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With One Breath is a blog authored by Joseph, who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Religion and Philosophy, with a minor in English and focus on writing. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Greenville College in Illinois, Joseph moved to College Station, Texas to pursue his Master of Arts degree in the Philosophy of Religion. He is currently living in Austin, Texas with his beautiful life partner, Michelle, and his teenage daughter. Joseph works in the legal field and is involved in several activist causes.
Joseph’s interests include: Ancient and medieval philosophy, the comparative studies of religion, government and politics, as well as psychology and spirituality. With One Breath focuses on Joseph’s desire to unite people from all religious, political and spiritual backgrounds, and to provide a non-denominational understanding of different faiths, cultures, thought-systems and beliefs in order to give a more complete backdrop to what is occurring in today’s world.
The major premise underlying Joseph’s writing is this: Thoughts are alive and create experience, and we are highly creative beings of thought and consciousness. Learning how to recognize our thoughts, which stem from the belief systems we hold, and how these influence and limit our perception and experience is tantamount to understanding who we are, why we are here and where we are going.
The texts/writers of major inspiration to Joseph include: the Upanishads, A Course In Miracles, Jane Roberts and associated Seth content, David Icke, Tao te Ching, the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Campbell, G. Edward Griffith, the Bhagavad Gita, Thomas Paine, Plato, David Ray Griffin and Emerson. His library is an eclectic collection of books on world religions, spiritual texts and modern writings, psychology, politics, history, ancient to modern philosophy, the history of Christianity, and books dealing with secret societies and conspiracy theories. Joseph is also an avid reader of current news and world events.
Joseph has won awards for his poetry and is working towards self-publishing several booklets of collected poems. His long-term goal is to write and publish a non-fiction book focused on the interplay of thoughts/beliefs, how they mold and create perception/experience, and how the fundamental and creative aspects of ourselves have been hidden from us and controlled by the elite of society for hundreds of years.
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I have seen those pictures before. In fact, that was what my friend had shown me 2 years ago when I decided to stop using the microwave. Pretty powerful stuff.
My sister has 8 kids and they have decided next time one of them has a science project, they will try to replicate that experiment. I’ll be sure to post that on my blog when it happens.
I love your philosophy on uniting people of all faiths. I’m actually a member of a fairly new non-profit with that same goal in mind. With the lack of support from the media and government it’s sometimes easy for those of us on an enlightening path to become discouraged.
Recently, however, I’ve begun to change my attitude and it turns out, what we’re all working towards is already here, I just needed to open my eyes and see it. It’s amazing just looking through the blogs here on wordpress how many people are on this same path, spreading a message of peace, health and wellness one reader at a time.
“and it turns out, what we’re all working towards is already here”
I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. Everything we need is within us, although many of us have been systematically dis-empowered.
Uniting people of different faiths is difficult, but I try to come at it from a comparative point of view, pulling out both the similarities and differences. As united people of faith, we should be able to understand and accept these differences and not let our unity destroy the different cultures and values we hold.
Underneath all of the theology and dogma, I believe that all faiths point to the supreme power and source of our being. Life is a path of enjoyment of and return to that source. I hold to the belief that there are as many paths to the source as there are people to walk upon them.
In the end, they all are finite attempts to conceptualize and convey the experience of the infinite and are, therefore, inherently limited and incomplete.
Who am I to judge? Come stand next to me, we are brother and sister.
You certainly have a gift with words. Very well put.