Letter #4 – A personal reminiscence from Edward R. Murrow

Dear Mr. President:

The Presidential Team thought that if I were to share with you a personal remembrance of my days during WWII in London, it might help to ease the weight of your responsibilities, those now weighing on you and those to come.

I do remember the advantages of releasing my fears that deadlines could not be met – hoping that the latest reports to come in from the front lines of battle would reach my desk in time for the six p.m. news report, that for a time, I had personally broadcast via the help of the Radio Free Europe station as well as the BBC.  I was taken to task to attempt explanation to my superiors in New York for my delays in relaying the European Front Page News of the day back to the States.

I cringed when on occasion  I was directly confronted by the men in the trenches – for due to the war effort in general – London was a ‘holocaust of traffic alone’, both people and vehicles – and it was quite a common offense to mix up who was going to the front lines and who had just returned.

With all of our beloved Winston Churchill’s planning charts – issuing of crackerjack outfits to steel their way through jungles, deserts and eventually snowy burdened, high mountain ranges nearer the Italian borders – hardly was there a day when I could RIGHTEOUSLY EXPECT that the latest news reports would be delivered on time to my desk.

I remember well the intelligence reports alluding to such and such an item that might be better kept until all the facts were given, and on other occasion the bit by bit pieces of journalism we were given to hold, treat with journalistic respect – and always (when available) the listing of casualties – THE REPORT – as we dubbed it – and how, on every look at that ‘death warrant listing’ I cried, silently and alone.

None of it made any sense of course – not the War, not Hitler’s infamous regime. Nonetheless ‘we all carried on’, hoping someday it would be over, for in about the second year that America had fully entered into liaisonship with other like-minded nations of the globe, there indeed was a short period of time when it looked like we all just might become victims, rather than the victorious leaders we had thought would lead humanity out of the forced bondage of fascism.

Trial and error were the best instruments which God gave to us in those days, and upon my entrance to first Heaven and then afterwards to the Higher Realms of Consciousness, I ‘relived’ all over again the more memorable occasions of my last mortal lifetime when God so lovingly placed before me – a ‘job simply to be done’.

To continue with my ‘nuts and bolts’ recollection – I thought it was laughable, on the day I arrived in London, that I was to run a UPI News Room from an eight by ten congested office. No one had to tell me the level of responsibility given me, nor did I enhance or embellish my reports to the home office when I simply said – I do not have such and such – and THEY IN TURN TELETYPED BACK – NEITHER DO WE – DO THE BEST YOU CAN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, ED – GOD BLESS, KEEP US INFORMED. And there I sat, thinking all World News Reports were on my shoulders alone – for the London API and UPI offices were to become symbols of freedom and truth. Rather an arrogant attitude, wouldn’t you say? Needless to say, God worked out the redecorating and expansion of my office and my soul and my thinking, over the months. And so He will redecorate and expand your offices, your soul and your thinkings, President Obama.

May God bless the United States of America.

Respectfully,

           Edward R. Murrow

                     via the scribe

Religion and War – There is no ‘religion’ in Heaven

Letter #3

Dear Mr. President:

There is no religion in Heaven.  People on earth have become so caught up in the minutiae of defining what or who they think God, Allah, the Creator, the Great Spirit (or whatever name you wish to select)  is . . . so caught up in ritual and doctrine, so caught up in theological discussion and debate, in Holy Wars fought in the name of God . . . that they have lost the essence of their relationship to their Creator.

Within a five square block in Jerusalem, the center of THREE of the world’s major religions, there exist twenty or more churches or religious structures.  Many might think that so many religious structures in close proximity ought to guarantee peace in the city of Jerusalem. Just the opposite is true. Religions serve to separate men, not unite them as brothers.  We ask  you, is not war FOUGHT IN THE NAME OF GOD, a contradiction in terms?  Are not love and brotherhood the basis of every religion? Do you really think God cares how each of His children returns to Him as he or she climbs the mountain back to the Creator?  Whether you paddle a canoe, ride a donkey, drive a Mercedes Benz or simply walk? Do you really think Buddha, the Christ Jesus, Muhammad, or Abraham, Moses and Isaac wanted their disciples, their brothers and sisters, their descendants to revere and idolize them and solidify their teachings into unyielding stone structures and dusty scrolls and tomes of parchment . . . or did they wish us to follow their examples and simply live together as children of the One Creator?

The world will not experience peace until all religious groups have surrendered all notions of divine favor, being the ‘chosen people’, and religious sovereignty – to God the Father as Supreme.  Only when religions recognize the sovereignty of God, and not the sovereignty of man and his churches, temples and mosques, will there be peace through the brotherhood of man.

Governments cannot legislate permanent peace or morality. Religious institutions cannot instill morality in their congregations, much less argue for peace from the pulpit, when mankind continues hell-bent down the road of war and destruction, oftentimes IN THE NAME OF GOD OR ALLAH OR WHATEVER NAME YOU CHOOSE TO GIVE TO THE CREATOR OF ALL.  It seems very clear that mankind, and we do stress the word mankind, enjoys war and violence; men have no intention of giving up their toys of war and killing which give them an illusory sense of power and control over their lives.  There is no sense of personal responsibility left among the majority of people on earth. They have abdicated that responsibility to their governments (parliamentary or otherwise), to their churches, temples and mosques, to their priests, rabbis and imams.  The ruling groups quite enjoy the power given them and have no intention of giving up that power freely.  The perks and benefits are too good!

We wonder whether humankind has the political, moral, spiritual or intellectual will to change. You government leaders do not need to become more religious. You religious leaders need not become more political.  Simply put, all leaders need to come together as brothers and sisters transcending all political, religious, geographic, social, economic and racial borders.

We wonder if God were to stand before each of your various groups, forums, governments, houses of religion today . . . would some of you object if He were to appear as black-skinned, or red-skinned or yellow-skinned?  Would some of you object if He chose to wear a yarmulke instead of a clerical collar, or the robes of an Imam instead of the red cap and robe of a Catholic Cardinal? Or what if He were to appear without priestly garb at all?  What if He knocked on the doors of Congress dressed in the rags of a homeless man off the streets of Washington, D.C.?  Would the members of Congress deny Him entrance because His ‘credentials’ were not in order? Indeed, perhaps they would. 

In closing, may God Bless the United States of America.

    Respectfully,

        The Presidential Team

                (Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy)

                 via our scribe

Note: For new readers of this blog, please read Letters #1 and 2 so that you will understand who we are and why we have come forward at this time in history with guidance and counsel for the current occupant of the Office of the Presidency.

Ideal President? A visionary, statesman, diplomat, executive, NOT a politican.

Letter #2

Dear Mr. President:

Do you wonder, Sir, when you should or even could ask for help on any issue worthy of God’s help to you?  Yes, you are consciously aware of desiring to ask for help from God, but you have not yet quite managed, as a human being, to know – just where the ‘ley lines’ are on that point.  Please see clearly that you as human beings place yourselves OUT ON A LIMB when you think you can think.  Thinking means to a human being . . . do not ask God first.  That is or was the ‘mortal sin’.  God is therefore drawn in on a compartmentalized basis, seen only as a ‘guide’, NOT SEEN, SIR, AS EXISTENT IN EACH AND EVERY PERSON ON EARTH, AND LIKEWISE IN EVERY BLADE OF GRASS AND BUTTERFLY AND BUMBLEBEE.

We are not singling you out, President Obama. Indeed, we honor the souls of ALL who have willingly taken upon themselves the burden of the Office of the Presidency, at great detriment to their personal privacy and well-being, and that of their families.  You are now learning to put aside the preferences of your supra-conscious human mind in preference to selecting GOD’S WILL for you at all times, even though you stumble through the Holy Spirit’s symphony of teaching you the methodologies needed to become veritably an adept at taking counsel directly from God.  Discernment is necessary to achieve the INWARD MENTAL KNOWING OF WHEN God is speaking through another human being, or when the mental lips of human thought are moving instead.  It takes time, Sir, and constant spiritual practice to learn discernment. Thus, God reveals himself to you through all creatures of earth including frogs, lice, children, women and men.  Hold no false claim then that your human thoughts and actions are not heard, seen and recorded in the Holy Akasha.

For future reference and discussion – if we were asked to describe the ‘ideal’ President – we would describe him or her as a visionary, a statesman, a diplomat and an executive, but NOT a politician.

In closing, God Bless the United States of America.

    Respectfully,

        The Presidential Team via our scribe

 Note: For new readers of this blog, please read Letter #1 dated December 1, 2009 so that you will understand who we are and why we have come forward at this time in history with guidance and counsel for the current occupant of the Office of the Presidency.

Introducing Ourselves

Letter #1

Dear Mr. President:

By way of introduction, President Obama, we the 5 members of the Presidential Team, a subcommittee of the Presidio Council of Alpha Celestial Unit One, send you greetings from the Paradise realm of consciousness.  Protest all you wish, Sir, that you are not worthy of  our ‘time’, thinking in some unwise manner that you are, as a man, not up to all that you are asked to do for your country. . . and still we would intentionally make you believe in yourself and show you clearly just how enormously far you have come in your daily  journey with God.  Thus please, Mr. President, read our letters aloud. . . no matter how stammered you feel, or awkward or puzzled.

Next Sir, please let arise the ‘bigness’ of your being-ness (collectively speaking).  Then follow through on these your new learning lessons to follow, by putting down the creative and logical pencils of your human mind, and allowing the ‘littleness of your tiny self’ TO SIT DOWN.

We of the Presidential Team have a few things ‘on our minds’ that we felt ought to be shared –  and thought that here at least, in this blog and through this forum of communication, the truth as we know it can be spoken and there might well be a few who choose to listen. Thus our Presidential Team stands ready with our own reflections upon our experiences in office, our successes few and our mistakes innumerable.

Our Presidential Team is composed of the following members:

    *** President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America

    *** President Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States of America

    *** President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States of America

    *** President Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States of America

    *** President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America

From time to time other members of the Presidio Council may add their own insights, guidance and counsel to our collaborative letters to you. For example, Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, Albert Einstein, Pearl S. Buck, Chief Joseph.

However you view it, Mr. President-

We are who we say we are.

We are indeed ‘alive’ and active in the realms of Higher Consciousness.

We do not speak as former Republicans or Democrats, but rather as former occupants of the highest office in the land, now holding a grander perspective if you will, free of the daily human burdens you now bear.

We have come together to offer to you, Sir, our Universal Spirit Statements on a number of topics of concern to all thinking individuals on earth – no matter their country of origin, race, economic class, gender or religious persuasion – and to all Peace Seeking Nations of Earth.  All on earth who believe in Divineness being contained of ONE CREATOR (other than themselves) of invention, pattern, design, patent or thought, ONE GIVER OF ALL LIFE. All on earth who believe in charity to themselves, their families and the children of the world, may benefit from our words.  Rely on  your own spiritual discernment, Mr. President, as to whether our words have merit for  you. No being, spirit or other of Heaven, earth, the great Universe and beyond. . . is allowed to step between your ‘soul’ and the Light of Him who created you in the first place.

We draw upon the wisdoms of the Mighty to understand  your grappling with many a mystery as to why man, nation or mouse does such and such a thing. While acquiring knowledge for your country and people, you  may expect humility, harmony, honest assessments and happiness to leaven your daily bread.

Take comfort, President Obama, in knowing that not only do we of the Presidential Team empathize, we truly do understand how overwhelming the work of the Presidency is. We too were faced with many of the same common human situations you face now, AND NO MORE THAN YOU, DID WE KNOW THE FINAL OUTCOME OF THE WORKS TO WHICH GOD HAD ASSIGNED US. Please do remember at least that point. Nor were we given MORE THAN GLIMPSES OF THE WHOLE PICTURE, ANY MORE THAN YOU ARE AT PRESENT.

To say clearly – ‘We the past Presidents of the United States of America served the God-appointed Office of the American Presidency, each to the best of our human abilities – for each of us as men, were God trained and developed  by the responsibility given and undertaken, throughout the years of Presidential incumbency – forgetting never that each of us were of man, and a man, and not less than a man, eternally.’

In closing, God Bless the United States of America.

    Respectfully,

            The Presidential Team via our scribe