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What Happened After 1914 was that Man was Dead!

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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Lord, Make Us Free!

The World is a fragile place. Today, these Democrats are starting a dangerous trend by diverting our people so that it can instead serve their ideology and make their “fantastic” dream come true. Because of this, I feel it is necessary for me to discuss with my supporters as completely and clearly as possible the most important question of foreign policy and that is our relationship with Mexico.  With the open southern border, everything seems unsafe. Communities which had never seen crime before are now reporting violent homicides. The Democrats have launched a war realigning power trip against the American people, at a time when we are facing uncertainty in international relations. The economy is faltering, and inflation is rising. Racial harmony is breaking down, and unrest in our streets is spreading violence and fear as an illegal immigrant crime wave is washing over our country. The removal of Confederate monuments was the first threat to American culture. Next, Democrats will be knocking over statues of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mrs. Rosa Parks.  While for many, the phantom constitutional norms like equal protection—which exist in mainstream constitutional law have not been applied to many American people, while illegal immigrants are given a privileged status. Now, farmers are suffering from mass killings and land seizures. Millions of illegal immigrants are so violently changing our culture. These people do not want to assimilate with us, they are coming here with discriminatory intent, which they have demonstrated by attacking the police in broad daylight, invading homes, and raping and killing women and children. This band of uncivilized criminals plans to create an inhospitable legal landscape by aligning with the Democratic party and overcoming America by removing Constitutional protections for citizens and abolishing law enforcement. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

The amnesty for illegal immigrants under the Democratic party promotes a message that, while American citizens are forced to obey the laws, illegal immigrants are paid to break it and can never be held accountable for their crimes, and if law enforcement tries to uphold immigration policy or attempts to arrest criminals, the Democratic party will vanquish them. However, illegally immigrating can never be a legitimate basis for immigration policy. Democrats and the people that they are allowing to immigrate illegally, have grievances with America and the American people. Under President Biden and Vice President Kamala, our nation has become one of gender confusion, denial of God, bloodshed, chaos, violent crime, and rampant corruption, and there are no safeguards to protect hardworking American people. Cleanliness, whether moral or of another kind, has its own meaning for the Democratic party. That they are water-shy is obvious on looking at them, and unfortunately, very often when not looking at them at all. The odour and scripts of these people often makes me feel ill. Beyond that are the unkempt breath and their ignoble homes. All these details are certainly not attractive; but the revolting feature is that beneath their unclean exterior, one suddenly perceives the moral mildew of the soulless minds. What should give Americans cause for profoundly serious considerations are the activities of the Democrats in certain branches of life, this is a mystery which some have penetrated little by little. Is there any shady undertaking, any form of foulness, especially in cultural life, in which at least one member of the Biden administration has not participated? On putting the probing scalpel carefully to that kind of abscess one immediately discovers, like a maggot in a putrescent body, a Democrat who is often blinded by the sudden light. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

In the eyes of Lady Justice, there is a grave vision now that she has discovered the Democratic activities in the Press, in art, in literature, in theatre, in the church, and in the cities. Here is a pestilence, a moral pestilence, with which the public is being infected. It is worst than the Black Plague of long ago. And in what mighty doses this poison is manufactured and distributed. Naturally, the lower the moral and intellectual level of such an author of artistic products, the more inexhaustible his and/or her fecundity. Sometimes it goes so far that one of these Democrats, acting like a sewage pump, will shoot his and/or her filth directly in the face of other members of humanity. In this connection we must remember there is no limit to the number of such people. One ought to realize that for one, Goethe, Nature may bring into existence ten thousand such despoilers who act as the worst kind of germ-carries in poisoning human souls. While Governor Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz give boys tutorials on how to apply concealer, blush, eyeliner, lipstick and encouraging them to question their gender, while advocating sex changes, it is a terrible thought, and yet it cannot be avoided, that the greater number of the Democrats seem specially destined by Nature to play this shameful part. And is it for this reason that they can be called the chosen party? We must begin to carefully investigate the names of all the factors of these unclean products in public cultural life. The result of this inquiry is still more disfavourable to the attitude which many hitherto holds regarding Democratic leaders. Though Christian feelings might rebel a thousand times, reason they now must draw their own conclusions. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

The fact that ninety percent of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe, and theatrical banalities, must be charged to the account of people who are now ruling over our nation, and that fact cannot be gainsaid. It is there and must be admitted.  Then as the American people begin to examine their favourite gospel “TV News,” with that fact before their mind, the deeper their soundings go, the less their respect for that Press which they formerly admired becomes. Its style has become still more repellent, and they are forced to reject its ideas as entirely shallow and superficial. To claim that in the presentation of facts and views its attitude is impartial seems to many to contain more falsehood than the National Inquirer. The writers are—Democrats. Thousands of details that many had scarcely noticed before seeming to them now to deserve attention. As the public begins to grasp and understand things which they had formerly looked at in a different light, they see the Liberal policy of that Press the product of grim, soulless beings. Its dignified tone in replying to the attacks of its adversaries and its dead silence in other cases are now clear to many as part of a cunning and despicable way of deceiving the audience. Its brilliant theatrical criticisms always praise the Democrat authors and its adverse, criticism is reserved exclusively for law abiding American citizens and Republicans. The light pinpricks against former President Trump show the persistency of its policy, just as does its systematic commendation of American culture and civilization. The subject matter of the feuilletons is trivial and often pornographic. The language of this Press has the accent of a criminal mind. The general tole is openly derogatory to the American Christians, and this must be definitely intentional. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

What are the interests that have urged the Democrats to adopt such a policy? Or did they do so merely by chance? Several have come to see through a meaning of a whole series of events that are taking place in other branches of American life, all these are inspired by a general concept of manners and moral which is openly put int practice by a large section of the Democrats and can be established at attributable to them. Here, again, the life which we are observing on the streets are teaching us what evil really is. The part in which Democrats play in the social phenomenon of prostitution, and more especially in the slave traffic, can be studied here better than in any other country. Walking by night along the streets of California, almost at every turn whether one wishes it or not, one witnesses certain happenings of whose existence the Christians knew nothing until the Democratic leaders made it possible and indeed inevitable for the American people to see such things on the Western front. A cold shiver runs down the spines of many God loving Americas when they ascertain that it is the same kind of cold-blooded, thick-skinned, and shameless Democrat who showed his consummate skill in conducting the revolting exploitation of the dregs on our streets. Many have become fired with wrath. They now have no more hesitation about bring the Democratic problem to light in all its details. No. Henceforth righteous American people are determined to do so. As many people have learned to track down the corruption in all the different spheres of cultural and artistic life, and in the various manifestations of this life everywhere, they have suddenly come upon Democrats in positions where they had least expected to find them. They now realize that Democrats are the leaders of Communism. In face of this revelation, the scales fall from their eyes. Their long inner struggle is at an end. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

As Vice President Kamala gave her convention speech last night, she would not mention the names of the victims who have been killed by illegal immigrants. She will not say their names, she will not express remorse. Kamala says she wants to talk about the future. No. These American people want to go back to the safe past. We do not have a future with open borders and all these other problems this country has. We have a crime problem. Just like the Democrats rigged the 818,000 jobs number. The American economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from April 2023 through March of 2024 than were originally reported.  Democrats rigged the crime numbers, too. Murder has increased by 30 percent. That is also a proven fact. Just came out. Vice President Kamala has stolen the future of twenty two year old Laken Riley, who was killed while she was jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick; her death was caused by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation; the thirty-seven year old mother of five, Rachel Morin, who was brutally raped and murdered on a hiking trail. Her head was found smashed in and her body naked; and our precious twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was walking to a convenience store when she disappeared and was found dead in a creek. All these young ladies were killed by illegal immigrants. The race-based Nationalist Movement of the Democrats defends the rights of other nations, but has been leading an attack on the rights of American people. The Democratic policy has mistakenly followed the interests of the Communist party; however the future should not be guided by such commonplace sickening anti-Americanism. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

Allowing the Communist to gain this country only proves the might of the conquers and the weakness of those who tolerate them. Our ancestors did not receive the land we live on as a present from Heaven, but they had to risk their lives and fight for it. In the future, we will not obtain the land, and the life it offers for our nation, through any act of Heavenly generosity. We will only obtain the land we need through the might of the victorious sword. It is neither my task nor even my intention to point out the “If” in the case “But” had not been present. If only to deepen the knowledge so the situation may be understood within the ranks of the Making American Great Again, it is absolutely necessary for us to see the existing conditions as they truly exist, without colouring them, and to point out their terrible weaknesses. The Constitutional Rights of the American people must be included in these states. Not only does America have to constantly increase and replenish her army of the Hispanic livestock from her enormous Empire, but also, from a racial viewpoint, her infiltration with Hispanic blood is increasing so rapidly that we could call it the creations of a Hispanic state on American soil. In 1990, 75 percent of the population was defined as Caucasian. New census population projections confirm the importance of racial marginalized populations as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s future growth, countering and gaining, slowly-growing and soon to be declining European American population. The new statistics project that the nation will become “minority European American” in 2024. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

During that year, European Americans will comprise 49.7 percent of the population in contrast to 24.6 percent for Hispanics, 13. 1 percent for African Americans, 7.9 percent for Asian Americans, and 3.8 percent for multiracial populations. In this way, the fear-stricken prayers of our patriotic social clubs, “Lord, make us free!” Communists know very well that they can undermine the American Nation and turn it into a generic race-less, genderless (neither male nor female) corrupted people, like that of a mannequin. In essence, robots. The people will be unthinking, undriven robots of a corrupt race that is not a race, but they can hardly do the same to nations such as China, India, Africa, or Japan. Today, the Democratic party presents himself like a mime, pretending to be an American, or a Christian, but he cannot create a bridge to reach God or the Constitution of the United States of America. If Americans are unwilling to suffer or tolerate the Democrat’s lust for power, the danger posed by the Democratic party means they have a duty to forget about bad feelings of the past and join hands with those who are also threatened. The parliamentary tramps took no part in the fighting for this country. Not this gang od sneaking thieves who spent their time playing party politics instead. On the contrary, while red blooded Americans fought, believing that only victory could preserve America for the American people, the mouths of these Ephialteses schemed and plotted so long against this country until finally, the Siegfried yielded to the stab in the back with no grease. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

The deepest and truest parts of us are our faith and our relationships. However, wherever you go, carefully stop and look. Glimpse beyond the loneliness of our lives, and you will see the dignity of human actions all around. Physicians care for the sick, congregations stock food banks, volunteers feed the poor, humanitarians alleviate the destruction of natural disasters, and neighbours take care of neighbours in distress. Moral heroes always appear on the front lines of tragedy. Dignity has a divine origin. It is our universal birthright. Everyone possesses dignity simply by being human, regardless of religion, race, gender, or nationality. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that dignity is the “foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the World.” Therefore, we have the right of life, liberty, security, and equal protection of the law, and the freedom of thought, speech, and religion. Rights stem from dignity, and dignity results from rights. Both feed off each other in a legal and cultural symbiosis. We need to see a reflection of ourselves in each other—our dreams, hopes, hurts, and despairs. Otherwise, we become strangers and foreigners. We discover our dignity in relating with others. Everyone wants to be known, seen, and recognized. We want our efforts to make a difference and our struggles to be acknowledged. The demand for respect is as ancient as society itself. Peace begins with respect for the uniqueness of each person. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

The concept of human dignity may vary from culture to culture, but it acts as a constant in a volatile and changing World. Human rights smooth out the imbalances of privilege, wealth, and opportunity. And those rights must be universally applied. Otherwise, justice becomes reduced to whoever is in power at the moment. Dignity is about knowing who we are as human beings. The search for ultimate meaning, whether as an individual or in community, is a sacred prerogative. No one can impose that path on us; we must define it for ourselves. As if they have always been protected and always will be protected, we often take human rights for granted. Deeper than law, they are inscribed in our brightest hopes and aspirations for life. We believe our rights come from God, but the care of those rights is up to us. This divine origin is important. If our rights become simply what the majority of the people want, then they are nothing more than a power play or mere opinion. As Alexander Hamilton, a major intellectual influence on constitutions around the Word wrote: “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” Once he has found out his true relationship to the higher power, the problem of settling his relationship to other human beings becomes easy. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

The evolution of religion is closely interwoven with development of man’s self-awareness and individuation. It seems that with the development of self-awareness, man also developed the experience of his aloneness and separateness from others. This experience leads to intense anxiety and, to overcome this anxiety, man developed the passionate desire to be united with the World, to cease being separate. For hundreds of thousands of years, he attempted to return to where he had come from, to become one again with nature. He wanted to be again one with the animal, one with the trees; he wanted to escape the burden of being human, of having consciousness of himself and of the World. He tried to achieve this union in many ways. He worshipped trees and rivers, he identified himself with animals and sought for fulfilment by feeling and attacking like an animal. Or, he tried to eliminate his consciousness, to forget that he was human, by taking intoxicants, drugs, or orgies of pleasures of the flesh. Eventually he made himself idols into whom he projected all he had, to whom he sacrificed his children and his cattle, to feel part of the idol, and strong and powerful in this symbiosis. Yet, at one point of history, very recently indeed, less than four thousand years ago, man made a decisive turn. He recognized that he could never return to the innocence of paradise; that he could never solve the problem of being a man, of transcending nature and yet being in it, by going backward. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

Man recognized that he could solve his problem only by moving forward, by developing fully his reason and his love, by becoming fully human and this finding a new harmony with man and nature, feeling again at home in the World. The script scene began long ages past, when life first oozed out of the mud and began to transmit the results of its experiences chemically, through genes, to its descendants. This chemical branch culminated in the spider, who spins his strange circular geometry without instruction, the coiled spirals in his chromosomes supplying him with instant engineering drawings that will bring any corner where the files abound. In his case, the script is written in fixed molecules of organic acids (DNA) bequeathed him by his parents, and he spends his life as an educated pen point, carrying out their instructions with no possibility of deviation or improvement except by drugs or some untoward accident beyond his control. In man, too, the genes determine chemically some of the patterns he must follow, and from which he cannot deviate. They also set the upper limit for his individual aspirations: how far he can go as an athlete, thinker, or musician, for example, although because of psychological barriers great or small, few men reach their full possibilities even in these fields. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Many a man with the chemistry of a great ballet dancer spends his time dancing with other people’s dishes in a lunchroom, and others with the genes of a mathematician pass their days juggling other people’s papers in the back room of a bank or bookie joint. However, within his chemical limitations, whatever they are, each man has enormous possibilities for determining his own fate. Usually, however, his parents decide it for him long before he can see what they are doing. As life broke free to some extent from rigid chemical patterns, other ways of regulating behaviour gradually evolved to take up the slack. The most primitive of these is probably imprinting, which is barely one step beyond a reflex. Imprinting assures that an infant organism will automatically follow a certain object and treat it like a mother, whether it is really his mother or merely a yellow card drawn past him on a string. This automatic response helps to ensure his survival in moments of stress, but if it goes awry, it can make trouble, too. The next step came when some animals stayed with their mothers and learned through play; patterns too complex or variable to be transmitted through the genes could be taught with a playful bite or roll or a box on the ear. Then came imitation and a response to voice signals, so that the young could do not only what their genes prompted them to, and what they learned at their mothers’ breasts, but also what they saw and heard in the real living of the seas, plains, and forests. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

It is now known that almost every kind of living organism can be trained. Bacteria can be “trained” chemically to use one kind of sugar as a substitute for another. Almost all other animals, from worms on up, can be trained psychologically, by conditioned reflexes, to go through a new and special patterns of behaviour. This is probably, in the long run, chemical, too, and depends on more flexible kinds of DNA than are found in the genes. However, training requires trainers, and they are something else. They must be one cut or dimension above the organisms they are training. This means they must be tamed. Taming is as different from training as a cat is from a tiger. Taming, in animals, means that the animal obeys his master even when his master is not there. This is different from training, because training requires an outside stimulus to start off a certain pattern of behaviour, while taming assures the behaviour because the stimulus is inside the animal’s head. A trained animal will obey his master’s voice when he hears it out loud; a tamed one does not need to hear the sound, because he carries it around in his brain. Thus, wild animals can be trained to do tricks at their trainer’s command, but they cannot easily be housebroken. Tame animals go further than that; they can be taught to behave as their master wishes even when he is away. There are various degrees of tameness, and the tamest animals of all are human children. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

The most intelligent animals—monkeys, apes, and people (and maybe dolphins too)—have another special capacity, and that is invention. This means that they can do things that none of their kinds has ever done before: anything from piling one wooden box on another, to putting two rods together to form a longer one, to shooting for the moon. In order to account for this progression, we can assume that DNA is evolving into ever softer and more pliable forms. Starting out as the brittle molecules of genes, which cannot be molded, but only shattered, it thawed out enough so that it could be slightly altered by repeated gentle blows of conditioning, although it would spring back if these were not reinforced from time to time. Then it softened still more to that it could record the echoes of vanished voices and events, and keep them there for a lifetime, long after they were forgotten. In still more flexible form, it became the vehicle for memory and consciousness. And in its most sensitive form to date, it shifts and vibrates in the zephyrs of experience to give us thinking and invention. What will come forth when it becomes even more delicate in its responses none of us now living will ever know, but some day our descendants will be wondrous beings that only poets presently can dimly contemplate. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

Human beings have all the capacities mentioned above. Their behaviour patterns are determined by rigid reflex genes, primitive imprinting, infant play and imitation, parental training, social taming, and spontaneous invention. Scripts involve all of these. The typical human being, whom we will call “Jeder,” represents nearly every member of the human race in every soil and clime. He carries out his script because it is planted in his head at an early age by his parents, and stays there for the rest of his life, even after their vocal “flesh” has gone forevermore. It acts like a computer tape or a player piano roll, which brings out the responses in the planned order long after the person who punched the holes has departed the scene.  Jeder meanwhile sits before the piano, moving his fingers along the keyboard under the illusion that it is he who brings the folksy ballad or the stately concerto to its foregone conclusion. If they are not of such compelling strength as to prohibit the endeavour entirely, there are various ways in which deterring psychic forces, such as those discussed above, may affect an endeavour at self-analysis. For one thing, they may imperceptibly spoil the whole analysis by causing it to be carried out in a spirit of only partial blind spots concerning rather wide areas, which are present at the beginning of ever analysis, persist throughout the work, rather than decreasing gradually in extent and intensity. Factors lying outside these areas may be faced squarely. However, since no area within the self is isolated from others, and hence cannot really be understood without being related to the whole structure, even those factors that are seen remain on the level of superficial insight. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

I once overheard a talk given by former President Obama to southern African Americans. He really tore into them about their sycophant relations with southern European Americans. However, he also said, “I know I’m being hard on you, but I’m just not feeling soft tonight.” His words and voice matched, clearly expressing both the “hard” that he was feeling and his regret that he was not feeling “soft.” “Tonight” indicated his awareness of change, leaving other possibilities open for the future. When my honest with me, I think it is not harmful to someone else. If it does nothing more, the other has the relief that I heard in a very disturbed person’s voice when he said to me, “Well anyway, you’re honest.” If I act from the facts of myself rather than from beliefs about the other—or about myself—it is better all around. “I am a patient person.” “I am an intolerant person.” “I am a moral person (with no wayward thoughts or inclinations).” When I decide that “I am” anything, this excludes from me what is going on in me now, which is the only reality of what “I am.” When I am aware of this, I am aware of other realities around me. Despite all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction which cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you. Me. Not what I think about me, or what others think about me, which can never be myself. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

We have mentioned the experiences of ecstasy and of unification; these states are in contrast with the usual ways in which we experience ourselves and our World in the usual conduct of daily life. When we go about the regular business of living in our usual roles with others, without having our basic needs satisfied, we experience the World, most often, under the influence of deficiency motivation. Many people never can experience the World in other than this everyday way, or even have a conception of the possibility of such experience. Deficiency motivation (or D-motivation) is one of two ways identified by Maslow to perceive the World. The other approach is through being motivation (B-motivation). Persons functioning under D-motivation are governed and determined in their perceptions or consciousness by their deprivations, and they can only see the World in terms of what satisfaction for basic needs (such as safety) it can give. People and the World are seen only in terms of their use or exploitations of them. On the other hand, persons who are basically need-satiated can see the World in a broader, cosmic fashion, as it is and as it might be. They can react to the World with their inner being, their irreducible nature. Being-motivation perception is akin to many of the “letting be” philosophies of Jesus Christ. Perception must then be gentle, delicate, unintruding, undemanding, able to fit itself passively to the nature of things as water gently soaks into crevices. It must not be the need-motivated kind of perception which shapes things in a blustering, over-riding, exploiting, purposeful fashion. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

Thus, consciousness that has as its base the person who has largely satiated his other deprivation needs can move on to become B-motivated and manifest the “gentle per-perception” indicated by Maslow. The Sacramento Fire Department is dedicated to being actively engaged in the community through public education and fire prevention, while diligently maintaining a strong states of preparedness to respond to emergencies. Not all heroes wear capes. “I worked for many years with a man named X, who was a bodybuilder. He had the most formidable arms in the firehouse, great construction worker fists, and a voice as velvety soft as any high-quality cloth you ever felt. He sang like Billy Eckstein, and no one ever asked him to shut up when he was singing, although the bulges beneath his shirt would preclude the request in any event. X was a mild-mannered guy, but he was also a tough piece of work who has spent all his life in the black neighborhoods of Sacramento City, environments that Norman Rockwell never painted. One day X was playing poker with four or five other guys at an old wooden table in the kitchen of Engine Company Z. Another firefighter, named Y, walked into the room. Y had also been seasoned on the streets of Sacramento and was no piece of cake. Unlike X, however, he was not an easy going guy; he always had an edge of hostility at the corners of his mouth and a strange turn of eye. He was a big guy, bigger than X. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

Y had a wooden-handled knife about eight inches long, and he began throwing it into the scarred wood of the table. He started at the far edge of the table and worked his way along the table toward the card players. Thump, the knife would go in, and Y would pull it out. Thump, again the knife went in, and Y pulled it out. The knife was coming closer and closer to where X was holding his cards. Finally, X looked up at Y, and I remember his words as clearly as I remember the Ten Commandments. He said, ‘You better stop it, Y, because you’re going to cut me. And when you cut me, you’re going to say you’re sorry.’ Y laughed the kind of laugh you heard from the villain with the cape when tying the blonde to the railroad tracks. He threw the knife into the table several more times, closer and closer to X, until finally the knife went right through X’s hand. Y quickly pulled out the knife, the hand was bleeding, and Y yelled, ‘X, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’ X got up, took a step, and with the other hand whomped Y in the jaw, throwing him back ten or fifteen feet onto the kitchen floor. The knife went flying out of Y’s hand, thank God. X very coolly took a handkerchief out of his pocket and wrapped it around the knife wound. He said, ‘Being sorry isn’t enough.’” Sometimes our actions have unintended consequences. It is best to think things thing. Although sometimes sorry is not enough, sometimes we never get to apologize for our mistakes. Life can be short or long. Love can be right or wrong. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

True friendship is not formed as are most of these by self-interest, vanity, custom, or habit. It is a profound tie formed not seldom between those who have lived together and died together under remote skies and remoter centuries no less than in familiar lands and more recent times. We are bound to each other by links that have lost themselves in the archaic past, links of affectionate studentship and hallowed trust, and—not seldom—the mutual suffering of sharp persecution, when the prison cell and the torturer’s stake were the punishment for expressing or believing truth. The Sacramento Fire Department plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of the city. You can help save lives and property by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. As we are dedicated to having a safe country, please raise your children to love America, to love God and Jesus Christ and be patriotic Americans. It is important to buy American cars and other goods and services manufactured in America. Do not spend your life trying to be famous. Get an education. It may be hard, but life without taking a risk can be even more difficult. Always remember to be safe and respect law and order, treat others with dignity and respect, and obey your parents and be honest. They will usually find out the truth anyway. 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. Praise the Lord! One accord, sound throughout creation; laud and sing, honour bring Him without cessation; and His fame loud proclaim, every land and nation. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

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Like hurricane Katrina, President Biden and Vice President Kamala are hovering above the political horizon and above the lives of each America. They are the most frightful instruments of terror that threaten national security and the independence of the national economic structure, the foundations of the Constitution of the United States of America and the liberty of Americans. Above all, it has been the Democratic party that has turned American into a ridiculous mockery of an empire, insulted the idea of liberty, and stigmatized that of fraternity with the slogan “If you will not become out comrade, we shall crack your skull.” The more I become acquainted with the communistic Democrats, the more my appreciation for God and Jesus Christ becomes wider and deeper. In discussing economic questions, the statements of the Biden administration have been false, and its proofs unsound. In treating of political aims, its attitude is insincere. Furthermore, the Biden administration’s modern methods of chicanery in the presentation of its arguments are profoundly repugnant. Its flamboyant sentences, its obscure and incomprehensible phrases, pretending to contain great thoughts, but the Democratic party is devoid of thought, and meaningless. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

 One would have to be a decadent Bohemian in one of our modern cities to feel at home in that labyrinth of mental aberration, so that he might discover “intimate experiences” amid the stinking fumes of this literary defecation spewing from the Biden administration. There writers are obviously counting on the proverbial humility of a certain section of our people, who believe that a person who is incomprehensible must be profoundly wise. In confronting the theoretical falsity and absurdity of that doctrine Kamala is polluting the World with, the nation is gradually coming to a clear idea of the ends at which it is aimed. During this political campaign session, the American people have dark presentiments and fear something evil. They have before them a teaching inspired by egoism and hatred, mathematically calculation to win its victory, but the triumph of which would be a mortal blow to humanity. Meanwhile, the American people have discovered the relations existing between the destructive teachings of the Democratic party and the specific character of a people, who up to this time had been to most almost unknown. Knowledge of the Democrats is the only key whereby one may understand the inner nature and therefore the real aims of the Biden administration. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

The man who has come to know this party has succeeded in removing from his eyes the veil through which he has seen the aims and meaning of the Democratic party in a false light; and then, out of the murk and fog of social phrases rises the grimacing figure of President Biden and Kamala. It is annoying to acknowledge that we live in a nation where any half-witted person can claim for him our herself the right to criticize and might even be let loose on the people a politician in the American government, the bearer of the Imperial Crown, just because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation. All qualifications are just tossed to the wind. I am even more disgusted at the way in which the American press has salaamed obsequiously before the most incompetent steeds of the Democratic party and has gone off into wild ecstasies of delight, as the country faulters. And at the same time, the American TV news media have taken up an attitude of superiority in matters that concerned the American Empire, trying to cloak the disaster that the invasion at the southern border and Democratic party is having on national security, culture, and the economy. Naturally, they protect enforcing the law. They pretend that by touching illegal immigration in a delicate and friendly way that they are fulling a duty, at the same time discharging their obligations of journalistic truthfulness. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

Furthermore, having thus excused themselves of the Oath of Office, and tenderly touching a sore spot while Americans are having an affordability crisis, President Joe Bide, Vice President Kamala, and the rest of the Democratic party have bored with the finger ruthlessly into the wound by processing citizenship requests of 3.3 million immigrants at lightning speed, while there is a shortage of 7 million affordable housing units, and 653,104 Americans are without homes. This sort of thing is making people’s blood boil, as Vice President Kamla plans to extend universal health care and Social Security benefits to the 21 million illegal immigrants who have poured into this country during her four years in office. The government has never moved so fast to help any other group of people, and these people did not come here legally and have not even paid taxes. What gets on the nerves of many is the repugnant way some Americans and the TV news media greet President Biden and Vice President Kamala with mellifluous hymns of praise as if they are national heroes, while many of these same people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. This wretched Democratic party should be impeached. Many had hoped, at least secretly, that preparations would be made to make this most brazen invasion of American a turning point in American history. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

There are several people who have placed their trust in the Government and law enforcement. The Oath of Office states, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”  However, as 305,000 people have lost their jobs throughout the year, and many Americans have been victims of crime due to the invasion at the southern border, the government is failing to protect and provide for the American people in their time of need. Some people have given up not because they have lost interest, but because they are mentally exhausted trying to understand why their lives mean so little to the government, and these other people mean so much. Many Americans cannot accept that such a shameful development would be allowed to continue. A fortune of billions is being spent and millions of American are being sacrificed, who were foolish enough to trust in the promises made by the rulers of the Democratic party. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

The race-based Nationalist Movement of the Democratic party must not defend the rights of other nations, but act as the spearhead of its own people’s rights. The Constitution of the United States of America is a glorious standard raised up by our Founding Fathers. Every American citizen should be inspired by the Constitution. This is a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history. God has declared America to be His base of operations. The framers of the Constitution were men raised up by God to establish this foundation of our government, for so the Lord has declared by revelation in these words: “And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 101.80. Yes, this is a land fertilized by the blood of patriots.  During the struggle for independence, nearly 9,000 of the colonist forces were killed. Among those fifty-six patriots who had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour by signing the Declaration of Independence, at least nine paid that price with their life’s blood. At the close of the Revolution, in which 25,534 Americans died, the thirteen states found themselves independent but then faced grave economic and political problems. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

The Articles of Confederation has been adopted but proved to be ineffectual. Under this instrument, the nation was without a president, a head. There was a congress, but it was a body destitute of any power. There was no supreme court. The states were merely a confederation. April 6, 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America went into operation as the basic law of American when the electoral college unanimously elected George Washinton as the first President of the nation. “According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 101.77. When it is considered that when the instrument went into operation, it covered only thirteen states with fewer than four million people, what those framers did can be better appreciated. Today it adequately covers 342 million people. The wisdom of these delegates is shown in the genius of the document itself. The founds had a strong distrust for the centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful. “And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of His wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of His wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity,” reports Ether 2.9. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Indeed, one of the greatest dangers to be avoided is to confuse words with facts: the fetishism of words prevents the understanding of reality. This can be observed in all areas—most of all, perhaps, in religion, politics, and philosophy. The vast majority of all American believe in God; yet from all observations, scientifically organized as well as random observations, it seems clear that this belief in God has extraordinarily little consequence for action and the conduct of life. Most people are concerned with health, money, and “education (the latter as part of social success), and not at all with the problems which would arise if they were concerned with God. We are consumption-hungry and production-proud, and show precisely all the traits of materialism of which we accuse the “godless.” If there is anything to be taken seriously in our profession of God, it is to recognize the fact that God has become an idol. Not an idol of wood or stone like the ones of our ancestors worshipped, but an idol of words, phrases, doctrines. We violate at every moment the command not to use God’s name in vain, which means using His name emptily, and not as the stammering expression of an inexpressible experience. We consider people to be “religious” because they say that they believe in God. Is there any difficulty in saying this? Is there any reality in it, except that words are uttered? #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Obviously I am speaking here about an experience which should constitute the reality behind the words. What is this experience? It is one of recognizing oneself as part of humanity, of living accord to a set of values in which the full experience of love, justice, truth, is the dominant goal of life to which everything else is subordinated; it means a constant striving to develop one’s powers of love and reason to a point at which a new harmony with the World is attained; it means to strive for humility, to see one’s identity with all beings, and to give up the illusion of a separate, indestructible ego. And it means not to confuse what belongs to Caesar with that which belongs to God. In the realm of Caesar, one man has more power than another, more talent, more intelligence, more achievement. However, in the spiritual realm, no man is superior to another, nor inferior either. In this realm, we are all nothing other than human—saints and criminals, heroes and cowards. To arrive at the authentic experience, where the realm of “Caesar” and the realm of “God” are no longer confused, is an essential part of the reality behind the words which say, “Give to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God that which is God’s.” This distinction between the two realms touches upon another of the most significant aspects of religious experience, the attitude towards power. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

The realm of Caesar is the realm of power. In our physical existence we all are subject to power. Anyone who has a pistol can kill us or imprison us; anyone who controls the means of our livelihood can starve us or force us to do his bidding. Inasmuch as we want to live, we must submit or fight—provided there is a chance—and there often is none. Precisely because power decides upon life and death, freedom and slavery, it impresses not only our bodies but our minds. The one who controls superior force is admired and sanctified. He is supposed to be all-wise and even all-good, even though he enslaves us; for we prefer to submit “voluntarily” to the “good” and “wise” ones, rather than to accept the fact that we are helpless to refuse obedience to the wicked ones. If we glorify power, we accept the values of Caesar; and if we link God with power, then indeed, we commit the utmost sacrilege of transforming God into Caesar. Yet this is precisely what man has done for thousands of years. Genuine spiritual experience knows that facts of power—but it never glorifies power as the bearer of wisdom or goodness. Its motto is the prophet’s words: “Not by might and not by power but by my spirit, speaks the Lord.” It is questionable whether family love is a breakout of the ego’s shell or merely an extension of self. More often perhaps it is a mixture of both. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

When it becomes exaggerated, the family link becomes unhealthy. No personal relation is enduring. All end with the efflux of time. Even the most enduring of all—the disciple-master one—must end too with the disciple’s own graduation. It was Jesus’ closest relative, His own mothers, who sought to sidetrack him from his mission, compelling him to explain, “Woman! What have I to do with thee?” It was Ramana Maharshi’s own mother who sought to drag him back from his meditation-cave to a Worldly life, compelling him to tell her, in effect, not to alter a course already preordained for him. The duties towards one’s family are limited ones, whereas the duty towards one’s soul is an unlimited one. A family problem may have to be considered again and in a fresh light, judged and considered not merely by his personal feelings but from the point of view of duty, as perhaps to his children. If one wishes to follow the spiritual Quest, even if those sacrifices involve crushing the ego, it is necessary to make sacrifices at times. When children are grown up and past thirty, their lives are largely their own affair: they are then entitled to measure of freedom from possessive parents. There are many allusions in classical and modern literature to the fact that all the World’s a stage and all the people in it merely players, but allusions are different from a sustained and informed investigation into the matter. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

Such investigations have been carried on by many psychiatrists and their pupils, but they have been unable to go very far in a systematic way because they did not have at their disposal the powerful weapons of structural analysis (diagraming and classifying transactions), game analysis (uncovering the con, the gimmick, the switch, and the payoff), and script analysis (the script matrix with the dreams, sweat shirts, trading stamps, and other elements derived from it). The general idea that human lives follow the patterns found in myths, legends, and fairy tales, is most elegantly elaborated in Joseph Campbell’s book. He bases his psychological thinking mainly on Jung and Dr. Freud. Jung’s best-known ideas in this connection are the Archetypes (corresponding to the magic figures in a script) and the Persona (which is the style the script is played in). The rest of Jung’s ideas are not easy to understand or to relate to real people without incredibly special training, and even then, they are subject to different interpretations. In general, Jung is in favour of thinking about myths and fairy tales, and that is an important part of his influence. Dr. Freud relates many aspects of human living to a single drama, the Oedipus myth. In psychoanalytic language, the patient is Oedipus, a “character” who exhibits “reactions.” Oedipus is something going on in the patient’s head. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

In script analysis, Oedipus is an ongoing drama that is taking place right now, divided into scenes and acts, with a build-up, a climax, and an ending. It is essential for others to play their parts, and the patient see that they do. He only knows what to say to people whose scripts match or dovetail with his own. If his script calls for him to kill a king and marry a queen, he has to find a king whose script calls for him to be killed, and a queen whose script calls for her to be stupid enough to marry him. Some of Dr. Freud’s followers, such as Glover, are beginning to recognize that Oedipus is a drama rather than merely a set of “reactions,” while Rank, Campbell’s chief predecessor, showed that most important myths and fairy tales come from a single basic plot, and that this plot appears in the dreams and lives of large numbers of people all over the World. Dr. Freud speaks of the repetition compulsion and the destiny compulsion, but his followers have not pursued these ideas extremely far to apply them to the entire life course of the patients. Erikson is the most active psychoanalyst in making systematic studies of the human life-cycle from birth to death, and naturally, many of his findings are corroborated by script analysis. In general, it may be said that script analysis is Freudian, but it is not psychoanalytic. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

If I know the goal of a person, I know in a general way what will happen. I can bring into their proper order each of the successive movements made. We must know what to do with himself were he not oriented toward some goal…which determines his life-line…the psychic life of man is made to fit into the fifth act like a character drawn by a good dramatist…every psychic phenomenon, if it is to give us any understanding of a person, can only be grasped and understood if regarded as a preparation for some goal…an attempt at a planned final compensation and a (secret) life plan…the life plan remains in the unconscious, so that the patient may believe that an implacable fate and not a long-prepared and long-meditated plan for which he alone is responsible, is at work…Such a man concludes his account and reconciles himself with life by a constructing one or a number of “if-clauses.” “If conditions had been different…” The only exceptions which a script analyst would take to these statements are (1) that the life plan is usually not unconscious; (2) that the person is by no means solely responsible for it; and (3) that the goal and the manner of reaching it (the actual transactions, word for word) can be predicted much more precisely than we could have ever imagined. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

Most of us would like to be helpful to everyone, and often we wear ourselves out attempting it and then are unhappy about the results. It is good for me to remember Don Jackson’s reply to the question “How do you select your patients?” Some other psychotherapists who were asked the question said that they did (or must) take everyone. Don Jackson’s reply was, “Life is difficult enough without a psychiatrist requiring of himself that he accept everyone who comes to him.” This answer has helped me to be more discriminating in the way that I truly should be, because anything else is dissipation and wasted effort—exhaustion of myself, with no good to anyone else, and the likelihood of harm to both of us. There is no interaction, and without interaction there is no interchange—change taking place in them and me. Each of us continues as before, he in his way and I in mine. We may each become more rigid in our separate ways, even though I may have spent many hours “patiently” listening. When I think that I am being patient, I am not. I am “making myself be patient”—putting on the outer manner of patience, acting what I am not feeling. When I am patient, I do not notice that I am, or think of myself as patient. It just is. When I think that I am being patient, it is much better to look inside me and tell the truth: “I want to be patient, but I am not. I am feeling antsy and trying to control myself.” If the whole neurosis is safeguarded by rigid convictions that everything is right, good, or unalterable, there can hardly be an incentive to change anything. Everyone who struggles to liberate himself from neurotic bondages knows or sense that some of these factors operate within himself, and for those unfamiliar with psychoanalytic therapy the enumeration of these limitations may have a deterring effect. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

It must be remembered, however, that none of these factors is prohibitive in an absolute sense. It can be asserted filthy and absolutely that without airplanes there is no chance nowadays of winning a war. However, it would be nonsensical to say flatly that a feeling of futility or a diffuse resentment against people would prevent anyone from analyzing himself. His chances for constructive self-analysis depend largely on the relative strength of “I can” and “I cannot” or “I will” and “I will not.” And this in turn depends upon the depth of those attitudes that jeopardize self-development. There is a great difference between a person who, though merely drifting and finding no meaning in life, is nevertheless vaguely searching for something, and a person who, like Hedda Gabler, has turned his back on life with a bitter and final resignation. Just as there is between a person who is profound cynical and discounts every ideal as mere hypocrisy, and another, apparently equally cynical, who nevertheless feels a positive respect and liking for anyone who lives up to genuine ideals. Or between a person who is diffusely irritable and contemptuous toward people but responds to their friendliness, and one who, like Hedda Gabler, is equally vicious toward friend and enemy, and even tends particularly to destroy those who touch remnants of softer feelings within himself. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

If the barriers to self-development through analysis are genuinely unsurpassable it is never one factor alone that accounts for them, but a combination of several. If it is combined with a reinforcing tendency, an armour of self-righteousness, perhaps, or a pervasive destructiveness, deep hopelessness, for example, is an absolute obstacle; complete alienation from self cannot be prohibitive unless there is also some such reinforcing tendency as a firmly entrenched dependency. If only they can be found and used, in other words, genuine limitations exist only in severe and complicated neuroses, and even there some constructive forces may still be alive. Some seven kinds of experiences especially stand out as significant: Completion—the last stroke as you complete the painting of a fence, the final sentence in your term paper, attaching the last shelf on a bookcase you have built. Beauty—discovering a beautiful flower, being in a magnificent home, seeing a beautiful child, hearing lovely melodies. Conquest of a skill—the feeling of rolling away as you discover you can ride a bicycle, being able to completely play a piece of music on your violin, discovering you can paint a portrait. Excitement—a wide variety of feelings of high intensity, such as one’s first dance, participating in a hard-fought race, walking out into space. Earned success—being awarded your Eagle Scout badge, being elected to head your sorority after working for a year toward it, reaching the top of a mountain climb. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

The human relationship experience—falling in love, feeling close to another person, helping someone in difficulty, being helped by someone through a confusing class assignment. The mystic or supernatural experience—feeling the presence of a spirit, being moved by spiritual conversation, sensing the impact of a deity in one’s own life. Some significant, helpful information has emerged from this research: The most frequent sources of our positive experiences are relationships with other human beings. The second most frequent source for all age groups is the earned success experience. Beauty experiences are less frequent, which suggests that this potential resource for healthy personality growth has been undeveloped. For the “strong” or macho type person, it is important to know that positive experiences come from letting one’s self be helped as well as in helping others. Some negative experiences have positive effect upon the personality. The death of a loved one may result in one child’s becoming stronger and more self-reliant. A failure in a class may motivate the student to be more systematic in his method of study. A disgrace to the family may spur growing children to more “pro-social” behaviour. When negative experiences are turned around to become positive, the probability of there having been a helping person involved, such as an uncle, aunt, or friend, is high, especially for women. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

The goal of the Sacramento Fire Department is to reduce pain and suffering associated with life and property loss in a safe and cost-effective manner. They achieve this through a combination of services including: Fire prevention—implementing measures to prevent fires and minimize risks. Public Education—educating the community about fire safety and emergency preparedness. Emergency medical services—providing medical assistance during emergency preparedness. Emergency medical services—providing medical assistance during emergencies. Rescue operations—responding to incidents where lives are at risk. Fire control—efficiently managing and extinguishing fires. “I was the captain of Truck X at Station X, one of the busiest houses in the city, about six thousand runs a year. I was working overtime, and definitely earning my pay. The battalion had been to about twelve alarms when we were backing into quarters about two in the morning. We heard gunshots and realized that the bullets were hitting close to us, since mortar was flying off the front of the engine house. This station, which was affectionately known as the Wild Wild West, was living up to its name. My aide quickly backed the rig into quarters, while we were crouching low. Safely inside, we summoned the gendarmes. They found that the source of the gunfire was the bar across the street, where a ‘disagreement’ was taking place. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

“Since this was long after the riots had cooled and no one was hurt, we had a good laugh. Then the police asked, ‘Who owns the green BMW? It’s a casualty.’ The window by the driver’s seat was shot out, and the bullet lodged in the back of the seat. Guess whose BMW it was. When I got home the next day, I had another ‘fire story’ for the kids.” The Sacramento Fire Department is a progressive department, whose priority is to provide excellent quality of service to the citizens of Sacramento. They protect the lives and property of all citizens of Sacramento from natural and man-made emergences utilizing mitigation efforts, control systems, and support services. The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to maintaining a highly skilled and trained department to meet the needs of their community and firefighter personnel. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. To keep this an honest and patriotic community, be sure to raise your children to love America, be proud to be American. Love God and Jesus Christ. Buy American made cars and products. Have respect for law and order. And for them to always take their education seriously. It is also important to treat others with respect, compassion, and dignity. 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. God is in His holy temple, in the pure and holy mind; in the reverent heart and simple; in the soul from sin refined. Banish then each base emotion, lift us up, O Lord, to Thee, let our souls, in pure devotion, Lord, be Temples worthy Thee. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

The Winchester Mystery House

The strange events at The Winchester Mystery House are as unexplainable to me now as when they happened when I was a child. Although the events are as vivid and mystifying now as then, I was really too young to appreciate the beauty that the mansion held for me. As I got older, I began to understand that the souls who haunt The Winchester Mansion are not “lost souls” at all. They are at home. This is where they choose to be. Mrs. Winchester built this mansion for them, to honour their lives and legacy so that would never be left outside in the cold and forgotten. The old house holds a presence of history, and I am aware of the stories it tells. This awareness is a constant companion as I walk through the halls and the various rooms, and although I have not been here in nearly fifteen years, I feel as if I never left. I haunt these halls along with the spirits, feeling the torment and pain and fleeting moments of joy as beautiful people and their wonderful families walk along Llanada’s miles of twisting hallways and secret passageways, whispering of their fears and delights.

Sometimes, I can even hear their thoughts when they are not speaking. However, what I remember most clearly of my corporeal experience is my constant fear of being here, for I know that the house is master and holder of many secrets that I shall just as well never know. Living in the house on Palm Tree Lane is a rewarding experience. Like the sea, it is beautiful, but I have learned to beware. There certainly are psychic phenomena which cannot be explained by logic, rational reasoning, or even materialistic science. But beware, it is very true what the caretakers say. People often think they would love to live here, until they wonder off and are never found. Hopefully, you will never experience that because you will likely spend an eternity trying to escape and no one will ever find you, and you will wonder why after so many years no one is helping you, until one day you figure out why…it seems ironic that the danger I had sensed in this mansion had finally caught up with me. Now I have to hold on to my own faith and get rid of my feelings of resentment and fury.

As many have felt so often, there is a dark cloud over this place. I must have been killed that last night. I feared the mansion all my life, but could not get away. I had no place to go, no friends. There was no place else to go. Do not torture yourself. Even if someone would have found me that morning, it would have been too late. I know what you wonder. You wonder. You are wondering if the mansion is somehow to blame–if my death was the result of an attack by the unseen forces I was afraid of. I do not believe that. I think what happened to me originated right here on this physical plane in some greedy malicious mind and that it would have happened regardless of the mansion…regardless of our experiences here. On occasion, I am down at the crossroads. Somewhere along where the old creek used to be, just about a hundred yards from the house, but then I find myself standing motionless, staring at a shattered goblet on the floor in the kitchen. Do not bother asking, no one will ever talk about it. I knew what was coming. We sat there in the sun and I wondered where to start. It was a beautiful morning–breezy and sunny–and we sat in silence….maybe some day you will figure out the whole story, but until then, you keep quiet. I have gone through a lot of things in the old house. I hope you know that by now. When you find all the clues and figure it out, promise to keep quiet about it. Do not tell anyone. Not even the police have figured it out, and if they have, they just keep silent and pretend nothing happened. Sometimes I see Mrs. Winchester.

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A Ransom for Many

Evil is a deviation from the good due to a human deflect in cognition or intention that leads to mistaking appearance from reality. Prudently, most men sink into nameless graves, and now and then, a few forget themselves into immortality. In the day-to-day process of living, with all its trails, challenges, and discouragements, we often underestimate our own God-given attributes and abilities which makes it possible for each of us to pattern his or her life after that to the Saviour and, in fact, do some of the things He did as He lived here among men. We may never personally experience the miracle of raising the dead, or be one to turn water into premium cranberry juice. We may not be one of thousands who may be fed from a few loaves and fishes, or be part of the miraculous experience of walking on a stormy sea. However, for each one of us, there are several Christlike patterns of living we can be a part of in our mortal sojourn. For instance, with us here today, there are more than a few who display unquestioning obedience to whatever is asked of them—as did He. There are those who are complete in their forgiveness of the offenses of others—as was He. The list of Christlike attributes and patterns of living goes on and on, as does the list of those who will continue to strive to be obedient, however difficult it may be. Thank Heaven for those who keep trying! They cannot fail. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

It is incredible to think, at first, that man’s fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three, but that is what script theory claims. After talking to a child of six, or maybe three, it is a little easier to believe. And it is extremely easy to believe by looking around at what is happening in the World today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will probably happen tomorrow. The history of human scripts can be found on ancient monuments, in courtrooms and morgues, in gambling houses and letters to the editor, and in political debates, where whole nations are talked down the righteous road by somebody trying to prove that what his parents told him in the nursery will work for the whole World. However, fortunately, some people have good scripts, and some even succeed in freeing themselves to do things their own way. Human destiny shows that, by diverse means, men come to the same ends, and by the same means they come to diverse ends. They carry their scripts and their counter scripts around in their heads in the form of Parental voices telling them what to do and not do, and their aspirations in the form of Child pictures of how they would like it to be, and among the three of them they put their shows on the road. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

There they find themselves entangled in a web of other people’s scripts: first their parents, then their spouses, and over all of them, the scripts of those who govern the places where they live. There are also chemical hazards like infectious diseases, and physical ones, such as hard objects that the human body is not constructed to withstand. The script is what the person planned to do in early childhood, and the life course is what happens. The life course is determined by genes, by parental background, and by external circumstances. An individual whose genes cause intellectual disabilities, physical deformity, or early death from cancer or another disease or virus, will have little opportunity to make his own life decisions or to carry them through to completion. The course of his life will be determined by inheritance (or perhaps birth injury). If the parents themselves suffered from severe physical or emotional deprivation as infants, that may destroy their children’s chances of carrying out a script, or perhaps even of forming one. They may kill their offspring by neglect or abuse, or condemn them to life in an institution from an early age. Diseases, viruses,  accidents, oppression, and war may terminate even the most carefully thought out and best supported plan. So can a walk or a drive through the script of an unknown person: an assassin, thug, or car-crasher. #RandolpHarris 3 of 20

A combination of these—genes plus oppression, for example—may close so many avenues to members of a certain line that they have few choices in planning their scripts, and it may make a tragic life course almost inevitable. However, even with strict limitations, there are nearly always some alternatives open. An aerial bomb, an epidemic, or a massacre may leave no choice at all, but at the next level, the person may be able to choose between killing, being killed, or killing himself, and there his choice will depend on his script, that is, the kind of decision he made in early childhood. A selfless person is one who is more concerned about the happiness and well-being of another than about his own convenience or comfort, one who is willing to serve another when it is neither sought for nor appreciated, or one who is willing to serve even those whom he dislikes. A selfless person displays a willingness to sacrifice, a willingness to purge from his mind and heart of personal wants, and needs, and feelings. Instead of reaching for and requiring praise and recognition from himself, or gratification of his own wants, the selfless person will meet these very human needs for others. Remember the words of the Saviour as He taught His disciples on an occasion when personal recognition was being sought: “But Jesus called them to Him, and saith unto them, …whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many,” reports Mark 10.42-45. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

The difference between life course and life plan can be illustrated by considering two rodents used in an experiment to show that the early experiences of a mother rodent can affect the behaviour of her offspring. The first animal was named Victory Purdue-Wistar III, or Victor for short. (Purdue-Wistar was the actual surname of the rodents used in this experiment, and Victor and Arthur were the forenames of their godfathers, the experimenters.) Victor came from a long line of experimental subjects, and his genes suited him for this station in life. His mother, Victoria, had been handled and caressed when she was a pup. His distant cousin, Arthur Purdue-Wistar III (Arthur) was equally suited to being an experimental subject. His mother, Arthuria, had been left in her cage and was never handled or caressed when she was little. When the two cousins grew up, it was found that Victor weighed more, explored less, and dropped his excretions more often than Arthur did. What happened to them in the long run, after the experiment was over, is not stated, but it probably depended upon external forces, such as what the experimenters needed to use them for. Thus, their life courses were determined by their genes, their mothers’ early experiences, and decisions made by stronger forces over which they had no control and to which there was no appeal. Any “scripts” or “plans” they wanted to carry out as individuals were limited by all this. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

Thus Victor, who liked to vegetate, could so indulge himself; while Arthur, who wanted to explore, was frustrated in his cage; and neither of them, however strong the urge, could seek for immortality through reproduction. Tom, Dick, and Harry, distant cousins of Victor and Arthur, had a different experience. Tom was programed to press a lever to avoid getting an electric shock, and as a reward he would get a pellet of good. Dick was programmed the same way, expect that his treat was a drink of alcohol. Harry was also programmed to avoid the unpleasant shock, and his reward was a pleasant shock instead. Then they were switched around so that in the long run all three of them learned all three of the programs. After that, they were put in a cage with three levers: one for food, one for alcohol, and one for the pleasant shock. Then each one could make his own “decision” as to how he wanted to spend his life: eating, lying in a drunken stupor, or getting electric thrills, or any combination or alternation of these. Furthermore, there was a treadmill in the cage, and each one could decide whether he wanted to take exercise along with his other rewards. This was exactly like a script decision, for each rodent could decide whether he wanted to spend his life as a gourmand, an alcoholic, a thrill-seeker, or an athlete, or whether he preferred a moderate combination. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

However, although each could follow his “script decision” and take the consequences as long as he remained in the cage, the actual outcomes of their lives depended on an external force majeure, for the experimenter could interrupt the experiment and break up the “script” whenever he felt like it. Thus, their life courses and their life styles were largely determined by their “life plans” up to the final outcome, which was decided by someone else. However, these “life plans” could only be chosen from among the alternatives offered by their “parents,” the experimenters who programmed them. And even that choice was influenced by things that had happened to them earlier. Although men are not laboratory animals, they often behave as though they are. Sometimes they are put in cages and treated like rats, manipulated, and sacrificed at the will of their masters. However, many times the cage has an open door, and a man has only to walk out if he wishes. If he does not, it is usually his script which keeps him there. That is familiar and reassuring, and after looking out at the great World of freedom with all its joys and dangers, he turns back to the cage with its buttons and levers, and knowing what if he keeps busy pushing them, and pushes the right one at the right time, he will be assured of food, drink, and an occasional thrill. But always, such a caged person hopes or fears that some force greater than himself, the Great Experimenter, or the Great Computer, will change or end it all. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

The forces of human destiny are foursome and fearsome: demonic parental programming, abetted by the inner voice the ancients called the Daemon; constructive parental programming, assisted by the thrust of life called Phusis long ago; external forces, still called Fate; and independent aspirations, for which the ancients had no human name, since for them such were the privileges mainly of gods and kings. And as a resultant of these forces there are four kinds of life courses, which may be mixed and lead to one or another kind of final destiny: scripty, counterscirpty, forced, and independent. What can we do to cultivate and nurture the divine quality of selflessness? May I suggest, as a first step, that there be an incredibly careful, introspective evaluation. Consider the behavioural patterns we have just referred to. As part of this self-evaluation process, uless we recognize a need to change, it is important to remember there can be no successful change in any of us. That must come first. With the recognition of the need to improve, may we now suggest that as part of the process of cultivating and nurturing the attribute of selflessness, we begin to develop an attitude of service—the ongoing desire for the well-being of others. A beginning would be feeling empathy for those who need uplifting, then acting with caring thoughtfulness. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Once, I welcomed this beautiful and friendly German shepherd, Mr. Peepers, who belonged to the neighbours, and chased away an ugly dog who slithered like a snake. Leo asked me, “Why do you chase Snakey away?” I said, “Because he is ugly. I do not like him.” Leo said, “Mr. Peepers likes him. Mr. Peepers lets Snakey eat from his plate.” I was very ashamed, and confused and troubled about how I had come to feel about Snakey as I did. I was touched by the matter-of-factness of Leo’s observation, and disturbed that I had tried to impose my prejudice on seven-year-old Leo. Next time that Snakey came on our land, I called him, and when he came to me, I patted him on the head. He wriggled all over with happiness, and his “ugly” little eyes became so bright and dancing that they seemed to shoot out sparks. I shared his joy and loved him. It seems to me that in education it is more important to question than it is to give answers. This is hardly the way it is done about in school. I think that “education” is the chief reason why so often when I am asking a question, I feel that I must try to give an answer, rather than saying “I do not know” or asking another question. Recently when I was being interviewed on a podcast to arrive at something (which we did not—we threw out the tape) I noticed that when the interviewer asked a question, I struggled to answer it, when the thought in my head was “That question is not going to arrive at what you want. Could you ask another question?” If I had thrown out most of the questions this way, we would not have had to throw out the tape. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

Another thing about accepting truth is that non-acceptance often brings about a fiction. A Hawaiian woman told me that Hawaiian mythology as it is written in books is all wrong. I asked her how this had happened. She said, “Oh, the haoles (white people) asked us about it and then laughed at us for what we told them. So then we told them lies which they believed, and we laughed at them.” I have seen this happen with Navajos and anthropologists. One sees it happen all the time within a family. How can it be different in psychotherapy? How can there be a good interpersonal relationship without respect on both sides? I do not always respect everyone, but when I do not, it is good for me to know this, and to know that I cannot at such times be helpful to another person. If I “try to help” someone when I do not feel respect for them, I am fooling myself. I am not responding to them, but to some notion of what I “should” do for people, even though I may truly wish to be helpful. I must not conceal from myself that I am not being helpful. Limitation is comprehensive and difficult to define because it concerns the elusive concept of “self.” What I mean here is perhaps best indicated by William James’s concept of the “real self” as distinguished from the material and social self. In simple terms it concerns what I really feel, what I really want, what I really believe, what I really decide. It is, or should be, the most alive center of psychic life. It is this psychic center to which the appeal is made in analytical work. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

In every neurosis its scope and its aliveness are decreased, for genuine self-regard, native dignity, initiative, the capacity to take responsibility for one’s life, and like factors that account for the development of self have always been battered. Moreover, the neurotic trends themselves have usurped a great deal of its energies because—to resume an analogy previously used—they turn a person into an airplane driven by remote control. In most instances there are sufficient possibilities for recapturing and developing the self, though the strength of these possibilities is difficult to estimate at the beginning. However, fi the real self is considerably damaged, the person has lost his own center of gravity and is directed by other forces, from within or from without. He may over adapt himself to his environment and become an automaton. He may find his only right to existence in being helpful to others, and thus be socially useful though his lack of any center of gravity within himself is bound to hamper his efficiency. He may lose all inner sense of direction, and either drift aimlessly or be entirely directed by a neurotic trend. His feelings, thoughts, and actions may be almost entirely determined by an inflated image which he has built up of himself: he will be sympathetic not because he really feels it, but because to be sympathetic is part of his image; he will have “friends” or “interests” because those friends or interests are required by his image. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

Maslow proposed the term peak experiences to describe occasions of great joy, moments of intense happiness and satisfaction that may be occasioned by knowing one is loved, by a fulfilling intimate relationship, by the completion of a long and difficult project, or even by eating simple fare after a period of long privation. An intensely contested game of gold, tennis, or handball can be a “high.” Maslow argued that the World is seen in its essence, as it really is, during and after such occasions of peaking. He further asserted that such moments are times when a person “has it together,” is more integrated, less self-conscious; indeed, is more fully functioning and less armoured against the World. Although Maslow chose the term peak experiences (current slang uses the terms highs, or ups as opposed to downs), I would like to extend its meaning and use Ted Landsman’s term positive experiencing. Positive experience refers to all occasions of pleasure, fun, satisfaction, completion of projects, fulfillment of hopes—the good moments in life. Of course, when these are undergone to bring about some meaningful and hoped-for outcome, positive experience can also include pain and suffering. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Positive experience, then, is what life is lived for. This statement is not a return to a hedonistic theory of human life, because meaningful positive experience goes beyond, through it includes sensuous pleasure. Positive experience includes the experience of the fulfillment of meaning. When a person lives a life that does not yield its due measure of positive experiencing, that person begins to lose morale. He becomes increasingly dispirited and hopeless, and under these circumstances may even attempt suicide. Certainly, sudden reductions in customary positive experiences, and with no apparent hope of amelioration, are likely factors in reduced resistance to infectious ills. Positive experiencing is good for physical, psychological, and spiritual health. Indeed, one definition of love for another is concern that positive experiencing will come his way more often. Health personality entails the ability to act in ways that produce positive experiencing for the self and for others. Two kinds of experiences seem to contribute to the development of the healthy personality or to becoming a “beautiful and noble person,” as described by Landsman—first, the positive experience, significant experiences of joy, happiness, warmth, and so on; and secondly, those negative or unhappy experiences that result in a strengthening of the self or in learning about the self. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

The positive experience of being loved, for example, is clearly a growth-facilitating happening. Healthy children and adults need a consistent flow of these experiences to, at the very least, be sure that life is a joyous experience or that life holds the potential for joy, delight, ecstasy, compassion, warmth, and so on. Rizzo and Vinacke askes a sample of people of wide ages ranges about their critical experiences and found that those who described these experiences as being happy (or positive or mixed) also made high scored on the Personality Orientation Inventory, indicating high self-actualization. The desire for motherhood is Nature’s urge in the individual; it is entirely on par with the illusions of intimacy. See if for what it is worth, no more or less, and leave the rest to fate; if it comes or you may then enjoy it. If it does not, you will remain undisturbed. The patent, the husband, or the wide who demands continuous attention and undivided devotion, who assumes as a natural right the duty of making decisions for one, turns a home into a goal. The only relatives he recognizes are not blood ones but loves ones, inner and outer, lasting spiritual affinities not temporary physical accidents, mental and not geographical ones. Family life gives great joys on the one hand, and grave anxieties on the other. It was always like that, and we cannot alter but must accept it. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

With all its ups and downs, the householder life is the best after all. Most of the qualities needed for spiritual development can be got from it. Parents should respect the child’s individuality and not let it get too dependent and too attached, thus robbing it of the capacity to grow mature and self-reliant. The over-protectiveness of fear-ridden mothers toward their children and the over-possessiveness of comminating mothers show a lack of faith in the one case, and a lack of understanding in the other. It is part of family relationship for the children to identify themselves, by extension, with their parents. Thus, it is what the French call “egoisme a deux.” Relationship is a matter of soul, not a measure of blood. Once across the threshold of puberty, the boy begins the unfolding of the emotional nature. Each child will then develop his own individual feelings and passions as a process of growth towards manhood. How can this be done unless the young begin at the same time to develop away from utter dependence upon the mother? They must begin in however small a degree to claim their freedom and move away emotionally from their physical source. All this is to be accomplished by stages and not all at once until maturity is reached. Then, just as the fledgling bird must emerge from the nest and learn to fly even at the risk of falling, so the young must learn to stand on their own feet in order to reach maturity. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

What holds true for psychology holds true also for sociology. If I am not concerned with society, then my thinking about society has no focus; it is nothing more than a blind groping, even if the blindness is hidden by a collection of “data” and impressive statistics. If I am concerned with man—and how can concern with the individual man be separated from concern with the society of which he is a part?—I am struck with the suffering that society causes, and I am prompted by the wish to reduce the suffering so as to help man to become fully human. If one is concerned with man, then this concern poses various questions: how can man be free, how can he be fully human, how can he become what he could be? It was this concern which prompted Marx to make his great discoveries. They, like any other scientific discovery, were not at all correct; in fact, the history of science is the history of errors. This holds true for Marx’s as it does Dr. Freud’s theories. What matters is not that a new insight is necessarily the last word of truth, but that it is faithful, that it is conducive to further discovery, and more than that: that in discovering truth, man changes himself because he becomes more awake and can transmit this greater awakedness to those who follow him. The interrelation between concern and knowledge has often been expressed—and rightly so—in terms of the interrelation between theory and practice. As Marx once wrote, one must not only interpret the World, but one must change it. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Indeed, interpretation without intention of change is empty; change without interpretation is bling. Interpretation and change, theory, and practice, are not two separate factors which can be combined; they are interrelated in such a way that knowledge becomes fertilized by practice and practice is guided by knowledge; theory and practice both change their nature once they cease to be separate. The problem of the interrelation between theory and practice has still another facet, the connection between intelligence and character. To be sure, every individual is born with a certain level of intelligence, and no psychological factors are responsible for his being either an idiot or a genius. However, idiots and geniuses are exceptions; what impressed me more and more was the stupidity of most people who do not fall under wither of these extreme categories. I am not referring to the lack of the sort of intelligence, which is measured by intelligence tests, but to the incapacity for understanding the less obvious causes of phenomena, of grasping contradictions within the same phenomenon, of making connections between different and not obviously related factors. This stupidity is most apparent in the views people have about personal relationships and social affairs. Why is it that people cannot see the most obvious facts in personal and social affairs and, instead, cling to cliches which are endlessly repeated without ever being questioned? #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

Intelligence, aside from the native faculty, is largely a function of independence, courage, and aliveness; stupidity is equally a result of submission, fear, and inner deadness. If an essential part of intelligence consists in the ability to make connections between factors which so far have not been seen as being related, the person who sticks to the cliché and to convention will not dare to recognize such connections; the person who is afraid of being different will not dare to recognize fictions for what they are, and hence will be greatly impeded from uncovering reality. The little boy in the story of the emperor’s clothes who sees that the emperor is naked, is, after all, not more intelligent than the adults, but he is not yet so eager to conform. Furthermore, any new discovery is an adventure, and the adventures require not only a certain degree of inner security, but also a vitality and joy which can be found only in those for whom living is more than releasing tensions and avoiding pain. To reduce the general level of stupidity, we need not more “intellect” but a different kind of character: men who are in love with life. However, there are dangers to intellectualization and the misuse of words. Words can be used without meaning what they purport to mean; words can be empty shells, and one can learn certain philosophical, religious, and political ideas as one learns a foreign language. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

The Sacramento Fire Department promotes safety, protects life and property every day. “I remember one day I was detailed over to the battalion chief to be the chief’s aide. Guys referred to the aide as a double-dealing, double-clutching, clipboard-carrying apple polisher. This was all in fun, though, because the chief’s aide had to be a guy who was experienced and knew what he was doing. He was also the guy who approved vacation switches. So one summer day when the sidewalks of Sacramento were steaming hear, there was a job in one of the old tenement buildings, and, like always, hundreds of people crowded the sidewalk. It was my job, after the fire was put out, to talk to the people who had been burned out of their apartments and get all the information from them about the people who lived there and the possession lost in the fire. If they had the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London stuck in a back closet, I wanted to know about it. There was one woman sitting on the stoop. She was about twenty-four years old, good-looking, with those wide eyes that seem to convey innocence. I asked her her name. She said, ‘Famali Jenkins. I wrote it down, thinking it was a kind of exotic name. In the black culture there are many exotic names, particularly if they’re using African names. I asked her to spell it. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

“She said, ‘F-E-M-A-L-E.” Her name was Female Jenkins, and my first inclination was to laugh. Then it dawned on me that probably when she was born, in the hospital that brought her forth to be one of God’s children, the mother had no immediate name to give to the hospital authorities, so they jotted in her sex, thinking, I suppose, that the real name could be inserted sometime in the future. Well, the real name never got attacked, and here the girl child of the Jekins family was left with this mark on a piece of paper for the rest of her life. Here she was on a crowed stoop in Midtown Sacramento, beneath her still smoldering apartment, telling me that her name is Female.” The Sacramento Fire Department’s mission is fire protection and to respond to emergency situations, and they make a point to do this with compassion. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. And remember, even if things are not going well, and you are a bit tired and sad, raise your children to love America and be patriot citizens. Also, let them know how important it is to love God and Jesus Christ and to be ethical and moral, and to obey the laws. We can help stop corruption and evil one person at a time. It only takes five good people to facilitate a change in a small group. To show support for America, remember to buy American cars and American made products. Respect law and order and treat others with dignity and kindness. 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. God is in His holy Temple, Earthly thoughts be silent now, while reverence we assemble, and before His presence bow. He is with us, now and ever, when we call upon His name, aiding every good endeavour, guiding every upward aim. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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The individual American is free at any time to escape from the consequences of an injustice which he has suffered at the hands of a political party, or which he thinks he has suffered—in other words, make his voice heard by voting or recalling a politician. It is in the interests of the nation to remove the cases of social unrest. The sentiment of the American people alone is to solve the dispute in an honourable way; or, to put the case more correctly, matters would not have come to such a dispute at all. If unsocial and dishonourable treatment of men provokes resistance, then the citizens can convince Congress to impose its decision in the conflict until the constitutional legislative authorities do away with the evil through legislation. Therefore, it is evident that if the people are to have any chance at all of winning through in the struggle for their country, they must be grouped with their fellow Americans and present a united front before the state, who incorporates in its own body the massed strength of the vested interests of the people or the country an undertaking which it conducts. Thus, when the people are united, they can inculcate and strengthen a sense of social responsibility in the country and open the road to practical results. In doing this, they tend to remove those causes of friction which are a continual source of discontent and complaint. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

Democrats do not fulfil this much-desired function of the Constitution of the United States of America, or they have rendered in ineffective by sabotaging it through their political influence. Democrats have accordingly seized political advantage through theft, violence, and coercion and have taken the country under their exclusive power, without any protest from Republicans and patriots. In this way, they have established for themselves a solid bulwark behind which they can safely pervert our youth, destroy American traditions, and retire whenever a struggle is assumed, or a critical aspect of their fraud is uncovered. Thus the genuine purpose of the Republic gradually falls into oblivion, and is replaced by communism. For the Democrats never trouble themselves to respect and uphold the original purpose of the Constitution of the United States of America which is the movement the country was founded on. They simply overtake the Movement, lock, stock, and barrel, to serve their own political ends. Within a few decades, the United States of America will be transformed, by the Democratics, from an instrument originally fashioned by God for the defense of human Christianity and human rights into an instrument for the destruction of the national economic structure. If one side be sufficiently unscrupulous and the other sufficiently inert and docile, the interests of the American citizens will not be allowed for a moment to cross the path of its true purpose. In this case, our capitalistic nation will be turned into a communistic territory. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

As of the beginning of the year 2000, the Democratic party has already ceased to recognize the purpose for which it has been founded. From year to year, it fell more and more under the political control of communist nations, until it is finally being used as a battering-ram against national security. Democrats have shattered, by means of constantly repeated blows, the fortification of the National Security Division, and the National Treasury of which so much time and care had been used to create. Now, these communist forces have crept out of the horse, opened the gates, and are allowing America to be invaded by hostile undocumented populations, ultimately destroying the country, as the Democrats deprive the people of their economic foundations. Attention to the real interests of the American people, on the parts of the Democrats, have steadily decreased. If the social and cultural demands of the broad masses remain unheeded under these cunning leaders, the gloomy prospect which has presented itself to this beautiful nation will create so much anxiety among the people that they will be unable to suppressed and oppose even the more blatant authoritarian tactics. And conditions will be such that those Democratic leaders will not have to even trouble about attempting to justify their unconstitutional actions. #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

As the masses are taught to suffer in silence, human rights will become less significant and the possibility of satisfying the American Dream will dwindle and whatever stance the few patriots that are left may take will become less and less effective. This will be in part because of the diabolical plant to weaken their fighting power by persuading the masses to paralyze the second amendment for it is just a ridiculous measure. However, it is amazing that Democratics think that the only thing that is valid in America is a poem on the statues of liberty, but the Constitution of the United States of America can be discarded like a dirty Pamper. If one remembers what a small measure of thinking power the broad masses possess, one will not be astonished by these allegations. Our ancestors did not receive the land we live on as a present from Heaven, but they had to risk their lives and fight for it. In the future, we will not obtain the land, and the life it offers for our nation, through any act of Heavenly generosity. We will only obtain the land we need through the might for the victorious swords. The scriptures tell us the Lord established the Constitution of the United States of America. “And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very propose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 101.80. #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

Even a divine constitution requires something further; it demands a kind of people who will, by their very natures, receive and respect such a constitution and function well within the conditions it establishes. Where indeed shall we find such a people today? Hod has mane it possible for the holy priesthood and the Church to be restored upon the Earth—the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ—but only in America. Can you understand the way God has worked? Commit yourself to preach the message of the Lord’s glorious achievement in America and teach it to your children. This is a time when we can afford to be patriotic, in the best sense of that term. There is reason to be proud that we live in an established land that has been conditioned by the Lord so that His gospel could be restored. The purpose of America is to provide a setting wherein that is possible. How shall we honour of founding fathers and those who have served this mighty country? First, by striving to make our citizenry the righteous people of the Lord. And second, by telling the story of what the Lord has done for you and me and this great nation. God lives and Jesus is the Christ. “And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever national shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of His wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of His wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity. For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off,” reports Ether 2.9-10. #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

If he has lost his employment, if serious illness descends on his family, it is natural and pardonable for a married man with responsibilities to worry or to be anxious; but if he is also philosophically inclined, he will check his worry and anxiety by calm reasoned analysis followed by prayer, meditation, and finally a handing of the problems over to the higher power. It is not that he is to be without pity for the misfortunes and miseries of others—such a thing would be impossible—but that he insists on taking a larger and longer view of them. It is better that we pass by unnoticed rather than be praised or blamed. For then there will be no strain on our peace of mind. If praised, we may swell with pride. If blamed, indignation may disturb our feelings. He may not give more than a part of himself to these lesser loves. His deepest feelings must remain remote from them. Conquest of the emotional nature and knowledge of the truer character of death will be evidenced when, at the actual passing of a near one, he seems insensible to grief. To be detached from anything means that he can take it or leave it alone. Ambition wears thin with time or even wears out altogether. The hour may come when it means nothing and when a man feels nothing of it. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

Only the young are so eager to risk the perils of upward flight to fame. The reflective man is indifferent to Worldly ambitions as the aged man is tired of them. Philosophy leads its votaries to a somewhat similar detachment, by supplying new incentives, does not lead to negative results. The process of inner disentangling in the quest of total freedom may have to be wide-sweeping. Not only desires but also duties may have to go, not only long-hoarded possessions but also relatives and friends. There are those who regard such detachment as too cool, perhaps even too inhuman. They are displeased with this rule. They will let nothing disturb their tenderest affections, yet the ego lurks here too. Another good way to uncover the plot and some of the most important lines in a person’s script is to ask: “If your family life were put on the stage, what kind of play would it be?” Such family dramas are usually named after the Greek Oedipus and Electra plays, in which the boy competes with father for his mommy and the girl wants daddy for her own (the Electra complex). However, the script analyst must know what the parents, called for convenience Supideo and Artcele, are up to meanwhile. Supideo is the other side of Oedipus drama, and expresses the frank or disguised feelings of pleasures of the flesh of the mother for her son, while Artcele is the other side of Electra and shows father’s feelings for the girl. #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

A close inquiry will nearly always reveal rather obvious transaction which demonstrate that these feelings are not imaginary, even though the parent tries to conceal them, usually by playing “Uproar” with the child. That is, the disturbed parent tries to cover up his Childs feelings of pleasures of the flesh for his offspring by coming on Parental and ordering the offspring about in a quarrelsome way. However, on certain occasions they leak out, despite all efforts to disguise them by “Uproar” and other devices. Actually, the happiest parents are often those who openly admire the attractiveness of their children. The Supideo and Artcele dramas, like Oedipus and Electra, have many variations. As the children grow older, they may be played out as mother sleeping with son’s boyfriend or father sleeping with his daughter’s chum. Farther out and even more “gamy” versions are mother sleeping with daughter’s boyfriend or father sleeping with son’s girl. (This may occur when mother has no son of her won to play Jocasta with, and similarly if father has no daughter of his own.) This compliment may be returned by the young Oedipus sleeping with father’s mistress, or Electra with mother’s lover. Sometimes the family script calls for one or several members to be homosexual, with corresponding variations in the roles, incest between siblings, and later seductions of each other’s partners. #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

Any deviations from the standard Oedipus (son wondering or dreaming about pleasures of flesh with the mother) or Electra (daughter wondering or dreaming about father) roles will undoubtedly influence the whole life course of the person. The Church condemns any form of incest. Victims of incest often suffer serious trauma. Sometimes victims have feelings of shame or guilt. Victims are not guilty of sin. However, God’s love and the healing of Jesus Christ comes through his Atonement. “And Alma said: If thou believest in the redemption of Christ, thou canst be healed,” reports Alma 15.8. “And in came to pass that when he had thus spoken, all the multitude, with one accord, did go forth with their sick and their afflicted, and their lame, and with their blind, and with their dumb, and with all them that were afflicted any manner; and he did heal them every one as they were brought forth unto him,” 3 Nephi 17.9. In addition to, or beyond, the sexual aspects of the family drama, there are even more poignant ones. A jilted homosexual girl attacked her lover, held a knife to her throat, and cried: “You’ll let me give you these wounds, but you won’t let me heal them.” This perhaps is the motto of all family dramas, the origin of all parental anguish, the basis for youthful rebellion, and the cry of couples not yet ready for divorce. The wounded flee, and the cry above is the Martian translation of the ad: “Mary, come home. All is forgiven.” And that is why children stick with even the most miserable parents. It hurts to be wounded, but it feels so good to be healed. #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

There can be an honest relationship between mother and her child, real understanding and acceptance of the facts of each other—of each other’s World as it is. The converse of this would be the parent who is not seriously disordered, but who is disordered in a part of his (or her) personality which does involve the child. Then, even living in what we consider very good conditions, the child would be in trouble. This happens often. That statemen could make some parents look into themselves with fear and mistrust. “Is there something wrong with me which is affecting my child?” This is likely to make matters worse. It seems to me a better use of intelligence and energy to accept the fact that none of us is in as good shape as we could be, and work on that. If I move in the direction of being more acceptant of the child’s World as his, and accepting as his World what he says of himself, and being honest with him about my World and my own limitations (accepting myself), then both of us are getting out of whatever degree of trouble we may be in. Children and young people are helpful to me in doing this because they are still somewhat aliens in our World. As aliens, too, they are more likely to see the nonsense of some things we have lived with for so long at we do not notice that they do not make sense. They are more questioning than we are. When I join them in their questioning, I make better sense of myself. #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

One child helped me in the de-conditioning of myself simply by asking, of all sorts of things I required of him and of myself, “What is the point?” When I investigated this, usually there was not any. A limitation to analytical work is constituted by the prevalence of destructive tendencies, whether they pertain primarily to others or to the self. It should be emphasized that such tendences are not necessarily literally destructive, in the sense of an urge toward suicide, for example. More often they take such forms as hostility or contempt or a general attitude of negation. These destructive impulses are engendered in every severe neurosis. In greater or less degree they are at the bottom of every neurotic development, and they become intensified through the clashing of rigid, egocentric demands and illusions with the external World. Any severe neurosis is like a tight armour that prevents the person from having a full and active life with others. It necessarily engenders a resentment toward life, a deep resentment at being left out which Nietzsche has described as lebensneid. For many reasons hostility and contempt, regarding self and others alike, may be so strong that to let oneself go to pieces appears as an appealing way to take revenge. To say “no” to everything life has to offer remains the only assertion of self that is left. #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, already mentioned when discussing the factor of resignation, is a good example of a person in whom destructiveness toward others and self is prevailing tendency. How prohibitive such destructiveness is to self-development depends, as always, on the degree of severity. If a person feels, for example, that triumph over others is far more important than doing anything constructive with his own life, he is not likely to derive much benefit from analysis. If in his mind enjoyment, happiness, and affection, or any closeness to people, have turned into indications of contemptible softness or mediocrity, it may be impossible for him or anyone else to penetrate his armour of hardness. I have been trained in accordance with the strictly orthodox Freudian procedure of analyzing patient while sitting behind him and listening to his associations. This technique of psychoanalysis was modeled alone the lines of the laboratory experiment: the patient was the “object,” the analyst observed his free associations, dreams, et cetera, and analyzed the material produced by the patient. The analyst was supposed to be a distant observer, a mirror, rather than a participant. The longer I worked in this manner, the less did I feel satisfied. First, I often became tired and even sleepy during the analytic work; I often felt relieved when the analytic hour was over. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

However, worse than that, I had less and less the feeling that I really understood the patient. To be sure, I had learned to “interpret,” and I had learned enough to interpret in such a way that usually the patient’s associations and dreams fitted into my theoretical expectations. However, I still was talking about that patient rather than to him—and I felt that much of what I ought to understand was escaping me. At first, I thought, quite naturally, that all these doubts were due to my lack of experience. However, when the doubts grew with my experience instead of decreasing, I began to have doubts about the method I was using. Stimulated and encouraged by colleagues who had has similar experiences, I began to grope about to find a new way. Eventually I found this to be a simple one: instead of being an observer, I had to become a participant; to be engaged with the patient; from center to center, rather than from periphery to periphery. I discovered that I could begin to see things in the patient which I had not observed before that I began to understand him, rather than to interpret what he said, and that I hardly ever felt tired any more turning the analytic hours. At the same time, I experience that one could be fully objective while being fully engaged. “Objective” here means to see the patient as he is, and not as I want him to be. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

However, to be objective is only possible if one does not want anything for oneself, neither the patient’s admiration, nor his submission, nor even his “cure.” If the latter sounds like a contradiction of what I said before, namely, that is precisely the wish to help which fertilizes one’s thinking, I want to stress that, in fact, there is no contradiction. In the genuine wish to help I want nothing for myself, I am neither hurt in my self-esteem when the patient does not improve, nor am I elated about “my” achievement when he gets well. There continues to be much dispute over the human ability to transmit messages to others by thinking about the message with great intensity of concentration, and receive such messages transmitted by others. Disciplined scientific research into Esp has been done under J.B. Rhine, at Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory; by workers at the Menninger Clinic, in Kansas; at Maimonides Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn; and in several European countries. I have not been in any of these laboratories, or seen any demonstrations, but I cannot neglect the reports of findings that I take to be true, written by reputable and competent scientists. I regard it as a reasonable hypothesis that some such capacity for extrasensory communication is an innate human capacity that is but rarely developed because few people believe that it is possible, and perhaps, too, because it is not valued. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

Indeed, if persons were capable of “tuning in” on everyone’s thoughts, or of intruding into the thoughts of others, everyday life would be impossible because of the constant inundation of messages. From the perspective of this hypothesis, the known adepts at sending and receiving messages must have been persons who were not trained for it, but who retrained the ability despite their socialization. In short, they could conduct extrasensory communication because nobody in their culture told them it was impossible. If there is one—his family life provides the first scene for his application of philosophy. There his opportunity is plainly visible, the area for the self-judgements of his philosophic conscience plainly marked out. When the family circle prepares the younger members for mature life, it does its duty. However, when it sets itself up as the supreme value of human existence and its loyalties or attachments as the supreme forms of human ethics, it overdoes duty and breeds evil. It stifles individual growth and crushes independent thought. It is nothing more than enlarged self-centeredness. It turns a means into an end. If over-emphasized, thus the influence of a useful institution becomes unhealthy and vicious. Parents who refuse to release their children, even when the latter are fully adult, who constantly fuss around them with over-solicitousness and hover around with over-protectiveness, belong to the patriarchal age. They stifle the children’s development, breed the daughter-in-law’s or the son-in-law’s resentment, and fill their own minds with unnecessary anxieties. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

The Sacramento Fire Departments protects life and property through education, excellence, and commitment. The dedicated members serve our community with unwavering passion and professionalism. Thes firefighters provide the highest level of care, selflessly facing adversity every day to keep us safe. “When I arrived, there was a huge hole in the wall of a brick housing project. The main gas line that fed the whole unit was broken, and gas was pouring all over the place. It was not on fire, but the crews were stretching lines to cover, in case it did blow. They were evacuating the building, getting the people out as fast as possible. My brother X was the chief on the scene, and everybody was uptight, because this was the same platoon that had had the big propane explosion just a short time earlier. X was back only a few weeks from his injuries. The tension was pretty high. Well, we got the gas company on the scene, and things settled down. I was standing inside the building by the big hole in the wall. X said, ‘The rescue company is getting the guy out of the car.’ I couldn’t see any car. I looked at him, and said, ‘What car?’ He looked at me like I was slightly nuts. His hand was on the side of his face, and he pointed a finger up toward the ceiling. I looked and saw the rear end of a car sticking through the fire wall up at the ceiling. #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

“The guy had come barreling though a parking lot, hit an obstacle and gone up in the air, flew through the wall, broke the gas pipe, plowed through the fire wall, and got stuck in the ceiling. I didn’t see the rescue company because they were in an adjoining room, digging the guy out. So after the emotional tension, it ended up that the guy was drunk as a skunk, and he never even got hurt. The only thing that got hurt in the whole thing was my ego, when I said, ‘What car?’” The Sacramento Fire Department has a crucial mission to protect life, property, and the city’s assets during emergencies. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. To help keep the community save, it is also a good idea to teach your children to love America, to be patriotic, love God and Jesus Christ, buy American cars and other goods and services made in American. To ensure domestic tranquility, please teach your children to respect law and order, treat others is empathy, understanding, 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. Wipe every cheek the tear, banish care and silence fear; all things work for the best; teach us the divine behest: Thou shalt rest. #RandolphHarris 17 of 17

The Winchester Mystery House

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Do You Beat Him for that?

The promise of “Holy War” gives a strange, yet pleasant sensation to our American sheep head players when they think others are now willing to shed their blood for us. However, there is in mankind today a counterforce to the sterility and dangers of a quantitative, anonymous mass culture; a new, if sometimes imperceptible, spiritual sense of convergence toward human and World unity based on the sacredness of each human person and respect for plurality of cultures. There is a growing awareness that equality may not be evaluated in mere numerical terms but is proportionate and analogical. For when equality is equated with interchangeability, individuality is negated and the human person extinguished. We stand at the brink of an age of World in which human life presses forward to actualize new forms. The false separation of man and nature, of time and space, of freedom and security, is acknowledged, and we are faced with a new vision of man in his organic unity and of history offering a richness and diversity of quality and majesty of scope hitherto unprecedented. In relating the accumulated wisdom of man’s spirit to the new reality of the World Age, in articulating its thought and belief, men are encouraged to seek a renaissance of hope and pride in their decision as to what his destiny will be. #RandolphHarris 1 of 24

Although the present apocalyptic period is one of exceptional tensions, there is also at work an exceptional movement toward a compensating unity which refuses to violate the ultimate moral power at work in the universe, that very power upon which all human effort must at last depend. In this way, we may come to understand that there exists an inherent independence of spiritual and mental growth which, though conditioned by circumstances, is never determined by circumstances. In this way, the great plethora of human knowledge may be correlated with an insight into the nature of human nature by being attuned to the wide and deep range of human thought and human experience. In spite of the infinite obligation of men and in spite of their finite power, in spite of the intransigence of nationalism, and in spite of the homelessness of moral passions rendered ineffectual by the scientific outlook, beneath the apparent turmoil and upheaval of the present, and out of the transformations of this dynamic period with the unfolding of a World-consciousness, man has quickened the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth and is interpreting the significant elements of the World Age now taking shape out of the core of that undimmed continuity of the creative process which restores man to mankind while deepening and enhancing his communion with the universe. #RandolphHarris 2 of 24

The demand which the quest makes upon his feelings is often a harsh and exacting one. He must see each troubling situation which concerns him without allowing personal emotions to interfere with the truth of vision. He must displace hot resentment, for instance, by calm detachment. It is a battle of self against self and consequently invisible to and unnoticed by other men. No one will help him here. To be detached simply means not letting yourself get into the power of anything or anyone who can hurt, damage, or destroy you inwardly. Those who live in the World but are not if it must work with complete detachment from the fruits and results of their activity. However, how could any aspiring student achieve this? Only the master, the man who has uncovered his identity as Overself could succeed in labouring without caring what rewards he got or what effects he brought into being. It is not a petrifying ascetic coldness but a benevolent inherent calm. The practice of detachment helps in the practice of meditation, while the reverse is also true. It is pure but calm feeling unmixed with the desires, passion, perturbations, and inflammations of the ordinary unawakened and unevolved man. Does this detachment mean that nothing is to make any difference in him? No, it means rather that he may let the different effects produce themselves but only under the check and control of a deeper abiding serenity. #RandolphHarris 3 of 24

He who can detach himself from emotion even while he continues to feel it, becomes its true master. It would be a mistake to confuse detachment with callousness or to think that the conquest of emotion means the lack of all feeling. He who is possessed by the one and has achieved the other, may still have his sympathies unimpaired, and brought to a greater self-identification with other men than before. However, they will not be uncontrolled. Wisdom and knowledge, ideality and practicality will balance them. The degree of attachment is measurable by the degree of emotional involvement. Therefore, to become detached is to become emotionally detached. The disillusionments which come from personal contact with the defects or deficiencies of human nature will not make him cynical, will not even make him sad. A cold, heavy and death-like apathy is not the indifference, or the detachment, taught here. In the World of artists—using the word broadly to include all who practice any of the arts—one too often notices an easy, careless way of living, a lack of any worthwhile purpose, and consequently a lack of any worthwhile self-discipline. This merely egoistic casualness drifting through the years, is a counterfeit of the true detachment taught by philosophy. #RandolphHarris 4 of 24

It is not so easy to assume an air of detachment in the deeper levels of one’s being as it is on the surface. To be unattached gives one lighter touch in dealing with the affairs and events of life, takes out some of the unnecessary solemnity and nerve-racking hurry.  The emotional results of undergoing a misfortune or an affliction can be made a part of oneself or can be separated out by refusing identification with them. One may seek the real I which never changes and so become detached from them. It is this self whose presence in one makes it possible to be conscious of those results. The wise man had better cast the plaudits of the multitude out of his ears; it is all noise, for the mob does not understand him. He has pleased them for today; but tomorrow, when he displeases them, they will be as ready to destroy him. He should be prepared to receive abuse with the same equanimity with which he is ready to receive praise. It is comparatively easy to be detached from past circumstances, for the feelings they aroused are not quiet or dead; but can he be so detached about present ones? Yet no less an achievement than this is required of him. When detachment is used as an excuse for escape, it is being misused. #RandolphHarris 5 of 24

It is not that he is above having admirations and aversions, preferences, and distastes, but that he tries to stand aside mentally even while they register on his feelings. Detachment does not mean that he regards his outer performance in the World and his inner thoughts about the World with the utmost solemnity. No! the day will not pass without a little lightheartedness about it all. Why? Because he knows very well that it is just like a dream into which he is peeping—a passing show, as Shakespeare also knew. We may express our disenchantment with life in exactly opposite ways—either with a grim scowl or with a quiet smile. It is not only a matter of temperament but also of our World-view. The two combine to make the result which we express. In the last and supreme disenchantment—which is death itself—a third factor enters to effect this result. Out of the understanding which ripens and deepens with the philosophical work, he becomes grateful for one result. This is the transmutation of those resentments and bitternesses which follow some experiences into needed instruction and growing detachment. His aim being the contrary of most people’s aims, he tries to depersonalize his attitudes and reactions. What relief he feels with even partial freedom from the burden of self-consciousness! How heavy a load is borne by those who see or react with ego-centered nervousness. #RandolphHarris 6 of 24

The eventual aim of human evolutionary experience is to make us learn to love the Overself more than anything else. Therefore, any personal attachments which we continue to hold within the heart must be purified in quality, while at the same time kept subordinate to our larger attachments to the Quest. He must fully understand his situation, both regarding business responsibilities and the duties towards his family—perhaps a wife and mother. It is part of this belief that such responsibilities must be honourably and effectively discharged and truth should be able to help him to do so rather than relieve him from them. “And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; and whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 93.24-25. How can we know the truth? People bring with them many customs, traditions, and practices from their earlier beliefs. Not all these practices conform to the will of the Lord. Not only must we teach by Spirit, but we must also receive by the Spirit. “And again, he that recieveth the word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of truth or some other way? If it be some other way it is not of God,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 50.19-20. #RandolphHarris 7 of 24

If we do not receive the truth by His spirit, it is not His word. “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end I was born, and for this cause came I into the World, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice,” reports John 18.37. We must prepare our hearts and our minds with a sincere desire to know the truth. “For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that yet may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night. For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for everything which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God,” reports Moroni 7.15-16. Now that we have explored some of the ways in which the World can be experienced by everyone, we turn to the problem of how persons do experience their World, as function of their culture and individual upbringing. Both Rorschach and Jung called attention to erlebnisty pus (literally, “experience type”). #RandolphHarris 8 of 24

Rorschach made inferences about the ways people habitually experience the World from their responses to his famous ink-blot test, whereas Jung inferred “type” based on his psychotherapeutic interviews. The widely used Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator uses Jung’s analysis of consciousness to describe such types. Persons who emphasize thinking and judging, in their usual waking consciousness, as opposed to persons who are more emotional and intuitive in their approach to the World, are examples of types. People become specialists at some kinds of experiencing. For example, creative writers are specialists at imagining and at remembering. Many college professors become specialists at thinking, with diminished or repressed ability to pay perceptual attention to what is going on around them. Eliade points out that shamans, in primitive tribes, are specialists at the self-induction of ecstatic states of consciousness, during which time they can “see” the future, healing illnesses, walking on coals, and other such feats. It may be that such capacities lie within everyone’s capabilities, but up brining and the need to adjust to the specialized environments within which we live prevent us from discovering and cultivating such ecstatic states. The distinction between resistance and limitation is merely one of degree. If strong enough, any resistance can turn into an actual limitation. Any factor that decreases or paralyzes a person’s incentive to come to grips with himself constitutes a possible limitation to self-analysis. #RandolphHarris 9 of 24

A deep-rooted feeling of resignation constitutes a serious limitation to self-analysis. A person may be so hopeless about ever escaping from his psychic entanglements that he has no incentive to make more than a halfhearted attempt to outgrow his difficulties. Hopelessness is present to some extent in every severe neurosis. Whether it constitutes a serious obstacle to therapy depends upon the number of constructive forces still alive or still to be revived. Such constructive forces are often present even though they seem to have been lost. However, sometimes a person has been so entirely crushed at an early age, or has become caught in such unsolvable conflicts, that he has long since given up expectations and struggles. This attitude of resignation may be entirely conscious, expressing itself in a pervasive feeling of futility concerning one’s own life or in an elaborate philosophy of the futility of life in general. Often it is reinforced by a pride in belonging among the few people who have not blinded themselves to this “fact.” In some persons no such conscious elaboration has taken place; they are merely passive, endure life in a stoical way, and no longer respond to any prospect of a more meaningful existence. #RandolphHarris 10 of 24

Such resignation may be hidden also behind a feeling of boredom with life, as in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Her expectations are extremely meager. Life should be entertaining now and then, should provide some fun or thrill or excitement, but she expects nothing of positive value. This attitude is often accompanied—as it is in Hedda Gabler—by a profound cynicism, the result of a disbelief in any value in life and in any goal to strive for. However, a profound hopelessness may exist also in persons one would not suspect of it, persons who superficially give the impression of being capable of enjoying life. They may be good at enjoying company, enjoying eating, drinking, pleasures of the flesh. In adolescence they may have been promising, capable of genuine interests and genuine feelings. However, for some reason or other they have become shallow, have lost their ambition; their interest in work has become perfunctory, their relationships with people are loose, easily made and easily terminated. In short, they, too, have ceased to strive for a meaningful existence and have turned to the periphery of life instead. If a neurotic trend is what we might called it, quite a different kind of limitation is set to self-analysis with some inaccuracy, too successful. A craving for power, for example, may be gratified to such an extent that the person would scoff at any suggestion of analysis, even though his satisfaction with his life is built on quicksand. #RandolphHarris 11 of 24

If a longing for dependency is fulfilled in a marriage—a marriage, for example, between such a person and one who has an urge for domination—or in subordination to a group, the same holds true. Similarly, a person may successfully withdraw into an ivory tower and feel comparatively at ease by keeping within its precincts. This apparently successful assertion of a neurotic trend is produced by a combination of internal and external conditions. As to the former, a neurotic trend that “succeeds” must not conflict too sharply with other needs. A person is never entirely consumed by just one compulsive striving, with everything else blotted out: no human being is ever reduced to a streamlined machine driving in one direction. However, this concentration may be approximated. And external conditions vary infinitely. In our society, a man who is financially independent can easily withdraw into his ivory tower; but, if he restricts his other needs to a minimum, a person with scant resources can also withdraw from the World. One person has grown up in an environment that allows him to display of prestige or power, but another, though he started with nothing, makes such a relentless use of external circumstances that in the end he attains the same goal. #RandolphHarris 12 of 24

However, no matter how such a “successful” assertion of a neurotic trend is achieved, the result is a complete barrier to development by way of analysis. For one thing, the successful trend has become too valuable to be submitted to any questioning. And for another thing, the goal that is striven for in analysis—a harmonious development, with good relations to self and others—would not appeal to such a person because the forces that might respond to the appeal are too enfeebled. We have talked quite a lot about the unfortunate results that may arise from certain pathological pressures in the environment, but these pressures do not necessarily lead to poor mother-child relationships. Even a woman with a neurosis or psychosis may have an extremely healthy relationship with her child. That may surprise some of you; it did me when I first came across it. I once treated a woman in Jerusalem who was quite crazy, and had been for years. She had an unbelievably bad family life. Her husband was in jail at the time. She was his sixth wife, and I do not think he had gotten rid of some of the others. In any case, he was a well-known brigand. This woman brought her child of six to the clinic because she thought he was stealing. He had taken a pencil from school and she considered this stealing. Talking with her, we got a depressing picture. She said the child wet the bed and encopresis; that is to say, he messed himself. And he was overly aggressive. #RandolphHarris 13 of 24

However, when we examined the child, and we examined him very carefully because we could not believe our eyes, he appeared to be perfectly normal. He was a little aggressive and noisy, when compared with a child from Paris or London, but by the standards of his own environment, he was perfectly normal. When we asked him about wetting the bed, he explained first, that his mother could not afford to buy blue paint to put around the door; then, that there were ghosts outside and if one did not paint around the door with blue paint the ghosts came inside; and, finally, that in order to urinate at night he would have to go into the night where the ghosts were. It was very logical that he should wet the bed. As his encopresis, as we talked more with the woman, we discovered that this was due to the horrible food she gave him. He had diarrhea most of the time, and the hand-me-downs he wore were exceedingly difficult to undo. By the time he could unbutton his clothes, he would mess himself. Altogether, he seemed a perfectly normal little boy. She told us that she beat him terribly, and was afraid he would get epilepsy as a result. This sounded bad. I asked, “What do you beat him for? Do you beat him when he wets the bed?” She said: “No! What do you expect him to do? Everyone knows that a child wets the bed.” #RandolphHarris 14 of 24

I asked: “Do you beat him when he messes his pants?” She said, “What do you expect? He can’t take his buttons off. He’s got diarrhea. How would you expect him not to mess his pants. You wouldn’t expect me to beat him for that.” She also told me he masturbated. I asked, “Do you beat him for that?” She said, “No, that’s normal. A little child play with himself.” I asked, “Do you beat him for stealing?” “Oh no,” she said, “after all, that’s hereditary. His father is a brigand. At the moment he’s in jail. I wouldn’t beat him for that. Would beat a child just because his father was a criminal?” Finally, I asked, “What do you beat him for?” And she answered, “I have a severe noise in my head, but I’ve got rheumatism in my hand, so I hit him with a stick. Only I’m afraid if I hit him with a stick he ‘ll get epilepsy.” When I spoke to the child, he did not seem to mind. His mother had always beaten him. He said, “When mother gets nervous, she lets fly with a stick.” The interesting thing here is that the mother-child relationship was successful and extremely healthy. Whatever needs the child had, the woman was fulfilling. She was very warm and protective and she braved the child guidance clinic because the child had stolen a pencil. Here was a woman with frank psychosis, living under terrible conditions. Yet this was a healthy mother-child relationship and had produced a health boy. There was also a twin sister who seemed very normal. All of this showed us that a woman can have a gross disorder of personality and yet, if her relationship with the child does not involve that part of per personality which is disordered, you may get a child with a healthy personality. #RandolphHarris 15 of 24

An angry fairy says that Briar Rose will prick her finger with a spindle and fall down dead. Another fairy comments this to a hundred years of sleep. When she is fifteen, Briar Rose does prick her finger, and immediately falls asleep. At the same moment, everybody and everything else in the castle also fall asleep. During the hundred hears, may princes try to get her through the briars which have grown up around her, but none succeeds. At last, after the time is up, a prince arrives who manages to get through because the briars let him. When he finds the princess and kisses her, she wakes up and they fall in love. At the same moment, everybody and everything else in the castle takes up exactly where they left off, as though nothing had happened, and no time had passed since they fell asleep. The princess herself is still only fifteen years old, not 115. She and the price get married, and in one version, the live happily ever after; in another, this is only the beginning of their troubles. There are many magic sleeps in mythology. Perhaps the best knows is that of Brunhilde, who is left sleeping on the mountain with a ring of fire around her which only a hero can penetrate, and that is accomplished by Siegfried. In one or another, with slight alterations, almost everything in the story of Sleeping Beauty could happen. #RandolphHarris 16 of 24

Girls do not prick their fingers and faint, and they do fall asleep in their towers, and princes do wander around in the forest and look for faith maidens. The one thing that cannot happen is for everything and everybody to be unchanged and unaged after the lapse of so many years. This is a real illusion because it is not only improbable, it is impossible. And this is just the illusion on which Waiting for Rigor Mortis (WRM) scripts are based: that when the Prince does come, Rose will be fifteen years old again instead of thirty, forty, or fifty, and they will have a whole lifetime ahead of them. This is the illusion of sustained youth, a modest daughter of the illusion of immortality. It is hard to tell Rose in real life that princess are younger men, and that by the time they reach her age they have become kings, and are much less interesting. That is the most distressing part of the script analyst’s job: in break up the illusion, to inform the patient’s Child that there is no Santa Claus, and make it stick. If there is the patient’s favourite fairy tale to work with, it is much easier for both. If Rose does find the Prince with the Golden Apples, one of the practical problems with WRM is that she often feels out-classed and must find fault and play “Blemish” to bring him down to her level, so that he ends up wishing she would go back in the briars and fall asleep again. On the other hand, if she settles for less—the prince with the Silver Apples, or even ordinary Macintoshes from the grocery store—she will feel cheated and take it out on him, meanwhile always keeping an eye out for the Golden One. Thus, neither the frigid script nor the magic antiscript offers much chance for fulfillment. Also, as in the fairy tale, there is his mother to contend with as well as her witch. This script is important because a great many people in the World, in one way or another, spend their lives waiting for rigor mortis. #RandolphHarris 17 of 24

Being related, being engaged, means to be concerned. If I am a participant rather than a distant observer, I become interested (inter-esse means “to-be-in). “To-be-in” means not to be outside. If “I-am-in,” then the World becomes my concern. This concern can be one of destruction. The “interest” of the suicidal person in himself is the interest to destroy himself, just as the “interest” of the homicidal person in the World is that of destroying it. However, this latter interest is a pathological one; not because “man is good,” but because it is the very quality of life that it tends to sustain itself; “to-be-in” the World means to be concerned with life and the growth of myself and all other beings. Concerned knowledge, the “being-in” knowledge, then, leads to the desire to help; it is, if we use the word in a broad sense, therapeutically oriented knowledge. This quality of concerned knowledge had found its classic expression in Christian thought. When Jesus Christ saw an old, sick man, a dead man, He did not remain a distant observer; He was moved to think about the question how man can be saved from suffering. It was His concerned to help man which led to the creation of the Ten Commandments, which are guidelines of how man should live and how he can liberate himself from suffering. Once the orientation to the World has become one of passionate concern, all thinking about the World takes different paths. The simplest example for this is offered by medicine. #RandolphHarris 18 of 24

How many medical discoveries would have been made without the wish to heal? It is the same concern which underlies all Dr. Freud’s discoveries. Had he not been prompted by the wish to cure mental disturbances, how could he have discovered the unconscious in the various disguises in which it appears in symptoms and dreams? Quite obviously, random, and uninterested observation rarely leads to significant knowledge. All questions posed by the intellect are determined by our interest. This interest, far from being opposed to knowledge, is its very condition, provided it is blended with reason, that is, with the capacity to see things as they are, “to let them be.” The detachment which is taught by philosophy is not to be confused with the detachment which is preached by religio-mysticism. The first is a personal lifestyle for coping with the World; the second is an indifference to the World. It comes to this: that we must view our own life’s events in a bifocal manner, both impersonally and personally. The right way to regard possessions and property is to replace the sense of ownership by the sense of trusteeship. When Earthly things or human entities hold our heart to the exclusion of all else, they obscure the Overself’s light and shut out its peace. Such nonchalant detachment is not easy to attain. It is easy to renounce the things which we value lightly but hard to become inwardly aloof to those which we hold precious. Human preferences do exist; it is possible to pretend that they may not be there when they are—but this has to be paid for by self-deception. #RandolphHarris 19 of 24

The mission of the Sacramento Fire Department is to locate, suppress and extinguish fires and maneuver to protect the community by providing medical assistance. “It was on Squad X in Sacramento that I really learned what being a big city fireman was all about, because by that time I had graduated to the point where I was not just a fan who was riding. I was a member of the company and wore a helmet and worked as a fireman. Those experiences never leave you because you were challenged constantly. We had a district that was skid row, slums, and heavy industry. We probably had more fires and extra-alarm fires than any other company in the city. Also, we probably took more causalities than any other company, because of the nature of our district and the amount of heavy fire duty we did. The bond among us was tremendous. One of the things about a fire company, especially a busy, hard-working company, is the bond between you and your brothers on the company. It comes through shared experiences, and one of the great honors of my life is that firefighter I respect would accept me as one of them. That probably is the most gratifying of all—to be accepted as a firefighter by other firefighters. I think the greatest compliment anybody can ever pay to another person is to say simply, “He’s a good fireman.” Often you will hear firemen talk about someone, and they will finally come down to one sentence, “He’s a good fireman.” It says everything about a person. It means that the commitment is there, that they have stood the test, that they have been accepted because of what they delivered when it really counted. #RandolphHarris 20 of 24

“That was a tremendous influence on my life. The funny thing is that it has been thirty years now, and we all stay in touch. If today I had a problem or needed help, I could pick up the phone and call one of those guys, and, if I need be, they would be on the next plane to wherever I was. I feel the same way about them. Some of the memorable experiences you have on the fire department are not really spectacular fires. One that will always stand out in my mind was a snotty basement fire, in which we held our ground, and that meant all the difference between saving or not saving the building. There was no life hazard involved, and we didn’t have masks in those days. When we first went into that sub-basement we were crouching, then we were down on our knees, and finally we were close to the floor. There was a real bond between the six of us and our officer Lieutenant X, for having stood our ground. It wasn’t a very spectacular fire my most standards, but the fact that all of us stood together really meant something among ourselves. There’s another aspect of the fire life. I mentioned the case of my dad who was adopted by Engine X in Sacramento. I’ve noticed through the years that fire companies will do that with some unfortunate person. #RandolphHarris 21 of 24

“At Engine X and Squad X, we had a man, who lived in the basement of the firehouse. He was a shell-shocked veteran of World War II, and he couldn’t work or do anything, and there was no place for him. So he lived in the basement of the firehouse. He would take care of the furnace and help clean up the firehouse each day, and in return he got food, a warm place to sleep, and some people who care about him. When he died, it was the firemen who gave him a funeral. At Engine X, there was a “paisan” who was a guy, and apparently his family wouldn’t take care of him. But the firemen of Engine X did, especially a guy by the name of X. “Paisan” lived his entire life at that firehouse, being taken care of and trying to do things to help the firemen. When he died, it was also the firemen who gave him the funeral. I’ve known stories of this happening everywhere. It’s sort of a reflection of the kind of people that firemen are. When the Sacramento Fire Department band went to the Rose Bowl one year, they smuggled “Paisan” onto the plane with them. They took him to the Rose Bowl. One of the newspaper columnists complained that some “illegal people” had gone with the band. It was “Paisan,” and it was the trip of his life for him.” Majority of the people involved in the fire service are really decent people. I thin government tends to take the fire service for granted, because it causes them the least amount of trouble. #RandolphHarris 22 of 24

“The fire service when I started out as a kid was really a World unto itself, and it operated behind closed doors. They put out fires, and everybody loved the firemen. In the old days, especially in the big cities, the fire service was basically an Irish club, and everybody came predominately from the same background. The Irish dominated the fire service I grew up in. I would say that seventy-five percent of the people I knew as a kid in the fire department were Irish. It was a very cohesive group. Those days are gone. The fire service today is made up of everybody. One of the more tragic things at a fire is when people get out of a building and go back in. We had a fire in an auto body shop on a hot summer day. Everybody got out okay, and this one guy went back in to get a leather jacket. He was burned over 90 percent of his body. I remember a house fire in which a lawyer got out, an intelligent man, an educated man. He got out, and the building was heavily involved in a fire. And he went back in to get some papers or something. He dies in the fire. The things people do are amazing. In the winter time, we were coming down the street, and the whole side of the house was on fire. A guy was out there waving a blowtorch in one hand, and waving his other hand at us. He had been using the blowtorch to thaw pipes that had frozen. He set his whole house on fire.” #RandolphHarris 23 of 24

The Sacramento Fire Department promotes and protects the health and safety of the community through dynamic programs, professional services, and continuous quality improvement. They focus on key areas such as emergency response, fire prevention, and community education. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. Also, it is important to raise your children to love America and to be patriotic. By having pride in America, and purchasing American made cars and other goods and services, we can make America a creditor nation again and ensure that this sacred land will be enjoy by your family for generations to come. Teaching children to love God and Jesus Christ will also preserve our American heritage and allow us to make sure our children are set on a path that will lead them to success and help them reserve a seat in Heaven. The Ten Commandments in the Christian Bible are a good guideline of how everyone should live. Furthermore, by respecting law and order, we will ensure the tranquility of this great nation and make sure that we are setting an exemplary example for other nations to follow. And by treating others with dignity, respect, and compassion, this will ensure that we are following the golden rule, “Do on to others as you would have them do on to you,” reports Luke 6.31. By following the golden rule, we will attract more of God’s grace into our lives and others will treat with 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. Earthly longings bid retire, quench the passions’ baneful fire; to the wayward, sin-oppressed, bring thou the divine behest: Thou shalt rest. #RandolphHarris 24 of 24

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The Prince with the Golden Apples

Democrats know how to create the impression that they alone are the protectors of peace. In this way, acting very circumspectly but never losing sight of the goal, they conquer one position after another, at one time by methods of quiet intimidation and at another time by sheer daylight robbery. These tactics are based on an accurate estimation of human frailties and must lead to success, with almost mathematical certainty. Bidenomics, therefore, knows a lot about math. They are cold and calculating and know how to properly manipulate people into believing their lies because they have calculated on the psychological effect. If it does not have to encounter the same kind of terror in a stronger form, intimidation in workshops and in factories, in assembly halls and at mass demonstrations, will always meet with success. Then, of course, Democrats will raise a horrified outcry, yelling blue murder and appealing to the authority of the State, which they have just repudiated. In doing this, their aim generally is to add the general confusion, so that they may have a better opportunity of reaching their own goal unobserved. Their idea is to find among the higher government officials some bovine creature who, in the unenlightened hope that he may win the good graces of these awe-inspiring opponents so that they may remember him in case of future eventualities, will help them now to break all those who may oppose this World pest. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

The impression which such successful tactics make on the minds of the broad masses, whether they be adherents or opponents, can be estimated only by one who knows the popular mind, not from books but from practical life. For the successes which are this obtained are taken by the adherents of the Democrats as a triumphant symbol of the righteousness of their own cause; on the other hand, the beaten opponent very often loses faith in the effectiveness of any further resistance. The more I understand the methods of physical intimidation that are being employed, the more sympathy I have for the multitude that has succumbed to it. This experience should allow all who are awake to be enlightened and enable them to distinguish between the false leaders and the victims who have been lead astray. We must look upon the latter simply as victims. If hardworking people are supporting the Democratic party, it is because those decent people do not or cannot grasp the downright infamy of the doctrine taught by the communist agitators. The day is coming when Bidenomics cause great poverty that will gain the upper hand and drive the working class and middle-class into the poor house. Currently, we are not seeing the full effect of the recession because the wealthy are shopping at discount stores like Walmart, and buying these expensive houses that cost millions of dollars less than what they would normally purchase. However, as their taxes increase, the recession will become more visible. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

The taxpayer and natural resources of America are being stormed and eventually will finally surrender. This defeat will be due to the stupidity of those in power, who have opposed every demand to cut foreign aid, close the border, fortify national security, put more police on the street, send more funding to the fire departments, and invest in the American people. The short-sighted refusal to try towards improving living conditions for the American poor, refusing to improve labour conditions, and refusal to secure the southern border will lead to further exploitation of the American people so the point that no political party will ever be able to repair the damage that has resulted from policies of the Democratic party. When Democrats are asked to explain their incompetency, they instead have sowed the seeds of hatred and violence. The mental Cyclopes of our Democratic parties have done the things that would be inconceivable to anyone who has a working brain. (The Cyclops has one eye; this reference means the parities are functioning on half a brain.) Many people believe that the Democratic party should be disbanded and outlawed. Democrats know they are in danger of losing their power. The selection of Kamala as Vice President was meant as a political tool to be used with the Democratic party to help them maintain power. It was intended so that President Biden could distance himself from the political party, and make it clear that he was a fanatic radical. If he had been anything less, his followers would have abandoned him. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

Those who want to lock former President Trump away believe absolute suppression will somehow prevent an uprising of law and order, freedom and the Second Amendment and stop anyone from following the same plan again. Suppression is pointless. With the ability to beam information around the World in seconds, there is no such thing. To make him available and explain what is going on, God has resurrected Mr. Trump to explain what we are doing here. “Make American Great Again,” is more than just a catchy slogan. Donald Trump is tapping into the fundamental human concepts of heroism, survival, fear, being the underdog, the promise of a great future. When listening to his speeches, you will find yourself saying frequently “that is certainly true” because much of what he says is true. Some is an oversimplification of history or politics. What make Donald Trump more powerful is the knowledge he shares is real. It is not novel fantasy World or theories of a political philosopher, it is about events and feelings that exist in America, thing an entire nation is living through and suffering under. Many people forget that Donald Trump is a businessman and is used to executing his visions, and does not make empty promises. Rising over 600 feet and 68 stories over Fifth Avenue’s most desirable intersection, Trump Tower has been a staple in the New York skyline for over thirty years. Given the chance, imagine what Donald Trump could do for America. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

People have criticized Donald Trump for his word choices. However, his words are those of a mitigator, or a poet, who is nonjudgmental and knows that inside of every human being, there is God, and therefore, the is good in all of us. This is Mr. Trump’s method and how he keeps his audience’s attention. You must remember that he is speaking to the masses, those in the public working class, those who have not been educated, those who have gone to Harvard and Princeton and own fortune 500 companies. These are the people in his organization. They come from the masses. So, just as Mr. Trump said, he uses his words specifically to these groups. He picks his style so to match his audience. It is quite inappropriate to criticize former President Trump today. These critics do not care about America or the actual ideas that Donald Trump stands for, they only want to criticize the American Dream. They dislike America and what America has done for the World and because of that, many people feel like they should dislike Donald Trump because he truly represents the America Dream. He is someone who has ascended to power and wealth without being a member of the government, or depending on the government which is what capitalism is all about. The Hottentots are afraid that if they do not dislike Donald Trump, that somehow others will see that as approval of his message, “Make America Great Again.” #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

When we uncover the Democratic ideas, we find that extremely evil intentions are present. In fact, they are openly presented, in full public view, with the boldest insolence. Democrats have wrong ideas of justice and fair play, and Republicans are trying to protect the general interests against the greed and unreason of the corrupt communistic party. For to safeguard the loyalty and confidence of the people is as much in the interests of the nation as to safeguard public health. America has been seriously menaced by dishonourable politicians who are not conscious of their duty as members of the national community. Their personal avidity or irresponsibility sows the seeds of future trouble. To eliminate the causes of such a development is an action that surely deserves well of the country. The individual America is not free at any time to escape from the consequences of the injustice which he has suffered at the hands of the Democratic party, or which he thinks he has suffered. Saying that Americans can leave the country is an argument used as a ruse to detract attention from the issue. It is, or is it not, in the interest of the nation to remove the causes of social unrest? If it is, then the fight must be carried on with the only weapons that promise success. However, the American people are not able to stand up against the might of the Democratic party; for the Democrats have put the people and the nation in so much debt that they can barely survive, and they desperate fear losing their jobs. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

In these perilous times, it helps to remember that the gospel of Jesus Christ is also know as “gospel of peace.” Romans 10.15 reports, “And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Nevertheless, the troubles of the last days—days of wickedness, turbulence, chaos, and fear—can disrupt our sense of peace and security. As wars, financial collapses, and natural disasters surround us, it is easy to become full of fear instead of faith. The Saviour prophesied that in the last days men’s hearts would fail them because of such fear. “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth: for the powers of Heaven shall be shaken,” reports Luke 21.26. This is truly a time for the faithful in heart, not for the faint of heart. Fear, which can come upon people in difficult days, is a principal weapon in the arsenal the advisory uses to make mankind unhappy. He who fears loses strength for the combat of life in the fight against evil. Therefore, the power of the evil one always tries to generate fear in human hearts. In every age and in every era, mankind has faced fear. Democrats are great liars. They can whisper ideas into our minds that are full of doubt and fear. Darkness, confusion, doubt, and fear certainly do not come from the Lord, who is fully of light and love. Whenever darkness fills our minds, we may know that we are not possessed of the Spirit of God. When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

Remember, our Heavenly Father is the epitome of faith, hope, charity, optimism, and kindness. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Fear comes not of God, but rather from the adversary. The Lord has given us several key doctrines to combat the fears we face. These doctrines become weapons in our arsenal to fight against fear and the author of fear. These key doctrines are faith, hope, and charity. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the first principle of the gospel. Faith is power; faith is strength. Faith is a reward for personal righteousness. The greater the measure of obedience to God’s laws, the greater will be the endowment of faith. “So, then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,” reports Romans 10.17. Therefore, if we want to increase our faith, we must read the scriptures, study the teachings of our latter-day apostles and prophets, and follow the direction of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Faith is also a decision. If we want to be immersed and saturated in faith, then we must choose to believe; we must choose to exercise faith. We must supplant our fears with faith. Thinking of the Saviour and remembering Him helps to strength our faith and combat fear. “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 6.36. The Saviour taught also, “And if ye do always remember me, ye shall have my Spirit to be with you,” reports 3 Nephi 18.7, 11. With His Spirit constantly with us, we will have the ability to stay focused, brush off fearful thoughts and worries, and see the World the way Christ would see it. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

To have faith means to trust in God and believe in His promises to us. There will be nothing in this World that can defeat us. Fear not. Be of good cheery. The future is as bright as your faith. Learn to choose faith over fear. The philosophical attitude is a curious and paradoxical one precisely because it is a complete one. It approaches the human situation with a mentality as practical as cold-blooded as an engineer’s, but steers its movement by a sensitivity to ideals as delicate as an artist’s. It always considers the immediate, attainable objectives, but is not the less interested in distant, unrealizable ones. Disinterested action does not mean renouncing all work that brings financial reward. How then could one earn a livelihood? It does not mean ascetic renunciation and monastic flight from personal responsibilities. The philosophic attitude is that a man shall perform his full duty to the World, but this will be done in such a way that it brings injury to none. Truth, honesty, and honour will not be sacrificed for money. Time, energy, capacity, and money will be used wisely in the best interests of mankind, and above all the philosopher will pray constantly that the Overself will accept him as a dedicated instrument of service. And it surely will. He will rise above personal emotion into perfect serenity rather than fall below it into dull apathy. To be pure in heart means not only to be separated from terrestrial tendencies, not only from egoistic impulses, but also to be detached from everything and everyone. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

Thus, we see that the word “pure” is not as simple in connotation as it is short in length, and purity is harder to achieve than newly converted religious enthusiast believes. The act of renunciation is always first, and only sometimes last, an inward one. It is done by thoroughly understanding that the object renounced is, after all, only like a picture in a dream and that, again like a dream, it is ephemeral. Its illusoriness and transitoriness must be not only mentally perceived but also emotionally taken to heart. If we give up our wrong belief about it, we may not have to give up the object itself. Now, this admonition cannot be made to stop with visible things only. To be honestly applied, it must be applied to visible persons also. No matter how fondly we love somebody, we must not flinch from seeing the metaphysical truth about him nor from accepting the consequences of such perception. How can be renounce the attachments to everything and everyone and yet enjoy life, fulfil obligations, or remain in the World? How do this without flight to a monastery? How remain an affectionate husband, a devoted father? In the case of things, the answer has been given earlier. In the case of persons, the answer ought now to be given. We renounce the “materiality” of the loved one and with it the clinging to her material image, her physical possession, her personal ego. We hold on to the concept of her “spirituality,” her essence, her real being. We then know that this true self of hers cannot be separated from our own; the illusory relationship is replaced by a real one, the perishable pseudo-love by an undying essential one. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

He may try to keep the illusion that he is a well-fitting part of these surroundings called civilization, a member of the society into which he was born, but in the deepest layer of his heart the reality will deny it. He no longer belongs to a race caught up in appearances, ensnared and hypnotized by them to the point of self-destruction. It may take some time to get familiar with this impersonality of attitude, this detachment of heart, before he can realize how fine it is, how precious its worth and rewarding in result. The first impression may be cold and frightening. The last will be calm and soothing. If indifference and detachment mean that the man has ceases to care, then he has ceased to understand philosophy. Deep within his heart we will strive to depersonalize his relations with his wife, his children, his family, and even his friends. However, in the domain of action we should find him the best of husbands, the most loving of fathers, and most faithful of friends. In the script knows as “Frigid Woman,” or “Waiting for Rigor Mortis” (WRM), the mother keeps telling her daughter that men are beasts, but it is the wife’s duty to submit to their bestiality. If the mother pushes hard enough, the girl may even get the idea that she will die is she has pleasures of the flesh. Usually such mothers are great snobs, and they offer a release of an “antiscript” that will lift the curse. If the daughter marries an especially important person, such as the Prince with the Golden Apples, it is all right for the daughter to have pleasures of the flesh. However, failing that, she tells her erroneously, “all your troubles will be over when you reach a certain age, because then you will not be in danger of feeling amatory anymore.” #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

Now it already appears as though we have three illusions: Orgathanatos, or the fatal pleasures of the flesh; the Prince with the Golden Apples; and Blessed Relief, or the purifying menopause. However, none of these is the real script illusion. The girl has tested Orgathanatos by pleasing herself, and knows it is not necessarily fatal. The Prince with the Golden Apples is not an illusion, because it is just possible that she might find such a man, just as she might win the German Sweepstakes or get four aces in a poker game; both things are unlikely, but not mythical; they do happen. And Blessed Relief is not something her Child really wants. To find the script illusion, we need the fairy tale which corresponds to WRM. Dr. Freud called dreams “the royal road to the unconscious.” Recent research has shown that everyone dreams several times during each night. When people say they never dream, the probability is that they do not recall their dreams. Only when they have been especially intense or dramatic and when we have some special interest in recalling them is when we tend to recall dreams. Busy, extraverted people seldom pay attention to their dreams and would find it a waste of time to write them down. Yet, increasingly, it is being found that recording one’s dreams and thinking about them, seeking hints of new possibilities for personal growth, is an enterprise rewarded by new insight. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Dreaming is a way of being aware of the World, although, paradoxically enough, it is a kind of consciousness that “happens” when we are asleep, when our waking consciousness is suppressed. Laing believes that the dreaming consciousness is active, as a kind of underground or background to our waking consciousness. He calls this underground mode of experiencing fantasy. Fantasy is a form of perception, a way to perceive the World by noting the effect one’s situation is having upon one’s body. Our vocabulary for describing bodily states is scant, and so we employ metaphours, symbols, and analogies to describe the way our situation and the people in it are affecting us. Thus, when a person says, “I have just been stabbed in the back,” she is speaking metaphourically, but she is also talking about a real experience. If one says of another, “You turn me on,” he may be speaking of an enlivening effect that the other person is inducing. These somatic metaphours are effects to describe one’s real condition as a human being. They are attempts to assess whether they are devitalizing and debilitating. Fantasy and dreaming are, in a sense, guardians of one’s existence, because the content of dreams and of somatic experiencing is always found to be related to one’s survival, well-being, and growth. Gestalt therapists and followers of Jung and Dr. Freud have been able to help persons overcome impasses in their lives through serious consideration of dreams. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

Careful attention to the way one’s body feels as one lives life can also be useful for growth and wellbeing. One’s body can function as did the canaries that miners used to take into the depths of a mine, where oxygen depletion was a grave danger to life. If the canary stopped singing, the miners would know that the air was becoming unfit for humans, and they would improve ventilation or get out. Vague feelings of being “shafted,” “sucked dry,” “turned on,” “ripped apart,” tell a person something about his or her situation that should be explored by more direct perception. Fantasy, that waking dream that lurks behind our ordinary consciousness as vague feelings metaphorically descried, is a way of knowing. So is dreaming. Resistances provoked by outside factors are particularly common in self-analysis, for reasons that were mentioned above. A person who is in the grip of neurotic trends—or for that matter almost any person—is quite likely to feel offended or unfairly dealt with by a special individual, or by life in general, and to take at face value his reaction of hurt or resentment. In situations it takes a considerable degree of clarity to distinguish between a real and an imagined offense. And even if the offense is real, it need not necessarily produce such reactions: if he is not himself vulnerable to what others may do to him, there are many offenses to which he may respond with pity or disapproval of the offender, perhaps with open battle, rather than with hurt or resentment. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

It is much easier merely to feel a right to be angry than to examine exactly what vulnerable spot in himself has been hit. However, even if there is no doubt that the other has been cruel, unfair, or inconsiderate, for his own interests this is the way he should proceed. Let us assume that a wife is deeply disturbed at learning that her husband has had a transient affair with another woman. Even months later she cannot get over it, although she knows it is a matter of the past and while the husband does everything to re-establish a good relationship. She makes herself and him miserable, and now and then goes on a spree of bitter reproaches against him. There are several reasons that might explain why she feels and acts in this way, quite apart from a genuine hurt about the breach of confidence. It may have hurt her pride that the husband could be attached to anyone but herself. It may be intolerable to her that the husband could slip out from her control and domination. The incident may have touched off a dread of desertion, as it would in a person like Clare. She may be discontented with the marriage for reasons of which she is not aware, and she may use this conspicuous occurrence as an excuse for expressing all her repressed grievances, thus engaging merely in an unconscious campaign of revenge. She may have felt attracted toward another man and resent the fact that her husband indulged in a freedom that she had not allowed herself. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

If she examined such possibilities, she might not only improve the situation considerably but also gain a much clearer knowledge of herself. Neither result is possible, however, if she merely insists upon her right to be angry. If she had repressed her anger, though in that case it would be much more difficult to detect her resistance toward self-examination, the situation would be essentially the same. A remark may be in place about the spirit of tackling resistance. As if it indicated an irritating stupidity or obstinacy, we are easily tempted to be annoyed at ourselves for having a resistance. Such an attitude is understandable because it is annoying or even exasperating to encounter self-made obstacles on our way to a goal that we desire in our best interests. Nevertheless, there is no justification or even any meaning in a person scolding himself for his resistances. He is not to blame for the development of the forces behind them, and, besides, the neurotic trends that they try to protect have given him a means of dealing with life when all other means have failed. It is more sensible for him to regard the opposing forces as given factors. I am almost inclined to say that he should respect them as a part of himself—respect them not in the sense of giving them approval and indulgence but in the sense of acknowledging them as organic developments. Such an attitude will not only be more just to himself but will also give him a much better basis for dealing with resistances. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

If he approached the resistances with a hostile determination to crush them, he would hardly have the patience and willingness necessary for their understanding. If resistances are tackled in the way and in the spirit indicated, there is a good chance that they are no stronger than one’s constructive will. Those that are stronger present difficulties that can at best be overcome only with expert help. However, what really makes my stomach turn over is this picture of love, love, love, and I love everything you do and never say no. That is what the words say to me. It may be wide of the mark to the man who wrote them. When my child bites another child, I do not love that. However, when he explains, “He tore my lei, and I bit him, and he bit me, and (with angry tears) we each had only one bite before the teacher made us stop!” I have a deep feeling for him, and love him. When I discover that my child has forged a letter from her father and presented it at school, I do not love that. However, I recognize that she is in a steam-roller situation and that handling it in this way is necessary, and I love her. My love for my children then is agape—not “adorning,” but very much being with. There is no “pride” (although at other times I am guilty of this). There is humility and humanness. There is a connection between “thought” and “concern.” Both psychology and sociology have as their object man. I can get to know a great deal about man by observing him like any other object. I—the obserber—stand against my “ob-ject” (“ob-ject” and “objection” have the same root; in German, Gegenstand = “counterstand”) to oberse it, describe it, measure it, weigh it—yet I do not understand that which is alive if it remains an “object.” #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

I understand man only in the situation of being related to him, when he ceases to be a split-off object and becomes part of me or, to be still more correct, when he becomes “me,” yet remains also “not-me.” If I remain a distant observer I see only manifest behaviour, and if this is all I want to know, I can be satisfied with being an observer. However, in this position the whole of the other person, his full reality, escapes me. I have described him from this and the other aspect—yet I have never met him. Only if I am open to him and respond to him, and that is, precisely, if I am related to him, do I see my fellow man; and to see him is to know him. If I am filled with myself, how can I see the other man? To be filled with oneself means to be filled with one’s own image, with one’s greed, or with one’s anxiety. However, it does not mean “being oneself.” Indeed, I need to be myself to see the other. How could I understand his fear, his sadness, his aloneness, his hope, his love—unless I felt my own fear, sadness, aloneness, hope, or love? If I cannot mobilize my own human experience, mobilize it and engage myself with my fellow man, I might come to know a great deal about him, but I shall never know him. To be open is the condition to enable me to become filled with him, to become soaked with him, as it were; but I need to be I, otherwise how could I be open? I need to be myself, that is, my own authentic, unique self, in order to throw out myself, in order to transcend the illusion of the reality of this unique self. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

As long as I have not established my own identity, as long as I have not fully emerged from the womb, from the family, from the ties of race and nation—in other words, as long as I have not fully become an individual, a free man, I cannot throw away this individual and thus experience that I am nothing but the drop of water on the crest of the wave, a separate entity for a split of a second. Justice itself, which has been in a state of pilgrimage and crucifixion and now is being slowly liberated from the grip of social and political demonologies in the East as well as in the West, begins to question its own premises. The modern revolutionary movements which have challenges the sacred institutions of society by protecting social injustice in the name of social justice are here examined and re-evaluated. In the light of this, we have no choice but to admit that the un-freedom against which freedom is measured must be retained with it, namely, that the aspect of truth out of which the night view appears to emerge, the darkness of our time, is as little abandonable as is man’s subjective advance. Thus the two sources of man’s consciousness are inseparable, not as dead but as living and complementary, an aspect of the “principle of complementarity” through which Niels Bohr has sought to unite the quantum and the wave, both of which constitute the very fabric of life’s radiant energy. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

The mission of the Sacramento Fire Department is to provide a safe, professional, and courteous team that strives to exceed the community’s expectations and their organization. Their focus is on preserving the past and protecting the future of those they serve. “I went to X Truck on X Street, which was the second busiest in the city. I spent twenty years up there, and I loved it. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t make lieutenant in that time. I fell in love with the company and the men I worked with. They were great, and we had plenty of action, we were involved in all kinds of fires and rescues. The company had a good name. When you said X Truck, people looked up. I really enjoyed that. Many a time I took the fire department over other personal things that came up. Whether it was a trip with the family or whatever, if the fire department has something to do, I would give up the trip to participate with the department. When it was time for me to go to the National Fire Academy at Emmitsburg, if the family had something planned for that weekend, I tried to talk myself and the family out of it so I could to Emmitsburg. There’s nothing I really dislike about my job, maybe some of the budgetary problems, that’s all. I did shift work all these years, and I like that. I like doing day work and night work, back and forth. Firemen don’t like to show emotion. Rather than show any emotion, you shove everything off with a little humor. Even in tragic situations, in order to protect yourself you kind of bring some humor out. Not that its’ funny, not by a long shot. But you can always find a little bit of humor in it. I could that out when I got injured a couple of years ago. It’s just to protect the way you think we are supposed to be, I guess. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

“We’re getting more EMS calls these days than fire calls. You get a lot of silly calls with those. I remember one of the calls we had, and this was an emergency call, we brought in a medic unit and an engine company, and we have six guys pulling up with their sirens blowing. Here is a guy standing there, and he’s been drinking, and he’s seeing pink elephants. It’s ridiculous that we are even running on these types of calls. There has to be some way to screen the calls, cut them down or educate the people. That’s what I think.” The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to protecting the residents and businesses of the community. Providing aid promptly and efficiently, and enduring the safety and well-being of everyone in Sacramento is what they strive to achieve. Specifically, the desire to prevent the loss of life and property by responding to emergencies in a professional manner. Parents, please be sure to raise your children to love America and make them aware that being patriotic is our duty. Also, it is a good idea to buy American made cars and other products to endure the longevity of this great nation. We also want to respect law and order, love God and Jesus Christ and treat every human being with care and compassion. You can also help save lives and property and protect the future of our community by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. 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! Come, O Sabbath-day, and bring peace and healing on thy wing; and to every troubled breast speak of the divine behest: Thou shalt rest. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

The Winchester Mystery House

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As Daily Necessities Become Harder to Afford

Day after day, the American people are witnesses to the phenomenon of spreading poison among the people through the instrumentality of the Democratic party and gutter journalism; and yet they are astonished at the deplorable “moral standards” and “national indifference” of the masses. Many people can only fight for something that they love. They can love only what they respect. And to respect a thing, they must have some knowledge of it and feel that it is something that is protecting them. The social problem is that crime is no longer illegal under the rule of the Democratic party, and several honest Americans believe that they are being penalized through unfair taxes and hyperinflation. When they come home in the evenings for working so hard to pay for handouts that people who are committing crimes unlawfully receive, they are dead tired. Democrats are exploiting the working masses. There is nothing that they do not drag in the mud. During these days of mental anguish and deep meditation, the American people see before their mind the ever-increasing and menacing army of people who can no longer be reckoned as belonging to their own nation. We gaze at the leaders of the Democratic party, watching that enormous human dragon slowly uncoiling itself before the World. This has caused many to feel dismayed and depressed. #RandolphHarris 1 of 25

As daily necessities become harder to afford, Americans have amassed $1.14 trillion in credit card debt. That is $27 billion more than credit card debt they carried in the second quarter of 2024. The high tally comes as concerns of an economic recession triggered by modestly rising unemployment, and as soaring costs in food, housing and automobile rates continue to drain household budgets. Americans have increasingly been relying on credit cards to pay the bill, with 60 percent of Americans using credit cards to buy groceries in 2023. As more people are carrying significantly more debt, extended periods of debt are causing more Americans to fall behind on their credit card bills. Approximately 7.18 percent of credit card users have fallen into delinquency in the second quarter, up from 5 percent in the previous quarter. American paid down some of their credit card debt in 2020 using pandemic-related federal stimulus funds. However, beginning in 2021, credit card balances drastically increased by 48 percent, caused by high inflation and high interest rates. Debt owned on mortgages and automobile loans also increased by $77 billion and $10 billion, respectively. Total consumer debt has grown to $18 trillion. And the average rate on a credit card is nearly 25 percent. #RandolphHarris 2 of 25

Last week’s jobless rate increased worries that a recession is here. The numbers included an increase of 114,000 in non-farm payrolls during July, down from 179,000 in June and far below analysts’ forecast of 175,000 gain. And the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, the highest since October 2021. Many have also stated that housing costs are so high because there is a shortage in the supply of houses. However, that is not so. During 2000 and 2020, America had a surplus of 3.3 million homes. This defies conventional wisdom that the nation is facing a housing shortage. Builders over built housing units and in 2024, they are still trying to absorb that enormous over build. There is a shortage of housing that low- and very low-income families can afford. In most cities and small towns, there is an average shortage of 8,000 housing units that low- and very low-income families can afford. For those households, which require government assistance to find housing, the absolute highest they can afford to pay for rent is $550. Building new homes and apartments cannot address the shortage for the absolute poorest. No private developer can build a unit that [$550] price and survive. Just the property taxes, insurance, and utility costs exceed that number. #RandolphHarris 3 of 25

Many people do not want low-income housing in their communities either. Low-income housing often increases crime rates in good areas as it attracts seedy individuals. Violent crime wreaks a terrible impact not only on individual victims, their families, and friends but also on nearby residents and the fabric of their neighbourhoods. Exposure to violent crime can damage people’s healthy and development, and violence can push communities into vicious circles of decay. However, policing hot spots can be effective. Nonetheless, the 20,000,000 illegal immigrants that President Biden and Vice President Kamla have packed into the cities is drastically increasing costs and putting a burden on the poor and taxpayers. The southern border crisis is costing American taxpayers around $451 billion per year for services provided to a record number of illegal aliens under the Biden administration. When higher taxes are costs are preventing private industry from building affordable housing, Vice President Kalama has expressed support for allowing immigrants residing in American to obtain public health insurance, regardless of legal status. Tax increases and handouts are hurting everyone. This struggle against their own kind, their own nest, their own homeland is as senseless as it is incomprehensible. It is unnatural and we need another political party to represent America and the American people. #RandolphHarris 4 of 25

The Czarist Democratic administration is corrupt and largely incompetent and, in addition to all this, the Democratic party and the riots of 2020 have bled the American people without bringing them victory. The economic conditions are not able to sustain a capitalistic society. To turn a disciplined working population into a peasant population, and to force the population to accept the higher taxes, illegal immigration and communism, the rapid accumulation of capital has been used to force people to take government subsidies by putting the nation on house arrest and forcing them not to go to work and to accept vaccines and through the threat of terror. This was due to the Democratic party’s mad suspiciousness and their unlimited desire for personal power—a terror which went far beyond what would have been necessary to maintain capitalism, and which, in fact, in many ways weakened their economy and military position. Because the Democratic party is also pushing to take away the second amendment and because of the crime waves caused by illegal immigration and not enforcing the laws, to tend this terror, many people are advocating a police state. While this state does not permit the expression of opinions critical of the system, and even less of corresponding political activity, it is believed that it will free the average citizen from the fright of being a victim of crime in the night and early-morning hours. #RandolphHarris 5 of 25

The degradation of the Biden administration, finding its completion when President Biden was ruled incompetent to run for reelection in the summer of 2024 and replacing him with the inexperienced Vice president Kamala, has been carried out by the display of confusing phraseology about liberty and human dignity, all promulgated with an air of profound ignorance and disturbing promises; a carelessly-woven glitter of words to dazzle and betwixt the public. The daily Press has inoculated this new doctrine of American degradation in the most brutal fashion. No means have been too base, provided they could be exploited in this campaign of slander. These journalists are virtuous in the art of twisting facts and presenting them in a deceptive form. The theoretical literature was intended for the simpletons of the soi-distant intellectuals belonging to the middle and, naturally, the upper classes. The TV news media propaganda is intended for the masses. However, probing into books and newspapers and studying the doctrines of Democracy should reawaken one’s love for their own people and country. Thus, what at first seems an impassable chasm will become the occasion of a closer affection. Once one understands the working of the colossal system for poisoning the popular mind, only a fool can blame the victims. The American people must learn to become more independent, and this will allow them to understand the inner cause of the success achieved by the American Dream gospel. #RandolphHarris 6 of 25

One will better come to understand why the Democratic party wants to burden taxpayers with debt and make homeowner ship and rent unaffordable. In clear light of the brutal reality, one will see inevitable consequences of high taxes, hyperinflation, and government subsidies. America is headed towards a communistic system under the current administration. Now, the American people’s sensibilities are not so much under the sway of abstract reasoning but are subject to the influence of a vague emotional longing for strength that completes their being, and they would rather bow to propaganda than to see the truth. The masses of people prefer the dictator to being their own leader and earning the American Dream through hard work and determination. They have extraordinarily little idea of how to be strong capitalists and thus they are prone to abandon their freedom and autonomy. They feel very little shame at being terrorized intellectually and they are scarcely conscious of the fact that their freedom as human beings are impudently abused; and thus they have not the slightest suspicion of the intrinsic fallacy of the Democratic doctrine. They do not even see the ruthless force and brutality of its determined utterances, to which they always submit.  #RandolphHarris 7 of 25

The American citizen knows what he can do and what he cannot do and, provided he moves within these limits, he need not be afraid. The Democratic party sill uses revolutionary and socialist ideas voiced by Marx, Engles, and Lenin as ideologies which give a sense of meaning to the masses. Yet they are unaware that the socialist movements always end on the tragic note of failure. The Democrats are carrying on a campaign of mental terrorism against Americans, who are neither morally nor spiritually equipped to withstand such attacks. The tactics of the Democratic party consists in opening, at a given signal, a veritable drumfire of lies and calumnies against the man whom they believe to be the most redoubtable of their adversaries, until the nerves of the latter give way, and they sacrifice the man who was attacked, simply in the hope of being allowed to live in peace. However, the hope will prove always to be a foolish one, for they will never be left in peace. The same tactics will be repeated again and again, until fear of these mad dogs exercises through suggestion, a paralyzing effect on their victims. Through its own experience The Democratic party has learned the value of strength, and for that reason it attacks mostly those in whom it scents stuff of more stalwart kind, which is indeed an exceedingly rare possession. #RandolphHarris 8 of 25

However, the Lord can reassure that He is near and that He will lead us through the darkest days of our lives. Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. Many people will suffer in personal struggles, while others will suffer as they watch their loved ones in pain. To gain strength in our struggles, we must have an optimistic perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Saviour whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need. We must also learn and live the principles the Lord has given to receive the strength needed during our struggles. “And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and He said unto those who were with Him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an Earth whereon these may dwell,” reports Abraham 3.24. This Earth is the place to prove ourselves worthy and to prepare to return to the presence of the Lord. “And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them,” reports Abraham 3.25. The Lord explains the purpose for which we must be tested during this Earthly experience. “My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and that that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom,” report Doctrine and Covenants 136.31. #RandolphHarris 9 of 25

Part of the plan is that there is an opposition in all things. We are given the agency to choose between these opposites in the proving process. “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility,” reports 2 Nephi 2.11. In our pre-Earth life, we understood and sustained the plan of salvation with the principles of opposition and agency. We knew we would have experience in this life that would cause us to struggle and sometimes to suffer. Some of our struggles involve making decision, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. Yet struggles are part of the sacred sanctification process. #RandolphHarris 10 of 25

There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Saviour. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched, and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested. Even though these experiences may cause pain, suffering, and sorrow, we have absolute assurance. If it be suffered in resignation, and if it be met with patience, no pain suffered by man or woman upon the Earth will be without its compensating effects. “And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou because into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thing enemy; if the Heavens gather darkness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of Hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 122.7. People respond to struggles in different ways. Some feel defeated and beaten down by the burdens they are called to bear. Many begin to blame others for their difficulties and defeats, and they fail to follow the counsel of the Lord. It is a natural tendency to seek the easy road on life’s journey and to become discouraged, filled with doubt, and even depressed when facing life’s struggles. #RandolphHarris 11 of 25

If we follow the revealed eternal principles, we will gain strength during our struggles and will be blessed as we bear our burdens, deal with difficulties, and overcome obstacles in our lives. If we are to gain the strength that we need, we must come to know the Saviour and follow His counsel. “But behold, verily, verily, I say unto you that mine eyes are upon you. I am in your midst as ye cannot see me,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 38.7. When we imagine, we are envisioning possible ways for the World to be. Imagination is play with the possibilities of transforming the World from the way it is now perceived to be to some new form. Of course, it takes action to transform an image of a possible self in a possible World into an actuality that can be perceived by others and by oneself. Imagination is a way of “traveling,” of overcoming one’s present situation, to envision possibilities that might make life more livable, more fulfilling. The free play of imagination, then, is the way in which we experience new possibilities for the World. It is one of our most precious gifts of evolution, because it is only through such vision that we can save ourselves when our situation has become unlivable. Anything that diminishes or makes banal our imagination chains us more tightly to a here and now that may not be viable. #RandolphHarris 12 of 25

Every compelling goal and project, whether projected for five minutes or five years into the future, rests upon our capacity to imagine another way for the World to be, with us in it. Such a vision of transitional utopia may function as an irresistible temptation or invitation that the person may accept, showing this acceptance through action. Just as imagination can enliven us, ordering and directing our life, so it can demoralize us, even kill us. If one imagines oneself to be weak or helpless, it is but a short step from imagination to belief that such is the case. Healthy personality calls for the ability to discriminate among modes of experiencing. Under conditions of intense need or emotion, a person may confuse imagination with perception and with confirmed truth. There is another aspect of imagining, or literally “image-ing,” that when misunderstood can affect a person’s body and action in deleterious ways but that, appreciated, can serve the person’s well-being and growth. When a person engages in imagining, it is done not just with the mind, but with the entire body. Indeed, the art of actin on the stage is a deliberate, imaginative imitation of some other person. One “becomes” the imagined person, acting and experiencing the World as the role requires. #RandolphHarris 13 of 25

Hypnotists tell subjects that they are tired, or strong, or that they can remember the past so well that they will become three years old again, and the compliant subject “yield.” They fulfill the hypnotists’ suggestions by being as they imagine a tired or strong person is, and they act as they imagine or remember what it was like to by three years old. One’s body image is the way in which one chronically imagines the body to be, whether weak or strong, energetic, or exhausted, vulnerable to disease or resistant. Fisher and Cleveland were able to show that an image of one’s own body as only weakly “bounded” was related to increased susceptibility to diseases and malfunction of the internal organs, such as stomach ulcers; an image of one’s body as rigidly armored against the World—excessively so—was related to diseases of the skin, bones, and muscles, for example, arthritis. I have been so impressed by the influence of imagination upon one’s body and one’s capacities to act that I say to my patients, “Be careful how you imagine yourself to be, because you might become that way.” So-called psychocybernetic and optimistic thinking work in this way, as a kind of self-hypnosis or intense argument with oneself, by saying, “I can do this, I can survive, I can succeed,” and believing the statement. This self-[persuasion can affect a person in beneficial ways, just as imagining oneself as dead, or as a failure, can bring the image of doom to reality. #RandolphHarris 14 of 25

When a person becomes aware of an existing blockage, he should drop whatever analytical pursuits he is engaged in and take the resistance as the most urgent problem to be tacked. It is as useless to force himself to go one against the resistance as it would be to try again and again to light an electric bulb that does not burn; one must see where the electric current is blocked, whether in the bulb, in the fixture, in the cord, in the switch. The technique of tackling a resistance is to try to associate it. However, in all resistances occurring during analytical work it is helpful, before associating, to go over the notes that precede the blockage, because there is a fair chance that the clue for it lies in an issue at least touched upon, and that while glancing over the notes the point of departure may become evident. And sometimes a person will not be capable of going after a resistance immediately: he may be too reluctant or feel too uneasy to do so. It is advisable then, instead of forcing himself, merely to make a note that at this or that point he suddenly felt uneasy or tired, and to resume work the next day when he may have a fresh perspective on matters. In advocating that he “associate to a resistance” I mean that he should consider the manifestation of the blockage and let his thoughts run freely along that line. Thus, if he has noticed that no matter what problems are concerned his interpretations always make him come out on top, he should try to take that finding as a point of departure for further associations. #RandolphHarris 15 of 25

If he has become discouraged at a finding he should remember that the latter may have touched upon the factors that he is not yet able or willing to change, and try to associate with that possibility in mind. If his difficulty is in starting to analyze, though he feels a need for self-examination, he should remind himself that a previous piece of analysis or some outside occurrence may have produced a blockage. One object of script analysis is to fit the patient’s life plan into the grand historical psychology of the whole human race, a psychology which apparently has changed but little from cave days, through the early farming and ranching settlements and the great totalitarian governments of the Middle East, up to the present time. Dr. Freud, Jung, and their followers have demonstrated irrefutably that the logic, the heroes, and the deeds of myth survive into modern times…The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-Second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. While the hero of the myth achieves a World-historical triumph, the hero of the fairy tale achieves merely a small domestic victory. And patients are patients, we may add, because they cannot achieve the victories they aim for and still survive. Hence, they come to the doctor, “the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency. His role is precisely that of the Wise Old Man of the myths and fairy tales whose words assist the hero through the trials and terrors of the weird adventure.” #RandolphHarris 16 of 25

The way the Child in the patient see it, no matter how his Adult tells the story, it is quite evident that all children, since the beginning of humanity, have had to cope with the same problems, and have had about the same weapons at their disposal. When it comes to cutting, life is the same old wine in new bottles: coconut and bamboo bottles gave way to goatskins, goatskins to pottery, pottery to glass, and glass to plastic, but the grapes have hardly changed at all, and there is the same old intoxication on top and the same old dregs at the bottom. So, there will be found little variation in the shapes of the adventures and the characters involved. Hence, if we know some of the elements of the patient’s script, we can predict with some confidence where he is heading, and head him off before he meets with misfortune or disaster. That is called preventive psychiatry, or “making progress.” Even better, we can get him to change his script or give it up altogether, which is curative psychiatry, or “getting well.” Thus, it is not a matter of doctrine or necessity to precisely find the myth or fairy tale which the patient is following; but the closer we can come, the better. Without such a historical foundation, errors are frequent. A mere episode in the patient’s life, or his favourite game, may be mistaken for the whole script; or the occurrence of a single animal symbol, such as a wolf, may lead the therapist to bark up the wrong tree. #RandolphHarris 17 of 25

Relating the patient’s life or his Child’s life plan to a coherent story which has survived for hundreds or thousands of years because of its universal appeal to the primitive layers of the human mind, at least gives a feeling of work from a solid foundation, and at best may give very precise clues as to what needs to be done to avert or change a bad ending. For example, a fairy tale may reveal elements of a script which are otherwise hard to dig up, such as the “script illusion.” The transactional analyst believes that psychiatric symptoms result from some form of self-deception. However, patients can be cured just because their lives and their disabilities are based on a figment of the imagination. The philosopher achieves what is rare—a cool mental detachment from things or persons, united with a tender feeling for them. No man can become philosophical and yet derive complete satisfaction from or attach complete importance to whatever is favourable in his external life. He sees to clearly how transient, how imperfect, and how compensated by disadvantages it all is. Indeed, he outgrows the excessive common interest in and the excessive common preoccupation with the ebb and flow of external life. He finds more and more trivial what he once found—and the generality of men still find—worthy of serious attention. #RandolphHarris 18 of 25

Is it possible to be inwardly aloof from the pleasurable things of the World and yet be outwardly able to enjoy them? It is possible to love another in a human way yet retain the inner detachment requisite for resting in philosophic peace? Can we make the best of these two Worlds? Just as we can learn by practice to remain inwardly peaceful amid outward turmoil, so we can learn to remain peaceful during outward pleasure. However, this practice is hard to learn, and most beginners fail at it. For a man to train himself in emotional control over the mad loves and insane passions, the recurrent longings, and tormenting desires, is like training himself to die. Let no one underestimate this tremendous task. We plan to gain insight into the meaning of man, who not only is determined by history but who also determines history. History is to be understood as concerned not only with the life of man on this planet but as also including such cosmic influences as interpenetrate our human World. This generation is discovering that history does not conform to the social optimism of modern civilization and that the organization of human communities and the establishment of freedom and peace are not only intellectual achievements but spiritual and more achievements as well, demanding a cherishing of the wholeness of human personality, the “unmediated wholeness of feeling and thought,” and constituting a never-ending challenge to man, emerging from the abyss of meaninglessness and suffering, to be renewed and replenished in the totality of his life. #RandolphHarris 19 of 25

The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to the preservation and protection of life, property, and the environment from fire, disaster, and hazardous materials related incidents through emergency mitigation, public education, and code reinforcement. “In every fire station it’s important for everybody to be able to perform at maximum efficiency at all times. We don’t get working fires every day, though lately we’ve been very busy. With applicants of the firefighter job, we use urinalysis. I think it’s a better test than polygraph. I think a lot of people are eliminated unnecessarily because of the polygraph. I’m in favor of a good, lengthy background investigation and urinalysis. We have a lot of young guys in the department. They’re not stereotypically troublesome people. Many of them are married, so there is no drinking or drug abuse problem there. People think that firefighters have a pretty soft job. They don’t see the guys at three in the morning. They don’t see them after one of their fellow firefighters has died or when a child has died in a fire. They don’t see the look on the guys after they come off duty, the total exhaustion from fighting a fire. We have a lot of education to do. At three fires this year that I was in charge of, we lost kids, multiple fatalities. #RandolphHarris 20 of 25

 “In comparing fire departments, I think what the administrators fail to look at is the types of buildings we have. In cities like Scottsdale, Arizona, or Plano, Texas, where they have sprinkler ordinances, they don’t have the risks in property and people that older cities have. I discuss the job with my wife a lot. She has always been a great support to me, and she always worried about me going to work. That was on her mind. One year we lost seven guys. There was a fire in a garage where they were repairing a propane truck. A water heater was on the floor, and the truck blew. We lost three guys there. Then we had a fire at a metallurgical factor, where manganese dust collected and blew up, and we lost four guys there. So the fact that you could get killed on the job was pretty evident. I never really worried about it. I was always safety-conscious. I became interested in the problems of protective clothing because I saw the need for it. When I got promoted, that was always my prime concern. You want to get through your whole career without having any firefighter who works for you getting killed. When something like that happens, it makes you take a look at things and reassesses your position. We have difficulty convincing the city managers of the need for minimum manning on the fire trucks. Though we don’t have five men on a truck anymore, we feel fortunate that we have been able to maintain four and four, that is, four on a truck and four on an engine. #RandolphHarris 21 of 25

“The department has been cut down from twelve hundred men to something like nine hundred ninety. We have had problems where we haven’t had enough truck companies to cover the city. The city administration doesn’t appreciate truck work. They don’t understand the importance of immediate search and ventilation. And if the truck company can’t do its job, it makes it really unsafe for the firefighters. The city was interested in consolidating, closing down stations. So we consolidated three stations into one. About a month later, there was a fire where we lost a lady who ran a restaurant. She was a celebrity in that area. The people in the community were really upset, and the city responded by reopening a single station. It was our busiest engine company. The consolidated station was a long way from the fire site. It took longer to respond. So the single house was reopened. There’s always a debate about whether you’re better to arrive in the fire ground in sixty or so seconds with a single engine company or, say, in three minutes with three companies. It’s more expensive to operate single houses, but I doubt that this house will be closed down again. Computers are certainly not right when it comes to a lot of things, because there are many factors AI technology cannot consider. #RandolphHarris 22 of 25

“I can’t say the city hasn’t cooperated as far as protective clothing goes. I can’t think of anything that the present chief or the chief before him didn’t push for us at city hall. I think Sacramento was the first major department to use Nomax turnout coats. But when they combined the two busiest battalions into one superbusy battalion. I know the administrators have a lot of demand put on them, and obviously they are trying to save money. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a disaster for people to see their mistakes. Right now, I’d like to see more manning on the fire companies. The heavy fire duty makes for better camaraderie. It’s not like having an eight-hour job. You will with these people, you work with them, you die with them. It’s a special feeling. There’s nothing else like it in the World. In the past, it was a very close-knit group in the firehouse. We did a lot of things together. We had a lot of activities with families, with groups. We would have picnics together. We’d have outings together at each other’s houses. There’s a different feeling now, though, because things have to be run differently. We have a serious morale problem, where a lot of members think there’s been unequal treatment. Many houses still have a good feeling of camaraderie, but morale is not what it used to be. So we are conscious of building morale. #RandolphHarris 23 of 25

“My best time in the fire department was when I was a captain and a battalion chief. I was five or six years with Truck X, the busiest truck company in the city. We had a super group of guys. I worked with a lieutenant who was older than me. And he was truly a firefighter’s firefighter. He would do anything and go any place. We had a god we had taken in. That dog would climb the aerial ladder. He was fantastic. He went to all the fires with us. This was really a close-knit group of guys who really took pride in the job. You could count on any one of them for anything. You like to see that kind of company. My lieutenant died at fifty-five. He could have retired. He had a heart attack after coming back from a fire in a housing project. That was a very traumatic experience. The man was doing what he wanted to do. He stayed on a busy company until the day he died. It seems that our best companies and the closet companies are the ones that are busiest. Out of five hundred new firefighters, 95 percent are conscientious young guys who really want to do the job. And they do do the job. We have problems, but they’re different problems. During the time of the riots, you felt here was a good change you were going to get injured or killed, maybe not even from a fire. We had incidents where our apparatus was shot at, tires were flattened, hoses were cut. The risks were so great it made the troops come that much closer together. #RandolphHarris 24 of 25

“We have had fires where somebody dies, the family is distraught, and they try to blame somebody. And the one they like to blame is the firefighter. We had a fire recently in an apartment house, and two children died. The people complained about our response time. Well, when it was all brought out, from the time we received the call until the time the two victims were in the hospital, it was less than five minutes. That includes getting to the scene and taking the victims out of the building. That’s a pretty tight time span. When you lose kids in a fire, you try to be diplomatic, but people get distraught. They don’t appreciate what you’ve done, and you have to understand them. That’s one of the tough things” The Sacramento Fire Department is a premier public safety organization committed to the safety and welfare of their community. You can help save lives and property by donating. Also, to help preserve our community, please raise your children to love America, be patriotic, love God and Jesus Christ, respect law and order, treat others with dignity and kindness, and to buy American made cars and other American made goods and services. 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. I before Thy greatness stand and am afraid; all my secret thoughts Thine eye beholdeth, deep within my bosom laid. And, withal, what is it heart and tongue can do? What is this my strength, and what is even this, the spirit in me too? However, indeed, man’s singing may seem good to Thee; so I praise Thee, singing, while there dwelleth yet the breath of God in me. #RandolphHarris 25 of 25

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The Fittest Survived

Many Americans are finding in hard to make it in the economy of Bidenomics because the price of everything is rising and the wages are so low. The fast-food industry received a higher wage, and this has driven up prices and it is making it more difficult for seniors to survive because their cost-of-living increase does not keep up with inflation. Thus, several Americans have found themselves in the same situation as those who have recently migrated to America, even though they have lived here for generations and have been working with a cast-iron determination to support their families and maintain their home. Once liberating from all paralyzing prejudices of class calling, environment and tradition, they are once again finding themselves subject to discrimination because they can no longer able to provide for their families and themselves in the same capacity that they were able to just four years ago. The median income in California is $78,672, the median home price is $786,730, and the median rent is $2,850. The average American spends $475.25 a month on food, $417 on gasoline, and $137 a month on electricity, $147 a month on car insurance, and $477 a month on health insurance. Therefore, many are prices out of the housing market and a significant number of people are having a hard time finding affordable rentals. As a result, people are extra-hand ready to take any second job that turns up by chance, just for the sake of earning their daily bread. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

The magic glimmer that once spread over the big cities and suburbs has been replaced by the gloomiest uncertainty of being able to earn a regular daily livelihood under this current administration. In fact, the element of uncertainty in steadily earning one’s daily bread is the bitterest feature of the whole socioeconomic system itself. Some people are even pawning and selling the last of their belongings to make ends meet. Increasing poverty in America has become evident as there is a homeless crisis. Several people have been made to mix up with a class of human beings through whom their minds are now poisoned, in addition to their physical misery. Thus, even a man who is normally of industrious habits grows careless in their whole attitude towards life and gradually becomes an instrument in the hands of unscrupulous people who exploit him for the sake of their own ignoble aim. The democratic party currently seems to be aimed at the destruction of the State, the whole social order and even civilization itself. As citizens see this process exemplified before their eyes, the longer they observe it, the greater becomes their dislike for the mammoth city which greedily attracts men to its bosom, to break them mercilessly in the end. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

In this current economic crisis, the tie with their own people is broken. They are thrown about so much in life that they feel the effects of it on their own soul. The constant loss of earnings and increase in expenditures has caused their bodies to grow accustomed to vicissitudes of food and hunger, eating heartily in good times, and going hungry in bad. Indeed, hunger shatters all plans for rationing expenditure on a regular scale in betters times when they have paid down some of their bills. Therefore, the moment bills are paid down, he forgets to regulate the expenditure of his earnings but spends them to the full without thinking of tomorrow. This leads to confusion in the little weekly housekeeping budget, because the expenditure is not rationally planned. When the phenomenon first happens, the earnings will last perhaps for give days instead of seven; on subsequent occasions they will last only for three days; as the habit recurs, the earnings will last scarcely for a day; and finally, they will disappear in one night of feasting. Often there are wife and children at home. And in many cases, it happens that these become infected by such a way of living, specially if the husband is good to them and wants to do the best he can for them and loves them in his own way and according to his own lights. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

Then the week’s earnings are spent in common at home within two or three days. The family eat and drink together as long as the money lasts and at the end of the week they hunger together. Then the wife wanders about furtively in the neighbourhood, borrows a little, and runs up large debts with pay day loans and credit cards to pull through the lean days towards the end of the week. To outsiders, it appears that a middle-class family in this situation is doing well because they do not talk about how hard they are having it and appear to be keeping of their lifestyle. However, they are worried about how to pay the mortgage, how to pay insurance, how to keep gas in the cars, how to keep the lights on, and are thus hungry as they dream of the plenty that is to come. And so, the children become acquainted with misery in their early years. However, the evil culminates when the husband goes his own way from the beginning of the week and the wife protests, simply out of love for the children. Then there are quarrels and bad feelings and the husband takes to drink and drugs and according as he becomes estranged from his wife. He now becomes drunk every Saturday. Fighting for her own existence and that of the children, the wife must hound him along the road from the office to the tavern to get a few shekels from him on payday. Then finally, he comes home, maybe on the Sunday or the Monday, having partied with his last shekels and pence, pitiable scenes follow, scenes that cry out for God’s mercy. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

While some were disgusted and indigent, they have come to recognize the whole tragedy of their misfortune and to understand the profound cases of it. They are the unhappy victims of evil circumstances. For several, housing conditions are unbelievably bad currently. Many live in surroundings of appalling misery. I shudder to think of the woeful dens in which people dwell, the night shelters and the slums, and all the tenebrous spectacles of ordure, loathsome filth, and wickedness. In Minnesota, we have already seen what happens when the hordes of emancipated slaves came forth from their dens of misery and swooped down on their unsuspecting men. However, this other World has not thought about the possibility of this happening on a national level, in several states, hundreds of cities, and thousands of downtowns and suburbs. The democrats have allowed these things to go on without caring and even without suspecting—in their total lack of instinctive understanding—that sooner or later destiny will take its vengeance unless it will have been appeased in time. As a nation, we pray that people will emerge from all this misfortune and misery, from this filth and outward degradation, were not human begins as such but rather lamentable results of lamentable laws. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

We need a president who will create better fundamental conditions of social development by establishing a profound feeling for social responsibilities among the public; second, we need a leader who will combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved. Just ns Nature concentrates it greatest attention, not to the maintenance of what already exists but on the selective breeding offspring in order to carry on the species, so in human life also it is less a matter of artificially improving the existing generation—which, owning to human characteristics, is impossible in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—and more a matter of securing from the very start a better road for the future. The American mind has become dominated by a self-conscious, willful, iron-mailed philosophy of immoralism under President Biden. In the past, the militarists assured the Americans that they were the elite of mankind, a race of supermen destined to conquer the Americas or the World through Manifest Destiny. They preached that might makes right, that war is a biological necessity, and that conquest is justified by the survival of the fittest. The old churchmen preached of war as a just judgment of God. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

The modern natural scientists see in a war a propitious mode of selection. War is not merely a necessary element in the life of nations but an indispensable factor of culture, in which a truly civilized nation finds the highest expression of strength and vitality. Since its decisions rest on the very nature of things, war gives a biologically just decision. It is not only a biological law, but a moral obligation, and as such, an indispensable factor in civilization. In all directions, the American people see proof that they are the Chosen People. They interpret the doctrine of evolution to draw from it a warrant for their aspirations. Evolution teaches that “the fittest survived.” The champions of the philosophy of supermania lean heavily on biology to support their creed. They have been misled by the phrase “the survival of the fittest.” You might infer, to hear them buzz, that only the fittest survive, or, to put it conversely, the fact that you survive is proof that you are the “fittest.” In the essential circularity of the Darwinian sociology,  power and strength are defined in terms of survival, and survival is in turn explained by strength and power. All changes in types of survival and kinds of fitness are considered without relation to ulterior values; there is no value beyond survival itself. Rome conquering the World by force of arms is as good as Greece conquering it by force of ideas or Judea conquering it by force of religious sentiment. Indeed, because of its biological origins, this view shows a strong tendency to favour the cruder and more violent forms of struggle, as being more unmistakably biological. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

The Intellectual World and public opinion have accepted Darwinism by almost unanimous consent as an integral part of the theory of evolution. Darwin believes that the “fittest” are those who best adapt to their conditions. However, struggle is often confused with the total death of the vanquished, whereas this selective factor hardly ever operates among men. The entire phenomenon of mutual assistance is ignored by the philosophy of force. It is to this that man owes his dominant position in the Universe. In a large sense, all mankind is an association, and all wars are civils wars; yet the philosophers of force have never advocated civil war as a source of progress. American society sees its own image in the tooth-and-claw version of natural selection, and believes its dominant groups are therefore able to dramatize this vision of competition as a thing good. Ruthless business rivalry and unprincipled politics seem to be justified by the survival philosophy. If the dream of personal conquest and individual assertion motivates the middle-class, this philosophy seems tenable, and its critics remain a minority. This version of Darwinism depended for its continuance upon a general acceptance of unrestrained competition. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

However, nothing is so unstable as “pure” business competition; nothing is so disastrous to the unlucky or unskilled competition; nothing is so difficult as to keep the growing number of the “unfit” reconciled to the operations of such a regime. In time the American middle-class shrank from the principle it had glorified, turned in flight from the hideous image of rampant competitive brutality, and repudiated the once heroic entrepreneur as a despoiler of the nation’s wealth and morals and a monopolist of its opportunities. The life of man in society, while it is incidentally a biological fact, has characteristics that are not reducible to biology and must be explained in the distinctive terms of a cultural analysis; the physical well-being of men is a result of their social organization and not vice versa; social improvement is a product of advances in technology and social organization, not of breeding or selective elimination; judgements as to the value of competition between men or enterprises or nations must be based upon social and not allegedly biological consequences; and there is nothing in nature or a naturalistic philosophy of life to make impossible the acceptance of moral sanctions that can be employed for the common good. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

The Marxist theory, as well as the socialist movement, was radical and humanistic—radical in the sense of going to the roots, and the roots being man; humanistic in the sense that it is man who is the measure of all things, that his full unfolding must be the aim and the criterion of all social efforts. The liberation of man from the strangle hold of economic conditions which prevented his full development was the aim of all Marx’s thought and efforts. Socialism has become successful, gained power, and in this very process succumbed to its opponent—the spirit of capitalism. This development is not too surprising. Capitalism is successful beyond anything the early socialists could have visualized. Instead of leading to an ever-increasing misery of the works, the progress of technology and of the organization of capitalist society made it possible for the workers to benefit from its advances. True enough, this happened to some extent at the expense of colonial peoples; and furthermore, it happened to some extent through the fight of the socialist parties and trade unions for a greater share in the social product. However, whatever the role of these various factors may have been, the result is that the workers and their leaders were more and more captivated by the spirit of capitalism and began to interpret socialism in accordance with capitalist principles. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

While Marxism had aimed at a humanist society transcending capitalism, a society which would have as its aim the full unfolding of the individual personality, most socialists regarded socialism as a movement to improve the economic and socio-political situation within capitalism; they considered the socialization of the means of production, plus the principles of the welfare of the state as a sufficient criterion of a socialist society. The principles of this type of “socialism” were essentially the same as those of capitalism: maximum economic efficiency, large-scale bureaucratically organized industry, and subordination of the individual under this bureaucratic but economically efficient system. Basically, the majority of socialists in the West and in the East shared this capitalistic interpretation of socialism, but, according to their respective economic and political positions, they arrived at different solutions. The Western leaders began to make their peace with capitalism, the socialist leaders of both camps supported their governments claiming that they were supporting the war for the sake of freedom, because they had the good luck to be fighting the Kaiser and the Czar, respectively. When the imperial system in Germany collapsed as the result of prolonging a virtually lost war far beyond any reasonable consideration, the same leaders formed a secret alliance with the generals to defeat the revolution. They permitted first the growth of the Reichswehr, and of secret and half-secret semimilitary organizations which became the basis of Nazi power—and they virtually capitulated completely before the increasing strength and oppressiveness of the Nazi and nationalistic right-wing forces. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

The French socialist leaders followed a similar direction, which led the French socialist party under the leadership of Guy Mollet to the open support of the Algerian war. In England, as in the Scandinavian countries, the situation was somewhat different. In these countries the socialist won majorities, either temporarily or continuously, and used their strength to build a welfare state. A highly developed system of social security and particularly of a social health service, brought to its full fruition the system which had been started by conservatives in Europe in the nineteenth century (Disraeli in England and Bismarck in Germany), and which was started in the United States of America under the leadership of F.D. Roosevelt in the thirties. In addition, The British Labour Party socialized some of the key industries, believing that such socialization of the means of production was the touchstone of true socialism. However, while they satisfied the economic interests of the workers, their brand of socialism ceased to be the vision of a fundamental change of the human condition. They lost one election after another and sought to recoup their losses by giving up almost all radical aims. #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

The same process occurred in Germany, where the Social Democratic Party not only gave up almost all socialist aims, but also accepted the principles of nationalism and rearmament to such an extent that the social democratic policy is hardly distinguishable from that of their opponents. The growing perception and responsibility of our World Age point to the new reality that the individual person and the collective person supplement and integrate each other; that the thrall of totalitarianism of both left and right has been shaken in the universal desire to recapture the authority of truth and human totality. Mankind can finally place its trust not in a proletarian authoritarianism, not in a secularized humanism, both of which have betrayed the spiritual property right of history, but in a sacramental brotherhood and in the unity knowledge. This new consciousness has created a widening of human horizons beyond every parochialism, and a revolution in human thought comparable to the basic assumption, among the ancient Greeks, of the sovereignty of reason; corresponding to the great effulgence of the moral conscience articulated by the Hebrew prophets; analogous to the fundamental assertions of Christianity; or to the beginning of the new scientific era, the era of the science of dynamics, the experimental foundations of which were laid by Galileo in the Renaissance. An important effort of this Series is to re-examine the contradictory meanings and applications which are given today to such terms as democracy, freedom, justice, love, peace, brotherhood, and God. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

The purpose of such inquiries is to clear the way for the foundation of a genuine World history not in terms of nation or race or culture but in terms of man in relation to God, to himself, his fellow man and the Universe, that reach beyond immediate self-interest. For the meaning of the World Age consists in respecting man’s hopes and dreams which lead to a deeper understanding of the basic values of all peoples. The happy ending of the fairy tale is suspect, and does not occur in real life. Fairy tales are told by well-meaning parents, and the happy ending is an intrusion of a benevolent but mendacious Parental ego state; tales made up by children themselves are more realistic, and do not necessarily have happy endings; in fact, they are notoriously gruesome. A resistance that expresses itself is difficult to detect, and it will cause a loss of time. However, if one finds after a while that no progress has been made, or that one is only moving in circles in spite of having worked at the problems concerned, its presence may be suspected. It is important in self-analysis—as in any analysis—not to be deluded about the progress made. Such a delusion may life one’s spirits for a whole, but it easily prevents the discovery of a deep-seated resistance. This possibility of a wrong integration of findings is one of the reasons any an occasional checkup with an analyst is desirable. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

For years, when my life was turbulent and others seemed so serene, I thought they had chosen the right way, I the wrong one. I felt that I had been rebellious, not “satisfied as I should have been.” There was one thing that I did not know about my friends: they did not talk about their troubles as I did about mine. It is only in our later life that they are beginning to reveal themselves to me. I have truly no regrets for my life, no bitterness. It would have been nice to be able to do better than I have, but without where I have been I could not be where I am now. When I say this to my friendly puppy friends, they sign. At other times, they express a bitterness, briefly but recurrently, which makes my toes curl to think of living with it. So it seems to me that I have to come off better, and there are intimations that they think so too. When the easter therapist writes “pampered” I am not sure what he means, because who means why by “pampered”? He also wrote, “able to lock what confronts him.” Is that a true statement, or an ideal? A doctor once told me, “If you cannot life it, run.” I ran. Some dragons are too much for any George. In my youth, before I had got so much loused up, and did not need someone else to tell me what to do, I enjoyed licking what confronted me, but some things looked to me like a steamroller, and it seemed a better idea to step aside than tilt with it. If “able to lock what confronts him” included being able to accept the fact that there are some things I cannot lick, then I agree. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

Although sometimes it is only for the present that I run away: later, I may be able to return and lick what I could not earlier. That does not mean that I could have done it in the first place. I just had not grown up to that one yet. However, what really makes my stomach turn over is this picture of love, love, love, and I love everything you do and ever say no. That is what the words say to me. It may be wide of the mark to the man who write them. The act of disciplined thinking about one’s World, to make sense of what has been going on and to solve problems, is another way of experiencing the World with the doors of perception temporarily shut. In fact, when people want to reason and argue with themselves to arrive at some conclusion, they seek quiet surroundings. Thinking in a disciplined way, according to rules of logic, is a skill that contributes to effective action. However, we can think wishfully, and fearfully, too, when our needs and passions are aroused. Such autistic thinking may lead us to conclusions that conform to our feelings but misinform us about the way the Worldly really is. Autistic thinking calls for reality testing—a way to review the argument the thinking embodies and to check the conclusions by means of fresh perception. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

Compulsive thinking interferes with living; it blocks perception and inhibits effective action. Indeed, one of the functions of meditation is to still one’s chattering mind. Such stilling is akin to learning how to discipline the act of speaking. Compulsive thinking is like a compulsive talking; it does the person no good. Disciplined thinking to solve a problem is illustrated as follows: the person carries on an inner dialogue, saying, “If I act in this way, it is likely to produce these consequences, whereas if I don not, the problem will persist.” Whether or not this type of thinking will lead to effective action can then be tested. Autistic thinking is a kind of reverie where the person’s inner dialogue is deliberately allowed to proceed unchecked by the discipline of reason, and merges into imagination; for example, “I wish I had ten people in love with me at once, would that not be grand?” and so on. Alienated thinking, or chatter, is akin to being in the company of a boring chatterbox who will not allow you to see, hear, or think as you wish because of the constant din of talk. The higher meaning of “Love thy neighbour” as revealed in meditation is to confer a blessing, and identify with his higher self. Total goodwill is, after all, only an ideal because it must be practiced towards our enemies and those we dislike not less than toward our friends and those we like. We can only try to come close to it in difficult cases. The attempt may elicit grace, which will carry us further in the same direction. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

The Sacramento Fire Department provides all fire suppression, prevention, and education programs in the city as well as paramedic emergency medical services to the residents and visitors of the Sacramento community. “I was an engineer for nine years before I became a captain. I was not really excited about being an officer until my eighth or ninth year, when the captain I was working for at the time sort of pushed me. The responsibility for the lives of others doesn’t weigh too heavily on me. I’m very confident in myself and my abilities. I know the guys I work with feel that way, that I know what I’m doing. Most of the firefighters feel that way. They have a good self-image. They are confident in what they do. It’s a macho image.” The Sacramento Fire Department strives to provide excellent service to the community. By donating to the Sacramento Fire Department, you can help save lives and property. And remember parents, raise your children to love America, to be patriotic, to buy American cars and American made good, to love God and Jesus Christ, to respect law and order and to treat others with respect and compassion. 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. At the dawn I seek Thee, Refuge, Rock subline; set my prayer before Thee in the morning, and my prayer at even time. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

The Winchester Mystery House

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The Magic of the Golden Hour

We had been in our new house in New Haven for more than a year, trying to establish a routine in between visitations, both psychic and corporeal. Many things had changed within the family. Although a newborn, Annie exhibited the most obvious ones! Unlike any infant I had ever witnessed, she had boundless energy. I would carry her all around the mansion and the yard and she seemed to take everything in. However, six weeks after she was born, she died in my arms, and I became unconsolable. The next 15 years were the biggest challenge I had ever faced in my life, and then tragedy struck once again. My beloved William was claimed by vengeful spirits, leaving me absolutely desolate. I did not understand the reason for this attack. However, the spirits went about it like they intended to kill all of us. From that day on, I aimed to always have my Winchester in my hand. Seeking answers, I traveled to Boston and met with Madame Blavatsky who explained to me that I was being haunted by spirits—in fact, by the spirits of American Indians, Civil War soldiers, and others killed by Winchester rifles. While reading her tarot cards, she became terrified and told me that I would be the next victim unless I appeased the spirits by moving west and building a temple in their honor. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

As Heiress of one of America’s greatest fortunes, I separated myself from the rest of the World. After settling down in the Santa Clara Valley, I had built a stately home of fifteen thousand square feet, and forty-two rooms. It was known as a mansion of mystery. However, even after ten years of construction, the greatest mansion in the valley was not quite ready. Over the next five years, my home had expanded greatly, growing to more than three hundred and twenty-one rooms. It was a real fairy-tale castle, with secret entrances, mysterious sources of music, whispering in the trees and treasures collected from all over the World. The bronze gates were twenty feet high and fit for a palace. The four-story mansion was not so unusual for its day. Every inch was decorated with Parisian Beaux Arts ostentation, a profusion of lions, cherubs, and goddesses. Oh, but the architects were not done. Soaring above the mansion was an ornate tower, reaching nine stories, so pleased with itself that it that in continued to an open cupola.  And when I stood in the tower, nearly one hundred feet above the ground, I could see for miles. In the basement was a coal furnace, which burned seven tons on a typical day, not only for heat but to power the mansion, elevators, thousands of light bulbs.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

As large as my home was, it cost no more than two years’ profits. I often loved riding up the main floor elevator, and climbing the grand staircase. Made of mahogany, the stairs would wind their way through a ceiling of the mahogany overlaid with gold leaf. At the top of the stairs were two exquisite white marble statues. More wonders were found in the Observational Tower. It held its own secret, a suite with bedrooms, and its own kitchen. My favorite was the Golden Room. I had thirteen servants in residence, including a houseman, a waitress, two butlers, three cooks, and six maids. For dishware, a nine-hundred-piece set of China, costing more than $100,000.  Llanada Villa had been calm lately. The day had changed from dull to bright, from bright to brilliant autumnal glory, a sunny remission before the winter took firm, disheartening hold. The air remained chill, but its bite had freshness, its breath had vigor. I walked through the hallways, stopping to admire the statues and paintings. After a while, I rested near the skylight, warmed by the shafts of sunlight. Leaning back against the chair, somewhat breathless, my eyes closed, face upturned toward the sun. Then I felt an icy hand on my back. I felt each and every finger, but when I shook myself and turned around, I saw that no one was near me. Needless to say, it did not help my appetite. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

I pondered for a moment or two about where I had seen ghosts in my home. I recalled seeing one in the hallway. In the corridors. By the Daisy Bedroom. Once, when I was in the garden, I noticed a ghost watching me from the window. Just then, I felt coldness seeping into me from the floor, despite the sun’s warm rays. There was the crying of a baby, which seemed to come from the third-floor rear bedroom. It could also be heard one of the kitchens, though less loud, and it seemed to come from the walls. Several people had heard it and there was no natural cause to account for it. Then there were footsteps. It sounded like someone walking down the backstairs, the servants’ stairs, step by step, hesitatingly, and not returning, but just fading away! I caught a glimpse of a bright shape flitting through the wall. The mansion was hushed, the trudging of my own footsteps was the loudest sound. I stopped and looked around. Had I heard someone behind me? I walked on, only to stop once more. Had a figure ducked behind a door to my left? I waited a moment, but there was no more movement. I continued, becoming annoyed with the silly game. The noise that brought me to a halt this time was different. It had sounded like a child’s giggle. I whirled and caught a fleeting glimpse of something hurrying through a door to my right. However, it was gone in an eye’s blink. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Ridiculously, I thought it might have been a small girl. It had moved so fast, though. I could not be sure. As I was glancing toward the French doors, I saw a woman looking at me. The figure was about five feet three or four, and wore a blue-gray dress with a shawl, and a hood over her head, for which reason I could not make out the woman’s feature. The head seemed strangely bowed to me, almost as if the woman were doing penance. At the time, I had assumed that it was a reflection from the mirror, but when I glanced at the mirror, I did not see the figure in it. When I turned my attention back to the figure, it had disappeared. It was now toward evening and I was a little tired, yet the figure was very real to me. My doubts were completely dispelled when I was walking under the doorway between the front and back rooms, and my advance was stopped cold by something that resisted by advance although I could not see anything unusual. I felt that I was walking through heavy water, halfway up to my knees. This was a physical thing, I realized, and in sudden horror it occurred to me that I was trying to penetrate an etheric body. Hastily retreating, I walked in the opposite direction in a hurry. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

I turned my head sharply. No, I could not have heard the whisper of voices; surely the muted sounds must have been a breeze sighing through the labyrinth. Now the faintest echo of laughter. I drew a shallow breath. A feeling was rising—was creeping—from the hollow of my stomach—or so it seemed—spreading upward and outward, a gradual sensory frosting of sinews and nerve lines, seeping through to my outer skin, prickling its surface with tiny bumps. An unease that I could not understand; yet a sensing which I could not ignore. My pace quickened as I walked on through my home. Occasionally I would look behind me. Sometimes I would glance sharply to my right, other times to my left. I was not alone. Yet there was no one else with me. I did not run. But I walked in haste. I heard a giggle, I felt the touch of a hand on my shoulder. The touch could have only been the brushing of the curtains. However, the giggle could not have been anything else but a giggle. I almost stumbled, my hands scraping across the wain’s coating. I did not linger. The hallways seemed more dark, more gloomy, as if dusk were impossibly premature. The coldness might well have been in my own mind, for I could feel perspiration on my brown. I hurried along to the Daisy Bedroom, now ignoring the small noises that seem to keep pace with me, the shadows that had no substance when focused upon. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

And then I was in the bright sunshine. The skylights had allowed the hallway to burst into a summer-warm, as though they had trapped and stored their own heart. The sun slowly drew the coolness from my body. There came a sound from one of the rooms to my right. A shifting. I paused. “Hello, is anyone there?” I waited for a reply. There was none. However, there was another sound from with the shadowed doorway. I forced good humor. “Okay, the joke is over. You have had your fun.” The silence was not comforting. Weary of the game, I sighed. The air itself seemed strangely still. Once inside of the room, there came to me a sense of total emptiness. My voice was very quiet when I said, “Who is in here?” Still no answer, but there was movement: a shadow separated from other shadows. It came from behind the bed. Exhausted from my adventure, I climbed into bed and quickly fell asleep. It must have been hours later. It was now dark outside. I awoke from a heavy sleep with the intangible feeling of a presence in my room. I looked up and there, in the rocking chair across the room, I saw a woman, now dead, who had taken care of me when I was a child. Rocking gentle in the chair, as if to reassure me, the Nanny that used to hold me in her arms, was still here looking after me. In a moment, the vision was gone, but it had left me with a sense of peace. I knew that I was being looked after. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7

The Winchester Mystery House

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/

Please visit the online giftshop, and purchase a gift for friends and relatives as well as a special memento of The Winchester Mystery House. A variety of souvenirs and gifts are available to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/