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February 11, 2023 I grew up in a church that said you had to speak in tongues to get saved and go to heaven. I often prayed fervently starting at the age of 5 for the experience in the prayer room at church, where people would cry and wail, and roll on the floor. One 80-year old lady would sometimes get happy in the spirit and run laps around the church during church services. That was always entertaining. About my sophomore year in college, I became transformed by the protest of the Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movement, Eastern philosophy, the study of psychology, smoking reefer, and democratic socialism, which I started believing could save the world. However, the Covid crises that began in March 2020 caused me to become disillusioned with the Left, so now I would say I am more an anarchist or a libertarian, but I don't support corporate or crony capitalism. Many libertarians think it is perfectly fine to aspire to be a millionaire or billionaire, but I think incomes above certain amounts should be taxed at much higher rates. Libertarian capitalists, like socialists, are against imperialism, and I will always resonate with that. Here is a definition of anarchy that I have always liked: Anarchy: a self-governed society in which people organize themselves from the bottom-up on an egalitarian basis; decisions made by those affected by them; direct democratic control of our workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, towns and bio-regions with coordination between differing groups as needed. A world where women and men are free and equal and all of us have power over our own lives, bodies and sexuality; where we cherish and live in balance with the earth and value diversity of cultures, races, and sexual orientations, where we work and live together cooperatively. Two times in my twenties and thirties, I had brief periods where I went back to being a Christian fundamentalist or an evangelical Christian. Later going to a liberal seminary, where I studied the New Testament like a scientist, caused me to doubt believing in the virgin birth, the trinity, and the literal resurrection of Jesus in the way that evangelical Christians believe. Now I believe that Jesus could have been a highly evolved yogi to achieve the various things he allegedly achieved. Growing up in an anti-intellectual home, I had the most trouble with high school courses like U.S. history, which seemed like a boring subject that was a waste of time. Later in my life, European history would become an important and fascinating subject. Lately I have been interested in studying the history of Christianity again using the excellent textbook I read in seminary. Fascinated with yoga and meditation, I starting reading many of the books written by Swami Rama. When I later met him in person and was initiated and given a mantra (which I never did repeat over and over as suggested), I remember that being in his presence was the most powerful spiritual experience I have ever had in my life: I felt rapturous love and indescribable bliss. So I became convinced that meditation and spiritual disciplines can transform a person. My ex-wife, by the way, thought there was nothing special about Swami Rama. In my mid 50s, I started advocating the integration of the Perennial Philosophy (that's the term Aldous Huxley used; it is also referred to as Ageless Wisdom, describing the nondual, mystical experience) with a democratic form of socialism as a way to save individuals and the world. I created a website called www.NowSaveTheWorld.com because the website name "SaveTheWorld.com" had already been taken by somebody else. I created this website in 2010 right before I retired at age 60 from teaching. I was a high school special education teacher of Algebra, English, and Social Studies, but during the last 6 years of my career I taught general elementary, mostly third grade. In March 2020, I changed the name of my website to WorldWithoutEmpire.com.

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Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 4, 2022
The Earth Constitution Is Not Similar to Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum The implementation of the Earth Constitution would prevent nations from aspiring to become empires and constantly going to war with one another. It is the opposite of an oligarchic New World Order. Recently a popular article entitled "Klaus Schwab's Puppets: 'Young Global Leaders' Revealed" has put the Earth Constitution and The Great Transition Initiative in the same boat with Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum.
transhuman drone bodies, From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The Resistance Movement Must Provide Solutions to Remake the World A growing number of people are starting to believe that global capitalists are using the Covid pandemic to orchestrate a technocratic, transhumanist New World Order. The increasing surveillance, the massive censorship, and the rapid deterioration of our constitutional rights have ignited a growing international resistance movement. Transhumanism will eliminate our connection to the Source within, our connection to God.
John Taylor Gatto at ..., From CreativeCommonsPhoto
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 10, 2021
How to Improve Public Elementary Schools: Neighborhood Control of Neighborhood Schools John Taylor Gatto said, "In Open Source [Learning], students are the active initiators. You either write your own script in life, or, by default, you become an actor in someone else's script. The easiest way to destroy curiosity is to sit people in chairs and threaten them with the upcoming test. Plato, a Greek aristocrat, said: 'The ordinary population is dangerous if they learn to think.'"
White House, From FlickrPhotos
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The Framers of the US Constitution Never Told How to Properly Abolish It We cannot create a new constitution in a democratic way unless Article V of our current constitution is totally rewritten and approved as a 28th constitutional amendment. A new Article V could make it easier to amend our constitution, and it could make it possible to properly abolish it when The People desire it. Jefferson thought we should have a new constitution with every new generation.
Peace Grunge Sign - Sepia, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 28, 2021
What Can Save the World from Oligarchs? What can save the world from oligarchs who are destroying the world and themselves, destroying the world and everything in it? How do we create a free and open democratic society of citizens who are open, honest, transparent, and well-informed? Everything on earth and in the world is interrelated. We each have a purpose for being here, and there is an Eternal Spirit or Higher Self at the core of our being.
Propaganda, From FlickrPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 24, 2020
Summary of the Corbett Report: "Who Cares What Celebrities Think" The World Health Organization hired a public relations firm that selected the celebrities to sell and amplify WHO's message about Covid-19. What a coincidence that it was the same P.R. firm that was used to sell the first Gulf War! It is now known that it was a lie when the Kuwaiti girl reported about Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators, but it most likely helped galvanize the public into accepting a new war.
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 11, 2020
Controversial Virologist Attacks Anthony Fauci When I watched the first video in my list, which is the first installment of the Plandemic Movie and the second shorter video made by Children's Health Defense,both praising Dr. Judy Mikovits--I thought the claims made by Judy Mikovits really seemed convincing until I did further research and read the last 4 articles in my list. The documentary called "Plandemic" is expected to be released in the summer of 2020.
Buddha image in the store window of an optician shop in Wittenberg (Germany), From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 4, 2020
Renounce Worldliness--Seek Enlightenment--Advocate Socialism We need to transcend scientific materialism and lifestyle materialism and adopt a new worldview. Things may never be normal again after the COVID-19 pandemic. Large numbers of people need to realize that the 3 biggest problems are capitalism, imperialism, and materialism. The last words in the Christian doxology are "world without end, amen, amen." But to create a world without end, we need to create a world without empire.
coronavirus-covid-19, From FlickrPhotos
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Is COVID-19 a Biological Warfare Weapon? Bio weapons expert Francis Boyle states that the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, a Bio Safety Level 4 Lab, bought the deadly virus technology from Univ. of North Carolina's Bio Safety Level 3 Lab, which got cells from Ft. Detrick, where the U.S. does its biological warfare testing. While the scientists in Wuhan were experimenting with the virus, it apparently got leaked out accidentally into the neighboring community.
Peace Grunge Sign - Sepia, From FlickrPhotos
(26 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 5, 2020
How Bernie Can Create World Peace in Less Than 4 Years We must dismantle the U.S. Empire and seek forgiveness from the world for becoming an empire. Bernie must tell the true story of the United States from the perspective of Native Americans, black people, Hispanics, the working class, and of other nations exploited by the United States. As a nation we may be the least of the great and the primary reason why there is no peace in the world, but we can vow to change our ways.
Peace Grunge Sign - Sepia, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 14, 2020
Capitalism, Materialism, and Imperialism Prevent World Peace Capitalism needs poverty. What is needed is voluntary simplicity from the relatively wealthy individuals of the world. Many people in the world are suffering and dying because of what the United States Government has done in the world. We need to turn this around or face disaster for the planet and our future. To have a world without end, we need a world without empire. "World without Empire! Amen, Amen."
Buddha image in the store window of an optician shop in Wittenberg (Germany), From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 23, 2019
The Highest Form of Communism is Transcendental Communism The highest form of communism is transcendental communism with ecological wisdom as the primary focus. Our children's story problems in math, science, and social studies can focus on how to reduce individual ecological footprints worldwide. In the United States, we should name no more public schools after presidents or generals.
Love Your Neighbor, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 31, 2019
Love Your Neighbors Love your neighbors and get to know them and let them get to know you. Love your neighborhood. Love your city. Love your state. Love your nation. Love the world. Love your family and your children. Love your Significant Other. Love yourself. Love the Earth, Mother Earth. And most of all love the Divine Source within you. We heal individually from the inside-out and collectively from the bottom-up.
Earth Day ~  Mother Earth, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Would a Democratic World Government Allow Capitalism? Would a Democratic World Government allow capitalism? Yes, of course, if that is what the majority of the world's citizens wants. Could a Democratic World Government disassemble itself and return to competitive nationalism? Yes, of course, if that is the will or preference of the majority of the world's voters. If the Democratic World Government does not allow those two choices, then it is not truly democratic.
Earth, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 12, 2019
Democratic World Government Is the Only Solution Even if all the demands of the Green New Deal and Extinction Rebellion were met it would not be enough if the Capitalist One Percent continues to stay in power. The organizers of the GND and ER are representatives of the One Percent in disguise. If you examine the background of the co-founder of ER, Gail Bradbrook, you will see the evidence for this. The GND was originally proposed by the Rockefeller-funded United Nations.
I dedicate this piece to the Divine Feminine. The Goddesses of the world inspire my heart. As a woman, you are a Goddess. You are Universal. You are Infinite. You are Bliss. You deserve all that you wish for. You are admired. You are loved. You are cheris, From FlickrPhotos
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Rebuild the Whole World from the Bottom-up I think I could be tempted to believe in a theistic God if She were feminine--or if It could be equally feminine and masculine. The God I need and want to believe in is a loving God who cares about ecological wisdom and creating peace on earth. We were made for worship--the worship of the highest expression of love, beauty, and truth. However, in the modern world, it is a good thing that theism is a dying concept.
Community House, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 27, 2019
Every Local Community Needs to Be Ecologically Wise Now and Forever Every local community needs to be ecologically wise. After we clean up our own communities, let us help our neighbors. Local and regional communities are related in an infinite number of ways--whether they realize it or not. How do we make people realize that we are all interrelated and interconnected in infinite ways? It is love. We have to be open, honest, and transparent--personally, locally, nationally, and globally.
Peace Symbol, 2015 update, From FlickrPhotos
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Not Just Peace and Love But World Peace and Love If humans are evolving, stagnating, or degenerating as a species, then achieving world peace and love would be the highest level of achievement. We all are connected to the Source--the fountain of love, joy, and bliss that is at the core in each one of us. Can we evolve as a species if the current leader of the world's greatest empire does not have a compassionate vision for the world? No.
Green New Deal place-name-sign-1647341, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 20, 2019
Libertarian Socialism Can Build Community, Communalism, and Communism Can we humans evolve if we have insane leaders? The answer is no. We are all responsible for the state the world is in, but our leaders must take most of the blame. Look at the shape the world is in. Who is responsible? We are all responsible, and we each can play a role in healing this land. We might think that some individuals can evolve privately, but we don't truly evolve unless the whole world evolves with us.
Extinction Rebellion London, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 7, 2019
Extinction Rebellion--Arguments For and Against If it turns out that Extinction Rebellion is a disguised attempt by the one percent to set the stage for a new world order of global capitalism (with massive growth instead of vastly reducing our ecological footprint) with the same old outrageously large gaps between the rich and the poor--then it is up to us who support global socialism and a system of democratic world law to share our voices all the more.

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