The Wall of Shame: Ignored Neo-Christian Documents
E-mail to Time magazine (sent 10/24/04)
I don't know why I keep doing things like this. I guess I'm supposed to be an authority, of some sort, though you'd hardly know it by the total lack of response I get from people! I suppose one needs to be a type of authority, even to recognize an authority! What else could it be?
E-mail to Sai Baba's Organization (sent 9/13/03)
I sent this with the following message: "I have written a short piece, supporting my firm belief Sai Baba is not the Avatar as he claims, but an illumined person claiming Avatarhood for himself. Although I realize your organization is more or less impenetrable, since you are all convinced of his divinity, I thought I would send it to you anyway, since I have not given up hope for the world's spiritual aspirants, who should be the most intelligent and rational of all earth's people." Do I know mankind, or what?
E-mail to Da Free John's Organization (sent 6/6/03)
I expected no reply to this; Da Free John has abandoned the world, and is lost on his island, but for some reason I felt compelled to send him a note, though he is surrounded by a ferocious nest of devotees whose lack of clear-sighted intelligence preserves him from ever having to face the real world which surrounds him.
E-mail to Ken Wilbur (sent 5/30/03)
Well, here it is, one year after my second nirvikalpa samadhi event, and my impact upon man is the same as that numeral which the Mayan and Indian mathematicians discovered: 0. I sent this to Ken Wilbur via the "Ken Wilbur Online" website, through his publisher. To say that I have found mankind unresponsive would be putting it mildly. I had originally thought that people would listen, or else read, but have come to the conclusion that the current age is too materialistic to care about real spirituality. I continue to write, mostly for my own amusement, and with a meager hope that you will "turn a corner" eventually, perhaps even during my lifetime! There are many unresolved religious issues facing man that, oddly enough, I find myself able to adequately address, though I keep myself to the basics. When you learn to care about the basics, then I can return yet again and tread amidst profundities. I told my Father, "If no one notices me for a whole year, then who will want to become illumined? Who would want to become illumined, and keep a fulltime job? Who wants two jobs, instead of one? Won't they conclude life would be sweeter and easier if one just avoided illumination altogether?" His answer was that humanity needed a different lesson from my life, commensurate with deeper realities which the Christians realize, but of which the Hindus are barely cognizant. So I work on, and write on in my spare time. Such is Father's will!
E-mail to "What is Enlightenment?" on-line journal (sent 6/19/02)
I discovered later that this is Andrew Cohen's crowd. I did not make a claim to illumination in it, because I was curious how people would respond to my opinion. I got a nice response that my letter was being put into storage for future reference. I include it here because I think it is interesting reading.
E-mail to Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher (sent 3/24/03) (also see Cohen Quotes).
I sent this e-mail to Andrew Cohen himself, through the "contact us" portion of www.andrewcohen.org. Receiving no response, I conclude that I have nothing in common with the world's illumined teachers! They apparently suffer from a certain closed-mindedness, a tendency which I theorize arises from their remaining attachment to the lower mind, which causes their continued re-embodiment as gurus. They do not want to give this up too quickly! This may change in the future; it may be that they need to see something first. I am reminded of the story, told in India, of when the Lord appeared in the form of a dwarf, covered with sores and loathsome of appearance, to a mighty king, demanding to be fed! The king laughed and gave the dwarf a good kick! The Lord then concealed Himself in a pillar within the palace walls, and one day when the king was holding court He burst forth in the form of a tiny kitten. This kitten quickly changed into a lion forty feet tall, who then consumed the king and his entire mawkish court with slavering mouth, terrible claws and bloody fangs. In my house there is a pillar, and I am well supported by my job at a biotechnology company. What if one day a little kitten should burst forth from this pillar? I would be terrified.
E-mail to former ashram, Ramagiri (located in Tomales, CA - sent 6/25/02)
This was sent less than two months following my illumination, and I received no response of any kind. The language I used was strident, but I was attempting to provoke a response of some kind. Apparently, they agree with me that they are as incapable of judging illumination as a gang of orangutans! However, they neglect their responsibilities, ignoring the entire purpose of the ashram, which is to produce illumined people! My letter should have been greeted with joy and exuberance, or at the very least with an earnest test of my capacities as a speaker and writer. Ignoring me, they keep their heads in the sands of avidya, spiritual ignorance, which is I suppose where they belong.
Follow-up e-mail to former ashram (send 9/6/03)
I received an explicit sign from the Father to contact this organization again. I have little hope that they will respond, given the circumstances under which I left there, but I have done as He requested, and can rest at last!
E-mail to a monk who published a web site expressing similarity between Jesus and Krishna (sent 6/26/02)
I was surprised to receive no response to this e-mail. It may be that the monk had other duties to attend to, and did not have sufficient time. Again, I include it because it should be interesting reading.
E-mail to a Ramakrishna devotee (sent 6/28/02)
This letter actually received a warm response, although the person did not agree with my assessment of Vivekananda, which I still stand by. Vivekananda was the purest example of an enlightened being, but he was no Incarnation, as was his teacher, Ramakrishna.
Second E-mail to this Ramakrishna devotee (sent 6/3/03)
Almost a year later, I received another e-mail from this individual, for apparently some gears started clicking in his mind and he sent my first e-mail to a friend, and so I wrote him again. It is the sole bright spot in all my communications with human beings, though I have not heard from him since.
E-mail to an Atheist website defending Pascal's Wager (sent 6/29/02)
I sent this e-mail to the President of the website, and although they had actually requested papers defending Pascal's wager, my paper was ignored, without even the dignity of a respones.
E-mail to a family member of mine defending Christ against Atheists (sent 7/7/02)
One never knows; Mohammed began His ministry with His family to support Him. It looks like this will not be my situation. The person I sent this too thought it was good writing, but instead of sending it on to friends as I had hoped kept it, and suggested that I submit it to the Atheist web site it denounces. I am not quite that foolish, however. The document is written for Christians, not for Atheists, who would find it offensive.
E-mail to a Creationist website supporting their position in new ways (sent July, 2002)
I received no reply to this e-mail, but I was getting used to this by now. It harmonizes, to a certain degree, the Hindu account of creation with that of the Christians, which is mostly fable.
- Kazlev 1
- Kazlev 2
- Kazlev 3
- Kazlev 4
This is a set of discussions I had with Alan Kazlev about the nature of the Avatar in July, 2002. He has quite an extensive website devoted to spirituality, but he soon broke off our interesting conversation, telling me to create my own website, which I have done after a time.
E-mail sent to Atheist website answering objections to Creationism (sent August, 2002)
This e-mail answered one objection on their website, giving a comprehensive statement of Creationism.
E-mail to Atheist website refuting Incompatible Properties arguments (sent 12/8/02)
Obviously, I grew tired of being ignored, and so although I had written this document soon after the first one I sent to this website, I sent it in December, 2002. So far I have received, again, no reply although my arguments are sound and defensible. I do not argue that the existence of God can be proved, but that it is also impossible to disprove His existence. People do not want to hear, it seems, that with which they do not agree and will ignore English sentences that they do not like, however accurate, rational and true they may be.
Response to Bertrand Russell sent to an Atheist I met at www.faithforum.org (sent 12/9/02)
This document was also written in July, 2002 but I had despaired of anyone reading it. A certain person expressed a transient interest in the "faith forum," so I sent it to him, but he disparaged my writings. I still stand by them, and I state that his arguments were incoherent and abusive. I only post it because I feel it is highly interesting writing, refuting Russell's famous essay, "Why I am not a Christian." My response is written mostly to a Christian audience, so I use colorful language meant to attract their attention (devils and so forth.) Will anyone but me ever read this document favorably? I do not know.
- Faith Forum 1
- Faith Forum 2
- Faith Forum 3
- Faith Forum 4
- Faith Forum 5
- Faith Forum 6
- Faith Forum 7
These are some posts I put up at www.faithforum.org in December, 2002, with the screen name jayceeii. There are several others; I did not keep a copy of them all. I was looking for a trace of real devotion to God in the modern world, but all the replies I received were self-satisfied, smug and devoid of the longing for God that must be present in a spiritual aspirant. I would find no students here!
I started posting again to the faith forum in September, 2003, since one of my parables had been fulfilled, and the Father made an express request. Who am I, to say "No" to Him?
E-mail to my brother (sent 4/21/03)
My brother is a dedicated Christian, a firm believer. He is undoubtedly a firm believer, but is he one of the elect? Jesus came to bring a sword that would divide parent against child, brother against brother; perhaps this is my fate as well.