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A weather report came in. The hourly update for the Northern Hemisphere by the International Control Station at Gander, Newfoundland, was relayed to us through Fairbanks. The Fairbanks signal was weak. We could barely hear it over the radio noise from all the atmospheric disturbances caused by the blast. According to the report, our flight pass to the North would be clear. It looked bad for Alaska though, and for the entire West Coast! Storms and more storms were promised as the fires in the South had altered the continental weather pattern.
Jack shrugged his shoulders; "So what!" Then he turned to Igor and began to laugh! "In a way you're right," he said, "there isn't anything alive in our church to deliver a death blow to. The church has mostly fallen apart. It began when the organization built an extension to its home edifice. With generous funding from around the world, the organization constructed a magnificent temple, the grandest building in the city. But the result was devastating! The sheer magnificence drew people away from the working environment of the autonomous churches, so that right at the center, around the central organization, the entire field became a field of 'poverty.' The dynamic involvement in which individuals build their life and their development experience became blocked at the center. It didn't take place. There was a vacuum building up around the center. Out of this vacuum the organization that created the vacuum, soon began to extend itself further across the field and spread its slowly creeping devastating influence all across the globe."
Jack said that he wasn't surprised anymore. It appears to be the nature of the human struggle to add extension upon extension instead of engaging in self-development. This pattern became the pattern of modern education in recent years. They stopped teaching the art of discovery, scientific reasoning, intellectual self-development. To the contrary, they took whatever existed in terms of a budding humanity in the student's mentality and flushed it out with irrational and degrading philosophies. With that they destroyed the nation and its economy. Education became a process of diminishment. They created a mindless population that can be easily controlled. If you want to build an empire you need a mindless population that can be easily controlled. How else can you threaten the whole world and get support for it? How else can you start wars to set the world on fire, and do it with impunity?
Jack became nevermore agitated the more he spoke. "Our church had been pioneering the process that is now destroying the world. My father and I fought against this process. We tried to uplift the church and rescue it from its self-made doom, and rescue humanity with it. There was no acceptance, no return to what the church was designed to be. Instead of the church becoming uplifted by the work we had done, we became excommunicated from it. You can see the same pattern nationally in respect to our country's Constitution. The Constitution still exists on paper, but its principles have all been shredded and trashed."
While Jack spoke, another weather update came over the radio. Alaska issued a warning to all northern flights to turn the automatic flight control systems off, because of intense electrical discharges in the atmosphere.
I switched the system off. The news didn't seem to bother Jack. He carried on, talking about his church.
He told us that the next extension came via video tape and closed circuit satellite television. This opened a whole new opportunity. The annual pilgrimage was stopped, but re-introduced in an expanded version as a worldwide affair, with synchronized events seducing the entire field to look for spiritual riches in mass syndromes. Awareness to life, compassion, sensitivity to truth, all the great qualities that make the human scene productive were suddenly devalued into insignificance. Mass awareness became the thing. This trend mushroomed further into the dispensing of lectures simultaneously across the world via more TV satellite facilities, with additional organizational presentations and meetings, until finally the church services themselves were dispensed through the airwaves. The working churches in the field were closed down after that, more and more, and their membership enticed to put their efforts into feeding the central host.
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