Crusader War College

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A long while back, I announced that this blog was going on minimal posting status. I was pursuing a line of biblical research, and needed more time to work on it, and the time had to come out of this blog. Occasionally, I've posted stuff, but mostly for a record and note to myself.

So, what have I been doing?

Well, I hit the jackpot. Hit it BIG.

I was researching several lines of inquiry on and off. One had to do with the church, one had to do with the Holy spirit, and one had to do with personal growth and improvement.

All three lines converged about 3 months ago, thanks mostly to the work of Owen Barfield, a fellow Inkling of C.S. Lewis, Lewis' lawyer (solicitor as they are called in Great Britain), and a rather prolific philosopher in his own right. I was cued in to Owen Barfield's work when I came across a PBS documentary titled "The Question of God", in which the work and world views of Sigmund Freud were compared with those of C.S. Lewis. In the documentary, Barfield played a key role in shifting the way that Lewis looked at the question of God: Lewis' secretary comments, in the documentary, that Barfield "Asked all the right questions." Lewis called the debate between Barfield and himself "The Great War", and all the Inklings (save Barfield himself) considered Barfield the most brilliant of their group.

You don't hear much of Barfield, since he eventually threw his intellectual lot in with Anthrosophy, an attempt to come up with a scientifically sympathetic view of Religion and the Spiritual world, created by Rudolph Steiner, a german philosopher that Barfield apparently idolized. Anthrosophy suffers from a bad case of Political Correctness, and shoehorned reincarnation into their view of the Spiritual side of man. Barfield adopted this view of man's existence, and generally abandoned classicial Christianity since he felt he could not get the results he wanted if he stuck with it.

It is probably not coincidence that about the time the PBS documentary came out in DVD, which is how I viewed it, Barfield's works began to be re-published. One that always was in print was his "Poetic diction", as close as a textbook on how to write poetry that one can find, and which I highly recommend if you need some help. I suspect that the documentary inadvertently stoked demand for his works. (The documentary itself is heavily stacked against God, putting in light-weights and distractors arguing God's side against the atheist publisher of Reason magazine. A fairer balancing would have put Chuck Colson on the panel, but that would have been too fair.)

While I have issues with Anthrosophy, having worked out an alternative method for getting the effects that Barfield needed without invoking reincarnation, I was able to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Reading Barfield's works, listening to the Holy Spirit, and pursuing an engineering approach to the three issues resulted in a mental and spiritual revolution. I came up with an alternative model of the Human mind that is more biblical and consistent with what I know of the workings of the human mind that science has proven (in contrast to its conjectures). From there, I was able to apply the model in a practical way to solving problems of a spiritual, mental, emotional, and psychological nature.

The results have been INCREDIBLE. I've lost temptations, sins, hang-ups, and phobias I've had for YEARS, since I was a child, and with hardly any strenuous work or mental effort. For the first time in 45 years since my parents divorced, I've been happy from the inside, not from externals coming to me from the outside. I've found depths of strength I never knew before. I don't think I've praised God so sincerely in my entire life. The only downside is that my bible study time is less efficient: I go only a few sentences before I get a revelation or a surge of joy, and then break off to give thanks.

You may have come here from Rantburg due to my strange attitude being demonstrated at the linked article. Simply put, I'M NOT SCARED ANYMORE. At the near top of my list of reasons for doing the research I've been doing is to figure out how to tap into deep spiritual resources to effectively fight the War against Terrorism. I've found those resources. Or, I should more properly say, The Resource. I've barely scratched the surface of what is possible. Trust me on this: the cavalry IS on its way.

Much work remains to be done, including the working out of a lesson plan to consistently replicate these results at a near-universal rate. Unfortunately, this will continue to take much of my time, so the status of this blog will remain at minimal posting. In fact, I've been dumping other non-essentials to pursue it.

In the meantime, don't bother Googling "Symbiotic Christianity": none of the hits are anywhere near the truth.