9 Reader Responses

1. Ted Heistman Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

   If there were a code to decipher, diciphering it would be a kind of a reward I guess. If you are just screwing with people, then maybe, to you it’s funny, like a running gag, only, the only one in on it is you.

   Is it a combination? Because to really take that much time, as reading your posts seems to involve, just to figure out what an internet blogger is talking about, you have to really have a sense its worth it.

   Like, I plan to read a Phillip K. Dick novel that has supposedly has a cipher in it with some esoteric message. To me it would be worth the effort.

   I have no doubt you had some serious religious experiences and to just share them literally, might ruin the message or something. But to be a Genius, you need to go to these upper realms and then come back to Earth and explain them.

   I have a sense that very often you are just playing around with words in a way that has become easy for you and there is nothing really deep there.

   The thing is though there is some serious hunger people have. I know there are no guarantees in life, its not good to have too much faith in people, but still is it good to feed hungry people empty calories?

   You’ve helped me a lot, but some times I wonder if you are just screwing with peoples heads. Is there anything here? You really want that many people focusing on your words, in such a painstaking way, looking for meanings, and none is there?

   I know you have strongly considered ministry as a vocation. Have you become embittered? I sense some passive aggression here. Are you out sailing in the ocean and these posts are some autogenerated software program? Is this a performance art/thought/social expiriment?

   Or maybe I am just taking this way too seriously…….

2. Ted Heistman Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

   On second thought, I think I am asking way too much from you, from just a guy whose blog I read. I guess you have had such flashes of brilliance that i have kind of held you up on kind of a pedastal, and imputing power and knowledge to you that you don’t have.

3. Ted Heistman Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   “Against the Empire is posed the living information, the plasmate or physician, which we know as the Holy Spirit or Christ discorporate. These are the two principles, the dark (the Empire) and the light (the plasmate). In the end, Mind will give victory to the latter. Each of us will die or survive according to which he aligns himself and his efforts with. Each of us contains a component of each. Eventually one or the other component will triumph in each human.
   Zoroaster knew this, because the Wise Mind informed him. He was the first savior. Four have lived in all. A fifth is about to be born, who will differ from the others: he will rule and he will judge us.”

   Here is a quote from Philip K. Dick. I feel like the dark principle within me was triumphing, but part of me regretted this, so I would come here and argue with you, hoping, you could persuade me to allow the light to triumph.

   You were very patient and I think you may have saved my soul. At least helped. So that is why I take you so seriously. I mean my soul may have already been saved, but you helped put me on the right track again.

   But don’t worry, I am not going to be like Peter in that episode, of Brady bunch where Greg saved his life and he followed him around!

   But seriously man, you have a ministry.

4. skip sievert Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

   If you have a hero look again.
   You diminish yourself in some way.

   Religious cranks are never meant to be taken seriously.
   They are soldiers for power possessors that have been brainwashed.
   Originally it was the Political system that invented Religion to control and manipulate people.
   Make them work and fight and die for abstract concepts, coated with sugar.

5. Ted Heistman Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

   Well, I don’t think Tim is a crank. I think he is kind of a hybrid of mystic and an artist. He used to be more of a journalist. But anyway, people can be a fellow traveller and offer some guidence to people.

   I think if he was trying to be a weird cult leader or somthing, he has definately accidentally hit on some effective techniques. But I tend to think he is more sincere than that.

6. Julia Says:
   July 26th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

   I agree, Tim has a ministry whether he intended to have one or not. In the mundane sense that people need other people who are generous with their skills and learning in order to advance and be more capable when dealing with the ‘real world’ and in a more spiritual sense. Thinking about Tim’s anima possession and his honesty about his experiences got me thinking about a series of dreams I’ve had about a former friend and how my interpretation of that dream has affected my behavior. My new understanding is going to be a guiding star in my spiritual life for quite some time. This kind of intersection between the spiritual and mundane is a ministry and can save souls. There are a lot of bad things out there that people need to be saved from.

7. skip sievert Says:
   July 27th, 2007 at 9:49 am

   Any belief system is supported by nothing except imagination, while the next most probable is supported by observation of some phenomenon that can be recreated under the same conditions by anyone, at any time and the result will be the same.
   This is science.
   This is how fact is established.— One can imagine anything, however it can only become Science when it can be measured i.e. detected either directly or remotely. Failing this it simply does not exist.

   Religion is the method developed to turn guilt inward and sublimate anger. Although it is an ingenious method of controlling people, at base it is dishonest, and relies on false information and bigotry.

8. Ted Heistman Says:
   July 27th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

   Skip, I don’t think I am as jaded as you about Tim’s purpose with the blog but here few lines from a critique Tim made of Ken Wilbur:

   “On some level, I feel like Wilber is cloaking his ideas in complex ridiculous language on purpose. What purpose could that be? Well, it seems to me that when you spend so much time trying to decode and master vocabulary, you spend less time actually dissecting and analyzing the ideas themselves. It becomes a sort of social game of “follow the leader” where you’re trying to communicate and fit in by learning the lingo.”

   I think Tim is back now, I don’t want to be rude and act like I am talking about him like he is not there, But I think this excerpt kind of gets to the core of what was bugging me, that I was trying to get at in my first post.

9. skip sievert Says:
   July 27th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

   Tim and I do no agree on much Ted. One thing we do agree on for some reason is that neither one of us likes Ken Wilbur.

   Also Ted, I have never stated what I think Tim`s purpose with the blog is. Only my reaction to certain passages.