Professor James Lovelock says we can't save the planet -- it's too late. Lovelock (of Gaia fame) is suggesting we all just relax and enjoy what we have right now...but not to expect that anything will change -- in fact, we (the planet) are/is on a downward spiral.

I have printed out Jessica Murray's article on Mother Earth and I'm waiting for a good time to read it. Something has been forming in my mind around the idea of Heaven On Earth. A long essay that takes off from the last chapter of "God On Your Own" and goes into the notion of creating a planetary spirituality to replace religion.

What did the Pope know...and when did he know it? The article in the Washington Post yesterday makes Benedict sound like Nixon.

I lived in DC in the early 70s and watched as crazy Nixon (didn't everyone in the world know he was nuts -- except, of course, the American Collective, which voted him into office twice?) stumbled around and finally fell on his sword. All this unfolded in the same newspaper that carries news, now, about crazy Benedict.

More is at play here, of course, than simple comupaance. Cosmic forces are working to destroy institutions: the Church is just one of those.

Religion actually keeps people from having a direct connection with God. As that thought dawn on us, religion will go onto the dump-heap with all the other bad ideas of the past Age.

Sex, it seems will bring down the Roman Catholic Church.

I have been waiting for this for some years, and now the time appears to have come -- or at least is beginning to come into focus.

The shadow of monastic chastity and priestly celibacy is, of course, sex itself. Now it comes tumbling out of the sacerdotal closet, spilling out like consecrated wine all over the vestments.

Goodbye, Pope Benedict. Goodbye Pope JP2. Goodbye to all that...and good riddance.