This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book shifts previously marginalized environmental concerns to the forefront and blazes a trail for a new collaboration between phenomenologists and ecologically-minded theorists.

This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book shifts previously marginalized environmental concerns to the forefront and blazes a trail for a new collaboration between phenomenologists and ecologically-minded theorists.

Global humanity in crisis From the full spectrum of global media, the facts bombard us continually: Pollution, poverty, disease, ethnic savagery, tribal butchery, increasing crime and human rights violations and financial meltdown. Despairing global societies struggle to cope with this multi-faceted and socially-destructive 'tsunami'. Despite that obvious reality, we all still want the world to be our way and all answers to be our answers. Ludicrous, and bordering on insanity; yet that is precisely 'how it now is'. The truly ludicrous notion among many religions that God 'causes everything to happen' brought forth perhaps the ultimate in stupid comment when some of the Jewish survivors of the Nazi death camps declared that God was dead because of their experience. Do we therefore believe that God built the death camps and set up the Nazi regime? Of course not. Stupid in the extreme, yet such is human religious thinking. Relatively few in number, The Spiritual Laws take no account of religious, cultural, scientific or even political determinations and proclamations. Neither do they take into account whether or not humankind is even aware of them. They simply are. Only with the knowledge of them and thus how they work in their flawless individual and collective outworking, can earthly humanity ever hope to understand not just why the world is in crisis, but why concerted international efforts by so many well-meaning groups find it difficult to effect long-term fundamental and sweeping change for the better. Thus, global societies continue to unravel despite such efforts. The perfection of Creation-Law offers us the mechanism of automatic and self-acting immutable Law in which parameters we, through our free-will attribute, bring upon ourselves joy or pain, harmony or hardship. Each one of the six primary Creation-Laws known in their entirety by "only the few" and therefore not taught in any Church, religion, culture, school, university or scientific discipline anywhere], nonetheless unfailingly fulfils its immutable outworking in our individual lives and our societies. The interlinked outworking of all six Laws drives all of our free-will decisions to their commensurate outcomes, both in our individual lives, and within the global collective. Thus, through their automatic activity and outworking, we - in the final analysis - judge ourselves through The Law. As far back as the Eighth century BC, the great Prophet Isaiah even then foresaw the point that we of latter-day global humanity would reach. He stated why: "The Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the Laws, changed the decrees, broken the everlasting covenant.' Therefore has the curse devoured the Earth, and those that dwell therein are desolate..." Without Revelation a Nation fades. But it prospers by knowing the Law Proverbs. 29:18

Sir Isaac Newton: Scientist, theologian, astronomer and mathematician; the "scientist's scientist" NASA's space program is founded on "Newtonian physics." Newton the theologian assiduously sought within the Bible for "The Plan of The World." At the heart of Newton's unshakeable belief - that contained somewhere in the Bible was the key to understanding the plan of the world - lay three major points: 1 - A rational God made a rational universe. 2 - All wisdom lay in the knowledge of numbers. 3 - Only a few natural laws apply to the whole universe. Albert Einstein: A colossus of science. His seminal "Theory of Relativity" and the great equation E = mc2, have advanced the science of astronomy more than any idea since Newton's time. So, despite all of our subsequent technological advances in astronomy, it was still these two non-empirically minded colossi of science, who, using primarily their intuition and intellect, produced the most significant advances in the physics/theory of astronomy and thereby laid the foundation upon which all future advances now stand. Einstein stated that he ..".never came upon any of his discoveries through ...rational thinking." Einstein understood the necessary connection between empirical science and what was for him clearly more productive, the non-empirical aspect. Many modern scientists would probably be dismissive of Einstein's non-empirical side of the equation. Yet the very same could not even begin to match either Einstein or Newton. So, using Einstein's superior non-empirical intuitive methods we have, in this work, clearly explained the true significance of "The 7 Churches of The Revelation" and thereby revealed Sir Isaac Newton's "Plan of the World."

Apocalypse: 2. a. A prophetic disclosure or revelation. 3. a. An event marked by violent destruction and upheaval. Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, from apokaluptein, to uncover.] As far back as the Eighth century B.C., the great Prophet, Isaiah, in brutal visionary prophecy, warned that humankind would reach this very point that we are now fruitlessly struggling with. In just two short sentences he described the what, how and why of a future complete cleansing of Earth of the very many humans who simply refuse to accept that there really are precise and final Creation-Laws that we must obey - or 'pay the hard price'. Who, today, would be stupid enough to say that global societies are models of peace, harmony and prosperity? Only a fool And the world is full of them. There is no finger that comes out of the clouds to arbitrarily harm or destroy we humans and our works as so many millions fervently, fatalistically and foolishly believe. Such a view is an appalling distortion of that which sustains and maintains the world that we can see, and that which we cannot: - Perfect Laws: Creation-Law "The Earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the Laws, changed the decrees, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore has the curse devoured the Earth, and those that dwell therein are desolate..." Isaiah. Simple And, yes, necessarily brutal. Religious claptrap? Many will think so. Yet there, in those two sentences, is revealed the true, exact and singular reason why global societies are fracturing and collapsing at an exponential rate. For that is what we have brought about. We are the architects of our own intransigent stupidity. One does not need a degree in science, theology, politics or anything else to recognise the everyday obvious. We should long ago have awakened to the fact that, as a global humanity, we could not possibly have been "getting it right." Now, we are already beginning to "pay the ferryman." How do we "turn it around"? Unfortunately for most, it is already too late. ..".and few men left." Isaiah.] For those 'few', the way into a very different future world will only be achieved by seeking out Isaiah's Laws, Decrees and Covenant - now on Earth - and explained in the Works of Crystal Publishing. Sourced from a crucially-profound Teaching and further added-weight-to from various spiritual/religious writings, documentaries, scientific findings and commentary etc., this book explains the lawful processes - primarily generated through the Forces of Nature and already bringing serious destruction to man and his works - that will finally fulfil Isaiah's visionary prophecy. Perhaps more especially his allusion to the effect of "Plate Tectonics" - "And the earth's foundations shake." A message for earth-scientists: Prior to the 2004 Tsunami, you really did not know whether or not the whole earth "could shake." Now you do. So do not be foolish enough in your often crass intellectualism to arrogantly dismiss other similar kinds of warnings - past and present. One of the greatest of your discipline, Einstein, stated that he never came across any of his discoveries ..".through the processes of rational thinking." He noted that intuition, inspiration and revelation were the keys to true knowledge. So, reader; learn the Laws of Life - and live "Bear witness to me, now, Heavens and Earth I place Life and Death before you, - the Blessing and the Curse Therefore choose for yourselves the Life, - that you and your posterity may live " Deuteronomy 30:19. Fenton.] The endless and ultimately pointless academic arguments and debate over whether or not we possess free will are exactly that: ultimately pointless. Our poisoned and degraded earth, our increasingly dysfunctional global societies, our deadly blood-thirsty religions and politics; all ours set in place through our inherent free-will attribute. Isaiah w

Creation versus Evolution: The great debate that rages on. Theory after theory after theory is proposed, with not even a hint of "middle ground" from either of the two opposing camps. To not be able to come to a definitive answer or conclusion for our human origins quite simply means that "they" do not know. It's all guesswork. The clear reality for both sides of this ultimately foolish and corrosive debate is that we humans are here on earth. We exist, we are here. Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." So irrespective of Bible Scripture, theological musing, empirical scientific skepticism or any other notion, the very fact that we are here on earth very logically means that only one process - obviously the same for all races - actually brought it about. Moreover, to decide or conclude that we "can never really know" is a nonsense-notion. For it is not possible for a question to not have an answer. Of course we can know. Is that not our purpose on earth; to know? If not, what is the point? The crucial Bible Scripture: "BUT MAN BECAME A LIFE-CONTAINING SOUL" - actually provides the key for both science and Christian fundamentalism. It reveals that the quantum leap from primate to human was not one given life by human genetics through simple 'brain development' by normal but slow 'evolutionary processes'. It was a quantum leap precisely because a new and very different Life-force and power was required for humans to be human, completely distinct and very far removed from the animal primate. The Bible thus notates and explains the "human/chimp split" a very long time before science reared its oftentimes strange head on earth. Moreover, that absolutely necessary change therefore precluded any possibility for primates to simply evolve into humans The 98.4 percent of similar DNA in both monkey and man thus concerns the respective physical bodies only. And that is why they - the genes and the respective types of bodies - both rot away at death. We are not our physical body Notwithstanding that ultimate reality, there was still the necessity for evolutionary development of that material form. Thus: ..".evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true... The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome." Dr. Francis S. Collins. M.D. Ph.D. The sticking point in this whole debate is perhaps not actually that of Creation versus Evolution, but probably more that of the time-frame required for both together For if a time period for such a thing as "Evolutionary-Creation" can be logically established then both viewpoints can be accommodated in perfect harmony. In our view, therefore, the one key question in this debate that must be considered - yet rarely is - is: "Can Creation also be Evolution?" And/or vice-versa? Our reply is an unequivocal: - Yes, it can. And, moreover, it is The ongoing problem in this case is one of incorrect interpretation. SO: WHAT IS THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION? The correct interpretation lies in recognising the fundamental differences between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of The Book of Genesis. The misinterpretation from Christian orthodoxy thus lies in attempting to ascribe two very different processes - one, Creation, the other, primarily Evolution - to a singular, 7 earth-day, Creation time-frame in Chapter 1, and attempting to also include in that time-frame the completely separate processes that Chapter 2 explains. That includes the erroneous belief that the First Creation of Man - both male and female - refers to man on Earth. The Christian Church, earthly science and committees of PhD and degree-toting Bible "scholars" are the "triune" of earthly power and defective education which persistently clings to, and continues to intellectually debate, this ridiculous and corrosive divide. Backing the so-called "expert" opinions and Bible translations, the main Bible Publishers continue to reproduce the same appalling errors.

This booklet purposefully offers the revisionist view simply because there are clear and very disturbing discrepancies between the "official theological standpoint" surrounding the life and death of Jesus, and that which The Bible states. The blind acceptance of teachings that defy rational logic and which therefore transgress all natural processes - The Creator in His Divine Perfection being the Absolute of all that is natural - means that any incorrect interpretation, religious or otherwise, denies the very Perfection inherent in Him and His Will, of which Jesus was, and is, Part And since He came ..".not to overthrow The Law," an associated question must be: 'What Law?' 'Whose Law'? It is certainly not human law. It must therefore be The Law - from out of The Divine In terms of the Christian Church's primary beliefs surrounding Jesus - naturally derived from The Bible of course - global Christendom seems not to register the obvious fact that when it is warningly-stated by the Very One Whom they profess to follow to "get it right" or suffer destruction, it logically follows that all incorrect teachings and beliefs surrounding the life and person of Jesus - irrespective of how or why derived - along with the architects of such beliefs, must finally completely collapse. You cannot have it both ways. Hot or cold, no fence-sitting. For all that is wrong, all that is incorrect, inherently opposes the Perfect Will of the Most High, and must therefore - in 'religious speak' - be "cast out." By way of example: The sub-heading, "Crucifixion of The Son of God, Medical Forensics Speak" - - offers a blow-by-blow medical analysis and description of the horrific journey of suffering and torture of Jesus - the most innocent of all - from His flogging at the hands of the Roman soldiers, to His Crucifixion on the Cross. From a History Channel documentary, "Crucifixion," screened on Black Friday, 2009, the medical analysis of Jesus' suffering could only be described as 'harrowing'; far more so than Mel Gibson's "The Passion," itself a "difficult watch." Contributors to the program included trauma surgeons, bio-medical engineers and forensic biologists. This documentary should be mandatory viewing for all Christians, but more especially for those who strangely believe that Jesus came for the express purpose of dying to save them from their sins. What virtually all religions have in common is the curious propensity of the believers to somehow strive to establish a personal relationship with the "bringer" of 'their religion'. This means, of course, that such a notion removes what should be the primary concern and objective of the follower of the teaching; "To heed the Word of it." Instead, a strange, almost emotional, personalised paradigm takes its place. In the case of Jesus, the gulf is so wide that to even contemplate such a thing as a personal relationship is simply ludicrous. For it means that global Christendom - including the hierarchy of the Church - do not even begin to understand the humanly-incomprehensible gulf of separation between we on earth in the World of Matter, and the greater, non-material, part of Creation. The beautiful Scriptural-description of ..".the great wailing and gnashing of teeth..." will apply primarily to the great body of global Christendom who will at that time finally and fearfully recognise that Bible prophecy had been fulfilled, and that He - not Jesus - did come ..".like a thief in the night..." whereby the moment was missed by "the Christian crowd."

For 2000 years, Christians, theologians, scholars and historians have broadly accepted these two designations as describing One Person - Jesus: The Son of God. However, a serious and brutally-logical analysis of the actual Scriptures which pertain to these two Titles, along with connecting Scripture that add irrefutable and clarifying reinforcement to the primary axiom here, clearly show that belief to not be the case at all. To that particular end the clear statement: "No man hath seen God at any time..." irrefutably destroys the singular, supposedly sacrosanct, tenet we allude to. If you, Christian reader, or you, Bible scholar, apply the above reality to certain passages in Revelation concerning "He Who is Enthroned" - and Jesus - then you must surely see that the present general Church interpretation/belief about Who It is that occupies that Throne, cannot possibly be correct. In fact, of all distortions of Biblical Truth - and there are very, very many - this crucial error of The Two Sons of God stands as the most appalling, and therefore the most destructive for all of global humanity, to what Jesus described as the All-Truth. The contentious nature of what we are unequivocally postulating will therefore place this "immutable fact" in direct opposition to the standard and long-held position of global Christendom. That position states that it is Jesus Who is to return, for, - according to Christian wisdom - He is the only Son of God John 16 holds the warning from Jesus that upon the Coming of the Ordained One, that: "He, Himself, personal pronoun] will honour Me." And from Jesus: "I return to The Father and you will see Me no more." Are we just playing with words here, and/or are we distorting Bible Scripture? Well, there is, of course, one outcome that will prove our case - the Event itself. An earth-changing Event of which it is warned that: "Only the few will recognise] know." Not the roughly two billion of global Christendom: No, only the few

"Societal Collapse"? Clearly a "today" event grabbing headlines on all mainstream and social media Analysed, ad nauseum, by a myriad of "experts" and agonised over by the hapless millions caught up in the desperate struggles that now characterise "societal collapse," the international conferences ostensibly designed to bring "peace" and "reconciliation" for the affected societies rarely achieve true unification of the warring parties. The great far-seeing prophet, Isaiah, declared it succinctly for exactly this time in our evolutionary journey. "Take counsel together, and it will come to nought." Isaiah 8,10. Whether triggered by politics, racial tension, religious or cultural/tribal differences, it matters not. The increasing number of such events should surely reveal to any onlooker that "something" in our human make-up is seriously "out of kilter." Were that not so, the world, quite obviously, would not be in the mess that it currently ... "is in." So what has gone wrong? Clearly, the myriad laws and rules that we humans formulate for our societies, in the very final analysis simply do not work. Isaiah also has the answer here too. He, in just "one sentence," explains exactly why we fail so miserably to achieve mutual peace and harmony in and between our global societies of planet earth. From Isaiah 24:4-6, "The Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have 'transgressed the Laws', 'changed the decrees', 'broken the everlasting covenant'. Therefore has the curse devoured the Earth, and those that dwell therein are desolate..." Religious claptrap, or clear and obvious Truth? The evidence before our eyes is surely sufficient to show that Isaiah's far-seeing warning to us would take place if we did not live correctly. And, brutally-obviously, we have not In the final analysis, Isaiah's hard words resonate with simple, but nonetheless scientific, principles. And since 'Bible "Mysteries" Explained' really does explain the "Science" that can be read very clearly in The Bible, the great questions to life are answered therein. Specifically for "failing America" and Americans. From George Washington: "Above all, the pure light of revelation has had an influence on mankind, and increased the blessings of society. It is impossible to 'rightly' govern the world without God and The Bible." Since The Bible is ultimately a book of Spiritual and scientific Truth and Law, the "Science" in The Bible powerfully supports the Truth of Washington's statement.

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