The Gospel of Universal Truth
John L. Waters
October 19, 2005
With a title like this, some people are going to bypass this article because they think it is a joke or in bad taste. "There is no Universal Truth" they say. Or maybe they resent the word "Gospel" because that word means "good news" and they are cynical. They deny that there is any "good news" and they deny that there is any "Universal Truth." Even so, when it comes to us humans, we all live by symbiosis, and so for us symbiosis is both Good News and Universal Truth!
As long as I have stout lungs and a horn to blow, I will blow it loud and clear and my music will fill the air with the sounds of symbiosis. I might not always use the term symbiosis 100% the way a professional biologist does, but hey. I'm not a professional biologist. So I will blow my horn anyway and proclaim the Gospel of Universal Truth.
As sure as a trumpeter has many fingers and blows many notes, the trumpet itself has many parts, and in both the trumpeter and the trumpet all the parts work together in a symbiosis. Whenever there is symbiosis, one form of life contributes to the well-being of the other forms of life. For music to be heard, the trumpeter and the trumpet must cooperate. The same is true for sheep to safely graze and pasture. The sheep and their shepherd live for each other. Until this symbiosis happens the shepherd just spends all his time chasing lambs, ewes, and rams. Everyone's life is disordered.
The Gospel of Universal Truth proclaims that one person cannot live without other persons, and so people need to share and share alike in their good times and their bad times, and people need to live in symbiosis, not as hermits in their separate caves and with their separate bank accounts. Nature spreads an open table for all the creatures to share and share alike. The field of clover is not owned by one bee or one beehive. All the worker bees are free to move throughout the entire field of clover and work to get food for the hive. Sheep are free to graze and pasture over the entire field as well. One sheep doesn't fence off a tiny part of the field and defend its own territory. The Good Shepherd comes and shares the Gospel of Universal Truth with people, because people want The Good Shepherd to come back and continue teaching. After all, Christ said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." That's a statement of symbiotic relationship. We are all together here today. The need is for people to follow the Gospel of Universal Truth.
Under a large spreading Sapote tree filled with blossoms a baby boy is lying in a large basket and gazing up into the green canopy. It is a sunny day in May and the air is filled with humming and the fragrance of many flowers. The whole family is out under the Sapote tree. A shared emotion lifts the baby up into a heavenly euphoria that combines the colors, the natural music, the garden fragrances and the people's mood of happiness to savor this synthesis time and time again. There is so much heavenly joy present in the world, and such heavenly joy is so precious, why can't people understand this heavenly joy and have more and more caring and sharing symbiosis and less and less unkindness and related destructiveness?
The universal teaching comes by observing social animals that have been living for many more millions of years than humans, and have perfected the social relationship far more than humans have. True, termites, ants, wasps, and bees are not humans, but termites aren't bees, either. Wasps aren't termites or bees. Independently many evolutionary lines have developed true society in which individuals share and share alike, and do not harbor selfishness. Furthermore, all these social animals live in tune with nature without destroying nature. Humans need to learn symbiosis. This is the Gospel of Universal Truth.
You might say that this is a religion, but actually scientists study symbiosis. Nature study is a real science. Symbiosis works in real life not just by faith but by real physical interactions. These interactions are observable and measurable. So, too, are interactions between persons. One can observe humans who care for other persons and for plants and animals, and one can observe humans who attack other persons and plants and animals as well. Some humans are very kind and empathetic, gentle and constructive, and other humans are very destructive and dangerous. Most people can tell the difference! One doesn't need to be a scientist to understand this. Neither does one have to be a mystic to understand it.
Consider modern Iraq. Recently Iraq has been overrun by unkind humans and today Iraq isn't a very safe place to be. There are plenty of resources to make Iraq into a paradise! The appropriate technology and the science exist! What is missing is the understanding, the desire, and the will in all the people. If other nations were turning themselves into paradises, however, many more Iraqis would want to begin learning more about symbiosis! The reason is because really, everyone wants to be experiencing the same heavenly joy that one baby boy experienced in May, 1940 under the humming Sapote tree.
The message that this baby received is simply that such joy is possible! Like humanity learned to kindle fire and master fire, humanity can learn to kindle joy and master joy. More knowledge is required.
It is more important that modern humanity understand joy and master joy, because when humans are happy they are more open to the message of symbiosis. This is why as a baby I received this message of joy from the universe and it made me immensely happy to receive this message! Later I realized that symbiosis is the key to understanding all the prophets that have taught some version of this same Gospel. For some reason, though, the religious people got distracted away from nature study and from evolving to a more social form. Perhaps the prophets never emphasized the point that by living in tune with nature and with each other humans are creating a heavenly paradise on Earth. Instead modern humanity is killing off many forms of plant and animal life, and waging increasingly destructive wars!
Somehow the human race hasn't yet gotten the essential message, that is the Gospel of Universal Truth.
In the past one social group has seen another social group as an alien force to fight against. Even today, an unfamiliar child may be attacked by other children. Children go to school and learn to read, write, cypher, and play games, but they are not yet being taught the Gospel of Universal Truth. Even so, symbiosis is everywhere apparent in nature, and in modern society different workers support one another by attending carefully to different jobs. Modern society is woven out of symbiotic relationships. Even so, there is a lot of competition in modern society. This produces a lot of hard feelings, and many suffering persons live below the poverty line.
Some persons are physically weak, and they can't work as hard as other people. Even so, physically weak persons have special talents that can bless many others. In my own weakness I have composed many hundreds of songs and other things that bring pleasure to people. Furthermore in my own weakness in time I became more and more wise. In time I even made a study of this important subject.
I write articles now, and send them out to people. At the heart of each article is my singing voice. I grew up with a singing heart and as a preschooler I sang rather than talked. At home my family was happy most all the time and I absorbed the happy spirit by osmosis as it were. People wondered how we all got along, because in the community it was common for the generations to separate, so that grandparents lived apart from parents and their children. We all lived in the same house together and, or course, in other countries large families live together all under the same roof. But in the United States a lot of people live solitary lives, or they live with a sex partner for awhile and then split up, and the children have only one parent to live with. This can be very stressful. I was fortunate because I grew up with my mother, my brother, and my grandparents on my mother's side.
I grew up a student of nature. I went to school but much of the time my thoughts were outdoors, not on the classwork. Books and theories were not as important to me as real life experiences. I had a number of mystical experiences. These were as much a part of my nature as other experiences, no matter what people think or say, and no matter what the books say. During my mystical experiences I got ideas and I got information. Integrating the mystical with the non-mystical has been my devotion. So now I promote symbiosis as the Gospel of Universal Truth. Humans need to study nature more and more, appreciate nature more and more, and live in attunement to nature more and more. Other prophets have hinted at this, but they tend to go off on other matters that turn people's attention away from the central issue: long-term human survival and evolution to a more conscious, more social form in which conflicts do not escalate and wars do not exist.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
As long as I have stout lungs and a horn to blow, I will blow it loud and clear and my music will fill the air with the sounds of symbiosis. I might not always use the term symbiosis 100% the way a professional biologist does, but hey. I'm not a professional biologist. So I will blow my horn anyway and proclaim the Gospel of Universal Truth.
As sure as a trumpeter has many fingers and blows many notes, the trumpet itself has many parts, and in both the trumpeter and the trumpet all the parts work together in a symbiosis. Whenever there is symbiosis, one form of life contributes to the well-being of the other forms of life. For music to be heard, the trumpeter and the trumpet must cooperate. The same is true for sheep to safely graze and pasture. The sheep and their shepherd live for each other. Until this symbiosis happens the shepherd just spends all his time chasing lambs, ewes, and rams. Everyone's life is disordered.
The Gospel of Universal Truth proclaims that one person cannot live without other persons, and so people need to share and share alike in their good times and their bad times, and people need to live in symbiosis, not as hermits in their separate caves and with their separate bank accounts. Nature spreads an open table for all the creatures to share and share alike. The field of clover is not owned by one bee or one beehive. All the worker bees are free to move throughout the entire field of clover and work to get food for the hive. Sheep are free to graze and pasture over the entire field as well. One sheep doesn't fence off a tiny part of the field and defend its own territory. The Good Shepherd comes and shares the Gospel of Universal Truth with people, because people want The Good Shepherd to come back and continue teaching. After all, Christ said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." That's a statement of symbiotic relationship. We are all together here today. The need is for people to follow the Gospel of Universal Truth.
Under a large spreading Sapote tree filled with blossoms a baby boy is lying in a large basket and gazing up into the green canopy. It is a sunny day in May and the air is filled with humming and the fragrance of many flowers. The whole family is out under the Sapote tree. A shared emotion lifts the baby up into a heavenly euphoria that combines the colors, the natural music, the garden fragrances and the people's mood of happiness to savor this synthesis time and time again. There is so much heavenly joy present in the world, and such heavenly joy is so precious, why can't people understand this heavenly joy and have more and more caring and sharing symbiosis and less and less unkindness and related destructiveness?
The universal teaching comes by observing social animals that have been living for many more millions of years than humans, and have perfected the social relationship far more than humans have. True, termites, ants, wasps, and bees are not humans, but termites aren't bees, either. Wasps aren't termites or bees. Independently many evolutionary lines have developed true society in which individuals share and share alike, and do not harbor selfishness. Furthermore, all these social animals live in tune with nature without destroying nature. Humans need to learn symbiosis. This is the Gospel of Universal Truth.
You might say that this is a religion, but actually scientists study symbiosis. Nature study is a real science. Symbiosis works in real life not just by faith but by real physical interactions. These interactions are observable and measurable. So, too, are interactions between persons. One can observe humans who care for other persons and for plants and animals, and one can observe humans who attack other persons and plants and animals as well. Some humans are very kind and empathetic, gentle and constructive, and other humans are very destructive and dangerous. Most people can tell the difference! One doesn't need to be a scientist to understand this. Neither does one have to be a mystic to understand it.
Consider modern Iraq. Recently Iraq has been overrun by unkind humans and today Iraq isn't a very safe place to be. There are plenty of resources to make Iraq into a paradise! The appropriate technology and the science exist! What is missing is the understanding, the desire, and the will in all the people. If other nations were turning themselves into paradises, however, many more Iraqis would want to begin learning more about symbiosis! The reason is because really, everyone wants to be experiencing the same heavenly joy that one baby boy experienced in May, 1940 under the humming Sapote tree.
The message that this baby received is simply that such joy is possible! Like humanity learned to kindle fire and master fire, humanity can learn to kindle joy and master joy. More knowledge is required.
It is more important that modern humanity understand joy and master joy, because when humans are happy they are more open to the message of symbiosis. This is why as a baby I received this message of joy from the universe and it made me immensely happy to receive this message! Later I realized that symbiosis is the key to understanding all the prophets that have taught some version of this same Gospel. For some reason, though, the religious people got distracted away from nature study and from evolving to a more social form. Perhaps the prophets never emphasized the point that by living in tune with nature and with each other humans are creating a heavenly paradise on Earth. Instead modern humanity is killing off many forms of plant and animal life, and waging increasingly destructive wars!
Somehow the human race hasn't yet gotten the essential message, that is the Gospel of Universal Truth.
In the past one social group has seen another social group as an alien force to fight against. Even today, an unfamiliar child may be attacked by other children. Children go to school and learn to read, write, cypher, and play games, but they are not yet being taught the Gospel of Universal Truth. Even so, symbiosis is everywhere apparent in nature, and in modern society different workers support one another by attending carefully to different jobs. Modern society is woven out of symbiotic relationships. Even so, there is a lot of competition in modern society. This produces a lot of hard feelings, and many suffering persons live below the poverty line.
Some persons are physically weak, and they can't work as hard as other people. Even so, physically weak persons have special talents that can bless many others. In my own weakness I have composed many hundreds of songs and other things that bring pleasure to people. Furthermore in my own weakness in time I became more and more wise. In time I even made a study of this important subject.
I write articles now, and send them out to people. At the heart of each article is my singing voice. I grew up with a singing heart and as a preschooler I sang rather than talked. At home my family was happy most all the time and I absorbed the happy spirit by osmosis as it were. People wondered how we all got along, because in the community it was common for the generations to separate, so that grandparents lived apart from parents and their children. We all lived in the same house together and, or course, in other countries large families live together all under the same roof. But in the United States a lot of people live solitary lives, or they live with a sex partner for awhile and then split up, and the children have only one parent to live with. This can be very stressful. I was fortunate because I grew up with my mother, my brother, and my grandparents on my mother's side.
I grew up a student of nature. I went to school but much of the time my thoughts were outdoors, not on the classwork. Books and theories were not as important to me as real life experiences. I had a number of mystical experiences. These were as much a part of my nature as other experiences, no matter what people think or say, and no matter what the books say. During my mystical experiences I got ideas and I got information. Integrating the mystical with the non-mystical has been my devotion. So now I promote symbiosis as the Gospel of Universal Truth. Humans need to study nature more and more, appreciate nature more and more, and live in attunement to nature more and more. Other prophets have hinted at this, but they tend to go off on other matters that turn people's attention away from the central issue: long-term human survival and evolution to a more conscious, more social form in which conflicts do not escalate and wars do not exist.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
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