Watch for the pagan sorcerer-pope to start performing many supernatural deeds, counterfeit miracles, to mislead the masses and get them eating out of his hand to support the Vatican’s elect to “defend” Europe and “Western Christian Civilization” and murder any who oppose them.

Daniel 11:36

The King Who Exalts Himself

36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. (Antiochus Epiphanes – “god in the flesh” – was only a type of the unholy Terror about to be unleashed).

Acts 8:9-11

Simon the Sorcerer

9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, 10and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is the divine power known as the Great Power.” 11They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12

7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Revelation 13:13-17

13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword (final revival of the unholy Roman Empire of the German Nation) and yet lived. 15He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast (imperial restoration), so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Biblical prophecy announces that the European Union will morph into a bloodthirsty BEAST, a politico-ECONOMIC superpower under the evil influences of the Vatican who will seduce it with satanic offers of all the kingdoms of this world and great riches in exchange for enforcing their idolatrous traditions, especially SUNDAY WORSHIP.

Watch for the pope and his “man of the hour” to storm the world stage, to put on a command performance, Satan at his best; the darkest before Dawn prophecies being fulfilled before our very eyes culminating with the real Jesus Christ’s return from Heaven to make the diabolical duo history!

This is bad news/good news

Has this question ever been a concern? Have you ever found anyone else pointing it out to you? If yes, then it is possible that you might be in an abusive relationship. Based on research, there are a few indicators that you may want to check before you start worrying. Does your partner:

1) Express excessive control just to protect you?

2) Blame you every time for their bad temperament?

3) Try to hide their insecurities behind superior acts?

4) Hint that they can harm you to control you (even if they don’t really)?

5) Try to isolate you to themselves; creating a distance between you and your family or friends?

6) Express jealousy towards your friends of opposite sex?

7) Stop you from interfering with finances of the family?

8) Show a typical lack of empathy?

9) Monitors your access and use of phones or other devices?

10) Plays the victim card all the time?

11) Show arrogance and is extremely demanding?

12) Abuse you or hit you?

All these signs prompt that you are definitely in an abusive relationship. Research tells that men, in general, have a more violent nature than women. However, this does not mean that they cannot be a victim themselves. It is a common misconception that only women can be subjected to abuse or violence in a relationship. This makes it even more difficult for men to accept or share their fate with their loved ones.

In our present society, individuals are rather shy in expressing about their abuse even with their closed ones. The notion of overlaying shame is evident in most of the cases. In addition, the whole abuse can lead them to think that they deserve it. They may think that they are either physically not attractive, not smart enough or have a bad nature. In severe cases, people go under a delusion that if not for their partner, no one will accept them.

It is, therefore, necessary for you to think about it clearly and believe in your intuition for once. If you are getting a feeling that something might not be right, you need to take a step back and think. You need to fight yourself and stop protecting your partner in your consciousness. You need to ask yourself whether your partner is really worth everything you are going through. Has anything changed from the time you had just started dating?

It is imperative that you must remove yourself from any relationship that is snatching away your general happiness. Know that you are worth loving and the person denying that might not be the one you should be spending your life with.

Race is something to be celebrated and luxuriated in. One of the loveliest things about living in Australia is the rich blend of so many different cultures, all of which can enhance our society. There’s the potential for maintaining a very traditional cultural approach, which is resistant to blend because of its maintaining the traditions; there’s the potential for mingling to come up with something which is a bit like a many-culture stew; there’s any range between those two.

The option of racial and cultural elements

The Marriage Celebrant can check with both bride and groom about what their cultural background is – demonstrating appreciation of the many different beauties people can display. Bridal couples have some wonderful options about incorporating elements from their racial traditions into the ceremony – if they want.

The only “must have” elements in a civil marriage ceremony are the minimum legal words spoken by them and spoken by the Marriage Celebrant, and the signing of the register witnessed by the Celebrant and two witnesses over 18. The bride and groom are free to use western traditions, eastern traditions, traditions from Africa, aboriginal traditions, Polynesian traditions, whatever they wish.

European and non-European aspects

European traditions are a rich treasure source for weddings, and so are non-European traditions. The couple have full control over the decision-making, bar the legal requirements. The Marriage Celebrant should be happy to research any theme or culture the couple want to use in their wedding ceremony, and present that information to them so that they can approve or edit any theme and custom for their wedding.

The exchange of rings is a very significant European tradition, as is the wearing of a white wedding gown. French weddings incorporate use of the colour “white” even further.

A tradition which often causes laughter in German weddings has the groom kneeling on the bride’s gown during the ceremony while the pair kneels in front of the Marriage Celebrant. This is supposed to indicate that he’s the boss in this new marriage. His delusion is shattered when the bride lightly steps on the groom’s shoe after they both stand up – signifying that this perception of boss-ship is indeed just a delusion!

There are many more European elements, some of which are almost universally used, and some of which are used primarily in particular regions. They can all add a very distinctive and unusual flavour to the marriage ceremony.

Examples of cultural elements

A wonderful tradition in some Eastern weddings is the formal expression of gratitude and respect to the bride’s and groom’s parents. This can be included into any sort of wedding ceremony.

Some Australian aboriginal cultures in the past had a tradition of the bride being chosen from a line of women by the female elders of the tribe. A modern-day equivalent might be that the bride is escorted in a group of her female attendants by two older women who have an important part in her life – perhaps her mother and the mother of the groom, perhaps also a female mentor, perhaps other female relatives.

The Vietnamese culture offers a beautiful opportunity to physically express the wish for the couple to have longevity and good fortune, by the offering of gifts which traditionally signify those things.

These are only some of the many ceremony ideas that come from various different cultures, and are by no means mutually exclusive.

It’s the Marriage Celebrant’s to ensure that the couple’s vision is met – and surpassed… made even better than they’d hoped.

Rebuild your vision may seem like a delusion for you but please give me 5 minutes of your time because in this very article, you will uncover one of the most crucial information on how to reverse your myopia with a single effortless habit.

Yes, it’s true – your body has a startling capability to regenerate – and that includes your eyes. Unless you are enduring through a certain form of permanent eye injury, there is terrific likelihood you can get better from any general eye illnesses.

So how can you effortlessly rebuild your vision? Here is one method:

Blink! Yes, blink! Blinking is possibly the most straightforward habit you can establish that greatly helps your eyes.

Here’s what Bates, the Father of eye correction, said concerning blinking in his 1923 Better Eyesight magazine, “The normal eye when it has normal eyesight blinks quite frequently… Blinking is necessary in order to maintain normal vision continuously… Blinking is a rest, it prevents fatigue… it improves the sight in myopia…”

Are you aware that nearly all of us do not blink a sufficient amount? I want you to be incredibly midful of how much you blink per minute. Now compare it to people with ideal eyesight. How did you do? Ideally, on average, normal blinking takes place more or less every two to four seconds. It’s habitual, following a pattern and smooth. It shouldn’t require any effort.

If you crave any hope of rebuild your vision, here is what you must grasp:

1. If you’re not blinking the sufficient amount intuitively, then accomplish it consciously until it’s your habit. It needs time so be patient.

2. If you’re enduring through myopia, you almost certainly are not blinking the sufficient amount when your concentration is in far distances.

3. And if you’re long sighted, you almost certainly are not blinking the sufficient amount when your concentration is near you.

4. When you blink, remember not to continue hawking into a single space. Move your head around and glance at other things.

rebuild your vision can’t get any simpler than blinking! You will be amazed at the result you might experience!

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This is an important subject. What we think of Jesus and his self-identity is the biggest single issue in today’s arena of thought. Oscar Wilde expressed a view, quoted in an interesting book by Rivkah Zim, that Jesus was a deluded mystic, whose creative imagination was the source of all his ideas. So, was Jesus merely a mystic Jewish peasant teacher, who conjured up fabulous visions of himself as the I AM, of his God, and of heaven and hell, or is he who he claimed to be? Are we able to distinguish between megalomania; a person with a vast deluded sense of self-importance and true deity?

• GREAT DIVIDE

This is where no one stays on the fence. Jesus is the great divider of humanity. Like Oscar Wilde with his, ‘Out of his own imagination entirely did Jesus of Nazareth create himself’ [1] you form a judgement based on whatever views you have gathered about Jesus, and are ready to condemn him as a deluded mystic. Or to use Stephen Fry’s view of Jesus, he was ‘twee'[2] – quaint or sentimental. But each must form their own conclusion.

Here is a cluster of subjects that may help in any evaluation.

• WITNESS

The first is the issue of the historical and factual nature of the Scriptural information about Jesus. This includes the quality of eye-witness reports, the nature of the relationship to Jesus of the people who knew him, and their eye-witness claims. Here, we ask, were these people prone to exaggerate, perhaps for spiritual favours or material self-advancement, and if so what motivations were there, for unschooled Jewish men, to transform a peasant teacher into God-incarnate? Was this merely a common trait of Jewish messianic extremism, of which Jesus’ followers were conspicuous examples?

• BALANCE

A second subject might concern the psychological balance of Jesus as portrayed in the New Testament. Are their elements of grandiosity, a serious delusional disorder, which, if part of a person’s psyche today, would require treatment? Or was Jesus well-integrated, and how would we assess that?

Allied with this, a third question might ask if Jesus was subject to mood swings. Was he a prime case of a manic-depressive, whose genius fired a brilliant moral and ethical splendour, but which then quickly sank to depths, when he washed the feet of others and taught them he was destined for a sacrificial death?

• CLAIMS

A fourth investigation might check the truthfulness of Jesus. This would help to see if he was prone to make claims to impress, but then used doubtful means to try to fulfil those claims. If we could see through a façade, beneath which was a complex psyche absorbed in intrigue or spinning webs of deceit or conspiracy to advance his high popularity, this might be illuminating.

A fifth and final area might look at the emotional maturity of Jesus. How well-adjusted was he in coping with change? Was he outgoing, were his responses to others appropriate, or did he tend to demand his own way, and was angered when events went against his wishes? Was he well-integrated in his various relationships? Or did he make himself the centre of attention by exploiting the weaknesses of others in a way that betrayed an obsessive or insecure temperament?

• PERSONAL

My own assessment is not unique to me. I have read many authors, both non-Christian and Christian, on this subject. And if the Apostle Paul was ‘the very least of all the saints’ (Ephesians 3:8), very ordinary, unremarkable Christians like myself are not claiming to be expert witnesses. But I do wholly concur that the biblical witness to Jesus is transparent, objective, not flattering or insincere, but is wholly trustworthy – not relying on unwarranted prejudice, or relativistic insights, it is the inspired record, in which human writers were moved by God himself. Remarkably I see a deep unity of purpose with the Jewish Old Testament Scriptures, of promise and detailed fulfilment, which has the hallmarks in parts of being eyewitness testimony. And it also includes a lot of what Jesus’ opponents thought of him. All is offered to your own scrutiny and assessment.

• GOD-MAN

When I look at Jesus’ life I see a man asleep in a small boat, who when roused, quells the fury of the storm as God, with a word, ‘Peace! Be still!’ (Mark 4:37-41). I see a man who has ‘nowhere to lay his head’ (Matthew 8:20), but who as deity, says of God ‘the Father who dwells in me’ (John 14:10). I see a man anguished in the face of death, yet who, as the Lord of life, calls Lazarus from his tomb with, ‘Lazarus, come out’ (John 11:33 &43). I see a man, who spoke as God, the final source of abundant life for all, ‘If anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink’ so that even his enemies said ‘No one ever spoke like this man!'(John 7:37 & 46). I see a man, who as the ever-living God says, ‘before Abraham was I AM’ (John 8:58). I see a man who, as the compassionate Son of God, blesses little children (Matthew 19:13), but who rages as the God of wrath against the racketeers in the Jerusalem Temple (Matthew 21:12-13).

• LORD

I see a man, bleeding and broken with a crown of jagged thorns pushed on his brow, standing as if crushed and powerless before Pilate, the authorised agent of Rome, supreme world power, but I also see Jesus as supreme Lord, come to die, willingly bearing the curse for others as the Lamb of God, teaching Pilate there is a higher throne, ‘You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above’ (John 19:11).

• GLORY

Well, who is judging who – was Jesus a megalomaniac? Oscar Wilde and Stephen Fry have merely created a ‘Jesus’ entirely out of their own imaginations. But when we weigh up Jesus, we find he is doing the same to us, and we discover, with millions down the ages, that we are the ones for whom the tide goes out, leaving us high and dry, empty shells in need of life everlasting, and Jesus high and lifted up, the lowly Christ of the cross, the exalted resurrected Lord, glorious in his eternal divine majesty, before whom every knee shall bow and ‘every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father’ (Philippians 2:11).

1. De Profundis, Oscar Wilde, ed Ian Small (Oxford University Press, 2005), p117.

2. Stephen Fry interviewed by Gabriel Byrne on Radio Telefis Eireann (Irish Television), ‘The Meaning of Life, 1st Feb. 2015.

As the mass media focus on the world’s growing political, social and economic chaos, the spread of the Evolu virus, now endemic in the western world, only makes the inside pages.

Although the origins of the present outbreak are usually traced back to a major publishing event in the year 1859, historical records show that Evolu was already active and being spread many centuries earlier by the atheistic writings of the ancient Greek philosophers.

In brief, Evolu is a mental delusion that blinds even the most rational minds to the glory of God’s creation. It is particularly prevalent in schools and colleges, the very places that should be totally free of it. Young college students from Christian homes seem particularly susceptible to Evolu brainwashing, and many rapidly develop the tell-tale symptoms of confusion, disillusionment, a loss of faith and sometimes even rabid atheism. This is a very serious and real problem.

In dealing with Evolu, it is helpful to understand that the world is metaphorical in a way that Charles Darwin failed to realize or understand, despite his theological training. Take for example the way each day of our lives depicts the passage of life from birth to old age and then death – a process also depicted by the seasons of the year. Every night, metaphorically, we die and are resurrected the next morning. Each day also, we move from darkness of night into the light of day, a process depicting the learning process of life.

God’s Signature

As I have described in detail elsewhere, one major metaphor, the signature of God on His creation, is that the energy that transforms the world and has freed mankind from manual bondage clearly depicts His Holy Spirit. It seems clear too that the earth’s flora and fauna are also metaphorical. Put simply, we are like plants that require that solar energy from heaven, plus water, rain from above, another metaphor of the Holy Spirit, in order to grow – and hopefully bear good fruit. Animals too are metaphorical, demonstrating good and bad aspects of human behaviour — for example, the industrious ant, the sloth, the hen mothering her chicks, the gormless meerkat, the snake in the grass the leech, the predator, the loan shark, the majestic lion, and so on. These are not accidents of evolution, but the handiwork of God that goes way beyond Intelligent Design.

One metaphor chosen by Jesus was to compare the ancient Pharisees to vipers. Just as vipers transmit a deadly venom that paralyses the body, so the Pharisees’ self-righteous teaching poisoned the minds of their followers.

Were Jesus speaking of them today, with our now common knowledge of the invisible world of microbes, no doubt He would have likened the Pharisees to deadly viruses. My point is that just as literal microbes can infect the body, so a metaphorical virus, a false idea or lie, such as Evolu, can infect the mind and distort the thought processes.

So how do we protect against Evolu? Innate intelligence seems to offer little protection, as some of the most heavily infected and dangerous carriers of the disease are to be found in university science departments. PhD’s seem particularly susceptible. Just as the Ebola virus leads to metabolic derangement of the physical body, so Evolu deranges the mental processes. As a result, victims are prone to issue toxic and contagious pronouncements, such as “Darwin woz right! Darwin woz Right!”

Super-natural Selection

Another dangerous emanation is the famous: “Flight was an advantage, therefore wings evolved”. By the use of such appropriately vague language, all things become possible – e.g. How to explain the amazing complexity of the denizens of the Cambrian Explosion, the earths’ first and supposedly most primitive organisms? No problem! “They had invisible ancestors, hence no fossils, and must have invented toolbox genes”. Get it? Anybody can do it with a bit of practice. BBC wildlife presenters seem particularly prone to such outbursts of vague verbosity.

Once a victim is infected, all requests for detailed cause-and-effect explanations and solid proof become tiresome and superfluous. Evolution becomes a faith. It is axiomatic. They just know it happened. Simply mumble a magic mantra – such as “given enough time” and by the action of supernatural selection, the acquisition of any desired feature becomes automatic, being “invented”, “acquired” or “developed”, whichever your preferred term.

Apart from avoiding the poisonous rantings of carriers such as Richard Dawkins, the key protocol to protect our children against Evolu is to develop their mental immune system by imparting basic knowledge and explaining where Darwin went wrong. Although the popular teachings of young-earth creationism do offer some protection, there are serious holes that let Evolu in – in particular the key fallacy that the earth is just some six thousand years old. Plus, of course, improbable and unscientific claims, for example that the devastated condition of the moon and planets “had something to do with Noah’s Flood”! Just not good enough. The Evolu virus will laugh its way through.

A Traditional Remedy

Much better protection is afforded by the oddly neglected gap theory, a tried and tested traditional remedy, actively promoted a couple of centuries ago by Rev William Buckland, Oxford University’s very first professor of geology.

Buckland realized that the bizarre and often gigantic creatures, such as dinosaurs, evidence by the fossil record, as uncovered by the massive canal and railway building earthworks of his day, were not the evolutionary ancestors of those we know today, but were part of a previous creation – the destruction of which is still evidenced by the devastated state of the moon and planets, and leaving the earth in the state of tohu and bohu described in the first couple of verses of Genesis.

Although Genesis sets the age of man at just six thousand years, Buckland realized, on closer inspection, the creation account did not specify the age of the globe itself. Thus evolution and Darwin’s imagined “tree of life” became redundant.

On the Friday morning, January 22, 2010, after the Supreme Court made a 5-4 decision allowing unlimited spending of monies for candidates, the kitchen at school where I dropped off my daughter, Abigail, was ablaze with animosities. This favor to businesses made them furious. They were shouting, “The Corporate World can now buy their politicians and any policies they need for “business as usual.”

They were thinking that money rules the world. Of course money rules, but that’s because we all bought into it. It really is a clever delusion. Yeah…I know I need money too but not to survive! Think of all those Haitians existing without a penny! But to get back here… Where would the corporations be without it? Where would our economy be? We could forget about bailouts!……But….Life would go on! Money may be a huge factor in how our economy and government works and it may effect how some officials are elected, but it’s not real reality.

How Nature works is Real reality!

It may come as a surprise to many of you that food “RULES”. Food has been ruling the continuing of life for billions of years on this planet. Those that ate the “right” food survived…those that didn’t…..well….didn’t…and the invention or use of money is but tiny portion of that time. Food trumps money anytime!

When we choose food based on it’s cost we are susceptible to the laws or rules of money…those that are made by man…like that TIME person of the year…head of the Federal Reserve, Bernancke! When we become totally dependent on Federal Reserve Notes (our current money) for our life or livelihood, we do fall into the trap of their money rules…So we really can’t complain. We don’t make the rules….but if we are frustrated enough we can begin to think on how every one of us can soon learn the rules of money…and begin to make our own money. It took me a while.

But today, I think it’s more important to learn the “RULES” of food. When we do we can select food that is appropriate to our continuation as a human species…not worry about money…and we can think and act more clearly.

When you are in yoga class doing postures, vigilantly observe whether you have an urge to compare yourself with others, especially if you pretend not to care. When you discover this ingrained human urge, take a deep inhalation.

As your breath flows in, draw your awareness deep inside your heart. As you exhale, release the urge. Do the yoga only for yourself, even when a hundred other people are in the room. Your practice is for you alone. It is difficult to hear the soft voice of inner wisdom amidst the cacophony of constant comparisons. It is simply impossible to sense your soul when you are striving to be superior.

The ideal student of yoga is completely self-referential. Paradoxically, the wisdom of a master is often required to avoid the pitfalls of ego and self-delusion. However, an egoless teacher who is intent solely on guiding you to your true self is rare indeed. We must search deep and far for teachers who understand that our freedom and self mastery are more important than our submission to their authority and our exclusive adherence to their methods. While mediocre and insecure teachers love to rule others (even feigning humility at times), masters will invariably teach us how to find the teacher within ourselves. Though we often desire a quick solution from an authority, yoga teaches us that no one has all our answers; our answers are waiting inside of us. Indeed, our deepest questions arise from within – they are really reminders that the answers must also dwell within. The true master simply leads me back to myself.

One of the best ways to assist this process of casting off conditioning and attuning yourself to inner wisdom is to turn off commercial media, thus guarding your mind against thoughts intended to enslave it. Commercial media is paid for by people who want you to do what they want you to do. They have profit motives. The big food companies don't really care if you become fat, and the diet companies don't care if you become thin. In fact, if everyone were thin, then the diet companies themselves would have to go on a monetary diet! Advertisers incessantly strive to convince us that we must maintain a figure that rarely fits our body's needs, and live in ways that seldom enhance our soul's purpose. For example, if my constitution is more kapha (to use the language of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of health and well-being), I feel more at peace with myself when I am slightly "overweight." If my constitution is vata, I feel healthier when I am thinner. Greedy marketers try to put everybody into their self-serving box and then shame those who are on the outside. Yoga, on the other hand, bursts boxes, freeing us to express our individuality, our unique nature. It helps us find the inner wisdom that tells us what we feel, allowing us the possibility of connecting to our highest truth.

Above all, in this process, be compassionate toward yourself. Be patient. Give yourself time to unfold. When you lose the desire to be instantaneously perfect, you are less likely to become enslaved by authorities who claim to "have all the answers." Each of us must realize: "My answers for my life lie within me, and along with ardor and dedicated exploration, I must cultivate patience and compassion to let these answers, slowly but surely, reveal the wisdom within.

© 2008 Aadil Palkhivala

Mania can become dangerous to the person experiencing it. The media has hyped mania as being a great feeling or just being overactive. It's not quite that simple. If a person has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, then it may be hard for them to differentiate between feeling better and being manic without someone in their lives pointing out. There may be people that enjoy being with someone more because they are in a manic state, but at the end of the night the party ends. Below are the four classes of recognizing mania.

Rapid speech, Activities, and Thoughts-
It is important to remember is that the manic symptoms that someone might see are like an iceberg where the largest portion of the problem is one that you can not see. The symptom that may be noticed first is that the person experiencing a manic episode seems to be in a blur. They may be talking so rapidly that they seem hard to understand and might be constantly moving their bodies for example: jumping up and down and rushing from room to room for no apparent reason. They are generally very energetic and could be going from task to task so quickly that they cause mistakes.

Impulsiveness-
Someone experiencing mania might become very impulsive as well. A frequent symptom that is used to diagnose mania is compulsive shopping. This may result oftentimes in someone spending far more than they can afford because they are paying more attention to the reward of buying something new than they are to how much it might cost. This impulsiveness can also extend to substance abuse or promiscuousness. Unfortunately, all this impulsiveness is rewarded with guilt and regret more often then a positive feeling.

Hallucinations and Delusions-
If this mania is left to get out of control, a person might begin experiencing delusions and hallucinations. This would be recognized only if the person acts out or mentions that it is going on. Delusions of grandeur are fairly common, believing that they possess genius, fame, wealth or omnipotence that they do not. Hallucinations are usually visual or auditory, but can be applied to any of the five senses receiving information that is not true.

No Sleep or Weight Change-
If someone is not sleeping at all and seems to be very high functioning then there should be some concern. The same with eating far too much or far to little and there becomes a drastic weight change over a short period of time.

Mania is hard for the person experiencing it to recognize by themselves. They may feel great and even "high" and not want to come down from their mountain. Unfortunately mania is almost always followed by a severe and miserable crash of depression. This up and down swing can result in consequences. Suicide attempts, hospitalizations, financial fall, or even STDs. Mania should not be taken as a joke and needs treatment as soon as possible.

Whadda ya know?

Seriously. With absolute certainty, what do you know?

Put aside all opinions, beliefs and theories for a moment and address this one straight question: What do you know for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe… through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin…”

In other words, let’s cut the crap and figure out what’s real. The cogito does exactly that, and it’s very simple. The question is: What do you know?

The answer is: I Am.

All other so-called facts are really non-facts and belong in the category of consensual reality and relative truth, i.e., unreal reality and untrue truth.

::: Cogito Ergo Sum

Cogito ergo sum is the equation that proves the fact. But first, before we go on, let’s ask what else we know. What else can be said for certain?

Nothing. We don’t know anything else. And that’s the real point of the cogito. The importance of I Am isn’t that it’s a fact, but that it’s the only fact.

I Am is the only thing anyone has ever known or will ever know. Everything else, all religion and philosophy, is nothing more than dream interpretation. There is no other fact than I Am. The cogito is the seed of the thought that destroys the universe. Beyond the cogito, nothing is known. Beyond the cogito, nothing can be known. Except I Am, no one knows anything. No man or god can claim to know more. No God or array of gods can exist or be imagined that know more than this one thing: I Am.

We can’t avoid letting this topic drift briefly into the Christian realm. When Moses asked God His name, God answered, “I am that I am.” The name God gives for Himself is I Am.

Note that I Am is unconjugatable. It allows of no variation. God doesn’t say, “My name is I Am, but you can call me You Are, or He Is.” The cogito, the I Am equation, does not extend beyond one’s own subjective knowing. I can say I Am and know it as truth, but I can’t say you are, he is, she is, we are, they are, it is, etc. I know I exist and nothing else. Understood thusly, I Am, aka God, truly is the Alpha and the Omega; the entirety of being, of knowledge, of you.

::: The Line Is Drawn

The cogito is the line between fantasy and reality. On one side of the cogito is a universe of beliefs and ideas and theories. To cross the line is to leave all that behind. No theory, concept, belief, opinion or debate can have any possible basis in reality once the ramifications of the cogito have fully saturated the mind. No dialogue can take place across that line because nothing that makes sense on either side makes sense on the other.

We all think we know what the cogito means; this is an invitation to challenge that assumption. If professors of philosophy truly understood it, they wouldn’t be professors of philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato, but all philosophy, Plato included, is rendered obsolete and irrelevant by Descartes. Nothing but the subjective I Am is true, so what’s the point of prattling on?

The cogito isn’t a mere thought or an idea, it is an ego-eating virus that, properly incubated and nurtured, will eventually devour all illusion. Once we know the cogito, we can begin systematically unknowing everything we thought we knew, and unraveling the self we aren’t.

::: Life is but a Dream

There is no such thing as objective reality. Two cannot be proven. Nothing can be shown to exist. Time and space, love and hate, good and evil, cause and effect, are all just ideas. Anyone who says they know anything is really saying they don’t know the only thing. The greatest religious and philosophical thoughts and ideas in the history of man contain no more truth than the bleating of sheep. The greatest books are no more authoritative than the greatest luncheon meats.

No one knows anything.

::: Disprove it for Yourself

Anyone wishing to deny these statements about the meaning of the cogito need merely prove that something, anything, is true. By all means, give it a try, dash your head upon it, but it can’t be done. Cogito ergo sum, however, isn’t the endpoint of inquiry, it’s the starting point; it’s a tool that helps us see, without intermediaries, exactly what is true and what isn’t.

How great is that?