perceptions, perspectives, beliefs, like noses, everyone has them - but humanity clearly is in deep spiritual doo doo

At Reddit/spirituality:

Posted by Gabriel
All anguish will be turned into joy.✨
Every single last bit of it. There will be nothing left.

Mystical
Whomever constructs their belief of the matter through experience, not thought.

Puzzleheaded
In many ways and arenas experience moved me past belief, into knowing. I have not experienced all anguish was turned into joy, nor has anyone I have known nor heard of, at least, not while in a physical body, at least not that lasted for more than a brief moment in time and in space.

Adot
It will turn to joy, just believe and act accordingly

Puzzleheaded
You achieved that?

Adot
It isn't something you set out to achieve, it's something that happens when you allow it to.

Puzzleheaded
It happened to you?

Adot
Has, is and will.

Puzzleheaded
Lucky you.
I never met anyone all of whose anguish became joy while they were still breathing.

Adot
Call it luck, call it love, call it whatever you want. It's good for anybody to die twice

Puzzleheaded
I died quite a few times, in the spiritual sense, and never came close to what you describe.

UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS Facebook group:

Sloan Bashinsky 
Administrator Josh St. Germain invited me to join this group, and I did that and posted a couple of things and then I commented under two of Josh's posts. 
I see Josh tolerates self-promotion, so...
I'm 80 years old and perhaps it's not stretching it much to say I've had at least a dozen different lives this time around.
Back in January of this year (2023), I started a new blogspot, where I reported stuff  going on in my life and psyche, including discussions at Facebook, Reddit Spirituality, Poetic Outlaws, The Order of Pen and The Official C.S. Lewis. 
My blogspot has no ads or soliciting. I just put it out there and move on. The most recent post there contains my initial posts and comments at UNCENSORED Lightworkers. Here's a link: 

old, tired, bedraggled, life-and-angel-mangled man meets UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS

Josh St GermainAdmin

Love you Sloan.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

Josh St Germain Thanks, Josh, yet we are only just getting to know each other. I am not nearly at the point of being able to say I love everyone, or even a whole lot of people. I am pretty sure God loves us all, including the Devil and all of its demons, but I still have quite a ways to go. What you post at UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS provides people who see it with lots of ways of looking at and approaching life on this world, and elsewhere, which mainstream (STATUS QUO) does not. I wish though, that you, and other people, share personal experiences, which demonstrate metaphysics, or whatever anyone wishes to call it, operating inside them and in their daily lives, aka the grindstone and furnace and so forth that living on this world providers ongoing. I very much appreciate uncensored, which is pretty rare at online forums, platforms, etc.

Josh St GermainAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky I used to be selective with Love as well, thought I was obligated to. But then one day I realized everyone needs it, and it's only natural. Life may have given you a rollercoaster, but that doesn't mean you can't step off and live in bliss/euphoria. 

Sloan Bashinsky  

John St. GermaineAdmin I've got a long way to go, I can't bring myself to even love me unconditionally, and I know for a fact, proven every second I'm awake, and even in my dreams, that I cannot step off the roller coaster of life and live in bliss/euphoria. That's why I like to see people share what their own lives are like. You told me that you have cancer. I had prostate cancer during the covid lock down and chose radiation treatment, which was horrible. I felt like I ws dying. There was no way to visualize, wish, hope, positive think myself into a different space. Now what the radiation did to other parts of me is showing up, and it's no fun. I've had IBS since age 27. It arrived in one day, there was no warning, prior symptoms. It chewed me up every day since. Nothing I tired, medical, herbal, metaphysical, had any effect. It had a mind of its own, it is intelligent, it does not like being messed with. I never met, read about or heard of anyone, who was able to jump off the roller coaster of life, without the help of booze and/or other drugs or suicide. If you were/are able to do it, then you are beyond my comprehension.

Josh St GermainAdmin
Sloan Bashinsky I allowed God into my life and became aware of my abilities. I hold the vision of what I want for it to manifest with grace of having it.

Like a vending machine, I put in effort, and what I want comes right out. Unless I'm not specific enough or I lack faith in my abilities, then it's postponed until I regain awareness and confidence in the abilities. Coming from a place of negativity I always found myself doubting anything "magical" so to speak, until I returned to the mode of 100% Love, then it all comes rushing back. My problem was everytime I got myself in a good place like that, I dealt with people trying to sabotage it, most of the times immediately. Becoming angry from the attacks lowered my vibration back to a state of doubt, but after I realized they we're just hurting I either consulted them, or blessed all parties involved and walk away.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor
Josh St Germain A Course in Miracles says people who act out actually are screaming for help.

I've been attacked so many times that I cannot possibly chronicle even a small part of it. That was part of what was given to me to do over many seasons and variations I could not in my wildest dreams and imaginings have foreseen. To wade into and challenge the status quo, regardless of any blowback or my own discomfort or personal risk. I was not allowed any way to escape, or even mute my own physical or other discomfort, other than sometimes I was advised, or shown, to step away from something already engaged. 

Always, what I addressed was driven by a demonic force behind the visible. I understood I was that force's target, and what I had engaged was that force's bait. I was trained a long time by angels, as they eased me into that line of work. Each situation was different, and sometimes I was softer than other times, and sometimes I should have been softer than I was. 

Based on my experiences, humanity is under a cosmic X-Ray now, and where that might lead, I have no clue. But, based on what I have been through and been shown, and a friend and I have been told, humanity, in the main, is is deep spiritual doo doo. It is devolving spiritually, mostly because its feminine aspect is mangled, even destroyed. Humanity is spiritually cloning itself, while some individuals are progressing. 

I told all of that to the angels, after they asked me in 2004, "What do you think of the species?" And, that I thought  the species would not survive what was being done do and for me, and perhaps the kindest thing would be to remove the species from this planet and put it somewhere it has a better chance of moving forward.

Perhaps what you have wired into makes all of that obsolete. It reminds me, in some ways, of what I heard when I lived in Santa Fe, NM and then in Boulder, CO. I imagine God has infinite ways of trying to reach human beings. I met people in Boulder and Santa Fe, whose path seemed to be trying to change by imagining or visualizing what they wanted and it becoming so, even as I was hearing, so to speak, over and over, not my will, but God's will be done. 

 

Josh St GermainAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky God's will for sure.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor
Josh St Germain amen

At Poetic Outlaws Substack:

This World

By: Czeslaw Milosz

It appears that it was all a misunderstanding.
What was only a trial run was taken seriously.
The rivers will return to their beginnings.
The wind will cease in its turning about.
Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots.
Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror–
They are children again.
The dead will wake up, not comprehending.
Till everything that happened has unhappened.
What a relief! Breathe freely, you who have suffered much.

A.D

Fuck yeah. I just suffered a pretty big loss and this hits the spot. The concept of unhappening, unwinding, and a return to the depths of the self. Coordinates well with some of the Zen and Taoist stuff I've been reading, too. 

Casey Henry 

Fuck yeah like the other guy said  

Felix Purat

Gotta love me some Milosz. Pure gold, every word!

Solero Taylor

'We lived in strange, hostile, marvellous times 

bullets sang above our heads 

and years no less threatening than tearing shrapnel

taught greatness (even) to those who did not see 

war.'

Czeslaw Milosz

The paths they eventually ploughed through the wood 

Qualified our childhood and shrank the shadows back

Into more wholesome fare, 

better for dogwalkers and the like 

Just as they engineered steps into the steep sides 

Leading down to the frothy suds where Unilever 

Churned out soap, the scented stink souring air 

Between ourselves and Haughton Green, higher 

On the opposite bank, their boys versus our boys 

Pinging pellets from fairground rifles across the River 

Tame. I was proud to live within shooting range

Of the second most polluted river 

In Western Europe, mephitic then (and now)

To all decorative intent, awful in and of itself 

A Christmas kiss 

Snatched under last year's mistletoe 

By a man without teeth 

Just his tongue reaching 

for the past again, 

entered through a younger mouth 

Measured. Marked. Cut. 

Owen Swain

Bought a good used hardcover copy of his New and Collected Poetry. If I could use only one word to describe his overall work it would be 'penetrating'. If I could use two more and combine them it would be 'lucid Wonder'.

Sloan Bashinsky

Oh do I hope such a redo is possible,

nay, 

actually is

in the cards

in the stars

the next sunrise

Alas, 

humanity

the species

invasive

morassed

Sargasso sea

Pacific plastic vortex

fossil fuel addiction exponential 

is the planet sentient?

can she protect herself?

if she wants?

duh?

in U.S. patent office

proven devices

convert water into

super cheap

hydrogen fuel

for internal combustion engines

death to oil industry

prohibited by Atomic Energy Commission

while angels and extra terrestrials 

watch

waiting

wondering

hoping

invasive species

gets its shit together

or it's their turn

or the planet's 

 sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

old, tired, bedraggled, life-and-angel-mangled man meets UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS

 

A fellow following a discussion in which I was participating at The Order of Penbook Facebook Group, invited me to join his UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS Facebook group. 

I joined and made two posts, which the Admin accepted:

Sloan Bashinsky 

This fell out of me in the spring of 1995:

Earth...

The sacred prism

through which souls are refracted

into their elemental parts,

purified in Holy Fire,

then one-forged

and sent on their way

to not even God knows where,

simply because they are all

unique emanations of God,

evolving ...

Sloan Bashinsky 
Around 1992, I lived in Boulder, Colorado, and was seeing a Barbara Brennan-trained Hands of Light worker once a week. She had a great reputation among healers in the Boulder/Denver area, I think during the 5th session, she was doing something and then she said my Core Star had grabbed her Core Star and was taking it on a tour of the Universe, and it was amazing. The next session, after working on me a little while, she said whatever I was involved in was beyond her range and she felt she shouldn't work with me any more. I thanked her, paid her, wished her well, and left, I never found a healer who didn't run up against something in me that was beyond his/her range. I already was being dealt with by angels, and that's where I went entirely, although not always in straight lines.

I then responded to some of the Admin's posts:

UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS

Josh St Germain

Admin 

 

 

 

John Schultz 

This will not only save the world…. It will save YOU. The power of our subconscious is inestimable. When you start to cultivate this idea, it will tear down walls (of pain, hatred, fear) and expand your heart and inner self (whether you see that as your soul, your subconscious, your true self)

Sloan Bashinsky
Heh, I've done all of that, and some more, for decades, and I get up each morning wondering why I'm still here and hoping I get to die quick, better still, instantly, instead of what most old people face in America today. I ruled out something saving humanity from itself, after realizing how hard Buddha, Jesus and others tried, and how it went after they were gone from this world. I think saving the world itself would entail eliminating humanity, which, in the main, seems determined to destroy the the world in progressive steps. It looks to me that it's up to each person to do, or not do, what their soul requires to progress and evolve during this physical experience called life by humanity. That's how I read Jesus, and Buddha before him, and other sages, mages, avatars. So, I agree with what you posted, but at age 80, when nothing works inside me like ii was designed to work, except, hopefully, my brain, hopefully again, I endure and keep plugging away. 

And: 

UNCENSORED LIGHTWORKERS

Josh St Germain 

 Admin

Bree Ritch

Sloan Bashinsky

And her emotions, and her hopes, dreams, subconscious programming, prejudices, etc?

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin

Self explanatory, control your mind and trust the universe to assist you on your journey.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain that has gone well for you?

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky always, with love and vigilance.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain perhaps sharing actual examples of from your own life might help other people see how it’s done

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin
Sloan Bashinsky Still your mind for answers, everyone has a unique journey. Flow with Love, trust the universe, but remain vigilant. Hold 100% Love consistently, don't take shit, or subject yourself to it unnecessarily. Be a good example by being yourself unapologetically and while remaining respectful of others. May God shine through you unto the world.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain Again, and I'm must one person, but I like to hear what someone promoting something actually proved it in his/her own life experiences. I like what you are saying, but I would like to see living examples of you doing what you explain in words.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain By way of a somewhat different topic you posted something about kundalini energy? Or was that someone else? Yet, what experience had that poster had with kundalini energy? A fellow named Gopi Krishna had a great deal of experience with Kundalini energy, and he became viewed as an expert on it, by virtue of his own experience. When he first experienced kundalini, it was luminous, wonderful, blew his mind. Then, he then went into a terrifying time when he thought he was going mad, and yogis he went to were not able to help him, and he was in a very precarious situation internally for a long time. He had to change his diet and focus his mind ongoing, and he had to stop medidating, which he viewed as very dangerous to him at that time. Here's a link to something written about him and that: 

http://www.om-guru.com/html/saints/gopi.html

OM-GURU.COM

A short Biography of Gopi Krishna

OM-GURU.COM

A short Biography of Gopi Krishna

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin
Sloan Bashinsky Examples of how keeping my mind under control I was taken care of? With God in my heart and a sound mind I survived car accidents, disease, and more.
15 guys tried to jump me and my 2 friends at a fair, I walked away unscathed. Hit a telephone pole, totaled my car and walked away. And I laugh at cancer because even though I haven't beat it yet, I'm still able to enjoy all the bliss and euphoria without the aids of substances because I put my trust in the Lord. I suggest you do the same.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain Really sorry you have cancer. It got my favorite nice two years ago, she was like a daughter to me. In early 1987, I was captured by Jesus and Archangel Michael, and told "This will push you to your limits, but you asked for it and we are going to give it to you " I had prayed to God to help me, I didn't want to die, failed. I offered my life to human service. That was what they referred to. I then was jolted three times, quickly, by spiritual lightning, and was shaking and sweating, as they dissolved from this realm. I always had believed God existed. After that, I knew God existed. They turned me every which a way but loose and upside down and inside out, and stood me before endless mirrors, and put me into all sorts of test situations, and they are still at it. There were times when I had nothing left but to trust God. I lived on the street. All sorts of rough shit happened, but not such as you describe here, but I do believe you.

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky 

YOUTUBE.COM

Little girl at hospital 

https://youtube.com/shorts/qQ9dJJxZpjc?feature=share

YOUTUBE.COM

Little girl at hospital

Little girl at hospital

Sloan Bashinsky
Tragic, courage, beauty, suffering and faith.
My niece’s last day, her husband said, there was so much pain, she was screaming. Chemotherapy had ravaged her and had not worked. Same a different later chemotherapy she abandoned because it was so awful. She knew I wished she had not done chemo. I was begging God to take me instead of her. If she had been a beloved pet dog or cat, a vet would have gently ended her suffering. She was a unicorn, I published on FB and my blog, and now she was regaling Heaven, and I hoped they were ready for her.

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmi

Sloan Bashinsky
This explains how to activate kundalini. It is a byproduct, not a conscious decision; and that is where people have errors.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1934049516942256/permalink/1935468203467054/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Sloan Bashinsky
Josh St Germain Admin Awakening and managing the kundalini can be learned from a book?

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky Possibly, I did it on my own. I still have a hard time finding information on the subject matter. Learning sanskrit, I'm sure over time I'll discover more descriptive texts.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain A Christian contemplative named Philip Romaine had a kundalini arousal, which he had to learn how to manage. He wrote a good book about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Energy.../dp/0557372097

AMAZON.COM
Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality

AMAZON.COM

Kundalini Energy and Christian Spirituality 

And:

Josh St Germain
Admin

Love is the frequency. 144,000 hz of God!

Christopher Anthony EversonGalactic Council Of Lightworkers

I believe that truth has a frequency and once you understand it you can tap into it. You can use it to decipher anything.

Sloan Bashinsky
I think so, not welcomed by all

Josh St GermainAuthorAdmin

Sloan Bashinsky Replace your 3d analytics with 5D resonance.

Sloan Bashinsky

Josh St Germain No analytics, but a lifetime of direct experiences with how I and other people dealt with the truth. For the most part, it was not well received.

This fell out of me in the fall of 1995, but I wasn't yet ready, perhaps.

Truth without Love

is harsh

Love without Truth

is mush

Two sides

of the same coin

They live together

or die

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

probes, pings and echos

I pinged this into The Order of Pen Facebook Group, and got some interesting echos. 

Sloan Bashinsky

Sometimes when I get involved in something, or something gets me involved in it, I become aware that what is really going on is the "transaction" is a probe, and the point of the probe is to see what comes back in response.
The spirit world, or if you wish, angels, watch such things, even if human beings don't. What the angels do with what they see is above my pay grade. 
My job, although perhaps not so much as in past times, is to engage what comes my way, in ways angels trained me, and then I try to get out of the way.

Alas, it is impossible to get all of the way out of the way when I am writing about what is in the way, and I am part of it

Wolf Pack

At least you understand that there are angels. I believe they love acknowledgment since so many don’t even those who are in logical positions to believe in them. After Jesus is tempted in the desert it says the angels came and ministered to Him. He didn’t call them God didn’t send them they were there just like the devil was. In job 1 angels and the devil are in line to talk to God. Why. He asks what have you been up to. But we know God already knows what they’re up to. He wants the conversation. The admittance. The confession. We see in genesis they are sent on missions then abort the mission and mate with humans. They have free will. God is omnipotent they are not. So God tests them just like us. And we are told in revaluation that they are our brethren in the same testimony to Jesus trying to do Gods’ work the best they can.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

Wolf Pack I'm decades past past understanding, or believing, there are angels. I know there are angels, I know what I was raised to call God, exists. The angels that took on me have names known in the Bible. They turned me every which-a-way but loose, upside down, inside out, and stood me before endless mirrors, and tested me unceasing, and changed my perspective of everything, and they are still at it 36 years after two of them first showed up and told me what I was in for: I would be pushed to my limits. 

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but your comment suggests you are still operating within the 4 corners of a book, written, edited and cherrypicked by men. Inspired men, perhaps, but still men, who were influenced by their upbringings and other people and what they believed. God is so much bigger than the Bible than can be imagined. Yet, endless attempts have been made to shrink God down to the Bible.

A wolf pack story was provided to me by the angel Michael in early June 1995. I actually lived it, with oceans of tears and snot gushing out of me. I will go fetch it and post it here.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor 

 

of men, wolves and eagles … 

Once upon a time there lived a man named Joseph, who grew tired of living with people and left his village and went into the woods to live.

By and by, a wolf pack discovered Joseph and over time got to know him and that he was not like other men, and eventually they took him into their pack. The leader of the pack was a red wolf named David, and soon David and Joseph became fast friends, and they hunted and played and slept together like . . . wolves.

Then one day, the men in the village where Joseph had lived learned from hunters that Joseph was living with wolves. The men decided it was not right for a man to go off and live in the woods and run with with wolves, so they got their guns and set off to find Joseph and bring him back to the village, to live like a man.

The men came upon the wolf pack sleeping in the sun next to a bluff. The wind was blowing off the bluff, away from the wolf pack toward the men, which prevented the pack from scenting the men as they approached. By the time the wolf pack realized the men were there, the men had the pack surrounded, pinned against the bluff.

David wanted to order the pack to attack, but Joseph said, “No, I am a man, they will listen to reason, let me go and speak with them.” Although David did not like this idea, he agreed to it because Joseph was a man. But the men would not listen to reason and they shot and killed the entire pack and took Joseph heartbroken back to the village.

Joseph languished in the village for many weeks, blaming himself for the death of his pack.

Then, Joseph has a dream, in which he sees David’s face. David is angry, but says nothing, just stares. Finally, Joseph blurts out that he did the best he knew how to do, and he’s so sorry for the way it turned out! David says, “Better that we attacked and died like wolves, than be slaughtered like sheep!”

Then, Joseph is back with the pack, against the bluff, surrounded by the men. David says he wants the pack to attack. Joseph says, “And I will lead the charge!” Then, they hear a voice, the whole pack hears it, say, “There is another way, ask for another way.” Never before have Joseph, David or the pack had such a thing happen, but Joseph asks for another way.

Suddenly, a great bolt of lightning strikes the ground between the pack and the men, stirring up a huge cloud of dust. As the the dust begins to settle, it begins to take the shape of something huge. The wolves and Joseph then see a pair of golden eyes peering from the bushes behind the men. Then a second pair of golden eyes. Then a third pair. Then ten pair. Then a hundred pair. Then a legion of . . . wolves’ eyes. The men are moved by some force to turn around and see what the now delirious pack already see.

Then, the men turn back around and find themselves face to face with a great towering eagle, whose piercing golden eyes penetrate their hearts. Then, they hear, “These are my battle angels. You may leave this place and go back to your village, taking your guns with you, on condition that you tell everyone what has happened here today.”

To this condition the men readily agree, and they return to their village and tell everyone what happened, and they go to nearby villages and tell it. 

 

Wolf Pack

Sloan Bashinsky Of course God is so much bigger than the Bible. It has been cherry picked. It still has the word of God within. The angels have not chosen me to reveal them selves to. They have saved my life at least five times. I still am going to continue striving towards God though. Helping others and studying His word. About the story. You said you lived it. So is it a story or your history. Are the wolves dead from what happened first or is the dream a new reality where the wolves are back alive and the men can choose to not kill them. Or was this a vision to show you something. I like what you posted just trying to process it.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor
Wolf Pack It was a vision that came upon me while a New Age healer was trying to take me into past lives. The vision was tailored for me, but its message about dealing with conflict is universal. I had other visions, but mostly what happens, or happened, was an endless stream of encrypted/symbolic dreams tailored just for me to unravel, and sometimes "ah has!", as in, sudden knowings of something I had not known. 
Over the years, there were people who knew me, who had dreams about me that were for me to hear about. There are two such peple now. Some of what I get involved in is very dangerous, spiritually, and sometimes in the human way, because in many circles my perspective is novel, it challenges so-call sacred cows, beliefs, the status quo. I would not wade physically into, say, a MAGA rally, shooting off my mouth, expecting to leave unscathed, but perhaps if Michael and the wolf pack told me to, I might.
I like your approach. The angels took me back into may Christian roots and the Bible, and I was going into churches for a while, but that phase passed and I mostly do stuff online now, but sometimes there are facer to face interactions. The Bible contains great wisdom, but most people who read it cannot see beneath the surface. 

In the Gospels, Jesus told his disciples that he taught the masses in parables, but what he taught them in secret, wisemen and kings would give all they had to possess. What did Jesus teach them in secret?

Wolf Pack

Sloan Bashinsky the answers to all the parables. Others had to leave confused and think about it. But Jesus was building his disciples into apostles to go out and build the church and die for him which would take great courage and discipline. They received the power to work his miracles and one of them learning was Judas. So they all needed refining as we do but they needed understanding quickly to be able to shortly go out unlike me who gets a lifetime to learn. They were hand chosen by Him for a reason.

And the answers to the

Parables are the keys to life and afterlife

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

Wolf Pack I don't think Jesus' disciples taught in parables? Nor did Paul? Reading Jesus's words In the Gospels, about how to live and endure life on this world, sure look to me to be the keys to the Kingdom of God. He did tell his disciples, if they abided in him and his words, they would come to know the truth and the truth would make them free And, yes, he prepared them for the hell they would experience as his disciples, and told them some of them would be killed, But again, in plain view in the Gospels are his recorded words to common people about how to live and move closer to God, Yet, how many times have I heard Christians say, what we do will not save us, but only what we believe and accept as true? Read James, Jesus's brother, who said, to not ask him about his faith, but look at his works, and there would be seen his faith. Chi-ching 

Wolf Pack

Sloan Bashinsky I was just answering your question. What did Jesus teach them in private. He taught them the answers to the parable. I don’t think anyone but Jesus taught in parables. And yes faith without works is dead. James 2 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.but I do believe we are saved by our faith. Faith leads to works. But you still need the faith.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

Wolf Pack faith in what?

Wolf Pack

Sloan Bashinsky faith in God

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

Wolf Pack I don't think much about faith, I suppose because I've been having direct experiences day and night since 1987. For me, God is a given, and what and how do I try to stay in sync? Even so, I think God looks into people's hearts and at what they do, and don't do, and if an atheist is a good person, that is what's important to God. 

 

Al Loots

Well. Here's the the real world telling you straight up to get a life.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor

I'm 80 years old, how about you?

I've been a vice-president of marketing and advertising in a fairly large company, how about you?

I've practiced law, how about you?

I've been a certified massage therapist, how about you?

I've been homeless and lived on the street and in shelters and in vehicles and friends' homes, how about you?

I've had a child die of sudden infant death syndrome, how about you?

I've nearly died of MRSA flesh-eating bacterial, how about you?

I've caught and eaten more fish than I will ever remember, how about you?

I've had eight wives, each of whom opened a new part of me I didn't know was there, how about you?

I've walked with angels and spent plenty of time around demons, how about you?

I've been through dark nights and a black night, how about you?

I've written about 25 books and skads of poems and several thousands pages of blog posts, unlike anything ever written or seen, how about you?

I've seen and been shown things in myself and another people that I doubt any psychiatrist or scientist or perhaps even new age healer could even imagine, how about you?

Yeah, I'm yanking your chain, but all of what I told you about me actually happened.

And, I've been all over the Caribbean, and in Europe, and around the world twice, and trekked up high in Nepal, where the Christ was waiting to get me, since I had runaway from America, but not a Christ most Christians probably would be thrilled to meet, and I have been with Australian aborigines in dream time, and I'm only just getting warmed up trying to think of all the things that I experienced, including having two children, who didn't die, and grandchildren, and lots of friends, and lots more enemies, perhaps, how about you? 😎

Al Loots
Sloan Bashinsky. What impressed me is your claim to 25 books (of which I would like a reference). My list of experiences can obviously not surpass your vast experience. 
I'm not about to get into a p*ss*ng contest about our achievements. Not my game and I've been taught to remain rather "absent". Having left the service, I've started realising I actually am allowed an opinion.
But as a rebuttle concerning your original post, I'm 51.
Having served in a very volatile country as a paramilitary force and then another two specialised units, I've had enough experience to make me an old man. Which have to certain degree not even consider having children. 
My apologies though for my curt response. Anything I read concerning religious or mystical experiences makes me go off the rails, considering my personal experiences. As an example, going through home after home of family massacres (including young children or even babies) or watching a person burning to death, changes your life and views on religion and philosophy.
It's patently obvious that our age difference and experiences have driven our views on life in different directions and opinions or world views.

Sloan BashinskyAuthor
Al Loots I regret for you that you had such horrible war experiences, which I was spared, literally by a miracle saving me from being sent by the US Army to Vietnam. One of my best friends was US Army Special Forces in combat in Central America. He doesn't talk much about it. My father never talked about all the bombs his B-29 dropped on Japanese cities. He was the aircraft's navigator-bombardier. He  pulled strings to get my younger brother into a National Guard unit during the Vietnam war, which I saw up close on personal rip America in half. Later, I was with a woman for a while, who was one of the Kent State students the Ohio National Guard opened fire on as they sat on the ground protesting US expansion into Cambodia, as I recall. She never trusted government, police, or anything related after that. I can't speak for WWII, but I don't think any American war since was worth one drop of blood shed.

My early non fiction books and some of my somewhat later metaphysical books can be found at Amazon under my name, Sloan Bashinsky. Also. at Internet Archive. My first published novel, Kundalina, Alabama, I wrote under a pen name, Jake Carruthers, sometimes is at Amazon or Abe Books.. Thanks to a tech buddy's skills, that book and several of my metaphysical books and the last of my 4 novels, HEAVY WAIT: A Strange Tale, are digitized and are free reads at Internet Archive. Two novels by Jake Carruthers never made it past being laid out ready to go to the printer, and I no longer have copies. I self-published a number of small metaphysical books of verse and prosaic writings and gave them all away. It took me a long time to figure out I might be an Uncapitalist, capitalism's version of the "Anti-Christ"?

I think providing a link to Internet Archive might not be okay with this forum's policy or AI.  

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