STIFLE-What an appropriate word to describe the adverse effects of religion and ideology have on the possibility of spiritual unity among mankind. Just today, I had the honor and privilege of attending the funeral service of a life-long acquaintance and friend. It occurred at my home-town Catholic church. The church was packed with family, friends and well-wishers. The presiding priest gave a beautiful and meaningful homily describing the lifelong achievements of the deceased. It was humerus as well as meaningful. After the funeral Mass and grave-site rites were concluded, as is the usual wont, a massive, beautiful, and tasty meal was sever in the local K if C Hall by its’ members for any and all to attend. Several hundred packed the hall. People visited, reminisced, met old friends , and generally had a good time. I was duly impressed as usual; I have attended dozens of such events over the years. However, a shudder of sadness suddenly dampened my joy. The thought occurred to me, these people were all Catholic. Would a non-catholic neighbor just three miles down the road have been treated similarly? answer is no, but why? He didn’t belong. He didn’t believe as we did. Religious difference had stifled any such possibility. How sad, but why? Before any such individual could be admitted to the flock, he/she would be required to undergo a vigorous indoctrination into Catholic belief and profess to accept it as his own. Plainly, religion and ideology divide us; they make any possibility of a universal spiritual union among people absolutely remote. Why?; POWER, CONTROL, MONEY. There is no Power or Control needed in the spiritual unity of all mankind under the HOLY SPIRIT: there is no controlling force necessary in bringing all people under the singular umbrella of communion (the recognition that all are of the same “substance” as their creator and redeemer, Jesus. Admitting such would obviate the need for all central power sources. More importantly, it would remove permanently the STIFLING blanket of guilt and oppression thrown over us all by the all-condemning preachers. The money flow into the pockets of the doomsday preachers would dry up, but, rather, would be redirected to the needy and poor. Sadly, this realization and acceptance will likely never be adopted from the “TOP DOWN”; just as in politics of any kind, it MUST come from “GRASS ROOTS” up. The power mongers of religion and ideologies will likely NEVER relinquish their positions voluntarily. Please give me just one tiny, logical reason, if you can, why I am incorrect in my assessment. All comments welcome. My book Wilderness Cry elucidates all. It is available all major on-line outlets.
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MISSING-Wilderness Cry- Hilary L Hunt MD
MISSING- What a beautifully appropriate word for our time, and for all times past. Just a casual glance at our world today as well as our world throughout history will expose one glaring reality. That reality is the fact that the one ingredient necessary for peace and happiness is woefully missing from our world -wide society. And what might that missing ingredient be? Plainly stated it is SPIRITUALITY. Likely, each of us has been inculcated to some degree or another with some form of religion and/or ideology. Each of those entities is different from all others generally and/or specifically. There is no singular uniting force to be found among them. For that singular reason, people throughout all ages have been divided against each other. The result is obvious; perpetual hostilities; wars, wars, and more wars. Those wars rage on in every conceivable form and fashion; nation against nation, ideology against ideology, religion against religion, and yes, sadly, person against person. Why? Because the one vital uniting force of Spirituality has never, ever been recognized nor employed by neither “the kings nor the peasants”. As far as I can determine Jesus was the only person to ever live who not only recognized but commanded that we accept that standard as our directing force. Sadly, throughout history it has been completely ignored by each and every religious and ideological leader. Jesus told us in no uncertain terms that the only pathway to happiness is LOVE. And what is love? Very simply stated love is ACCEPTANCE. Jesus, being the genius He was, recognized that each person is a specific individual unto itself with no possibility of anyone having a likeness. Jesus recognized that each person, and indeed everything in existence, carries the essential image of its creator. As such, everything is united by that common Spirituality, The Holy Spirit (Will of God). How is then possible that we as a human race have never, ever, even for one second, recognized nor honored that simple fact? The answer is very simple, SELFISHNESS. Ideological leaders seek to control the world to satisfy their selfish greed of POWER, MONEY AND CONTROL. Religious leaders seek to demean and control their subjects by preaching a cult of guilt and damnation. Why? They don’t “give a damn” about your soul. What they do care about is POWER, MONEY AND CONTROL. They tongue-wag continuously and continually about a “mythical God”. Likewise they stammer all over themselves about the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, God’s Will, Soul, Eternity and much more, without having even the slightest clue of understanding about that of which they speak. No one is allowed to attempt to speak definitively about anything he/she cannot define. Recognizing that massive ball of fallaciousness, compelled me to do something never before done, so that some meaningful rationality could be brought to our consciousness. I defined each of those entities specifically and definitively. I defined God in irrefutable terms; “God IS A PERFECT RATIONAL BEING”. The SON is God’s Perfect Intellectual Reflection Upon Himself and being supernatural is a living being. The HOLY SPIRIT is the perpetual LOVE (acceptance) between those two Perfect Beings; THE WILL OF God is their Perfect Acceptance of their Singular Perfect Intellect . SOUL is the essential Reflection of God’s Essence in everything. ETERNITY is a STATE OF BEING WITHOUT CHANGE. GOD, BEING PERFECT AND THEREBY INCAPABLE OF CHANGE, EXISTS IN ETERNITY. Peace is not possible without humanity recognizing and embracing the absolute fact that ALL are UNITED by the COMMON BOND OF A SINGULAR SPIRITUALITY, THE ESSENCE OF GOD. There is so much more that I have addressed in my powerful little book, Wilderness Cry-a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. It is available at all major on-line book retailers $10.95; Kindle-$4.99. I would strongly urge each of you to read it. This message must be promulgate and accepted world-wide for the sake of the preservation of our existence.Great forces are at work even as I write which are determined to destroy us. We must recognize the “missing” link and become united under one common banner, spirituality; we all are God’s children. We must recognize what that truly means and accept its’ command, SPIRITUAL UNITY.
CANDID-Wilderness Cry- Hilary L Hunt MD
CANDID-The word candid means truthful, straight forward, frank. In our culture today, it is very difficult to get a “candid” answer, in response to a straight-forward question, about almost anything. Take religion for instance. We don’t know for sure what the the immediate apostolic “church” of Jesus really knew, believed, or accepted. The only real source of information we have is the bible which has been altered, copied, reinterpreted by dozens to the point that, even now we have different “versions” of that book which are used by different Christian sects. Of course, each sects claims infallibility of it’s “version”. So, the result is obvious. We simply don’t know and can’t possibly know the exact truth of what Jesus really said and did. However, with that awareness, in-spite-of all the disharmony and ambiguity of different versions, plus the multiple contradictions in any one version, there seems to be one general theme that resonated through all. That theme is LOVE. It is quite obvious to me that the post Nicene church of Constantine was fashioned exactly from the 4,000-8000 year old pagan religion playbook of the ZODIAC. The oldest known painting I can find of Jesus was made near the year 600, and is located in St Catherine’s cathedral. A very clear painting, it depicts Jesus’ head back-dropped with a halo which when expanded clearly shows a perfect zodiac. Likewise, early paintings of Mary’s head are similarly encircled. In the center of St Peter’s square, Rome, there is a giant 4500 year old obelisk reportedly taken from Egypt by conquering Romans. It was re-erected in St Peter’s Square in 16th century. The obelisk works as the needle of a giant sundial. In 1817, paving stones were added showing the 12 signs of the zodiac. Astrology is the “fake science” of astronomy which is real science. It is known that the pope had an astute “astrologer”, as an integral part of his “inner circle” through the 16th century. No wonder the church has exhibited such “terror” of science. The instillation of the Zodiac in the 1800s, shows clearly the continued dependency on that pagan, fake science as its’ basis.. One has to be a complete dunce, in my opinion, not to see clearly and candidly how religion and ideologies are directly responsible for all the worlds problems. There can “NEVER” be peace until the world comes to the humbling realization, acceptance, and practice of the simple commands Jesus supposedly gave us; whether or not He said those words is immaterial, their validity remains untarnished: LOVE YOUR GOD WITH YOUR ALL AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF (paraphrased). The awareness that I could never, ever get a “CANDID” answer to any question about religion compelled me to begin “a journey of understanding” regarding concepts of God, Trinity, Holy Spirit (God’s Will), Soul, Eternity and literally every aspect of universal existence. Once I faced the candid reality that the concept of God which had been imprinted in all of was in gross error, I was faced with the reality of defining God. That I did; GOD IS A PERFECT RATIONAL BEING, period, end of report. From that singular definition came answers to all the imponderable “mysteries” in our lives. You may have interest in knowing more. If so, my powerful little book, Wilderness Cry- a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe, is available from me or from Amazon, Kindle, and all major on-line book retailers. It is an extremely CANDID presentation.
SHOCK-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
SHOCK-This word conjures up all sort of ideas, and usually unpleasant ones. However some uses express happy surprises such as ” I was shocked at the number of people at my surprise birthday party”, or “the sheer beauty of the giant redwoods was a shocking experience”. In my particular case, I was indeed shocked to come to the sad and startling realization that I had been duped for years by being force-fed dogmatic religious teaching under the guise of absolute truth. IT was indeed shocking to learn that such dogma was man-made under the pretense of Magisterium (teaching authority of the church). As a child maturing into adulthood and beyond, I noticed many discrepancies between what had been taught me and what was observable. That realization created much confusion and consternation on my part. It became readily apparent that I was being forced to bend my common sense will, not to God but to some authoritative dictatorship. With that in mind, I was rationally compelled to embark on “a journey of understanding”. That journey would lead me through the halls of history, science, and the art of logical thinking, to the ultimate destination of a new philosophy. That philosophy developed over seventy five years. Its’ progress was impeded by one main ingredient. All the questions and problems were evident, but the answers were evasive. Suddenly it hit me; the problems were unsolvable with the current understanding of God. We have been inculcated with a mythical understanding (lack there of) of God, Trinity, Holy Spirit, God’s Will. Everyone talks about those entities, but no one has ever defined them. Logically speaking, we are prohibited from speaking definitively about any entity whose essence we cannot describe. Therefore I was forced to define Their essence. After a long period of deliberation and consideration, I was readily able to accomplish the task. Those definitions immediately and readily removed all the mystery from our existence both temporal and eternal. I predict you will be shocked by the startling discoveries you will encounter while reading my powerful little book, Wilderness Cry- a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. It is available Amazon, Kindle, and all major on-line book retailers. Log onto Amazon and read, not only their description, but also the reviews posted so far; most are five star.
Silence-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
SILENCE-Now here’s one for you. When was the last time you experience complete silence? Likely a very long time. And that is deplorable and sad for one simple but very important reason. It is only through silence and meditational experience can we join our spirit with the spirituality which pervades the universe, which of course is the spirit of God, the HOLY SPIRIT. That doesn’t mean to imply that all spirit is not always connected: it means that only through silence can we feel and experience the exhilaration of that connectivity. That connectivity is the love (acceptance) we can and must experience intellectually with all of God’s creation. Without it we cannot realize any inner peace, neither can we experience peace with our universal neighbors. Without that universal acceptance, worldwide peace is impossible. If anyone will take note, he/she will readily see how all strife in the world has been caused, and still is, by self serving Religion and Ideology. Most Christian religion is based on the self-serving principle of a theocracy emanating from some powerful central control such as the Vatican; you will do as I say or else. The rest of Christianity uses a book as its’ power source, but each entity sees that book differently. All of those entities seek to demean and divide us by asserting their authoritarian control over us in one way or another. None of them seek to unite us through promoting the one basic principle of spirituality Jesus gave us: Love (spiritually unite with) your God with your all; love (accept and spiritually unite with) your neighbor as yourself . Those simple but drastically important principles can best be recognized and adopted through the solitude and quiet of SILENCE. Please read my powerful little book, Wilderness Cry-a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding of God and the Universe, for a complete understanding of those principles. Amazon, Kindle, and all on-line major book retailers.
LOOPHOLE-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
LOOPHOLE-This interesting word is generally used to imply the avoidance of a duty or obligation by use of an ambiguity in a law or directive. Most often it seems to be used regarding tax evasion by the art of discovering and using those inadequacies. Certainly it could be applied to any circumstance of obligatory nature. My main concern is the division in the Christian world created by the multiple loopholes in both doctrine and its’ application. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, as of 2014, there are 33,000 Christian denominations in the world, each one claiming Truth. How is that possible? It seems obvious that anyone with a different viewpoint, who can muster enough followers to support both him/herself and gathering places (church buildings), is allowed to start a new sect; such is the loophole of religious sacredness. Almost all of them use as their foundation a book which stems from a single copy of many, possibly thousands, of previous copies. We know historically, that Roman Emperor Constantine called the first Nicene Council because he could not control the hundreds of warring christian factions under his domain. Why were they fighting? It seems clear that that when Jesus died, there was no agreement about who He really was, nor what He said and did. There was no written record. The first apparent writing was done 15-20 yrs after Jesus death by Paul who claimed to get his information about Jesus through some para-normal experience. Be that as it may, Paul never agreed with Peter and James about much of anything, and certainly not about requirements of salvation. So, as later writings appeared, they frequently contradicted each other: at least the versions we have now do. So why do/did we have so many “versions” of the bible? My answer is the “loophole” of authenticity generated by each translator and reviser: they simply took “literary privilege” and wrote what they thought. Thus, over the centuries, there have been numerous “versions” of that book, and each stemming from one copy of a copy of a copy ad infinitum. In the case of “catholic” churches, their foundation is as much or more based on developmental traditions as it is the bible. Their main differences have to do with “power struggles”; a lesser degree with theology and liturgy. Because of all the loopholes I observed in a system which allowed for such dramatic division in a universal “Christian” family, I was compelled to write a synoptic but concise philosophy of God and His universe based on sound historical and scientific facts. I do what no one has done. I define God, the Trinity, The Holy Spirit, God’s will, the soul, eternity, and much more. I close all the “loopholes” for anyone who cares to peer inside. My book is titled WILDERNESS CRY- a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. Its main thesis is a pleading for unity among Christians by accepting the two principles Jesus supposedly gave us; Love God with our all, and Love our neighbor as ourselves. Currently our division worldwide is so great and in some instances so hostile that we cannot survive as an entity. There are forces at work that seek to destroy us and will use the “loopholes” in our disjointed organization to do just that. It’s only a matter of time. My Book available Amazon, Kindle, and all major on-line book retailers.
EVOKE-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
EVOKE-This daily post word means to recall or bring to consciousness. We often us it to denote a calling forth or calling out. When confronted with this word, it immediately evoked a memory of the horrible atrocities committed over the centuries by organized religion and ideologies. The mental and physical torture imposed by those two entities is horrifyingly astounding. In the case of Ideology, always to maintain control and impose dictatorial rule. In the case of religion, always in the name of God. However, when one examines the historical content of those activities, it becomes obvious that the ultimate goal was/is the same as ideologies; power, money, control. The only significant difference is that one is civil dictatorship, the other is theocratic dictatorship. Awareness of that compelled me to express my ideas about God, the Trinity, Jesus, religion, and a host of other considerations directed at our existence in a powerful little book Wilderness Cry-a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe. In this book I describe how I was forced to define God. So doing allowed me to easily explain all the so-called mysteries in our lives. If you have interest, it is available Amazon, Kindle and all major on-line book retailers.
LOVE-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
LOVE-This word has been a long time in coming for my commentary; it may be the most misused and misunderstood word in the English language. We hear it used in so many different considerations. Some examples: ‘I just love her hair’, ‘don’t you just love that dress?’, we love to shoot firecrackers on July fourth’, ‘I met my first love at a high school dance’, ‘I just love chocolate pie’. The list goes on ad infinitum. All of those uses imply a sensual pleasure being derived from the ‘experience’, whatever that may be;auditory, visual, tactile, taste, olfactory, aesthetic, etc. My concept judges that those experiences should be categorized by the word LIKE. Granted, strict usage of LIKE imply something be likened to something else, such as, ‘she looks just like her mother’, etc. However, more common usage implies a sensual pleasure being derived from some experience of our senses. I believe the word LOVE should be reserved for the basic intellectual acceptance of someone. In other words, we don’t have to like someone nor what they do in order to love (accept) them. WE may, in fact, be obliged to hurt or even kill some unjust aggressor because we don’t like what they are doing to us. That does not mean we are allowed to not love them. Jesus, in His wisdom, saw the necessity of love of God and Neighbor if we are to have peace and happiness. He loved each of us and all creation in spite of our selfishness. He even died to pay the price for our iniquity. Religion and Ideologies set us apart and instill an attitude of hate among us, thereby making any likelihood of peace impossible. For those who don’t know, I have written a philosophy book on this subject; Wilderness Cry- a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe; available Amazon, Kindle and other major on-line book retailers. Comments welcomed.
PHILOSOPHY-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
PHILOSOPHY-Boy! Did I just say a mouthful; a big word concerning as many subjects as there are ideas in the universe.. A philosophy is basically a set of definitive conclusions derived in a logical way from a set of known and/or presumed facts. If I were to diagram philosophy, I would put it in the form of a giant Christmas Tree. Each branch and/or sub-branch of knowledge is represented by an ornament. The most elementary subject ornaments hang at the very lowest ring around the tree. Each progressively higher ring represents the next level of expanded knowledge in any subject. At the very pinnacle is PHILOSOPHY (the star, if you will) atop the tree> Hence we say so and so attained a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in such and such subject. That means, of course, that each branch of knowledge ultimately attains the “known”, and reaches for and aspires to the theoretical unknown. What that implies is that using the known, we reason to the possibility of the unknown. Repeated experimentation with exact outcomes allows for the establishment of a scientific law. When speaking of moral, spiritual, and religious matters, the plot becomes thicker; the reason being the gross differences in what is accepted or even presumed to be fundamental truth. For instance, the great philosopher Thomas Aquinas was in gross error in his conclusions about male masturbation, and copulation with the woman on top. The reason for his error was not in methodology, it was in factuality. He accepted as fact the gross scientific error that “all babies were in the male semen”. Consequently, he was mandated to reason philosophically that those two acts were the worst sins that could be committed because all the babies would be spilled to their deaths. So, having such awareness makes it mandatory for us to be very careful in philosophizing too freely (without knowing the facts). In my case, I have written and published a Philosophy book regarding God and His universe. The book’s primary title “Wilderness Cry” represents my voice crying out for Truth from a wilderness of Ignorance, Deceit, and Arrogance. The secondary title- A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe- represents my philosophy of how that is. It is my discovery of the truth and its’ explanation based on sound known facts and principles. The one caveat is simply that no one can either prove or disprove the existence of God. My one unprovable premise is the acceptance that “there is God”. My book shows conclusively how religion and ideologies have been used and twisted by knaves for self-seeking causes, and thereby have made, and continue to make peace impossible. My book pleads for unity among Christians and all peoples by the acceptance of the two simple commands (suggestions for peace and happiness) that Jesus supposedly gave us; namely, Love God with our all and Love our neighbor as ourselves. Love unites us; Religion and ideology divide us. If interested my book is available Amazon, Kindle and all major book retailers.
FORLORN-Wilderness Cry-Hilary L Hunt MD
FORLORN- What an interesting word seldom seen in print. It generally means a feeling of sadness or hopelessness. I remember , as a small child, my mother reading to us a Zane Grey novel titled FORLORN RIVER. It was truly a Western Thriller that imparted many different moods to its readers (listeners); excitement, intrigue, happiness and eventual sadness. Some seventy five to eighty years later, I can’t remember the exact plot, but I do remember two distinct events in the life of the main character, Ben Ide. The opening line “HONK, HONK, HONK”; the sound of wild geese migrating awakened Ben to the days reality of traveling adventure. Migrating wild geese make a lonesome, sometimes eerie, sound as they wing their way southward in giant V-formation. Their seemingly half-hearted calls sound muffled and weary and lonesome; those effects created by their great height. Secondly, the books ending, which imparts a feeling of sadness, was deliberately created to cause readers to buy and read its’ sequel THUNDER MOUNTAIN. Ben had come to idolize Nevada, the book’s other main character, and he was deeply saddened to learn of Nevada’s departure. In many ways our lives take the twists and turns of a forlorn river. We have moments of exhilaration but also moments of doubt, worry, anxiousness, and fear; a general sense of uneasiness in our lives. Most of us have been schooled in the concept of a vengeful God who would do us eternal harm if we break His laws. Those laws have been painted for us in direct opposition to our God-given nature. That fact, of course, means that we are in constant sin and subject to God’s wrath. However God will show us “mercy” if we beg Him enough, but more importantly follow the dictates of one of the 33,000 christian religions in the world. Each one of those, of course, claims to have the correct formula for success. Each of those religions seemingly ignore the only commands Jesus gave us; Love our God with our all, and Love our neighbor as ourselves. The reason for that is simple; no power, money or control emanating from those two commands. Those two dicta bring us together through Love. Religion and ideologies divide us. You are encouraged to read my little book Wilderness Cry-a Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and His Universe for complete elucidation of that and many, many more concepts. It is a complete philosophy of life. Amazon, Kindle, and all major on-line book retailers
WILDERNESS CRY by Hilary L Hunt MD 