John L. Waters
I grew up in Santa Barbara, California and was assessed as "probably brain damaged" in ninth grade. After receiving my BA from UC Santa Barbara in 1962 I taught Science in a private elementary school for two years and high school Mathematics for eighteen months. After June of 1968 I worked on treating myself. My recovery or partial recovery came after 1980 as I created a better health program and I started reading more, visiting more places, and meeting more persons. I need a collaborator.
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Articles by John L. Waters
October 12, 2007
In past articles I've written about yogi adepts sharing their sense of union or connection by gazing directly into the eyes of a devoted student. In each case the adept and the student are both in meditation. They don't converse, sing, fidget, dance, or hum. In this state the yogic unitive sense ...
January 25, 2007
Conversations With John L. Waters (Topic- Integration)
Interview conducted by Brian Michael Barbeito
QUESTION: John, can you say a few words, for the layperson, about integration?
ANSWER: Certainly. Integration connects, combines, and coordinates all the factions in a society and in an in...
October 12, 2006
For a year or two a certain university professor has kept a notice tacked up on a small bulletin board just outside her office door. On an 8 1/2 piece of white paper these words are boldly printed in about size 48 font:
"LET THERE BE PEACE IN OUR TIME"
On this sheet a number of students hav...
August 15, 2006
This new paradigm is
Humanity Integrating
Spirituality with science.
The new paradigm involves the study
Of myths and conversions
From one belief system to another-
Socio-cultural conditioning-
Operant conditioning-
The adaptability of young children-
The disintegration of a mindset,
And...
August 11, 2006
Nature hums and sings in insect wings and in the strings of everything. A stiff wind whispers and hums in wires along with the 60 cycle alternating current that is clearly audible in high voltage transmission lines. All this whispering and humming is due to continuous back and forth movements, wit...
August 11, 2006
Humanity will rise higher as the science of humanity rises to become the science of art and the art of humanity rises to become the art of science.
Each work of art is a creation, a construct, as is a wasp nest, a bee hive, and a bird's nest. A person's words are like apparel, and can be taken o...
May 25, 2006
I live near a state park and when I go over there I feel the healing ambience that has often been associated with the so-called ?Presence of God.? There are tall evergreen trees, immense upward-jutting rock outcrops, thundering ocean waves, and lots of salt in the air. Over there I hear no sounds ...
May 23, 2006
A person strives, wants, hopes, anticipates, plans for, hopes for, dreams of, and expects to get something he or she desires. Other persons strive for the same goal, however. Consequently competition pervades society and those who have stamina, those who are quick, and those who have great strengt...
January 25, 2006
A curious person might perchance want to go online and learn something about a number of old mystical traditions and happen to Google the word "Kabbalah." Try this and you will see up near the top of the first Google "Kabbalah" page is a link that leads to an online quickie course on Kabbalah. The...
December 15, 2005
If you were upset because you were bicycling along and you smiled at someone but they didn't smile back at you, well, consider this. The two-wheeling person who didn't smile back at you might not have even seen you, as morning sunlight in the face can be a momentarily blinding distraction. Also, t...
November 25, 2005
Many teachers of spirit still say that spirit is unknowable by the intellect! For example, Jiddu Krishnamurti, a well-known modern spiritual philosopher said, "Truth is a pathless land." This is a poetic way of saying that spirit is felt in tune with nature's fullness that is everything happening...
November 15, 2005
August Rodin's famous statue "The Thinker" shows a grown man with his mouth closed resting his chin on his clenched fist. This detail symbolizes the idea that during thought neither the hand fidgets nor the mouth babbles. Rodin's statue itself is totally immobile. My "art of the active thinker an...
November 15, 2005
After reading about him in Thomas Keyes and Hal von Luebbert's recent argumentative Useless Knowledge Magazine articles on the Internet, I checked out Dr. Frank J. Tipler of Tulane University. Dr. Tipler is an eminent mathematical physicist. I suggest that you read his article "From 2100 to the En...
November 08, 2005
Abigail sits back in her soft chair and listens to me talk. Her large wall clock ticks along with my tick tock tick tock tick tock writer's monologue. One session is quite like another session, Mary Poppins-like, and a spoonful of sugar makes the good nanny's medicine go down in a most delightful ...
November 07, 2005
Anxiety and tension make a baby tense and rigid without expression. The baby learns to be tense and rigid from its mother because for nine long months the mother contains the fetus and then for years after birth the mother holds the infant and the tension in the mother's bones and muscles is felt b...
October 22, 2005
In conversation and in dancing, two warm bodies feel close to each other. Good conversationalists and good dancers work close together directly to please one another. In writing a book or in building a house, however, a man works alone to please a family or a publisher. So, too, the solitary hunt...
October 21, 2005
A mighty impulse needs to be expressed. The expression comes through tangential non-penetrative stroking movements. As an author writes, the paper is not hit but rubbed with the pen instead. The act of writing is like a lover stroking his or her beloved. Over time true love is expressed in words...
October 19, 2005
By means of sustained eye contact, an extra sense of brightness, unity, peace, and connectedness is shared by a yogi and his/her students. For example, Swami Muktananda was famous for inducing this unitive sense. Gopi Krishna and Jiddu Krishnamurti also described this same sense of brightness. Sk...
October 19, 2005
The ecomodule or ecomodel is a community plan based on hard-working human beings living happily in tune with nature and with one another. This happiness is based on being in accord with the universal accord and feeling this unitive sense. While these words may sound lofty, idealistic, and impracti...
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" ...
October 19, 2005
I draw and I write in peace, and I work in the garden in peace. When I am at peace, no one is hurrying me or making me feel anxious. My pet cat is romping playfully. He is at peace. The garden spider is spinning its web patiently, without any anxieties, tension, or awkwardness. Clouds glide ove...
October 07, 2005
"I suspend my own place in the world and welcome in the other's way of being.---not losing myself--- being beside and with the other."
This statement by a local psychotherapist contrasts with the way of a stiff debater who wants to win points and makes the other person feel intimidated and thus c...
October 07, 2005
I enjoyed visiting with you this Thursday, and I enjoyed our conversation about peace and the "Round Table" distribution of talents, wealth, and influence.
To give you a little background, as a boy I lived in the garden, and nature was my joy and fascination. Even as a preschooler I discovered th...
October 05, 2005
Mathematics is the precision language of business, book keeping, biology, and physics. Even randomness obeys the mathematical laws of probability and statistics. So whether “God” plays dice with the world or not, mathematical rules apply.
Mathematical rules apply everywhere, and no matter how t...
October 05, 2005
Brian, blessed are the merciful! Although you apologize in your article "Homeless: Beaten, Hungry, And Faithful," it's not wrong to document your empathy, your kindness, and your generosity. You don't need to keep your empathy a secret, and apologize for being such a generous person!
You have t...
September 14, 2005
Brian, you and I are alike in that we are active in the "divine sense." That sense complements the normal rational extraverted sense that is emphasized ad nauseum by the commercial media, school teachers, business and sales people, and run-of-the-mill-scientists. Introverts often work through the ...
September 06, 2005
©Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
Traditionally the intellect and the transcendental have been kept isolated, and in many cases the person who became sanctified or inspired didn't become an academic or a professional intellectual. In any case, no prominent intellectu...
September 06, 2005
©Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
In an episode of elation and mystical intuition Barry Stevens found what she called "The secret of the universe." (1) She was gazing at sunlight reflected off a safety pin. Jacob Boehme gazed at sunlight reflected off a pewter vesse...
September 05, 2005
To begin this article, allow me to say that my writings take an unusual approach, and some of my ideas might seem far-fetched. Because of the unusual nature of my life and work, I've taken over twenty years to study both rational and non-rational cognitive styles and in addition I've been consultin...