By Mark Aurelius

Dedication:

This statement is dedicated to those dragons known to guard knowledge, especially the more secret and esoteric kinds of wisdom. If you, reader, are unfamiliar with dragons guarding knowledge, like so many in the western world, you too can use your search engine. *Google AI today reveals:

“This portrayal is often seen in Eastern cultures, particularly in China and Japan, where dragons are revered as symbols of:”

“Wisdom and Longevity: They are considered ancient beings with vast knowledge and experience.”

“Protection: They safeguard sacred places, wisdom, and sometimes even humans.”

“Hidden Knowledge: They are associated with secret knowledge that can help individuals connect with their inner essence or spiritual truths.”

Why is this relevant? Because there is way too much misinformation and disinformation in this world, including that which goes way back into historical time (historical and biblical time), so it is important to realize there is a need for discernment and choice to find ‘trusted’ sources as exceedingly important—and so too is your ability to process information.

Hence a few guidelines on better readings skills:

	Take your time when you read. Do not think about whether you read fast or slow. Your mind should be solely consumed with what you are reading—which can be an escape from the normal sense of time. Look up words you do not know as you are confronted while reading. Taking your time allows you to make such digressions (progressions). Do not worry or care if you forget the meaning later. What matters is you comprehend the meaning during the reading experience. Select reading options that are truly of interest to you, or really matter—so you stay motivated and riveted to the material. Even the best of readers are not interested in the majority of options they can choose—rather they are selective. Use reference tools regularly: atlases, specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps (and of course electronic internet equivalents).

If you follow these straight-forward instructions your reading will be more rewarding, as your horizons will slowly expand for you to become a ‘super-curious’ creature—for curiosity is a very important attribute to a healthy mind and society (not being super-cilious either).

Spiritual psychology is not a phrase most hear or read about all that often. You can find some articles on the subject and even a few colleges which offers courses.

Recently a seminal article appeared at ThePeoplesVoice.Org (note—not ThePeoplesVoice.TV which routinely puts out all manner of sensational click bait titles with little to nothing to substantiate its supposed factual assertions found in its click-bait titles—show us the primary ‘source’ documents or people TPV.org):

Now building from the article:

Epstein Maxwell Secrets Buried on Little St. James Compound by Fred Gransville

https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/07/18/epstein-maxwell-secrets-buried-on#more60204

Grantsville specifically uses this juxtaposition of terms: spiritual + psychology more than once in his considerable and eloquent article (a must read for those who want to understand the depth and breathe of the Jeffery Epstein world conspiracy as related to the broader Intelligence Operation behind it—and equally from a moral and Christian psychological lens—but as he says “belief in God or not is not relevant”).

Granted his is a somewhat long read (this one is even longer) but if you follow the reading suggestions above you should not have much of a problem. After all middle students were reading 300+ page Harry Potter books. Why—because they became captivated (captured) by the material.

Despite most of us seldom see these words “spiritual psychology” compounded as a concept very often—yet if we think about it—it still makes a lot of sense. Why? Because the old Greek meaning of ‘psyche’ meant soul—implying psychology is the study of the soul. “Ain’t that metaphysical?”

To be fair the word ‘soul’ is technically an Anglo-Saxon word—there still must have been some relationship for lexicographers (people who create dictionaries) to make the connection. After all the term ‘God’ is equally Anglo-Saxon so you could argue old Scandinavian stories were gospel.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/psyche

… renders (from word origin or etymology):

“1640s, "animating spirit, the human spirit or mind," from Latin psyche, from Greek psykhē "the soul, mind, spirit; life, one's life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body; understanding, the mind (as the seat of thought), faculty of reason," also "ghost, spirit of a dead person;"… "

Seems pretty metaphysical? Still, most people who have studied modern psychology quickly forget the first chapter in their book for Psychology 101 explained this old meaning—soul. So then, guestimationally (new word or ‘neologism’), 95% of people think of ‘psychology’ as the study of the mind, and thinking processes with little to do with some notion of some soul.

Whereas, Fred Gransville’s ‘contemplative’ article understands and elaborates on this reality, and related Christian morality, and also the consequences of evil related to Jeffery Epstein, and in his own words, the “CIA/Mossad joint venture spiritual death syndicate,” starting out:

• The Enigma of Evil

Little St. James was not a refuge—predation wore gold cuff links and cologne, but beneath it pulsed a hunger older than sin.
The men arrived to possess symbols—fragile, preteen, disposable.

Their eyes did not see Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2—they saw a quarry made soft by design.
To them, harm was the harvest of souls, and the more brittle the flesh, the richer the yield.

They feasted with full bellies and hollow hearts, mistaking lifelong ruin for conquest.

There was no intimacy—only consumption.

For every wound they gave, they carved a wound into their own fate.
Each act stacked karmic weight like chains around the men’s souls. …”

An ‘esoteric’ and dilating insight into the soul of the word ‘contemplative’ comes to us from Latin: "to mark out a space for observation" (as an augur does), from assimilated form of com-, with + templum "area for the taking of auguries" (see temple n.).

The old “Church Fathers” of Christianity were into mediation-like practices in which the soul takes a pause to look back on something as focused.

Whereas *Google AI informs us: “’Esoteric’ refers to knowledge, ideas, or practices that are understood by or meant for only a small, specialized group of people. It implies a level of complexity or obscurity that makes it inaccessible or uninteresting to the general public. Essentially, it's the opposite of "exoteric," which refers to knowledge that is widely known or easily understood.”

But not all esoteric knowledge is deliberately obfuscated—rather it just escapes the interests of many people who lack curiosity.

[Note: the history of religions is fraught with ‘esoteric’ schools of knowledge (or gnosis)—especially over the many centuries, or at least in respect to Judaism and Christianity. Also, more esoteric secrets (supposedly important but at times seemingly vacuous or inflated) can be found in many religions, even before the time of Jesus Christ, as well as the many splinters or factions of Judaism and Christianity, but also mystical and mythical Kabbalah and other labyrinths of juvenile whimsies of fancy and confusion.]

Our take away, that we are somehow trying to get to in roundabout fashion, is that we should not allow words and languages to imprison us, or trap us, like they sometimes seem to do because we get stuck on one meaning or dogma.

Still, the faculty of language is especially specific to our human species (even if many other species in the natural world we share have various ways and means to communicate meaning as well—including making sounds).

Another important reading skill when trying to learn new words during your reading enterprises is to also bother to study the ‘origin’ or old-word meanings (etymology) and how the currency of words throughout history as manifested today may have changed over time and place. This too can gift us to a more ‘humanities’ insight into how language and words have both plasticity and creativity.

*Google AI insight: “The humanities are academic disciplines that explore the human experience, culture, and condition. They utilize analytical, critical, and interpretive methods to study various aspects of human life, including language, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and the arts. The humanities help us understand who we are, how we relate to each other, and the world around us.”

Some people are suspicious of words like humanities because it rest on the grounds that it is ok to explain things differently than how they are grounded into specific religious doctrines or dogmas.

If you google “Is the study of humanities similar to atheism? we get something like (within a longer response):

“ … Both atheism and the humanities, particularly secular humanism (a philosophical stance that combines the humanist ethic with a naturalistic worldview), emphasize finding meaning and values within human experience rather than divine authority or supernatural beliefs.”

“ … The humanities encourage critical thinking, interpretation, and questioning assumptions, which aligns with the rational inquiry often employed by atheists to examine religious claims.”

“ … While atheism itself doesn't prescribe a specific morality, secular humanism offers an ethical framework based on reason, empathy, and human well-being, which is compatible with many humanist perspectives within the humanities.”

“… Secular humanism, an outlook often overlapping with atheism, rejects supernatural explanations and relies on scientific inquiry and human reason for understanding the world.”

Still these differences alone are enough for true literal scripture believers to outright reject the study of humanities (or any perspectives that counter their often rigid and uncompromising interpretations—going so far as to attribute other ways of seeing things as Satanic).

Regardless, words evolve and change through history—not always but some significantly. Old word meanings (etymology from etymon ‘true’ ‘real’) and their cultural variations, can at times lend to us new insights and important realizations.

Take the common word consider—a word derived from com- with and sider star—as if you are about to take, hopefully, a mindfulness-mediation moment, as if “looking up into a galaxy of stars” (to really ponder something from a more universal or momentous perspective).

And we are not necessarily talking about some of those early astronomers smoking hashish thousands of years ago while pondering Arabian nights along a Chinese Silk Road. Rather we are referring to the idea of talking a moment to consider something from a broader or newer perspective.

Detour ahead:

Proof Of Marijuana Use Discovered At Ancient Biblical Site In Israel (optional read not necessarily related to main points of this essay—but it is kind of interesting that “according to a new study that identified cannabis resin on an alter in a shrine built around 750 BCE” arguably they, those imbibing students, too were doing some kind of ‘contemplative’ practice):

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/proof-of-marijuana-use-discovered-at-ancient-biblical-site-in-israel/

Detour continued:

Whereas many people familiar with alcohol understand the term ‘spirits’ as equally an animating force (in the plural form as who knows what energies might be released).

Just like today you can find Ayahuasca retreats which claim to provide opportunities for healing and transformative experiences through the ceremonial use of this plant medicine rooted in Amazonian traditions.

How To Say Ayahuasca:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjgMm2_9_c

This Is What Ayahuasca Does To Your Brain

So much for religious experiences linked to substance use or abuse (just know that you do not abuse alcohol—rather alcohol abuses you and can do so quite forebodingly).

Getting back on track: continuing with our deliberate excursion into “word explication:” the word ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirit’ comes from Latin spiritus meaning to breathe, like in the words ‘inspire’ and ‘expire’ (air of course which about 20% is oxygen).

Did you know that ‘spiritual’ has both a physiological connotation, and frankly, denotation?

Whereas, the word ‘inspiration’ is something we usually relate to ideas and mental thoughts, and yes feelings (beyond the physical realm). Things are a bit blurred here since art and music certainly can be inspiring, just as beauty.

Words, thoughts, learning, schooling, education can hopefully be inspiring and includes more than simply breathing and doing physiology.

For example, if you adapt quality reading skills and attitudes you are more prone to read stuff that is more intellectually challenging and hopefully more interesting—rather than some of the easier but readily available junk food equivalent—like dogmas and left-wing or right-wing propaganda that claim it is wrong to hate those people but not so much to feel contempt against those other people.

Superior reading skills allows you to better ‘discern’ the real truth-tellers from the fake political news truthers, as your intellectual skills, curiosity and breathe of awareness increases.

Yes, people, we can increase our intelligence capacity by using best practices methods—not gimmicks, not magic pills or exotic plants, not myths suggesting you can learn a new language in 2 months, etc., and certainly not speed reading lies that claims you can process words and ideas faster than old computers.

There are physiological limitations to how fast you can read related to how fast the eye can scan (or saccade) from left to right.

*Google AI: “Eye saccades are rapid, jerky eye movements that shift the gaze from one point of focus to another. These movements are crucial for visual perception, allowing the eyes to quickly reposition the fovea (the central part of the retina with the highest visual acuity) onto different parts of the visual field.”

[Disclaimer note: Have no illusions about Google or AI. Both technologies are capable of feeding you false information depending on how they are programmed (or what sources they are deprived from exploring). The more political and controversial the topic the more likely you may receive mis-information or dis-information. Still, on many topics these technologies are a great boon.]

Realize then that one’s intellectual capacity and drive too is also related to “spiritual psychology.” Viable knowledge and wisdom are required for survival for both oneself and society.

For example, finding this article on the website index that aggregates news stories (which supposedly was selected by editors with superior insight (but not really critically reviewing it) such as:

Artificial Intelligence Breeds Mindless Inhumanity

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/07/15/artificial_intelligence_breeds_mindless_inhumanity_1122667.html

Within the author states: “The deeper problem, however, is that while instant lookup may work well for facts, it’s deadly for comprehension and worse for moral thinking.”

That is quite a broad generalization.

And this argument is being made in a time when certain political forces are trying to censor the Internet (to keep people from knowing alternative expanses of truth).

Obviously, comprehension and moral thinking require more than easy access to information—but one could easily and fairly argue that how fast one is able to access sources of information has little to do with these other factors.

Further into the article we get:

“The recent reports of Grok regurgitating crude antisemitic stereotypes and slogans illustrate the technological half of the problem. The shocking wave of terror-supporting actions wracking college campuses and drawing recent grads in many of our cities illustrate the human half.”

Any biases?

Since when have debates on the semantics of the meaning of ‘anti-Semitism’ not been connected to censorship and attempting to make it illegality (based on spurious definitions) as certain authoritarian and special-interest groups, like the ADL, AIPAC are attempting to dictate which terms of such a debate are permissible?

Why then was there not more suspicion by those editors of those espousing websites who bothered to list and promote this article, as somehow important to read and digest? This is the kind of promiscuous drit we get to frequently get on the Internet that is not even connected with AI.

Rather the left versus the right divide and conquer strategy keeping prejudice and distrust on both sides of the aisle, while in reality, higher levels of the deep state are manipulating both sides of these duopolies.

If sincere and intelligent sides of the left and the right do not come together and learn to agree on somethings America will continue to stay corrupt and a basket case third world country.

The soul’s capacity to think objectively, skeptically, and frankly in politics, cynically, is to have an ability to hone in on the greater truths, as this is very much within the realm of spiritual psychology.

We live in a complex world that includes deceit, exploitation, crime and war (and equally there are many forms of warfare—with information warfare being an important one).

The masses, or a significant number of people, need to identify the minority of people, from both sides (plus from the class of non-party on-lookers) who do the best job discerning truth from all the lies and half-truths in today’s world.

And one of the best alternative investigative journalists, who’s appropriately ‘cynical’ comments on the how(s) and why(s) of being skeptical, and who knows why it is necessary to still be cynically curious (actively alert) is Ryan Cristian at his website TheLastAmericanVagabond.com.

Yes his podcasts are long, somewhat disjointed, and he talks fast (listen to his Bitchute stream where you can slow down the speed) but he investigates out truth from fiction pretty much better than most (and on the most trenchant topics). Young, aspiring journalists need to study this guy’s style.

Listen to one of his latest when you have time (mostly always sagaciously critical) but read this article you are now reading first (then come back to):

Reverse Russiagate, Americans Continue To Be Arrested By ICE & The Embarrassing MAM Epstein Meltdown

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/reverse-russiagate-ice-mam-epstein/

Now backtracking again to our x-ray examination of words on the spiritual and human nature:

The word ‘animal’ is often thought to be earthly or terrestrial (something that does not transcend death into any after-life). Not many thinks or cares about an afterlife for cats, dogs, bees or giraffes. Even the heaven of the Bible seems only to imply Homo sapient beings and angel-like creatures are pretty much alone in courting with the Most-High.

Why do all these other species get passed over is a mystery.

[Trivia moment: In the library this document is being composed there is a book prominently displayed: Feeling Animal Death: Being Host to Ghosts by Brianne Donaldson. Yes, on the esoteric side of things. Looks interesting. Over 300 pages with several contributing writers.]

The Latin term anima means breathe and soul! You know, like the words ‘animation,’ and ‘animated’ as opposed to apathetic or lifeless.

To think about the sheer diversity of species, climates, geological formations, oceans, and weather patterns, not to mention sun sets found here on planet earth, here as we know it can seem abstractly or concretely a bit of a paradise at times.

You say: “Why are we bothering to elaborate on the esoteric meanings for these words?

Good question.

Because it is, and was, the human mind, especially by way of religious cultures and dogmas that bifurcated (split) soul from body, spirit from the flesh, as if these were two entirely different realms (and maybe that is not exactly true).

Well, what is the metaphysics?

Regardless as to the exact nature of things, when we engage in exercise, such as strenuous running to get our second wind (or to get into “the zone”) or simply swimming laps in a pool we find that we rejuvenate our spirits.

The old meaning for ‘recreation’ means to become re-created, or rejuvenated (and this is why it is so important to exercise regularly—to improve not just our physical health but our mental health—especially if we deal with a lot of stress and weighty responsibilities.

Exercise too is heavily connected to spiritual psychology, as it contributes to our vitality, self-esteem, positive-attitude and other attributes that help us in our emotional and intellectual affairs and sense of well-being (morale and vitality).

Exercise, and you may find that you read and think better. Your mind is clear. Your body is relaxed.

Also, note that some people are better able to stave off addictions when they routinely exercise. They get a natural physiological neurochemical kick like higher levels of endorphins. All kinds of things are going on in the body.

These benefits include a better attitude and mindset to take on the world and enjoy life. And at the gym you will meet positive people who are social and outgoing. This is good for your social life.

Simple things like drinking plenty of water and eating nutritional foods all play a role in your physical and spiritual well-being.

Even the word ‘holy’ is connected to ‘wholesome’ and ‘health.’ This is not just coincidental. This reveals the deeper subconscious knowledge we still retain from before history was inundated with Bible thumpers screaming about sin, salvation or the smell of sulfur and brimstone in a hell of screaming sorrow (that is before Abrahamic religion got so adamant about sin and punishment and some sects or cults of Christianity especially coming to equate experiences of pleasure as sinful—when you were supposed to be groveling in abject fear and denial).

Still suffering is something we definitely relate to here in the now while we live as animals (mammals). It is not some trivial matter. We naturally take it very seriously because it has meaning regardless of how articulated. We feel it intensely.

One meaning of the word ‘mean’ means to experience, in the pejorative sense, low-minded or offensive, or threatening, as in to be painful. People, and, even spiritual deities, can be reputed to be meaningfully mean (and you do not need to be a genius to understand such—any bully will be so interpreted rather clearly).

But healthy minds and souls are not what people experience when they are violated by crimes and abuse, such as physical and sexual abuse—again as this relates to Fred Gransville’s article on Jeffery Epstein (or the corresponding police state-like actions that are clamping down of free speech).

Arguably it is important to understand how human feeling, intelligence, ability, self-esteem, social connection, honesty, clear-mindedness, and human enterprise such as getting politically active are all important indicators of health and human spirituality.

And society needs people who can read and think well, and critically, and who are physically and psychologically healthy. Then they can better work on other threatening or important issues when they arise. So, let’s check out a few more important words:

Relevant to our inquiry are words like ‘morality’ and ‘ethics’ (within discussions of evil and spiritual violation). Yet even these words too are not carved in stone.

‘Morality’ comes from Latin moralis "proper behavior of a person in a given society," whereas anthropologists understand there are variations in given societies. So, what may be moral in one society may not be as moral in another, and the same can be so for various religions and religious sects.

This is equally true for the word ‘ethics’ from Greek ēthikos "ethical, pertaining to character," from ēthos "moral character," related to ēthos "custom" (see ethos).

Meaning "moral principles of a person or group." This is a word we likely discover when we study anthropology (the study of mankind anthropos in different societies and cultures).

Arguably it is important to understand different people(s) can have variations on what is considered ethical and moral (even within the same culture).

Such as the idea of abortion being the equivalent to murder by Christian ethics (for many) and yet not so much for some others within Christianity, and even more so for people who are not especially religious; whereas some atheists may argue that it is imperative for the human population to dwindle (meaning abortion to them can be moral, whereas indiscriminate sex, promiscuous sex, and people who are essentially immature for their age are not responsible enough to raise children with the kind of maturity children needs are being adequately met).

This last statement is, of course, contentious (as abortion is considered murder for plenty of people) and for enough people this topic is off-putting, so we are not to dwell long on abortion, and its related “r-word” of relativism versus religious absolutism—because we need to visit other controversial subjects.

But one more quick mention of moral relativism, as we think of it, is the man who wants to have it legal to take his own life. Again, religious zealots claim only God should determine your death, or it is considered a mortal sin of self-murder. In another words, someone who believes suicide is a person’s right (since no one asked to have been born) should submit to a long, drawn out and arduous and painful, slow death, by say, cancer, because certain puritanical, and frankly self-righteous Christians can demand that you suffer to “their” decrees and ideas of morality.

But, of course, it is not their decrees, rather it’s God’s (according to ‘their’ superior understanding of ultimate reality as relayed to what is found written on pages of human print known as sacred scripture).

Some people choose to differ.

The point we want to get to is: that when someone argues a certain position is moral versus immoral, there is still a religious and cultural perspective that needs to be acknowledged as making such a claim.

Religions evolved as “human enterprises” no matter how much others claim they originated by some supernatural all-knowing force.

*Google AI says: “In ethics, moral absolutism asserts that certain actions are inherently right or wrong, regardless of context, while moral relativism posits that morality is subjective and dependent on individual, cultural, or historical perspectives. Essentially, absolutism seeks universal moral truths, while relativism denies their existence.”

Why are such distinction now especially important?

Because one can argue that not only are religions themselves capable of being based on fiction but they can also be immoral (which is not to argue that any particular religion is completely or mostly immoral).

And this is truly a cornerstone argument being laid down here in this essay: the Bible contains fictional as well as immoral judgements that are ‘ascribed’ to its God. For example, scripture delineates throughout the Torah—espousing all manner of killing and punishment (especially for people living in the Levant other than the supposed ‘chosen’).

Genocide is not something new in history.

Are Americans, and Westerners (whose governments are being blackballed in tolerating genocide in Gaza) all supposed to take the Bible literally as moral law? This is modernity’s gordian knot.

Just because the United States is currently full of seemingly skeptically-deficient Zionist-Christians who choose to literally believe all biblical stories, like Balak the talking donkey (probably along the likes of gullible Ambassador Mike Huckabee):

The Story of Balaam, Balak and the Talking Donkey | Animated Bible Story (for children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6h4XtzNWuc

Does a free-thinking human have a right to determine within his or her own will if something is moral or immoral irrespective of what certain authority figures, or even God, supposedly says?

President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Marc Rubio (positions of authority if ever there were ones) claim U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is lying and acting as a bad actor in calling for the end of Israeli genocide:

"Economy of Genocide": U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6tX0OoE53c

Meanwhile, Scott Ritter interviewing with Sabby Sabs is claiming quite a different tune:

She's A HERO! w/Scott Ritter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ce53vSQ3FQ

Trump and Rubio think their ‘authoritarian’ opinions and actions should over-ride any relevance, or defense, that Albanese might muster? Yet it is absolutely clear who does versus who does not have the real moral high-ground.

A person’s willingness to question or criticize authority is even more the case when it comes to being critical of certain authoritarian religions.

Regardless many will be offended. Others will challenge your hubristic pride: “How dare you question the Bible!” “You cannot criticize God!”

And yet there is precedent (not that we need it):

*Google AI shares: “According to Jewish teachings, challenging heaven, or "chutzpah afilu kelapei shemaya" (chutzpah even in the face of heaven), can be a positive trait when motivated by a sincere desire for justice, truth, or the betterment of the Jewish people.”

Moreover, how often it is the case that cultures with authoritarian religions equally harbor authoritarian clergy and politicians and people?

Big question.

The Video Netanyahu Doesn't Want You To See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqXvc_wL8Xg

“ … Israel has systematically beheaded Palestinian children on a daily basis for the last 15 months …”

Again, referring to Grantsville’s article Epstein Maxwell Secrets Buried on Little St. James Compound, he made clear is that the Epstein files story is all about propping up the highly corrupt regime in Israel, and its elaborative government sponsored tentacle (tentacular) corruption encompassing several countries in the West especially, and this Epstein files are part of their power to engage blatant U.S./Israeli genocide in broad daylight as it continues.

People who have the awareness and gumption to make the forbidden and revealing information available to the public are engaging in a spiritual enterprise called spreading critical truth and ‘inspiring’ awareness. This whistle-blowing too is spiritual and psychological enterprise.

Others are lying and trying to censor the truth as they smother awareness.

Why do dragons breathe fire?

You can even go to some of those learned and inquisitive minds in the educated world of academia and you still do not get a satisfying explanation. Check out this historical background of dragons from all the various continents and countries with all his interesting scholarship and he, like practically all, fail to understand the reason dragons are ‘feared’ (as forces of power) is because their fire is metaphoric to breathing truth against lies.

It has little to do with physics or bacterial output from the gut. Dragons as evil is found especially in the West in which Christian stories equated dragons and reptilian creatures like snakes with Satan.

The assumption was that everyone knows the dragon is evil so there is no reason to ask the dragon his side of the story—rather the hero simply goes out to slay the dragon on the presumption that his soul and fate has already been determined evil as absolutist truth.

In the same manner some political camps are trying to establish that anything related to terms like Hamas or Hezbollah is obviously evil and the only acceptable solution is death—no trial, no journalists allowed into Gaza to report on the nature of things, only propaganda and the likes of Marc Rubio and President Trump claiming U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is a liar and she needs to be removed from her position of duty.

But the truth is she is breathing fire and burning through the lies. Don’t be fooled by her well-mannered and mature disposition and rational responses to all the attacks leveled against her person. She is breathing fire and burning through the huge forest of propaganda that is attempting to suffocate her and the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, etc.

She may not look like a dragoness but if you study her soul closely you too can see this metaphysical reality in action. The world needs its dragons doing what the do. Amen.

Metaphysics: is the study of the ultimate nature of things—so of course this would include anything and everything related to spirituality, religion and mythology. Now we ask *google AI:

“What is the metaphysics of dragon lore?”

Believe it or not we get quick answer:

“Dragon lore's metaphysics explores the symbolic and philosophical meanings attributed to dragons, often as representations of powerful forces, primal instincts, or even aspects of the self. They can embody both destructive and protective natures, symbolizing chaos, wisdom, and transformation …”

And not only do individuals have a need for spiritual truth, the same can be said for families, neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, countries and the world.

Why else would there be such a war on real news, censorship, fascist clampdowns on protests, and foreign intelligence and their many collaborators infiltrating American campuses and attempting to ruin the lives of those who attempt to stop evil?

What is the American State Department trying to cover up?

How Israel Targets People Inside the United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAtexhOxMY

We were lied to already on October 7ᵗʰ as a propaganda barrage was ready to go and American media outlets went along with it:

What really happened in Israel on Oct 7 wMax Blumenthal The Chris Hedges Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnkY0JWpurM

Propaganda then is also spiritual psychology because thoughts lead to attitudes and actions.

Disinformation is meant to mislead and confuse.

This is usually called psychological warfare.

And frankly any battle, conflict or war (or the various kinds of warfare) could equally be classified within the very broad subject of spiritual psychology, especially the Machiavellian bondage created because bad actors (antagonists) have over others because they have the dirty laundry on their dirty secrets (making such normally powerful politicians as willing accomplices who will lie to their own constituencies).

Another important Chris Hedges interview:

Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8

This is equally why the American education system has become so mediocre. Certain powers do not want Americans who can think critically and well, and articulate arguments that challenge authority.

This is why the average vocabulary has decreased—as people with vocabularies lose listeners or readers who cannot understand their expressions (shrinking the numbers of those who attempt to be informed).

The masses are not supposed to have the intellectual wherewithal, curiosity and intellectual stamina to be able to think hardily and well. Rather they are supposed to be consumed with materialism, sensationalism, sports as bread and circus, narcissistic celebrities, and a general fawning over stupidity or drive or envy for material wealth.

Think about it: how many of us who know the truth, and try to tell the truth are rejected, ignored, isolated, dis-friended, smeared etc., because we supposedly make other people feel uncomfortable or talk about taboo and scary subjects? Many are even rejected by their siblings, and previously thought-as, but apparently somewhat shallow, friends. We are not especially wined and dined. Rather we can end up being rather isolated from the usual circles. We pay a price as truth is a lonely hunter.

Endeavoring to tell the uncomfortable truth, and then to be scoffed at as bigoted, or deluded, etc., is equally about spiritual psychology—getting into the real world of truth, making others feel uncomfortable, while trying to create awareness.

People like Francesca Albanese are threatened. Journalists and even health workers in Gaza are killed. You do not need to die to know hell.

Therefore, spiritual health can be more than the average lives of those Santa Monica, sunshine California, spiritual gurus who spend their days in yoga, spas, doing daily meditation and learning how to escape stress. Some such spiritual lives tend towards becoming a bit self-absorbed in walled-off life experiences, while wearing politically correct decorums (such as excuses to not care about those not so similarly spiritual).

Spirituality includes really about getting into the down-and-dirty—learning what the battle lines are in real life, that are worth fighting for, and protesting and making known your own wishes. It includes politics—not an attitude that politics is primarily for the less spiritually astute (giving too much attention to life on this planet).

Here's one such sociological story some of the spiritually fit and astutely cynical should be concerned to become aware:

ABLECHILD: No Mandate in 49 States—Yet Nearly One-Third of U.S. Schools Force Mental Health Checks on Kids

https://joehoft.com/ablechild-no-mandate-in-49-states-yet-nearly-one-third-of-u-s-schools-force-mental-health-checks-on-kids/

“ … U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy describing the mental health of America’s children as “the defining public health crisis of our time.” This declaration came after the 2021 Surgeon General’s pronouncement that there was a “youth mental health emergency.” And the Academy of Pediatrics and other health organizations declared a “national emergency” in child and adolescent mental health. Wow. Sounds ominous. But is it?”

Remember the over-prescription of drugs for attention deficiency syndrome?

What if your children don’t believe all the politically correct verbiage they are being fed? Maybe their parents need some mental health counseling or investigation too? Schools cannot even teach normal school subjects all that well.

Yes, it is a complex and stressful world and technologies are changing life drastically. How about role models focusing on traditional forms of maturity and respect (for all people—not just those who have attained victim status).

Do you ever wonder how many so-called psychologists might be ‘projecting’ their own issues or illnesses onto others?

Why do some people get so zealously involved in studying psychology in the first place? Could it be they are trying to figure out their own mental health issues (and yet really never fully cure themselves); but hey, now that they have earned a degree, as they still find themselves having issues personality clashes with others.

But with a job title and access to those fancy psycho-babble explanations and words (labels in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, they can espouse any number of theories and lay their opinion into medical records or electronic databases now used for international surveillance (as if their subjective opinions are no longer speculation but scientific fact)? Hardly.

Or they might want use political labels so as to lecture others on how ‘fascist’ or ‘nationalist’ they are because they don’t believe all the arguments on why people should be locked up in 15-minute cities because of global warming, and human squandering of the earth’s resources (which surely is going on), and the other Police State Agendas, such as corralled to more easily have their lives surveilled 24/7, with new government technology via the ominously evolving ‘technocracy’ (another reason to fear Trump‘s Doge/Palantir/latest budget of this administration)?

Note the Police State Trump is one of worst of the issues amongst other Administration problems! A whole AI spy system is being implement and Israel is heavily involved in creating and managing it.

Does a spiritually keen society really want a government in charge of their children’s so-called mental health? Or how about their futuristic living quarters and “top-down” authority from the internationalist World Economic Forum/ United Nations (in partnership with the wealth classes and biggest corporations?

Are these not spiritual concerns?

The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_rise_of_the_prison_state_trumps_push_for_megaprisons_could_lock_us_all_up

“ … Trump administration is engineering the largest federal expansion of incarceration and detention powers in U.S. history.”

“ … Alligator Alcatraz, … is the architectural symbol of a carceral state being quietly constructed in plain sight.”

“With over $170 billion allocated through Trump’s megabill, we are witnessing the creation of a vast, permanent enforcement infrastructure aimed at turning the American police state into a prison state.”

“The scope of this expansion is staggering.”

“The bill allocates $45 billion just to expand immigrant detention—a move that will make ICE the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in American history ...”

“Yet be warned: what begins with ICE rarely ends with ICE.”

[Note: Read everything John Whitehead pens at his Rutherford Institute.]

Also, time to read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s famous book The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation and his other book that some have tried to censor in the West: Two Hundred Years Together.

A “blue terror” from a right-wing fascist state is potentially closer than many understand.

The red terror … was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police force. What most sources fail to divulge is the Bolsheviks and Cheka were heavily controlled by Jews, as significantly a cultural war against indigenous Caucasian Russian Christians who lived there, in the same manner there is a war against white European Christian countries today despite the fact that many of the left deny it, and claim this is just more right-wing blather (see):

Nordic countries: Survivors of rape unite to end impunity for rapists and break barriers to justice

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/04/rape-and-sexual-violence-in-nordic-countries-consent-laws/

“Despite being among the top-ranking countries in the world in terms of gender equality, four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) have disturbingly high levels of rape and survivors of sexual violence are being failed by their justice systems, Amnesty International said in a report published today.”

Migrant Crisis: Is the Street a Necessary Passageway for Asylum Seekers in Paris?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti7XbSdnXA&t=80s

There is little question some aspects of world immigration is being overly politicized (such as the fear porn of immigrants from Haiti eating dogs and cats in the U.S.; or right-wing propagandists pushing an excess criminal invasion (surely there are some and drugs); or a giant market for foreign child trafficking, etc.); but, there is no denying there is a deliberate agenda to drastically change the demographics of what were recently mostly white countries.

Meanwhile there are no deliberate agendas to encourage others to migrate heavily to Asian, African or South American countries by non-profit organizations in any significant manner, that completely is meant to cause chaos, resentment and competition for limited resources.

White nationalists do have a legitimate issue here (and it is not based on racism but rather it is a form of reverse racism). Nor is there any emphasis on getting new comers to assimilate into the customs, values, or languages of the countries being literally invaded.

Still, there is plenty of exaggeration about the supposed “hoards of intruders.” One example is an acquaintance who lived in Yuma, AZ (next to the border) commented on the fact he did not see invaders in town which he certainly would have had the truth matched the political rhetoric.

Ron Unz is another truther who really does his research which is often impeccable:

ICE Raids, Asylum Policies, and Other Immigration Controversies (print or audio):

https://www.unz.com/runz/ice-raids-asylum-policies-and-other-immigration-controversies/

Read this and realize there has been a certain amount of hysterical used by the right—and Trump’s administration now uses these exaggerated stories to further a police state for all and implement more surveillance FOR ALL (not just at the border).

These real-world realities too are spiritual and psychological questions and phenomena.

But you would never know it if you listened to lectures like:

What is Spiritual Psychology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3GD0EfrbE

Rather your quest is to adapt to life by changing your attitudes and conclusions on what happens around you—with a focus on letting go of those attitudes that bother you.

There is nothing in such approach about family, clan, tribal or social threats and what to do about them.

Rather you are supposed to see yourself as somehow above mere mortal competition and earthly resources. Instead, life is about self-esteem and ridding inhibiting fears and finding our “authentic selves.” “Life is about who you ‘really’ are and not about your complaints about how things should be.”

Granted adjustment to realities around us is obviously spiritual as well, but these types of self-centered, and never-the-less reject your “ego” expectations, is of itself another form of escapism from responsibility for what takes place in the here and now (and the struggles between contentious peoples).

Should college students, some who were imprisoned because they protested against Israel’s genocide, simply change their expectations about the way things should be?

Or just learn to tolerate police abuse as happened to protestors in New York and Los Angeles?

Just accept the idea the Israeli government is running intelligence operations throughout our entire college system and even our Congress and the White House is acting against our freedoms and the Bill of Rights.

Accept the fact that many American news empires are controlled by Zionists (and have been for decades).

Accept the amount of money and bombs our tax dollars fund. Just accept the inhuman and brutal war and genocide against peoples we Americans have no reason to oppress, etc.?

Where is religion’s “spiritual war” on these fronts save what the new Catholic pope has recently articulated?

People do not need formal religions to dictate ethics and morality.

All animals have a sense of good versus bad, threat and danger versus what ways to pursue life and survival. They all have their evolved advantages. Some run fast, some hunt well, some are exceedingly sensitive to specific clues.

We humans survive especially because of our bigger and more elaborate brains and ability to use elaborate languages (and equally our ability to create technology with the use of language).

But it needs to be called out that some societies can establish the means and methods to exploit the naiveté and trust extended by other societies and religious cultures (and it is not just the West dominating the other continents).

For example, Jews were heavily involved in the East India Company and West India Company that especially started the age of colonialization.

THE ROTHSCHILDS’ BOSSES: DOCUMENTARY: The Jewish Monopoly on Opium

https://ronaldwederfoort.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/the-rothschilds-bosses-documentary-the-jewish-monopoly-on-opium/

“The truth lies buried in the family line of David Sassoon, “The Rothschilds of The Far East,” and their monopoly over the opium trade.”

They were involved in England’s war in South Africa and the ability to exploit those dark peoples to gain enormous wealth access to gold and diamond mining.

Even their stories of pogroms and ‘imposed’ ghettos and other stories of discrimination do have alternative explanations (seldom disclosed). For example, it was often rabbis who insisted on closed, separate quarters for Jewish peoples so they did not have to assimilate with gentiles.

Whereas, Sephardic Jews accompanied Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors’ brutal attack on the New World. It is not a coincidence Christopher Columbus, originally from Italy, turned out of Spain in 1492, it was the year when many Jews were being expelled.

*Google AI: “While there's a theory that Christopher Columbus may have been of Sephardic Jewish descent, it's not definitively proven and remains a subject of debate. Some historians suggest he was from a Jewish converso family in Spain, hiding his background due to persecution. This theory is supported by some historical evidence, including family names, professions, and financial support for his voyages, but definitive proof is lacking.”

Columbus and his fellow Jewish team were after slaves from the new world (way before 1619) as Judaism allows for forms of slavery—but not the slavery of fellow Jews.

Google, Yahoo, etc., are now censoring this next video, but you can still find it on Bitchute.com:

Who Brought the Slaves to America? The Substantial Jewish Role in the American Slave Trade

https://www.bitchute.com/video/cB2vznKQ7FqM

Modern Christianity evolved to go against the Torah and Talmud in the sense that Jesus taught all people were children of God and equal before him (irrespective of whether Jesus was real or what he may have really taught).

It was Christian Quakers who first protested against slavery in the United States. Jews were part of the slave owners.

Therefore, Western Christian Europe was far less likely to feel slavery was an OK norm, whereas it was part of Jewish culture for millennia.

But due to the fact Jews have had influence over education, politics, public relations, publishing, Hollywood, etc. (for decades already), they have created literature and movie industry to blame European Christians as being the primary movers for slavery (and have successfully done so—along with white guilt finger pointing so many minorities are encouraged to engage).

Surely lots of other peoples were involved in slavery earlier in history, including white peoples (but not as readily and as long as Jews’ real history, equally involved with slavery in the Middle East and Muslim countries for centuries—including the slavery of white Europeans sold there).

Still, this is just another example of what people assume about morality and norms because for the longest time, slavery was part of the natural order pretty much around significant parts of the world.

And meanwhile now they are leading the involvement in having third world peoples saturate European countries, Canada, the U.S., and Australia etc.

It is not racism or anti-Semitism to reveal these things—this is truth. And saying the censored truth is equally spiritual (even as it is condemned as antisemitism).

This seeming diatribe is not being written to overwhelm readers with a laundry list for the sake of raising embitterment and animosity (or real anti-Semitic racism).

How about we talk about anti-Gentilism or anti-Caucasiansim, or anti-Nordicism, etc.? How about we stop the one-way story of the “hate us solely because we are Jews and always so innocent at that”?

The world needs to understand the true nature of how a people can be taken-in by their own sense of insularity and intellectual corruption. They equally need to understand how history can be concocted as fictions.

Theirs is an old history and frankly it is beyond time to read something like a riot act or line of dirty laundry—starting with the religion itself.

We already have tons of diatribes and propaganda on how evil were the whites of Europe, etc., and our ancestors who have settled here (it’s all spelled out in their Project 1619 when slaves were first imported to the U.S. and White Guilt movement).

No discussion on the first slaves really being white, indentured servants such as from Ireland?

Kevin B. MacDonald is labeled an American anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist but he is really a retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach who has written some very interesting books on how Jewish cultures coexist with other cultures in which there are alternative explanations to how Jews are the world’s perpetual victims of racism historically.

It is more than relevant to understand how the American society (and the European Union’s) politics is dominated by Israel, and non-profit equivalents to AIPAC, ADL and other related non-profits. The Jeffery Epstein scandal is one apex of this domination via blackmail or threats.

Awareness then is spiritual psychology.

Ask the typical western spiritual guru what is awareness and you are likely to get answers along the lines of Eckhart Tolle’s ideas, like consciousness and universal consciousness, and not so much at the human or societal level (we are dust in the wind):

The Ocean Within You: Eckhart Tolle's Simple Guide to Pure Awareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6m5DOER-c

Sure, it is important to understand one’s individual ego and lifetime is just a small segment of the greater cosmos and eternity. But such understandings don’t really help much in a world in which our normal egos are essential for dealing with survival issues. It is more naval gazing.

Awareness is related to “be aware,” “be wary” and other words of caution like hyperaware, vigilant, alert, and open-eyed. There are real deadly threats on this planet. The world is full of military inventories and capitalists who profit greatly on selling military hardware.

You need to know what is going on about you (and surely inside yourself as well).

Some spiritual philosophies push the idea of that adjustment is cutting yourself off from news and politics (as it is rightly just so distressing to the spirit). Realize instead you do not really belong to the normal sphere of human endeavor.

The Jeffery Epstein story then was not simply about sexual violation of minors—it is even more about the “religious politics” of the whole world (another juxtaposition of words—religious politics—not so often coupled together).

‘Politics’ is a simple word because it essentially means ‘power,’ even as it evolved from Greek ‘polis’ meaning city. For example, the city administration controls the police (another polis word).

A quotation from Pericles, a famous ancient Greek statesman and general:

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

Power is something ‘all’ sane people desire and need—at least to some extent—because we all live in a biological world in which we have needs, many biological, but also with social, cultural, infrastructural and political needs as well.

Heaven can wait.

Many political philosophers argue a better form of government is one that is shared. But this requires honest information and curious minds. This also requires a can-do ‘spirit’ with the will and determination.

When the many essentially decries (ubiquitously): “We can’t do anything about it anyway so why dwell on all that negativity” then we should know this is also a spirit-psychological response—defeatist to be sure but still a spiritual response.

Life is motion and action and process. Needs have to be met (real needs not an excess of material consumption and sugar). Often such needs fall within the realm of economics, employment, health care, education and freedom of choice.

Therefore, a truly comprehensive study of worldly power, as commonly called politics, would include, metaphysically, the study of how power is wielded in religious scripture—since religions, as we know them, in the Abrahamic sense, make claims to ultimate authority and power (here on planet earth as well as into the afterlife (and supposedly what happened before creation of the universe).

But despite Abrahamic religions are thought to be about supernatural claims to power, these three religions are not especially studied, historically, along the lines of the “power-politics” of religion (like judging deities in the same sense we judge human leaders) or doing any kind of analytical study of the psychology of religion.

We should ask why has this historically been the case?

Google: “branches of theology” and you will find many sub-divisions, but little stands out in respect to the study of the power politics in religion? *Google AI brings up:

	1. Biblical Theology: … 2. Historical Theology: … 3. Systematic Theology: … 4. Practical Theology: … 5. Apologetics: … 6. Christian Ethics: … 7. Other Areas: Christology: … Christ's nature and person. Soteriology: … salvation and how humans are reconciled to God. Pneumatology: The study of the Holy Spirit. Ecclesiology: The study of the church. Eschatology: The study of the end times. Angelology: The study of angels. (Dive deeper) … Pneumatology: The study of the Holy Spirit. Bibliology: The study of the Bible. Ecclesiology: The study of the Church. Eschatology: The study of end times or last things. Philosophical Theology: … Apologetics: … defense of Christian beliefs. Exegetical: Deals with … interpretation of the Bible.

The study of religion is undoubtedly thousands of years old! In fact, reading skills, here in the West, were often taught to the common people in order to recruit them to be able to read the Bible.

And despite Judeo-Christianity, in particular, is so glaringly about a monolithic and monotheistic God, with claim to ‘all’ power, and his actual authoritarian practice of power, concomitant with the pervasive human fear of this God’s power, etc., there has been, supposedly, little dedicated to study of such Abrahamic religions from the perspectives of political psychology?

Amazing!!

Witches were supposedly hanged, killed, and then burned on a stake (or died while burning at the stake) for a few centuries because of a caustic religious paranoia of Satan and a dramatic and drastic fear of going to God’s abode of hell (that he supposedly created).

There is where souls are known, solely, to be tortured for eternity, and yet there is scant attention paid to whether the biblical God was ever, or is, a kind of tyrant or not, id. est., you know a nasty sort of brute because ‘he’ (gendered to male psyche) demanded extreme punishment as eternal, and terrorizing pain to those condemned to be punished so for eternity with no redemption once committed.

This paranoia has been historical relevant for many hundreds of years. Now we have religious zealots they are helping to shepard in the Apocalypse. Can it get any more dramatic?

Even in our modern world of geopolitical terrorism we find too little on such an immensely important subject?

How many college curricula on National Security and Terrorism in the United States or the West are really doing a balanced analysis of terrorism ingrained in religions?

If you ask your typical AI you are likely to find a very strong bias of terrorism in Muslim religious doctrines. What else would you expect?

Should it not be obvious to all who have so been brainwashed that the brand ‘Hamas’ and ‘Hezbollah’ are obviously terrorist (according to the U.S. government via the dictates of Israelis)?

Surely, they have engaged in warfare and have been accused of all manner of dirty deeds—but what about the United States and Israel?

Israel: The Original Terrorist State: Bruce Hoffman’s riveting new history of pre-1947 Palestine reviews the violent birth of the modern Jewish homeland by Adam Kirsch

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/israel-original-terrorist-state

Besides, what is more terrorist than an ultimate supernatural authority figure condemning souls to eternal torture (manifesting either as a method of unconscious or conscious fear to supposedly buttress its overt preaching on God’s love)?

And few call out this psychology or abuse of power?

Sorry, reader, this is the messenger writing here. Not responsible for this reality (whether articulated or not).

None of us, in modernity, created these historical messes (as in trying to live to religious prophesy). It is indeed disconcerting we all have to face these realities, or aftermaths, if we choose to as many will not.

Where is the sanity?

Start at the obvious—such as how people often become acquainted to their religious beliefs: namely their gospels, so bring this word into the daylight.

“Old English godspel "glad tidings announced by Jesus; one of the four gospels," literally "good spell," from god "good" (see good (adj.)) + spel "story, message ..." see: Etymonline.com

A ‘spell,’ in that sense of a witch putting a spell on someone, you know the old, wicked-y, bitched-y hag spouting prophetic words, maybe with artful gesticulations, as in “words that have power and portent.”

Or maybe a wizard whirling a wand in the wind while decreeing his imperative commands.

Only now, via “God’s spell” or actually the ability to convince people the entire Bible was, supposedly, dictated by one omniscient and monotheistic God with perfect supernatural semantics manifested on paper (irrespective of language or culture or history).

“The Bible, including both the Old and New Testaments, contains 66 books, 1,189 chapters, and 31,173 verses. A standard printed Bible typically has around 1,200 to 1,500 pages, depending on the translation and font size.” *Google AI

What then has more ‘power,’ from a clerical perspective, than to convince masses of people that their supernatural high-God used essentially human words to communicate certain supernatural meanings—even if it is true there is no historical reckoning of a supernatural supreme language similar in ways to languages used by humans (nor any angelic language and yet the very notion of angel means messenger)?

“The Bible was written by approximately 40 authors, spanning a period of about 1,500 years. These authors came from various walks of life, including shepherds, kings, scholars, and fishermen, and they wrote on different continents and in different languages. While the Holy Spirit is considered the ultimate author, these individuals were the human instruments used to record God's word.” *Google AI

Probably the Bible was written by a lot more than 40 authors—but then this is just a guess.

Still then why then did one particular biblical scholar in our modernity write books basically claiming Christianity needs serious reform (from a moral sense)? Checkout the spiritual psychology of:

“John Shelby "Jack" Spong (1931 – 2021) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church.… Spong was a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator, and author who called for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines.” Wikipedia

His books include (over two dozen):

Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile;

Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture;

Jesus for the Non-Religious;

The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love;

Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell;

Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today;

Biblical Literalism Biblical Literalism;

Can you, or those you respect, honestly argue such a scholar is not needed in our modern age, given all the war and conflict related to our times, especially in the Middle East, and given the number of Christian Zionists who are advocating these injustices of current war and starvation are inevitable, as they are perpetrated especially by Israelis and its settlers from abroad (many American or Russian)?

Read then Fred Gransville’s article (cited early on): Epstein Maxwell Secrets Buried on Little St. James Compound as you get an outstanding moral argument from a Christian perspective or as he says: through a “spiritual psychological lens” (which frankly most Americans and especially most Christians will readily comprehend), and given much of the entire world’s believers are mentally based within these three Abrahamic religions—as his interpretation will ring true for a lot of readers (and voters).

Now it is equally important to understand how some moral perspectives, and some especially related to Epstein-related events, are thought and felt about from alternative perspectives (such as in the earlier mentioned case where some people believe they have a right to end their own lives).

Some atheists don’t see the world as so moral or absolute. Everything is not black or white.

There are shades of grey and rainbow colors.

Skeptics look at “God’s creation” and they see so many various species killing and eating other species as a natural reality that has gone on for millions of years. They intuitively conclude predation is a natural reality in this God’s Kingdom (and some believe this universe and this planet is what we will know and experience as God’s Kingdom).

This is one reason people like Netanyahu refer to lions as symbolic to Israel, as he, and they, identifies with predators like a lion. The heck with being sheep to a wolf’s slaughter.

Many people are not into political correctness and various forms of idealism. For example, when they hear: “but the world could feed twice as many people if it were fair and intelligent” they scoff because this world will never be ideal.

Santa Monica liberals can study all the human potential movements the care to but there will never likely be a time in which mankind completely transcends war as some in the spiritual psychology movement suggests (as if you can wave a wand and people will act accordingly).

Hobbes maxim still applies: “Life is nasty, brutal and short” not that mankind should just accept this attitude. No, quite the opposite, we should fight for justice and determine justice in humanitarian terms. But to live in some fairy world of hope, idealism and prayer is simply to escape reality.

In the same manner some people who espouse ultra-libertarianism believe in the egotism of the self, that it is all about out-competing others, let the forces of natural selection play out, and let the pieces fall where they may, because if a real God cared about no one suffering ‘he’ would have made a world of no suffering.

They tend to think people should stop being so darn caring, and worrying about all these other groups of people. Just get as much and take as much as you can because the world is not going to change to any kind of utopia.

Frankly plenty don’t give a fiddle about an afterlife because they don’t believe in one.

Nor do some, such as some Israelis, seem to care much about what others think or value, or whether they are even related to others.

There is no one correct philosophy on life, but society works if people are willing to compromise (and this must be true on a world basis as well).

Still, we need to understand peoples and cultures, and historical times can vary.

Is it not critically important to recognize some hardnosed and criminally-bent types of people simply do not give a damn what others think.

In a controversial statement in 2018, Benjamin Netanyahu said: "The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive." In the Middle East, there is no place for the weak, while the strong are respected and make alliances.

Everyone knows it: Israel is a bully. Equally the U.S. Government is a bully. Both governments only understand power. History shows this over the last decades.

Israel’s military needs to be destroyed. Period. Their government needs to be changed to something more honorable as acceptable by the world’s population.

No second chances, not taking their word on anything, no patience, no negotiating, etc. Force and power are the only things they respect. The world must deal with them in the only way that can work.

Still some still figure ultimately one corrupt regime will dominate anyway as this seems usually the way things works. Prepare for your own survival.

Still, people should be aware they, the entire world, definitely do not want Zionist zealots running this world (which is their ultimate goal based on their religious interpretations).

Also, in the diverse attitudes in this worldly mess of things, some atheists especially, whether they openly admit it or not, believe there needs to be a fairly drastic reduction of the human population—regardless as to whether some feel it is truly justifiable or not (especially in relation to preserving natural resources and access to things as simple as water, land and food).

And metaphysically, some of the more criminally minded believe that since when a person dies, he or she is dead (and this is the end of the story) and if he or she was not punished for crimes while alive on planet earth they never will be. So, some think that if they gain enough power, they can do whatever they want to do—irrespective of how much they violate others (criminal gang mentality such as some mafia types but even the mafia people had their own code of ethics).

Google AI: “The "Mafia code of ethics," often associated with the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra), is a set of unwritten rules and principles that govern the behavior of its members. These rules emphasize loyalty, silence, and respect, and they dictate how members should interact with each other, outsiders, and the organization itself.”

	Here's a breakdown of some key aspects: 1. Omertà (Silence): … absolute silence and non-cooperation with law enforcement or outsiders … 2. Loyalty: Members are expected to be utterly loyal to their family and the organization above all else. 3. Respect: While the Mafia is a criminal organization, it has a code of honor, and to treat each other and their families with respect. 4. Instrumental Friendship: … based on mutual benefit, rather than genuine affection. 5. Hierarchy and Obedience: … strict hierarchical structure, … expected to obey their superiors. 6. … rules against certain actions, such as stealing from other members, betraying the organization, and associating with law. 7. Reciprocity: … favors are expected to be returned, and transgressions are met with swift often violent retribution. 8. Rituals and Initiation: …initiation rituals, oaths of loyalty and secrecy. The Mafia is fundamentally a criminal organization, and its rules are often broken or manipulated for personal gain.

A comparison of the Israel government to a mafia does not do those genocidal maniacs justice—because at least the Mafia is more rational than irrational.

Zionist Judaism is seemingly brainwashed with a maniacal insanity.

Understand then from many decades ago, there is some kind of unique penchant, that can be labeled evil, which can convince masses of people that a just and monotheistic God would encourage one specific tribe of people from the Middle East, thousands of years ago to slaughter pretty much all the other Canaanite tribes back then, for the conquest of their specific terrestrial rewards: land, cattle, sheep, women, children, land, natural resources, wealth, gold, etc. (not spiritual ends but material ends—including their sole right to possess a certain part of the planet for eternity).

Google AI: “The concept of Judaism and the murder of the Canaanites is a complex and controversial one, rooted in the biblical narrative of the Israelites' conquest of Canaan. The Book of Joshua, along with passages in Deuteronomy, describes a divinely commanded war against the Canaanites, with instructions to destroy their cities and kill their inhabitants. This has led to interpretations of the text as advocating for genocide, while other interpretations focus on the specific historical and political context of the text.”

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Biblical Narrative:

“The Bible describes the Canaanites as a people living in the land of Canaan, which God promised to the Israelites.”

“The Book of Joshua depicts the Israelites' military conquest of Canaan, including battles and the destruction of Canaanite cities.”

“Certain biblical passages, particularly in Deuteronomy, command the Israelites to utterly destroy the Canaanites, including killing men, women, and children.”

What kind of supernatural all-knowing, all-respecting deity would or could espouse this kind of ethnocentric mindset imposed on the entire world—regardless of the consequences?

Do we need a nuclear war? When does it end?

Whereas some philosophically think that everything in the universe is a manifestation of God—including things we normally would interpret as evil. In fact, some esoteric sects of early religion argue for a God of evil, or two polar Gods, one for good and the other for evil.

This can lead into the idea that Satan too is a God, and all manner of alternative theory—because that is what it all this history of theology boils down to—theory and speculation, and of course all manner of diverging myths.

Jews, as we think the term and identity, did not invent religion, or the idea of training masses of people to adhere to religious principles, since religious communities that believe in a supernatural authority sometimes seems to be more stable than feuding societies with no religious connections that are constantly feuding over land and resources.

Still the Old Testament took ideas from other earlier religions like the Epic of Gilgamesh, and ideas from ancient Egypt, etc.

And we should note Sumerian religions brainwashed their peoples into believing some people were ordained to be living God deities while most of the common people were taught to lead hard and nasty lives in accordance to honoring the special privileges of those that they thought were divine.

This is not very different from the idea of a “chosen people” who were justified in slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Canaanites who had already lived in the land of Palestine.

The Old Testament or Torah is then mostly bull-drit with plenty distorted real history thrown into it.

Perhaps it is time for some religions to be buried into the cemeteries of mythology and studied accordingly?

Amen

P.S. Israel, you are coming down your mountain, you and your Yahweh. Amen

This essay above will also be Part X of:

Our World’s Cataclysmic Reality of an End Times Wrapped With-in Biblical Mythology:

By a Mortal Man

Part I

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=233424

Part II

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=233965

Part 3

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=235928

Part IV

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=240794

Part V

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=244700

Part VI

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=246993

Part VII:

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=257749

Part VIII:

https://stateofthenation.info/?p=5034

Part IX:

https://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2025/07/10/2025-n-the-reclamation-of#more60159

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People who want to know what is ‘really’ going on, with some important commentary they need to plug into websites like:

JudgeNap.Com (interviews with honest very competent experts—opposite of Trump’s advisors: Colonial Douglas McGregor, Lawrence Wilkerson, John Mearsheimer, Scott Ritter, Alastair Crooke, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Jeffery Sachs, Phil Giraldi, Charles Freeman, Karen Kwiatkowski, Tony Shafer, Ryan Dawson, etc., all important voices*)

TheYoungTurks.Com

www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks

TheLastAmericanVagabond.Com

The Unz Review at www.Unz.com

www.youtube.com/user/GlennGreenwald

TheIntercept.com

https://www.dropsitenews.com/

ThePeoplesVoice.Org

Double Down News (YouTube)

www.youtube.com/@KimIversenAntiWar.Com

George Galloway

Mondoweiss.net

ElectronicIntifada.net

MiddleEastEye.Com

DemocracyNow.Org

Chris Hedges

Norman Finkelstein

John Whitehead at Rutherford Institute

The Jimmy Dore Show

KernoDamo

youtube.com/SabbySabs

Sorry I’m missing some. There is more out there!

No “aggregator websites” are mentioned above because they tend to list a mishmash of sources, some great and some highly suspicious but still worth checking out with some wariness. Although a lot of important stories hard to find elsewhere they also list some pseudo-truth links, you know the divide and conquer party politics, or red herring sideliners, or click bait, but along with plenty of real and important news. Try Jim Fetzer at RepublicanBroadcastingNetwork.com, Rense.com, StateoftheNation.Info and WhatReallyHappened.Com (currently they do not much list my work but you can find some really important and worthy sources there as well.)

So, if you tap into several of the above sources you will most likely get far more accurate information and discussion about true news than many other sources out there (especially the mainstream media too many still trust).
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Added on important links:

Gaza Facing Most “Minutely Engineered” Starvation Since WWII: Famine Expert Warns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXX2h38AheM&list=PLS_48r7yuHnspwTJpNignae0cSY_b1cL5

Chris Hedges: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuD4Zqj_A8

'I can't hold on any longer': Gazans tell BBC of extreme hunger as UN condemns Israel-backed aid system
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg9ky87dpdt

“You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”: HRW Report Exposes Abuses in Trump’s Immigration Jails in Florida
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/22/belkis_willie

Israel’s Depravity Will Always Find New Ways To Shock You
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/22/israels-depravity-will-always-find-new-ways-to-shock-you/

Subservience to Israel Precludes Greatness
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/07/20/subservience-to-israel-precludes-greatness/

The Total Unaccountability of Israel Demonstrates the Moral Failure of the Western World
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/07/19/the-total-unaccountability-of-israel-demonstrates-the-moral-failure-of-the-western-world/

Joachim Hagopian, Zionist Power Behind Trump, Israel, Pedophilia and Nonstop War Must be Removed Or We Perish
https://jameshfetzer.org/2025/07/joachim-hagopian-zionist-power-behind-trump-israel-pedophilia-and-nonstop-war-must-be-removed-or-we-perish/

Who Took Over Epstein's Empire? - Whitney Webb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyx4yEVl61w

The Untouchables: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_untouchables_the_sexual_predators_within_americas_power_elite

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese - Read by Eunice Wong audio
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-persecution-of-francesca-albanese-431?publication_id=778851&post_id=169268489&isFreemail=true&r=17k1a2&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Why Are We Christians? Historical Revisionism of the Conversion of the Roman Empire
https://www.unz.com/article/why-are-we-christians/

Debunking Israeli Propaganda in Times of Genocide
https://www.unz.com/article/debunking-israeli-propaganda-in-times-of-genocide/

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One More Critical Essay on Spiritual Psychology Relating to America’s Recency of Modern Times By Mark Aurelius