My writings have often drawn fire for what some readers perceive to be outrageous opinions or, God forbid, conspiracy theories. It\u2019s time to come clean. <\/p>\n
I always viewed the main job of a writer\u2014any writer\u2014was to be interesting. If the piece wasn\u2019t interesting, nobody would finish it. Didn\u2019t matter if the material presented was controversial, if it was interesting, it was submitted for publication.<\/p>\n
I find Corey Goode to be an interesting man, and I have heard him speak in numerous YouTube videos. Not only does Mr. Goode claim to be part of the Secret Space Program (the U.S. has allegedly traveled to Mars and beyond since the 1970\u2019s) but that he has met with alien beings and has also traveled to Venus and other planets. Is what Mr. Goode says true? No idea, but what he says is certainly interesting. Travel to Mars? C\u2019mon. But if you listen to him talk, he sounds pretty convincing. <\/p>\n
This is what I find interesting: people who insist that their experiences actually happened, and that they want to get the word out about them. <\/p>\n
But wait.<\/p>\n
The great writer, H. L. Mencken, wrote, \u201cWe are here and it is now. Other than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.\u201d That\u2019s reality\u2019s bottom line: we are here and it is now. <\/p>\n
If we dig a little deeper we get to the physicist, Tom Campbell. What he says is that all reality is based in consciousness. In other words, without consciousness, there is no reality. We would have no awareness of \u201chere\u201d or \u201cnow.\u201d Without consciousness, we would cease to be.<\/p>\n
For us Westerners, this topic is not interesting. We have to pick up the twins after soccer practice, and not miss the Dallas game. Our lives are so full of plans and expectations that we miss most of what goes on. We don\u2019t care about the bigger picture because it doesn\u2019t matter. Our consciousness is riveted on \u201cThird and fifteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh, what we don\u2019t know.<\/strong> Yes, we have advanced technologically, but the human being, the quality of consciousness, has remained about the same. There are still wars, hatred, and bigotry\u2013all based in ignorance. <\/p>\n This ignorance is rooted in a lack of spiritual awareness and connection. It has been often observed that, \u201cWe are not humans on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey.\u201d This means that our true nature is spirit\u2014the externals, such as race, color, sexual preferences\u2014are all superfluous. We are here to learn and grow.<\/p>\n Still, most people aren\u2019t interested in spiritual matters. They have to pick up the kids, or maybe read about \u201cinteresting\u201d topics such as UFOs, the MV Luta, or what really happened on 9\/11. <\/p>\n In the end, it\u2019s all trivia, but it\u2019s interesting trivia. Plus it gives me some topics to write about. It also provides readers distraction from things that are most important; and which are, unfortunately, of little interest to them.<\/p>\n Tom Campbell summed it up: our main task as human beings is to care for others more than ourselves. The Dalai Lama said, \u201cWe are here to help each other.\u201d<\/p>\n While waiting for civilization to progress, I\u2019ll continue to write about \u201cinteresting\u201d topics and hope for the best. <\/p>\n Russ Mason<\/strong> My writings have often drawn fire for what some readers perceive to be outrageous opinions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14449,67,14450,14451],"class_list":["post-241374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-corey-goode","tag-people","tag-secret-space-program","tag-tom-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf we take a moment to consider all of human knowledge, or experience, of everything that ever existed, we humans know less than a tiny speck of it. We\u2019re in the dark, and have been, pretty much since our days as cave dwellers. <\/p>\n
\nAs Teo, Saipan<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"