Bamford-Fetzer essay
July, 2012
... is only a question of individual destiny. Aristotle, of course, was not referring to the modern knower of objects, who ... this! It will change your life”—death clearly teaches the transience of all things, raising the fundamental read more...
Author: Christopher Bamford
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America's Agony
2007
... is very close to a real inner wish to serve the highest. Of course, it usually gets swallowed by the materialist impulses ... for transcendent Truth. In inviting us, in his own words of course, to consider the question of America’s destiny, John Fetzer read more...
Author: John E. Fetzer
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john, spiritual, new, world, life, radio, human, great, electronic, people
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scientific, man, america, time, self, mind, american, including, energy, television, michigan, records, students, complete, kalamazoo, general, experience, power, wenger, baseball, completely, war, broadcasting, social, national, rhea, inner, science, light, institute, religious, years, detroit, deeply, million, negative, personal, prophetic, work
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Books about John
... about their interest in parapsychology research and courses. Locally, Kalamazoo College and Nazareth College both ... Nazareth contact that John met Jim Keating, a teacher of a course in parapsychology at the time, who eventually introduced read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
Keywords:
spiritual, fetzer, psychic, jim, book, rhea, including, personal, wave, camp
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like, life, mind, course, church, world, mediums, board, masters, later, years, michigan, group, early, college, foundation, research, met, killick, della, practice, radio, chuck, included, masonic, introduced, inner, mentioned, theosophical, decisions, hand, religious, award, said, came, white, kalamazoo, earlier, mother
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Beaver Memos
... but which petered out for him after a couple years) and A Course in Miracles. By the late 1970s, he had what might be ... through Mike Wunderlin. Based in Punjab, India, Sant Mat teaches the Shabd yoga meditation practice; in Sanskrit “Surat” read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
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john, spiritual, msia, inner, foundation, new, years, fetzer, board, actually
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practice, shabd, physical, soul, channeling, group, light, age, par, jesus, plane, great, final, certain, including, gordon, concerning, mat, based, level, free, masters, higher, bruce, development, michael, according, god, began, year, letter, research, individual, coming, mystical, yoga, equipment, healing, august
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Beaver Memos
Bruce Fetzer Interview 5/5/2011
May 05, 2011
... lot of bases, because not only was it a divine book like A Course in Miracles, but it was one of the books, in addition to A Course in Miracles, that the Monday night group studied. It was ... to the synagogue, and there he taught. The people said, ‘He teaches not as of the scribes and Pharisees, but as a man who knows read more...
Author: Bruce Fetzer
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Oral Histories
Fetzer’s Early Experiences Set his Course as ...
April 24, 2013
... April 24, 2013 John Fetzer’s Early Experiences Set his Course as Lifelong Spiritual Seeker (April 24, 2013) Late in life, ... my life to the spiritual work of the Creator.” John of course did survive, and he followed through on his sacred read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
Keywords:
spiritual, experience, seeker, life, flu, fetzer, years, experiences, world, april
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questions, came, suddenly, tom, great, second, beaver, hit, place, lasting, defining, searching, seeking, early, time, whitson, judy, direct, character, tend, massie, indiana, specific, milliner, war, jesus, story, like, properly, took, gave, axiom, kaye, averitt, deadly, essential, virus, mental, episodes
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Beaver Memos
Fetzer Administration Building Spiritual Symb...
June 03, 2013
... with original Indian Surat Shabd yoga philosophy, which teaches there are always such sat gurus in incarnation). [Ed. Note: ... This is incorrect. MSIA teaches that there IS always a Mystical Traveler on the planet. read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
Keywords:
john, spiritual, mariani, fetzer, gold, rod, hologram, silver, masonic, disk
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crystal, massie, like, energy, triangle, tradition, spirit, shabd, ved, crystals, disks, pins, symbol, physical, meteorite, small, ancient, msia, lower, world, esoteric, notion, year, double, pointing, seven, vertical, bof, atlantean, metal, emerald, master, gordon, mystical, said, little, building, ceremony, diamonds
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John Fetzer’s “Final Principles” Statement
December 05, 2012
... (1973). Later in life he studied The Urantia Book, A Course in Miracles, the channelings of Jim Gordon to John and the ... length lost ... But, as the very philosophy of Freemasonry teaches us, [that] ... the loss of the Word must suppose its read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
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john, group, love, masonic, light, fetzer, freedom, inner, life, self
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new, jim, foundation, men, great, energy, bailey, theosophical, book, gordon, msia, mason, bruce, man, energies, consciousness, divine, esoteric, alice, tradition, board, force, actively, help, masonry, free, paragraph, spirit, soul, degree, holy, years, final, later, american, profound, true, shabd, avatar
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Beaver Memos
Bruce Fetzer Interview 5/29/2012 Channelings4
May 29, 2012
... John Davis is at one of the points, if I recall (and of course Jim Gordon originally came to Kalamazoo to find John Davis ... that ILM went with the Sound and Light path, and that ILM teaches, initiation and meditation. Jim said to me that Archangel read more...
Author: Bruce Fetzer
Keywords:
bruce, jim, larry, tom, spiritual, actually, group, important, channeling, right
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people, fetzer, foundation, like, light, new, board, says, purpose, pretty, different, institute, time, things, later, specific, went, yes, specifically, lincoln, thing, kept, organization, building, set, good, inner, science, question, talking, okay, archangel, money, memo, michael, meditation, said, worked, better
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Oral Histories
Tom Beaver Oral History 1 of 9
December 10, 2017
... It was a great time. Uh, I was a Martinist, Rosicrucian, of course, uh, Astara, uh, an organization called, uh, BOTA, which is ... given, uh, a mantra that's got five parts, five names. It teaches that there are five upper regions above the crown chakra. read more...
Author: Tom Beaver
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john, tom, jim, thing, like, guy, know, fetzer, little, right
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michigan, things, good, time, sound, years, okay, said, actually, probably, yeah, got, life, called, getting, big, pretty, home, psychic, class, stuff, beaver, age, school, mike, christian, started, person, story, rosicrucian, practice, different, named, people, type, wunderlin, going, second, spiritual
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