The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy. Prison often leads to thoughts of violence. Should I use force to escape death? Is self-defense against the lethal machine an act of violence? Two thousand years of Christian strict and rigid doctrines? Politics keeps Christ on the cross? Hummingbirds spin by ripping off insects. Cycles of eating and being eaten. Spanish conquistadores and Norman crusaders and Southern Baptists. Should we resist? If an enslaved person defends against the slave master, is he violent? Passive submission to slavery? Personal suicide? Racial genocide? Socrates in the hemlocked death cell? Would I kill to be free? Some people learn to deal with their circumstances. They come up with escape plans that are not criminal. They are occult. Powers of consciousness. They leave the physical plane entirely. Many people do not understand what they are doing here on Earth in physical bodies anyway. Living as a beautiful soul is the goal. The idea is focusing of consciousness. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

As a ritual, these people meet regularly. Some night, when the astrological situation is perfect, these individuals form a circle with someone in the middle, and they center their cosmic consciousness with and with the group as a launching pad, they ascend into the astral plane. From whence Blessed One, God will in his mercy and compassion send down assistance to them. Usually, there are ten middle-aged men in prison garb under a full moon chanting the individual in the center over the fence. This is a form of “Martian thinking.” Martian thinking enables the child to find out what the parents “really” want, that is, what they will respond most favourably to. By using it effectively, he insures his survival and expresses his love for them. In this way he builds up the ego state known as the Adapted Child. The Adapted Child wants and needs to behave in an adapted way, and tried to avoid nonadaptive behaviour or even nonadaptive feelings, which will get less than the best responses from those around him. Meanwhile his self-expressed or Natural Child must be held in leash. The balance between the two forms of behaviour is held by the Adult in the child, which must behave like an exceedingly agile computer in order to decide what is necessary and what is permissible from moment to moment in each situation. This Adult becomes very adept at figuring out what people want or will tolerate, or at worst, what they will get the most excited or angry about, or perhaps feel the most guilty, helpless, scared, or hurt about. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

Thus, the Adult in the child is a keen and perceptive student of human nature, and is therefore called the Professor. In fact, he knows more practical psychology and psychiatry than any grown-up professor does, although after many years of training and experience, a grown-up professor may know as much as thirty-three percent of what he knew when he was four years old. After he has learned Martian thinking, so that he has a sound Adapted Child, the Professor turns his attention to egal thinking, in order to find more ways for the Natural Child to express himself. Legal thinking starts during the plastic years, but reaches its fullest development in later childhood, and if encouraged by the parents may persist into maturity, giving rise to lawyers. Legal thinking is colloquially called cop-out thinking. (“Cop-out” has several meanings: to arrest, to settle for a lesser sentence, such as a “cop-plea”, to talk too much “fink out, and to find an alibi or a crooked way out.) Cop-out thinking is particularly common in personal sexual ethics. Thus, a girl who is instructed by her parents not to lose her virginity may have mutual masturbation, or perform fellatio or a variety of other sexual acts which enable her to obey the letter of the parental law, although she may know that the parents “really meant” not to get sexy. (However, if she gets pregnant or an STI, then she is in hot water.) #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

If the parents warn her against “pleasures of the flesh,” she may have intercourse without orgasm. (But that is still a violation of the Law of Chastity.) The classical sexual cop-out was that used by the prostitutes of Paris at the beginning of this century. (It may still be used, for all I know.) When they went to confession, they were excused for their profession on the grounds that it was a matter of business, providing they did not get turn on. Only if they enjoyed it was it treated as a sin. What parents do is give a prohibition which they think will cover the situation, not giving enough credit to the shrewdness which they themselves have usually taught to their offspring. Thus, a boy who is told “Do not mess around with women” may take this as a permission to mess around with other boys, or in some cases with sheep or cows, and in a legal way thinking he is in the clear, since he is not doing anything his parents have forbidden. A girl who was told “Do not let boys touch you,” decided that meant it was all right to touch herself. By this cop-out her Adapted Child remained complaint to her mother’s wishes, while her Natural Child enjoyed the pleasures of masturbation. A boy who was similarly told, “Do not fool around with girls,” took this as permission to fool around with himself. Neither of these people was actually breaking a parental prohibition. Because the child treats such restrictions as a lawyer would. Looking for the cop-out, they are often called in script analysis by the legal term “injunction.” #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

Some children enjoy being compliant and do not look for cop-outs. Others have more interesting things to do. However, just as many people devote themselves to the problem of how to transgress without breaking the law, so many children are interested in the question of how to be naughty without actually disobeying their parents. In both cases, this kind of shrewdness is taught and encouraged by the parents themselves, and is part of the parental programming. In some cases, this may result in the formation of an anti-script, whereby the child succeeds in reversing the while intent of the script, without actually disobeying any of the original script directions. Metaphysical rebellion, in the real sense of the term, does not appear, in coherent form, in the history of ideas until the end of the eighteenth century—when modern times begin to the accompaniment of the crash of falling ramparts. However, from then on, its consequences develop uninterrupted and it is no exaggeration to say that they have shaped the history of our times. Does this mean that metaphysical rebellion had no significance precious to this date? In any event, its origins must belong to the remote past, in that we like to believe that we live in Promethean times. However, is this really a Promethean age? #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

The first mythologies describe Prometheus as an eternal martyr, chained to a pillar, at the ends of the Earth, condemned forever because he refuses to ask forgiveness. Aeschylus adds still further to his stature, endows him with lucidity (“no misfortune can fall upon me that I have not myself already foreseen”), makes him cry out his hatred of all the gods, and plunging him into “a stormy sea of mortal despair,” finally abandons him to thunder and lightning: “Ah! See the injustice I endure!” It cannot be said, therefore, that the ancients were unaware of metaphysical rebellion. Long before Satan, they created a touching and noble image of the Rebel and gave us the most perfect myth of the intelligence in revolt. The inexhaustible genius of the Greeks, which gave such a prominent place to myths of unity and simplicity, was still able to formulate the concept of insurrection. Beyond a doubt, certain characteristics of the Promethean myth still survive in the history of rebellion as we are living it: the fight against death (“I have delivered men from being obsessed by death”), Messianism (“I have instilled blind hopes into men’s minds”), philanthropy (“Enemy of Zeus…for having loved mankind too much”). However, we must not forget that Prometheus the Fire bringer, the last drama of Aeschylus’ trilogy, proclaimed the reign of the pardoned rebel. The Greeks are never vindictive. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

In their most audacious flights, they always remain faithful to the idea of moderation, a concept they deified. Their rebel does not range himself against all creation, but against Zeus, who is never anything more than one god among many and who himself was mortal. Prometheus himself is a demigod. It is a question of settling a particular account, of a dispute about what is good, and not of a universal struggle between good and evil. Socialization—the imprinting of harmonious, collaborative behaviour—is tool used by DNA to increase intelligence. A characteristic of advanced socialization is Caste Division—an essential element of socialization and an effective survival device. A species that has developed caste differentiation and enculturation based on multistage imprinting divides into survival specialties—thus complexifying and expanding performance. The two most successful life forms of this planet—insects and humans—are obvious examples of caste specialization. Caste differentiation: Structural Caste defines Alpha Reality, which is defined as genetic hardwiring. Temporal Caste defines Beta Reality, which is the developmental staging of the wiring. The most successful-intelligent species manifest both structural and temporal castes. Until our human species understood how these two-caste systems work, we were unable to understand human psychology and thus unable to manage our own, evolving destiny. #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

When I move into other societies, or even sub-cultures withing my own society, I am often astonished by their tabus. I got into one group of people this past year who live in a World that I have pretty much kept myself away from, out of a feeling of not belonging, not being in accord with, having different values. Several people in the group were visibly and audibly shocked when I referred to myself as old. It is only very recently that I have begun to see as tabus those experiences which in my own society must not be talked about, and myself a victim of the edicts of the gods of Science and Reason that have been set up in the western World, superseding all other gods. It seems to me neither scientific nor reasonable exclude any human experience, anything that occurs to any me. However, that is what I have been doing. I have been excluding not only from others but from me those experiences of my life which are tabu. I told myself that they did not happen, and so lost touch with them myself. During the past seven years, I have increasingly found these experiences to be acceptable—although certainly not to everyone—and this acceptance has made it possible for me to accept them in myself and live with them. My life feels much more alive and livelier and freer. First feed the face and then talk right and wrong. The human has needs for survival, food, shelter, and so one that are shared in common with animals. He or she also has needs for self-development, for the appreciation of beauty, that are very characteristic of a high-level or human existence. #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

Healthy personality calls for competence at gratifying basic needs. One is then free to pursue goals beyond personal security. It is difficult to be concerned with truth, justice, or beauty when one is starving or frightened for one’s life. First things come first. In similar fashion, those interested in helping others must first demonstrate that they can take care of themselves. The person who can meet his or her needs through individual skill is independently secure. The child relies on grownups to devote their time and skill to its needs; to the extent that the parents can do this, the child is dependently secure. As the child grows and becomes an adult, he or she gradually takes over more and more of the security needs—providing sustenance, buying a car, earning a living. A young adult who remains dependent upon others to meet his or her basic needs (except for love and companionship) may pay dearly for their intervention; this person may be obliged to conform to restrictive demands, which call for unhealthy suppression of action and repression of experience. Immature dependent security is costly. To be deprived of basic need gratification is painful. There is no denying the agony of starvation, fiery thirst, or terror from someone who is threatening your life. Other needs of a different order, such as love, companionship, freedom from political tyranny, and unfettered artistic and thought expression are to be considered in understanding the healthy personality. #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

The development of the healthy personality extends beyond the basic needs alone. The healthy person is one who partakes generously of all the joys that life provides—including the artistic or aesthetic satisfactions. Some people try to deal with the pain of deprivation of basic needs by denying that it exists or by anesthetizing themselves to their sufferings with drugs, alcohol, or immature religion, but these responses only postpone the inevitable recognition that problems and pain do not go away until one has acted. The term basic needs usually refer to those needs that have to be satisfied first, before other, usually higher, need can be dealt with. While there are many systems of basic need classification, most agree that the body needs—safety, survival, food, shelter, and so on—are the basic needs. While personal freedom or political freedom and artistic creativity are often thought of as higher order needs, there are many examples of individuals who would give up their safety, their bodily needs, to satisfy the need for political or personal freedom. There are also many instances of starving artists who prefer to paint rather than take jobs that would permit them to eat more regularly. However, these cases are rather rare, and the concept of the basic needs, the bodily needs, including expression of pleasures of the flesh, is of reasonable validity for some people. #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

For some, however, they must adhere to the Law of Chastity. Chastity is sexual purity. Those who are chaste are morally clean in their thoughts, words, and actions. Chastity means not having any pleasures of the flesh before marriage. It also means complete fidelity to husband or wife during marriage. Physical intimacy between husband and wife is beautiful and scared. It is ordained of God for the creation of children and for the expression of love within marriage. Many people today believe that sexual intimacy outside marriage is acceptable. However, in God’s sight, it is a serious sin. It is an abuse of the power He has given us to create life. The prophet Alma taught that sexual sins are more serious than any other sins except murder and denying the Holy Ghost. If the participants love one another, sometimes people try to convince themselves that sexual relations outside of marriage are acceptable. This is not true. Breaking the Law of Chastity and encouraging someone else to do so is not an expression of love. People who love each other will never endanger one another’s happiness and safety in exchange for temporary personal pleasure. When people care for one another enough to keep the law of chastity, their love, trust, and commitment increase, resulting in greater happiness and unity. In contrast, relationships built on pleasures of the flesh are immoral and sour quickly. #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

Those who engage in sexual immortality often feel fear, guilt, and shame. Bitterness, jealousy, and hatred soon replace any beneficial feelings that once existed in their relationship. Our Heavenly Father has given us the Law of Chastity for our protection. Obedience to this law is essential to personal peace and strength of character and to happiness in the home. Those who will keep themselves sexually pure will avoid the spiritual and emotional damage that always comes from sharing physical intimacies with someone outside of marriage. Those who keep themselves sexually pure will be sensitive to the Holy Ghost’s guidance, strength, comfort, and protection and will fulfill an important requirement for receiving a temple recommend and participating in temple ordinances. To recognize truth is not primarily a matter of intelligence, but a matter of character. The most important element is the courage to say no, to disobey the commands of power and of public opinion; to cease being asleep and to become human; to wake up and lose the sense of helplessness and futility. Even and Prometheus are the two great rebels whose very “crimes” liberated mankind. However, the capacity to say “no” meaningfully, implies the capacity to say “yes” meaningfully. The “yes” to God is the “no” to Caesar; the “yes” to man is the “no” to all those who want to enslave, exploit, and stultify him. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

I believe in freedom, in man’s right to be himself, to asset himself and to fight all those who try to prevent him from being himself. However, freedom is more than the absence of violent oppression. It is more than “freedom from.” It is “freedom to”—the freedom to become independent; the freedom to be much, rather than to have much, or to use things and people. Man must bring the forces of nature and of society under his conscious and rational control; but not under the control of a bureaucracy which administers things and man, but under the control of the free and associated producers who administer things and subordinate them to man, who is the measure of all things. The alternative is not between “capitalism” and “communism” but between bureaucratism and humanism. Democratic, decentralizing socialism is the realization of those conditions which are necessary to make the unfolding of all man’s powers the ultimate purpose. One of the most disastrous mistakes in individual and social life consists in being caught in stereotyped alternatives of thinking. “Better dead than red,” “an alienated industrial civilization or individualistic preindustrial society,” “to rearm or to be helpless,” are examples of such alternatives. There are always other and new possibilities which become apparent only when one has liberated oneself from the deathly grip of cliches, and when one permits the voice of humanity, and reason, to be heard. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

The principle of “the lesser evil” is the principle of despair. Most of the time it only lengthens the period until the greater evil wins out. To risk doing what s right and human, and have faith in the power of the voice of humanity and truth, is more realistic than the so-called realism of opportunism. Man must get rid of illusions that enslave and paralyze him; he must become aware of the reality inside and outside of him in order to create a World which needs no illusions. Freedom and independence can be achieved only when the chains of illusion are broken. Today there is only one main concern: the question of war and peace. Man is likely to destroy all life on Earth, or to destroy all civilized life and the values among those that remain, and to build a barbaric, totalitarian organization which will rule what is left of mankind. To wake up to this danger, to look through the doubt talk on all aides which is used to prevent men from seeing the abyss toward which they are moving is the one obligation, the one moral and intellectual command which man must respect today. If he does not, we all will be doomed. If we should all perish in the nuclear holocaust, it will not be because man was not capable of becoming human, or that he was inherently evil; it would be because the consensus of stupidity has prevented him from seeing reality and acting upon the truth. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

Evenness of temper is a valuable possession where it comes from self-mastery and not from a low vitality physically. When you feel these fits of depression and despondency coming on, you must learn to stand aside from them and refuse to identify yourself with the emotions which express them. They are simply other forms of ego manifestation. With time and practice, you will be able to do this. This Short Path affirmations and meditations are essential at such a time, for they help you to acquire the detachment necessary to recognize the moods for what they are. One student asked: “But how can one identify oneself with something one does not know?” Another replied: “That is where faith in something beyond the intellect comes in!” Yes, if faith is intense enough it will be sufficient to lead to the desired result. If not, if one cannot have faith in the Overself, then a Teacher is necessary. It is through faith in the Teacher that the student is helped to knowledge of the Overself which he finds so difficult to reach by himself. In this matter of sadness and depression, one should also be careful not to take on the moods of others. Sometimes, people who are sensitive do this. If extra-sensitive, they can even take on for a short time the symptoms of their ailments. I believe in the perfectibility of man, but I doubt whether he will achieve this goal, unless he awakens soon. “Watchman, what of the night? The watchman says: Morning comes and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire: return, come back again,” reports Isaiah 21. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

The mission of the Sacramento Fire Department is to save lives, protect property, and serve their community as professionals with courage, commitment, and compassion. ‘I’ve been on quite a few medicals. When the alarm comes in, I drop everything. All my gear’s already in my car. Depending on where it’s at, I either respond to the scene or to the hall, whichever is closer. Recently we were sitting down to a big family dinner. I had my parents over, and my sister and wife. We had just sat down to eat when my tones went off. It said there was a man down on the street, only a quarter mile for my house. So I jumped up from the table and said, ‘Sorry, guys.’ And I took off. When I got to the scene, a man was lying on the front lawn having difficult breathing, unconscious. Within two minutes he went into a full arrest. I was the only one there. The police, fire, and ambulance had not responded yet. So I took it upon myself to do one-man mouth-to-mouth and CPR. I revived him. The oxygen came, and they transformed him to the hospital. I was told that I did make the difference, that this man would not have lived if I had not started CPR on him. If I had waited, or if I had gone to get a truck, which was about four and a half miles away, I never would have made it back in time to save him from possible brain damage, or even to revive him. He was a young man, like thirty-two, and he had two little children. His wife was so thankful, and that was really neat. It was quite a bit later that I got back to the family dinner.” #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

When critical moments arrive in man’s life, his best recourse is first to calm, not to panic, second to remember and turn towards God. In that way, he does not depend on his own small resources alone, but opens himself to the larger ones hidden in his subconscious. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. Donations made to the Sacramento Fire Department are used for volunteer support and operations, purchases of apparatus, such as an ambulance, community fire safety events, and activities and towards construction of new fire stations, which we desperately need, as the last 15 months have been the hottest on record. 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 17 of 17

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