Indeed there WERE IMPORTANT Whistleblowers INSIDE Religion.

To name a few:

Arius for one who disagreed with Christ being divine, and said Christ was instead a “created being”.  (See below for more on Arius).

At the Nicene Council:

From: Did Constantine Decide What Books Belonged in the Bible?
http://www.gotquestions.org

“Constantine called the council of Nicea (which was the first general council of the Christian church, 325 A.D.) primarily because he feared that disputes within the church would cause disorder within the empire. The dispute in mind was Arianism, which was the belief that Jesus was a created being.”

At the end of the Council, the Council produced the Nicene Creed after much arm twisting and threats. Christ was made divine by a Vote! Arius was classed as a heretic. The Nicene Creed promoted the Trinity- “ - the deity of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit under one Godhead, having three co-equal and co-eternal Persona.” (ibid)  It is said that at the end very few present believed what was written (i.e. the Nicene Creed).

What did Arius believe?

From: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/council_of_nicea.html

“In the populous Alexandria suburb of Baucalis, a well-liked presbyter by the name of Arius began teaching in opposition to the bishop of Alexandria, Alexander. Specifically, he disagreed with Alexander’s teaching that Jesus, the Son of God, had existed eternally, being “generated” eternally by the Father. Instead, Arius insisted that “there was a time when the Son was not.” Christ must be numbered among the created beings — highly exalted, to be sure, but a creation, nonetheless. Alexander defended his position, and it was not long before Arius was declared a heretic in a local council in 321.

This did not end the matter. Arius simply moved to Palestine and began promoting his ideas there. Alexander wrote letters to the churches in the area, warning them against those he called the “Exukontians,” from a Greek phrase meaning “out of nothing.” Arius taught that the Son of God was created “out of nothing.” Arius found an audience for his teachings, and over the course of the next few years the debate became so heated that it came to the attention of Constantine, the Emperor.

Having consolidated his hold on the Empire, Constantine promoted unity in every way possible. He recognized that a schism in the Christian church would be just one more destabilizing factor in his empire, and he moved to solve the problem.⁴ While he had encouragement from men like Hosius, bishop of Cordova, and Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine was the one who officially called for the council. ”

Advisor to the Pope for 17 years becomes whistleblower:

http://beyondallreligion.net/2011/08/28/advisor-to-the-pope-exposes-bible-fraud-and-forgery/

17 YEAR ADVISOR TO THE POPE EXPOSES BIBLE FRAUD AND FORGERY

Retired highly regarded priest, who for 17 years (1980-1997) served as an advisor to the Pope,  exposes bible forgery and fraud.

Dr. Miceal Ledwith achieved distinction as a catholic theologian who received international recognition for academic and professional  accomplishment.  An esteemed professor of Systemic Theology, president of the University of Maymooth , Ireland (National University of Ireland-Author) and fulfilling a seventeen year appointment as advisor to the Pope on the Holy See’s international  Theological Commission.  Yet at the height of his career,  he walked away to pursue a completely different kind of spiritual life — one of humble, internal initiation and transformation

“Go to the Vatican Library today and look at the oldest manuscript that we have of the New Testament, which is known as the Codex Vaticanus’, and was probably one of the bibles commissioned by Constantine. Another one to look at is in the British Library called codex Sinaiticus’ which was discovered in Mount Sinai at St. Catherine’s Monastery.

Look at those two texts, both from the 4TH century, and try to find the famous story of Jesus rescuing the lady who is being stoned for adultery in John’s Gospel Chapter 8. It is a very powerful story, but it is not contained in either of those manuscripts, which means that story was inserted into the text of the New Testament for the first time at least as late as the 4^th century if not later. I can give you a hundred other examples.”

Martin Luther becomes a whistleblower on the Catholic Church and their selling of indulgences (The sale of indulgences applied to all Catholic citizens wishing to lessen their time in Purgatory), and against the Church’s wishes, translates the Bible from Latin into German.

From: http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.html

“On Halloween of 1517, Luther changed the course of human history when he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic church of heresy upon heresy. Many people cite this act as the primary starting point of the Protestant Reformation… though to be sure, John Wycliffe, John Hus, Thomas Linacre, John Colet, and others had already put the life’s work and even their lives on the line for same cause of truth, constructing the foundation of Reform upon which Luther now built. Luther’s action was in great part a response to the selling of indulgences by Johann Tetzel, a Dominican priest. Luther’s charges also directly challenged the position of the clergy in regard to individual salvation. Before long, Luther’s 95 Theses of Contention had been copied and published all over Europe.”

Christ a superstition and a “fable”—Pope Leo X,  At a lavish Good Friday banquet in the Vatican in 1514. Raising a chalice of wine into the air, Pope Leo toasted:“How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.

Above From: http://www.nairaland.com/372231/pope-leo-x-most-infamous

Later, Pope Paul III, expressed similar sentiments, saying that there was no valid document to demonstrate the existence of Christ. He confessed that “Jesus never existed”, adding that he was “no other than the sun, adored in its Mithraic sect…” Court of Justice, Viterbo,  Italy : no 45/b

http://www.luigicascioli.eu/traduzioni/en_proceso4.htm  (See last paragraph)

CURRENT WHISTLEBLOWER: BUTLER TO THE POPE.

 From: http://tinyurl.com/bp227ua

His health wasn’t the only thing that was bothering Pope Benedict XVI. The betrayal by his butler was apparently a constant source of distress, and could have been the last straw in a series of scandals that troubled the papacy, according to sources quoted by the New York Times.

The Pope’s former butler Paolo Gabriele, 46, went on trial last year after he leaked to a journalist confidential Vatican memos that revealed corruption and intrigue within the Holy See, which were later published in a book.

Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in jail but was pardoned by the Pope after he wrote a letter begging for forgiveness.

 DIVINITY SCHOOL DROPOUTS

From: http://mentalfloss.com/article/17462/5-surprising-divinity-school-dropouts

JOSEPH STALIN (1879″“1953)

(Wanted to become a priest-Sam). “Lasting longer than the vast majority of divinity school dropouts, noted mass murderer Joseph Stalin studied at a Georgian Orthodox seminary in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) for five years, between 1894 and 1899.

He left the seminary either because of poor health (his mom’s story) or revolutionary activity (Stalin’s story). “   (official school records state he was unable to pay the tuition and withdrew-SAM)    “Either way, Stalin clearly didn’t take much of what he learned to heart. After he became the Soviet leader in 1922, he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of religious leaders, and Stalin did more than any other premier to eliminate the role of Christianity in Soviet life. But his seminary wasn’t exactly a study in Christian love, either. Prior to Stalin’s arrival, a rector was murdered there—possibly by unruly seminarians.”

 MICHAEL MOORE (1954″“ )

“Controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore began studying at a seminary in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, as an eighth grader in 1967. Brought up a devout Catholic, Moore aspired to a career as a priest, but he left the seminary the next year for thoroughly secular reasons. When the Detroit Tigers made it to the World Series in 1968, the seminary refused to let him watch the games—so he quit. Before his successful filmmaking career, in fact, Moore was something of a serial dropout. He dropped out of the University of Michigan because he arrived at school one morning and couldn’t find a parking place, and he once got a job at an automobile factory in Flint—but called in sick on his first day and never returned.”

Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/17462/5-surprising-divinity-school-dropouts#ixzz2PsNeTrPJ
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(There are 3 more divinity school dropouts than those above – Al Gore, Tom Cruise, and Casanova.) (Tom Cruise wanted to be a Catholic priest when he was a teenager, but he recalls how he was asked to leave St. Francis Seminary at Cincinnati University as he was caught stealing alcohol.)

http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-writers/74-barbara-g-walker/649-bible-morality-or-depravity.html

While we are on the subject of religion, to be fair, I must add for balance purposes: The Bible is not peaceful. The Koran is not peaceful. The Buddhists in Tibet were not peaceful, the Mormons: “Slit their Throats”-said Brigham Young… A rabbi said “a million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail”.

The above said, let us move BEYOND ALL RELIGION, allowing the brilliant beacon of peace and truth to illuminate the world bringing love, tolerance and healing to all.

http://www.beyond all religion.net

Nothing, and the last of the scrolls have been dated to approximately 68 AD, 35 years after the year ascribed to the Crucifixion.

The scrolls were discovered in 1948, and the Vatican, after a Church Father was put in charge of the translation, suppressed the publication of the Scrolls for many years.

So, what DO the Dead Sea Scrolls say about Jesus?  Again: They don’t say anything about Jesus (or Christ).

From: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_the_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_say_about_Jesus#ixzz1yu8rrvsA

Pope Leo X (1513-1521

Retired highly regarded priest, who for 17 years (1980-1997) served as an advisor to the Pope,  exposes bible forgery and fraud.

Dr. Miceal Ledwith achieved distinction as a catholic theologian who received international recognition for academic and professional  accomplishment.  An esteemed professor of Systemic Theology, president of the University of Maymooth , Ireland (National University of Ireland-Author) and fulfilling a seventeen year appointment as advisor to the Pope on the Holy See’s international  Theological Commission.  Yet at the height of his career,  he walked away to pursue a completely different kind of spiritual life — one of humble, internal initiation and transformation.  He talks about an enormous upheaval after the Second Vatican Council:

“I think most of my contemporaries were doing the same thing that I was and pondering the same thoughts, maybe not as intensely, but they were certainly as aware of those theories as I was. There were many people in positions of authority in the church that were contemplating the inconsistencies, and a lot of them ran afoul of religious authority. This is of course something that had always occurred throughout the history of Christianity.

“I spoke with someone the other day that insisted on the importance of holding on to some permanently valid religious truth. I asked “And where might we hope to find that in the gospels of the New Testament, for example? Let me suggest something.”

Codex Vaticanus -- In Reearch for the Truth

“Go to the Vatican Library today and look at the oldest manuscript that we have of the New Testament, which is known as the Codex Vaticanus’, and was probably one of the bibles commissioned by Constantine. Another one to look at is in the British Library called codex Sinaiticus’ which was discovered in Mount Sinai at St. Catherine’s Monastery.

Look at those two texts, both from the 4TH century, and try to find the famous story of Jesus rescuing the lady who is being stoned for adultery in John’s Gospel Chapter 8. It is a very powerful story, but it is not contained in either of those manuscripts, which means that story was inserted into the text of the New Testament for the first time at least as late as the 4^th century if not later. I can give you a hundred other examples.”

(Above from SuperConsciousness Magazine Fall 2010 page 64)

IS THE JESUS STORY A COPYCAT OF THE BUDDHA STORY?

Extra (Not in the book).

 Similarities between Buddha and Jesus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Christianity

Also: From: http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2946

• Buddha was born of the virgin Maya, who was considered the “Queen of Heaven.”
• He was of royal descent and was a prince.
• At his birth appeared a “marvelous and powerful light.”
• After Buddha was born, a “slaughter of the infants was ordered by the tyrant Bimbasara…”
• When Buddha was a babe, a saint prophesied he would be great, as did Simeon concerning Christ (Lk 2:25-35).
• As a child he taught his teachers.
• Buddha was presented in the temple, where “the idols fell down before him.”
• He began his quest for enlightenment at age 29.
• He crushed a serpent’s head.
• Buddha was tempted by Mara, the evil one, who offered him “universal dominion.”
• Sakyamuni Buddha had 12 disciples and traveled about preaching.

• He reformed and prohibited idolatry, was a “sower of the word,” and preached “the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness.”

• He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men from a “small basket of cakes,” and helps a disciple walk on water.
• He preached a “sermon on the mount” and taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love, and the equality of all.
• He was transfigured on a mount.
• Buddha was received in his native city with a triumphal welcome.
• He was betrayed by a disciple, who led others to kill him.
• Some of his persecutors became his disciples.
• A tremendous earthquake occurred upon Buddha’s death.
• Buddha was crucified, suffered for three days in hell, and was resurrected.
• He ascended to Nirvana or “heaven.”
• Buddha was considered the “Good Shepherd,” the “Carpenter,” the “Infinite and Everlasting” and the “Great Physician.”
• He was the “Savior of the World” and the “Light of the World.”

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN KRISHNA  (around 1200 BC) AND JESUS

From:  http://freethoughtnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2946

• Krishna is an incarnation of the sun god Vishnu, who rises or awakens on the winter solstice.
• Krishna was born in a stable of the “virgin” Devaki (“Divine One”)
• He was of royal descent and was a prince.
• Krishna is the “King of the Yadus.”
• Like the cave-born Christ of tradition, Krishna was born in a “cave-like dungeon.”
• Upon birth, the baby Krishna, was placed in a “basket for winnowing corn; in other words, a manger.”
• Great signs and wonders occurred at Krishna’s birth, including the appearance of a bright star.
• His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was presented with gifts, including gold and incense.
• His foster father was in the city to pay taxes when Krishna was born.
• The hero-god was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of infants.
• The infant Krishna was carried across a river.
• As a young boy, he worked miracles and wonders, and was hailed as a divine incarnation. 
• He was worshipped by shepherds as a god.
• Krishna was “tempted” in the wilderness by “various fiends,” before crushing the serpent’s head.
• He raised a child from the dead and healed lepers, the deaf and the blind.
• Krishna preached faith “in God’s love to man and in his mercy and forgiveness of sins arising therefrom.”
• Krishna miraculously fed the multitudes.
• “He lived poor and he loved the poor,” humbly washing the feet of guests.
• Like Jesus, Krishna continually manifested his divinity and then denied it.
• He was transfigured in front of his disciples.
• Krishna was anointed with oil by a woman bearing a jar of ointment.
• Krishna had a beloved disciple named Arjuna or “Ar-jouan.”
• A fig or banyan tree figures prominently in Krishna’s myth, as the god is depicted approaching a fig tree, where he “utters a sort of parable.”
• Tradition holds that Krishna died after being shot in the foot while under a (fig) tree, leading to claims he was pinned against the tree by an arrow or “crucified.”
• After his death, he ascended to heaven, where he lives on.

Christ a superstition and a “fable”—Pope Leo X,  At a lavish Good Friday banquet in the Vatican in 1514. Raising a chalice of wine into the air, Pope Leo toasted:“How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.”  The pope’s pronouncement is recorded in the diaries and records of both Pietro Cardinal Bembo (Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X, 1842 reprint) and Paolo Cardinal Giovio (De Vita Leonis Decimi, , op. cit.), two associates who were witnesses to it. 

From: http://www.nairaland.com/372231/pope-leo-x-most-infamous

Later, Pope Paul III,  expressed similar sentiments, saying that there was no valid document to demonstrate the existence of Christ. He confessed that “Jesus never existed”, adding that he was “no other than the sun, adored in its Mithraic sect…” Court of Justice, Viterbo,  Italy : no 45/b http://www.luigicascioli.eu/traduzioni/en_proceso4.htm  (See last paragraph)

David Jenkins, a former Anglican Bishop of Durham and university professor, has stated that  “There is absolutely no certainty in the New Testament about anything of importance.” http://www.church.org.uk/resources/csdetail.asp?csdate=01/04/2007

Retired Episcopal Bishop says Hell is an invention of the church to control people with fear.He also said God doesn’t want you to grow up.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfuZqjFDT8

17 year advisor to the Pope exposes Bible Fraud and Forgery http://beyondallreligion.net/2011/08/28/advisor-to-the-pope-exposes-bible-fraud-and-forgery/

SHORT REVIEW OF “JESUS, INTERRUPTED”, by Samuel Butler 7/10/2010

Bart D. Ehrman, the author of “Jesus Interrupted, Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them”) (HarperCollins, 2009) was a fundamentalist evangelical Christian, who was certain that every word in the Bible had been inspired by God when he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, intending to become a Professor of the Bible.  49  As a seeker of truth, things did not turn out as he planned.  found in historical-critical bible study classes things that biblical scholars have unearthed in the last two hundred years that graduates that even go on to become pastors don’t and won’t mention in their sermons: That the authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works. That it contains books that were forged in the name of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later. Established Christian doctrines-such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity were inventions of still later theologians.

The idea that Jesus was divine was a later Christian invention found only in John, the last gospel, written some 60 years after the events described, and written by an unknown author. The raising of Lazurus from the dead, and the divinity of Jesus are not found in any of the other 3 gospels.  The belief that Jesus was God or divine was not the belief of Jesus’s earliest followers, nor of Jesus himself. Bart D. Ehrman now describes himself as “an agnostic scholar of the New Testament.”

You want details of the Crucifixions before Christ. Here are details of 16. Six would suffice to make the point that it was common for a “GOD” to be crucified :http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/chap16.html

“These things are clearer than the light to all men; and the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.”

Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X (Wittenberg, 6th September, 1520)

http://www.bartleby.com/36/6/1.html

Mormon Whistleblower:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/helen-radkey-mormon-baptisms-harassment-accusation_n_1333267.html

Interview with Helen Radkey

Post by Kathleen Waters about a Mormon Whistleblower on Huffington Post:

“Helen Radkey is the Mormon Karen Silkwood (Whistleblower on a nuclear plant exposing workers to radioactive plutonian -movie made staring Meryl Streep called “Silkwood”. -Author)……  Radkey has been publicizing their baptisms for the dead and the marrying of men to their mistresses in polygamy FOR YEARS. Mormons did not care until she stepped into a media spotlight and let the public know what they were up to. It is a violation of a standard of American culture to disrespect the wishes of the dead. Regular Americans do not desecrate graves or baptize people against their wishes (based on their lives we can know that). …..   This is an example. Another example of disrespect for the dead is the fact that Mormons took the remains from the Mountain Meadows Massacre to BYU for study. (Mormons massacred 120 men, women and children in an emigrant wagon train that they tricked into disarming on September 11, 1857 in Southern Utah –Author Samuel Butler-see his YouTube “Beyond All Religion”). That’s like Nazis taking the bodies of holocaust victims ‘for research.’ Where was the outrage there? I suspect it was paid to go away. The Mormons own the land upon which they committed mass murder and they control what is said about the massacre. There isn’t even a sign on the highway directing tourists to the site, should they care to pay their respects” ….

“Anagrammy
(under my real name Kathleen Waters)”

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”  ― Bishop Desmond Tutu

http://freethoughtnation.com/contributing-writers/74-barbara-g-walker/649-bible-morality-or-depravity.html

(Just a start: Compiled by Barbara G. Walker, author of Man Made God, et al.) for more, click the above URL or here: http://tinyurl.com/7uud77e).

1. KILLING.  (AS IN “THOU SHALT NOT”…???)

The biblical god personally kills a total of 371,186 people, not counting his slaughter of every living thing in Genesis 7. The biblical god also orders the killing of a total of 1,862,265.

Gen 22:2 - God accepts human sacrifices (including that of Jesus, later).
Ex 12:29 - God kills all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
Ex 15:3 - God is a god of war.
Ex 21:15, 17 - Anyone who strikes or curses a parent must be killed.
Ex 22:18 - Every witch must be killed.
Ex 22:19, 20 - You must kill anyone who “lieth with a beast,” or who worships any god other than Yahweh.
Ex 31:15 - Anyone who works on the Sabbath must be killed.
Lev 20:10, 13, 27 - You must kill adulterers, homosexuals, wizards and spirit mediums.
Lev 21:9 - Any priest’s daughter who fornicates must be burned alive.
Lev 24:16 - Blasphemers must be killed.
Num 16:27-33 - God caused the whole tribe of Korah — men, women, and children — to be buried alive.
Num 21:3 - God caused the destruction of all the Canaanites.
Num 31:7-35 - God orders Moses to kill the Midianites, making sure to slaughter not only the men but also the boys and females, except for the 32,000 virgin girls.

(the virgin girls were saved for the soldier killers, by God’s command-Samuel Butler)

While we are on the subject of religion, to be fair, I must add for balance purposes: The Bible is not peaceful. The Koran is not peaceful. The Buddhists in Tibet were not peaceful, the Mormons: “Slit their Throats”-said Brigham Young… A rabbi said “a million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail”.

The above said, let us move BEYOND ALL RELIGION, allowing the brilliant beacon of peace and truth to illuminate the world bringing love, tolerance and healing to all.

http://www.beyond all religion.net

For another SHOCKER:

HOW CHRISTIANITY WAS INVENTED IN 325 A.D. for political purposes.

Other pre-nicene “Early Christian” (Gnostic?) writings disagreed with each other,  were riddled with conflict and forgeries,  and had questionable and  confusing timing and origins. They were not coherent  enough for an organized religion. So the myth of Mithra, the Persian Savior God, was chosen by Emperor Constantine and Bishop Eusebius (“the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity”) as the model to create the new religion , Christianity.

http://acurseonalltheirhouses.net/2012/01/21/how-christianity-was-invented/

(Just a start. For more, click the about URL or click here: http://tinyurl.com/77mujpe)

Christianity is a copycat religion created by Emperor Constantine (for political purposes) based upon a myth (The Persian savior god Mithra, crucified 600 B.C. ?  400 B.C.?), which was based on other similar myths, all the way back to Chrishna of India (a mythical god that some claim was “crucified” around 1200 B.C.). There were 16 mythical crucifixions before Christ. The belief in the crucifixion of Gods was prevalent in various oriental or heathen countries long prior to the reported crucifixion of Christ.  Of the 16 crucifixions, most were born of a virgin and about half of them on December 25th.

There were too many religions in Rome in 325 A.D.  A Council was called in an endeavor to amalgamate the many religions of the Roman Empire into one.  Christianity plagiarized older myths and legends historicized to suit the Roman Catholic Church while combining the numerous religions existing at the time (Krishna, Horus, Mithraism, Osirian, Isis, and many other mystery religions).  For unity and to stop all the conflicts between the numerous religions…

Christianity was INVENTED.

For more-it’s in My new SPELL on All Their Houses book:

Website: http://beyondallreligion.net

A few examples of strange reality:

Believability can be catching, like a virus.

An unbelievable happening can lead you to be open to other beliefs that you normally wouldn’t consider believable.  An unbelievable event happened to me in a conference many years ago in Marin County.  A minister told us a story that, unbeknownst to his parishioners, he was under heavy sedation at San Rafael General Hospital on a Saturday night.

Later in the next week, a couple from Fairfax told him “That was a great conversation we had last Saturday night”.  The minister told the couple that that was impossible because I  was under sedation at San Rafael General Hospital.

They said no, that couldn’t be?  You talked to us for two hours. It was a great conversation, they insisted.  Not only that, another couple about 30 miles north in Novato told the minister  “That was a great conversation we had Saturday night.”  They also mentioned he had talked to them for about 2 hours.

Go figure: I believe the minister.  But that means that he teleported to two different places SIMULTANEOUSLY. Also it means that time is mysterious. Can we say he time-traveled here?

Now it gets worse.  At the same conference a guy said that he flipped his motorcycle, in front of a mack truck  and the mack truck’s tire was headed straight toward his head. He said that his whole life went before him.

Kind of skeptically, I guess, I said, “That’s interesting. Was it in technicolor?”  He said “Yes”  I said, “Tell me, was it from when you were a baby, up to that present moment?(on the pavement) or was it from that present moment to when you were a baby?”  He said, “It was from the present moment backward to when I was a baby”.  I said “Everything?”  He said “Everything.”

Go figure. If true, and I have no reason to think he was making this up, there is something weird about time.  It couldn’t have been more than fractions of a second or a second before the tire swerved and just missed him. So time can be compressed so that a lot of consciousness can fit into a short period of time. Others in accidents tell about time slowing down and things go into slow motion.

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda tells in Chapter 3 (“The Saint with Two Bodies”) about meeting in Banaras, when he was 12 years old,  with  Kedar Nath Babu, a person Paramahansa was supposed to contact on a business matter on behalf of  his father. His father told Paramahansa that another friend of his father,  Swami Pranabananda, would help him get in touch with Kedar Nath Babu.  Paramahansa was at the residence of the Swami, when  Kedar Nath Bagu appeared at the door of the Swami. He had been at the Ganges bathing when the Swami approached Kedar Nath Babu and told him of Paramahansa’s presence at the Swami’s residence.

This happened while  Paramahansa in the Swami’s residence, and while the Swami didn’t leave Paramahansa’s sight!  Swami Pranabananda said to Paramahansa “Why are you so stupefied at all this? The subtle unity of the phenomenal world is not hidden from true yogis. I instantly see and converse with my disciples in distant Calcutta.  They can similarly transcend at will every obstacle of gross matter.” 

There are other examples of what I would call teleportation in Autobiography of a Yogi.

Shirley Maclaine.. and Film Materializations http://sathyasaibabaji.blogspot.com/2005/07/shirley-maclaine-and-film.html

Shirley Maclaine, film star, spiritual teacher, political activist, was a guest on the Larry King Show.  She told his audience that her friend Richard Bock had gone to India to film Sai Baba. This is very difficult since Baba discourages publicity. Bock ran out of a color film while in India.. a film which could only be purchased in California. Baba excused himself from the room a moment… and came back with a film store bag which said Beverly Hills Camera Shop. A receipt was stapled to it. Inside was color film.

After he returned to California, Bock went to the shop where a clerk told him that on the day in question a man in an orange robe and Afro had come in to purchase the film, and had not waited for change.

Sai Baba 1927-2011

I heard another story about a ring that Sai Baba gave to someone and it had Tiffany’s inscribed inside it. When the person got to New York, he went into Tiffany’s and asked who bought this ring, and they said “you wouldn’t believe who bought this ring!”…. and described a man in an orange robe and Afro.

We have a personal friend, Suzanne,  that went to Sai Baba’s ashram and witnessed physical manifestations.

My wife Karen lived in India seven years as a student with a classical art major, met Mother Teresa twice, and was about to marry a young Indian man, but was somewhat worried about his dominant mother. She woke up from a dream where  Sai Baba appeared in white silk robe and she could feel the pressure of his hand on her left shoulder.  Actually for some time later during that day she continued to feel the pressure of his hand.  She took that as a message that she shouldn’t marry the young man, mainly because of the potential mother-in-law. THANK you, Sai Baba!

A TURNING POINT:   An Insane Night in the Basement of Children’s Hospital in San Francisco.  I was a logical “show-me- the-evidence” analytic type person in 1970.  After all, at University at Berkeley, my major was economics with a minor in mathematics.  BORING.  No spirituality or thinking outside the box there.

In that basement of Children’s Hospital in San Francisco everything changed after that.  At that time I was a commercial real estate broker, working as a Vice President for United States Real Estate Corporation which had offices in the Bank of America World Headquarters in San Francisco.  I had an offer on some commercially zoned land across from the Lake Tahoe Airport owned by a doctor in Palo Alto, 45 miles away.

I called the doctor and said “I have an offer on your land and I wanted to come down to Palo Alto and present the offer to you.”  He said “You don’t have to drive down,  because I am coming up tonight to a meeting in the basement of Children’s Hospital in San Francisco and you can present it to me there.

Like a good broker, I showed up 15 minutes early and sat in a chair outside the large room where the meeting was to be held.  People in white uniforms were showing up and I noticed an air of excitement. A nurse came up to me and excitingly asked me “are you Alexander Everett?” I said no, and wondered who the heck Alexander Everett was.

The doctor from Palo Alto was late, so I sat in the back of the room filled with doctors and nurses in front.  Alexander, a very impressive man,  explained the power of the alpha level of brain frequency, and said that by making your brain go to the alpha level, which I recall was 7 to 11 cycles per second, you can do amazing things.

As a demonstration, Alexander had a 17 year old boy with no medical training diagnose patients known to members of the audience. The only information the kid was given was the patient’s age, name and location.  Then this 17 year old kid from Laredo,Texas would close his eyes and go to the alpha level and “scan” the body of the patient, and would use medical terms giving his diagnosis.

After each diagnosis, Alexander would ask the doctor or nurse if that was accurate, and invariably the answer was “yes, that is correct”. There were many diagnoses and the answer was always that the diagnosis was correct.  Amazingly, one doctor asked the 17 year old if the patient was going to live or die from the particular problem, because the patient was the doctor’s mother! (she was in Switzerland, I recall)

I thought to myself that this was the weirdest thing that I had ever seen.

I did present the offer to the doctor who came up from Palo Alto, 45 miles away, and the next day when I went back to work in the Bank of America building I told one of the girls there about this amazing demonstration by Alexander Everett, who had learned this technique from Dr. José Silva in Laredo, Texas.

Alexander Everett, Author– “The Genius Within You  (1921–2005)

A couple of weeks later, the girl told me “you know the guy you told me about, Alexander Everett?  He is coming toSan Francisco and is going to give training on the alpha technique.  Of course, I signed up when he started the training, which was called “Mind Dynamics”. I learned the technique to get your mind to the alpha level, using the colors of the rainbow, and numbers declining from 7 to 1.

At the end of the training there was a graduation exercise where you were supposed to diagnose a person at a distance. I sat across from a lady who gave me a name, age and location of an individual who was 8000 miles away in the Philippines.  I closed my eyes and scanned the body, and I said, “I can’t see anything on his right arm beyond about the elbow.”  I heard a gasp from the lady sitting opposite.  She said “I was seeing if you could catch the minor ear operation he had recently.” She then told me that he had a withered right arm since he was a child, and it was so natural to her, that she didn’t even think of that.

Alexander was a teacher of teachers, and is known at the father of the human potential movement.  He had instructors who went on to teach others.One was Stuart Emory, from Australia, who taught “Actualizations” , which I took later.  Another was John Hanley, who started “Lifespring” and I took both the basic and the advanced courses.

Was this a turning point?  In steroids!

I became a “seminar junkie”. (But not taking est,  presented by Werner Erhard, who, after  investigating,  I determined to be pretty much a con man)

I was there when one of Alexander’s instructor, Werner Erhard,  announced  he was forming est,  Erhard Seminar Training). There were about 2000 people in the room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and here is an instructor announcing he is splitting off and forming his own awareness training.

In the lobby during a break, I asked Alexander “ What do you think about this person right under your nose forming his own training outside of yours?”  Alexander said “First there is the idea, then people start worshipping the person who has the idea, then they make images of the person who had the idea, then they build edifices to the person, then they create rituals around the person who had the idea, and then, people forget what the idea was.”

Alexander was the most spiritual person that I ever met.

While teaching at Pendragon Preparatory School that Alexander Everett founded in Sussex, England,  Alexander  contracted polio, and was told by his physicians that he would never walk again. Everett believed that he healed himself using the Unity School of Christianity’s “prayer of faith”.  After being a millionaire from England, he gave it all up and went the spiritual quest, going to India, Egypt and Greece.

Later Everett went to Texas and formed and coached a soccer team in Fort Worth.  During their first three years of existence, the team dominated their competition and never lost a single game (including a 3-1 Texas championship win in Houston in the Astrodome.  When he was in Texas, he met Dr. José Silva and learned the alpha technique from Silva, who had formed Silva Mind Control (another seminar that I took).  Although he had previously gone on the spiritual path of non-material emphasis, when I knew him he drove a Mercedes and was always impeccably dressed!

He made a turning point in my life, tipping me into spirituality and thinking outside the box.  I am indebted to and happy about that insane night at the basement of Children’s Hospital in San Francisco.  When you become aware of normally unbelievable extra-ordinary events , it opens you up to the belief in other “unbelievable” possibilities that you normally wouldn’t even consider. Like a virus, it’s catching.

Samuel Butler7/7/2011

Website : http://tinyurl.com/4na5zpv

Author: Book: http://tinyurl.com/4xyjh6r

Personal example of Viral Believability:

Mars Anomaly Research Society

Having experiences myself and acknowledging the experiences of others mentioned above, I was made more open to the mind boggling information presented at a conference on time travel given at Kona, Hawaii in June 2011 http://tinyurl.com/44xnywh where Andrew Basiago told awesome personal experiences in Project Pegasus.

There was a remarkable story about Andrew on Major U.S. Media on January 4th, 2012:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45878146/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.TwaoFdT9MV

Without my previous unbelievable experiences, I would not have been ready to accept what he said. (He spoke for two hours in detail about travel back in time and later being teleported for the CIA to Mars. I know you are probably unbelieving because you probably haven’t had enough personal unbelievable experiences). Then he answered questions without hesitations for one hour.

Look Andrew Basiago up on Facebook:  Mars Anomaly Research.

Also at the conference: Laura Magdalene Eisenhower

http://www.projectpegasus.net/ , and Laura Eisenhower said her great grandfather, Dwight D., as President  met separately with two groups of  E.T.’s . in California.

By Samuel Butler 03/31/11

When I was a commercial real estate broker, I was involved in a large land transaction, later completed on a property in Marin County,California.  My interested party in the purchase was Bruce Connor, associated with the Howard S. Wright Corporation of Seattle, a huge and important developer. They built the Space Needle in Seattle.

Bruce told me the following story.  Bruce went to Rome with a friend, and while he was there, his friend went to the Vatican, where his friend had a personal friend in the Holy See, which acts and speaks for the whole Catholic Church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See

When Connor’s friend came back from the Holy See, he told my client Connor, “THEY MURDERED THE POPE!”. Connor was told that there was no autopsy, no time of death, and a deep mystery.

His friend told Connor that the Pope couldn’t handle the job, and there is only one way to go if you are Pope and can’t handle the job. The Pope only served as Pope for 33 days.  It was that simple. He couldn’t handle the job, and he couldn’t resign. At that time, 1978, the Pope was supposedly infallible on dogmatic statements. It would be strange to have an “infallible” Pope resign.

The Pope was John Paul I. He lasted only 33 days. He chose the first double name in the history of the papacy.

I later did research on this and found that this “humble” and “smiling” Pope , as he was known from Venice, far from being a pushover for the hierarchy of the Church, wanted to:

1.  Fire the Cardinal of Chicago
2.  Re-open birth control
3.  Personally investigate the Vatican Bank

He was poisoned.

1. There was no time of death stated.
2. There was no autopsy.
3. There still is no death certificate to this day

There were 6 suspects to the murder.

One was Roberto Calvi,  Chairman of the “Vatican Bank”, and known as “God’s Banker”, and one was Paul Marcinkus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Marcinkus , who was President of the “ Vatican Bank” at the time of the Pope’s mysterious death. It turned up later that 1.3 billion dollars vanished in the later collapse of  that bank.  It ended up that five of the 6 suspects died under mysterious circumstances.  For example, Roberto Calvi committed suicide inLondon, after missing fromMilan,Italy for 9 days, by going to theBlackfiarsBridge inLondon, climbing to the underneath of it and putting a rope around his neck to hang himself!

The sole survivor of the six suspects after a period of time turned out to be coincidentally enough, the head of the Vaticanbank, Paul Marcinkus, who died inSun City,Arizona  onFebruary 20, 2006.

There is a book about this, the murder of this Pope, John Paul I, I found in my research. It’s called “In God’s Name”, by David Yallop, a world-wide best seller.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Name-Investigation-into-Murder/dp/1845294963

Having written a book about all four of the main religions supporting Violence, Intolerance, and Even War, this article shows one of the religions had MURDER within its own structure, AT THE TOP, including even within the last 33 years.

There’s more: Other Popes who have been murdered. From wikipedia: List of 10 Popes who allegedly have been murdered. Five of them by poisoning.  http://tinyurl.com/3mu33zd

Also, according to this, http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/mo-death.htm, Muhammad also died of being poisoned (by a Jewish woman).  Intrigue and politics and power plays are not so unusual in the Church.  One time there were 3 popes! Yes, three at the same time (sometimes the “other Popes” were called “Anti-Popes”.)

Why give your power away

1.  How many men did God kill because someone decided to peek into the ark of the Lord?

Correct Answer: B. (50,070) “And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter” (1 Samuel 6:19).

2.  How many men did Moses kill in one day because they failed to say they supported God?

Correct Answer: D. (3,000) “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men” (Exodus 32:26-28). 

3.  How many people did God kill in a plague before someone pleased God by ending a mixed marriage with the murder of the couple?

Correct Answer: C. (24,000)  ”And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israelinto the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand ” (Numbers 25:6-9).

4.  How many animals did Solomon kill in a sacrifice to please the Lord?

Correct Answer: D. (120,000 sheep and 22,000 oxen) Correct Answer: D (120,000 sheep and 22,000 oxen) “And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offering, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israeldedicated the house of the Lord” (1 Kings 8:63).

5.  How many Israelites did God deliver to the people of Judah to slaughter?

Correct Answer: B. (Half a million)  ”Then the men of Judahgave a shout: and as the men of Judahshouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israelbefore Abijah and Judah. And the children of Israelfled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israelfive hundred thousand chosen men. Thus the children of Israelwere brought under at that time, and the children of Judahprevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers” (2 Chronicles 13:15-18).

6.  Notwithstanding the above, how many people of Judah were once killed or enslaved because they didn’t give God his due?

Correct Answer: A. (120,000 valiant men were killed and 200,000 women and children were taken as slaves (not to mention the theft of property.)) “For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew inJudahan hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. . . . And the children ofIsraelcarried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them.” (2 Chronicles 28:6-8).

7.  How many Ethiopians did God kill for His chosen people?

Correct Answer: B. (One million)  ”And Asa had an army of men . . . And there came out against them Zera the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand . . . Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power, help us, O Lord our God . . . So the Lord smote the Ethiopians” (2 Chronicles 14:8-12).

8.  Speaking of God’s chosen people, how many kings were maimed in God’s name?

Correct Answer: D. (70 had their thumbs and big toes cut off.) “And they found Abonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and Perizzites. But Abonibezek fled; and they pursued after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Abonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me” (Judges 1:5-7).

9. How many soldiers did God burn to death with fire from Heaven because they confronted Elijah?

Correct Answer: D. (150 (three sets of 50))  ”And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. Again also he sent unto him another captain . . . And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty . . . And he sent again a captain of the third fifty . . . Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties ” (2 Chronicles1:10-14).

10. By the time God gets through with his killing spree, how many dead will there be?

Correct Answer: D. (Enough to cover the entire surface of the Earth.) “And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried, they shall be dung upon the ground ” (Jeremiah 25:33). 

Could it be that all organized religion is an addiction, and like a fishnet, and once the fishnet is over you, and you get involved,  it is hard to break free?

I prefer the Ten Humanist Commandments  http://www.moralitywithoutreligion.com/commandments.htm
found in my book  http://tinyurl.com/4xyjh6r

“As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?” (1 Cor. 14:33b-36 NIV).
Why did St Paul say that? Why?

The short answer: HE DIDN’T. Someone pretending  to be Paul said that, lying.
From March 27, 2011 Daily Mail (UK) See http://preview.tinyurl.com/4fumoaj