While many are touting the Pope’s visit as a wonderful, happy event for America, very few are sensing the dark shadow of “something” in the air …

There is something more than meets the eye that is going on in the supernatural realm that humans are unable to see or to hear. All they see with their physical eyes is the production … the extravaganza … the costumes and the superficial smiles. All they hear are the well-written speeches that are laced with rhetoric and false images of deceitful convictions.

This world is in a terrible state – a dangerous and dramatic state that is creeping up on humanity as a pack of hungry coyotes creep stealthily up before they pounce upon their prey.

In all honesty, as I watched the Papal procession drive down the road, the crowds cheering and waving their arms, it was not joy and hope that I was feeling. In fact, as I continued to observe the entirety of the Papal visit, the “feeling” I had was more like the feeling one gets at a funeral procession for a national dignitary. I found no true happiness in the face of the Pope or in any of the politicians. I heard no “hope” in any of the speeches given … only clichés, superficial desires, and riddles.

And as a pack of desperate, emaciated coyotes give out their communal chorus of eerie wailing just before they pounce upon their terrified victim, all of the sounds of the three days of well-rehearsed, cleverly orchestrated production seemed to merge together … creating a similar wail of warning for all of mankind.

Something is wrong. Something is terribly wrong. And lest the reader believe that I am Pope bashing or Catholic bashing here, be assured that I am not. If I bash anything with this writing it is the apparently self-imposed naivety and ignorance that the entire human race seems to be wallowing in. THAT is the point of this blog. To awaken within the hearts and minds of everyone who reads these words the desire to stand strong and fight against the darkness that has begun to swallow this world.

When someone says their religion is true, what they are really saying is that they are still searching for TRUTH. Because in TRUTH, they have not even found God yet … they are still searching for God. Why is that the case?

Because no one on Earth has actually found God. That is why no one knows for sure that the religion they practice is true. There can be no physical proof of that, and “faith” can be placed in many things, including those things of an evil intent.

You might now say, “But I’ve found God! I know God! He talks to me all the time!”

Well … no you haven’t … no you don’t … no God doesn’t. Perhaps you have had an encounter with your own conscience and you have listened to the thoughts of your deeper mind, but you have not made contact with God.

No one can find God because God exists in a “PLACE” far different than the human “place.” God is un-FINDable. And no one can know God because how can it be possible for a finite, simplistic human mind to even survive an encounter with the MIND of GOD, let alone KNOW what lies inside it. How presumptuous of any human to make those claims! Even the Judeo-Christian Bible teaches that God cannot be found, known, or understood. It teaches that no one has ever seen God and no one can ever see God in the physical – that God is “unapproachable.” Yet, religions today continue to teach the opposite and many members of those religions profess to having done so.

It is fact that ALL religions are incomplete because their “search (their “Quest”) has not ended. God has NOT been found – nor did God ever intend to be found by humans.

In the human drama that has been labeled the journey to “enlightenment,” regardless of what New Age practitioners profess there can be no completion, no end, while you remain in physical form. You can only “awaken” to the TRUTH of the fact that you are on a path without a physical ending, but a path that is real nevertheless.

The philosopher, the preacher, the intellectual, the atheist, the Dali Lama, the politician, the teacher, the student … no one is above any of the others on this continuing journey.

On the TRUE PATH no human is greater than any other human. The Pope within his Vatican palace is no further along than the Baptist Deacon tilling his wheat field in Kansas. In fact, those who profess to have found “enlightenment,” “nirvana,” “awareness,” and the like, are the LEAST likely to have found them, for they still have not learned the primary lesson: that those states of Being are out of their grasp while in the physical, and not one human being on Earth can ever transcend the physical to attain them.

HUMILITY is the only requirement for the TRUE PATH, but very few humans exhibit TRUE HUMILITY. It is when humans quit competing with God that they come closest to finding Him.

Although the religions of this world have a very long and sorry history of failure combined with the misrepresentation of the God they are supposed to be emulating, a few do have at least one principle attribute they have adopted that is, indeed, a good thing for humanity.

The original Native American religion (not so much today) as we discussed in our book trilogy, had one tenet that was and still is a good thing for this chaotic culture in which the inhabitants of this world live: a respect for the “Great Mystery” or “Great Spirit,” two of the names they used for God. The ancient Native Americans are perhaps the closest of all religions on Earth to giving a proper Title for God, as no one knows His real Name, and regardless of what the contemporary religions profess, the Bible is quite clear that His Ways are a complete mystery to mankind.

The Mormons (LDS) also have a principle they follow that is very good for the human culture, and it is the storage of three years supply of food and water for usage in times of distress to the economy, and/or the world as a whole. All would be wise to do the same.

The Southern Baptists are strong on TRUE FAMILY strength and devotion … that is a GOOD THING.

There are a couple of other religions on Earth that have a good point or two, but by far the one that I know to have the most to offer the human race at this time in its very dangerous existence, is the AMISH religion. Yes, I said AMISH. The Amish actually have more than one or two good qualities about them that it would be good if all people everywhere adopted them. Principal of those is the SIMPLIFICATION OF LIFE. Everything about the AMISH is simple. From their worship of God to the way they run their homes, all is based upon simplifying the human life and lifestyle. That is a good thing, indeed.

And I know the Amish people are not perfect, but then no human is. I know there have been a couple of scandals about the Amish, but I also know that the scandal part came mainly from slanted media hype rather than from TRUTH. In any case, the majority of Amish are wonderful people who live a life-style that is closer to what Jesus taught than any other religion on Earth. It would pay you to study these folks and, perhaps, alter your own lifestyles to more closely resemble the Amish – maybe not the clothing and the buggies, but the SIMPLE way they view and live their relationship to THE CREATOR, and even to the land upon which they reside. For unlike many who profess the sacredness of the Earth, and abuse it every chance they get, TRUE sacredness of the Earth is a part of the Amish religion, and they LIVE it in every fiber of their lives.