The Black Crow, Gods and Ghosts

Through The Omniscience Principle and The Philosophy of I ... I broke free. I battled failure, depression and the enormous pressure to succeed for some twenty years ... I won! The experience changed the way I think, the way I see the world, the way I interact with people, the way I work. It changed my attitude towards business and the way I live. It changed my life completely and WILL change yours … it WILL set you free.

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The Black Crow 
In my life there’s a Crow, a big, black as pitch, special crow. Sometimes he’s in an oak tree, others he’s on a fence post. Sometimes he’s off doing what black crows do and other times, he’s sat on my shoulder screaming and squawking in my ear! 
If you don’t know what a crow is, it’s a big black bird they get in the UK, like a raven. As you’ll read, I’m quite a grounded person and don’t subscribe to much in the way of conventional wisdom. I’m skeptical of luck and destiny and don’t really get off on the supernatural ... BUT ... there are things in life that we simply can’t explain. 
How did this crow come into my life? 
We were looking to move house and came across a property that was in the hands of the receiver. The owner had gone bankrupt and this looked like a fantastic opportunity. I tracked down the agent dealing with it and opened negotiations, looking forward to the moment we signed the deal of the decade. 
I was ahead of the game, had got in before anyone else, the price was good ... and things just started to fall apart! 
One thing after another, inexplainable things that I’m not even going to attempt to explain! The more we pushed, the more the deal pushed back.
My wife would often turn to me and say that “things aren’t right, this just isn't normal”
In my heart I agreed but my head disagreed with both. 
Then on the last visit, as we got out of the car, an old lady appeared at the fence from the field opposite. Cheery enough but just strange. “Hi, just wanted to say hello and see if I like you or not. If not I’ll be putting in a toilet block here in front of you” she chirped. 
At that very moment my Crow appeared on an ancient oak branch right next to her head and began screaming at us. “Rarrrk, rarrk, rarrk” 
That’s it! We agreed and decided it was all too much. We pulled out of the deal and forgot all about it. 
A year later we passed the property again and were horrified to see what would have happened if we’d secured the house. 
A retired lawyer lived some distance away and liked to ride out on the forest on his horse. He’d been studying old maps of the area and found an ancient bridleway that allowed him to access past the house to the woods beyond. He did his lawyer’s thing and got the path reopened. 
It passed through the garden, under the kitchen window, through the garage and out of the garden on the other side! 
I have listened to my Black Crow from that point forward. 
When the Black Crow screams he’s telling me to walk away or is pushing me in a direction. My wife and I have a saying now when things go wrong for no reason we can fathom, “it’s a Black Crow”. 
We learned to accept that when the ‘Crow’s a screamin’ ... beware! We’ve learned to walk away, no matter how counter intuitive it may seem. 
I grew through writing and practicing the things I put down on paper here and as my other businesses took off and life took over I put Omniscience on the back burner. 
Things started to go bad with my business, my Black Crow has been squawking and I’ve not been listening. Everything failed, culminating in probably the darkest day of my life ... 
Later I write about locking horns, seeing the signs and learning to walk away at the right time. Making an enemy is the most time-consuming, energy-sapping, draining thing you can do. 
We’d bought an amazing property here in New Zealand which used to be an old apple orchard. It came with three workers’ cottages. After we moved, the council changed the development zoning, which for us was a lottery ticket. It meant we could divide off the cottages, give them titles and sell them on. 
All went well until close to the end. We’d sold a couple and just needed some driveways putting in. This is the most simple of jobs. We took on a small local landscaping firm and that must have been one of those days when the Black Crow was off in some Black Crow strip joint, smoking Black Crow ganja and getting thoroughly smashed on Black Crow cerveza, or something. Where ever he was, he wasn’t where he should have been ... screaming at the top of his croupy voice: “Stay away from these motherfuckers, they are baaaaaaad news...” 
I’m not going to bore you with the details but the subsequent two years have been what can only be described as utter insanity. These people made such a mess of the job that they caused us to miss the deadlines on the agreements and lose a sale. They then produced an invoice that appeared to have been penned by The Brothers Grim. 
It’s ended up in court and caused so much upset and distress I can’t begin to describe ... well I can but can’t be fucked! 
This was only a small facet of things that were going wrong. Alone, I sank lower and lower and lower into a dank and dark place where all was black and all was cold and all was silent. 
I was living life constantly below the happiness line. My moods rarely peaked above it. I went on tablets in the hope they’d at least even emotions out. Just to be able to have a life on the happiness line would be a start. 
I couldn’t concentrate on my projects. I slept for too many hours and awoke tired and drained. I dreaded the morning and lived in abject fear of what Groundhog day would bring. If it was the same as yesterday, a day filled with rejection, I didn’t want to face today. 
And it was during this time of crushing self-pity that I rediscovered The Omniscience Principle. 
I began reading. I would read more and as it made more and more sense I read more and then I started to rewrite. I am older and wiser now and began to feel a spark as I rediscovered writing stuff in better ways. Something I found most amazing of all was just how good this shit was! Stuff I’d written those years ago was still so relevant and poignant. 
As I wrote, the power returned and began coursing through my every cell ... I’d forgotten how powerful it all is. 
Nothing’s changed at this point except my perspective. I am still fixing a broken business, still battling demons and still fighting those unhinged landscaping people ... But I am feeling good, really, really good. 
And now the fog has cleared I see the colour returning. I can see the sun rising and the moon, like an obedient dog following. I can hear the bees working and the birds singing and loudest of all ... Black Crow is squawking! 
He was there all along ... The things that failed were Black Crow. If any of a million things had gone differently, I’d not be writing this now! 
I would have gone on without the benefit of these words, I would have gone on to be arrogant and unpleasant and narcissistic. I would have created wealth granted but I would not be wealthy, I would not be fulfilled. 
When times are bad you feel like you’re stood in a hailstorm without an umbrella. 
Worry no more, you’re not alone and now you too have discovered The Omniscience Principle, soon we’ll be powering your way towards something better. 
A plane won’t fly without the wings. Bolt all the elements together and it’ll soar. 
I want man to be like a never-falling Icarus — spreading the wings forever reaching new heights no matter the obstacles that may be in our way ... 
You only have a limited time here on this Earth ... There’s a year, a month, a day and a second on your forehead and life is counting down. You can’t see it but as sure as night follows day, it’s counting down and once you’re gone, wherever you go, you’re gone from this world. The Sword of Damocles is real! 
You’re going to attain freedom to think clearly in the shortest possible time and spend the remainder of your extraordinarily short life enjoying it! 
“I started with nothing and I still have most of it left” Seasick Steve
Just a few years ago, at the age of 32, I couldn’t even turn on a computer, FACT! 
I went to college and learned. After being virtually bankrupted once by The Machine I chose to explore the Internet as a vehicle to attaining wealth and freedom because I believed it offered the most opportunities for someone like me ... actually it offers great opportunities for just about anybody! 
Having said that I want to point out that The Omniscience Principle has nothing to do with how you choose to make your money and although the Internet has been good to me, I am well aware that it isn’t for everyone. 
The Omniscience Principle is about attaining personal freedom and being ultimately successful at your chosen business or in your ambitions... 
I say ‘business’ because unless you’re highly specialised, highly trained or highly sought-after, a job is time hungry, not leveragable and will simply never pay enough to do all the things you want to do! 
Money is a necessary evil, even if your ultimate goal is to just do good. You can’t save the Polar Bears without money! 
How much is enough? ... Well that depends on the individual but take it from me, it’s bloody great fat number that very few jobs in the world will pay? 
Stellios from Easy Jet (a highly successful European budget airline) suggests that anything over £10million net worth (@ $20M) is vanity. 
I put a slightly more conservative figure to aim at, somewhere around ... mmmmm!
£4,000,000 (@$8M) free and clear ... and if you think that’s going to be hard to attain ... you’re damn, fucking right it is! 
But whether that figure is a mind-blowing amount to you or something that simply seems ‘a lot’ ... it is attainable ... 
The Omniscience Principle is about opening the door to Self, by doing so you open doors to a better world. Some of what I write is not particularly sensational or ground-breaking however, I’d like to think that I present in new and engaging ways ... Some of what I write is sensational and ground-breaking. 
I’ve never had a job and at my age am thoroughly unemployable. To survive, I built my business one step at a time. For years the money refused to roll, but I stuck at it. I did whatever it would take to succeed ... and through these modules I‘d like to share things I learned about myself along the way, with you. 
I truly wish The Omniscience Principle was around when I started, as life would have been far easier for me! 
I started right at the bottom, so don’t think for a second that YOU can’t achieve Personal and Financial Freedom ... YOU CAN ... and will, if you consider and implement what I share and most importantly, refuse to give up. 
You will make it, maybe not overnight, but I promise, it will happen. 
Well, I think you’ve worked out for yourself by know that I don’t beat around the bush and I say it like it is! I don’t suffer fools and get right to the point, so let’s get right down to it ... 
... 
A Note From The Author 
Omniscience (the state of knowing everything), is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe, ... and the realisation that you actually know bugger all about very little at all! 
Everything we think we know, the teaching, doctrine, theories and facts are not all they seem, they are ephemeral. They are mostly other peoples’ ideas taken on board and re-presented as fact ... until a new, better suited, better fitting proposal prevails. 
For instance, Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher was so respected that his works formed the basis of most knowledge for nearly two thousand years. 
No one thought to question his fact that flies had only four legs and that snot was brain matter! (Snot is the green slime that dribbles from your nostrils on a cold day if you’re not familiar with the word!). 
Even Christmas and 25th December being the date of Jesus’ birth is not what we think! 
His birth, which is the basis for the Anno Domini system of dating, has been determined by modern historians as having occurred between 7 and 2 BC. The date of celebration is not thought to be Jesus’ actual date of birth, and may have been chosen to coincide with ancient Roman solar festivals that were held on December 25 worshiping their sun God Mithras. 
Now on the subject of Mithras, it appears that many stories attributed to Christianity are nothing of the sort and are actually adopted from older, pagan beliefs. It has been said that if the growth of Christianity had been arrested by some mortal malady, the world would have been Mithraic! 
After the triumph of the church over paganism, artists continued to make use of stock images originally devised for Mithras in order to depict the new and unfamiliar stories of the bible. The way in which Mithras was depicted shooting arrows at rocks causing fountains to spring up was adapted to represent the biblical story of Moses striking Mount Horeb with his staff to release drinking water, according to Cumont. Likewise the Heavens, the Earth, the Ocean, the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, signs of the Zodiac, the Winds, the Seasons, and the Elements appear on sarcophagi, mosaics, and miniatures in the fourth to fifth centuries using the same sort of iconography used for Mithras earlier. 
The scene of Mithras ascending into the heavens was apparently incorporated into Christian art: after Mithras had accomplished a series of miraculous deeds, he ascended into the heavens in a chariot, which in various depictions is drawn by horses being controlled by Helios-Sol, the pagan sun god. 
In other depictions a chariot of fire belonging to Helios is led into the water, surrounded by the God Oceanus and sea nymphs. Vermaseren argues that Christian portrayals on sarcophagi of the soul’s ascension into heaven, though ostensibly referencing the biblical scene of Elijah being led into heaven by fiery chariots and horses, were in fact inspired by representations of Mithras’ ascent into the heavens in Helios’ chariot. The sun god, provided inspiration for the flames on Elijah’s chariot and the Jordan River is personified by a figure resembling the God Oceanus. 
And this is often the way! 
Columbus didn’t discover America, it has been there since the beginning of time and merchants had been plying the oceans for hundreds of years before he trundled up their established trade routes and began torturing and slaughtering natives. 
Apparently, the Indian Squanto who met the first Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Massachusetts asked them if they “wanted a beer!” 
He spoke perfect English having been to England several times! 
The fact that he spoke to them at all is is remarkable because he was actually thrice kidnapped and enslaved in Europe before returning to America to find that his entire tribe had been wiped out by a plague brought by the European explorers. 
We’re taught that Captain cook was a gentleman hero who discovered the New World. Pacific tribes had made this their home two thousand years ago. Then I see on the History Channel that he was nothing but a murdering pirate, ultimately responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Maori! 
Apparently, the romantic Hollywood version of the West being won by cowboys shooting Indians is nonsense, it was won with blankets infested with smallpox ... and the original cowboys were in fact Scottish farmers thrown off their lands by the aristocracy. 
The Santa we know and love is a character from a Coke advertising campaign. 
The Crusades were state-sponsored terrorism. King Arthur and Merlin didn’t actually exist and man didn’t land on the moon, which is actually made of cheese! 
The point is, that our knowledge base seems increasingly fragile doesn’t it? All that we think we know is not always the way it is. 
Every day we argue with someone on some level and a settlement is generally brokered by the mighty Google. “I’m right, you’re wrong”... the opponent hooks into the entire knowledge of man and will pull out information to support their point of view. Immediately, the argument is settled. Yet how do we know that information is correct? If we took the time, we would find information to support both sides of the argument in equal measure. 
The information that settles often fractious arguments is written by others, it is of the moment, it is often wrong or biased. Yet we treat it is fact and it forms the basis for all we hold dear. 
For years there were authoritative papers written by clever men in white coats presenting conclusive argument that smoking was not harmful ... reports that were commissioned by tobacco companies! 
And this is repeated time and time again. 
I recently refurbished a cast iron pan because the Teflon was flaking. I looked up to see if it was harmful and found a very convincing video to say that it was not ... the video was made by Dupont, the company that make Teflon! 
I did a bit more digging and found a wealth of information reporting that Teflon in my food is bad! The only way to know for sure would be to commission my own scientific study. 
I am often surprised at how my knowledge and the facts I hold dear are contradicted ... 
The date December 25th is apparently not even in the Bible! (I maybe proven wrong as I’ve never read it!) 
Isaac Newton argued that the date was chosen to correspond with the winter solstice. Although the modern solstice date is December 21 or 22, the Romans marked it on December 25. 
There was once a race of giants, The Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids, Aliens are real, the world is run by lizard people,
Who knows?
What I do know is that some will have read the last few paragraphs as fact and be jumping up and down, confident in their opinion that I’ve got it all wrong. 
Much of the work is written from the way I see the world because that’s the only thing I know to be true, and even then there are cracks. There’s a ton of research gone into The Omniscience Principle and that’s an issue because I’m relying on what I’ve read and watched and I have no clue if it’s all good and correct. I cover many things and present them as fact or knowledge of the moment ... but I don’t know! 
Just because it’s on the net, in a book or relayed verbally does not mean it happened that way or is even correct ... as you’ll learn! 
I was born in the UK and went to school, college and then Polytechnic, finally graduating with a HND in Art Direction and Advertising. After being forced to move to London in search of a work placement because this was where the agencies were based, I soon decided that ‘The Smog’ was not where I was going to spend the rest of my life! 
So ... after years getting educated at the tender age of 20 I left the UK. After various non- advertising related jobs in the Canary Islands I ended up in Greece where I set up as a sign writer and was introduced to sailing. This was to become a lifelong passion as I accumulated many thousands of sea miles cruising, racing and delivering yachts as a freelance skipper ... and that would have been that, spending my years sailing the seven seas but something was stirring within, I felt I needed something more fulfilling. 
I chose direct marketing and publishing as this catered to my skill set and fitted into my transient lifestyle. I came up with the ideas and outsourced the work, which was all managed from a laptop whilst sipping Sangria in Spain or Rum Punch in the Caribbean. 
The first venture into publishing was in 1999 with a series of wholesale related directories known as Sourcebook. These detailed trade sources worldwide. During this time I built other websites that would hone my Internet Marketing skills; skills that contribute to the success of the site today in these increasingly competitive times. 
I found I have a natural talent for copywriting and design and over the years I’ve has helped create extremely busy sites for my own portfolio and on behalf of clients. 
Government Auctions UK was described as an experiment. Originally, it could be bought as a printed document or downloaded as an ebook. Due to the limitations of the web in those days it was pretty basic and gave people a starting point, a place from where they could enter the secretive world of Government and Police Auctions. There were no sophisticated features, yet it contained everything someone needed to track down ‘No Reserve’ auctions. 
The book sold well and over the following couple of years proved to be a great success. The Government Auctions UK website took on a life of its own, growing organically through search engine exposure and by word of mouth. However, it became apparent that visitors wanted a grander product than a directory of auction houses so as the web grew more technical, GAUK programmers started to develop a system to better deliver the auction information. 
It was this demand that drove site development towards something much more comprehensive and targeted. What you see today is a powerful aggregation platform and the culmination of literally years of research and development. 
After spending a number of years based mostly in Cyprus, I now live with my family in New Zealand. 
Now, I am not a particularly well educated or read man, in fact I’m slightly dyslexic and very numberlexic. I’ve never had a proper job, mixed with corporates or run with the rats ... and I as I said, am probably unemployable. I am a family man with amazing kids and a doting wife who takes too long getting ready and is late for absolutely everything! 
I am not as successful as some but certainly more successful than others. 
BUT, I do get up when I want, do pretty much what I want, when I want and the older I get the more I realise just how lucky I am ... 
Actually, that’s total bollocks (english for shite!), because I’m not in the slightest bit lucky (apart from the elements outside of my control such as the kids health and their genes which I stacked in my favour as I chose the best woman for the job! — Oooh, that’s gonna hurt!). 
... 
Luck 
“Get up you lazy bastard!”
I have worked damn hard to be able to get up when I want. I developed an end game and steered 
MY destiny towards it.
Luck is relative ... most of us feel we are hard done by when things don’t go right, regardless of 
where we are in life. 
Are some supernaturally lucky whilst others desperately unlucky? 
Well there are exceptions to the rule where ‘luck’ is concerned ... Paris Hilton seems to have it pretty easy for example! 
A friend of mine said that we should be grateful for every day in our life because a street urchin on the streets of Brazil would consider us very lucky. 
Conversely, a starving African child in the depths of famine would consider the street kid lucky! 
Luck is a state of mind for most people ... there really are desperately unlucky people out there ... 
YOU are not one of them. 
... 
Gods and Ghosts 
Like the laminar flow of smoke rising from a burning candle, life is unpredictable. But ... it’s the only one you’ve got and how it plays out is all down to you, the decisions you make and the things that you do. 
I am not religious. 
That does not mean that I do not believe in anything, I do. I’m just not sure what it is! We all believe in something, even if it’s as tangible as life and the energy that flows through everything. 
This uniquely human (I think) compulsion to believe there is something else appears to come down to the fact that the thought of being alone is utterly unbearable. We are comforted and supported by the thought that there is something. 
Over the two hundred thousand years of human evolution, the need for a Tribal Identity has become braided into our very DNA. 
We need to be part of something and at its most basic, we need to believe that we are not wholly alone. However, the problems started when megalomaniacs took advantage. Over the last few thousand years, basic human instinct has been massaged and manipulated into something dark and maleficent through conditioning, fear, persuasion and indoctrination. 
We’ve come to believe that belonging to a group defines us whereas, the ultimate irony is, it confines us. 
When I say I am not religious I mean that I do not subscribe to a set of confines built and written by man to control us. Writings that are blindly followed, no matter where that leads. 
The moment we subscribe to a group, we are labeled and it forms our attitude towards all other groups. Once that Sticky Label is slapped on the forehead, a pedestal is formed beneath our feet from where all further opinion and argument is called. That viewpoint is formed by the confines that define that group. 
This Christmas, Wifey bought me a laughing Buddha because it made me happy. I placed it on a shelf only to find that it wasn’t the right shelf, it had to be placed on a specific shelf in a specific corner of the room at a specific height where I could rub his fat tummy. 
During the placement my wife said to me “I thought you didn’t believe in God anyway” and I said “I don’t and this isn’t God it’s Buddha and Buddhists don’t believe in God and I am right and you are wrong”. The simple act of placing a happy Buddha on the shelf had an immediate affect on my reasoning and perspective. 
And this is how dangerous this all becomes when manipulated by man. 
I am right and you are wrong and ... The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee ... Pop a cap in his arse! 
That’s a Pulp Fiction thing! 
So I don’t subscribe because I am defined by I, not confined by them.
I find that the questions I’ve asked with regard to the teachings of man have never satisfactory been answered. 
Progression and Reward is something we will explore throughout The Omniscience Principle. It’s an extremely powerful technique used by man to manipulate man and it employed in all its vibrant glory by the megalomaniacs. 
As a boy I perpetually questioned the tales we were taught, the scripts, the stories, the promises, the reprimands and the motivations. And the question I asked most: “How can a wholly mysterious entity give me the things I want in my life today?” 
Now that doesn’t make me a bad person, a heretic or an infidel. For me, the rules and rewards outlined in the various bibles, gospels and texts seem more driven by control, fear and manipulation than altruism ... do this or you will live eternally in hell and damnation. Or do that and you’ll live blissfully in wine and orgy ... when you’re dead!!! 
If man is to be believed then, God, The Ultimate One, Jesus or Jehovah, Allah or Shiva, Brahma, Ganesha, Mahavira, Vishnu, Durga, Krishna, Odin, Athena, Zeus, Coatlicue and the multitude of deities ... aren’t very fair or even particularly nice! 
And the appalling acts committed by man in their name are pure evil. It’s always been a paradox to me that horror is rarely perpetrated in the name of The Devil! 
We’re taught by man that worship of, or sacrifice to, a particular entity will bring reward in this world or the next. Remember Progression and Reward? It’s comes up a lot! 
Is it really sat on high waiting for our call, watching our every move, listening to our every word and begging request? I say save your breath, you might as well spit melon seeds into the face of a hurricane. 
So many calls for help coming in, is it any wonder so many don’t get answered? 
My mother-in-law (who’ll slap me for writing about her!) and I often have debates about her Roman Catholic God. She once told me that she often starts her prayers with “sorry to bother you because I know you’re busy...” 
When I asked “busy doing what” she answered, “helping the starving!”
“If he was busy doing that they wouldn’t be starving would they?” I replied smugly! (and for that I get another slap!) 
The various faiths documented by the many and varied men, appear to me to be utterly elitist. If a follower does not fit into the template they are excluded from everything. They are de-throned and excommunicated from The Tribe. 
And for those who say I should research more before making sweeping statements, my answer is that I have other things to do, I have found my religion, I have found I. 
I am convinced that there is nothing in this life, in this place, in this time ... more accountable, more able and with more vested interest in me ... than me! 
I feel that to believe in something, is good. It brings great comfort to millions. Subscribing to a religion is not necessarily a bad thing. The conflicts only start to arise when one decides to become free. 
In that case, worship must be accompanied by awakeness. The realisation that the belief structure forming the identity and understanding, argument and viewpoint comes from man not a God. And the fundamental understanding that God is absolutely not responsible or accountable for the good and bad things that happen in our lives. 
You are a good person, you know what is good and what is bad. 
When we pray, the simple fact is, our prayers are not answered by it. It is through affirmation and prayer that self conditioning is effected. 
That’s important so I’ll write it more importantly! 
IT IS THROUGH AFFIRMATION THAT ‘SELF’ CONDITIONING IS EFFECTED. 
The more a person prays, the more that desire (if achievable) becomes reality: 
Dear it, Help me become a better person.
Dear it, Help me get a better job.
Dear it, Help me heal. 
It’s not an entity fixing stuff (most of which is petty, selfish and indulgent). It’s the process of affirmation, calling the prayer, and THE ACTIONS WE TAKE that generates the outcome ... 
Ultimately, YOU make the difference YOU desire. 
Before the control of governments, control was orchestrated by the Church and we’re still living with that mindset hundreds of years later. The issue I have with the various books by man and man’s interpretation of things we don’t understand, is that only the worthy are allowed reward for good things they do in the name of ... and if that entails strapping several kilos of Semtex to a back and walking into a crowded cafe to detonate it, then so be it! 
Good has many faces depending on man’s interpretation. Good can be manipulated in so many ways, all the way down the scale. An underlying agenda of control and manipulation of man by other men and women. 
There was a time when priests were all powerful. If it didn’t rain for a month they would take life and sacrifice it to a deity of their making. The Aztecs would roll the heads of their human lambs down the sacrificial steps of their great pyramids. People would go willingly to the chopping block on the promise of many wonderful things ... in the afterlife! 
Over time, this proved to be a little extreme and pissed off the peasants, especially when the rains didn’t come. It’s also not wise business to kill off your customers. So the priests looked to other methods of control. 
Nowadays, the church elite take life energy and sacrifice it to their various deities. These organisations of which there are many thousands, are self-serving, they take to further their own goals. The reward is a pat on the back and a promise of many wonderful things ... in the afterlife! And many people go willingly to the sacrifice because it makes them feel good in this life. 
Why aren’t animals allowed into the various Heavens? Does ‘God’ not have time or inclination to look after the animals? 
If he did then are cats more deserved with their nine lives than the lowly slug? 
And I’m leaving the Hindus out of this particular debate as they do apparently honour the cow, and rats I think ... or is that another religion ... and cats? No, that’s the Egyptians ... I think? 
Dogs definitely have dreams so it follows they have desires and wishes, if only to go for a walk and play with a ball. They are loyal and obedient and rarely do malicious things like murder and steal, so why are they not allowed in? And what about the hippos, warthog, wasps and mosquitoes? 
It has been calculated that the tiny mosquito is responsible for more deaths on this planet than there are people alive today! So surely this devil bug of the apocalypse has a red hot ticket to hellfire eh? 
But don’t be too hasty in judgment, it’s only the females that bite ... nothing new there then! ... (ah! I love you all really, I just wish I could work you out :) 
So if God were to change his mind and let the animals into Heaven, do all the men-mozzis now get a VIP pass through the pearly gates where they can sit in the mozzi pole dancing clubs, drinking mozzi cocktails till the early hours in that place where hangovers don’t exist ... or should they actually be condemned to mozzi hell for conspiracy with their evil mozzi womenfolk? 
At the end of the day and joking apart, is it really feasible that only humans who believe and follow the rules laid down by man in that particular version of a faith be assured passage to a place where the minibar is always full, the beds always clean and comfy, the room service free and the porn is running 24/7? 
Or is it ‘all just an illusion’ as Buddha and The Matrix would have us believe! 
A lovely Chinese story tells about the difference between Heaven and Hell. At dinner both the good and bad would sit at their respective tables in Heaven and in Hell. 
Both tables were set with the most breathtaking banquette imaginable and both the good and the bad had to eat with six foot chopsticks. 
The only difference between the two domains is that the good fed each other whilst those in Hell, selfishly tried to feed themselves! 
Phew! It’s all a bit confusing isn’t it? Don’t worry, The Omniscience Principle is quite uncomplicated by comparison. 
I maintain throughout The Omniscience Principle that if you help yourself by doing the very best you can do in anything and everything you do ... you do not need to wait till the afterlife for the rewards. 
You, your life, and close family are what matters in THIS life. 
We can deal with what happens when we leave this mortal world in another chapter ... when I have a clue what happens myself! 
The afterlife, whether it exists or not, whether we go to a better place is simply not important right now. 
Surely, if ‘God’ is fair and benevolent as man maintains then we will, by default, be readily accepted into Nirvana, Heaven, Paradise, the Above, the Afterworld, Arcadia, Canaan, the Celestial Sphere, Eden, Elysian, Elysium, Empyrean, Eternity, the Ether, the Hereafter, the Kingdom, Olympus, the Promised Land, Shangri-la, the New Jerusalem, Utopia, Valhalla, Walhalla, Welkin, Zion ... or wherever we go because we are good people and don’t need to prove that to any being. 
And what of this heaven? 
So it’s a beautiful place; a place of utter, overwhelming beauty, mountains and great plains, forests and fields, deep blue oceans and crystal waterfalls ... but the trees are silent, the fields empty, the rivers dead, because of course, animals aren’t worthy of heaven. No banquets of opulently laden tables with goat and steak and boar, no turkey at Christmas and Thanksgiving, no lamb on Sunday, and unholy of holys ... no fried chicken! 
If we’re very, very good then we’re rewarded with veganism, we’re destined to eat cabbage and prunes. And how do we eat? With knives and forks off plates or with finger’s cleaned by servants. Who makes all the heavenly stuff because as the ancient Egyptians proved, no earthy possession pass through? Are there actually heavenly jobs because I don’t want one! 
Do SmartPhones exist in heaven because if not, there’s gonna be a lot of unhappy teenagers! 
And fancy houses and cars ... who gets them? Or are the homesteads all the same? What style of architecture? Is this simply heavenly communism? And what happens to ambition in heaven? 
Martyrs blow themselves to bits daily with the promise of paradise and in some cases, seventy two virgins as reward. What happens if they get there and other ‘worthy’ faiths are there too? Do they have to kill, bomb and maim the ‘non-believers’ to get to a yet higher plateau? 
Is sex even allowed in Heaven? 
Not looking good this heaven we aspire to does it? Looks more like what we have here in the ‘real world’ but not as rich and diverse. We are told that orgies are debauched therefore I assume that if we partake we’ll go to hell, presumably for more wanton debauchery. 
And is we don’t go to heaven we’re dammed to hell. The house of condemned souls and devils, the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan. 
The bottomless pit, The place of torment, Habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, Jahannan, Sheol, Everlasting fire and torment. The lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched, The worm that never dies. Purgatory, Limbo, Gehenna, The Abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Pit of Acheron, Cocytus; Realms of Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet. 
And what about that black and fiery place of eternal torment for the damned, (unless you’re a Viking then Hel is very cold!), the place where we all go if we don’t conform to another’s will? 
Eternal damnation and fire ... actually, that’s seems to be most of it! That we burn in hell, so we burn for twenty minutes. We cant burn for eternity because fire needs fuel and once were burned out, we’re gone. Personally, if it comes down to it, I’d rather live a guilt free life by my rules doing the very best I can do in anything and everything I do. If I have to burn in hell for a short while for being a non-believer, an infidel or kafir then so be it. 
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” Buddha 
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. 
I choose not to pray to it and have developed incredible methods to empower I. I have fought the primal compulsion to belong to tribe. I embrace many things from many tribes and above all, believe that only I can get what I want from this life. I have made a conscious decision to miss out the Big Fellah, it’s simply more efficient. 
I don’t get drawn into the God debate because it usually ends up causing upset and drunken brawls. In my experience, ‘The Almighty’ is not fair, just, or even a particularly nice thing and if he/she did exist in the various forms I wouldn’t want much to do with ‘it’ anyway ... 
‘God’ works in mysterious ways ... damn fucking right it does! ... 
Why, Oh Why, Do Rapists Win The Lottery? 
And why do murders get away with the slaughter of the innocent? 
Why would one be allowed to stalk the local school playing field on sports days among the good people with their precious children? Why can the good people of the community not be allowed to approach this man to ask him ‘politely’ to leave the village, or even voice an opinion like “you murdering, evil bastard” within his earshot? 
Why can’t he be lifted from the town and driven blindfolded and gagged to the Outer Hebrides (farthest, deepest Scotland) to be chained to a rock just above low tide. Why can’t that happen for fear of the social services, lawyers, and general busy bodies protecting him? 
After all, he was never found not guilty, it was Not Proven; something entirely different! 
He simply managed to place enough doubt in the jurors’ minds so as to not secure a ‘safe’ conviction. His legal team claimed that the blood splattered over his clothing wasn’t the result of him smashing his step-daughter’s head in. The blood came from air being released from her lungs as ‘grief-stricken’, he moved her after finding her lying bleeding on the patio. This noxious, squalid waste of flesh and bones was good at getting his way through lies and perversity. He made up his CV to secure a headmaster’s job. He claimed to have gone to University ... In reality, he was academically useless. 
Why does a man like this get to live on the inherited fortunes of an aberration of a woman who courted him in prison? Why do people do that? What is the sick fascination in rotten people? Her hesitant, embarrassed letter said she felt drawn to him! 
Why does a man like this get to live in a beautiful part of the country, in a large house with glorious gardens? Would a fair and just it allow a man like this to enjoy the very best life has to offer, albeit with a dark secret and heavy conscience whilst a beautiful young woman just entering the best years of her life, who harmed not a living soul, languishes six feet in the dirt? 
Maybe it has something planned in the afterlife. Who knows? I certainly don’t! “God works in mysterious ways...” 
Pedophiles walk the streets and muggers profit handsomely from their actions. Dictators kill, beat and terrorise, yet live in abject luxury. 
Presidents and politicians, lie, cheat, connive and conspire to war ... yet holiday in the most beautiful resorts, drive the best cars money can buy, relax in their choice of opulent homes, guest on the world’s most fantastic yachts, dine on exquisite food. 
Why do the evil get rewarded in this life now when good and honest people who live their lives by the letter according to the books, good people like my Mother-in-Law, suffer with terrible, undeserved ill health? 
Why do the righteous perish slowly and painfully with cancer? Why do they lose all that is dear in tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes? Why do the deserving get mugged, the hard-working get looted, the honest get beaten and terrorised, the child-bearing get their hands chopped off by machete, pistol-whipped and car-jacked, the retired have their pensions plundered, doctors nurses and the altruistic live on the bread line ... the really kind, helpful, warranted people get the rawest of deals? 
No! Not a very fair or honourable it! And it does not matter ... it’s a distraction! 
This is shit we have no control over therefore it has no place in our life. The questions stir negativity and create conflict. I don’t imagine for a second that you read those paragraphs and didn’t immediately form some sort of opinion ... and more importantly, question how that opinion was formed. 
So I maintain that we deal with it when the time comes and devote our energies to what we do have control over. 
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There is an Alternative Way; a Different Way 
Although the religious books written by men are not for me, you on the other hand will have your own thoughts. 
Ninety percent of the world’s population have faith and belong to a tribe ... I do not seek to change that, I intend merely to open your mind to choices that are yours to make. Choices that if taken, will affect your life immediately, for good or bad, for better or for worse ... ultimately you have a choice and that choice is yours. 
The Omniscience Principle, it’s a way of life, a system to guide your life, a set of tools to get you through the turmoil, hard and lonely times. To help when you feel abandoned, weak and vulnerable and when it doesn’t seem to be listening. 
My new doctrine aims to fill the gaps found in this life and before the next (if indeed there is one) with practical help. 
If you cannot apply an action and see an immediate, positive reaction then I simply say, move on. ... 
Destiny 
Someday everything will make perfect sense. In the meantime laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. 
I do believe that inexplainable things happen for a reason ... but do not believe that a preordained ‘destiny’ defines us. 
Your future would be totally out of your control if this were the case. Therefore, to attempt walking an alternative path would be pointless. To give credit to destiny I would promote deep meditation for sixty years and see what ‘destiny’ had gifted when eyes are finally opened. 
I’m pretty damn sure that destiny would have created boils and bunions and a thirty foot pile of turds and urea and not a lot else! 
We define our own destiny ... it must not confine us. I believe YOUR destiny is defined by the goals you set and is crafted by the actions and decisions YOU make. 
We are what we do 
Extending from your aura right now are a multitude of destinies, endless opportunities in the form of golden threads suspended in animation, floating by as every second passes. Any one will take a person to a place. 
Which ones are grabbed depends on who is doing the catching. The well prepared will be casting a steely eye over the offerings, be skilled in the art of destiny fishing, will know what to grab and what to let glide by. 
The indecisive will let most of the threads drift aimlessly in the celestial breeze. The thoroughly unprepared will grab no thread at all and be thankful or despondent for the dulled and tarnished threads that settle on their path. To elaborate on this candidly. I didn’t have a particularly privileged upbringing. Although my parents did their best, we didn’t live in a particularly good area and the school was rough as old dogs! 
I honestly believe that if I hadn’t possessed a sense of self-betterment, I would be in jail or worse right now. A lot of old school friends and the people I mixed with have chosen to grab destiny threads of let’s say ... at the darker end of the spectrum! 
I always knew where I wanted to be and what I waned to achieve. Even at school when I got berated for getting in early, collecting all the conkers and selling them on, I knew I wanted a good, fulfilled life. I wanted a life that sure as hell was not going to sail my way ... so I looked out for the golden threads and when one meandered just close enough to touch, I grabbed it with both hands and didn’t let go. 
And for those of you who have no idea why I would be selling conkers, it is a British game played with horse chestnuts. We string them on a shoelace and try to smash the opponent’s conker. You get points for the strongest. In my school we had several majestic Horse Chestnut trees and in the conker season I used to get in early, gather all the nuts and sell em! 
No, my religion is the religion of I and developing your innate abilities to shape or at least take advantage of circumstance. 
If there is an other one, take the comfort you need. But to succeed in this life, know that you are unimaginably strong, independent and perfectly able to shape it. 
What I have learned through life is that the more I learn, the less I know and what I do learn is generally second hand or years old or just plain wrong. Much of the history I was taught now turns out to be wrong thirty years on. In fact, almost everything I was taught at school has been updated. 
One plus two, still equals four. T-Rex was a scavenger with feathers incapable or running for fear of their leg bones collapsing. The dinosaurs were killed by man or a rampant venereal disease and not the ice age or a space rock. Who knows? 
All I know is what I’ve been told and until I have time to learn palaeontology and do my own research, I will endlessly debate the experts’ theories as though they were my own. 
Unfortunately, this is all we have. The Omniscience Principle won’t change this, it’s about understanding the shortcomings in our lives and developing acute self-awareness. It’s about becoming the person visiting the aquarium and not a being the fish swimming in it. 
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When studying animals, scientists compare intelligence verses instinct. 
To do this they put a mirror in the compound. They note that most animals see their reflection as another animal, reacting by either running away or headlong into attack ... Thwack! “Fucking funny Mr Scientist, thank you very much!” 
Elephants however, appear to understand what is known to these clever people as Self. They understand that the animal facing them is a reflection. Some have been seen blow-drying their hair and putting on lipstick! They possess that fundamental attribute that sets them apart. 
The more I learn, the more I realise that all I can truly believe is half of what I see and very little of what I hear. 
So I developed my own thoughts and share them for others to debate. I do not set rules for people to follow because my new religion is the religion of Self and as such, you have a choice. I sincerely hope that what you read here will set you on a track, one where the right choices will come more easily. 
What you are about to read will change your life beyond all recognition ... it certainly changed mine!