Questions and Answers (p. 2)

Questions and Answers for Hope for Earth author(s).

Some of these questions were submitted by e-mail, others were added to help explain what is occurring.

A:  Embodiment is a limiting situation, including for the most powerful souls. It actually takes a lot of work to "flesh out" the fresh nervous system, that the soul encounters in infancy. There are many demands for attention, and a complex field of prioritization must be established and maintained throughout the lifetime. The Catholics tried for the perfect man, in the Pope, but the embodied angel would be the real perfect man or perfect woman, which the Catholics deny. The angels would implement a science of damage control, which catalogs and studies errors that occur, seeking insights in how to alter training and workload to achieve an optimal result. The humans following profit motive, put unfair demands on doctors, for instance, without proper attention to the gravity of surgical procedures, for creating lifelong joy or suffering for the individual undergoing the operation. The first step for doctors would be a reduced caseload (a higher proportion of doctors in the population), with the ultimate aim of mistake-free medical practice.
       More profoundly here, the angels or perfect beings engage in intentional errors while dwelling among humans, in order to feel like they fit in and are not different from those around them. Such errors are usually relatively innocuous, but the angelic heart responds with a great deal of compunction over it, demonstrating potent control over the soul. These errors are not from conscious awareness, but proceed from the core of spirit, called Atman in Sanskrit. It can be seen as an intentional error, once you establish the major effect was to induce feelings of humility, so that you can say to people, "I’m human," and feel like you mean it. The angelic subterfuge is profound, so while among humans they feel like they are human, and think they act like humans. The idea they may be different is not entertained by the conscious awareness; but if you are reading this, you are thinking about it, which is necessary if Heaven’s powers are to be seen in fuller aspect.
       Further, it is important to keep mistakes in a context of greater social good. The body and material objects are temporal, and angels live in continuous practical awareness of this. The vast majority of most people’s lives is free from major mistakes, even among humans. Let us attend and attempt to comprehend these relatively minor regions where mistakes occur in a population, after first rejoicing in the other 99 % of our lifetime. The key for angels, is they can generate social warmth outside the family, from direct observation of the intrinsic or abiding traits of personality. Humans turn a cold shoulder to the independent souls, competing for a job then retreating with the family where they claim it is a warm situation, but the claim is dubious since they are cold to the neighbor. This is why I mentioned Fred Astaire above. If you have a warm response to Fred’s personality as seen in his films, like you would truly enjoy spending time with him, say playing pool, golfing, or on a creative work project, then you are not like a human. Men exploited the angelic persona for profit, in the film industry, without ever really liking them. I’ve been thinking Fred may have also appeared on Earth as Peter, the "rock" on whom Jesus hoped to build His church. On your darkest day, you can watch one of his films, like Top Hat (1935), and the sun of ecstatic life will start shining again. Like his autobiography states, he left "footprints on the sands of time."

A:  My ideas for community are derived from a pure divine standard, never seen on this planet before. What I was hoping for on this website was a little sympathy, since these ideas can be expanded upon greatly, and I think will be for the entire solar cycle, five billion years at least remaining to us on the planet. It is very hard to go from a situation living among human families and studying human history, to a full-blown ecstatic commune which has never been seen on Earth before, but resembles Heaven. I don’t know what I am doing anymore, if we are not founding communes. I thought I might be a religious teacher, but nobody cared for ten years. Now I think about more indirect teaching, showing men their ultimate destination.
       Please don’t underestimate my ability to declare what life is like among the noble beings, in case anyone wanted more specifics. It is all I do ultimately, managing my own personality. I’ve already identified hundreds of ways my notions of community differ from the horrible attempts seen on the planet before now, such as Communism, the Hutterites or Amish, the Shakers or other attempts from the nineteenth century, or the hippie communes. In fact I like to say kommune instead of commune, since those things were always arrangements of mutual selfish use, doomed to fail from the cantankerousness of the created soul. None of my ideas can work, without a higher quality person than has ever been seen on Earth, including what was shown of the disciples of the Lord, for instance as Jesus. So maybe I am a miracle worker.
       I’m breaking this world, by insisting there can be a love outside the family. Jesus said His true followers would be known by their love, and I am saying the angels have noble traits, and the ability to recognize noble traits then apply a chaste, non-touching love on this basis. I call this "love on the attributes," and it was never introduced in the religions. The humans, who have egos, are not likeable, and also lack the ability to like others on the basis of noble traits. Sure their communes failed, what else could occur? Let them try again, we’ll watch them fail again, if not in this century then the next. The gated community you mention is really just a collection of families in their isolated houses. It has no inherent warmth, from a person who can see that someone outside his family has noble traits, then apply affection on that basis. See, the humans believe love is irrational, but in the well-ordered soul love is applied after reason has done its work, deciding what is good. The emotions allow you to feel that it is good and rejoice in it delightfully, but it is also imperative that reason operate flawlessly, so that what is enjoyed is objective good.
       I have written out basic rules for a kommune, but insist these are what the smallest and lowliest of the angels would also declare, if he or she was tasked with setting up a society where the chance of spiritual growth and abiding cosmic meaning were optimized. These rules may seem very harsh to the ear at first, because as I say, this breaks everything humans have done, almost like they don’t exist on this planet and never did anything useful except invent the wheel. One critical rule is asparshana or non-touching, except in the case of soul-mates, which is followed absolutely by everyone. Then when you walk around on the kommune, you know no one is ever going to touch you, not even to shake hands or for a pat on the back. At first it looks cold, but over time this will support fantastic feelings of security in the people, and allow them to develop the deepest possible mental models for the noble personalities of the others. Touch is the "dark sense," conveying almost zero information about the individual personality. We use our other senses instead to watch the aura and facial expressions, to listen to the tones of voice and words, and then hundreds of others can become very dear to us spiritually, not in a mere physical way. I don’t want to touch you, but I want to see you every day, and spend much time with you in work and recreation. This is the vision of a living personality of worth, and many people thinking this is the basis for a kommune. This is the opposite from family life, where they rely on touching to support weak minds incapable of forming profound mental models, and avoid those outside the family except to exchange validation, over what is occurring in everyone’s family!
       Another rule is daily meditation by all those over the age of sixteen. The minimum starting time would be half an hour. Angelic meditation is not like human meditation, although it sets a useful example to the actual sadhus, who are engaged in the process of inner purification. The angels meditate as a form of worship of the Almighty, called Brahman (or Krishna) in the Hindu scriptures, and to establish the body as a platform for their supreme consciousness, which has spiritual knowledge from high above the senses. Meditation secures the day in a holy setting, so you have vital awareness you are a spirit-in-a-body, and can make your spiritual awareness relevant in all daily situations and affairs. Powerful souls like to withdraw the mind from the senses, every day, for without this the higher ecstatic states and moods cannot be experienced. The senses pull them down too far. Clint Eastwood, interestingly, is already achieving this in his daily practice.
       As for living arrangements, humans have demonstrated their preference in the isolated family house. I say this is from weakness. They don’t like the independent souls, they don’t perceive a benefit to frequent interaction, their affection is almost nonexistent, and they are blind to the intrinsic or abiding traits of personality. The bears dodge off into their caves, but all powerful souls long for a close community. They have the capacity to form mental models for hundreds of other individuals, but this means you have to see them again and again, in many different situations, over decades, in work and recreation. The angels can accomplish this because they have the "perfectly inoffensive personality," which means there is never any harm in them, including at the level of thought. The humans think, "Always it is the same old people," with dislike since they don’t thrill over noble personality traits. The angels think, "Always it is the same old people," with great thrills, because they can see the noble traits, they have power over their own soul to keep developing their personality into further zones of nobility (which never ends), and they understand what is glorious in life. If the angels gather, the humans won’t be able to see what motivates them to stay that way. It is as if they have crossed a dreadful deserted plain, but this is the absence of any evil in them. After the plain is crossed, they go on for eternity cultivating their best ideas of a divine person, slowly building a radical but beautiful uniqueness.

Q: What would be the response of an angel to the actors you’ve already mentioned? What other movies would provide that same ecstatic experience?

A:  Our own response, is that it is someone who is very intriguing in a personal way, with whom we’d enjoy spending a lot of time in all kinds of varied activities, in work or play. It is someone who is moral from a tough inner standard, who is never negative or ugly in his mind, who can never get angry from any irrational cause, who has a stunning creativity from above the senses, who uses "distilled speech" which is a way of isolating spiritually relevant aspects of experience to relate to others, and whose words and aspect bring peace and joy to the mind. We say this not just from watching these actors saying their lines in movies, but most especially from interviews where they were allowed to display their personal capacities directly. We always watch the "extras" on DVDs, in order to see the incredible corroboration, that the sublime personality we saw in that role, really exists as a person in the world that we could meet and come to know better. Though the angelic personality is broad and unknowable as a whole, facets like on the face of a cut diamond or other gem, can be seen and cherished.
       Had I been told as a youth that the angels were acting in Hollywood, I’d have been keenly interested. There are a hundred or more angels who have made inroads into Hollywood, although the humans are right there beside them, attempting to steal the thunder but always falling flat. The movies offer an opportunity to study angelic glory, but also to examine the human fall from glory, without the oppressive malevolence which attends them in personal presence. Anyway, these days it is usually one or two angels at most in the cast. But in the Golden Age of Hollywood, some films were made with multiple angels. Let me slow down. There are hundreds of films with angelic actors. Once you begin to "see" them, then the divine influence is more readily apparent, and ecstatic states come even when the movies had an unfortunately violent theme. To begin this quest, let me describe one central movie, which had many overarching themes.
       The angels are timeless. Aristotle was a great angel who guided Western civilization, from the disguise as a man; it can be proved he was an angel, if his words are studied. He only walked around for his transportation, without a bus, train, or sports car, so humans don’t think he can still be potent. Jesus didn’t have a sports car either, but amazingly he was still able to think, move, and speak. Humans are always in a kind of hysterical "fast-forwarding" mode, presuming they are the only interesting generation, and the former generations are forgettable. To enter appreciation of angelic works in Hollywood, you need to step into a 1950’s frame of mind, to see that without cell phones or computers, rock and roll or jet skis, it was still possible for mighty figures to roam this land. I don’t think humans can perform this step. (It is also helpful to know about rebirth, that these figures did not die, and can appear again anytime.)
       The film I would recommend a person watch first, if they wanted to challenge themselves to see if they could recognize a form of entertainment that is in many ways richer than what is seen today, with many timeless elements worth rekindling again and again, is The Harvey Girls (1946), available at most local libraries. I guess I could not call a person an angel, who did not have an ecstatic response to this film, although you may have to watch it a few times to retract from the thin soup of human expectation. Generally supporting an ecstatic mood throughout, the film has three key scenes that are archetypes for important truths, not seen in other films. The first is what I call the "Fist of God" scene, where three beautiful angels, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland and Virginia O’Brien, dance in their nightgowns singing a haunting tune. This scene begins to reveal the immense power of the angelic woman, which has otherwise been mostly evicted from Hollywood. There is a scene which is quintessentially a celebration of the soul-mates, as Cyd dances before a male angel seated at a piano who may well be her actual soul-mate, as he sings, "These little words I know can never show how really true I’ll be, but if you don’t believe me, just you wait and see." The third is the waltz scene, where they sing, "Round and round," a very beautiful ecstatic song, and you get perhaps some of the flavor of a Saturday night dance of angels.

A:   The angels are exploited and secretly hated, by humans in the film industry. They could only enter there by compromising many of their deeper principles, and have been using what appear to be personal imperfections to broaden their impact and increase their effect among the human population. There is also a problem because angels are pure, and as pure beings they cannot actually imagine, or exactly duplicate, what the human being is like. They can experience severe depression, alienation and hopelessness, finding out the hard way that whatever way you approach a human, it is going to have a negative result.
       We think that Mel Gibson was one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus, which is why he was called upon to bring out that Passion of the Christ film, which I have never seen since it would have reminded me of some personal tragedies in my own life. By this film he was saying, "I can even stand before you and show you all of this, but still you do not truly care," against all the humans. Mel has run into trouble with the media and public recently, and it is because his angelic wisdom compelled him to stand up, just a little, in his inner righteousness. He is unsatisfied, the humans are not responding, what can he do? (As an aside here, when Tom Cruise jumped on a couch, it was ordinary angelic exuberance; but even this slight departure from the robotic expectations of humans, had a big negative impact on his career.)
       Clint Eastwood has been in some of the most violent films, and he best illustrates the point that the male angels have been using their hatred of evil as a way to popularity. They are having a deeper effect on human society, of ennobling and crystallizing a better self-image, of standing up for right and opposing wrong. The violence which attends them is not their own. It is placed upon them by the humans and the situation of the world. My thesis all depends on this, that Clint has a heart of gold, not iron. His steely eyes ready to massacre evil, are really gentle and he is a good friend. He acted in one musical, where he was allowed to display more depths of his personality, that are not like what is seen in his other films. The angels are grit-tough. They can grind the body to dust. But that is only appropriate in some rather limited and usually unhappy situations.

A:  Universally among humans, the angels are detested in close personal interaction. Their excitement over Hollywood stars is drawn from strange quarters, not from observations of the noble personality traits. That there are many angels having penetrated Hollywood, is a sign of Heaven’s puissance. These angels have used their own powers, combined with the might of the Holy Spirit working in those around them, to record on film some of their glories, which is partially intended to uplift human society, but also I think to give some impressions worthy of study, over the major angels who will find other roles of leadership, not just in their current bodies, but in subsequent births. When a boy comes up to me and says that he was Fred Astaire, I intend to take him very seriously. Perhaps yes, perhaps no, but I have an idea of Fred’s intrinsic traits from those recordings, for easy reference.
       Of course it is the grandest conspiracy theory ever. The angels are taking embodiments right alongside humans, pretending to have human troubles but causing the humans to look in different directions, where they think a human crowd has gathered. The angels have had a large but secret effect on the way society has developed, including the religions. No movie star fan of Esther Williams is going to want to see Esther, Esther, everyday Esther. But her glorious personality is so radiant and thrilling, she’d be a superb contributor at a commune, not only to the daily work but also to every social activity. The angels have this kind of depth, thrilled by personality and its development in eternity, to abide with one another stably in large groups, always feeling affection for one another. The Christians never bother trying to describe Heaven, but of course that is what it is like.
       The human fans of the stars, are not going to want to live with the stars. Eddie Murphy has gotten in a lot of trouble for his small motions for communal living, though it was mainly with his family, not really a challenge for an angel. Adrian Paul in one of his Highlander episodes remarks to a human, "I don’t suppose you’re here because you enjoy my company," and I’m sure he would attest this is his cold experience of fans, that they are drawn to him for his fame or leaning on his organized mindset, but they don’t really light up to be in his presence. It takes one to know one. An advanced personality can be recognized by another advanced personality. The angels so far have avoided supporting one another, even when it resulted in poverty or death for some of them. Their common story is, "No one we know among the humans, really likes us." So I am not like a fan, but I think I recognize some friends from long ago, who have unexplored potentials.

A:  Another rule for kommunes, very hard for humans to understand, is delayed dating and prolonged courtships. The phenomenon of soul-mate has not been described in scripture, but in the case of angels these are two souls, male and female, who have warped their personalities to a high degree, around one another, over many eons of spiritual growth. However, because the soul is truly free, some angels choose to dissolve any pairwise thinking into universal love. This class is not recognized among humans.
       Since the human life lasts seventy to a hundred years, the optimal pattern is to avoid seeking the soul-mate until the late twenties to early thirties. In this way, each member of the pair can build his or her individual personality during the most energetic part of life, and when they come together they will have known themselves, so they know who it is, to have fallen in love with that other person. This is delayed dating, where the humans instead follow the unexamined ways of the animals, lusting after a mate as soon as puberty strikes, and failing to create and support the independent mind, facing and forming mental models for many members of a community. The twenties are supposed to be fun. It is fun to meet with the soul-mate too, but only as physical energy declines a bit, and comforts are welcomed.
       In order to meet the soul-mate reliably in every lifetime, the holy state of this eternal bond must be taken seriously by all, and mechanisms encouraged by which the happy meetings can occur. The births have to be right geographically, so there is a chance the two can meet. Many circumstances have to be arranged, and we rely on Holy Spirit and Atman, which are divine forces in the lives of everyone, to enable this to occur. I’ve been suggesting courtships lasting two years, with no touching at all the first year, and only mild forms of touching, holding hands or a quick peck on the cheek, the second year. I suggest this because a romance is mainly mental, not physical, and the sweetest part of a romance should be before touching can begin, where you dream about the excellence of the beloved and study his or her traits of personality. These long courtships help to ensure the identification of the soul-mate has been an accurate one, with no missteps from life to life, with the wrong one.

A:  No kidding. In the human society, there is a high degree of dependence on the labor of others, but this is secured by money, without personal concern. In the kommune I envision, the labor is still divided since it is efficient, but there is no money and no prestige. Throwing out the money could be done by anyone, but to throw out prestige can only be done by the higher quality people I’ve been seeking. Prestige can be hard to spot, but it is central at ashrams and monasteries across the globe, though they succeeded in giving up some objects and possessions. Anyway a logical person approaches this thinking, "I will not do only my share of the labor, I’ll do an extra ten percent in time, effort, or extra projects," an attitude that I’ve called "taking the greater burden." His reward is the increased joy of his friends. The angels work in spiritual good. They see the universal joy-state, and know the glory of contributing to it. They reward themselves from within after their labors, with feelings of joyousness and their own knowledge that a better state was supported. I think only angels can maintain high efficiency and quality under such a system.
       If everyone follows logic like that, then the physical needs of everyone are easily and reliably met. If you have any problem or concern, the others will respond personally, as if it was they who are affected, not just you. But then the angels also won’t make selfish demands which a real system cannot support. They’d think a long time before making any unusual request, but by and large everything their bodies require is handed to them by the others working hard on their behalf, as they also work hard on behalf of others. That’s in the long-term. In a more practical and immediate way, I’d say we could not ask people to give up all their money, if they wanted to try living in a kommune, and if they leave we should give them a few years’ wages, since no one can survive among humans without substantial funds. I’d want the situation to feel as safe and secure to everyone as possible, where I too am dubious that such a miracle could ever occur here. I’d expect people joining to give a portion of their money, a fraction that they decide upon, as a gesture of good faith, but to keep most of it intact in a bank account or elsewhere for a few years, so that if they find the kommune is not for them they could resume the life they used to know. This is rational today.

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