PART TWO

Here is one of the great problems of mankind in terms of this religion or that.  Whole systems get set up , and doctrines get laid down.  These doctrines may be absolutely perfect for the time and place they were dawned on this mystic or that, but if the doctrine is truth,… then it is here for a job.  That job is to help people evolve towards their own spirituality so that THE pure energy and consciousness can have the opportunity to operate in and through them.
            If the doctrines are truth,… then humans evolve.  But trying to tie doctrines in as perfect for all time and all places is as stupid as keeping every kid in high school forever.  The kids evolve because of the lessons they learn in high school,… then they have to go on to higher learning and higher understanding.  What was good for Johnny 700 years ago, may not be the thing to do in the 21st century.
            Now,… if the doctrines aren’t truth, then you have a whole set of different circumstances.  You have people locked into BS nonsense, and controlled by doctrines not fully founded in real and timeless truth.  But you will notice one thing if you look into history,… and that is - that all BS doctrine seems to serve one group’s agenda.  That is the group that is in power.  Whereas authentic Divinely inspired doctrine serves the divinity within humanity itself,… and the growth and evolution of humanity.
            Why is this???  Because it is based in truth.  The truth of how this planet functions,… the truth about the human design,… the truth about spirit physics and how that set of knowledge (spirit-physics) operates and is harnessed.  The truth of human psychology, physics, math, science, enlightenment,… and a whole slew of different stuff.  Divinely inspired doctrine serves humanity.
            One thing to come to grips with here when asking when something is really and truly based on God,… regardless if it is ties to some religious order or not.  Does it serve the greater good of society?  Does it provide for an enlightened outlook?  Does it come attached to love and kindness,… in the higher vibrations of those frequencies?  And does it provide for the evolution of the human spirit and understanding?  Does it help people to evolve and wake up to their spirituality?
            I will leave you with this one thought,… when people are suffering on a large scale,… whether it is because they do not have enough food, or money to meet real survival needs, or they are in pain,  or their emotions have been ripped to shreds,… unless they are a mystic on a quest,… it is not likely they will come into a more evolved place in life because of these circumstances.  It is more likely that they can do with some real divine kindness,… and more importantly divine guidance and correct thinking.

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Is Hell Now?
The Boy Who Cried Wolf Syndrome

{by Vincent J. Peppers}

Organized religion has been using the idea of Hell for a very long time now.  They used it generously and unwavering for many centuries.  It has been a tool to both control with,… and to warn.  It’s outcomes of use are both good and bad in that respect.

The good part is that it has prevented a lot of people from committing crimes and doing bad things.  The bad part is that it put a lot of people into fear and pondering why a good God would have such a place as Hell for the tiniest infractions or misbehaviors.  The concepts of sin and Hell just doesn’t seem to make sense the way it has been dispensed from the pulpits across the land.

Of course, we live in a new time today.  Today, Hell is viewed as a tool that was used to control earlier societies.  Or it simply is not believed at all.  That is why the belief in Hell has gone way down in the last 20 years.  No matter how much anyone came with the questions of what Hell is about and how it works,… the people who are suppose to be authorities on such things could never give a reasonable answer, except to say, ‘We can’t know the mind of God.”

The concept has become like “the boy who cried wolf” story.  The more we hear it today,… the more ludicrous it all sounds.  But, what if I told you that Hell is super important and very crucial to the way the universe works?  What if I told you that without the polarity of Hell, the cornerstone foundation of free-will would not, and could not, be a functioning thing? 

What if I told you the whole thing is about Quality Control,… and based on vibrations and frequency?  What if I told you that your consciousness effects everything about you and what kind of energy field you put out?  What if I somehow got a most serious revelation of the function of many things,… in terms of spirit and religion?

What if I told you how the physics of Hell actually works, in regards to the human experience?   What if I said that all this stuff is tied to the knowledge of what righteousness really and truly is, and that they (those trained in seminary) have been giving you a kindergarten version of theology for a very long time now?  They have done this because that is what is taught in places of religious learning.  Because we live in a new time and are heading for a different paradigm, this definition just doesn’t fly.

It is like this,… you do not waste time telling your young children the physics of why they should not get near the fire or play with it.  You just say to them, “you will get burned , and it hurts really bad.”  But, when they are older and have the ability to think,… because they have evolved mentally and spiritually,… you give it to them straight. 

The church doesn’t teach it “straight” because the church teaches that the people are little toddlers.  They have been doing this for so long that the deep knowledge is now a thing of the past.  They can’t explain Hell to you in serious terms because they no longer possess the knowledge of what it is - and how it works. 

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Spirituality

{by Vincent J. Peppers}

When Americans think of this term, usually
two things will pop into their minds. One of those is thoughts concerning religion and church, and the other is different ideas and mystic views and practices not found in the classical Christian church of today’s time.

We need to push all of this out of the way for a moment and look at spirituality, FOR THIS MOMENT, as just another part of the human experience. Let’s look at it like paying bills, sex,  loving your kids, driving your car, going to work or running your business, or trades, so you can get paid, socializing and communicating what you think to others.

To see this we only need to look at the human experience through the four components.  They are of course:
the body (all things that have to do with the physical body, even the bills you generate in order to take care of this body),…
the mind (all things that have to do with thought and consciousness,… this is, after all, what is behind everyone’s actions),…
the soul (this has to do with the kind of vibration you are putting out there into your day to day life and also the connection you have with the rest of the universe at large),…
the spirit (this is your force of free-will and all of the things that it can do and will generate, and all of the things it has the capability to tie into).

Spirituality is the “raw energy living substance” part of your human experience.  And in this nation, we are surely way too out of touch with the pragmatic understanding of what this part of us is, and what it does.  We like to think of it as something separate from our lives,… that we visit occasionally.  But this just ain’t so.  There is nothing “separate” about our spirit component at all!  It is there on the toilet with us and in the bed with us and in the morning traffic with us.

For some reason we have the idea that if we can just ignore it,… it will go away.  But guess what,… while you are in a human body, your spirit and soul components is going to be there no matter what.  You are sharing space with it, and you do not even know it. 

If your spirituality is all about your death (focused on after you die),… then you are clueless to the power you have, and the empowerment that is right in front of you,… beyond the physical and material power.

Now, if you are a person of power and influence, then the knowledge of the four components, and how to harness that in the here and now, becomes more crucial for you.   You are not just running around in a daze and a haze,… but you actually know something.  And I would venture to say that you travel in circles of others that actually know something.  Who you are and whatever you do, affects other people’s lives.  I do not think I have to try too hard to make this clear to you.

In the world of the physical and mind,… you very likely deal in value.  But why not in the realms of spirit,… of soul?  Why not bring ALL of you into higher specs?  Why not bring even more value to ALL of you?  Why stop at mastery over just the physical and the mind?

What we offer here is tools and techniques and olden knowledge that brings real value and real essence into your life.  This is not a conglomeration of new age things.  This is  old and extremely effective in its results.  There is no fabric of hodge-podge here.  What we have here is real,… and it works.

So what you absorb here brings even more value to what you have managed to accumulate already.  And “why is that?” you ask.  Because the pure essence of things and people is. was, and always will be, where the real value is.  

Some things in life carry real value.  How much is a person you really trust worth to you?  A lot I would say.  Because this is a person that is actually coming from the pure essence of themselves.  There is no secret or hidden agenda.  It is all out there on the table to see.  Flaws and all.  I will bet that you would not quickly trade that person out for another.

There are certain things that carry real and untold value.  What we are offering here is one of those things.  And what we are asking in return for this is trivial compared to what it will bring into your life. 

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Health is Quality of Life
(from the ancient perspective) 

{by Vincent J. Peppers} 

Health and healing is a vast subject.  To be sure, it comes in many forms.  One of the forms it comes in is the most ancient form.  That would be the very root of medicine itself.  This kind of medicine and healing takes things like the spirit and the soul deeply into consideration.  And why not???  Is this not part of the human experience that effects us physically?
Can we really think we are just bodies and machines that are stuck here on this planet?  I don’t think so.  So why is modern medicine in today’s form practiced like we do not have souls and spirits???  This is the 21st century for God sakes.  The internal energies that we work through are already mapped out and somewhat measured.  That makes them science,… right?
It is not as though the internal energy elements were not already here and fully functioning before they were measured and mapped out, but the mapping out process just makes us all a little more comfortable, and a little more sure that it is real.  Ok,… so now we “know” it is real.
The following step is to bring in an understanding of how it works and functions to the level of common knowledge.  So, let’s get crackin”, shall we?

Enough said:,… let’s look at health and healing from the internal energies perspective.  Take a look at one of the olden symbols that we all think of as tied to health.

          This symbol comes to us from ancient times and carries serious meaning behind it.  In its original form, the entwined serpents had serious representation.  One was black, and the other was white.  It represented the energies that are inside of all of us.  One energy had one certain kind of frequency,… and the other had a polarized frequency.  And balanced together, these energies kept whole health. 

            The staff that the serpents were entwined around had a representation too.  It represented the host, our own bodies that is.  Now the wings and the sphere at the top had some very serious esoteric meaning.  It spoke to the origins of our design as humans.  It spoke of spirit.  (not religious mumbo-jumbo,… but actual frequency that,… what spirit really is,… moves in.. physics related stuff).

            All of this together became widely recognized and associated with the human experience and health.  That is why it is still used today in the 21st century?  It still holds meaning.  It is just that modern science kind of stepped away from the energy frequency part of it and went off to explore the physical details of the body and how it works.  They left the soul and spirit out of the “new” picture.  And what a cryin’ shame too.

            Fortunately, all things that deal in knowledge work in cycles.  We are in a cycle now where these ancient ideas of representation that are on this ancient symbol are coming back full circle.  The really grand and excellent thing about this is that now we have machines that can measure frequencies.  Whereas you may see this as making the Shamanistic approach sort of obsolete,… I see it clearly that it lends massive credence to the sphere these people (us) have been working in for a very long time now.

            These are the folks that work with the internal energies kind of health.  They work with frequencies that they are calling spirit.  But now we can all recognize that spirit is a certain bandwidth of frequency “stuff”.  That means it is real world substance “stuff”.  The reason we can recognize it is because we now have machines that can and do measure it.  All of this “stuff” is just part of your energy field and aura.

            The field is the thing that surrounds and envelopes you.  It carries your personal signature and your personal frequency inside of itself.  (Itself, being the field of course). 

            Because the approach of leaving the idea of spirit and soul out of medicine has been going on for a long time now, we like to think of the cells as effecting the field.  But really,… the field is also effecting the cells.

            When we use esoteric terms to describe this stuff, a lot of people simply get lost and turned off by it.  So I think it needs to be re-explained in new science terminology.  The reason we can do this today is because of the early pioneering research of Dr. Semyon Davidovitch Kurlian in 1939.  He invented the Kurlian photographic techniques and mapped out the science of it.  Of course the Dr. was Russian, as his name gives him away.  But the study of this field has come a long way since way back then.  (you can find all kinds of things on the web regarding Kurlian photography).

            Anytime we are talking about spirit, we are really dealing in three sciences at once.  The science of light.  The science of frequency.  And subatomic particle science.  30 years ago, none of this would have been possible to map out and explain.  This is because we had not yet crossed the thresholds to be able to explain it.  But today we can,… so let’s just go ahead and do that.

            It doesn’t matter if you apply this to spirituality,… or religion,… or science,… or health, it is still the very same thing we are talking about.  This is the time we live in right now.  We are going to see some amazing things because of it.

            The frequency you are carrying right now as part of your aura, or the field that is really you, is effecting you (and your health) and everything and everyone else around you.  These are the classical “vibes” they were talking about in the 60’s, as in “groovy vibes, man”.  Only now, we can really experience them in real world measurements. 

            The frequency is intrinsically tied to your own free-will.  That means that you decide what kind of frequency you will be carting around to give off into the real world.  This is why it is important to reach a level of understanding of the process of how this works.  It really determines your quality of life experience,… or possibly your lack of quality of life experience. 
            We have all heard the stories on Oprah about the extraordinary people who manage to come through horrible life experiences and turn out better than fine.  This kind of thing happens because they wake up one day and discover the idea that they have a field and that they can actually work with that field.  It is unfortunate that it takes so much to teach us this.  But it is not as if this kind of knowledge is common knowledge,… so far anyway.
            Believe it or not,… this is all part of the ancient form of medicine, the kind that takes the spirit and soul into account.  Those people on Oprah actually managed to change their lives because they changed their frequency.  This effected their overall health and well being.
            Now imagine that you are not having such a horrible life, but that the knowledge of this field science is being dawned on you anyway.  How much better could your life get if you just came into the understanding of how this kind of thing worked?
            How much better would you understand your spirit aspect,… your soul aspect,… and even your own religion or spirituality?  What could you do with this if you see that the mind and the body and the soul and the spirit are all part of one whole system and that it is tied to your health?  It is tied to your cells and cell structure.

            Your field is all important here.  Your field is working on your health.  The two are not separate things.  In fact, all four of your components are not separate things (body, soul, spirit, mind).  Each effects the other.  Ignoring it won’t change the design of the human experience,… it just keeps people ignorant. 
            The field works through frequency and vibration.  If you want to change your field then you have to change the frequency and vibration of that field.  Light, frequency, and energy fields are all part of the same thing.  They are part of your field. 
            We are being bombarded day and night by light particles and energy field waves.  All these things carry frequency as part of what they are.  When they come into your field then they are effecting you.  Because we are talking energy, and everything is energy, then they can come through a whole variety of sources. 
            Just like the Earth has an atmosphere that keeps out harmful waves and particles, and space stuff,… so too, we have an atmosphere that does this.  It is called your aura or your field.  Once these particles and waves make it through Earth’s atmosphere, then they are pretty much tampered down so that they cant destroy us.  But they are still powerful and do effect everything on the planet, including us.
            Now, your field is tied to your free-will.  The frequency of spirit you brought into this place when you were born,… blended with your free-will in dealing with experiences so far,… has determined the kind of person you are.
            There is real science to this because we are dealing with energy.  The kind of person you are is all about your frequency that you are giving off through your field.  When particles and waves make it into your field, they carry a certain frequency with them that goes right into what you are. (subatomic particle fields and superstrings). 
Your personal field screens these things by way of the bandwidth of your field’s own frequency.  They either make it in, or they get blocked because the vibration you are vibrating at is like a barrier that allows only things in that are going to find “like polarization” that they can bond with.  The rest never makes it through the barrier. 
            When they bond with these elements (that are you already),… then they just add to who and what you are.  They then become you.  If you are a negative person then negative fields will bond with you,… thereby empowering your already negative vibration.  This is low frequency kind of people.
            If you carry a positive vibration, then when the particles and fields that are like that vibration hit you, they bond with you.  This empowers your positive vibrations.  This is high frequency enlightened people.
            Thoughts have power only because they effect fields.  Everything is energy.  The fields effect,… and are effected by,… your physiology.
            In terms of health,… in order to use internal energies for health and healing, then you need to come into a very strong field.  A field that is both high frequency and powerful enough to influence other fields.  This is how Healers, Shaman, Spiritualized counselors, Medicine people, etc. works.   This is how herbs work (and medicines that have been processed from herbs and other substances).  That is why when the balance of a substance is messed with, you sometimes get negative effects.

 

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The Physiology of True Spirituality
{by Vincent J. Peppers}

            There is a serious truth that comes with any spiritual pursuit.  That truth is that the “active” pursuit itself is bringing with it physiological affects.  Spirituality is the very essence of any and every true religious path.  If you take away the relegere  (latin word meaning to relegate,… and root word of religion), you would still have a generic essence to what is behind any and every religion that still holds water (once you take the relegating factors out of it).

            The essence of that is spirituality,… the essence of that is spirit.  Spirituality is the relationship to and with spirit essence.  It is also a trait of the human condition that is fully human.  The human experience has four components to it.  It doesn’t matter what time we are placed into, or what era or age we are placed into, we still experience life through four components.
            These components are of course the body, the soul, the spirit, and the mind.  We experience life through these, and each is affecting the other.   (Just look up neuro-theology sometime on the web if you find any of this incredible).  So, the thing to really wrap your mind around here is that spirituality is truly also a physiological pursuit.
 
            Now that we have the preliminary stuff out of the way,… let’s dig a little deeper, shall we?  Real spirituality is an energy science.  “I know, I know,… but just indulge me for a second here.”  You are actually after an effect from any spiritual pursuit that you practice.  The effect brings transformation at a cellular level. 
            Humans function a certain way.  The trick to a very affective level of spirituality is understanding how we function and what goes on in the pursuit.  The bottom line to the pursuit itself is that: being fully human means being fully spiritualized.  It means that all four components of what you are is running to capacity, and bringing things to the table, so to speak.
            When we are dealing in spirituality we are really dealing in vibrations, tones, pitches, and harmonic frequencies.  These things in turn affect our level of consciousness.  We are setting out to alter these to certain frequency levels that we can call pitch or tone.  Every truly spiritualized being, regardless of race, gender, creed, religion, culture, or anything else,… clinically vibrates at a higher frequency. (dig those groovy vibes man)
            The reason for this is because something has, and is, occurring on a physiological level.  Something is going on at the level of subatomic particles and it is affecting us at the cellular level.  So long as we are still human,… our spirituality is tied to our physiology. 

            In this form of science we are using our “free will” (and knowledge, techniques, and practices so ancient that no one knows where they originated from) to acquire certain levels of frequencies that affect our whole frequency.  It is just like a big orchestra,… only we are dealing in particles at this point because we are looking at this from the subatomic level..
            We are constantly being bombarded by untold numbers of particles from cosmic rays.  Not just from our Sun either, but from other parts of the galaxy as well.  Some of these particles are designed to make it through our atmosphere.  Our atmosphere is like our own human aura.  It shields out certain things, but lets other things through.  This next part is very interesting and part of the science of superstring physics.
            At the quantum level of atoms (inside quarks) there are these very tiny little things called “strings”.  Each one of these strings carries with it a certain frequency of vibration and tone, or pitch.  Yes, they actually vibrate!  (I would really love to break this down for you, but this article has to fall under certain guidelines,… so contact our editor if you would like more detail in another article).
            This may not seem that big until you look at it from the quantum level of atoms inside your cells.  When these frequency signatures of the “strings” that are carried within the atoms through the cosmic waves strike you, they affect the atoms that are already part of you.   The strings that carry the frequency of vibration, (that would be the frequency of spirituality that you are in active pursuit of), empower (like raising the decibel levels) the existing frequency that you are actively cultivating through your practices and study,… especially meditation.
            (when I am referring to meditation I am not referring to the kind that you contemplate and image in,… the kind that says to think beautiful, loving, and mushy thoughts,… I am talking about the ancient kind where you get immediate physiological results that affect your vibrational frequencies) 

            Your free will in this case becomes the orchestra conductor.  The conductor determines which sheet of music the orchestra is tapping into the frequency of, (tone, pitch, and notes).  The better the conductor and members of the orchestra,… the more precise and perfect the harmony.  Imagine Beethoven’s 5th played in one of the great acoustic halls at high level decibels.  This is sort of like what takes place inside the cell.  Now multiply that by millions and millions.  This is real spirituality.
            This is real science.  There is a whole level of knowledge connected to spirituality.  The knowledge takes all four components into account to produce an effect.  Part of the effect raises levels of awareness to (decibel) levels of consciousness we think of as enlightenment.
            Now, I personally take my spirituality with a good deal of humor.  Because of that I like to think of myself as a mad scientist with an Einstein haircut.  I also personally think of those in active pursuit of spirituality as scientists as well.  Some are new to the science, and some have been practicing for decades with serious results.
            I want to leave you now with one thought.  For this thought I want you to shift to a global awareness.  The more spiritualized “mad-scientists” there are in any culture, the more that LIGHT vibration is going to spill out of their auras and on to other peoples auras.  The more those particles of LIGHT are cultivated, the more it is going to affect the culture they are part of.  In essence, everyone that practices the science will assist in raising the decibel levels.  Understand the science you are dealing in.

About the author

           

Vincent J. Peppers is the creative force behind SES (Sovereign Empowerment Systems).  He has actively studied in the field of spirituality since 1974, and is also a Professor of meditative sciences.  He is a bonified master of chi, and related knowledge, and gets serious results in the healing arts that he practices.  He has studied religion in depth and has several books in the subjects of kung-fu, religon, spirituality, and various other things relted to these fields of study.

           

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"I’m Saved, and On My Way to Heaven",… What Was That???

{by Vincent J. Peppers}

          We will say this is a given, and a beginning point.  Is this all you want from God?  Is this all you think you need to live in a society that has gone, and is currently going, haywire.  A place where bad is now considered good, and good is considered bad?
            Perhaps there is something more to it all.  Perhaps there is something to the scripture in Hosea 4:6, where the priesthood is being chastised for there monopolization of the actual “knowledge of God”.  Where they are being “cut off” from the Divine connection because they are withholding the knowledge from the people of God of that time, in that era, of that paradigm.
            That may have been 3500 years ago (roughly), but I think if it was serious enough for God Almighty to slap them down back then,… then there is something very profound and still very serious to it in today’s paradigm.
            Now, we do not live anymore in ancient times with a very spiritualized ancient point of view,… but I have to ask you, “isn’t this same God of Hosea 4:6 the exact same God we desire to be fully tied to today in the 21st century,… through the son Jesus Christ???
            The answer here is a resounding yes.  And why?… because of the power, because of the goodness, because of the peace, because of the levels of pure sanity, because of what happens on a level of energy with our personal human experiences.
            Note that I am not talking about people that are just simply frightened to death about going to Hell, so they go through the motions to simply secure their heavenly entrance at the end of the life cycle.  I am talking about serious people that actually desire the kind of thing that comes from being tied to, and connected to THE FORCE of ultimate Light and Goodness.
            It is the understanding of this thing that is the “knowledge of God”,... and make no mistake - it is specialized knowledge.  It is also the understanding that is never looked at.  Much of this has to do with politics of (Christian) church history dating back 800 years or more.  But all of that is past and gone now.  We are now in the 21st century.
            This means we are in a new paradigm, a new way of viewing the Universe we live in and are a part of.  In the times we inhabit, the “knowledge of God” is more crucial to us than ever before.  Now would be a good time to at least begin to look at this and see what is behind it.
            Now would be a good time to begin to question, “what is the knowledge of God?”  For that matter, now would also be a good time to ask ‘what”, instead of who, is God.  This will require a shift in thinking,… but it is most crucial to this day.  The evidence of this is laid out by the Christ himself when he goes into the explanation of true worship of God.  He talks about pure spirit substance.
            Paul goes into a profound state of mind when he talks about the substance of faith tied to spirit.  If we begin to shift our thinking to see the ‘what” instead of the who,… we can truly begin to get a grasp on the true essence and the knowledge that is tied to that.
            This of course will take a certain amount of open mindedness that has to do with cutting edge physics and science.  The most simplistic way to view this is to look at the facts of who and what put all the universe into existence.  Imagine the technology and intelligence of such a being.  The profound complexities of just a thought spoken,… that manifests itself into physical reality.  “In the beginning was the word,….”
            If you think the salvation experience is not dealing in energy and consciousness and the most cutting edge science yet to be fully discovered, then you are living in the 21st century with your head in the sand.  This is part of the “knowledge of God”.
            Because our society no longer cares to connect the dots from this to that, it is becoming blind to all of this.  Just turn on the news as proof of this blindness.  We are truly living in a time where the blind are now leading the blind. 
It does not have to continue on this course.  It will take a paradigm shift in thinking to alter the course though.  But it all begins with asking the “what” questions.  It begins by getting a grasp on “what” the connection to God actually is.  It begins by reading the 7th chapter of the gospel of John and having the “what” question present in our minds when we do this.
There is something so massively cutting edge scientific about the true essence of “what” Christ is, AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT CAN BE (AND IS) FORMED WITH THIS BEING, that it should literally shock the world right out of its socks - if it had any idea.  This is a part of the “knowledge of God” though, and it is not being explored.
Sometimes that actual “knowledge of God” doesn’t really fit into religious doctrines that are anti-science.  Just ask yourself what it is you want from God.  Do you want timeless reality, or do you want doctrines that historically shift over time, depending on how far we have evolved spiritually?
There is more to the idea that: “THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD” than we can see - unless we begin to at least try to open our eyes to “what” the knowledge of God is.  The essence of what is contained in the “GOOD NEWS” is very serious and very real cutting edge hard core science.  This is part of the knowledge of “what” righteousness is.  We will explore that one (the essence of what righteousness is) later if any of these first articles make it through the screening process.
It has to do with vibrations, frequencies, light, particles, aura, consciousness, the mind, the physiology, the spirit, and the soul.  This is real substance for a real look in the 21st century.  Before this time we could not have known this.  But the dots are all there.  All we have to do is wake up and connect them.
So again, we come back to the question:  “is all I want from God the salvation experience?”  “Is this all I want from God,… to know that when I die I go to heaven?”  We are talking “kid stuff”.  God is an awesome power and an awesome knowledge.    
 God is the source of pure energy substance.  That means all the energy everywhere all the time.  It is the knowledge, or actually lack thereof, that prevents us from really understanding this where we live and work. 
In a society that is going haywire,… this stuff is pure and raw unadulterated sanity.  The “who” is already established,… yet the ‘what” has yet to be discovered.  Armed with the knowledge of God,… this can be a brave new world and a brave new society.  Has the energy of His glory (imbued in you) gotten powerful enough at this point to make you bold enough to go out and explore the “what” aspect of this conscious and living universe?    

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A Definition in the Pursuit of Happiness

{by Vincent J. Peppers}

            This is one of those things that falls under the heading of “all things to all men (mankind).”  That is, once you meet the requirements of food, clothing, shelter, energy, and transportation.  These of course are the requirements of survival in the world of the 21st century, in any Western world civilization life experience.
            If you are reading this, then I am assuming you have these most crucial needs met and are heading to something more profound in your life experience.  If you do not have these needs met then SES can help you learn to navigate, from where you are right this second, to be able to meet them.  It can assist you in obtaining an empowered state of existence.
            But, let’s talk about this pursuit of happiness thing, because it is so seriously imprinted on the minds and hearts of all Americans.  We live in a society where happiness is a sort of catch phrase. and it is like some unspoken rule to live by.  The problem is that we don’t have a tight grasp of it in the America as it is here in the 21st century. 
            When that phrase was written into our founding documents, it conveyed a meaning for the context of what was happening at the time.  And what was happening at the time is still happening today,… only in a different form.  The real beauty of the Constitution and other founding documents is that it is written in the form of iron clad principles of enlightened truth thoughts.  So those things that are in there apply to all times and contexts in this nation.
            The difference being that our mindsets of today are not the same mindsets of back then because the context has changed so radically.  Another difference is that we have lost the idea of “responsible to the common good of the whole society.” 
            Regardless of the political or economic, or social views of those folks at that time,… there was always one constant.  And that constant was that their hearts and minds were focused on was what the best interest of an “entire” upstart nation with nothing but raw resources to work with, (with the one horrifying exception of founding a nation that did not entirely abolish slavery… a horrific blight on this nation).
            But of course these founders were not being meddled with because they were the governance of the day who wrote this stuff down and lived by it (within their own communities anyway).  They were the top.  They were setting down principles for a nation to rise up to,… and the nation did rise up to those lofty ideas and principles (and are still in the process,… so long as we do not lose sight of the meaning).  Some of the ideas and principles required the whole of the nation having to spill its own blood out to attain.  But in the end, it is the principles that ran the roost.  I am talking about segregation, slavery, anti-Chinese laws, exploitation of workers, Native Indians, etc. etc.. (These cruel and ugly facts have to be said,… although I wish this “exploitative business as usual” was already “learned lessons” before the founding).

            This is all part of our history, and all highly charged material.  So we do not want to get too far off in that direction,  I am sure I will be inspired to tackle some of this charged stuff later and hope it all turns out ok.  For this piece though, we are focusing in on the ideas, ideals, and truths and concepts of the pursuit of happiness.
            America holds the title of the very first nation to implement an idea of freedom and pursuit of happiness into its founding documents.  If you think I am spilling all kinds of political rhetoric your way,.. then think again and read on.  Because America is by no means perfect.  It is almost like the third testament in the Bible in many respects.  We have had our share of killing and meddling and racism and bloodshed.  But we have always held to the self evident truth that the purpose of America is tied to some kind of purpose having to do with the light of God on this planet.
            And of course, anytime you are dealing in a concept like God, or even the fringes of God-thought, you NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE.  Even though many times it looks as though America takes a sort of “might makes right” kinda of path,… and we should be ashamed of ourselves when we do,… there is still this idea deep in the hearts of Americans that we need to be responsible to the whole of what constitutes America, (the people).
            This idea is not dead;, it just keeps getting pushed farther and farther into the back of the conglomerate consciousness of America because of things like greed and corporate irresponsible actions and policies, and the idea that CASH REALLY IS KING.
            These concepts that are pushing the founding ideas backwards are not sovereign concepts at all.  The reason they are not sovereign is because they do not take the good of the “entire” nation into consideration.  They take instead a very exploitive selfish kind of idea to heart, then run with it.  Kind of like “damn the people,… full speed ahead.” 
            It is the people that constitutes any nation,… never mind a nation that has documents of its own founding that reads: “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.”  Just this one phrase alone, never mind all the rest, implies a deep, deep sense of responsibility. 
In terms of something like the deeply embedded idea of “the pursuit of happiness”, this responsibility really and truly needs to be re-examined for what it really and truly is.  Can we, the people, that actually constitute what America is, seriously believe that happiness should be pursued irresponsibly, and against what is in the best interest of the whole of the nation?  I dare say NO, NO, NO!!!
We are seeing this now.  We have been seeing this for the last 25 years or more.  And what do we see as the outcomes of it today?  You need to ask yourself this.  You also need to ask yourself what is at the bottom of why this is happening.  This is the only way to bring solution to anything at all,… it doesn’t matter what it is.

I am going to tell you some hard truths in this article, because you need to see them in context with the written ideas of our now ancient documents that speak to the pursuit of happiness.  No nation can thrive without its people being made free enough to pursue happiness.  If there is no motive to create, or invent, or do business, or teach, or any other thing,… then human nature would dictate that it would kill any serious motivation.  With no motivation, then life just becomes one big “blah.”  All the vibrancy gets ripped right out of it.  This is simply the design of human existence and falls under the heading of a horribly misinterpreted idea found in the Bible called “righteousness.”
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I think most of us are evolved enough to realize at this point in the 21st century that the pursuit of happiness is directly tied to your own personal purpose in life.  That makes it a very spiritual concept indeed.  There is no such thing as a spiritual concept without the responsibility to the whole of what life is. 
The very idea of the pursuit of happiness is actually and factually married to what being responsible to the over all good of any population is.  In terms of America, this would be a serious look at what the impact of your personal pursuit is doing to society. 
To use an old Viking term to make a point:  if raping and pillaging and plundering is your idea of happiness,… then you have a very screwed up idea of what the heart of “the pursuit of happiness” is all about.  If your idea of happiness is to exploit someone else, and cause them pain or anguish,… then your idea of happiness is massively and over the top irresponsible.  This may not be good English,… but it certainly makes the point.

Why do I write an article like this?  I write this article because it is now becoming the norm state of the nation.  And there is something serious that is behind why it is becoming more and more the state of the nation.  Let me make a couple of things clear right now.
I am not an advocate of repressive religio-fascist dictatorial ideas over the population.  It doesn’t matter to me if it comes in the form of a most serious and freedom repressing Al Qaeda governance,… or even some of our own rightist Christian ideas that take the vibrancy from life.  I don’t think any of this stuff is cool.  And I don’t think any of this stuff is actually good for a freedom loving vibrant nation. 
But there are some basic ideas that are serious and most profound when it comes to something like the overall good of an entire nation.  This concept is a concept of the actual goodness of God,… and the teachings of the goodness we use in the treatment of our neighbors as laid out by Christ.  This is important stuff because it takes the responsibility of the overall good of the entire nation into serious account.
I mean, do we like going out into public and thinking that we could be robbed or assaulted simply because it makes some self centered non-long term thinking person with no deep understanding of life happy?  I KNOW I DON’T.  I know I don’t like thinking about the security of my belongings when I leave my place.  I don’t want to think my kids are in jeopardy because of some sick bastard that is twisted and perverted.  None of this is at the heart of the pursuit of happiness.  Yet, in society more and more, it is becoming prevalent.
Let’s get to some of the hard fact reasons that could be behind why this is happening.  Then maybe we can get down to some solutions.  Let’s look at the idea of a massive growth of people that are taking the stance of : “I will do whatever the hell I want to do,… and who the hell are you to tell me it is right or wrong?!!!”

Now, we can say truthfully that these people have no common decency and respect for their fellow citizens.  And we would be telling the ultimate truth.  But why is this?  30 years ago you would have never have seen this.  So what is behind this recent and growing trend is our society.  Why is it happening, and what is making it happen?
We can’t simply believe it is some sort of evolutionary process.  This is all just too recent of a phenomena to be that.  This is actually part of something that happened about 25 years ago in America.  This is something that was introduced into the population that has never been introduced into any Western world population ever in history.  It is a legislated idea and reality that says to people growing up, “you can do whatever you want and you will have no consequences to be responsible for.”
And this is somehow suppose to be good for the society,… yeah right!???  What this really is in fact is legislated irresponsibility.  What this is in fact is robbing the ability of the parents to keep the very offspring that they are ultimately responsible for shaping, under some kind of sane guidance.
So we now have generations of people that actually believe as long as they get away with something, then it is ok to do.  They think this way because they were never given consequences that are swift and painful to their actions that are not good for the overall society.
What we have here is a vicious cycle that is now perpetuating itself at an alarming rate.   What we have is a very tweaked idea and belief about our most serious freedom concept of the pursuit of happiness.  People that are now in their thirties and forties will never believe that the pursuit of happiness should ever be irresponsible to the whole of society.  They may do things that are wrong and illegal,… but they know it is wrong and illegal.
However, when you bring the age down a bit, you will find that a huge number of the population think that irresponsible pursuit of happiness is somehow their entitlement.  They think they are special and unique individuals that are suppose to be cherished no matter what they do.  They think they are supposed to be praised for something like being a responsible American.  It is a sense of entitlement that is caused by thinking they are somehow and in some strange way, the very center of the Universe.

If you think it is some sort of coincidence that things are this way then it may be time to brew up a powerful cup of coffee and turn off the TV and computer, put away the gaming software, and actually think thoughts on these matters.  If you think we are in a break down now,… just wait.  This generation is going to eventually come into power.
That is enough scaring you for now.  What we really need to do is look at the serious intent behind all this stuff.  Like, why is this thing this way, and why was it changed to be this way. 
I am telling you the serious truth here; this is about your empowerment and the lack of it.  This is about throwing a wrench into the gears of what society is and does.  This is about power and who controls it.  This is about creating a very serious apathy in a population that has actual enormous power over who wields the direction of this nation.  And honestly,… aren’t we all more apathetic than ever before?  Aren’t we all just sick to death over all this irresponsible stuff that goes on?  Aren’t we just sick of being lied to and belittled?  Aren’t we all just tired of having our power ripped from our hard working hands that never seem to just get a breath of fresh air from our endless toils as if we were part of some kind of machine? 

I think many people are starting to wake up to this. Honestly - the more and faster, the better   Or is it just not enough,... all the riduculous stuff going on and being imposed on all of us, I mean???

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  Life, Liberty… and the Pursuit of Happiness

{by Vincent J. Peppers}
(2001)

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,… this is the basis and the foundation of our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.  This concept has produced a land with tremendous freedoms for its people.
 It is a concept of enlightened thinkers.  It is a concept of true freedom and liberty.  Now I ask you… what does “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as it is laid out in our great document really mean?  Why is it such a profound truth?  Profound enough to reshape the whole world!
Behind these concepts,… or better, at the essence of these concepts, are some very serious truths.  Here is the pure beauty of any truth,…  It can be applied to both the physical reality and the spiritual reality and it always produces an inner light to walk by.
Those of us who grew up in the United States of America in the middle portion of the 20th century were bombarded by these concepts from an early age.  Did we really think them through?  More importantly, were we really able to think them through at that time in our mindset as it was?
For most of us the answer is no, of course not.  Our minds and powers of thought had not yet taken shape.  Our abilities for insight had not yet been cultivated.  However, that was then and this is now.  So let’s take a fresh look at these concepts, these truths, but this time, let us look at them from the perspective of a spiritual path.

You are probably wondering why the Sovereign White Tiger Association would delve into a subject matter that seems to be of a political nature,… but I tell you that this is not of a political nature! 
This Association has always been about pointing out those things that are not always obvious, but do apply to a spiritual path,… especially as it pertains to the martial arts.  This is a subject that falls under this category and is of the highest nature.

So now,… friends, Romans (Americans), countrymen,…  Lend me your ears!  For I am about to deliver an oration of a lifetime.  Life!  Liberty!  And the pursuit of happiness!  How do these noble ideas relate to us in this day?  How do they relate to us in this time?  In this Association?  The answer to these questions is a short one.  Profoundly!!!
Not only are these the ideas that brought about a new time in the world’s history,… but they are also the ideas that bring about a new time in your own personal history.  We shall now look at these concepts through the eyes of those on a spiritual path, and in our doing so shall recognize the great truth contained within their essence.
Life.  Liberty.  And the pursuit of happiness.  These are not only our highest of ideals, but they are the path that leads to liberation of the soul, liberation of our own spirit.  As we look at them from their essence, they shall bring about a new level of understanding, a new level of awareness, a new level of inner peace.

Life!  What is this at its essence?  Everything is born out of it,… but what is it?  It is something creative by its very nature.  It is a force that is profound and timeless,… and you are a part of it,… you belong to it just as it belongs to you.  It is quoted in the sacred text (John 10:10) by the greatest of all spiritual teachers to ever grace this planet.  “I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.”  It is also quoted by this same teacher,  “Heaven is within you.” (Luke 17:21)
So again I ask you,… what is life?  Is life not the essence of what you are at your core, your center?  There are three principles that make up the complete understanding of the pure essence of Kung-fu. 
Principle one: breath is life!  Principle two: Heaven is within you!  Principle three: Life is an endless circle.  Now these concepts were here long before we were gifted with the essence of the Christ,… but that greatest of physicists put them in a different perspective for a new age.  And also for another new age that is now upon us.
So, life is your essence.  It is your mind, body, spirit, and soul.  It is something you must really come to know.  When I say “know” I am speaking in the Biblical sense.  That is to say, “to be in union with.”   Pure life is a state of wholeness.  To know it,… to be in union with it is a state of awareness.
Is life not our guarantee?  Is it not our Human right?  Its full experience may only be attained by looking within yourself.  For it is there that we experience the connection.  Experience the wholeness.  Experience the essence of an abundant life. 
Pure life is not compromised by trauma or tragedy.  It is not compromised by personality quirks.  Life is centered.  It is eternal.  It is peace.  It is power.  To see it for what it really is,… is the true quest for every Human Being.

 

Liberty!  What is this?  This most precious of rights.  It is freedom!  It is a freedom not tainted by irresponsibility.  It is a freedom that is attained by truth. “Know ye the truth and the truth will make(set) you free!”  Again, I am quoting the great master.
Liberty is something of a profound spiritual nature.  It is a state of mind that comes from within.  It is earned by walking the path of seeking out the Absolute Truth.  For it is only the Absolute truth that liberates.  Mind you here that this is a spiritual discourse.
Liberty is something that comes from “knowing”,… experiencing the pure essence of the wholeness.  Experiencing the truth!  The truth is not a theory of ideas,… instead the truth is a full blown experience of ideas.  A full blown experience of truth.  A full blown experience of your inner self.
Liberty is the recognition that you are a spiritual being living out a Human existence for the time being.  Know ye the truth!  Liberty does not come from someone else’s doctrines and dogmas.  These are only the foundations of the path you must traverse.  Liberty comes from within!  Freedom is derived from knowing the truth of who and what you are.  Freedom is not doing whatever you want to do.  Freedom  is doing that which brings you back to your state of wholeness.
Liberty is a state of awareness!  Knowing truth is liberation.  The state of mind that is liberated is always followed by actions that are liberated.  Liberty is not designed to create chaos,… this is not true liberty.  Liberty is the freedom that comes from being fully responsible to the whole.  That is to say the wholeness of you.  The wholeness of your family.  The wholeness of your culture.  That you are part of the wholeness is inescapable. 
A mind, body, spirit, and soul that is oppressed is not one that is liberated.  For it is not one that recognized the true nature of liberty.  Nor is it one that has yet recognized the true nature of the whole and connection of the energy of life.

The pursuit of happiness!  This little concept is mind boggling.  For it speaks to us of our purpose of existence… to pursue happiness!  Happiness only comes from the experience of inner peace.  Happiness is having enough for the mind.  Enough for the body.  Enough for the spirit.  Enough for the soul.  Real happiness is a true balance and harmony.
It is connected to the full realization of your purpose in life.  In fact, the attainment of your purpose in life is the pursuit of happiness.  Why are you here?  What contributions are you making to yourself and others?  Does your life have real purpose?  Tackling these questions is the real meaning of pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is love.  It is caring for yourself and others.  It is contributing to life.  It is expanding your consciousness and awareness of your relationship and connection to life’s wholeness.  It is discovering, pursuing, and realizing the purpose for which you are on this planet.  True happiness only comes from a certain spiritual awareness.
    Achieving what you set out to do in the realm of your mind, in the realm of your body, in the realm of your spirit, in the realm of your soul.  All of these are the pursuit of happiness.  All four are the harmony.  For one without the other is not full and true balance.
            The pursuit of happiness is working towards one’s own discovery of the highest purpose and potential of one’s own life. 
            Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness these are spiritual concepts. 

 

            The reason you find a discourse like this on the Sovereign White Tiger Association’s page is because it has everything to do with the true purpose and pure intent of Kung-fu
            Kung-fu is an ancient path of liberating oneself.  An ancient path of discovering one’s own purpose.  An ancient path of experiencing the connection to Life force.  Look within.  Imbue yourself with life force.  Seek Absolute truth.  Work towards the harmony of mind, body, spirit, and soul.  And above all… experience love!               

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