Germanic Mythology and Game

Posted on September 28, 2012 by ehurst

This is hardly a scholarly treatise, more of a characterization based on broad observations of how things work. It’s short so you can extrapolate with your own intelligence.
Post-Modern Western society is largely founded on Greco-Roman intellectual assumptions mixed with tribal Germanic mythology. The resulting cultural mythology of our time offers something foreign to the world of the Bible. So, for example, almost everything you read about Game Theory excludes the biblical image of shepherd manhood. Not fundamentally, but it’s excluded because the applications are necessarily dominated by Western stereotypes, drawn from what society produces through its mythology. It’s entirely possible to fall outside the standard hierarchies, but difficult if you remain wedded to Western intellectual assumptions.
Germanic mythology broadly describes men through the image of the storm god. The typical man is distant, self-absorbed and dangerous. He can be friendly, engaging and generous when he’s in the mood, but it won’t last long. He’ll sober up, get bored, etc., then rage and destroy and take off again on some adventure. Women are the earth goddess. As your mother, she’s always there for you, reliable and safe, though possessed of her own moods, hard in her own ways.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to discern where this feeds into our Post-Modern feminist mythology. Scripture leaves no doubt the good and loving God is masculine, and most pagan cultures reverse this. The Bible does not make women evil, but it avoids allowing them dominance. Feminine dominance is the mark of the Fall, when Eve made an executive spiritual decision, and Adam went along with it. We aren’t told why he did, only that he did, and are left with the enduring impression it was wrong.
The false dichotomy of self-absorbed dad and magical mom is all wrong, of course. Under the Laws of God, it is the power of man’s obedience which brings the real “magic” of blessings from God. Not obedience to women’s wishes and ideals, but he wisely takes them into consideration as he obeys God.
We are left reading Game Theory almost entirely from a Western feminist approach, and the standard characters in the hierarchy end up almost entirely a Western artifact. It works; it reflects current reality. But it does not bring you that much closer to God’s ideals. So if you truly intend to walk in the fullness of obedience to God’s Laws, you’ll have to move beyond the current discussions of Game.

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The Logic of Rejecting Mainstream Churches

Posted on September 28, 2012 by ehurst

For all my religious blather, I don’t attend any regular church. We host worship in our home. I don’t like the isolation, but I don’t see any realistic alternative. Besides, the churches won’t let me stay around very long, once they find out what I believe. I’ve given up trying, until I run across one which knows and invites me anyway. Meanwhile…
1. So long as any religious organization is founded on Western intellectual assumptions, they cannot possibly read Scripture aright. The Bible is a Hebrew document, written entirely from Hebrew intellectual assumptions. (This is not the same as Jewish or Judaism.) They don’t have to get the same answers I do, but they can’t insist on traditional Western answers, either.
2. Because of this very faulty worldview applied to Scripture, most churches do not understand what defines a Christian, much less what constitutes a church. Virtually everything modern Western churches do misses the point. Overtly liberal Western churches aren’t Christian by any standard, except something in their wild imaginations and perhaps a historical legacy of having once held a genuine interest in following Christ. Progressives assume the whole thing is sentiment and emotional comfort, and deny the entire spiritual plane. Evangelicals and Conservatives are simply variations on the new Pharisaism. They embrace the errors of Judaism (see link above) — a predominance of literalism, and a confusion of the Two Realms.
3. A major element in confusion is the spiritual status of individuals. Scripture makes it painfully obvious you cannot know the spiritual status of any other person, but people whose spirits are alive can know it for themselves. Spiritual birth in others can be guessed via two primary features: (1) a sensitivity to the demands of God’s Word and (2) the reflexive fondness for other Christians (however expressed). Without those two, I am not required to regard anyone as a fellow Christian.
However, the most obvious frame of reference is penitence. The gospel call is to repent. We repent from sins as indicated by the Laws of God, as taught by Jesus. We understand Him best from the ancient Hebrew mindset. People who repent, even if only in their sentiments, are to be encouraged and helped along the path. That many people do manage to repent and change their lives by God’s power says more about God than the effectiveness of any church or religious organization.
Nothing else really matters.
Until I see a church which resembles or strives toward the clan structure of the New Testament churches, and makes a point of embracing the ancient Hebrew teachings, it’s not really a church.

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Progressive Folly

Posted on September 27, 2012 by ehurst

One of the biggest mistakes we make is underestimating human adaptability. A much bigger mistake is assuming you can steer that adaptation on a large scale.
It never ceases to amaze me how Progressives get this backward. They have no trouble referring to human shortcomings, so long as you don’t apply such understanding to their noble selves. They’ll castigate any number of individuals for a long standard list of moral failures. Yet, they somehow imagine they are wise enough to formulate a valid plan of action to correct human truculence on the broader scale. I suppose that’s in part because they refuse to recognize their own truculence. It’s always justified one way or another.
Virtually every progressive solution has failed, miserably, publicly and often more spectacularly than the grandness of their efforts. But they always blame the people involved who refused to change at the snapping of their fingers. It’s really odd the faith they have in human adaptability — “anyone can figure this out” — but they insist all it takes is a little more education. In other words, none of us is more than a lump of clay in their capable hands. That there could ever be something in human nature which cannot possibly be fixed is a heresy in their minds.
Yes, we ought to raise a high moral standard, but ought also be wholly unsurprised when any significant portion of any population won’t embrace it. There are factors in human character which cannot ever be accounted for in the sense that it could be something you’d resolve with enough effort. Man can be manipulated until he knows about it, suspects it, or simply imagines it falsely. Sometimes not even then. Flee from fools who say, “There ought to be a law…”
The social sciences are not pointless, because humans tend to be predictable in some ways. But those sciences only go so far. Pushing too far makes you a fool. This is why I opposed anyone using a personality inventory unless they know enough to write their own. A part of any realistic moral standard is preparing for failure of adoption. Never assume you understand why any particular individual opts out. At least one-third of the questions on, say, the Myers-Briggs Assessment infuriate me in forcing me to choose an option which simply does not fit me. I do not fit into their nasty little matrix, but idiots will presume I’m simply suffering an attitude problem. Even if they are correct, it still invalidates their matrix, because I know what most of the questions are trying to prove, and I can make the assessment say almost anything I want. Other similar assessment tools are worse. They do fine when you want to get a feel for populations, but only the most shallow and thoughtless portion of humanity will fit into their assessment matrix. Do you really want to promote that kind of thing?
Worst of all, most assessment matrices tend to steer people into a frame of reference which may not actually be honestly where they are. This is probably the biggest abuse charge I can level at psychometrists, as the majority have far too much progressive self-assurance they can solve the world’s problems if everyone could be forced to take their little tests. What’s the Type for an arrogant know-it-all who wants to force others to fit their elegant dreams? Who are willing to promote hatred and random bloodshed in order to promote their vision? Sounds like a psychopath to me. It’s the same crap we face when you hear about such wonderful movements as “stop slut-shaming” or “make guys more sensitive” or any number of other demands we all agree to force some group or agency do something which simply cannot be forced.
In the end, it all falls well under the umbrella of Western materialism. People aren’t allowed to be people, whereas Scripture promotes the idea everyone should be encouraged to take their own path before the Lord, because the human soul is the only part of Creation which will outlast Creation. Most of the various assessment tools, both for groups and individuals, are anti-Christian abominations.

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Sick Day

Posted on September 26, 2012 by ehurst

She apologized. “I’m sorry; we’re bothering you.”
My reply almost made her laugh. “Don’t worry about it. Right now being alive bothers me.”
We thought it would be a safe choice, but Mazzio’s gluten-free pizza never digested yesterday. I wasn’t aware of this, and ate another meal on top of it. Unfortunately, the entire digestive system had already shut down. I was up half the night, and even now my tummy still hurts. Pepto-Bismol is my friend.
While I work directly for God, He insists I self-manage. So I’m giving myself the day off. Maybe I’ll be a bit more creative later, but right now, everything hurts and I can scarcely pay attention.

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Handling Self-Doubt

Posted on September 25, 2012 by ehurst

This would be a HOWTO, except I’m not sure how much applies to other folks. This is simply how I handle it.
It’s possible I’m completely delusional about God. That is, I can’t prove to even my own satisfaction what I know about Him, and how I interact with Him. By no means is there any shred of doubt about His existence, but I grant it’s pretty hard to nail down from these many centuries later how the original crew in the Bible heard from Him. What’s in doubt here is me.
The way to handle self-doubt is to work from things for which there is no doubt. For example, I find the biblical Laws unshakable. That is, when properly approached from a Hebrew Mystical analysis, what I read in the Bible as the fundamental morality of Creation works as claimed. It works for me so consistently you can’t get me to question it. However much of modern Western morality dimly reflects something in the Bible, I don’t fight it. Reading over my posts, you’d realize there’s precious little overlap between Western mythology and biblical assumptions about reality, but there is a some — just a little. But sometimes people deeply wedded to the West do stumble across the truth. Thus, I endorse the basic ideas behind Game, but precious little of the application. To the degree Game reflects the biblical understanding of human nature, I’m fine with that.
Thus, the one sure thing in my life is God’s Laws and the Hebrew mystical outlook. That’s the touchstone of reality, the infallible element in my world.
So if, say, none of my prophetic warnings pan out, I would plead insanity. There was no intent to deceive. Not only did I avoid profiting from those declarations, but pointedly prevented profit. I’ve turned aside several advisers trying to help me make money off my writings. If I can’t give it away for free, I refuse to be involved. There may well be a free mobi download version, but it won’t appear on the Kindle library offerings, because Amazon insists it must sell for no less than US $0.99. Nor would you likely sense I’m trying to steer policy so as to profit indirectly. All I’ve done is warn people and let them choose. If what I have to say doesn’t strike you as self-evident, please ignore me. Thus, if my prophetic statements don’t pan out, only a Western legalist would insist on stoning me; just dismiss me as a crazy crank and get on with your life. I’m actually quite harmless.
What of the opposite possibilities? Should my warnings come quite literally true, I actually dread the vague possibility of cultic attention. I don’t want to be famous. I’ve come close enough on the small scale in a couple of communities to find I’m very uncomfortable with that kind of attention. I hold the greatest contempt for the system which makes idiots into stars, buries the real genius of true artists, and demands the worst from the best of human talent. In this world, as it now is, the least bit of attention from the masses makes it extremely hard to avoid manipulation and corruption. The deception seems so overwhelming, top to bottom, so pervasive we should fear any attention at all. The world system is utterly untrustworthy. It’s not so much there is virtue in obscurity and anonymity, but that what we have is completely broken, insufferably false across the board.
That would be the whole point. When I say the Laws as I’ve tested them are infallible, I am suggesting something so alien, so radically different from what we now have, a little self-doubt is frankly normal.

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Ready and Not

Posted on September 24, 2012 by ehurst

Being a Christian Mystic is hardly a matter of absolute truth, nor simply saying, “I have encountered God, and I am forever changed.” Those are true, but miss the point. What matters here is I am in contact with God right now. Yes, there is a lot behind me, changes more than I could catalog in writing anywhere. More importantly, those things are out the way, and I have a much more open communion with the Spirit and His Realm.
As I checked Facebook and waded through my early reading links this morning, at least a half-dozen articles and blog posts passed through my mind. With all the other ideas to which those are connected, I might have at any time two dozen different things I could write about. Most of them I’ve written at least once already, and the rest have been written even better by someone else. That there are so many simply reflects the differences in those who provoke the thoughts. They differ only in the cognitive path I’d have to take to get from where someone else is to where I have to go. There was a time I might not have an answer to some rhetorical assault or riposte, but it’s been a really long time since I ran into that. Hardly would I claim to know it all; I claim what I cannot answer is really not my problem. More importantly, no matter where you start the conversation, I end up at the same place. In that sense, it all runs together.
This is not some intellectual idyll. It’s more an existential peace, because it includes an awareness of things no one can verbalize in any way. My existence has been expanded beyond the horizons of any human awareness, such that dying in this realm is no threat. I’m quite ready to try the alternative to life on this plane. But I know I don’t have divine permission for that yet. I’m still here, and if my health continues on this high level of fitness, there’s a potential of being here for quite some time to come. There’s nothing of the claim, “I’ve arrived!” I’m just getting started good on this path.
To arrive in any sense would require dying.
You may have read somewhere some former State Department official has been predicting Israel will be starting WW3 in the next 48 hours from the time I write this. Perhaps they will try; I’m sure they’ve been hoping to do it for quite some time. In one sense, I’m getting tired of the suspense. Could we hurry up and get this stupidity over with? This bogus tension is wearing thin, and I’m in need of some fresh entertainment. How about some mass slaughter of innocent lives all at once?
I hope your sarcasm detector is working. About the only good I can see is perhaps I’ll finally find out whether my prophetic gift is worth anything at all. I’ll be able to see if the Lord really intends to wipe out the US troops attacking Iran, in any sense which matches the prophetic word I received a couple of years ago. Whether it be Iranians or US-Israelis, I’m not eager for blood and suffering. I’m also not eager for what such a thing would bring here at home, because it almost surely means you, too, dear reader, will suffer in some way.
I’m ready, but I’m not ready.

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Passages 4

Posted on September 23, 2012 by ehurst

I had almost swallowed the bite in my mouth when his hand swept in a broad arc across the table. The backside of that hand struck me in the face, knocking me backward in the chair, into the floor, the force rolling me out of the chair.
That sort of thing happened often enough I wasn’t all that surprised. So the lingering emotions don’t really attach too strongly to the physical abuse itself, but a peripheral issue. The taste in my mouth was hamburger steak overly seasoned with garlic (and a little overcooked, too). It was a frequent dish in our household long past my departure. I had come to hate that taste already, and smothered in ketchup it still came through. In essence, my parents seemed to take offense at the very notion I wouldn’t love that taste. The backhanded blow was most likely yet another attempt to enforce the idea I must love that taste, or more such punishment would follow.
Today, I hate the taste of garlic on hamburger patties. Mixed Italian seasoning would be fine, but simply adding garlic by itself (okay, with black pepper and salt) triggers the powerful emotions of a young child beaten hatefully by a father who didn’t allow independent thought.
As I said, it’s not the abuse, but the feelings attach themselves to the taste. I get viscerally angry when it encounter it again. But I don’t lash out; I can’t.
Indeed, I am one who tends to feel a pretty murderous hatred for those who feel a murderous hatred toward “abusive parents”. That is, while I don’t defend the abuse, I do defend the person as a human deserving of some consideration as to what makes them act stupid. I am fully aware of how things in our past can build into our personalities truly insane maladjusted behaviors. You have no idea what those people went through, so you can’t judge without pointing even more fingers back at yourself.
In other words, the single greatest social irritation sticking in my craw is rush to judgment and the shallow thinking which causes it.
So when we have, say, the FBI investigate someone who posts a sarcastic message about the President, expressing the wish he might die in some unpleasant fashion, I become viscerally angry. What sort of reading comprehension problem do we have here? What sort of truculent, evil stupidity would bring them to that man’s door? This isn’t simple ignorance, but a malicious determination to be so utterly stupid they are an insult to the dirt on which they tread. If this is how our federal protectors act — God help us! We are doomed. The Keystone Kops could commit terrorist acts and such an FBI would fail to stop them.
That’s the sort of thing which makes me taste burnt garlic burgers again.

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Habakkuk: Introduction and Chapter 1

Posted on September 22, 2012 by ehurst

Introduction
We know almost nothing of the prophet Habakkuk. From the text itself and from historical context, we can deduce he probably served as a Levite musician, writing his prophecy at the end of Josiah’s reign, or shortly thereafter. He seems aware of Babylon’s rise to defeat Assyria in 612 BC, but not the defeat of Egypt at Carchemish in 605. Josiah’s policy of support for Babylon would make their invasion shocking from Habakkuk’s perspective.
This tiny, yet richly poetic narrative, describes a conversation with God. The prophet tries to understand God’s long suffering over sin, and His holiness and divine purpose in calling Israel. How can God use evil for His holy purpose? The final solution to this puzzle is a grand psalm complete with musical notation for worship.
Chapter 1
Hebrew writing is often condensed, in the sense common expressions and symbolic images substitute for much longer comments. Often the question itself implies an answer not obvious to the modern Western reader. Thus, the parabolic expressions leave us confused because we often lack the background a prophet reasonably assumed his readers would have.
Habakkuk knows the Covenant as rediscovered during the time of Josiah, long forgotten during his grandfather Manasseh’s reign. As a Levite it would have been his duty to teach the Law in conferences held throughout the Kingdom of Judah. He understands the divine calling on the Nation of Israel, how they are to live the Law and thus reveal God and His truth. They do not; it’s painfully obvious to anyone. The legacy of Manasseh’s gross idolatry still infests the common people everywhere he goes. The old idolatry habits seem intractable, and the Law seems foreign, and they can scarcely be restrained from the evil ways taught by false deities. How does Jehovah put up with this?
God’s reply implies a full awareness of Judah’s sins. Indeed, His patience is gone. He warns the entire nation to pay attention, as they are about to experience something unimaginable. The distant empire they supported, Babylon, that horrifying threat to all in her path, would come to invade and discipline the people of God as His rod of wrath. They will experience for themselves first hand just how awful a sinful nation can be. The infamous siege mounds will be built against the walls of Jerusalem.
Bad as Israel has been, she was nothing like Babylon. So Habakkuk wonders aloud how God could use something so awful against His own people. He justly characterizes Babylon as a fisherman who casts his net into the world fully stocked with fish. Having eaten all he could hold, he keeps fishing for the sheer evil pleasure of tossing them on the bank to die. Habakkuk is aware God has a Law for other nations, too, as recorded in the revelation to His people. Are they not also held accountable before Him?
It would be a mistake to think Habakkuk is challenging God. Rather, he reverently asks for assurance God is consistent with what he believes to be the Lord’s own Word, His stated promises. So if God is going to use Babylon to punish Israel, what is to become of Babylon, far more evil than Judah at her worst? There’s no question God holds Israel to a higher standard and Habakkuk accepts this. Rather, he wonders if God has a promise for what comes after that act of discipline on His own.

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Positive Demands of the Laws of God

Posted on September 22, 2012 by ehurst

The Laws of God stand on His authority as Creator.
If you can reject His authority, the Laws will mean nothing to you, so you don’t care. Whom I address are those who claim to care, who believe it matters. My complaint is against those claiming to share my belief and commitment to Christ.
Once again, their rejection of the ANE approach to Scripture and moral questions is their primary weakness in debating those who don’t care at all. The only answer we have is God’s answer, and virtually no part of Western Civilization is God’s answer to much of anything. A Western defense of Western morality fails because it does not stand on Scripture. It stands on pagan mythology, and that ground is precisely the basis used by those who attack Christian morality. If we use the same assumptions, we have no defense.
Thus, this defense of traditional morality falls flat. It’s preaching to the choir, and no one outside the choir needs offer the least respect for it. In other words, it offers not a whit of Christian witness from the Bible, no effective answer because it cannot stand on God’s own power. It stands on human reason alone, and that means nothing.
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front: The Bible says virtually nothing about child-adult sexual relations directly. The problem with them is more subtle than that. So we look at the issues listed at the bottom of the article as if they were somehow manifestly repugnant and false. It’s possible I’m missing some background from Michael Brown and his work, but this article reflects something so typical, I react as if he is part of the bigger failure of American Christianity as a whole. Notice how Brown seems to believe highlighting these issues alone is enough, and links to his book. Again, neither in the linked article, nor in the vast wealth of Western Christian apologetics are these arguments answered very effectively.
“1. Pedophilia is innate and immutable.” This is a diversion, and both sides spend way too much time on it. The implication, of course, is “Since God made me this way, it’s His problem.” It matters not a whit whether people are born with any particular sexual orientation, given the Bible flatly declares all are fallen, possessed of all manner of sinful desires from birth. It’s fundamental to human nature. Your particular desires for sexual gratification are beside the point. God declares doing what comes natural for us in this department causes problems, so we are obliged to construct a system which restrains these impulses. In other words, it really doesn’t matter whether you are born with it or develop it later; sin is sin, and is inherently destructive.
“2. Pederasty is richly attested in many different cultures throughout history.” So are a lot of other nasty human sins. Virtually every time they show up as something acceptable is in contexts where God’s wrath is poured out. Whether or not it’s natural and historical has no bearing on the matter.
“3. The claim that adult-child sexual relationships cause harm is greatly overstated and often completely inaccurate.” and “4. Consensual adult-child sex can actually be beneficial to the child.” This is frankly true. All it takes is a handful of anecdotes to support this argument. That there are some children who were apparently unharmed, and whose lives were no worse than any other person is well established in clinical literature. More, some who are now adults are genuinely sorry those relations did not continue. Sorry about that American Christian, but facts are facts, and it’s still beside the point.
“5. Pederasty should not be classified as a mental disorder, since it does not cause distress to the pederast to have these desires and since the pederast can function as a normal, contributing member of society.” This is manifestly true. There are lots of good Christian men and women who struggle with evil desires and never fall into that particular sin. The teachings of Jesus presume we all struggle with things we shouldn’t do, so a sinful desire itself is not the issue, and all the emotional overreaction by your mainstream Christian parents about who is encountering their children in every day life shows they are, in effect, non-believers. They act as if God can’t save and change people, empowering them to overcome sin. I have bad desires I don’t act on, and so do you, panicky parents.
“6. Many of the illustrious homosexuals of the past were actually pedophiles.” True. Again, so what? Being famous, great and successful on human terms really means little morally. Christ was not very successful in human terms. When Christians stop worshiping human effectiveness, and stop trying to fix this world, and start placing their focus on getting out of this world, we might start getting more sensible answers to these arguments.
“7. People are against intergenerational intimacy because of antiquated social standards and puritanical sexual phobias.” This is an accurate portrayal of the current debate, and precisely my point in this post. If you stand on historical and cultural norms, you are standing on sand. Christ our Rock is not found in those things.
“8. This is all about love and equality and liberation.” If you espouse the Enlightenment principles of modern American culture, then you have no defense against this argument. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. You either attack this whole problem from the Ancient Hebrew perspective of the Bible or you lose.
The ANE Laws of God are not encumbered with Enlightenment mythology. The argument against child-adult sex has little to do with individuals, but is founded on the very reason for sexual relations: It’s part of how we keep humanity alive on the earth. Not simply in the silly notion of procreation alone, but is woven into the broader fabric of how we learn what God says He demands of us is actually the best of all possible worlds. Given how awful adults are about sex, we should expect children could not possibly contribute to the welfare of humanity by their involvement. In other words, it’s far less about prohibition and more about the absolute necessity we can’t allow frivolity to get in the way of desperate human needs. Pedophilia is simply another idolatry raising pleasure to some godhead, same as drug addiction, greed, murder, and all the other sins of humanity. Simply having a good time must take place within a context, or it is inherently destructive on a level not easily noticed by human minds alone. Getting bogged down in the minute details must follow after clarifying the underlying purpose of these broad prohibitions found in the Laws of God.
The issue with pedophilia does not rest on cultural norms nor scientific measures and clinical results. It rests on the dire necessity of building what God demands of us. We cannot build when we fritter away our resources on things which contribute nothing to the moral stability of human life. And if we build by following any other path, God must eventually crush us all and everything we thought we were building. The issue cannot be viewed in light of the immediate, or you’ll miss the whole point.

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Ephemeral Earth

Posted on September 21, 2012 by ehurst

Perhaps you’ll be entertained by this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI10tKuLtFU
What you should take away is not so much belief in some of the wild theories out there, but the overwhelming assurance human science is so pitiful against the vast unknowns. Also, what we could know is actively hidden by those who do know, because those who have the power and wealth are determined to keep us ignorant. It’s not hard for them to do, since we have been thoroughly conditioned by the system under which we live. So thorough is the compromise, just try mentioning something not in the common orthodoxy of our world and see how people respond. Only if you have a very high charisma factor can you even get them to listen.
My point is not digging up the secret knowledge of the universe hidden under the propaganda, but simply the act of questioning common orthodoxy. I certainly don’t pretend to know the answers, but I’m absolutely certain the majority of mankind knows only a bunch of lies, and refuses to ask the questions.
In my devotion to the Bible, I note precious little is written of truly catastrophic events. Check out Peleg, whose name celebrates a rapid shift in the tectonic plates of the earth. Some previous great singular land mass was broken up during his life time. Yet somehow, people survived and humanity continued. What’s coming is unlikely to be The End itself. I say that in the sense we cannot possibly know or guess intelligently when that might be. It could come before I finish typing this, but it serves zero purpose to speculate. The point is we can’t know, so pretending all these events signal something of that sort is wasted effort.
Here we encounter the substance of Christian faith: We aren’t worried about it. Having established thoroughly on this blog how this plane of existence is inherently ephemeral, and it is wholly sanguinary yet proper to dismiss much of what passes for worldly concerns, we face these dramatic threats with equanimity. Not in the sense we don’t care millions will suffer and die; we aren’t at all happy about that. Rather, we know better than to think we’ll understand why, much less how to help. That is, except to help people understand death is merely the end of this existence, and there’s more on the other side, more than we could possibly know.
Because too many people take so seriously the things of this realm, we tend to over-dramatize in our minds expectations of how to face all this. That is, if I were to use the term “Elder Craft” instead of eldercraft, it would draw an entirely different range of interest. People would be checking to see what esoteric arts I am discussing, and seeking some advantage through various kinds of magic. In my mind, there is no real difference, except in the common associations people make, the mental baggage clinging to the terminology. What I see as the proper handling of the inexplicable in this world is the most elder craft, but there’s really not that much drama from where we sit today. I do from time to time spice things up a bit with parabolic language, trying to express things which can’t be put in human terms we recognize. Honestly, folks, the miracles and powers of the Age to Come are all there in my discussion of moral fabric and Spirit Realm. However, our interaction with such things will typically appear pretty mundane. But the secret to Methuselah’s near millennium of human life, while partly a result of a wholly different situation in terms of what the earth was like, is as much tied up in his clinging to God’s Laws as anything else.
No fictional portrayal, with all the special effects you’ve seen in the movies, will come close to the truth. It will overemphasize the manifestations of such things, but miss the whole point and undershoot the real drama because it’s beyond the human mind. Fighting for the opportunity to cling to the moral fabric is about as much adventure as I can really stand. As things go downhill fast in our American society, and the police state becomes smothering, I may well see some truly miraculous things as God’s power under His Laws defends my calling and witness. If not, my ability to resist whatever they try to wring from me will suffice. And if I simply die in the effort, that’s my ticket Home. In other words, I don’t get to choose most of that. What I do get to choose is the power to see that moral fabric, something invisible to mere human eyes, but shining brightly in my soul through spiritual vision.
I don’t fear the shift in the magnetic poles, nor any of the events connected to it on a cosmic scale. Should be quite entertaining to watch.

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