Re: Search function

[Terrafutura]

       I am concerned with the aforementioned reference to "befuddled overseas visitors with funny things in their suitcases". Would you happen to be inferring that those brown-skinned "evildoers" from the tribe of Ishmael, who retain a 1500 year record of more consistently demonstrated tolerance and benevolence toward humanity and the Spiritual World than our so-called Christianity has with its autocratically orchestrated bloodbath, of which the residue has left us all awashed in sin, are responsible for the sum total of our grief, fear, malefic lust for vengeance, absurd ignorance and sidetracked-imaginations?
       Perhaps we would do well in affirmation of loving thought processes and meditation on the well known-quickly forgotten idea of thoughts having wings...Where are these gestures arriving?
       Maybe we could for a moment risk our comfortable idyllic stations in this imagined life to extend the same quality compassion and respect to these "overseas befuddled visitors" as we do with our own spiritual affiliations, processes, communities, lands, crops, animal companions, lovers, friends, God.
       I do not for a moment feel that I am overreacting to the simplistically seeming nature of the above post-for the implications run as deep as the mighty oceans which lend the life giving properties all who reside on this planet. Let's work to clean up our relationships with the unknown as well as the perceived. Remember, more heinous acts of terror are committed every day in this country by those who look upon their fellow woman and man as corrupt. More acts of state sponsored terrorism are perpetrated daily by a 'befuddled' government we are all responsible for right here-through a sanctioned installation of depleted nutritive foodstuffs which inhibit the will and degrade the neuro-capacitites of the free individual and the escalating hierarchical control gained by multinational corporations who would seek to profit from our degeneration. Further acts of violence on a global scale are committed when our children are compulsorily subjected to corporate influenced "public" schooling where an underlying intention is the disassembly of freewill so that subjugation and grooming for the job market can be secured. Acts of terrorism include our hypocritical medical services and the blatant disregard for the beauty and clarity which the western world's first physician gave to humanity. I end this with that very gift...

Thank you and peace be with all of us,
Caine
     
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.