The bumbling clueless father is a major figure in advertising. If you do see commercials take a note of how many feature a strong woman who makes decisions because the husband is too impotent to do...

The crises facing America can be best understood using a psychological model, rather than a political or historical model. The psychological model encourages us to look at the phenomenon of...

Mystery’s Language
by John Omaha
Copyright, 2020 by John Omaha All Rights Reserved

In an essay entitled “God’s Language” in her book The Source of Self-Regard Toni Morrison argues...

Our species suffers from a profound spiritual sickness. The religion of capitalism with its practice of greed and cruelty toward each other and the environment has displaced oneness, respect, and...

What if the American League fans had reacted to the Tampa Bay Rays loss of the World Series with the response of the Republicans are using to Trump's loss to Biden and the Democrats. The AL fans...

I opened an account at MeWe. I am sorry I did. I have been receiving Facebook messages from people I haven't corresponded with in years. I emailed some of them back and found out they did not send...

Traitors and Traitor Cells in Pandemic




America on a ventilator. Gasping for breath. Pain. Terror. Isolated. The fun all coughed away. A thick sputum of anguish clogging its...

Back in the Sixties people would set themselves on fire to protest the war in Vietnam. I am waiting for a Republican to set themselves on fire to protest their belief that the election was stolen...

I feel disgusted watching the Republicans place party before country. Most recently Michael Pack, the head of Voice of America is refusing to provide information to the Biden transition team. ...

Adolf Hitler was able to organize the Nazi party around his claim that Germany was treated unfairly by the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI. T**** and the Republicans are trying the same trick....

The Supreme Court has enshrined the Right to be Stupid among the fundamental rights of American citizenship. The Court agreed that the rights of citizens to freely assemble in religious practice...

Have you noticed how the Texas Taliban is growing in numbers and violence as evidenced by attempting to force a Biden bus off the road? The Texas Taliban is no different than the Afghanistan...

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Living in Mystery requires development of a sacred sense. The wonder seen in children shows us that we are born with a sacred sense but it is rarely encouraged and can be quickly lost through...

Please help. Where do you go to find a map of fires in Sonoma County. The Press Democrat requires that i have a subscription to access their map. I do not want a subscription. I can find nothing...

I totally commit to NEVER purchase anything that is sold on Facebook. I just don't have the time or energy to delete all the sponsored links. Eventually FB will consist of nothing but sponsored...

Astronomy has shown that all of the elements of the periodic table originated in cosmic processes. Here is a link to a chart of the periodic table showing the origin of each element. (I tried to...

Democracy is under attack. What is happening in Portland is part of an attempt to overthrow American democracy. It amounts to an insurrection. An insurrection is "an organized effort to seize...

I believe that the meaning of life is the meaning that each of us gives to life. Personally, I believe the meaning of my life consists in expressing gratitude for the gifts that Mystery provides. I...

So I hear you saying that you know the truth of the Ghost Dance. I don't mind if you say you know the truth of the Ghost Dance for you, but you have no right to criticize what I believe the Ghost...

When a person accepts that death is inevitable and is approaching, that person signs an Advance Health Care Directive. The Directive prescribes how the person wants to be cared for in their final...

A poster on FB asked "Is there anything we can do to reverse the course of destruction of our planet?" I responded:

No nothing can be done. Tipping points passed. Polar ice melting. 100...

Here is a poem by Mary Oliver entitle The Buddha's Last Instruction. It speaks to the nature of Mystery. Star Man

“Make of yourself a light”
said the Buddha,
before he died.
I think of this...

Given the immense amount of damage a maladjusted politician (Barr, McConnell, Trump, Pence) can do, we should impose conditions on the qualifications for running for office. These conditions should...

At last a psychologist, Trump's niece Mary, is commenting on Trump. She has first hand knowledge of Donald Trump's childhood emotional abuse. I have been calling attention for over a year to the...

Humanity Rising celebrated the Summer Solstice in the Great Mystery Lodge on Saturday night June 20 and Sunday morning June 21. We humans and all life on the planet evolved in a specific planetary...

Thank you for asking. Soul is not a "thing." Soul is a process. My friend gave me a box of apricots on Wednesday freshly picked from his orchard. When I reverentially experience one of these...

I have indeed described myself as an atheist. I AM an atheist. An atheist is one who does not believe in the existence of a god. The idea of a "god" is a supreme being or creator who created the...

There is so much loss in the world today. Loss of lives--Sandra Bland, George Floyd and so many more--and loss of birds, loss of the Amazon, loss of clear water and clean air. There is very little...

Have you seen Sarah Cooper's lip synchs of Trump press conferences. "How to bunker" and "How to bible" They're all available on You Tube.

Star Man be lovin' this Randy Rainbow piece. Best line: "He's a bottom."

Webster's defines "Hoax" "a an act intended to trick or dupe." It is apparent from this definition that a hoax absolutely requires a "duper" and a "dupee." There can be no hoax without one person...

The Lessons of Tao

8. Water

The best of men is like water;
Water benefits all things
It does not compete with them.

It dwells in (the lowly) places that all disdain--
...

The Tao Te Ching
Book I. The Character of Tao

1. The Absolute Tao

The Tao that can be told of
Is not the Absolute Tao;
The Names that can be given
Are not the Absolute Names

Every day brings a new dose of chaos. Today Trump says he will take the US out of the Open Skies Treaty that has kept us safer for three decades. He has single-handedly withdrawn the U.S. from...

Continuing with this line of reasoning, it is obvious from Trump's behavior at age 73 what his childhood behavior was like. Trump was the kind of sibling who picked on his brother and sister. When...

Using my psychotherapist's glasses I can see exactly what Trump's childhood was like. Trump had a constant conflict with his older brother, Fred. Donald would torment Fred and Fred would complain...

Here's a quote from an online article today by Robert Mackey on The Intercept

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/19/alarm-confusion-fox-news-trump-says-takes-hydroxychloroquine/


"Rather than...

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How sad. Sounds depressed. Tired of howling? Yeah, I know people who got tired of not using drugs or drinking alcohol, people who got tired of going to meetings even though the meetings were...

You have my word that I will never post on this thread again. Thank you for your blessings. Star Man

"God" is a construct of human beings so terrified of death and of the Mystery of existence that they have created a false rationale for eternal life and a fairy tale to relieve them of their terror. ...

The image that comes up for me when I join neighbors in howling is of wolves. There have been videos on the internet of wolves howling. That's what it feels like to me. I howl and then listen for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2ObkoSo, if you wish people would sing, then sing! The people who are howling feel empowered when they howl. If singing would empower you, then sing! I...

Exuberance

The feeling I get when I howl and hear others howling is exuberance. Exuberance is not something I feel very often in America. I felt exuberant at the Women's March. I felt...

The only gospel I trust is the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the only gospel written by someone who actually knew Jesus. Magdalene knew Jesus well because she was married to him and had his baby. She...

Another name for externalizing is projection. Trump is projecting his fear of death onto all Americans.

Notice as well how he has created a simulacrum of his childhood situation. The 0.1%...

Donald Trump has had a lifelong fear of death. His brother died of alcoholism, which contributed to Donald's death anxiety. He is a germophobe, fearing any deadly contamination that might kill him....

Barring genetic abnormalities all men are created equal. The enlightenment had not discovered the effect of early experience and ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) on the development of the infant...

Henry VIII of England ruled a splendid court and carried out intrigues and was a womanizer who had some of his wives beheaded for "treason". He was an awful human being yet he had allies and...