We are too affluent. We have too much money and other things. We have so many things. Even many poorer people have many things, and “things” become our life, and our vocabulary has been invaded with, “I got this,” and “Let me do my thing.” Yet the Lord has said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,” reports Matthew 6.33. Too often, though, we want the “things” first. We have a great generation of youth, and many of them are not patriotic and has ceased to pray. Their WiFi is down. Also, numerous young people in their early married days cease to pray with regularity; the WiFi buffering speeds are lagging. However, it is most fitting, my brethren and sisters, that we always sing the glorious hymn in our minds, “We thank thee, O God, for a Prophet.” God has spoken as the divinely appointed mouthpiece of the Lord here on Earth, and we must remember to have a spirit of thanksgiving. Many times, people only think about God when they need something, but God is constantly bestowing His grace upon us, even without us earning it. Therefore, let of be in constant thanksgiving. Think about it this way, if you are always buying your children the latest toys and they do not thank you, and then they break them and keep begging for new toys, eventually you will get tired and ignore them. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

Therefore, we must draw closer to God, by thanking Him and in our actions and words, and He will draw closer to us. “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded,” reports James 4.8. This is an invitation to develop a personal relationship with God by following His example and learning about Him through the scriptures. Some ways to draw closer to God include: Acknowledging God daily, asking God to reveal Himself, reading the Christian Bible and the Book of Mormon, praying, and serving and loving others. “And whoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 68.3. Goes does speak to us now. He manifests Himself through prophets whom He raised up for this day—for 2024—for present-day people—to help them to successfully combat the seductions of a decadent and blinded World. If you are willing to accept it, every one of you may have the full benefit of His Heavenly guidance. You can know God’s will pertaining to your own self, given now—not two thousand and twenty-four years ago, but here and now. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

When we have merely made a new acquaintance, we often imagine we have made a new friend. He only to whom we can speak our private thoughts is our friend, and no one else. He who files to our aid when all others flee away is our friend, and no one else. Above all, he whose sympathy is so perfect that he understands and forgives our failings is indeed worthy to be our honoured friend. Where minds are great and hearts are large, two persons can remain cordial friends even though their outlooks differ. There is a silence between two persons which is full of nervous tensions, but there is another which is full of healing peace. This is rare, uncommon, but it is found through real harmony, full trust, surrendered ego. It is not necessary to give up personal friendships to follow the Quest. They are quite permissible in their place and have their instructive value. Those who pursue such an ideal as ours have always to live inwardly, and sometimes outwardly, apart from the mob—that is, to live in a loneliness which makes true friendship double its worth. Sometimes a quick friendship means that he is reviving an old spiritual relationship out of the hidden past, out of the numerous incarnations which have been lost in time. Therefore, understanding and recognition come quickly, explanations and introductions are not waited for and are not necessary in the real soul-realm. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

There is the common friendship in which the emotional attitude may one day pass from affection to animosity, and there is this rare friendship which, because it is based on something deeper, diviner, and more enduring than mere emotion, witnesses only the ripening of affection into real love. We each possess our own Heavenly latitude and must seek out our true compatriots on that line. The course of life’s friendships is sometimes like a turning wheel. We think we grasp the hand of a friend but one day the wheel turns, and he is gone. In the end, we cannot escape from our solitariness. Only those who hold the same spiritual conception of life can be true affinities in friendship. If an individual wished to break away from any continued acquaintance completely, there are times in personal relationships when eagerness for friendship, on one side, would mean cruelty on the other side. If possible, in such an instance, one should try to continue seeing the other but make the association on a different level. The other person may have awakened to the Quest of truth, and any unfortunate experience between them would be no reason for deserting her but only for learning how to handle persons of the opposite gender who are led across his orbit for spiritual help. Friendship is a loving relationship between two people. Friends respect each other, care about each other, and overlook and forgive each other’s faults. Our Heavenly Father wants us to be friends to all His children, but use great discernment. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

Some scripts can be traced back in a clinical interview to the great-grandparents, and if the family has a recorded history, as is often the case with kinds and their courtiers, it may go back thousands of years in time. No doubt scripts began when the first manlike creatures appeared on Earth, and there is no reason to suspect that their scenes and acts and outcomes were different then than they are now. Certainly the life courses of the kings of Egypt, which are the oldest reliable biographies we have, are typical scripts. The story of Amenhotep IV, 3500 years in the past, who changed his name to Ikhnaton is a good example. By this change he brought on both greatness and the fury of those who followed him. If information about remote ancestors, or the great-grandparents, can be obtained, so much better for the script analysis, but in ordinary practice, in most cases, it starts with the grandparents. It is common knowledge, even proverbial, how much grandparents, alive or dead, influence the lives of their grandchildren. For a good script, “To make a lady, start with the grandmother,” and for a bad one, “From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” Many children at an early age not only want to imitate their forebears, but would like actually to be their own grandparents. This desire may not only have a strong influence on their life scripts, but it may cause considerable confusion in their relationships with their parents. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

American mothers, it is said, favour their fathers over their husbands, and encourage their sons to take after grandfather instead of Dad. The most productive single question to ask regarding ancestral influences is “What kind of lives did your grandparents lead?” There are four types of reports commonly given in answer to this. Ancestral Pride. A winner or “prince” will state in a matter-of-fact way, “My ancestors were kinds of Ireland,” or “My great-great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Lublin.” It is apparent that the speaker has “permission” to follow in the footsteps of these ancestors and become an outstanding personality. If the statement is made pompously or solemnly, however, the speaker is probably a loser of “frog,” and is using his ancestry to justify his existence because he himself does not have “permission” to excel. If the response is: “(My mother was always telling me that my ancestors were Irish kings, ha, ha,” or “(My mother was always telling me that) my great-great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi, ha ha,” it is usually given from a not-O.K. position; the speaker is allowed to imitate his illustrious ancestors, but only in their losing characteristics. These replies may mean: “I’m as drunk as an Irish king should be, so that makes me like an Irish king, ha ha!” or “I’m poor as a Chief Rabbi should be, so that makes me like a Chief Rabbi, ha ha!” #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

In such cases, the early programing was: “You’re descended from a Chief Rabbi, and they were very poor.” This is equivalent to a directive: “Be like your famous ancestor…” with the clear implication from mother “…so drink a lot, your father does,” or “…so don’t make money, your father doesn’t.” In all these cases the ancestor is a family euhemerus, a heroic model from the past who can be imitated but never surpassed, and these are different ways that people deal with euthemeri. Idealization. This may be romantic or paradoxical. Thus, a winner may say: “My grandmother was a wonderful housekeeper,” or “My grandfather lived to be ninety-eight and had all his teeth and no gray hair.” There is a clear indication that the speaker would like to follow in the romantic grandparent’s footsteps and is basing her or his script on that. A loser will express paradoxical idealization: “My grandmother was a tough, down-to-earth woman, but she became senile in her old age.” There is a clear implication that she may have been senile, but she was the smartest woman in the state hospital; and furthermore, that that is also the speaker’s script: to be the smartest woman in the state hospital. Unfortunately, this setup is so frequent that the competition in state hospitals to be the smartest woman on the ward can become quite strenuous, turbulent, and discouraging. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Rivalry. “My grandfather dominated my grandmother,” or “My grandfather was a weakling who let everyone push him around.” These are often the “neurotic” responses interpreted by psychanalysts as expressing the child’s desire to be more powerful than his parents. “Grandfather is one person who can talk back to my mother—I’d like to be him,” or “If I were my father’s father, I wouldn’t be a coward, “I’d show him.” Karl Abraham’s case report shows the scripty nature of such attitudes, where the boy indulges in daydreams of being the prince of an imaginary kingdom whose king is like his father. Then along comes the king’s father, who is far more powerful than the king. Once, when the boy was punished by his mother, he said, “Now I’ll marry granny.” Thus, his secret 9but not unconscious) planning at that time was based on a fairy tale in which he becomes more powerful than his parents by becoming his grandfather. Personal Experiences. These concern actual transactions between children and their grandparents, which are strong influences in molding the child’s script. A grandmother can send a little boy forth to be a hero, or on the other hand, a grandfather can seduce a young lady and turn her into a Little Red Riding Hood. In general, grandparents, as mythology and clinical experience show, are regarded with awe or terror, just as parents can be regarded with admiration or fear. The more primitive feelings of awe and terror are influential in forming the child’s picture of the world during the early stages of script-building. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Anything that ends a searching, striving attitude toward the World triggers off an alteration in all modes of experiencing, even when the objective state of the World has not changed. Once this disengagement happens, there is no reason for the person to repress hitherto distracting modes of being conscious; so the person will smell, taste, touch, and hear more than usual; recall will be more concrete and eidetic; and imagination will be more playful. However, these “expanded” states of consciousness are largely false, unreal perceptions, sought after specifically as an escape from a dimly perceived, threatening, or boring reality. The revelatory power of prayer perhaps stems from a similar cause; a person may pray for divine guidance when personal struggles have come to naught. If the person authentically “surrenders” and begins to pray, this disengagement from the struggle may bring to light solutions that always were there, although the person could not see them. Meditative disciplines later and enlarge a person’s perceptual and other experiential modes by way of disengagement. One cannot truly “get into” the various Hatha Yoga postures until one disengages from one’s customary modes of experiencing and striving. Hypnosis appears to work in similar fashion. When one is being persuaded by the hypnotist’s suggestions, one is being seduced into suspending usual ways of being conscious of the World. If one yields, one’s consciousness is indeed altered. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

The outsiders are people who saw too much for their time and place. They were not wholly in the clutch of the norms, goals, and standards of their place, and so their consciousness of the World within which they were living was radically “altered,” different from that of the typical person. Thus, sometimes outsiders have a vision that wrecks them because they do not understand why their vision is different and how to protect themselves. Hitherto, this is regarded as the madness of schizophrenia. It is an authentic but different way of experiencing the World that happens when a person gives up an identity that is no longer viable. The act of surrender triggers off such alterations of consciousness as hallucinations, visions, and the like. Of course, any deviations from ordinary consciousness give rise to action that appears strange to the average person. This is why “altered consciousness” can be troublesome unless a person learns how to use the richer experience as a guidance to more effective action. Rousseau’s Confessions, though only remotely akin to analysis, may serve as an example of self being related to the whole structure. Here is a man who apparently wants to give an honest picture of himself, and does so to a moderate extent. However, throughout the book he retains blind spots concerning his vanity and his inability to love—to mention only two outstanding factors—which are so blatant that they impress us today as grotesque. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

He is frank about what he expects and accepts from others, but he interprets the resulting dependency as “love.” He recognizes his vulnerability but relates it to his “feeling heart.” He recognizes his animosities, but they always turn out to be warranted. He sees his failures, but always others are responsible for them. To be sure, Rousseau’s confessions are not a self-analysis. Yet on rereading the book in recent years I have often been reminded of friends and patients whose analytical endeavours were not too different. The book, indeed, deserves a careful and critical study. An endeavour at self-analysis, even though more sophisticated, may easily meet with a similar fate. A person equipped with greater psychological knowledge might merely be more subtle in his attempts to justify and embellish his actions and motivations. There is one point, however, on which Rousseau is straight: his peculiarities involving pleasures of the flesh. This frankness must certainly be appreciated. However, his frankness in intimate matters helps to keep him from seeing how little he faces his other problems. In this regard, too, the lesson we can still learn from Rousseau is worth mentioning. Since pleasures of the flesh is an important domain in our life it is important to be as relentlessly honest toward it as toward everything else. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

However, the one-sided emphasis that Dr. Freud has given factors involving pleasures of the flesh may tempt many people to single them out above others, as Rousseau did. To be straight in questions involving pleasures of the flesh is necessary; but to be straight only with them is not enough. Another one-sided emphasis is a persistent tendency to regard a particular present difficulty as a static repetition of a particular present difficulty as a static repetition of a particular infantile experience. When a person wants to understand himself, it is important, beyond any doubt, that he understand the forces that were instrumental in his development, and it is one of Dr. Freud’s foremost discoveries to have recognized the influence that early experiences exert upon the formation of personality. However, it is always the sum of all our early experiences that has contributed to mold the present structure. And it is therefore futile to uncover isolated connections between a certain present disturbance and a certain early influence. Present peculiarities can be understood only as an expression of the whole interplay of forces operating in the present personality. For example, the peculiar development that took place in Clare’s relationship with her mother and had a definite bearing upon her dependency on men. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

 However, if Clare had seen that she subordinated herself to Peter as she had to the mother, that she hero-worshiped Peter as she had and to help her in distress as she had expected the mother to help her, that she resented Peter’s rejecting her as she had resented the mother’s discrimination against her. In recognizing these connections, she might have gained a certain distance to her actual problem, simply by recognizing the operation of a compulsive pattern. However, she clung to Peter not because he represented a mother-image but because, through her repressed arrogance and ambition, she had lost her self-regard, almost lost her identity; thus she was fearful, inhibited, defenseless, and isolated, and on these grounds was compelled to seek shelter and restoration of herself in ways that were doomed to failure and merely entangled her more deeply in the network of her inhibitions and fears. Only by realizing these dynamics could she eventually free herself from the aftermaths of an unfortunate childhood. Still another one-sided emphasis is a tendency to harp always on the “bad” sides, or what are regarded as such. Confessing and condemning can then take place of understanding. This is done partly in a spirit of hostile self-recrimination but also with a secret belief that confession alone is enough to harvest a reward. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

These blind spots and one-sided emphases may be found, of course, in any endeavour at self-analysis, whether the limitations discussed above are present. To some extent they may result from mistaken preconceptions about psychoanalysis. If the person achieves a more rounded understanding of psychic process, in this case they can be corrected. However, they may also represent merely a means of evading the essential problems. If these resistances are strong enough—if they amount to what I have described, in this case, they are ultimately caused by resistance to progress and may constitute a definite obstruction to the success of the analysis. With free interchange between parents and children, there is no telling what may happen. The child who goes to school might well choose to go to bed earlier (after a few mistakes) because then he does better and feels better the next day. Anyway, things seem to resolve themselves somehow when I go about it this way. When my son was eight, he suddenly refused to take baths. It was warm in Hawaii, and he perspired a lot. Evening after evening I tussled with him, and then suddenly it made no sense to me to wear myself out that way. So I stopped. And he went to school day after day without a bath. I wondered a little about what his teachers might think, but that was between them and him. I did not expect what happened. After three or four day he came home crying “The kids say I stink!” No more problem. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

Quite often the best thing to do is nothing. When I was a child, I once stood against the lamp post that was nearest to our house, where I knew that my mother could hear me (besides, it was after dark and I was afraid to be too far away) and I cried and cried and cried, as long as I could for a very long time. I was doing it to punish her, and demanding that she come to me. She did not come. I went from rage to grief to rage to self-pity while I cried, because she did not come. She was defeating me. (There were other times when she let me win.) Finally, I gave up because I could not cry any more, and besides, I knew that I was being phoney, that I was crying to punish my mother. I had noticed, too, that when I looked at the streetlights through my tears, they did fantastically lovely things, like a kaleidoscope, and when I partly closed my eyes, the lights went into crosses. I played with that until I was ready to go home. I do not extract any rule from that.  I do not remember the antecedents to my crying. However, I was thinking that my mother did the right thing in these circumstances because what I got out of it was good. I do not know whether she was being “wise.” She was not extraordinarily strong and sometimes she let things ride because they were too much for her. Often that was exceptionally good for me. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

The Egyptians and the Hebrews had a tradition of centralized yet small states with a powerful royal figure, they conceived of a supreme being, the ruler of Heaven and Earth. The Hebrews fought against idols, they prohibited making any kind of image of God; Maimonides, their greatest philosopher, a thousand years later declared that even to mention a positive attribute of God was not permissible. Yet the thought concept of God as the form under which the inexpressible was expressed, was retained in Judaism and in Christianity, and thus became the dominant concept of religious experience in the Western World. Many in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries protested this thought concept, together with their protest kings and emperors. In the enlightenment philosophy and in the new humanism, the experience underlying religious tradition was expressed in nontheistic terms—in the concern for man, rather than in a concern for God. Yet the concern was the same. It was a concern for means, for creating the social conditions for the spiritual development of man. The socialism of Marx, Fourier, Kropotkin, Owen, Jaures, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gorki was the most important genuine religious movement of the last hundred years. The breakdown of the humanistic tradition, beginning with the World War of 1914, almost destroyed this nontheistic “religious” movement. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Nietzsche said that God was dead; what happened after 1914 was that man was dead. Only in small circles and among a few individuals did the humanist spiritual tradition continue; its greatest representatives in our times are men like Jesus Christ. The fetishism of words is as dangerous in the realm of political ideology as it is in that of religious ideology. Words must be seen together with the deeds and with the total personality of him who utters them. Words have meaning only in the total context of deed and character; unless there is unity among these factors words serve to deceive—others and oneself; instead of revealing, they have the function of hiding. All this was driven home to many by the historical period in which we lived. Most of the socialist leaders who had spoken the language of internationalism and peace before August 2, 1914, participated in the war hysteria a day later. The same leaders four years later prevented any effective socialization after the German revolution, by using the slogan “Socialism is marching.” The socialist Mussolini became the leader of fascism; yet until the day of his betrayal, his words were not different from those of other socialists. Mr. Hitler called his system, the aim of which was to serve German heavy industry and expansionism toward East and West, “national socialism”; Mr. Stalin called his system “socialism,” a system which served the rapid build-up of an industrialized Russia with complete disregard for all those human values which characterized Marxist socialism. Yet his friends as well as his enemies took the words for realities. We do the same by calling President Biden and other dictators “representatives of the free World.” #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

The Sacramento Fire Department is part of the community that they strive to make a great and safe place to live and raise a family. The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to the safety of Sacramento County. They do more than fight fires. Emergency and medical calls now make up more than half of their emergency responses. “We were having a lot of tension in one neighborhood, and hostility was being directed at the firefighters. So I said to our company, ‘Next time we get a fire down there, let’s show the people how good we are in saving their belongings. That’ll show them that we are really their friends.’ A few nights later, a seven o’clock on a hot summer evening, we get an alarm, and the upper floors of a three-story building are going. The ground floor is one of those storefront churches. So we get hold of the minister of the church, and we ask him where all his valuables are. We tell him that we are going in and save everything. So we get the Bible out, get all the artifacts and religious things that we can find. Anything we can’t move is gather together, and we throw salvage covers over it. Now the truck is starting to open up with a ladder pipe into the upper floors, and it’s only a matter of time before that water starts coming down. At the same time, the smoke starts baking down, and pretty soon we’re on our knees trying to scoop up the last valuable things. There is this huge box, and I can’t figure out what it is. We try to move it, but we can’t make it budge. It’s about eight feet long. Finally we throw a salvage cover over it, tuck it in at every point, so no water damage will be inflicted on this thing. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

“We come staggering out of the place, and guys are leaning over the fence, throwing up from the belt of smoke that we had. They finally get the fire knocked down, and we go back inside to see what this thing was. We lift the salvage cover, and it’s a baptismal, an eight-foot tub of water. Can you imagine that? We had covered it to prevent water damage. There’s another night where we got in and the smoke was banking down. Again, it was the upper floors of a building that were involved in fire, and the chief told us to spread our salvage covers on the second floor. So we got the covers and started into the building. We got to the second floor, and there was a guy, his wife and three kids sitting at a table, eating. There wasn’t too much smoke in the place, so we told them, ‘You’ve got to get out of here, the building’s on fire.’ The guy starts to argue with me, and I say, ‘Now you get out of here, or I’m going to call the police and have them move you out.’ So the guy reluctantly leaves with his wife and kids, and we get everything together and throw the salvage covers. We go outside to get more, and all of the sudden, I look. We’re in the building next door. What happened was that the smoke had banked down and concealed the doorways. I thought we were going in the right doorway, but we were going in the doorway of the building next door. So real quickly we grabbed more covers, went into the fire building, and got things covered up. I didn’t understand why that guy thought I was crazy.” #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

The Sacramento Fire Department focuses on reliability, service, professionalism, pride, integrity, and loyalty. The goal of the Sacramento Fire Department is to provide public education, fire prevention initiatives, preparedness, and overall community risk reduction. Should these efforts fail, they are ready, prepared and trained to respond to a wide variety of service calls. They do this with suppression resources, advanced life support transport services, a technical rescue team, a hazardous materials team, aircraft rescue and firefighting response and other services. You can help protect your community and save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. Parents, to stabilize America and retain American values, please raise your children to love America, to be patriotic, to love God and Jesus Christ, to buy American made cars and other goods and services, to respect law and order, to get their education and read books, and treat others with care, dignity, and respect. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Lo! the spring joy doth bring; winter’s frosts are ended. Gladness reigns, life remains, with sweet pleasure blended. God doth bear what His care and His love defended. Let Thy will guide us still, let Thy love be o’er us, let Thy light in our night, show Thy paths before us. Ours Thy love, from above, and Thy light that leads us. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

The Winchester Mystery House

When you visit the beautiful and mysterious Winchester Mansion, be sure to keep your eyes out for the ghost. Caretakers say that the ghost sometimes look like pale fiures or silhouettes that float down from the turrets or hover in the hallways. Over the years, dozens of people report seeing apparitions and strange phenomena at The Winchester Mystery House. Some report that they have heard wailing from inside the mansion’s walls. People are told to be careful about going to The Winchester Mystery House alone after dark because it is said to be home to some vengeful apparitions who often appear.

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Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder through the miles of hallways in the World’s most mysterious mansion. For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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