek truth and harmony within themselves instead.

### The Quest for Individual Truth: Navigating Religion and Identity
* 🗽 The speaker reflects on the chaotic nature of societal perceptions, emphasizing a shared experience of a night in Manhattan, where even a **simple lunch can cost $24**.
* 🎬 He recalls his childhood view of movies, particularly rooting for John Wayne without understanding the **complexities of historical conflicts**, suggesting a societal brainwashing about **ownership and property rights**.
* 🕊 A plea is made for individuals to **resist joining violent religious organizations**, advocating for **personal accountability** and a **collective understanding of diverse beliefs**, including vegetarianism and horticulture.
* 📜 The speaker highlights the importance of **recognizing the destructive tendencies of religious leaders** and the need for **accountability**, particularly in light of **historical injustices perpetuated by organized religions**.
* 👬 He discusses the historical acceptance of homosexuality in cultures such as **ancient Greece**, contrasting it with modern-day religious attitudes, and mentions prominent figures like **Leonardo da Vinci** and **King James**, who were part of the **LGBTQ+ community**.
* 🌍 The notion of personal enlightenment is introduced, arguing that **true connection with the divine comes from within**, not through organized religion, as he emphasizes the need for **meditation and personal spiritual practice**.
* 🔗 The speaker warns against the dangers of group identity, stating that **true harmony and peace can only be achieved when individuals act independently**, free from the constraints of religious affiliations that often lead to violence.
* 🌈 Ultimately, he calls for a collective awakening to the idea that "**the kingdom is within you**," urging listeners to **embrace their multifaceted identities** beyond the confines of traditional religious labels.

huh, did you know how to do it? You know, pushing over the red thing. But we were um, we were talking about uh, we were no, we were talking about the um um lifestyles of people and we were talking about homosexual lifestyle and and you made the statement that what, no female and person, female and person ators. But but yeah, with female impersonators, there's a difference between a female impersonator and a transvestite. Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, gay bashing. But let's think for a minute. A female impersonator is an entertainer. A transvestite is somebody who really fulfills themselves becoming female. And that can go all the way through the physical. We've seen them in Key West, struck down the street, you know, in their gold sequin evening gowns and high-heeled shoes and so forth. But as far as gay bashing was concerned, what did you say? I said I think people that get all upset about gays are trying to deny the little bit that's in them.

that's a good point. You know the problem that I have, and when I hear it from Trinity Broadcasting or Christian places, is the fact that it is Antichrist to do that because it is Jesus Christ who makes the specific statement talking about Unix, and in that time, not all Unix were those who were castrated. There were people who were feminite people, and he makes the specific statement: Some are born that way from their mother's womb, and that's totally eliminated from the Christian ethic as far as understanding this particular problem. Some were born that way, and then he says something else very strange. He says, Some are made that way for the kingdom of God, you know, and like we were saying this morning, and as some of you didn't get a chance to hear that, there's three people who are homosexuals in the Christian Community that if you would take them away, what would you have? One of the homosexuals in the Christian Community is Leonardo Da Vinci, who painted the Last Supper. He was

not only a homosexual, he was an astrologer, and probably the most famous Christian painting ever made was by this guy. He was the one who painted a picture of John lying his head on Jesus' breast, and he was a homosexual. He painted Judas as the eighth sign of Saturn from the right. He was an astrologer. Now, there's a second homosexual, a very famous homosexual and Christian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo filled the Vatican with pictures, with statues of nude men all over the place, even in the post-PA. He's got a nude guy in there, and what they did, probably the most one of the most famous male nude statues in the world, created by Michelangelo, in order to get into the church, he just titled it David. There's a third, and that's probably the most interesting because you wouldn't have this Bible without this homosexual. His name was King James of England. He was gay. So, there's the three of them. Oh, oh, there's many.

more there's many more but I say what do you do. Here's you got the most famous painting, The Last Supper. You've got probably the most famous statue, David. And you got the famous King James Bible. Three gay guys. How do you know King James was gay? Well, because history. You have to read historical facts. He was gay. He was a homosexual. I mean, there's nothing, you know, that they didn't hide that. His homosexual activities were very well known, but you have to read history in order to, you know, fine. But King James of England, who was responsible for the translation of this book, was gay. It is, yeah, I know. We've been having try. I think it's in. I think it's that thing anyhow. Um, those are interesting things. Hey, you know, like what he says. How do you know? You have to read. You have to study. And that's where Christians have a problem. I don't mean any aspersions on him. I'm talking about Christianity in general has a problem.

they're not allowed to read. They're not allowed to study, and they're not allowed to discuss with one another the facts, so they never know. They have no idea, no way of knowing these things. There's nobody tells them. They pick up the King James Bible, and they say, This is the only true edition. I seem to, I kind of agree with it, but that doesn't change the fact that the guy who authored it or the guy who was responsible for commissioning it was gay, King James of England. Well, and as you said, Arlene, there were many others who, you know, who took part and were involved in these types of things. And, you know, it's simply that it's fashionable. You know, you have the people who shoot people in the streets today, and then, of course, they're fundamentalists. And then you have the fundamentalist in religion. You have the Falwell and the Robertson, and they don't have to shoot people, but they manufacture all of this political

hoopla and you know send the boys over there to do this thing what I thought we'd talk about for a few minutes because yes wait wait wait wait wait you can't because you got to stand up if you know cuz you see the back of your head wasn't homosexuality more acceptable then oh absolutely yeah absolutely in fact what they used to do in order to try to control the population in places like Greece is that they would ask people to abstain from having sexual intercourse with their wives and they provide little boys pedophilia was a was a very very prominent thing that went on in Greece and became you know a part of the Christian culture was the what we talked about the little boys who singing the boys choirs and so forth and so on because they didn't allow women to go on the altar so they had to have somebody to hit those soprano notes and they had little boys but pedophilia was a very prominent thing practiced by people such of the Ila Socrates and and it was just never never

never, never thought about anything like that. In fact, it was a mark of distinction. They used to carry these kids along to in battle, so you know. And then, of course, when you hear a lot about it in the activity of it in some religious circles, you say, Geez, you haven't really come a long way. Of course, such a horror like that, um, it's really difficult for me to understand how, with any institution, you can simply just throw it under the rug and go on about your business and say, Business as usual. Because Janes says, and you know, this is what's so important: if people would get out of church and go into the library and start opening up books and look at the history of these things, they probably would never go back inside the churches because they are violent, corrupt places who were built on the blood and sex beyond belief. And they talk about pornography and all this pedophilia stuff and all of this sex, and it was just rampant in

the early days of the Church of Christianity of all religions. I think probably the only religion that I've ever studied that seems to be free of most of the trappings that we find and we're talking about is Buddhism. And of course, I don't know even when you get into homosexuality if that's the case, but the violent aspect of it seems to be pretty true. In Buddhism, they even have their monks abstain from work, at least they did in the early days, because they were afraid that going out and doing work in the fields, they would hurt animals and things like that, you know. So this is the important thing. This is the point that we have gone into churches, and we have taken as quote-unquote gospel what was said to us by some man who heard it from somebody else, who in turn was taught by somebody else, who got it out of a book that has been changed 50 million times by anybody, you know. They

just sit down and change the thing over and over again, and we just accept all of this stuff as absolute truth and have no understanding where it came from. And so then when you hear things like, I mean, this is the Shakra of the night, evidently King James, who authored this Bible, was a homosexual shock. But all you got to do is look at the book, look it up, look at a history book, and there it is. But nobody does that, right? Because you're not allowed to speak those things, but you have to if you've going to be M. And what we've done, we subjected a whole culture to all of this sexual kind of depravity, and we've subjected our kids to it. And I think the basis of it has been fear and guilt, which we've authored mostly out of religion. Okay, yes, you have to. People can't hear you. Yes, but then do you know, like, historically then what happened to make it so unacceptable? What do you mean to be against the norm?

now homosexuality is not considered, you know, in our circles as being normal, okay, so-called normal. I'm not saying that that's how we feel here. So, do you know, like, in the evolution of it, like, what happened? Did the church come in and say it was unacceptable? Yeah, the church basically made a statement that the Bible is the literal and unerring word of God, and there are statements in the Bible against homosexuality. Okay, okay, so that makes it evil. The fact that Jesus said that there are eunuchs born that way from their mother's womb is completely disregarded. The fact that the Apostle Paul says that the carnal mind is not subject to the law of God is completely disregarded. And the fact that the Bible is symbolic. Now, when you talk about homosexuality in the Bible from a spiritual standpoint, you're talking about male intercourse with male, which would be mind intercourse with the flesh, basically. What is then said, you know, you must have a wife, which is male mind.

intercourse with female Spirit okay has nothing to do. I mean just analyze or think for a minute if indeed homosexuality is this evil then God is evil. I mean because the creation. I mean they can talk to me all they want and and and you. I can line up just as many scientists to show. I mean you take a who who's the perfect example. Liberace could never be anything but what he was. He was not a macho person. He was an effeminate person and the man tried and under all types of guilt and pain. He he only got married you know but why couldn't we honor the man for his talent and allow the man's life to be his own. Were content with that but the guilt and the sword throwers of of religion put that man and and so many people through the guilt and all of these types of things. Well do you think they did a lot of it then as a cover up too coming at it like aen said so much that you know.

like when we see the dark side in us that we will come against it so much. Do you think that maybe that happened too? I think there's a lot of that that goes on because if you look at, for instance, the Evangelist, the Swagger, for instance, he was always pointing a finger at people about their sexual things, and then he was sneaking out the back door, you see? And maybe it was a way of justifying what he was doing by pointing a finger of guilt at anybody else. Then, you know, you could justify you somehow. I mean, he didn't actually have sex. What he did, he would go into these motel rooms and masturbate while... So then he could say, Well, he didn't actually have physical sex, so he could justify this. So then he could point the finger at other people, and yet he was still satisfying whatever problems he had. Okay, there's that. Then there's this terrible... about giving, you know, slamming people for how much money they get, and I...

think what Alen said just is justifiable in there too because so many so many of them are stealing it and and you know and that's been proven and shown on television here. You had a guy like Jim Baker who had a lot of good qualities to him but you know what did he do. He would say Albert if you'll if you'll give $1,000. We have records here of people who have called us and said that God has multiplied this 10 times. Oh here's a lady that gave $1,000 and her husband just got a new job. I'm sure that happened. Happened. If you have 50 million people watching something there's somebody who gave $1,000 and their husband got a new job but everybody else who got a $1,000 got ripped off you know but that's you know and that and and and but but you you cover this stuff by trying to find some spiritual motive and spiritual reasoning behind it u in in

the question of homosexuals. I mean, in the church, you know, hey, in the Catholic Church, there's evidently a tremendous population of homosexuals in the church, which is fine, you know, but just admit it, you know, don't try to say it doesn't exist because it does, you know, and if you just come out and say, Well, this is the way it is, and honor these people and let them, you know, express themselves, fine, who cares, it's their business. But when you try to cover it up, and then you have all these hideous things happening behind the altar with pedophilia and all of this stuff, then it traces itself right back to the beginnings of where it came from, and basically, the hotbed of pedophilia, child abuse, was Greece, where, you know, much of this Christian religion came from, you know, it's a hotbed of it. So, you know, who knows, but it's, I think it's an interesting thing for a period of time to have.

developed where people can start holding these people accountable. We haven't reached that stage. People are still afraid of pastors and ministers and evangelists and so forth. But you know they're at a point now of just almost self-destruction with the violence that's going on among them. And you know it's time to start holding them accountable. Okay, all right, uh anything else? Yes, oh wait, you have to uh stand up and yes and basically uh didn't the Catholics emphasize procreation was very important for it's extremely important. That's extremely important and that's a good point but that is not uh only in Catholicism. Mormonism uh allowed people to have more than one wife because you need to build you know in other words it would be if I if we had a structured Church in here. I mean we don't know who comes in the door who goes out the door you know but if we had a structure it would be great you know if you encourage

people to have four or five wives and bring them down here, and you build a tremendous, uh, you know, group of people. So, but that's true, procreation was a very important part, and, uh, basically the Catholic Church's philosophy, as I understood it, and I can be wrong because I'm stepping over the line a little bit, and I haven't studied this one, but that sexual intercourse should be only for that purpose. And that is, is that right? And that, yeah, only for the purpose of having children, and, and, and, you know, of course, that goes just entirely counter to you, to Nature, uh, and, and so it's never been able to work. And then within the structure of the, of the church itself, you have these, these terrible things which have happened, of course, in our culture today. We've gotten a little bit out of hand with people being hypnotized and, you know, remembering that 20 years ago somebody, you know, you know, so that's the way things go. But, uh, it's, it's an interesting thing.

um well we're going to do Buddha. Whatever little time we have to do anything. How long have we been speaking here? 45 minutes? No, have we really? Well, it's 20 after. Yeah, well, don't tell them out there because it could be 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Let me just show you something that's interesting, and I'll um, you know, it won't take U. It won't take take. You won't take us very long. I wanted to share something with you um in Buddhism that I think is interesting. It's very short, and yet uh we did a long time ago. I think you'll find it from um, and this is the Ascension of Buddha. Uh Buddha had his Ascension about a thousand years before Jesus had his Ascension, okay? Um, and it says in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with the in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Okay, now we're going

to rise and meet the Lord in the air. Very important when you see something like that that you understand the five stages of Consciousness that start with earth, water, air, fire, and renewed mind. The third stage of Consciousness is air. So when it says we're going to rise to meet Christ in the air, where did Jesus say we would find him? Inside of us. He didn't say anything about being out over Kennedy airport or up in the stratosphere. He knew better. We say we will rise to meet Jesus in the air means you rise to the third stage of Consciousness in where you will meet Jesus, which is very interesting. Now looking at first Thessalonians where it says we arise to meet him in the air. Shakuni Buddha taught everything hinged on an event in history called the ceremony of the air. Okay, the ceremony of the air and it's a vision of Shakim Yuni Buddha and how he foresaw this beauty of the Lotus Sutra, which is the study of pain and

suffering and an inner renewal encompassing the entire world, and there's a ceremony when all who follow and chant and endlessly lift themselves in Consciousness come to this mountain, and the name of the mountain is called Eagle's Peak. That's where the ceremony took place, Eagle's Peak. Okay, and what happens now, this being the stage of Consciousness that we're talking about, Shakuni ascends into the air himself, okay, in exactly the same way as Jesus did, you know, lift off, and off he went. But of course, Buddha's Ascension was about a thousand years before Jesus. Now, as he goes and he's raising himself up, there's this magnificent treasure tower. Now, this treasure tower is encrusted with dazzling jewels, and the tower is suspended in the air, and Shakim Muni Buddha goes up like going up in an elevator to meet it. And as Shakim Muni gets up near the treasure tower, the doors open, revealing the great goding.

look what his name is Taho. Whether he was any relation to the Lake Tahoe, I don't know, but there he was. Tahoe was sitting in the Treasure Tower as the jewel doors opened up, and Tahoe is seated inside the tower, and Shakuni Buddha enters the tower and sits at the right hand of Taho. Okay, sits at the right hand of Taho. Now it says in Mark 14:62, You shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the Clouds Of Heaven. There's a real problem here, okay? Let me show you the problem which has been totally misinterpreted and misunderstood in religious circles forever, and that is the phrase son of man. It does not mean Jesus, okay? The son of man is not Jesus. The son of man is The Offspring of the mind. You shall see what that which is the Mind, those which are the desires of the Mind, those which are the new Enlightenment of the Mind, mind sitting at the right hand of power, which is the

right hemisphere of the brain coming in the Clouds Of Heaven, which is the Unseen spirit in the higher level of Consciousness. That's what son of man is, okay. Mark 16:19, it says, After the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up in heaven and sat at the right hand of God. Here's shakuni being received up into the tower and received at the right hand of Tahoe, okay. Now we have Jesus rising into the air; here we have shakuni ascending into the air. And you remember Thessalonians, and at this point, say shakuni begins to speak to the universe on those things that will happen, okay. And this is what shakim Muni said: Those who try to teach the inner truth will be harassed by three types of enemies. Now remember shakim Muni is in the tower; the doors have opened, and he speaks to the universe. He says, The first enemy that you're going to have when you try to speak the truth is you're going to have

ignorant people, people okay, people who don't know, people who have no idea, and people who think you're making stuff up. They don't know, they just have nothing to no, no idea. The second one, arrogant and cunning priests, religious people, enemies of God. He called them. And the third one are religious leaders who, fearing they will lose their status or profit, mislead the people to attack those who teach this arrogant and cunning priests, ignorant people, and religious leaders who, fearing they will lose their status or profit, mislead the people to attack those who teach this truth. And he went on to prophesy that suddenly these batas, which is what's happening now, these entities that enter into the mind, that cause people to reach out to one another. I mean, you know, don't lose sight of what's happening here in spite of the fact of what you've seen with this guy shooting up that mosque in Israel. And in spite of the fact of what you've seen of this guy

shooting those kids and those Jewish kids. You have today, you had the Jews and the Arabs coming together in Muslims in New York, and you have the Jews doing everything in Israel to get the talks back on. It will happen. But all of these things are going to be set because there are so many people who can't deal with it. And in every single case, the violence comes from fundamentalists, every single case. What they are, it does not speak of the majority of the people of the Muslim community because they're not interested in such things like this. But there are these people who are religious, what a fundamentalist, a religious person who aligns themselves with politics and the other, the troubles. Now, what he said that this beautiful thing will start happening to the Earth 2,000 years after his death, which is now, which is now approximately now. And so then the ceremony of the air comes to an end, and all returns to the Earth.

tower disappears, and you know life goes on. And, and, and, and I thought it was very interesting, but there was something else interesting too that I thought I would share with you concerning Shakuni Buddha. And one of the things that he talked about was that he said what will happen is that there will be a tremendous understanding, what he called the latter day of the law. The latter day of the law. Buddha talked about this a thousand years before the Bible was ever considered the latter day of the law. The Mormons call themselves Latter Day Saints. That's Buddhists. That's Buddhist. Zechariah 10:1 refers to the time of the latter Reign. That's Buddhist because it was Shakim Buddha who first talked to the latter day. And, and, and basically what he's talking about is he's talking about the time now. And he talks about that the Lord will make bright clouds and showers and talking about those things which we start to

find within ourselves those things that we start to realize within ourselves as being the truth, and remember what we talked about when we started this, and this, this is the essence of what you've got to understand, because it doesn't make any difference anymore concerning religion. Religion is at death's door. Religion is at a point where these people are in a death throes. They're absolutely self-destructive because they've accomplished nothing, and now they've gotten to the point where they're just shooting one another. But remember this, and it's very important: within you is the Kingdom of Heaven. That's what Jesus said. But that heaven is above you. Earth is here. There's nothing connecting the two. You can stay down here and pray all night long, and all you're doing is mouthing words. And do you know what the Apostle Paul said? The kingdom of God is not in word but in power. So the point is, how are you going to reach that? How? See, prayer, what you

call prayer is simply a matter of Earth communicating with Heaven. Okay, and it's inside of you. So, how do you touch that? You're down here praying and praying and praying, and nothing's happening. The world is an absolute cesspool because that's all they've done. They've never been able to touch. Oh, you say, 'Well, the Buddhists have done it, and some of the Christians have done it.' Those are not the power people. Those are not the people that have their hands on the buttons of industry and all of these things. Those aren't the people that have their hands on the buttons of war. The people that have had their hands on the buttons of war and the buttons of industry are the ones that go into churches, and they say, 'Let's pray,' and they're down here talking and never, ever, ever getting anywhere near to touching this up here, which is that higher part of the mind. You've got to raise yourself up there, and the only way, as Jesus said to do it, is be

persistent, persistent, persistent, persistent. And you've got to touch, and you've got to energize that. And once you then energize that, what happens? It's simple. If you're an electrician, you've made a circuit. You've opened a line. You've connected. And now stuff can start to flow. It's an electrical circuit, and it's what it is. It has nothing to do with religion, say, and so it's very, very important then as we talk, whether we talk about Buddha, whether we talk about the things we were discussing here earlier, that we start to try to get together and understand what do we need to do. Stay away from religious groups. Stay away from Christian organizations. Stay away from Buddhist organizations. Stay away from anything that's an organization. And stay as an individual because there's a violence that is beyond belief and emanating out of religion. And it's something that the only possible way that this world is going to find itself back to Christ is by each individual person ascending into a harmony with nature and

finding that in obedience to the way Jesus taught. And this is what I will stand any day of the week. And I will call anybody down that the failure of Christianity is because they have taken an antichrist perspective of not doing what Jesus said to do. And that is meditation. There's only one way that you can get from Earth to Heaven. Meditation. Nothing else works. It's not possible any other way. And when you understand that, you kind of see why, you know, with all the praying that's been done, and we've had churches on every street corner, and we've had television stations with all kinds of evangelists, and you've got all kinds of prayer groups, and with all of that, it is absolute. It's bizarre to me how violent and how corrupt the world has. And everything is here, isn't it? The possibilities of Heaven are right here, but it's everybody following a group. And once you join that group, and once you join that church, remember you got 50 million, 50 billion people who disagree.

with you and now you got people that'll shoot you. They had it today. I don't know if you were watching it today that somebody defaced a Jewish synagogue spraying red paint. They sprayed red paint over the place, you know, and you can just see it where it comes from. You see the kids over in Palestine throwing rocks and shooting guns. What? Because of their group instead of, but if each person functions solely as an individual, you know, and then they're able to move and flow in harmony with everybody instead of saying, Hey, I'm part of this group, or You're part of that group. If you're not part of any group, then you can work for peace, but if you're part of a group, you can't because there's too many other groups that disagree with you. So, your responsibility is, and then in speaking to other people, What do you believe? Say, 'I don't believe anything. I just am. I am part of the earth. I am.

part of Heaven. I am part of the universe. When I went down to Dave Preston's Funeral, and the room was filled with black people, there was a couple hundred black people there. I said, I want to make one thing clear. I'm a Christian, I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, and I'm a Hindu. And get we get safe, you know where I'm coming from. That's where I'm coming from, and that's what you got to be. And then who can fight with you? You can't because you're part of everything. But if I say I'm a Christian, there were some guys with round colored caps on the top of their head, bang, I'm isolated from them, you see. So, I am that I am, that's what God said. What was his name? I am. He didn't say he was a Christian, he didn't say he was a Jew, and you see and understand something too. We talked about it this morning. Sometimes you look and say, Geez, these Muslims, what are they so ticked off?

about look at they're they're shooting up people and look at these people in Palestine. Okay, your God, the God that your religion created, ordered your chosen people to go in and pillage and rape and steal their land. They got a right to be mad. I mean, I can show you in your holy book where your holy God told your chosen people to go in and pillage and kill and leave nothing standing and take the virgins for yourself and kill everything else. I can show you the book in the Bible and you wonder why they're ticked off. Would you throw rocks? Certainly, you throw rocks and and and the The Who did the Christian side with the chosen people. They took everything they got by vot by force by violence, raping, pillaging, looting, and then they wonder why these people are mad. I'll tell you right now, they don't have any power, but if the American Indians had a power, they'd have a right. They were ripped off big time by this great wonderful Christian government, gave $24 for

Manhattan is this something you can't even get lunch in Manhattan for $24 you rip people and I told you what I I used to go to the movies Joe and I rooted for John Wayne to kill all the Indians I didn't know what the heck they were mad at they're coming down with their Spears and swords or their arrows and killer Here Comes John Wayne yay the government brainwashed me because the government never told me what they were mad about I didn't know we were there ripping off taking everything that there was there that was theirs it was their property somebody comes into your house and says I'm taking this and and what is it and then the cops come and say get out the man wants to have your property right well yeah well just as bad so don't I just beg of you to stay as an individual and follow your own course and don't get involved with these violent religious organizations and and and and just be a member of everything and including vegetarians and horticulturists and everything else he

just just just just just be yourself, and then you won't be in any trouble. And and and then you'll be ready for the Christ who has returned. I Gody, did you see this guy on television at TBN today? This fat guy gets on, and he's got his big church here, and he's saying they want to say that Jesus has been seen in California. I tell you, Jesus is not in California. And this why he's not in California. Charle is in see. You guys don't understand that Jesus says, At that time, you will know I am in the Father, you and me, and I in you. If there's anybody in California, he's in them. But but see, they don't, they won't read what he says. They don't want to know this. They're waiting for the coming of the Lord to rule and reign for a thousand years. And what's the Lord say? My kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom does not come so you can see it because the kingdom is within you. Oh rip.

it out. We don't want to pay attention to that. We don't. I wonder if it was hard to learn to talk like that, huh? I wonder if it was hard to learn to talk like that. They learn that in the Seminary school or Cemetery school? Oh yeah, yeah, just don't get involved with them, you know, let them fall apart. I love see, I follow Jesus Christ. You know what Jesus Christ said about them? They said, Oh Jesus, look at that beautiful Church. You know what he said? Ah for [__] that, there's not going to be one rock left standing on the other. He let it fall. He said, Don't look at that. In other words, Don't get involved with it. What did he do? He went to the mountains. Soon as the crowds came around, they said, Let's sing Amazing Grace. He says, Get Lost. He went to the mountains. That's my kind of guy. That's the kind of guy you can follow. You go to the mountain with him, sit around a campfire, listen to him, but don't listen.

to these people, he never did little different tonight. I don't even know what we did, but whatever we did, we did. And thank you for sharing the time with us, and uh.

412 The Gay Life

William Donahue

The Historical Acceptability of Homosexuality

Homosexuality was more accepted in ancient Greece, where pedophilia was common and used to control the population.

The practice of using little boys for choir singing became part of Christian culture.

The speaker argues that group identities create conflict, and that individualism is key to promoting peace.

They also draw parallels between Buddhist teachings on the "latter day of the law" and modern times, while highlighting the contributions of famous homosexuals like Liberace, Michelangelo, and King James of England to art and religion.

The Complexities of Sexuality and Religion

The speaker reflects on the historical violence and corruption within religious institutions, suggesting that a deeper understanding of their history could lead people to question their relevance.

They highlight Jesus Christ's inclusive message about eunuchs and the complexity of sexual identity, arguing that the Christian ethic has overlooked this aspect.

The conversation touches on the differences between female impersonators and transvestites, the role of procreation in the Catholic Church's philosophy, and the ongoing struggles with sexuality and power dynamics within religious communities.

The Early Days of Christianity and Its Impact

The speaker reflects on the early days of Christianity, contrasting it with Buddhism, which they believe is free from many religious trappings.

They argue that the failure of Christianity lies in not following Jesus' teachings, specifically emphasizing the importance of meditation for spiritual growth.

The speaker also highlights the violence and corruption in the world, attributing it to fundamentalist religious groups, and challenges the common interpretation of the phrase "son of man" as referring to Jesus, suggesting it actually represents the offspring of the mind and new enlightenment.

The Impact of Religion on Sexuality and Truth

The speaker discusses the acceptance of societal norms without questioning their origins, highlighting the historical context of figures like King James.

They argue that religion has instilled fear and guilt, leading to the marginalization of homosexuality.

The speaker emphasizes the need to understand the symbolic nature of the Bible and the importance of raising one's consciousness to find true power and connection with the divine.

The Role of Homosexuality and Violence in Religion

The Catholic Church has a significant population of homosexuals, and the speaker argues for honesty and acceptance rather than cover-ups.

The speaker connects the church's issues, including pedophilia, to its historical roots in Greece and criticizes the violent actions of the chosen people in the Bible.

The speaker advocates for a universal identity that transcends religious labels, emphasizing the importance of understanding and compassion for all.

The Significance of the Air in Consciousness and Spirituality

The third stage of Consciousness is air, where individuals are said to meet Jesus within themselves, rather than in a physical location.

Shakuni Buddha's teachings emphasize the importance of the "ceremony of the air" and the struggle against ignorance and arrogance in religious leadership.

The path to spiritual renewal and harmony with nature is seen as crucial for individuals to ascend in Consciousness and collectively bring about positive change in the world.

The speaker criticizes the notion that Jesus is physically present in California, emphasizing that His kingdom is within individuals.

They discuss the hypocrisy of some evangelists, pointing out how they often project guilt onto others while justifying their own actions.

The speaker also highlights the historical context of figures like King James, suggesting that a deeper understanding of history is necessary for a true interpretation of Christianity.

The Impact of Religion and Accountability

The speaker reflects on the negative influence of the government and violent religious organizations, urging individuals to stay true to themselves and hold these organizations accountable.

They highlight the commonality of procreation emphasis in various religions and criticize the manipulation of followers for financial gain.

The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of finding truth within oneself and the power of action over mere words in seeking spiritual fulfillment.