What Did I Learn from My Near Death Experience? I've Always Had a Feeling that I Had Some Important Goal to Accomplish. Then I realized...

It wasn't so much of a BIG Goal that was Needed to Be Done but Helping People Daily Thru My Entire Life. Simply Making the World a Better Place To Live. That Was The Lesson. 

Since I Did Not Die at Age 19... I've held Many Jobs that Made a Difference... and I Joined AA where the Opportunity Arose to Do 12th Step Service... and Now that I'm Retired, I Can Write my Blog to Help People Learn How to Live... and Learn History... and Have Fun Printing Drawings to Color... It's a Wonderful World... 

My Jobs Included: Working as a Clerk in an Art Supply Store. I Helped People Buy Art Supplies and Gave Advice on How to Use What They Bought. Sometimes I Gave Bad Advice but In General, I Made the World a Better Place to Live... 

Then I Became a Draftsman in a Computer Company. We Made Machines that Helped Doctors Store their Patient's Charts. That's a Useful Idea... and Every Doctor Now Uses a Computer to Store Patient's Records.

Then I designed Equipment for the US Air Force. Helping to Defend the Country. 

Then I Delivered Pizza at Domino's... Helping Hungry People... Many Couldn't Leave the House... My Work Was Especially Useful During a Snowstorm...   

Then I Sold Electronic Equipment at Radio Shack. Helping People Solve Their Tech Problems. Our Store had a LOT of Retired Engineers that Could Give Accurate Technical Advice. I Learned from Those Old Men. 

Then I worked at The Welfare Department Helping Homeless People Live Indoors... and Get Food and Medicine... and Find a Job... 

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Now that I'm Retired... I Spend my Time Writing a Blog... Hopefully I Can Use this Platform to FIGHT BRAINWASHING by Republicans... Fox "News" Has A Mind Control CULT that Believes LIES...

I Know What it’s Like to Be Dead... 

Recently I Had a Colonoscopy. The Anesthetic used was propofol ( the same Drug that Killed Michael Jackson) – I remember in the Operating Room the Nurse said “Roll Over” and then Instantly I was in the Recovery Room Wondering IF I Had Had a Colonoscopy. So I asked… and She Said The Procedure was Over… and Would I Like a Cup of Coffee?

That’s What I Think Death is Like… Except no one brings you Coffee When You Wake Up because You Never Wake Up… 

 

You Can Do It! You Can WAKE THE F*CK UP! 

Did You Know that Fox "News" Was Caught Intentionally LYING and Had to Pay $787.5 Million Dollars? OH! You Didn't Know That? Because they Didn't Tell You that Fact ON FOX NEWS! Every OTHER TV News Station Covered that Story Except FOX... Surprise! They Lied By OMISSION! Keeping this News SILENT... 

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My Near Death Experience. In 1974 My Friends and I Went Backpacking at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. One Day We ate LSD and Peyote and Smoked some Marijuana... Then we went Mountain Climbing... 

Since We had a Lot of Extra Energy and Courage, We climbed up a Chimney... a crack in the granite rock where a person can Shimmy Up... I've never done that Before or After that Day. But That was a Special Day... Tripping!

Later, I walked down near the Edge of the Tuolumne River so I Could Watch the Water Bubbling UP in a Big Pool that had been Carved into the Granite over a Million Years...

and I Slipped IN! I Was Swimming Out of Control in the Raging Waters... The River Forced Me to the Bottom of the Pool... and then I GAVE UP... I RELAXED AND ACCEPTED DEATH. 

and then the River Pushed me Up to The Surface at a Spot Where I Could Climb Out. I walked back to the Campsite, got into my sleeping bag and stayed there for The Rest of the Day... Safe and Warm... 

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Hey... I believe that there is a Reason I Didn't Die that Day... I was Spared so I Could Accomplish some Unfinished Business... I Don't Know Exactly WHAT That Business IS... So I Just DO Everything As If It Was Important!

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hh.htm

Hidden in Yosemite National Park’s peaceful northwest corner, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a treasure worth visiting in all seasons. In spring, two of North America’s tallest waterfalls plummet spectacularly over thousand-foot granite cliffs. With its towering falls and dramatic domes, many have compared Hetch Hetchy’s grandeur to the more well-known Yosemite Valley. From early spring through late fall, visitors have easy access to a vast wilderness filled with high-country lakes, streams, and wildlife. Snowy winter days give adventurous visitors a chance to explore on skis or snowshoes.

I also enjoy singing songs and Playing the Guitar... This is My Latest Effort... a SATIRE of "LODI" By Creedence Clearwater Revival... 

"Oh Lord, Stuck in Ukraine Again...

Just about a Year Ago,

Vlad was Setting Out from Old Moscow...

Seeking to Bring Chernobyl, Back into the USSR...

The War Got Bad, The War Got Worse... I

Guess You Know it's True...

Pravda, The Russian People Got Screwed...

If I Only Had a Ruble, For Every Soldier Dead...

I could buy a Tractor and Start Me a Communal Farm...

But Vladimir is a Nutcase, He wants me to Go to the Front!

Oh Lord Stuck in Ukraine Again...

The Man from CNN, Said we were Gonna Lose...

Just Like in Afghanistan, we are Doomed to Bad News...

When the Babushkas Rise Up... It's time to Run Away!...

Oh Lord, Stuck in Ukraine Again... "

Original Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfQNB5WXmY

Chords and Lyrics:

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/creedence-clearwater-revival/lodi-chords-1048967

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GOP: Crazy Stupid Evil - And That's Why They Die Young... Wonderful! We Certainly Don't Need People Like THAT In The Future!

 STUDY: Americans in Republican Led States Die Younger... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MSpTdsDl4

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds... 

More liberal policies on environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes and tobacco taxes associated with lower mortality.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/27/life-expectancy-us-conservative-liberal-states

Darwin spoke of Survival of the Fittest... Republicans are Simply NOT the Fittest and are Reproducing their Defective Genes at a slower Rate... That's why they are so concerned about "Replacement Theory" 

On a Happier Note!

CHRISTMAS BEGINS!

"thanksgiving is over now it's on to good tidings and all that rigmarole swapping bird fixings for tree trimming.

having worst thanksgiving ever and not having leftovers to contend with it's full speed ahead prepping for saint nick.

admittedly we have an unlit little tree and little uninvited guests but that shouldn't affect eve night.

as motel six says we'll leave the light on christmas eve.

and after santa delivers his presents we'll share some with the son of the one.

and wish him merry christmas christ kid."

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Prepare yourself to spend time alone if you choose to live a life of honesty and integrity.

If you choose to live a life of freedom, wellness and truth, the pop culture narrative will not appreciate it to say the least.

That’s ok though, let the sheep roam, you cannot stop them from fulfilling their destiny of creating a world full of idiots.

You have your own destiny.

You have your own life to live.

You need to focus on your life and attracting your tribe.

You cannot save people that don’t want to be saved, by attempting that you will slow down you process and possibly drown yourself.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This is as much of a warning as a call to action.

“Everything popular is wrong”

- Oscar Wilde

Instead of doing what everyone else is doing, use this time to clean up your temple(body), to sit with your fears, to write out your thoughts, to spend time in nature, to read some old books.

Look around you, do you want to live like they do? Do you want to be constantly engulfed in the drama? To be triggered? To be sick and deteriorating?

Or do you want to experience something better?

Your choice.

Happy holidays fockers.

With strength and courage

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Someone Asked:

In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of self publishing? through amazon, for example?

We self published 12 Copies of the Vanderlaan Family History... including all the photographs from that shoebox Dad Had... and Every Written word by my ancestors... PLUS... My Brother "Interviewed" Everyone and Simply Wrote down what they said... EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US... Totally Unimportant to the Rest of the World... Many of those documents I Had Never Read... For Example: A Letter from My Mother to the US Military Draft Board on Why My Brother Should be Granted a Conscience Objector Status and NOT Sent to Vietnam... SO... Do IT! Self Publishing is Fantastic...

I read Three Excellent Self Published Books by Richard Warren Field... He's a High School Classmate of Mine and TOTALLY WORTHY! 

https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Warren-Field/e/B001K8WH2K

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/richard-warren-field/2712834/

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Is Trump The Anti Christ? or Just a Slave of Satan? EXORCISM NEEDED NOW!

In my honest opinion this is happening now and began in 2015 when the evil scum began spewing and spreading hate towards all races and groups that are not “white”….

There is only one way to stop this evil manipulator is to destroy him with Our faith in God. I got the following from this site

https://www.gotquestions.org/false-prophet.html

It seems like it pertains to what is going on now…

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The false prophet of the end times is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the “second beast” (Revelation 13:11; 16:13, 19:20, 20:10). Together with the Antichrist and Satan, who empowers both of them, the false prophet is the third party in the unholy trinity

The apostle John describes this person and gives us clues to identifying him when he shows up. First, he comes out of the earth. This could mean he comes up from the pit of hell with all the demonic powers of hell at his command. It could also mean he comes from lowly circumstances, secret and unknown until he bursts on the world stage at the right hand of the Antichrist. He is depicted as having horns like a lamb, while speaking like a dragon. The horns on lambs are merely small bumps on their heads until the lamb grows into a ram. Rather than having the Antichrist’s multiplicity of heads and horns, showing his power and might and fierceness, the false prophet comes like a lamb, winsomely, with persuasive words that elicit sympathy and good will from others. He may be an extraordinary preacher or orator whose demonically empowered words will deceive the multitudes. But he speaks like a dragon, which means his message is the message of a dragon. Revelation 12:9 identifies the dragon as the devil and Satan.

Verse 12 gives us the false prophet’s mission on earth, which is to force humanity to worship the Antichrist. He has all the authority of the Antichrist because, like him, the false prophet is empowered by Satan. It is not clear whether people are forced to worship the Antichrist or whether they are so enamored of these powerful beings that they fall for the deception and worship him willingly. The fact that the second beast uses miraculous signs and wonders, including fire from heaven, to establish the credibility of both of them would seem to indicate that people will fall before them in adoration of their power and message. Verse 14 goes on to say the deception will be so great that the people will set up an idol to the Antichrist, "the image of the beast," and worship it. This is reminiscent of the huge golden image of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3) before which all were to bow down and pay homage. Revelation 14:9-11, however, describes the ghastly fate that awaits those who worship the image of the Antichrist.

Those who survive the terrors of the tribulation to this point will be faced with two hard choices. Those who refuse to worship the image of the beast will be subject to death (Revelation 13:15), but those who do worship him will incur the wrath of God. The image will be extraordinary in that it will be able to “speak.” Whatever the image is (a statue? a hologram? an android? a human-animal hybrid? a clone?), it will have some kind of ability to breathe forth the message of the Antichrist and the false prophet. Along with being the spokesman for them, the image will condemn to death those who refuse to worship the unholy pair. In our technological world, it is not hard to imagine such a scenario.

Whoever the false prophet turns out to be, the final world deception and the final apostasy will be great, and the whole world will be caught up in it. The deceivers and false teachers we see today are the forerunners of the Antichrist and the false prophet, and we must not be deceived by them. These false teachers abound, and they are moving us toward a final satanic kingdom. We must faithfully proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and rescue the souls of men and women from the coming disaster.

Help me remember: 

When I was a kid growing up in Los Gatos, there was this fruit that I ate and I can't remember its name. What I remember is that it was like an apricot, but it had maybe 3 pits that were sort of slimy. Maybe it grew in the area, I don't remember. Anybody know?

Well, in the middle of the night the answer finally came to me, and confirmed here in this thread: loquat. I had been mixing it up in my mind with kumquat, which I knew wasn't the right answer, kumquat being a tiny citrus fruit. I don't remember how I had access to loquats, but I remember eating them. I remember that the seeds took up quite a bit of the bulk of the fruit. Can you buy them at a grocery store?

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and then on FaceBorg LJ Wrote:

I'd like to share one of the many things I love about the teachings that Ram Dass shared with us -I love that it is through my direct experience with Spirit that I am led. In quoting the third great patriarch of something I can't remember Ram Dass often reminds us that "the Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences"

After my kids left their bodies everything took on new meaning and my entire reason for being is being redefined. I am freshly sober since the first Monday of june 2022 and I am developing a non bias take on life and my part in it... The following came to me about an hour ago...

I've created a really tough imaginary dilemma for myself that I have to use real world "stuff" to overcome...

I guess I just "Bass Ackwards manifested some ship (and it's about to sink)

Regardless-I'm now slightly more in tune with the feelings that were involved and the choices I made that invoked them.

I am beginning to love how my sober mind works-it's pretty amazing to observe myself from a viewpoint that's sort of like watching a movie, except it's more like the raw script, pre first draft while there are still so many different choices...What's really enlightening is watching my sub conscious self zip on past all the choices, as if they're not even there along a fixed and repetitive route the perpetually leads to the same unsatisfactory results every single time.

It's quite comical, really; and it's not like one piece of daily life here and there, It's the whole friggin puzzle! So, what is comical is when I catch my observing self wandering off into the vast abyss, hand in hand with my sub conscious self. I used be provoked when this happened, but I can't help but chuckle now-and bless them with Godspeed-they served their purpose well...

and I Replied:

Thanks for Sharing... I found that Quitting Drinking and Smoking made my thoughts more clear... I was able to understand more and - Write better... and Sing Better... and Get Stuff Done! I published about 10 Music Videos while Smoking Marijuana and Tobacco... and then I Published about a Hundred after I quit.

Thanks for the add, and apologies if this has been done to death but...I have been playing for years (about 40?) and I'm in a pub rock band but I have never got my head around theory. I bang away using blues scale for everything. I've bought books over the years and I kind of understand things but it is not like it feels part of my language. Like, I've played with people who understand theory and they will throw things at me like "are you playing the 3rd there?" or "how about adding the 9th to that chord?" and it's not like I have no idea what they are saying but I need a reference book, pencil and paper to work it out. For them, it just seems like they are fluent in the language of music, while I'm struggling along with a phrase book!

Recently I've been watching some podcasts where people break songs down and point out that some well known songs have solos in the wrong key and things like that - really interesting and it sounds much better in the right key...although I would never have noticed there was anything 'wrong'.

I guess I'm wondering - how do I get fluent in music theory? I suppose it's practice...but I have no real reason to practice. By which I mean, I play covers in the band...so I learn the song then play it. So, theory isn't a huge part of my day to day.

Anyway - sorry for the long post. Any advice gratefully received!

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Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

We are 636 young people in @auroramalet

who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action.

”When the state carries out climate policy that threatens our human rights, it breaks the law.”

#aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem

3:12 PM · Nov 24, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1595872978247598082

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Walt Whitman - Preface to ‘Leaves of Grass, 1850.

Mel Tol Said:

We’d better start to elect more fair minded intelligent lawmakers to begin with who actually value human lives over a powerful lobbying group who doesn’t seem to care about anyone other than themselves in my opinion. I’m for the right to bear arms, but in a reasonable responsible way. In my opinion there’s no civilian justifiable reason for owning and using military grade automatic/semiautomatic weapons. Responsible law abiding gun owners will tell you that the majority of them support common sense gun laws in this country. Some of the very people who carry on about their freedoms are actually taking away far too many other people’s freedoms in my opinion. If this public killing spree is allowed to continue in this country, mark my words it will eventually cripple our very way of lives and severely inhibit our businesses as well as our economy in my opinion. You might ask how. People are already starting to be cautious in public. Even a car back firing at a mall can cause a stir. People want to have their loved ones and themselves safe in public as well as private settings. Something that Americans never gave a second thought too even ten years ago, as in going to the grocery store, a movie, a concert, the mall, going to a place of business, have all been scared by mass shootings. The confidence in American’s feeling secure in public settings is eroding at the hands of one powerful lobby group. I say why do they get to determine Americans safety and security for their own benefits? More and more businesses are going to feel the pinch of gunmen with an agenda dictating where people actually shop and socialize in my opinion. Will America get its act together and stop letting a lobby group dictate to us? I hope and pray we do. Not only do lives literally depend upon it. America itself does too

Creepy Symbols hidden in the Dollar Bill's ARTWORK. The Circle and The Triangle, The Lightning Bolt Skull... Makes me wonder... Why aren't there a Lot of Pink Floyd Fans Coloring the Pyramid?

It seems like the most popular 

drawing/stamping is on George Washington's 

Head where he says: "I GREW HEMP"

Can you find them all? 

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Bill W. Invented Alcoholics Anonymous on a Psychedelic Trip. "The Belladonna Cure" - Two drugs - Henbane and Belladonna

Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) had his spiritual awakening while undergoing this treatment. He never drank again.
Wilson's description of his experience: "All at once I found myself crying out, "If there is a God, let Him show himself! I am ready to do anything, anything! Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. I was caught up in an ecstasy which there are no words to describe. It seemed to me in my mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay there on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consciousness... and I thought to myself, "So this is the God of the preachers!" A great peace stole over me."

http://www.amazon.com/Alcoholics-Anonymous-Comes-Age-History/dp/091685602X

The Belladonna Cure:
The formula for Towns-Lambert cure was the deliriant, Atropa belladonna, also called deadly nightshade. The effects of belladonna include delirium, hallucinations, light sensitivity, confusion, and dry mouth. The second ingredient in the mixture was another deliriant, Hyoscyamus niger, also known as henbane, hog's bean, or insane root. It contained two alkaloids, hyoscyamine and hyoscine. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Towns

Bill Wilson, Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous was VERY Excited about the use of LSD in treating Alcoholism... Then he had Second Thoughts...

He started AA because of a Psychedelic Experience where he met GOD personally by taking Belladonna and Henbane on a five day guided Trip... He saw a Mystical White Light and was given the Fundamental Idea of AA...in 1935... Then 20 Years Later... He tried LSD and thought it would be really great if everyone met GOD personally...

In 1955, came to believe that LSD was a way to allow that meeting to happen... Many AA members were having trouble with the step where you needed to believe that a "Higher Power" could restore your Sanity. Especially members that did not believe in God... Bill felt that LSD could introduce people to a Higher Power DIRECTLY...

Sort of like having God's Phone Number, Dialing the Phone and Handing it to the AA member...

Then on second thought... Bill realized that the AA program was working just fine as it was and there was NO NEED TO FIX SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT BROKEN.

Then use of LSD became just another "Outside Issue" that AA had no opinion on... [Tradition 10]
And this turned out to be a wise choice...

https://aaagnostica.org/2015/05/10/bill-wilsons-experience-with-lsd/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory

One Great Idea at AA is You CHOOSE YOUR OWN GOD... OR... Lack of God... 

So Many Different Gods... and So Many Believers Loudly Proclaim that THEIR God is the One True God. That's Absurd! I, like 100% of the people on Earth HAVE NO CLUE if God is real or not.

Some people state that they know... but they are just deluding themselves... I don't mind them deluding themselves, but if they Kill people that are of different Religions... They are Crazy and Dangerous.  

Here is An Examination of My Beliefs... 

GOD = Group of Drunks

I do pray... I may not believe in God but what if God believes in me? I often send prayers for good health to the people who are sick. If God is Real, he reads my email... and the people who get the email feel better...

I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior in 1976. If Christianity turns out to be the correct Religion, I'm Saved! I was living with my first ex-wife and she was interested in me becoming a Baptist and I was interested in sex with her so... I went forward at a meeting, accepted Christ, joined the choir and then got bored with it all... we rarely attended. I did like Communion... It's a make believe Vampire, Cannibal Cult! Pretend to drink a persons BLOOD and Eat a persons BODY... OOOH! That's Creepy! But FUN!

However, I much later I did become addicted to crack cocaine and when I wanted to stop I went to a Baptist Church and gave my addiction to Jesus, and never smoked crack again. That evening I went to the Pink Floyd "concert" called "Welcome to the Machine" and that helped also because it gave me something to distract my attention while I was suffering thru the withdrawal symptoms. Another time I went to the Presbyterian Church founded by Annie Bidwell in Chico and prayed that God would find my friends a JOB... and later that week both Manuel and Victoria were employed. A miracle...  Not only that but if I ever stub my toe or hit my thumb with a hammer I shout out JESUS!

When I joined Alcoholics Anonymous I was introduced to the concept of a "Higher Power" helping me with my addiction. The "Higher Power" that worked for me was The "Group of Drunks" an acronym GOD... We were supposed to seek guidance thru prayer and meditation. However I always got Nothing from Prayer or Meditation. ZERO. The Group did help and I stopped drinking alcohol. Remember, Bill Wilson invented Alcoholics Anonymous while tripping on Belladonna and Henbane. Both POWERFUL Hallucinogens. He saw the "White Light" and had a vision of God. Me TOO! Me TOO! LSD, DMT, Peyote and Magic Mushrooms all give you a vision of God. I do like AA so Bill's Trip was a great help to mankind.

If the Hindus or Buddhists are right I'm set to reincarnate as a human or better because I've lead a good life. I have NOT killed any people but have eaten a few hamburgers... I love Bacon too... Oh Well... Maybe I'll come back as a Cow... and then a Hamburger myself...

If the Mormons are right, I'm not in luck. I liked meeting the Mormon people in Utah, they were very friendly and helpful but I just can't believe that God is an Extraterrestrial... Moroni from a star in the constellation Orion... Not very likely to be true.

However, maybe the "Ancient Alien" theorists are right. There sure is a lot of really strange evidence of Alien Visitation... For Example: Why did Mexicans, Cambodians and Egyptians all build Pyramids? What is their purpose? Did they have Alien Help?

If Islam is correct I'm screwed... But then, their Religion JUST SUCKS.

I like THOR... Valhalla I am coming. Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"
 https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/vikingkittens

I have a few members of my family that are Jewish and I think that on Judgement day they will let me in. I've been nice to them and that's important in a world where some people put them in gas chambers and kill them.

Of COURSE, Gaia makes a lot of sense. I can really relate to the fact that all plants and animals are brothers and sisters... I really GROK this idea when I'm in a Redwood Forest. I lived on the edge of a second growth forest for 15 years and I "owned" a specific tree in Eureka. I sat on it daily and smoked cigarettes... I sat on it more often that anyone else so it's MY TREE and I'm It's Human. I will share that tree with our cat Meadow as she liked it too.

Then there are the Goddess Religions... Thankfully, I've met a couple of Goddesses and I sure am glad. One was nicknamed "Nature Nurse". She became my Second Ex-Wife.
Another was Ja-Kay R. from Chico. We played the drums in a band in Paradise, California  and performed "Miserlou" at the Farmers market in downtown Chico. A beautiful Blond Nordic Goddess.
Another was a GURU/Teacher named Sonya Sophia who lead a group healing seminar at the Utah Rainbow Gathering. I also bought admission to her weekly internet sessions where we studied "Tapping" a self-help Acupressure technique... I did that for about a year and learned as much as she could teach. "I Love and Accept Myself"

Rastafarians? Sure, I've smoked a lot of reefer... I can play reggae music... it's got ONE CHORD! Easy but I find it boring even when I'm stoned. Cannabis Psychosis is REAL. If you smoke every day you remain stoned even if you don't smoke... You stay stoned for about a month... and I saw things that were not there but I believed that they were... Difficult to take care of business when I'm THAT Stoned...

Pastafarians? - The Flying Spaghetti monster is a good joke.

The Church of the Subgenius? OK, another good joke.

I'm a registered Minister in the Universal Life Church. Why Not?

Scientology? No thanks, that "E-Meter" is BOGUS science and I know enough about electrical engineering to see that the great OZ is just a man behind a curtain... It's a GREAT religion for L. Ron Hubbard but not for any of the followers.

Timothy Leary and LSD? Ultimately it was disappointing and just an amusing ride... No more meaning than a good roller coaster...

Ram Dass? He took a lot of LSD and then went all the way to India to find a GURU... Then he learned to "BE HERE NOW" from a 6 foot 7 inch surfer from Laguna Beach. He could have saved a lot of time wasted on air travel if he had just gone surfing in California FIRST and Ignored the Indians... but he writes great books...

Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead... Fun to dance to rock music on LSD. However it all has the creepy feeling that it was just an experiment in the CIA Project MKULTRA. What IF we dosed millions of people Nationwide? Would that be useful as a Weapon of War? Make the enemy too stoned to fight?

Surfing as a religion? Yes, that makes sense. Or to put it more simply, doing what you love to do as a way of life... Playing the ukulele or throwing pottery or oil painting or computer programming or dancing or bicycle riding or snow skiing or camping or taking photographs or ... etc etc etc... Yes there is a bliss when a person is doing something they love and are totally focused... TIME itself seems to pass more rapidly... I have experience this myself while programming graphic arts... Suddenly hours have passed while I was "in the zone".

A Christian fellow was giving a lecture at Humboldt State University one time and he said that there was only ONE WAY to go to Heaven, Jesus. He said that you couldn't find God by Mountain Climbing OR Drugs... What he forgot to mention was finding God by Mountain Climbing AND Drugs. BOTH! at the same time! It's not an either/or question... I have hiked to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite on LSD and I"m really glad I did...  He also said that Premarital Sex was a SIN. Like, BAD and you shouldn't do it. What an Idiot. I bet that attitude prevented him from getting laid.

Once I read a book called "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and there was a lot of Toltec Wisdom there.

Another Book Series: "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda... Yaqui Indian Brujo Wisdom

I've played the Father Drum with Native Americans and THAT was "Big Medicine"...

"The Temple of the Screaming Electron" and Digital Immortality. Ray Kurzweil plans to  upload your entire Brain to the Internet and Living forever in the cloud.  I'm working on that too with my Blog by typing almost every event in my entire life and every opinion I've ever held...

So, if you don't like your God simply FIRE him and Write your own Religion!

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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