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The Birth of Organic Spiritualism in America

Green Lifestyle  (tags: CoolStuff, eco-friendly, family, food, goodnews, greenliving, health, humans, interesting, offbeat, organic, Sustainabililty )

ET
- 212 days ago - npr.org
Ex-Marine Jim Baker founded the natural food restaurant the Source on the Sunset Strip in the late '60s. One of the first vegetarian restaurants in the United States, it helped launch an alternative way of eating. Soon, hechanged his name to Father Yod...
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Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 6:18 am
I am one of the original members of the 140(Source Family)I feel that the health trip is the only earth worthy thing that came out of it.I do not agree with the media exploitation of The Source. It is the circus that happens to every pure thing on the earth. The Source does no9t even have a neutral strategically located meeting hall or music hall. With all the emphasis on getting it together, the ones who have sacrificed some of their divine attributes to attain material wealth, they have not succeeded in creating a point.(which would be manifested in the material as one meeting place for all instead of manifesting separateness by only having separate residences in remote locations.Another thing is that the physical represents what is going on in the spiritual realm. The Yahowha website page that is Black and has all those web page gimmicks like drop down windows and things moving around is not an accurate image. It is too cluttered with excesses. It should be light and cheerful. Instead, it has a Goth element to its energy. That is a sign of something amiss in the spiritual aspect of the presentation.Leo
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 6:35 am
The Love Family will be the first to resurrect a meeting place which will probably be in Seattle.The Source cannot seem to get it together because they are always embroiled in politics.A meeting place is representative of the eye on the top[ of the pyramid.Without that, everything swings from one location to another without the point or spearhead, symbolically speaking.
 

ET Aquarian (2)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 3:38 pm

It is easy to be an "Armchair Quarterback" and sit outside of the hard work that others are doing and take cheap shots at it, rather than being productive. I will not play tit for tat. I have more important things to do than try to defend the long hours put out with the best of intentions against those who would find issues with anything.
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 5:19 pm
As an original member, I am more inclined to contribute valid info according to what Yahowha said. If I sit in silence while he is turned into a media circus, then I would not be doing my job would I? I commend your response. It is a wiser one than the emotionalism I get from the elders...your parents, I presume?
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 5:21 pm
Was Yahowha an "armchair quarterback"? "I don't do much but I keep in touch"(Yahowha)
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 5:21 pm
As one of the original members of the (140) Source Family, I must say that what exists now is not of the same quality it was when YHVH was in the body. I just had a conversation with Sunflower. After being held to close scrutiny, he buckled. In his original statements to me, he said, "We don't look back" And then in his final response before dropping out, He emotionally quipped, (to paraphrase)"You're still half crazy, etc.............." we are partially talking about people who were friends with YHVH(Jim Baker) in the Maya and then joined the Source(i.e. Sunflower). They are successful world beaters who have been given much and profess to know and follow YHVH's example to the letter. They do esoteric exercises to stay on top of the "positive" wave. Sunflower alluded to the fact that after forty years, I do not know anything about him or the Source trip. However, it was only with the still remaining awe and reverence I felt and experienced when YHVH was in the body that I exercised placing him under such scrutiny in the first place. YHVH did it all the time because he was keenly aware of our potential. Why would such scrutiny now drive Sunflower to such an unconscious and emotional response to someone that HE himself knows nothing about? He is not even positive enough to give me the benefit of the doubt. For "not looking back" he certainly does not have an accurate vision of what I am now. The people who are following the Source in its present form are ones who do not have the wisdom to scrutinize it sufficiently. It is full of holes and hypocrisies. Jim Baker left Yogi Bajan because he was wise enough to scrutinize his leader. I have that same license to do so. The appearance of material success is not sufficient to warrant respect in the spiritual sense. Many bad people have material success as well as having children and families. It is not only Sunflower that we are referring to. “One drop from the ocean tells the properties of the whole ocean.” If you are going to present yourself as a leader, either be razor sharp or go back into meditation. "From he who has been given much, much is expected" This is why I expect absolute perfection in anything that professes to lead me in a spiritual manner. Leo>
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 5:35 pm
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. "You can't save the world. You'll be lucky if you get out with you own ass."(Yahowha) I am sure that what you ar doing is helping someone. However, human nature tells us that materialism must run its course before any real change will take place.Some people were given the gift/ability to deal with the Maya and come out of it with the appearance of having accomplished material success in the hopes that they would use their gifts for humanitarian purposes. Others are given the gift of vision. They come in and give advice. Got it? Please refrain from using cosmopolitan terminology i.e. "armchair quarterback" to describe an innocent event. If you have sold out your divine attributes and expressions to the materialist dialogue then you have no credibility with me.
 

Gary B. (0)
Thursday June 26, 2008, 6:38 pm
How many times do you think the personalities(not Yahowha)in the Source ridiculed other members for "not having it together" on the earth(i.e. a new car or house or whatever)when they had no idea whatsoever the work it took that person to even get there in the first place.You are talking to me as if you were there with YHVH and I was not. Some people rode in on a wave of whatever and others had to struggle. If I did not think "your friends"did not already have their reward, I would not scrutinize them so.Being motivated by job pride or family pride is not the same thing as going through multiple incarnations and inadvertently ending up in The Source. I did not seek it. I earned it. And please do not forget that.
 
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