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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Readers of This Blog Can and Must Save the World

Blog 15 Year Anniversary Corollary Article
 
 The choice is yours to make.  Left: This image is from the 2022 article of The Telegraph (UK) entitled "I've tried everything to break my TV addiction – even hypnosis" and is captioned: "Seeing the light: when Marianne started watching shows she didn’t even enjoy, she knew she had a problem."  An alternative to engaging in meaningless entertainment is reading articles providing consciousness-expanding data at this Metaphysical Articles blog with more than 725 readily available articles.  The image at right is from a previous blog article.


Recent blog articles have brought together a multiplicity of examples spanning readily available evidence / proof relating to human interactions that today are usually known categorically as 'paranormal phenomena' — documented cases of transcendental communication, interaction with 'space people' and a gamut of diverse manifestations and occurrences that for many years have been overlooked, ignored, misunderstood or dismissed for news reporting to the public by journalists managing mainstream news media content.  The reasons for this include bureaucratic directives constricting what information can be imparted; the desire to avoid nonconformity by presenting only accustomed news topics; and perhaps also this is due to fear provoked by what a person might appraise as reflecting mysterious or 'unseen powers' — nonetheless, the nature of the phenomena when considered collectively makes it possible to place the occurrences in perspective, as this blogger is continuing to make known during a 16th year of Metaphysical Articles: Interesting Articles, Links and Other Media.
 
During this blogger's recent press release experimentation to see if mainstream news outlets would be interested in reporting at present about the data made readily available to all readers on a noncommercial basis, headlines about paranormal revelations and metaphysical concerns in relation to international leaders and politics along with evidence of 'channeling,' extraterrestrial life and 'paranormal phenomena' were among the topics of a series of news releases publicizing five recent articles at this Metaphysical Articles blog.  Links to the news releases (including photos) are herewith provided in chronological order —
 

March 6 EIN Presswire
 

March 18 EIN Presswire
 


April 8 (day of solar eclipse USA) EIN Presswire
 

April 24 EIN Presswire
 

May 7 PR Newswire
 
PR Newswire offers the most extensive service, international in scope.  I selected this company for the final news release.  Regarding pickup of the release, the visibility report provided to me stated that there's an 89.1 million total potential audience for the release and there was found 360 instances of "Exact Match Pickup" at news media outlets with full text postings of the content.  The listed outlets include One News Page (global), Yahoo! Finance (USA & Canada), Webull (USA), Business Today (India), Washington Daily News, AsiaOne.com (Singapore), Benzinga (USA), Kalkine Media (Australia), Quamnet (Hong Kong) and Ground Report (India).  As of May 17, there have been 3,542 release views, 777 click-throughs and 237 Influencer Lists views.
 
However, the lack of observable results concerning news media coverage and interview requests suggests that readers of this blog should recognize the importance of becoming more personally involved in sharing this array of evidentiary information found in the hundreds of articles at this blog.  If myself, you and all metaphysically knowledgeable people don't dedicate ourselves to saving the multipolar world today where military thinking now is leading national bureaucracies worldwide, then who will?  Consider these mainstream news headlines of this past week.
 




Throughout recent decades, commercialization of the mass media and regulation of news and the Internet have resulted with the trivialization of consciousness among people who have no conception of what can be learned about the eternal nature of life.  As can be known from extant evidence of ancient civilizations ending, there are catastrophic dangers when there is mass metaphysical and spiritual ignorance in relation to knowledge that can be learned about the evolution of any soul or individual consciousness unit/iota/personality of 'All That Is'/Universal Source/omnipresent spiritual Oneness regarding the purposes of an Earth life — yes, the range of data described is affirmed when one becomes familiar with the insights shared in transcendental communication case chronologies transcripts.
 
I expect that some readers of articles at this blog merely peruse the data and evidence in Metaphysical Articles blog posts while desperately searching for indications that evidence is wrong instead of contemplating 'what is right' about the information because they want to avoid recognizing the magnitude of the hapless conditions consequential to their current state of having accepted uncertain and unsatisfactory conceptions and/or cultural dogmas about the nature of life on Earth.  These readers are the ones that may refer to themselves as 'skeptics' yet actually they demonstrate a mentality that may be expressed as them functioning in a state of denial as the correct information becomes accessible.  (article)  Concerning denialists of transcendental communication case chronologies, knowledge should never be hypothetical or conjectural in nature.  Articles at this blog show how data with metaphysical and spiritual ramifications emphasizing human values over military and materialistic agendas has been and remains being withheld from the public.

Usually articles at this blog report about events and circumstances that expand a reader's understanding about life; however, it has become undeniably recognizable that people today are so ensconced in their culturally programmed orientations about the limited dimensions of what is accepted as being possible to experience and learn during Earth life that a more direct approach seems to be needed by this blogger to motivate readers to understand that there is an urgency to sharing what can be learned with others from the 725+ articles at this blog.  As one 'channeled entity' has proclaimed about contemporary life —
 
. . .  they are going to give you sports, and they are going to give you famous people, and they are going to give you entertainment that you don't read one constructive thought in your day.  (article)
 
For years, these articles have been published without evidently motivating readers to react in any way or make the data known to others as far as this blogger can discern.  The predominant response generated throughout the 15 year succession of metaphysical articles presenting evidence and documentation of the subjects that make possible self-development and expansion of consciousness about momentous aspects of existence must be assumed as one of slight curiosity or bemusement toward novelties not accepted as being of significant importance or relevance to the brave new world becoming ever more dystopian as experienced by humanity today allowing themselves to function as consumers residing within a military-industrial corporate entertainment complex.  The Joint Chiefs probably go home and turn on the television too.  Their lives also have been effected by decades of regulated mainstream news media exclusion of evidence making known the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of Earth life.


These medals and decorations on one of the Joint Chiefs show the degree of military brainwashing.


Something previously mentioned is that — One of the influences leading to entertainment dominating people's activity is the rejection of the Divine Dispensations made discernible through a variety of paranormal phenomena manifested throughout the world during the epoch of Spiritualism . . . As innate human creativity became exalted in the popular culture—also an aspect of the interaction with shared 'Universal Source'/'All 'That Is'/'spiritual Oneness' on a more subtle level than with 'trance mediumship'/'channeling'—people became enthralled with movies, television shows, plays, novels, computer games, sports and the music industry.  Furthermore, the two most popular pornography websites alone attracted 2.93 billion unique visitors from September to November 2023, according to statista.com.  
 
Due to the ignorance among human consciousness units on Earth, the shared Superconscious Mind therefore must give lessons in oblique ways through contemporary entertainment media.  This blogger has noticed that one of these processes is viewers witnessing ever-more-grotesque melodramas that may eventually encourage them to seek more fulfilling activities in harmony with the 'Higher Self.'
 
Today in the USA, it is bleak and oppressive to realize how one-sided news reporting often extols immoral conduct of government officials as status quo propagandizing.  Simultaneously, it is considered traditional for people to continuously give their attention to dismal and foolish entertainment pastimes.  For the first 39 years of my own life, I experienced this way of life to an extent that leaves me troubled and astonished today.  During my years as a movie publicity writer, my assignments included the horror movies "Body Parts," "Fire in the Sky," two of the "Friday the 13th" series, "Graveyard Shift," "Pet Sematary," "Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie" and "Vampire in Brooklyn."  All narrative movies present mere illusions of events and are 'more hype than reality.'  Metaphysical Articles blog posts profile actual events and therefore illuminate influences and conditions impacting your life.

Also stated before — An experiencer of 'entertainment trance' may be engulfed in escapism, suffering, fears, frustrations and—for lack of knowing how to better express this—boredom and futility without perhaps understanding the nature of their feelings.  Realizing one's own situation of being exploited by entertainment media purveyors concerned only with amassing wealth may not occur as one's mind is focused on relatively inconsequential activities and events in relation to oneself while more intellectual and fulfilling intellectual pursuits and interaction are left uncultivated.  Considering current Pop music, recent songs that I've happened to hear in public often leave me wondering what it is about these vocals that youthful mentalities find engrossing.
 
People reveal themselves to be oblivious to the fact that the daily banal reality an individual is allowing to comprise one's activities isn't the only way of reacting to what otherwise can become comprehended as oneself being a focal point for an interactive and superconscious universe of unlimited opportunities for personal expansion of love, understanding and insights.
 
image from book cover of Love's Awakening (1987) (article)
 
 
This blogger has been providing examples of this through sharing personal experiences as well as diverse data discovered through researching the subjects featured to-date among all of the articles at this blog.  (Articles Index of Subjects and Titles with Links)  I became a metaphysical author 27 years ago upon the publication of Testament.  Perhaps the main lesson in the book can be stated as an Earth life constitutes a 'morality test.'
 
In the blog anniversary article a year ago it was recommended for readers to always consider how have you expressed love to the Source this day instead of silently allowing the current paradigm to steadily progress toward nuclear war as the inadvertent culmination of the current progression of human society — Every human being should instead be doing everything possible to alter the status quo and in this way be reaching out to embrace a New Age that can become personally realized by an individual's expansion of consciousness and helping others to accomplish this as well.  Abandoning the programming of immoral military 'winner take all' values and relinquishing assumed imperatives of 'corporate thinking' promoting greed among a coterie of governing company officials collectively will bring about the long awaited New Age of Aquarius, an epoch of Divine wonders and expanded knowledge of metaphysical cosmology resulting with the corresponding excitement and prosperity throughout the world.  Government officials engaging diplomatically on the basis of altruistic concerns with their counterparts representing other nations is not only spiritually wise, it is vastly less wasteful than the tradition of acceding to the illusions of indoctrinated national leaders amassing personal wealth through prioritizing military force over loving diplomacy and charity with peoples residing in other lands.   
 
There will be no 'world peace' until human beings in unison with their governing officials comprehend the harm and fallacies involving 'assumed imperatives' that are metaphysically/spiritually senseless and instead devote themselves to make morally responsible decisions all the time.  The information being concealed shows the profound consequences of one's past conduct on Earth upon making the transition to the afterlife. 

an illustration by The Hundredth Monkey (1985) by Ken Keyes, Jr.  (article)

 
The news available on X / twitter.com will be found to be very different from what is read in the mainstream news media, as long as one knows what sources to follow.  Here are 13 examples of X posts pertaining to current events during the timespan of the recent news releases about this blog.  A transcript is provided below for the video shown in the last of these posts.  (Click on the transcript for a larger magnification.)  (Mark Russell Bell X profile)
 







 
Note: One clear potential EVP is identified at the very end of this transcript.  This was one of several potentially unattributable momentary utterances audible on the audio recording as may be found throughout all unedited audio recordings.
 
These days, this year's Presidential election and plethora of Donald Trump trials and legal proceedings, the ongoing wars, movies, sports, Pop stars, crimes and disasters are steadfastly put forth as being of utmost relevance for readers by news media journalists working in corporate bureaucracies where there are many agendas that must be followed.  What isn't Relevant?  Once again—judging by the lack of response to these news releases—data and evidence pertaining to metaphysical, spiritual and cosmological aspects of life.
 
Spanning the period from March 6 through May 7, this blogger distributed five news releases and the lack of journalist interest—and their inability to report about the information shared—supports many of the distraught perspectives relating to the plight of humanity at the present time.  The pivotal change in this blogger's perceptions about earthly conditions—effecting even the conditions in other realms of existence—occurred as expressed in the May 17, 2022 article.  The recent articles have concentrated on essential data and evidence relating to metaphysical, spiritual and cosmological aspects of being to help bring about the expanded consciousness in the world that is so direly needed now, especially among governmental hierarchies.  I mentioned in the February 23 article — Contemporary society has reached a stage where comparatively sensible and plain-spoken world leaders who believe in 'God' must also engage in military operations when confronted with the tactics that have become traditional aspects of bureaucracies geared to materialistic/economic agendas . . .
 
This predicament is motivating me to present a series of corollary articles as I offer the statements that must be made even if others fail to understand the essential relevance of each person being responsible to one's 'I AM Presence' in making moral decisions to advance the cause of love as becomes knowledge through hearing and developing a perspective of transcendental communication chronicled in transcripts documenting Divine Dispensation case chronologies today categorically associated with the expression 'paranormal phenomena.'  Ten examples are provided —  
 
All indications are that there will be a third World War on the Earth . . .

 
We are not permitted to subjugate the wills of other brethren to our own, no matter how far they have strayed from the paths of Love, Light and Truth.

 
Man must learn to use his faculties.

 
But the forthcoming years presage the death of your old civilization and the birth of a new and glorious age.  (article)

 
The practical steps that your world will have to take will be many but they will all be based in the Source consciousness.  And you can be part of the remedy by stepping into Source consciousness, recognizing that there are no enemies and that there is no harm that you can cause to another without harming yourself; recognizing that every time you judge another you're amplifying the energy of judgment in this reality; recognizing that whenever you see another as different, and you see their sufferings as justified or justifiable, you are causing that suffering onto yourself.  You can come to go beyond this level of duality while living within the realm of duality and start to anchor in that fifth dimensional non-dual state of consciousness.  That is the way the world will heal.  So open yourselves to that awareness of the non-dual, where there is peace and there is love; that there is an understanding that all is one; when there is an understanding that all actions ripple out across space and time.  And also allow yourself to recognize the nature of violence that has been enacted and is enacted.

 
Everything is interconnected and so when you channel the love of your own higher self and direct that towards your own personal freedom and the truth of your own heart and of the collective heart there will be massive waves of change.  (article)
     
 
If you understand what we have explained to you before, that the energy which is created then creates God, because the energy is love, then you also understand that the energy of greed, the energy of jealousy, the energy of desire, also creates an opposing force.  (article)
     
 
It is service to mankind, love, and compassion and in some instances deep humility that brings reward to the soul . . . one cannot talk about religion and spirituality without first talking about love, the essence and basic principle of all religious doctrines; and the foundation for any spiritual practice.  Without this ingredient one is neither truly religious nor spiritual.  (article)
     
 
And the reason that you're here is to get the identity to take back to the Source to feed the Source with love and beauty and strength, knowledge, everything that makes power.  (article)
     
 
But you cannot have free will without, at the same time, the responsibilities of your actions.  If you have the choice to do good, you also have the choice to do evil . . . This is a polarity.  Yours is the choice as to which it should be.  So you must come back to the motive and ask: "Why do people wage war?  What is it that they seek to share in common?  Or is it to gain domination over others?"  (article)
     
 
The purpose of this planet is to Love.  If you wish to understand how this works, take your ideas about war, particularly this war, and look at it from the point of view of planetary Love.  I know this is difficult, but you must understand; God's delight is the extension of Love into ever greater areas of consciousness.  There has been a slow but steady expansion in the hearts and minds of mankind as you moved out to cover the globe and learned to love greater numbers of people.  You found love came when agreement between you was present.  Your sense of loving and being loved was lost when too much disagreement arose.  So what is needed is a way to increase your areas of agreement and decrease those of disagreement.  (article)

 
Love is the only solution to the world's miseries and unhappiness.  The world today lives in fear.  Tremendous power is brought to bear on mankind but it is a power of darkness.  It is a power that is of evil, which man himself has developed through centuries of wrong thinking, wrongdoing.  Oftimes we hear man curse and say 'There can be no God' and yet Man himself is responsible for all that has transpired, for all that has happened.  Man has created in your world all the tragedies that have befallen it.  Man has created through malice, intolerance and hatred and fear, all the unhappiness that you know of and from which you have suffered.  (article)
     
 
Love is the only religion.  (article)
     
 
There is in all the universe no force but that of Love.  All hatred, all evil and all ugliness, are merely the absence of the positive pole, which is Love.  Many of the evils, so called, are not even the result of the absence of this force but are the result of its operation on a plane beyond your limited comprehension.  (article)

Peace can only be universally achieved through widespread metaphysical knowledge being fully comprehended.  It would seem that among corporate minions there's no possibility of reporting the information that upon becoming widely known worldwide could encourage the changes in human societies that can nullify the threat of nuclear war that is palpably becoming more heightened each day — and perhaps even exacerbated by the daily barrage of absurdly propagandistic spin control exalting military solutions and maneuvering for economic dominance instead of promoting common sense diplomacy that during past epochs guided worldwide bureaucracies.  The citizens realize the extent of military funding—outright war-baiting that has spurred these tactics among officials of other paperwork principalities—when instead ways could have been found to improve the conditions of life among the common people of all nations.  

Encompassing subjects that include the afterlife, karma and reincarnation, the evidence identified and placed in context among the recent blog articles publicized with news releases remains constrained to the pages of the articles without apparently being accepted by others and then made known to people worldwide whose lives would be immeasurably altered upon gaining further knowledge about the nature and conditions involving the human predicament on the Earth plane of existence. 
 
The gamut of data in blog articles makes obvious that people who limit their knowledge to 'mainstream' data sources aren't even aware of how limited their orientation is concerning what may be experienced during an Earth life — even as individuals who know about the authenticity and scope of transcendental communication seem to make little effort to inform others, perhaps due to cynicism derived from the difficulties posed by past efforts.  Nonetheless, this is the challenge of achieving redemption and expressing love through manifesting Christ Consciousness.  (Previous articles on this subject include "Ten Channeled Perspectives of 'Christ Consciousness'" and "Christ Consciousness Is Also Krishna Consciousness")
 
During a recent telephone conversation, I recently found myself confessing that I can't imagine the mental state of someone making the transition to the afterlife after compiling a framework of life experiences to a large proportion consisting of mass media entertainment as this is a highly passive form of life engagement that can be realized as being a hypnotic frame of mind if continuous analysis and introspection isn't involved.  (article)
 
After the recent mainstream news media hype about the new albums from Pop stars Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, I read the lyrics of their new songs and the impression left is that each of them seems to be existing in a perpetual state of adolescent romantic angst and longing.  While this might be relevant considering Pop music trends and demographics, to someone such as myself Pop culture and the entire military-industrial corporate entertainment complex reflect a vast ocean of slivers of All That Is who haven't had the opportunity to begin placing in perspective the most momentous aspects of the nature of life on Earth.  Pop stars engaging in concert tours and managing their wealth aren't the only ones whose continuous repetition of commercial endeavors detract from intellectual and metaphysical/spiritual self-development.
 
accounts of experiencing rainbows: incl. 1, 2, 3, 4
 
 
This blogger asked the question in a 2023 article — Do you wonder about what has happened to 'good news,' interesting information, happy events, and fortunate occurrences in the world?
 
When one appraises life on Earth at a time when military thinking is in control of international relations between officials of paperwork principalities, it may be of use to define love in consideration of what can be known about the human condition based upon the current status of the human predicament today.  Beyond nebulous feelings, desires and expectations, love is ultimately the expression of 'good' through one's personal conduct and actions that can then be construed in philosophical ways.  Something difficultly learned by this blogger is that for one to have hope is to give hope.  Just as one's personal identity can transform based on orientation, current transcendental communicators make known that the totality of human discordant thought, conduct, knowledge, philosophy and orientation in the present state has resulted with a 'polarity reversal' bringing a new phase of Earth life that has been expressed as having altered the 'Source Superconsciousness'/'God' to 'The Devil' "God Alter Ego.'   (incl. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
 
Ten blog articles that would provide an introduction to novices to self-development pertaining to metaphysical, spiritual and cosmological aspects of life are listed with the following links.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 


Below are Some Current Pop Culture Examples of People Expressing Ideas in the Stream of Thoughts Experienced in Their Conscious Creativity
 
An Individual's Lack of Metaphysical Understanding Results with One Manifesting a Negative Polarity and 'Entertainment Trance' Among Audiences and Artists Alike — Comparable to Rituals Occurring Among People Living in 'Primitive Societies.'
 






 

Consider some of the unrewarding storylines in movies that are currently popular (imdb.com descriptions) —

"If"
A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.

"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes"
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

 "The Strangers: Chapter 1"
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin.  Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.
"Tarot"
 When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards.  One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.

 "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire"
 Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries.

"Civil War"
  A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.

 "Kung Fu Panda 4"
After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.

 "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire"
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
"Abigail"
 After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they're locked inside with no normal little girl.

"The First Omen"
A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, but encounters a darkness that causes her to question her faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

 
Just as someone engaging in entertainment should reflect what it is in life that oneself is seeking to accomplish, people making decisions on behalf of all the citizens in their paperwork principality should examine what accomplishments in life manifest the most true self.  A transcendental communicator is quoted in one of the recent blog articles:
 

. . . many of you have identified yourselves with what you call your ego, what I call your "small self."  Your small self does not contain the eternity of truth within it.  The ego is simply a conglomerate or cluster of different beliefs you hold.  These beliefs are constantly changing.  If you find one piece of information you didn't previously have, a long held belief you would have died for just evaporates; and you have a totally different point of view.  Your ego does not have the eternity of Truth, just of change.

You believe one thing one moment, yet the opposite under different circumstances.  You will find when you begin to watch your belief structures, that many of these beliefs do not agree with each other at all.  You say things like, "War is evil," and "We must protect our country at all costs."  "All men are equal," and "Our way must prevail," which show an inconsistency in many of your beliefs. 
    
 
Where then do you go to get the focus that you want for your peace of mind and heart?  How do you place your feet firmly on the road to God?  (article)
 
'Channeling' / 'trance mediumship' cases that encompass entities using the expression 'God Force' include those of Edgar Cayce, Leslie Flint, Eileen Garrett, Helen Greaves, Thomas Jacobson*, JZ Knight*, Gladys Osborne Leonard, Jach Pursel*, Estelle Roberts, Jane Roberts, Pat Rodegast, Neville Rowe and Kevin Ryerson*.  (*contemporary cases)  (channeling articles index)  One previous blog article about this subject is "Estimations of 'the God Force' During Ancient Civilizations".
 
 
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5/24/24 Update: During the days while I was writing this post I noticed that X / twitter.com resumed making available to me—and presumably all other participants of the social media website—an assortment of posts from people whom I haven't selected to "follow."  Some of the useful ones are shown below; however, a great many of these posts selected for mass promulgation seem depressing and disgusting in what probably is a strategy to increase the timespan of platform usage among website visitors.  It was at the end of January that the platform homepage had commenced to only make available posts of people whom I'd specifically selected.  This coincided with a hearing in Washington, D.C. about social media, as reported at Bloomberg News: "The 21-member Senate Judiciary Committee called the chief executives of Meta Platforms Inc., X, Snap Inc., Discord Inc. and TikTok to Washington in an effort to hold them accountable for their platforms' impact on teenagers and children."  Below is shown one of the few posts relating to metaphysical illumination that on May 22 I found at the homepage from someone whom otherwise wasn't someone on my Following list.  (It turns out that X participants can exclude posts 'For you'—the default timeline—and see only posts from people you've selected to be 'Following' by simply clicking on the other of these two tabs at the top of the homepage — something I hadn't noticed before.)
 

 
I posted a reply: "This has happened again in the contemporary world."  The new posts selectively being made available to X participants involve what is disturbing in a way that seems comparable to having a hypnotic effect: videos of people engaging in criminal activities or violence (including at schools), accidents and untimely deaths, political repudiations and mockery, and such news as—read today—
 


 
 
And —
 
 
Here's a single example of one of the numerous unfortunate examples of what is being vastly promulgated at X.

 
Yesterday, there were these two warning posts.  (The second is by one of the people whom I've selected to follow.)
 
 
One reaction that I experienced is the regret that people visiting X / twitter.com aren't finding ennobling and inspiring posts, while this blogger makes available links to new articles at this blog.  Having worked at public schools, I've observed how impressionable are young people who may emulate what they are exposed to while engaging in social media experiences.
 
The Secret Book of John (of the Nag Hamadi Coptic texts translations) includes this passage that I personally know to be accurate.
 

THE ONE

I asked if I might understand this, and it said to me, The One is a sovereign that has nothing over it.  It is god and father of all, the invisible one that is over all, that is incorruptible, that is pure light at which no eye can gaze.

The One is the invisible spirit.  We should not think of it as a god or like a god.  For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it.  It does not exist within anything inferior to it, since everything exists within it alone.  It is eternal, since it does not need anything.  For it is absolutely complete.  It has never lacked anything in order to be completed by it.  Rather, it is always absolutely complete in light.  The One is

illimitable, since there is nothing before it to limit it,
unfathomable, since there is nothing before it to fathom it,
immeasurable, since there was nothing before it to measure it,
invisible, since nothing has seen it,
eternal, since it exists eternally,
unutterable, since nothing could comprehend it to utter it,
unnamable, since there is nothing before it to give it a name.

The One is the immeasurable light, pure, holy, immaculate.  The One is unutterable and is perfect in incorruptibility.  Not that it is part of perfection or blessedness or divinity: it is much greater.

The One is not corporeal and is not incorporeal.

The One is not large and is not small.

It is impossible to say,

"How much is it?
What kind is it?"

For no one can understand it.

The One is not among the things that exist, but it is much greater.  Not that it is greater.  Rather, as it is in itself, it is not a part of the eternal realms or of time.  For whatever is part of a realm was once prepared by another.  Time was not allotted to it, since it receives nothing from anyone: what would be received would be on loan.  The one who is first does not need to receive anything from another.  Such a one beholds itself in its light.

The One is majestic and has an immeasurable purity.

The One is a realm that gives a realm, life that gives life, a blessed one that gives blessedness, knowledge that gives knowledge, a good one that gives goodness, mercy that gives mercy and redemption, grace that gives grace.

Not as if the One possesses all this.  Rather, it is that the One gives immeasurable and incomprehensible light.

What shall I tell you about it?  Its eternal realm is incorruptible, at peace, dwelling in silence, at rest, before everything.

It is the head of all realms, and it sustains them through its goodness.

We would not know what is ineffable, we would not understand what is immeasurable, were it not for what has come from the father.  This is the one who has told these things to us alone.

 
These are today's examples of the ubiquitous infotainment headlines at MSN News —
 


 
5/26/24 Update: The horrible news continuing to be read in mainstream media headlines (and in X / twitter.com posts) has motivated me to change the title of this article from the original one, "Considering the Choice Between Entertainment Pastimes Or Developing One's Metaphysical Understanding."  Also shown below are some of my latest post replies at X.
 




 
5/27/24 Update: The magazine shown below is now being sold at the local Kroger supermarket that I visited today.

 
  

 
 
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