Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 440
August 19, 2016
THE OZ FACTORS — A FEW READER REVIEWS
Pointing out the truth behind the cover story January 18, 2011
“This is a book that you will pick up and read again and again. The topics are fed to you slowly and then you are hit with the cold hard truth, that the public has been duped on every side. For those of you who wish to share the truth, this is a great reference book of material for conversation that can become explosive. I have the book close to me most of the time. This is one to own and keep reading as time goes on. There are more and more areas of reality to address than anyone has ever realized or cares to observe in most cases.. Few know the truth or even wish to accept the truth. Life is not always as it seems.” — pmgeorgic
Review of The Oz Factors November 9, 2009
“The purpose of this book is to give a reader some guidelines in a quest to solve the mysteries of life. In my opinion, it serves that purpose well. Each of the 12 Oz factors represents a “common denominator of Western Logic which prevents observation, understanding, and the attainment of workable solutions to the problems of human origin and existence.” Further, the author states, “The allegorical story of The Wizard of Oz and its timeless characters is an appropriate vehicle through which to learn more about the mysteries of life.” If you read the book, I think you will agree. The learning of philosophical principles is thereby made not only easier, but actually delightful.
Here are a few of the Oz factors, to whet your appetite for the others:
Missing Information: Most real thinkers would agree that a valid concept of any subject that all information pertinent to it be available. But, study of almost any subject reveals not only that there are missing pieces to the puzzle, but that often the pieces are missing because vested interests (another Oz factor) have deliberately withheld them from the public.
Assumptions: Every theory presented by so-called authorities in science, religion, politics, etc contains one or more assumptions. If the assumption is false, the theory crashes. And so we suspect that the reason why assumptions are rarely listed is that their presence would expose the weaknesses in the view being advanced.
Source of Information: Many sources of information like to “play God”, promoting unquestioning belief in their views. Example from Science: “We’re smart and you’re not, so just accept what we say.” Example from Religion: “We’re holy and you’re not, so just accept what we say.” They need to be told, “Curb your dogma!”
False Information: Investigation shows that many sources deliberately put out false information, for reasons related to the benefit of the organization they support. To quote the author: “Lies replace the truth when a vested interest is being served.” I could go on with praises for this book, but space won’t permit it. Bottom line: If you want to be a clearer thinker and a more successful searcher for truth, you will do well to read this book.” — Robert W. Johnson
Learn How To Think For Yourself September 16, 2010
“The Oz Factors” pulls back the curtain of misinformation and deceit carefully concealing the vested interests of the “great and powerful” of western civilization. What you have been taught about western history, science, archaeology and spirituality have been twisted, distorted and concealed from view to serve the self-serving lies and fears of wizards and witches. Learn how to think for yourself. You don’t have to be the victim of the “oz factors” any longer. Read this book. — Annonymous
Originally posted 2011-08-17 00:39:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 18, 2016
2001: A SPACE FAIL
“OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL….”
“HAL? WHAT’S HAPPENING HAL….?”
“SORRY DAVE…..YOU’RE SREWED…”
“Ooohhhh shiiiiiitt……”
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. Clarke concurrently wrote the novel of the same name which was published soon after the film was released. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious blackmonoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL 9000 who has full control over their spaceship. The film is frequently described as an “epic film”, both for its length and scope, and for its affinity with classical epics.
Originally posted 2012-06-28 17:25:19. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
LIVING FOR EMOTION
SOME PEOPLE LIVE LIFE FOR THE EMOTION, NOT THE AWARDS.
Kilian Jornet: Back to the source from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.
Originally posted 2012-01-19 13:10:26. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 17, 2016
THE BIG BLEEP, Chapter 3
(Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, if you haven’t already)
A.E.I.O.U. — TREES HAVE DEFERENTIAL FEELINGS TOO!
One of the basic rules of being a detective I learned early on in a class I took at the Academy of Existential Investigations Of Understanding (A.E.I.O.U.) was this: If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. So far, I didn’t have a workable theory about where Carmel Wormwood went. I didn’t have a workable theory about where I was or how I got here either. So, in true academic fashion, I decided to ignore the facts for the time being while I came up with a theory that would explain how I got from an acupuncture table in Anytown, USA into a Plant Convention in a totally different universe.
I stood in the middle of the main convention hall looking around for the Director of Plant Security, so I could ask him some questions to help me figure out where I was. His secretary said his name was Cactus, but I hadn’t seen a single cactus since I’d been there. As I continued wandering around the hall, I was reminded of my metaphysics professor back at my alma mater, A.E.I.O.U.. He had a big map of the world hung up on the wall in the front of the classroom. It had ‘You Are Here’ written all over it. That map seemed an appropriate description of my current location.
My first class of the day was “Achieving Oneness”, but my favorite class, which was not listed on the official course curriculum, was “Achieving Twoness”, which I studied between classes and between the sheets with my girlfriend a the time.
The ultimate truth was that I flunked out of A.E.I.O.U.. I failed the final exam in metaphysical sciences. I arranged with my girlfriend to give me the answers to the test during the exam, telepathically. Our spiritual connection was perfect, but we both spent so much time together “Achieving Twoness” that she hadn’t studied for the exam either, so we both flunked the course.
Fortunately, my lack of a university degree is more than compensated for by my keenly developed lack of interest in people who care about whether or not I have a university degree. Nonetheless, that un-existential map taught me a very valuable lesson. Right now, all I had to do was figure out where “here” was. My problem was that “here” didn’t seem to exist in the physical universe.
I had been in some pretty bizarre places in my life, but this was too weird, even for a highly trained and disciplined professional like myself. I really didn’t have any real clues about what was happening. Anyway, I had to stay calm…use my investigative training to figure out what had happened. There had to be a logical explanation.
OK, so there were a few hundred billion possibilities. But, first, I needed to come up with a few theories that might explain my situation — keep it simple. Then, I would compare the evidence I had to see which theory would explain the facts. I tested each theory, one at a time:
Theory #1)
I must be dreaming! Using my highly developed sense of scientific methodology, I decided to start out testing my first theory first. Was I dreaming? I tried all of my usually reliable tricks for waking myself up: I rolled out of bed and hit the floor. Nothing.
I told myself, “OK, you’re just dreaming, so wake up, get out of bed, have a nice hot cup of coffee…” Nothing changed: I still had limbs and roots. So, I slapped myself around. It hurt. But nothing happened. Finally, I tried to just stop dreaming. I gritted my bark and willed myself to stop dreaming until my leaves shook. No good. I was still a tree.
Theory #2)
I had transmigrated spiritually into the body of a tree. But if that were true, where did I leave my other body? I didn’t see it lying around anywhere. I felt like my normal self, but my complexion was a lot rougher than usual. I smelled quite a bit nicer than usual though. But, that didn’t explain the Plant Convention….
Theory #3)
I had finally just totally (bleeping) freaked out! This seemed like a very likely possibility. However, insanity, although it might be normal for human beings, the plants I’d met at the convention all seemed to be pretty sane. So, since I was a plant at the moment, I ruled out the possibility of insanity on the basis of my current state of vegetation.
Theory #4)
I had been abducted by aliens. No, the last time I was abducted by aliens it was nothing like this. Although, it could be different aliens. Anyway, I didn’t see any aliens around here, except for myself, of course.
Theory #5)
I had slipped through a crack in space and landed in a different universe. No, that was too weird — even for me.
Theory #6)
I was re-experiencing one of my past lifetimes when I was a plant. Yeah, I believe in past lives. Actually, I don’t believe I’ve lived before, I know I’ve lived before because I can remember some of the lives I lived. Most of the lives I remember were the ones I’d rather forget about — the ones that turned into total (bleep), like this lifetime. On the other hand, my memories about happy past lives all sort of blended together into a big, blissful nothingness.
Of course, inthe United States it’s against the law to believe in past lives. Insurance companies are afraid that if you live more than once, you’ll come back and want to collect on your life insurance policy. If everybody did that, they’d go out of business. The government is afraid it’ll get gypped out of all the estate taxes they steal from your family when you die.
I remember when I was back in Egypt. The Pharaohs got away with keeping all their gold and furniture and stuff after they died by telling everybody they needed to take their stuff with them because they were going to live forever, somewhere else, like in a tomb under the ground which would magically transport them up into the stars. The peasants all bought the idea until one day somebody wised up and figured out that it would be better if the Pharaohs just died when they were dead and just stayed dead! That way, you could steal all of the stuff from their tombs and not have to worry about getting caught by the dead guy.
But, that was then and this was…well, this was some other time. Anyway, most of what I had learned about being a public dick I didn’t learn in classrooms. I learned it from listening to detective shows on the radio as a kid and reading the autobiographies of famous spiritual masters as an adult.
I always remember the scenes where Johnny Dollar, or Sam Spade or some other private dick, got knocked out by somebody — about three times in every episode — usually because they hadn’t kept their dick private around somebody else’s wife or girlfriend.
Detectives always get knocked out by someone from behind, spin out of reality and go “thud” into a foggy haze of semi-consciousness. Later, they wake up in an alley or some other strange place, with a huge bump on his head, but no clue about what happened. The same thing usually happened to the great spiritual masters in the history of planet Earth I studied at A.E.I.O.U.. Well, none of that was happening to me. I was pretty sure I’d been conscious the whole time — I just can’t prove it yet.
The facts were that one second I was lying on Dr. Alice’s table, with needles stuck in my butt and the next thing I knew, I’m talking to Peter The Potted Plant! And, as far as I could tell, I didn’t have a head…or a butt either…just branches, bark and roots. Anyway, I guess that’s what I get for listening to detective stories and spiritual masters. Besides, they’re too impractical to be of much use in the real world of dinosaurs and talking plants.
Nonetheless, I still had to figure out how to get back. But first I had to figure out where “back” was…right after I figured out where “here” was. My first move was to go back across the convention floor to see if the head of Plant Security had come back to his office. Maybe he could give me some directions about getting “back” from “here”. Besides, it gave me a great excuse to check out the peaches on his secretary again.
Peaches were my favorite fruit. I’d loved peaches for a lot of lifetimes — I just couldn’t remember which ones.
If there is one thing I’ve learned from living a lot of lifetimes, it’s this: when at first you don’t succeed, give up and try something else. Anyway, I forgot what I was thinking about a few minutes ago…oh, yeah…figuring out where “here” is, so I can figure out how to get “back” from “here”.
I decided to test one of my other theories. I figured I must be in a different place now than the one I was in when I got stuck in the butt on the acupuncture table. But, right now I needed to get my butt over to The Plant Land Security Office and get some answers: no if, ands, or butts about it!
THE BIG BLEEP: THE MYSTERY OF A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Originally posted 2011-05-31 13:05:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 16, 2016
YOU’VE ALWAYS HAD THE POWER
“You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas”–Glinda
“Oh Dear! That’s too wonderful to be true!”–Dorothy
“Now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds. Just close your eyes and think to yourself, ‘There’s no place like home’.”–Glinda
“Then why didn’t you tell her before”?–The Scarecrow
“Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.”–Glinda
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”–Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz”
Like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ we are creatures of our own design. We live in universes created by our own agreements and imagination. We are inside the Physical Universe looking out to find the origin of our being. We long for a place we feel certain must exist; a place where there is no trouble. We wait for wizards and witches to show us the way home. Yet we fear to close our eyes and click our heels to see the Universe Within.
Our journey home begins at the source of the rainbow; shining light upon our own eternal, ethereal selves.
The history of mankind seems blanketed in a simultaneous state of amnesia and deja vu. The ruins of ancient civilizations whisper a reminder that we have forgotten everything we knew.
A multitude of gods have shown themselves like shadows in the halls of history. We know not yet, except by our own observation and decision, which of them is real. We are betrayed by those who teach us that we must trust the Wizards of the West. While pretentious politicians defend the castles of the Witch, the media monkeys swarm to spin perverted lies to cover up their covert tricks.
The voiceless bones of wonderful wizards have dissolved to mortal dust once more. Their words have vanished in the smoke of sacred libraries, searing our souls with the stupefying stench of wisdom lost forever in their flames. From day to day the timeworn treadmill of survival forces us to worship at the soulless bankers’ shrine. Gold is still the god of the great and powerful Oz.
We have crash-landed in a twisted alien landscape of pain and mortality, far away from our home Universe. As a race we have amnesia. We are repeatedly bumped on the head by the recurring cataclysmic upheavals of a planet whirling in space like a farmhouse in a tornado.
The future is an extension of the present. We must live our lives in the present in a manner which will create the greatest good for the greatest number of beings in the future. If we are aware of our own past lives, we must also be aware that we are creating our own future by our present actions. We will inherit our own legacy.
As Professor Marvel points out with simple eloquence, “There are no other wizards…”
We are apparently the only wizards there ever were and the only wizards that ever will be. We are each a part of a time track of the past, present and future of our own creation, individually and collectively. 
If we let the Wicked Witches run the culture now, they will be in charge of the place when we come back. Just as we are the descendants of past generations, you and I may very well become, through reincarnation, the children of our children–we are the future generations who will inherit the environmental and cultural conditions of the future which we ourselves are creating today.
Man has apparently been searching the stars for a way to leave the Earth and go “over the rainbow” to a place where there is no trouble.
Since before the beginning of our own dim primordial prehistory, we have been looking into the depths of our own immortal selves for a way “over the rainbow” back to YOUR OWN UNIVERSE–our own identity, simplicity and power as spiritual beings. This has been the dream of many religious philosophers throughout the ages.
We still have not solved many of the mysteries of the physical universe. However, we can CHOOSE to see what’s in it. We can CHOOSE to disagree with what we see. We can CHOOSE to agree to the creation of a new and better universe.
Dorothy and her friends have taught us a valuable allegorical lesson: Dorothy got herself into the Land of Oz, and she got herself back to Kansas, but she would not have made it without the help of her friends. If ever there will be a Yellow Brick Road, if ever there will be an Emerald City of which we can be proud, we must build it ourselves. “
— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, written by Lawrence R. Spencer
Originally posted 2011-11-14 12:07:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 15, 2016
THINK BIGGER!
(Click on each Image to Open and Enlarge in a New Window)
The relative sizes of the sun and planets in the Earth solar system
NOW, Imagine the YOU helped to create them, in a long-forgotten, past…..
Or, that we ALL continue to create them together, as Immortal Spiritual Beings!
Originally posted 2013-03-23 23:18:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER ERUPTION
All rights reserved by Soffia Gisladottir
Originally posted 2011-05-24 09:51:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 14, 2016
The Oz Factors
Visit the website for The Oz Factors to find out more about the Life, The Universe and other stuff.
( Just click the heels! )
Originally posted 2010-12-03 09:02:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
