AGE  OF  REALITY
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Thomas Jefferson

"Ignorance is preferable to error;
and he is less remote from the Truth
who believes nothing, than he
   who believes what is a wrong."   

November 23, 2008

 

          Thomas Jefferson had encountered great difficulty in the establishment of the first University in American that was not church/religiously sponsored or related.  He obviously had the properly conceived notion that in the presence of religions with their consistent and doggedly insistence that the truth lies only within those narrowly defined tenets of its own mythological faith, it would be virtually impossible to achieve a true atmosphere of free thought and new discovery.  That far more than noble effort of Thomas Jefferson resulting in the founding of the University of Virginia was the quintessential essence of that ideal socio-political circumstance where there would exist a distinct separation of the church and its mostly conservative ideologies from that of a modern civil state that rightly fosters individual achievement and growth over which there should be NO moral authority.  Only in that ideal of circumstances would it be at all possible to actually have what is aptly called freedom of religion wherein every single individual remains equally imbued with the freedom to pursue the truth according to his own beliefs and personals needs.  As a great man of letters, I am very confident that Thomas Jefferson, in the light of modern day knowledge and scientific realities, would be amusingly appalled at the present state of affairs where so many individuals still so blindly hold fast to these embellished religious mythologies that have been so totally challenged and dispelled by modern discoveries and science dramatically beginning with those far-reaching theories of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and that were so dramatically confirmed by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) with his masterful and most timely invention and use of the telescope to further explore and comprehend the vast scope of our universe.  For Galileo's courageous contribution to the knowledge of his day that we were NOT the center of the universe and therefore most likely not the singular focus of creation, he was hastily placed under 'house arrest' by the head of the Catholic Church, and that atrocious and malign decree was only lifted in the last decade of the Twentieth Century, some three hundred and fifty years after his death.  Reality has not changed in its essence from the very first time that man began to explore his ever-expanding universe; the difficulty lies with man's ability or inability to successfully and realistically integrate his antiquated mythologies with the hard sciences of our modern times.  The beginning of any age of mankind is appropriately marked not with just the simple discovery of some undiscovered reality that had always existed, but most appropriately when the tangible fruits of that revelation or discovery have actually entered the mainstream of mankind's day-to-day world.  From our own Western culture perspective, the singular event that might well mark the beginning of this great Age of Reality could possibly be focused on Pope John Paul II, when on October 31, 1992, the Vatican 'revisited' its initial indictment of Galileo's confirmation of Copernicus' take on our universe's heavenly bodies and their actual relationship to earth.  Mankind and his innate noble spirit, has for too long, been held totally captive of these archaic and notoriously oppressive religions and their often-time radical leaders who too frequently subjugate that very loving nature that every individual man and woman should be equally and universally heir to. We are so very fortunate to be living in an age of such magnanimous discovery.  In most every instance mankind continues to challenge the spiritual impact of these discoveries and in too few cases might even be able to successfully dispel many of those conservatively held points of view.  There is in reality nothing new under our own life-giving sun and mankind has only to accept and broaden his fundamental knowledge of what is already most evident in nature.  Mankind is fortuitously leaving the very infancy of his spirituality and with this immerging maturity mankind is entering this most progressive Age of Reality, most notably with or without the blessings of many of our world religions.  These multitude of spiritually oppressive churches, temples, and mosques need not be totally dismissed or even left behind in the dust of discovery; they should, however, all come clean about the bogus claims of their mythologies and truly become more spiritually relevant to the real needs of their congregations.  I would suppose that this metamorphose could be easily achieved by simply redefining their various spiritual and social roles to reflect an ideology that truly and sincerely fosters the love and acceptance of all mankind as well as the infinitely magnanimous beauty of this naturally occurring diversity of mankind that has been manifested in this wonderful Garden of Eden.  This great diversity also carries with it the reality that not all individuals will posses either the desire or ability to recognize and accept the fundamental precepts of this wonderfully freeing age; they are equally free to experience their own life's joy in any manner they see fit.  To those individuals who are freed by the truth of this fundamental end I most humbly dedicate these six modest treatises, that in each instance and in their own unique manner affirmatively proclaim that mankind has already embarked on that arduous journey that will eventually bring us entirely into this wonderful AGE OF REALITY.

                    J. Lamah Walker
                                                                       The Freedom Seeker

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