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4.0 out of 5 stars Happiness in Slavery, November 9, 2008
"Today it feels important to tell you that I bless the day we met, and will continue to do so until I've taken my last breath. Your endless gifts to me bespoke a generosity of spirit that I'd never before been confronted with, and will be surprised to encounter ever again. Quite simply, you are the kindest man I have ever known. As I review my life, our time together was a landmark event for me...life changing. I knew at the time, and I know it still. I will never be the same."

The above quote is not, as one would surmise, from "All for the Love of God." It is written by an actual slave (to his master) and quoted from p. 141 of a book called "Slavecraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude" by Guy Baldwin. I cite it here to demonstrate the close similarities between so-called 'chelaship' as recounted by Alex Reichardt, and masochistic submission as exemplified by people in the BDSM community who are involved in 24/7 consensual master/slave relationships. But BDSM participants are clear about their contract, and it is not maintained through intimidation, or threats of spiritual damnation. And that's exactly what held Reichardt in thrall to Mark Prophet.

Reichardt, p.29 "I saw his great love for people, his honesty and how down to earth he really was. There was nothing phony about Mark. He met each person where they were and treated everyone like his best friend. A very generous-hearted person, he was humble before God and man, always willing to give the other person the benefit of the doubt...He was as joyful as a child. Before long we were like the best of friends, and I viewed him as the caring father I had always wanted."

The similarity of these two quotes is striking. Sadly, Reichardt's feelings of friendship and loyalty toward my father were not reciprocated.

Consider the following. As a child of perhaps six or eight, I remember my father referring repeatedly to Alex Reichardt as an "idiot," and "nincompoop." My sister Becky remembers dad saying again and again, "Alex, you twerp!" At the time, I actually felt sorry for Alex. I listened to my father saying these things, and wondered what in the world Alex could have done to deserve such enduring scorn. Realize that this was a man who basically gave up his life for my parents. He waited on my dad hand and foot, rode around with him in the car, massaged his feet on a regular basis, (to help Mark Prophet carry "world karma" of course) and did whatever he was asked, at any hour of the day or night.

I remember specifically one incident when dad berated Alex behind his back because Alex hung his pants up crooked on a wire hanger. I never heard my dad remark even once how grateful he was to Alex for his service, only how clumsy he was. Another running joke with dad was how Alex had fallen asleep and forgot which of my dad's feet he'd been rubbing. "Which one?" dad would tell the story, mimicking Alex and curling his lip derisively, then he would guffaw. He blamed Alex for leaning the wrong way and causing a motorcycle accident where dad had been driving. (p.131) Both of them got pretty banged up. I was there when they came home and saw their torn clothes and bloody knees. A caring master who had Alex' best interests at heart would have humbly apologized.

Alex is a man who gave my dad total loyalty, even to the point of signing over his unemployment checks to help dad pay the bills when money was tight. Yet a short few years later when Alex forgot to pack my dad's shoes for a trip, Alex had to replace them at a cost of $15. Monthly staff salaries were coincidentally also $15.

It didn't end there. Alex was fined $45 (a whopping three month's salary) for letting someone into a service with liquor on their breath, chastised for picking onions off a sandwich, and blamed for his "doubts" supposedly preventing my dad from lifting the fog on one occasion. (Yes, you heard that right--dad claimed to be able to control the weather.) Alex was fined the total cost of postage when he sent a mailing out first class instead of air mail. His crime? He had sent the mailing as per standard procedure and not asked beforehand. Alex was told he'd made a "week's worth of karma" because he spoke louder than a whisper in the unoccupied chapel. He'd "disturbed the forcefield."

Dad mocked Alex by "knighting" him Sir Bernard, quipping that if he worked really hard he could become "Saint Bernard," implying that he was loyal to a fault, like a dog. (p.115)

Yet when things went wrong, Mark Prophet was quick to blame Alex. On p.143 Alex describes how he and Ruth Farnam were constantly singled out as examples of bad behavior. Alex excuses this public shaming as essential to the process of instilling humility. Again, humiliation is a staple of BDSM, and the more I read of this book, the more I realized how deeply this metaphor holds. And therein lies the problem.

It is important to understand that "All for the Love of God" is really two books. It is a book documenting the life of the author, and certain events which took place on staff of "The Summit Lighthouse" mostly in the late 1960's and early 1970's in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This section of the book is factual, and according to my recollection, highly accurate.

But there is a second book without which the first makes no sense. That second book involves flights of fancy so extreme and outlandish as to defy description. Only "in a world" of invisible (but real) masters, angels and past lives does the concept of spiritual training involving real-world humiliation make sense. Strangely, Alex recites his justifications without a trace of irony or acknowledgement of their absurdity (which is plainly apparent to anyone else).

The first and second books are thoroughly intertwined and inseparable. Alex describes past lives of the "messengers" and staff as if he were talking about well-established historical facts. He provides only self-referential evidence for any of the spiritual teachings. The book contains an appendix of "dispensations" of angels that he claims form some sort of spiritual "posse" around each person. To get an idea of just how ridiculous this is, on p.299, he tallies up the "posse:" "15 Seraphim, 4 Cherubim, 10 angel groups, 22 specific angels, 13 elementals, 1 Terton (whatever that is), 1 Ascended Master, plus your guardian angel." That's substantially north of 100 angels per person.

I'm sorry, even by the standards of garden variety religious hyperbole, this is over-the-top. This level of disconnection from reality would normally get a person institutionalized. We're expected to believe that these wild stories he presents are objective realities? It strains every fiber of credibility to the breaking point.

So how to analyze this book? It's utterly incomprehensible without the spiritual component. Otherwise it reads like the narrative of a non-consensual slave, and comes off painful and pathetic. It's surprising how similar "All for the Love of God" actually is to "Mark Prophet: The Man and the Myth." (Available at the Black Sun Journal site) Both recount nearly identical events. Peter Arnone rejects the supernatural component, and Alex embraces it. Peter's account makes much more sense. I'm sorry to say that it portrays Mark Prophet as a very ordinary weak, self-centered and manipulative human being.

But Alex seemed determined to reframe Mark Prophet's legacy in loftier terms. I only wish I could concur with him. But I cannot. In places, Reichardt even lets his exasperation show. But then he quickly self-justifies to let Mark Prophet off the hook and give him the benefit of the doubt--which is more than Alex ever got. Alex writes most credibly in this voice of the true and loyal slave.

Not satisfied with his own account, Reichardt bolstered it with no fewer than 16 co-authors. A lot of these people were my friends and mentors (or at least acquaintances). I grew up with many of them, and once looked up to many of them. These include Svend Andersen, Merle Bouma, Terry Canady, Timothy Connor, John Fox, Dorothy Lee Fulton, Donald Galvin, Alexandro Genis, Joseph Genito, Philip Hoag, Michael Kinchloe, Kenneth McNeel, Celeste Miller, Tom Miller, Paul Quintero, and Alex' wife Margaret. Regardless of how I may feel personally about these people, arguments from popularity don't really hold water. What's important is to be objective, and that would involve at least the examination of this entire story in more human terms.

As people arguing for a more realistic portrayal of Mark Prophet I can offer myself and my three sisters, Mark's five children from his first family, Peter Arnone (author of Mark Prophet, the Man and the Myth), John Pietrangelo (author of Lambs to the Slaughter), Randall King (my mother's third husband, who knew Mark very well in the years before his death). There are no doubt others. But that's beside the point.

Mark Prophet was neither a god nor a monster. He was a human being with typical desires and drives. He had the gift of gab, a thirst for personal power, and more than ordinary insecurities.

As a young man, he felt he had been unrecognized for his spiritual gifts, and had limited material success for the first 40 years of his life. But then he had hit upon a winning formula: by becoming a "messenger" he could express his spiritual beliefs and be materially rewarded at the same time. He finally managed to put together the support base and recognition he had been looking for. He left his first wife and five children and married my mom, who was twenty years younger. In essence, he did what anyone in his position would have done: he went all-out.

As his supporters grew and contributed more money, he began to feel beyond reproach. He began to believe his own press. He eventually became almost completely disconnected from what composed his real power base--the loyal members and staff. He could abuse them, he could treat them like slaves and damn if they didn't come back for more!

The more cruel and insensitive he and Elizabeth became over the years, the more the staff worshiped them. What human beings could handle that kind of positive feedback without becoming corrupted?

This book fails to address that question. As a historical record, I'm glad Reichardt wrote it. He has an excellent memory, and these events need to be documented. I'm glad to have it for my family history if nothing else. So I give it four stars. But that's where my praise ends. The flamboyantly fictional embellishments of supernatural fantasy take this book into another realm--that of a Paul-Bunyanesque spiritual tall tale which nonetheless reeks of abuse and dupery. The coup de'grace in that department was the account on p.178 where Alex was serving my dad breakfast in his bedroom. Dad thought that Alex looked a little nervous, so he threw the tray of food at him, saying "Forget about yourself and just serve!"

Any man who wasn't wearing an imaginary dog-collar would have quit on the spot. Alex justified the act as something he needed for his growth. This is the mentality of a slave.

I'm all for consensual slavery if that's what someone really wants. I've known several people in that situation. Some people thrive on surrender and self-effacement. They find a form of freedom there. I do think that under the right conditions with the right master, it's a viable container for psychological growth, but it's fraught with perils: In order for the slave to consent, s/he needs to first have full self-awareness and the absolute strongest grounding in objective reality.

As for the master: upon acceptance of the slave's submission, he becomes fully responsible for the slave's well-being. If he is a benign master, he will only give the slave tasks and correction designed to help him, rather than further debase him. It has to be a relationship based on true love and humility, not self-interest. The master should treat their slave as they would their own child--lifting the slave up, to add to the slaves esteem, rather than break it down. It's a rare human being who has the developed psyche to pull that off, which is why healthy submission remains so rare. In my view, my father was either not up to the task, or for some sadistic reason singled out Alex for his very special and extreme mockery and mistreatment. It takes a lot to shock me these days, but reading this book I was repeatedly shocked by Reichardt's justifications of my dad's bad behavior. Even if he's cool with it, I'm ashamed.

Because of his preoccupation with the (imaginary) spiritual pantheon of the Summit Lighthouse, in my view Reichardt lacked the self-awareness to evaluate his position. His narrative proceeds with one foot in the spirit world and he sees everything through that lens. No matter how bad it got, he held Mark Prophet as an unimpeachable guru in the spiritual "tradition of the eastern adepts." But unless you're a true believer and share that view (placing Mark Prophet in the company of the Dalai Lama), his story comes off as a caricature. I'm sorry, but you'd never see the Dalai Lama throwing a tray of food at one of his monks, nor making a fool of himself by engaging in any other of my dad's far-from-humble shenanigans. Epic fail in guruland!

It's a pity, because Alex is a man who really could use a dose of good news after the merciless pummeling he received from both my parents for most of his adult life. Instead, he compounded the error by writing a book turning it around. He recasts the humiliation as a badge of honor. This unfortunately leaves the entire episode glorified and therefore more likely to be repeated by other would-be gurus in the future.

To Alex: I know you're a good man and I know you have the best of intentions. Anytime you want to talk to me about what really happened, I'm there for you, and I'm truly sorry for the way my parents treated you. As Peter Arnone said, I know you are capable of figuring this out if you are so inclined.
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Your initial post: Nov 11, 2008 7:28 AM PST
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This review by Sean Prophet is really pitiful. The best that can be said about it, is that it is the most extreme example of the scrooge-like consciousness that I have ever seen expressed by a living human being. This is the hallmark of disembodied spirits no doubt. But to hear this sentiment so accurately channeled into the physical domain, well, that is really exceptional, in the most upside down sense of the word. And I say that, because this is Mark Prophet's first born son, and all Mark Prophet ever gave to him was love and kindness. And this is what Sean now thinks is just payment?

What a sharp contrast there is between the soul who once stood upon the mountainside of Divine Reality, and the one who has been dragged off that mountain by hordes of demons into the very abyss of their teeth-grinding blindness. For a glimpse of the real Sean C. Prophet, indeed, the absolute truth about the divine soul who once had a handle upon the Light, please see: HTTP://WWW.SEANPROPHET.INFO/

These dark glasses which Sean Prophet now wears with such arrogant (and delusional) pride (as if they are windows into all truth), have become so thick, that he can no longer even see the glint of the sunlight off the pacific ocean at sunset. The sparkle of sunlight off the water no longer makes an impression upon his retinas. The dark greys of contempt and disdain, these are the only things that occupy his attention now.

This book, "ALL FOR THE LOVE OF GOD", is filled with examples of how Mark Prophet was kind to Alex, and more. Sure, life on this planet, has always been a mixed bag. And yes, when steel and flint come together, you can imagine that there will be sparks. But as the author's words attest, as to his situation, the good out weighs the bad on the order of about ten million to one.

And certainly, this has got to be a new low, equating your own father to a practitioner of sado-masochism, knowing from experience that nothing Mark Prophet ever did would ever justify such a comparison. No not ever. What an inky black flow of slime-like falsehood pours out of your prideful and arrogant mouth. If Mark Prophet were alive today, he would and could sue you for libel, and win. Because clearly, the intent to destroy is behind your every word as clear as day. In this you are engaging in the most cruel form of calumny and character assassination, and that of your own father. Your own father! Where is the Sean Christopher Prophet who yet has the capacity to feel shame at this public dismemberment of the character of his own father? Where is the remnant of sanity that can report to the soul the presence of such a raging sickness out of which pours, like so much puss, a black desire to do damage to a father who has only given you kindness and love? Where is the Sean Christopher Prophet who has some spine, some courage, to stand up and say to these sinister forces pouring their garbage through your heart and mind and mouth, thus far and no farther?

(And as an after-thought, what level of objectivity, in all truth, could his sisters still retain, if they do not have the spine to stand up against their brother's dark-hearted excesses on this very thread? Indeed, why doesn't Erin stand up and say to the world, "My Father does not deserve to be abused like this!" Why doesn't Tatiana stand up and say to the world, "My Father does not deserve to be abused like this!" Why doesn't Moira stand up and say to the world, "My Father does not deserve to be abused like this!" What exactly is it, that is holding you back from speaking the truth in this regard? What does Love mean, if it will not come to the defense of the integrity of a loved one, even a parent, so dear, who never gave you anything but love and kindness himself? When you meet your Dad face to face, as the forces of Love gather to bring this event to you, let not shame mar the happiness of the occasion. Let this be an opportunity to take a first step towards healing and resolution, by simply speaking up, and expressing the truth as you well know it to be. The process by which the law of your own Divine Being unfolds, requires the championship of truth. Does your father deserve this kind of abuse? Yes or No. Stand up and speak the truth as you see it.)

Your post: Nov 15, 2008 5:33 PM PST
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Dear JoJo,

Responding to your comment (http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#9), I would say, that I have given you an expression of total reason, and total truth. And in that dark shadow of Atheist sympathy into which the demons have dragged you, under the very warm and comforting armpit of "Sean Prophet", you are of course shocked and disturbed that someone can express a reality that is so starkly opposed (by its radiance) to the shadow world you now call home. Well, come on out of there! You are a Child of God destined to know the Love of your Heavenly Father and Mother face to face once again. But you must put your hand in the hand of one who knows the way back up the mountain of truth and realization. Only the Ascended Masters, Jesus Christ for one, know the way. Come on now. Surely there must be something very disturbing about how a person like Sean can be drawn into such a state of cold-heartedness, that he would try to dismember the very character of this own father in such a public and arrogant manner? To feel any amount of sympathy for such an approach is an indicator to you that you have been dragged into the darkness, and no longer live in the Light, not even the Light of Common Sense.

Sincerely,
Steven S. Showers

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P.S. Over at the corresponding thread at BSJ, (http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#11) I see that "Sean" has responded to your question. It should not surprise anyone, that if a heart can be turned so cold against the father who gave him life, and love, and devotion, so cold that he could be driven to dismember the character of that father in public, and with relish, lick the blade clean after every slash, why would he keep the knife of calumny in its scabbard when it comes to me? He has not. His comments concerning me are likewise, gross distortions of the truth. I have only endeavored to call him back to the path that would lead to his total freedom. And I will continue to do so. The force that speaks through the mouth of Sean Prophet today, it is the spirit of the astral slave master, a substantial personage in the False Hierarchy, which has only stinging cups of hatred to serve up to those who advocate the cause of freedom in the light. Under the power of the slavemaster's iron chains, the soul of Sean Prophet has been both buried, and shackled, and no longer has any power to stand up for what is true. Nevertheless, as the forces of Divine Love gather and consolidate, his day of freedom draws ever closer. It is not his destiny to be dragged down to the very bottom of the pit. The shining hand of great love and great light will yet reach out to him, and he will take that hand, and be lifted up and away from the boiling caldron of insanity in which he has become imprisoned, and thereby, to the great consternation of the entire False Hierarchy, the true Sean Prophet will share in the New Day of Spiritual Liberty that will sweep this nation, and this planet.

P.S.S. As to the mention of toenail fungus, "Sean" fails to mention, that the toenail fungus photo was sent as a reference point in a healing project. "Sean" is always asking for evidence for the Reality of God, and so, I made an effort to give him some evidence, showing how the Love of God can heal a condition of toenail fungus. And as everyone knows, this is tenacious condition, that once it has a hold, cannot be eradicated without entering into a very expensive regime of some fairly substantial drugs. And so, the goal is to show (the Real Sean) how the Love of God can heal this condition without the use of those drugs. The evidence required a record of the condition to be healed. And besides, there is a larger point to be made. The fungus infestation in my toenails is nothing compared to the fungus infestation in his mind (a metaphor for the choking growth of doubt), neverthelss, both of which the Love of God our Father and Mother can heal. When he sees the photo of totally healed toenails, there will be evidence of the Reality of God, and the Reality of God's Love. Seeing that evidence with his own eyes, will give the Real Sean something to hang onto in terms of reality, helping to arrest the tumbling slide down the mountain and into the abyss. He will see in those healed toenails, not just an example of the Love of God for me, but the Love of God our Father for him (i.e. the Real Sean). This healing will not be so much for me, as it will be for him.

P.S.S.S. Further in "Seans" response to you, (http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#11), he characterizes my behavior in regards to him and his family as "stalking". This is certainly a character slam if there ever was one. A poison dart of calumny to be sure. It is an allegation he knows to be false, yet he speaks it as if it were true, and thus, this astral creature which has control of Sean's mouth, can compell that mouth to utter outright lies. And so it is, that everything which this "Sean" says, should be analyzed against that backdrop. Of course, the contention that there is no God is one of the biggest lies in the cosmos. And that lie flows out of his mouth like hot tar at every opportunity. At any rate, in regards to the "stalking" allegation, let's be clear, that all objective and rationale minds must label that allegation as ridiculous. Everything I have said to him and the members of his family, through emails, and the regular mail, has been said in the context of their past participation in the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, and the role they played as leaders in the CUT/TSL community. The aim of my communications have always been two-fold. First, to try to help them understand why they should stop attacking the Organization and the Church which their parents founded and the Teachings which their parents delivered. Second, to help them to see the wisdom in returning to the Path of Initiation, and the wisdom in completing the mission for which they were born into the Messenger's family in the first place. In regards to Sean, my communications could be characterized as voluminous, but there is nothing strange about that, in as much as Sean's attack upon his parents and the Teachings have been likewise voluminous. This "Sean", i.e. the astral creature that has control of his emotional body, and his mouth, would like to demean my efforts to defend the church and the teachings which his parents anchored in the earth by labeling these efforts as "stalking". But no objective observer could possibly agree with that characterization. Most objective observers, when they know the facts, would be far more inclined to agree with me, that to use the word "stalking" in relationship to my communication efforts, amounts more to a LIE than anything else.

P.S.S.S.S. This "Sean", i.e. the astral creature which has control of his emotional body, and his mouth, speaks another falsehood in the characterization of why IT banned me from posting comments to the BS Journal. It was not because of personal attacks. It was because I tried to make the case for the Reality of God, and I think I could even produce an email he wrote to me warning me that I was using the word "God" too much, and I should stop it. But I did not stop it. If my memory serves me correctly, the straw that broke the camel's back, was my posting of a very long excerpt from an article (written by someone else and correctly attributed) that helped to make my case. That is when he actually banned me, using the excuse that I was trying to take over his blog, and that is when he began describing me as a "troll". Let the record be clear. This "Sean", i.e. the astral creature that has control of his emotional body, and his mouth, would not know the truth if it poked him in the eye. The Real Sean Prophet, (see: HTTP://WWW.SEANPROPHET.INFO) does however know the truth, and I imagine that that Sean is growing more and more disgusted with the things that are flowing out of his mouth. When will the time come, when he will stand up, and start fighting back, that is the all-important question. Let's hope it will be sooner, rather than later.

Your post: Nov 18, 2008 10:32 AM PST
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Mount Irony
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There is certainly a mountain of Irony in the fact that "Sean Prophet" chose to title his review "Happiness In Slavery". It is Ironic, because his own emotional body has become a slave to the dark projections of a Black Magician (who resides on the astral plane) that follows him around everywhere he goes, coming to feel that Sean's body has become his own. Any rationale mind will have to admit that this is the only reasonable explanation for having fallen so far away from his one-time sense of Reality in the Light. (For a perspective on the Real Sean, as he was, before his emotional body was taken over by one or more astral representatives of the False Hierarchy, see HTTP://WWW.SEANPROPHET.INFO)

As to the supposed "slavery" associated with chelaship under the Ascended Masters, that lifestyle only describes the same kind of determination and discipline that a tightrope walker must demonstrate as he transverses the high wire stretched from bank to bank over the raging waters of Niagra Falls. Once one has determined to set out on this kind of a journey, the fall can be fatal (in a spiritual sense). As Sean Prophet himself has demonstrated. Is the tight-rope walker a slave to the need to keep his balance step after step after step? I suppose you could look at it that way. And when hurricane winds blow, and there is no possible way for the tight-rope walker to retain his balance, i.e. as a matter of his own skill and strength, is he then a "slave" to the need to hold fast to the Master's hand to keep his upright position on the high-wire? I suppose you could look at it that way too.

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P.S. To illustrate how these agents of the False Hierarchy manipulate the emotional body of their hosts, I would direct the readers attention to this post by "Sean Prophet" at the BS Journal, titled "Prop. 8 Protest - A Beautiful Sight" in which the false hierarchy controller expresses the following sentiment right through the open door of Sean's emotional body, and I quote: "I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a super-majority and for a damn good reason." (see: http://www.blacksunjournal.com/current-affairs/1496_prop-8-protest-a-beautiful-sight_2008.html)

Make note of the fact that he put the word "love" in italics. That is how upside-down one's desire nature can be turned under the influence of the False Hierarchy. He "loves" the energy of rebellion? Who is it that really "loves" the mass expression of the energy of rebellion? It is certainly a high operative of the False Hierarchy who now uses Sean Prophet's emotional body as his own living room.

And as you can see, the sentiment expressed, tramples all over the truth, and twists it all out of shape. The truth is, that the Constitution of the State of California already included an implicit ban against homosexual marriage, as this was the status quo of the Law when the Constitution was first adopted back in the 1800's.

Yes, the sentiments of a super majority of the people, like 99.9%, was embodied in the original California State Constitution, 1849, and its revision in 1879, that the only kind of marriage that existed in the universe, was that between one man and one woman. The wording of the Preamble reflects the existing universe of thought at the time: "We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure and perpetuate its blessings, do establish this Constitution." Homosexuality was universally held to be a perversion of God's Law, and thus, it would be impossible to argue, that the people of that day included an implicit right in their Constitution to provide for homosexual marriage. They obviously did not.

This was the status quo of the legal universe at that time, and to have changed that status quo, (one which could have NEVER imagined homosexual marriage), one would have had to amend the existing Constitution to recognize a newly discovered "right" of homosexuals to marry. And this would have been fairly easy given the abilility of the people to amend their Constitution through initiative. But in all the years since the adoption of the original Constitution, the people of California have never recognized such a right, and thus, they have never amended their State Constitution to reflect such a right.

And so, that "right" did not exist in the Constitution of the State of California when it was adopted, and it was never added, in subsequent years, to that Constitution by the people.

It is only through reinterpretation by a few deluded and intellectually dishonest judges, that this "right" was (recently) declared part of the California State Constitution. Proposition 8 therefore was not an act to strip a segment of the population of their rights. They never had those rights. Proposition 8 was an act by the people of the State of California to reverse the overreaching behavior of the California Supreme Court which found a "right" where no "right" ever existed, and thus to restore the integrity of their Constitution to its original intent. No right ever existed in the California State Constitution for homosexuals to marry. Proposition 8 simply moves that fact from a binding legal implication (which the judges ignored), to a binding legal statement (which the judges cannot ignore).

And yes, guess who is behind the homosexual rights movement. It is the False Hierarchy using coercive force against the weak emotional bodies of the people to rebel against the Law of God and all common sense. Indeed, if you really want to understand what exactly is the effect of Rock Music on the temple of the soul, it is this weakening of the emotional body, the stripping away of all natural defensive mechanisms, whereby the powerful Anti-God sentiments of the False Hierachy can be injected therein, and the people, having no discernment, take these feelings as their own.

Your post: Nov 18, 2008 6:20 PM PST
I am happy to report that HTTP://WWW.SEANPROPHET.INFO is getting some brisk traffic. That is where the truth is concerning Sean C. Prophet.

Your post: Nov 19, 2008 9:04 AM PST
Last edited by you on Nov 19, 2008 10:07 AM PST
Responding to the Comments of "Sean Prophet" and Becky Lipinski at the BS Journal:

http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#18
http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#19

What value is a shadow which obscures the truth, and which can become so deep, that it takes on a life of its own, in terms of the extremes of opacity to which it aspires, and which, thereby, can totally and effectively hide the truth from the eyes of the soul? What value is that shadow? Especially the deep shadows cast across the mind by the agents of the sinister force operating from their hidden domain on the astral plane?

Take for example the soul who can appreciate the beauty of the rose, both in appearance and fragrance, and in terms of its myriad intangible qualities. In the act of appreciation the consciousness will actually glow with the Light of God, for the act of appreciating God's Creation, is by definition an attribute of the Inner Light (which will always extend out from the center of the heart when respectfully beckoned). And for the moment, standing in that Light, the soul is beckoned on into the greater light of truth, which gives, as a matter of intellectual honesty, just credit to God, and thus, can extend a greater gratitude thereto, for the Beauty that He has so abundantly laid out before us in the soft folds of the many petals of the rose.

Consider if you will, the galaxies of atoms and electrons which work towards this unfathomable display of coordination and beauty, even from the bud, to the blossom. Let the eyes of your mind penetrate into the billions of cells which make up each of the petals in embryo tightly packed in the rose bud. See the billions of cells in each embryonic petal. And watch how each of the billions of cells grow in perfect coordination in relationship one to the other to form the perfect petal. And watch how each of the billions of cells grow in perfect coordination in relationship to the billions of cells in the other petals, indeed all of the other petals. And watch this dance of unfathomable coordination outpicture itself all at once, in the thousands of roses in this particular field. Who but God our Father and Mother has such a coordinating capacity coupled with such a wondrous sense of artistry and beauty?

We truly marvel at the coordination of the master juggler, who can keep twenty are thirty objects under control over a period of time. Truly we say WOW! But here we have the true master juggler, who can control billions of cells, and the countless mega-billions of atoms and electrons of which they are composed, all to the production of one of the most beautiful natural and living scuptures that the world knows. The heart in its natural and unencumbered state says WOW times a million.

The more clearly we see the wonder of the creation, the more definite and intense is our gratitude, and thus, the more intense does the Inner Light expand, revealing in turn, ever more wonders to behold. And so, I would ask you, what is the value of that shadow which can, and does hide this very Inner Light from the eyes of the soul?

Your post: Nov 20, 2008 11:24 AM PST
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Responding to the additional Comment of Becky Lipinski at the BS Journal:

http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#21

Given the sheer magnitude of the desire of God our Father and Mother, for their children, each one, to personally know, once again, the sheer magnitude of Their Love for Their Child, for example, Their Child Sean, and Their Child Becky, given the sheer magnitude of their desire for each child to know the magnitude of Their Love Personally, and to come into contact once again with the miraculous healing power always inherent in their love, I would ask you this question. What is the value of the shadow, that falls upon the mind, and the feeling world, that obscures this great truth, and the great quest associated with it? What is the value of that shadow, that falls upon the mind, and the feeling word, that becomes so deep and opaque (through the hidden intervention of agents of the false hierarchy on the astral plane) that the mind of the soul can be twisted so out of shape as to deny the very Reality of the God who actually Created the Soul (in the first place) and who constantly sends the energy by which the very heart is made to beat? What is the value of that shadow?

In the domain of Spirit and Truth where God our Father and Mother have their core existence, even as that existence is omnipresent, the psychology of the child, which is to say, the configuration of the mind and the feeling world, which is determined by the geometry of the thoughts and feelings which compose it, determines, just as the physical body would on the earth plane, when and how the child can visit the Father and the Mother in Their House, and wherein, will further determine when and how the child can receive the monumental hug of Love that THEY so much desire to bestow upon their child. I hug of love, that I assure you, would ignite all the fires of happiness in the child's heart.

I am drawing the parallel between what our outer minds are familiar with on the earth plane, to the principles of movement and contact within the domain of spirt and truth wherein God our Father and Mother have their perceivable and tangible existence (even as they are, and their house is, omnipresent).

In the physical world, we have souls who play the role of father and mother. Assuming that they are still both in embodiment, we know where they live. And if we are to visit them, we need to first make that choice. Once the choice is made, if the father and the mother live close buy, the most we will need to do is get into our car. We need to start the car, pull out of the driveway, and navigate the various streets, and to do this in a very precise and exact manner, to arrive at the right house. For some people, who parents live many thousands of miles away, it takes more effort to get to their house. Some might choose to take a train. Some might choose to take a bus. Some might choose to take an airplane. But however we choose to get there, will be in a car when we arrive, our own car, one that we rented, or a taxi. At that point, we need to get out of the car, walk up to the door, and ring the door bell. When our father and mother open the door, there they are ready to give us the biggest hug of love imaginable. If we step quickly into the house, we will receive the hug the sooner. Though, if we hesitate, nevertheless, the door is open, they will step out and give us that big hug.

All of these outer activities which are required in the physical domain to get to our (physical) parents house, and to receive their hug of love, will have, and do have their corresponding counterparts in the inner world of spirit and truth where the soul resides, and wherein the House of the One Father and Mother exists. In the inner world of spirit and truth, the soul's active choice in determining the geometry of thought in its own mind, and the geometry of feeling in its own emotional body, correspond to the various physical world activities (mentioned above) required to visit our parents. To visit our Divine Parents, and to put ourselves thereby in a position to receive the most important hug of love the soul can ever receive, anywhere, and at anytime, it requires that we choose and we determine to establish the correct and appropriate configuration of thought and feeling. Just like, in the above example, when we choose to make the visit, and where we choose to buy an airline ticket, and where we choose to call the taxi, and where we choose to get into it when it arrives, and so forth, so too, when we choose to visit our Divine Parents, the One Father and Mother of all Creation, we must choose to establish the correct thought structure in the mind, and the correct feeling structure in the emotional body.

What kind of vehicle of thought, what kind of vehicle of feeling, allows the soul to enter into the House of God, and to receive the hug of love which the Divine Parents, God our Father and Mother, so much desire to bestow? In esoteric circles, we see ancient symbols pointing to this simple truth, where wings are shown attached to the mind, or to the heart. The human mind cannot manufacture such thoughts and feelings. These have to be presented to the soul by the Ascended Masters. And this begins by refreshing the soul's memory as to the Glory and Magnitude of Goodness, Honor, Integrity, Kindness, Compassion, Care, Concern, and Love which compose the character of the One Father and Mother. In this regard, the soul needs to KNOW where it is going, exactly and precisely, if it is ever to arrive there, in the arms of these Loving Divine Parents. These are very high, beautiful, and powerful perceptions which galvanize the attention of the soul, which only true Ascended Masters can give. Once the soul receives one such idea, or thought, or experience --- and in the domain of Divine Reality, a "thought" is all of this and more --- the soul then works on the process of assimiliating what it has been shown. For example, the rubber tires on this soul vehicle (which has sat in the garage for centuries) have rotted away. The Masters present the soul with one tire at a time. The soul needs to install each tire. The soul needs to jack the car up, remove the old tire, and put on the new one. Only then can the rubber hit the road as it were, and the vehicle move upon the divine highways once again. (And this metaphor can be fruitfully stretched to a very large extent when considering all things that become unfunctional due to the lack of maintenance and neglect.)

When God our Father and Mother say I AM, they have a very definite idea of what they are. It is important to understand that they have endowed their Children with the capacity to see and experience the very same things when they too say I AM. However, the Children come into the realization of this total scope of divine reality in a progressive manner, according to the need presented by life circumstances. According to need, new divine resources are intended to come to life within the pool of the Divine Soul. And to bring these resources forth, the Child was endowed with a corresponding creative power. Thus, like unto God our Father and Mother, the power to invoke the tangible substance of Divine Reality was given to their Children in the use of the Word. The Ascended Masters teach the forgetful children how to use this power once again to draw forth from LIFE all that is necessary for the rebuilding and the restoring of their vehicles of thought and feeling to their divine and normal flight status.

In the present state of earthly existence, the soul is shackled, and its movement is thereby obstructed by the structure of thought and feeling - within which it has encased itself, by wrong choices (over many lifetimes).

From within the context of its current predicament, the process required of the soul to get home, as it were, and to receive directly, the huge hug of love which the Father and the Mother so much desire to bestow upon the child, requires the dismantling of the structure of movement inhibiting chains. Representing this predicament in physical terms, we might say, that every soul on earth is like unto the Master Magician Houdini who has shut himself up in a trunk on the living room floor. Not only did he wrap himself up in many layers of chains before getting into the trunk, but he had his "assistants" wrap the trunk itself in many layers of chains, with many powerful locks. And now, if he is going to visit his mom and dad, before he can even walk out of the house, and get into his car, and so forth, he must figure out how to free himself from those chains, and figure out how to get out of that trunk. Something which Houdini was able to do by the way. And so, once the chains are removed, then the soul can be taught how to configure its own thoughts and feelings that will then provide the appropriate vehicle for the soul to travel to the House of the Divine Father and Mother, to receive the hug that will ignite all the fires of happiness in the heart of the child.

The Teachings of the Ascended Masters, which were delivered by your dad, Mark L. Prophet, were, from the first to the last, designed to assist the soul in learning how to break free from the chains which bind spiritual movement, and moreover, to teach the soul once again, how to configure the structure of thought and feeling within its own temple, so the soul would be FREE once again to visit the Father and the Mother at will, and to receive that happiness-igniting hug (from the One God) as many times throughout the day as they wish, even unto all the days of eternity.

All of this grinding of teeth by Peter Arnone, and by "Sean Prophet", indicates the situation in which the soul had entered into this higher educational process, but ultimately lost the battle for freedom within the precinct of its own temple, wherein, they have been persuaded once again, to receive within their psychology these very dark shadows of denial (projected by the agents of the false hierarchy on the astral plane) and thereby being pressed by powerful and aggressive emotional energies to reenter the erroneous belief structure (the chained trunk on the living-room floor) that these patterns of thought and feeling represent their own thoughts and feelings. Wrong. This powerful emotional energy which has the soul denying the very existence of God, this can only come from an outside source. The soul by itself, could never descend into a state of such foolishness (on its own power).

For you Becky Lipinski, the daughter of Mark L. Prophet, the path to "closure" and resolution with your earthly father, and indeed, even your Heavenly Father and Mother, is in recognizing the important and revolutionary nature of the Teaching which your dad brought to the earth, not a product of his own mind and heart, but a product of the Divine Hearts, and Divine Minds, of the Ascended Masters who chose your dad to be Their Messenger.

The goal of these Higher Brothers and Sisters is very well defined, and precise, and it is to reconcile the soul with the Love of God Their Father and Mother (period). This is the most beautiful agenda that anyone on earth could serve, as this alone makes possible the release of untold waves of happiness and paradise to sweep the planet up into a Golden Age, and your dad served it wonderfully. Because of the effort and sacrifice made by your dad, true happiness is within reach of the billions of souls sojourning on earth, each one God's Precious Child. (No matter how far they might have fallen into the shadow - a precious child of God, will always remain a precious child of God - remember, that a child who falls face down into the mud, the Divine Parent does not lose a full heart's content of love for that child at the fall, but actually the intensity of love grows, as the Father and the Mother reach down to pick the child up - and even as the child swims away, and out of their hand, the intensity of love grows as the Father and the Mother work the harder to raise the child back up). When you come to understand, through personal experience, the value of that Teaching, then you will be in a position to appreciate the choices made by your dad in regards to the establishment of the Summit Lighthouse.

Indeed, the word "closure" will not be a part of your vocabulary. As there will be no desire in your heart to close this golden book of soul freedom, of which your relationship with Mark L. Prophet is but the first chapter.

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P.S. I would say to those who have this propensity to sit there in the shadows and to click away at the "non-helpful" button, refusing to speak up and explain yourself, and thus run the danger of exposing to the world the hollowness of your own thinking, that such behavior is cowardly. The integrity of such behavior is like standing behind a thick hedge and poking people with the tip of your sword as they walk by, giving them no opportunity to see the face of their attacker. If you have an opinion, have the courage to step up and and state it clearly.

Your post: Nov 20, 2008 10:27 PM PST
Last edited by you 11 hours ago
Responding to the additional comment by Becky (Prophet) Lipinski at the BS Journal:

http://www.blacksunjournal.com/mark-prophet/1471_mark-prophet-the-man-and-the-myth-part-5_2008.html#29

I will bypass the obvious, Becky, in relationship to the considerable effort you have made to not answer my question. Upon reflection, you might come to appreciate more and more how important the question is, and will remain, even for all time. And then, perhaps, you will become inspired to come back and give it another try. And in anticipation of that day, perhaps you might consider buying a good book here on Amazon.com so you can post your answers directly to this thread. A good place to start would be this fine book, "All for the Love of God - Life with Mark Prophet, a Modern-Day Mystic" by Alex Reichardt and Margaret Reichardt. This would be a good choice for you I think, in terms of a first purchase from Amazon, in as much as the book is about your father. The moment you order it, I think you get posting privileges. You don't even have to wait for the book to arrive.

Now, in regards to this statement, "I don't totally refute the existence of God, I simply doubt it. There's nothing I'd like better than to find out that a benevolent creator exists ..." Fair enough. Let us proceed on this useful line of thought.

The state of doubt which is so powerful as to block the soul's perception of what Thomas Jefferson termed the "self-evident" is always projected from the agents of the sinister force on the astral plane. They have an inroad into the emotional body and use their power as a lever to pry the attention away from the contemplation of the Reality of God. This philosphical framework that you describe, where you hold in some disdain the principle of absolute evil, as well as the principle of absolute good, has its origin in the domain of absolute evil. Indeed, look how self-serving it is from their standpoint. They hide behind it, and at the same time, put your mind into a state of denial as to the very power that would not just expose them, but would drive them away. This is a dilemma, from one degree to another, for every soul on earth, because there is no way for the soul to protect itself from the influence of the sinister force without the help of a Higher Power. God, who is the source of absolute good, is also the source of power that can defeat all influences of the dark side. And therefore, our Heavenly Father, being totally good, and wanting to put an end to the suffering of His children under the weighty oppression of this dilemma, has sent the Ascended Masters our most blessed Brothers and Sisters who reside in a state of total God-Mastery, into the earth, for the purpose of placing into the hands of the Children of God, a remedy. That remedy is the call to Archangel Michael.

Sure, the demons scoff at it, and that scoffing can be heard out of the mouths of many, as it registers on the emotional bodies of those who have no protection. And they believe this massaging of their emotional body, in this configuration of mockery, is an expression of their own independent identity. But it is not. It is always a projection, the purpose of which is to bend the mind of the child away from the use of the very instrument given (by God) for the freedom of the soul. Make no mistake about it. Even as these astral entities mock the use of this decree to Archangel Michael, their knees are literally shaking, and they are terrified, because if you take up the call, Blue Flame Angels immediately descend to bind these astral creatures. Indeed, their day is done. And the New Day for you is just beginning.

Here is the beginning of PROOF positive that a benevolent creator does exist, who will send the Light of His Heart to you, via the heart of the Archangel not just to drive the demons away, and to keep a forcefield of protection around you, as long as you keep making the call on a daily basis, but who will clearly register the power of his love upon your soul, which you will experience as that peace that passeth all understanding, a beautiful paradise presence. You will know it as a power you have never experienced before in your entire life.

You give the preamble first. Then each verse followed by the refrain, just like a song. The name I AM THAT I AM is the name of God given to Moses as recorded in the book of Exodus. The name I AM actually refers to the creator of all universes, and all life therein. Yes, the Father and Mother which created you and me, also created lifewaves without end, sojourning on billions of planetary homes throughout the farthest regions of the cosmos. This is one of the great mysteries and magical qualities of the One God, who can have billions of children, yet can make each one feel like an only child in terms of the unlimited reserves of love that can be poured out continuously and personally to every child. The name of Lanello, as you might know, is the name which your father Mark Prophet is now known by in the Ascended State. The Holy Christ Self represents the Divine Identity that you once had full possession of, the parameters of which are stored in your Causal Body at this very moment, an identity that God your Father desires to give back to you, completely and totally, which is really, the definition of finding your way home.

Have courage. Step forward in the direction of God, the Father and Mother who gave birth to your soul so very long ago. Whose love for you is still quantified in the domain of the infinite. They will respond. But remember that the law of freewill controls. If you want the help of God, and thus the proof of God's existance, you must ask for it.

(preamble) In The Name of the Beloved Mightly Victorous Presence of God, I AM in me, my very own beloved Holy Christ Self, Holy Christ Selves of all Mankind, Beloved Archangel Michael, beloved Lanello, The entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother, Elemental Life-Fire Air,Water and Earth I Decree:

1. Lord Micheael, Lord Michael,
I Call unto Thee-
Weld Thy Sword Of Blue Flame
And Now Cut Me Free!

Refrain: Blaze God Power, Protection Now into my world,
Thy Banner Of faith Above Me unfurl!
Transcendent Blue Lighting
Now Flash Through my Soul,
I AM by God's Mercy made Radiant and Whole!

2. Lord Michael, Lord Michael,
I Love thee I do-
With all thy Great Faith
My Being Imbue!

3. Lord Michael, Lord Michael
And Legions of Blue-
Come Seal Me, Now keep Me
Faithful and True!

Coda: I AM with thy Blue flame
Now Full charged and Blest,
I Am now in Michael's Blue Flame Armor Dressed! ( 3x)

And in Full Faith I consciously accept this Manifest , Manifest, Manifest! ( 3x )
Right here and now with full Power, Eternally sustained, all Powerfully Active,
ever Expanding, And World infolding until all are wholly ascended in the Light and free!
Beloved I Am, Beloved I Am, Beloved I Am!

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P.S. To those who have this propensity to sit there in the shadows and to click away at the "non-helpful" button, refusing to speak up and explain yourself, indeed, knees knocking with the fear of exposing to the world the hollowness of your own thinking, I would say to these people that such behavior is cowardly. The integrity of such behavior is like standing behind a thick hedge and poking people with the tip of your sword as they walk by, giving them no opportunity to see the face of their attacker. If you have an opinion, and have any self-respect to go along with it, have the courage to step up and and state it clearly.

Your post: Nov 21, 2008 9:44 AM PST
You edited this post
Responding to the latest comment of "Sean Prophet" at the BS Journal:

http://www.blacksunjournal.com/books/1483_happiness-in-slavery_2008.html#23

"Sean Prophet" says, "I have deleted my recent comments regarding Steven Showers. They were undignified and beneath what I think belongs in this forum." This will explain why the links to his comments above no longer track correctly. And the deletion of those comments change the numbering of all comments, and thus, the references to Becky's comments do not track exactly either. But, we will just have to live with that.

"Sean Prophet" says, "I will no longer talk to or about him on this site." And then he goes on to speak more than 800 additional words about me. Some of which includes some of the same points of calumny that were in his original posts (which he deleted).

"Sean Prophet" says, "If I have to, I will delete comments that include his name or any reference to him." Hmmm. That sounds like a definite threat of censorship and thought control to me. "Sean Prophet" decides what the "truth" is, and everyone must fall in step with him. This would be a fruitful area of analysis. Indeed, he rails at his mother and his father for their my-way-or-the-highway mentality, yet here he is establishing and enforcing the same kind of policy. Hypocrisy? We get a whiff of it here.

"Sean Prophet" says, "BSJ was started to be a discussion about ideas, not personalities." Hmmm. When Frodo and Sam approached the huge swamp that lay before the gates of Mordor, they testified to a great stink in the air. Here we can smell the great stink of hypocrisy, powerful, pungent, and nearly overwhelming. He says the BS Journal is not about personalities. Right. And he says that after publishing reams of personality attack pieces about his mother and his own father, and then fans the flame of discussion into a commentary about the flaws in those personalities. Where he waves in the vultures to pick at the carcasses.

"Sean Prophet" says, "Mr. Showers has long ago disqualified himself as a participant or subject of any meaningful discussion for the following reasons:" Well, let's take a look at the "reasons".

[to be continued ...]

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P.S. I love to debate "Sean Prophet", it is so easy to blast huge gaping holes in his arguments. This debate experience gives him the opportunity to actually stand in those huge holes in the walls of what he believes to be his impentrable castle of "logic" and "reason". Yes, he gets an opportunity to stand in the midst of those huge gaping holes, and therein he can feel a sense of the genuine foolishness of his position, forcing him to face the truth that his arguments cannot in fact stand direct and forceful scrutiny, exposing to his face the delusion of perfection which his philopshy exudes, making him the more angry, and then what does he do? He picks up his marbles and goes home, trailing clouds of shame. That's why he won't stand up and debate me face to face anymore. His astral plane controllers pull his chain, using their anger collar, and he will vanish from the battlefield, lest the Real Sean Prophet come to appreciate the truth that I am speaking, and make a move towards freedom.

In retrospect, in reference to this last statement, I think that perhaps some might characterize this last thought as a bit of bravado. But no. It is actually the cold hard truth. Use the statement referenced above as an example. "BSJ was started to be a discussion about ideas, not personalities." Here is what "Sean" believes to be a sturdy wall of his castle of logic, reason, and intellectual integrity. And then we poke him in the ribs, and say, Hey Sean, look over here. Look at the reams and reams of material that you have posted attacking the personality of your own mother and father. And look how you have fostered this pile-on mentality among those who are looking for an avenue to express their own hatred. Setting up these two personalities as veritable punching bags for every demon on the planet, showing us clearly that the BS Journal is primarily about the destruction of personalities, and very little more. And so, this wall of his castle, expressed by this idea, "BSJ was started to be a discussion about ideas, not personalities," is shown to be non-existant. My argument does not simply blast a hole in this wall. No it has done much more than that. My argument has exposed the fact that the wall does not even exist. And from this we can all wonder, how, if this person cannot even properly characterize his own behavior, in his own realm of daily activity, how he could ever accurately characterize the behavior of anyone else? And in a very real manner, speaking about the proverbial house of cards, see how the whole has already fallen. There is no castle of "logic" or "reason" or "intellectual integrity". These qualities stand only as figments of his imagination. On every major point of his thinking, we can show that there is no castle wall there, none. It has all been torn down by the power of anger and hatred which the astral hordes pour through his chakras.

Yes, indeed, the process of debate brings this truth out in the open. So let us continue.
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