Part 3: The Dynamics of Life

Doctor Dahesh championed scientific literacy as a path to recognizing the evidence of a Creator. In stark contrast, scientific atheists have elevated Darwinian evolution into a secular dogma — a theory treated as indisputable fact, questioned only at the risk of being branded ignorant or unscientific. This episode, rich with crucial Daheshist revelations and poignant moments from the history of Daheshism, serves as my opening statement in a broader case against the Materialist worldview — one that has come to dominate much of the secular West. The fuller argument is yet to come, but here, the groundwork is laid.

Episode Transcript

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The Daishist theory of reincarnation, Partthree, The Dynamics of Life. In

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the second edition of his book Words, published on March twenty, nineteen eighty
three, Doctor Dahsh wrote the followingpassage. I believe in the existence of
a heavenly justice, and that allthe inconveniences and troubles that befall us in

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this worldly life are but punishment inaccordance with the sins and evils we have
committed in our prior cycles. Andthat is why we must welcome whatever pains
and tragedies of life that are comingto us without grumbling or complaining, instead
with faith and conviction in Heavenly Justiceand her lofty systems empowering ideas. In

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Part one, The Multi Dimensional Universe, I intimated that, had it not
been for doctor Dahsh, I mighthave become an atheist, thus rejecting the
notion of a deeply mysterious, nonanthropomorphic, ever present and watchful creator.
And so, despite a Catholic upbringingand due to my pension for science,

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and in response to carefully crafted andubiquitous arguments, I would have probably embraced
materialism, which is the default,deeply entrenched, highly influential and institutionalized worldview
that is passionately embraced, jealousy guarded, and aggressively promoted by several high profile

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intellectuals in this secular West who rejectteleology, namely the doctrine that promotes the
existence of design and purpose in nature. Known as the new atheists, these
gifted and influential science popularizers, whohave unabashedly bridged the science philosophy divide,
prop up the Darwinian theory of evolutionand pass it off as incontestable scientific fact,

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the kind of truth only those whoreject reason and science with dissent from
or dare question. Furthermore, theywill cast back into the wilderness any heretic
who dare openly suggest that science educatorsshould be encouraged to inform students about the
strengths and weaknesses of the Darwinian theoryof evolution. Meanwhile, and normally,

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discussing strengths and weaknesses of scientific theoriesis perfectly fine in the case of general
relativity and quantum mechanics, and especiallywhen it comes to string theory. On
that front, and in a Septemberfourteen, two thousand and six, Slate
dot Com article by Greg Easterbrook calledThe Trouble with String Theory with the subtitle

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It's a claptrap. A new bookargues we learn about the thesis presented by
doctor Lee Smolin in his book TheTrouble with Physics, in which string theory
is derided as pretentious nonsense that hashijacked academic physics. In any case,
and for some odd reason, theDarwinian theory of evolution has always been and

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still is off limits to scrutiny,and so the spite peer reviewed articles from
mainstream EMBiology journals acknowledging weaknesses in thestandard version of evolutionary theory, American anthropologist
doctor Eugenie Scott, the then executivedirector of the National Center for Science Education,

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which is known for promoting Darwinism,said in a two thousand and nine
Dallas Morning News interview, quote,you can't apply the strengths and weaknesses idea
to the teaching of Darwinian theory becausethere are no weaknesses in the theory of
evolution end quote. Apparently, andaccording to doctor Stephen Meyer, author of

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Signature in the Cell and Darwin's Doubt, these types of statements are made all
the time and all of that hasgiven the impression in our broader culture of
a consensus that does not exist withinevolutionary biology itself. That being the case,
what chance does a layperson have anddebate evolutionary biologists based on my research?

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These scientific atheists, and many ofthem are, and even those who
claim not to be atheists, employarguments that are heavy on extrapolations and light
on corroborative facts, deploying equivocation whileattacking the straw man in their vociferous attempt
to gaslight the public into believing theirclaim that life is ultimately meaningless, the

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result of an accident and not thebrainchild of a pre existing reasoning mind,
and so contrary to what the wordsof doctor dehesh unequivocally imply in the epigraph,
life is devoid of objective meaning.Admittedly, the death of doctor dehesh

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on April nine, nineteen eighty four, drew the curtain on perhaps the last
age of the great divine prophets,who, through the mind boggling miracles they
performed and the prophecies they revealed,were able to bring the countless witnesses the
good news that their lives had meaningand gave them a roadmap to allow them

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to realign their spiritual fluids with loftiergoals than that of clinging to this earthly
realm. That, notwithstanding and inlight of recent scientific discoveries, particularly those
made in the twenty first century,could not the argument be made that,
thanks to science, there is enoughevidence for a reasonable logical person to come

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to the conclusion that, at thevery least, it is highly probable that
some sort of intelligent designer is behindour existence. To be clear, I
am not referring to proof that meetsthe standard of moral certainty. Instead,
I'm referring to establishing a reasonable doubtwhich would be enough to falsify the materialist

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worldview. And even if, asgoes the argument this mind, this designer
of arguably imperfect biological machines were flawed, which would be irrelevant given that an
intelligent creator need not be perfect forthe purposes of this debate, coming to
anywhere near such a conclusion by wayof scientific evidence would be a giant paradigm

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shift. Again, all one needdo is perform due diligence. When deliberating
the question, Dahesh, the belovedGuiding Prophet, said, it only takes
a spark a pebble, a philosophicalthought to raise or bring down kingdoms believed

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to be eternal, bridging the faultline. Doctor Dash, whose private library
can take well over half a millionbooks, dedicated a whole chapter in honor
of books in his aforementioned book words, in which he wrote, books are

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my precious treasure, and I lovebooks as much as the drunkard's love for
wine. However, the more ofthem I drink, the more lucid I
become. Being self taught, hewas an exponent of education and frowned upon
a lackadaisical attitude to word general knowledge, and implicitly encourage brushing up on science

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and whenever in this company, especiallyas a teenager prone to boredom, it
was always a good idea to beup on such rudiments as the height of
Mount Everest, the speed of sound, the speed of light, or however
long it took for the sun's lightto reach the Earth. And despite his
busy daily schedule, he would tendto the smallest of details. For example,

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he taught me that it is saferto refrigerate hard boiled eggs with their
shells intact. Also, on oneoccasion, in New York City in nineteen
eighty two. He made me promiseto never ever combine lemon juice with hot
tea and a polystyrene cup. Apparentlyhot tea, lemon juice, and polystyrene
made for a dangerous triad. Onthat note, and not too long after

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that, I happened to be eatinga sandwich at the first Loor cafe in
Higgins Hall at the prot Institute inBrooklyn, when someone who had just purchased
a cup of hot tea with alemon slice brought it back complaining about the
thick, vertical, dark brown streakthat had inexplicably appeared on the cup's side

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and which had eaten its way throughthe polystyrene, and one of his pet
beeves was gratuitous extrapolation. Consequently,he was a harsh critic of French ideas,
promoting the notion that anything was possible, though the counter argument, in
all fairness, could be made thatanyone who believed in divine miracles might believe

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in anything. For what it's worth, that is a scary thought. Imagine
an airline pilot suddenly deciding he orshe could land the plane with their eyes
closed, Or how about a structuralengineer substituting randomly selected values for precisely calculated
ones when designing a suspension bridge.From adacious perspective, the belief that anything

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is possible despite the immutable and necessarylaws of physics, which are arguably fine
tuned for life, that is,to the extent we can all agree on
a definition of life, reduces divinemiracles to mundane status. This, in
turn, trivializes the importance of thedivine teachings, which are, in their

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pure, undistorted state, only meantto guide us and help us steer clear
of the many temptations that lie inwait for us, and whose source is
none other than our own spiritual fluidscoaxing us from the lower dimensions. Please
hold that thought. Furthermore, Dhismasserts that not even a divinely anoided prophet

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could break the laws of the universeon a whim or otherwise. Rather,
it is divine will that decides whena miraculous interaction is to occur at the
hand of a divine prophet acting asthe physical interface. And I use the
word physical with caution being that,as we have seen in Part two the
mechanics of existence, everything in thephysical world is made of spiritual fluids in

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various degrees of loftiness and depth.Doctor Dash famously said fanaticism is the first
enemy of the temple it serves,and so, as far as he was
concerned, the more educated a personwas about science and the process of falsifying
fantastic claims by using healthy skepticism,the less vulnerable and gullible he or she

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would be. Therefore, it wasthat acquired intellectual wherewithal to reject superstition and
debunk claims of magic, witchcraft,sorcery and faith healings that made a person
better equipped at discerning the miracles witha capital M that occurred at his hands,

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which were neither provable nor falsifiable.That is why he encouraged delving into
the heart sciences, despite the recurringmantra, as it were in modern Western
thought that science and religion were mutuallyexclusive. And at the very core of
this hypothesis lies the Darwinian theory ofevolution, which would eventually be updated to

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include the latest development in biology.And to be clear, I am referring
to the Darwinian theory of evolution orthe neo Darwinian theory of evolution and not
negating evolution at large, which isa term that has multiple meanings, including
change over time. In any case, twenty first century New atheists ardently more

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than ever use the neo Darwinian theoryof evolution, also known as the modern
synthesis, as the basis of theirmaterialist worldview, culminating into situation in which
nihilism is masquerading as science and atheme that makes the New atheists a movement
onto themselves. According to doctor DavidBerlinsky, author of, among others,

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The Deniable Darwin and The Devil's Delusion, Atheism and its scientific pretensions is quote
the conviction that God does not existbecause science tells us so. End quote.
Speaking at a November twenty five,two thousand and eight, Discovery Institute
presentation, Berlinsky, a mathematician andscientist, a self professed agnostis who refers

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to himself as quote a secular Jewend quote, who is quote remarkably indifferent
to the religious life end quote,said that while he does not know whether
God exists and that his views areinconclusive quote the idea that science has demonstrated.
Science has demonstrated something of fundamental humanimportance about the existence of God is

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very much my concern, because Ithink it is a false idea, and
I think there are no good argumentssupporting it, and I think it's important
to say so and to recognize thatit is so end quote. And the
reason doctor Berlinsky is persuaded that itis so is because he very much doubts

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that there's anything answering to the nameof science. And if we want to
know what science is in anything otherthan an institutional sense, the best thing
we can do is look at ascientific theory, namely the great Ones,
of which there are only four.And according to him, none of these

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theories make any reference to any religiousissue. He said, quote. For
far too long, we have beenassaulted with the view that science has a
voice all its own end quote.According to Berlinski, it doesn't, nor
does it have a coherent body oftheoretical principles that are uniformed throughout the sciences.

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And it doesn't have a method beyondany method we would use in any
kind of human pursuit, such asthe game of golf. Therefore, it
cannot logically speak as one single voice. Meanwhile, and back in the land
of the mere mortals. I hadalways gotten the impression from doctor Dash that
studying the sciences would lead to strengtheningone's faith. Granted, but how exactly

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for the life of me, Icould not understand why the founder of Dahishism
would encourage scientific literacy if that meantexposure to science textbooks, journals, mainstream
literature, and best selling books allasserting that the first life allegedly arose from
and subsequently evolved as the result ofa blind, undirected material process, as

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opposed to some kind of designing intelligence. So there, and so was he
putting us on. After all,he was a prankster. Let me unpack
this little tidbit first, however,and in the interest of providing the broader
context, I must take us ona slight detour the cynical road. Aside

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from me personally having been the occasionaltarget of his pranks, which ultimately taught
me valuable lessons and made me smarter, we hope Doctor Deahesh was reconteur who
would dish up stories full of adventureand garnished with plenty of capers. On
many an occasion he would regale mewith sides splitting anecdotes from his youth involving

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hilarious, if not surreal, encounterswith a lineup of hapless characters who for
some odd reason had put it intotheir heads that they could con or manipulate
him. And this perhaps might havebeen owing to his demeanor, which was
typically quiet and reserved, but tothose close to him, Doctor Desh was

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particularly hawkish while playing naive when itcame to setting charlatan's and con artists straight,
and more importantly, he was ona mission to educate and enlighten minds
on how not to be had.In fact, when I was in my
early teens, he clued me inon how mediums had accomplices in the audience,

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with whom they secretly communicated through codedmessages in order to fool people into
believing they possessed supernatural powers. AndI was very fortunate that he set me
straight when he did. Given thatI honestly believed in the power of seers,
mediums, hypnotists and psychics, howcould I not, especially that tassiography,

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the academic term for Turkish coffee fortunetelling, is an occupational hazard if
you live or grow up in acountry that favors this type of coffee,
or if your mother and all ofour posse were coffee drinking Armenians ergo,
and once again doctor Dash's insistence onacquiring an as well rounded education as possible,

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precisely to be able to tell thedifference between prestidigitation and something that is
otherworldly, or to discern a putup job. Here's one story, as
told to me by doctor Desh,of one of his friends who had fallen
victim to a famous so called faithhealer and conjurer in Beirut. Currently,

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she would gather people around a largecauldron filled with water and placed over an
open fire. She would then putthe heavy lid on and recite an incantation.
Soon enough, a cauldron, whichfor all intents and purposes contained only
water, would clang. The sorceress, as it were, would then remove
the lid in order to reveal thealleged human bones that had magically appeared in

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the boiling waters, carrying everyone halfto death, prompting them to dig deep
into their pockets in the hope shewould bless and protect them from evil spirits.
Doctor Desh couldn't believe his ears,and nothing he could say would convince
his friend a supposed educated man thatwhat he witnessed had to have been a
clever trick. Finally, he askedthis friend of his to arrange a meeting

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with this spiritual medium, and soit was this time. No sooner had
the woman put the lid on thandoctor desh leaped up, grabbed and flipped
it over, revealing to all presentthe big and heavy bones that were encased
in wax, which, once meltedfrom the heat, would release its payload
into the boiling water, clink clangingthe cauldron to life. Of course,

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not all Charlatan's were this crafty.Some, like platform magician Sammy Roska,
were so inept they gave honest illusionistsand skillful stage hypnotists a bad name.
The circus of life. Somewhere amidstthe hysterical laughter that broke through the eerie

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fog of uncertainty brought on by thebloody and ruthless Lebanese Civil War, bringing
with it much needed solace, wecan hear doctor Dehesh recounting one of his
real life stories in the kitchen locatedat the top floor of the landmark Nani
Palace, which between nineteen fourteen andnineteen thirty six housed the United States Consulate

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General and which would eventually become theresidence of doctor Dahesh And so what would
later become known as the Dashiest MissionHouse was directly situated opposite the Murr Tower,
inside the epicenter of the infamous ThirteenDay Battle that would take place in
October of nineteen seventy five, andwhose opening salvo was the rocket propelled grenade

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that exploded at close range, missingby a hair the wide balcony doors opening
onto the room my mother, myfather, and me had been sitting in.
In our case, we happened tolive right opposite the Holiday Inn and
Phoenicia Hotel towers, and so ourrespective buildings, located in an idyllic seaside

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neighborhood, would become both targets andshields, making us all unwilling actors in
a theater known as the Battle ofthe Hotels. During this harrowing period and
beyond and against all odds, theDahishists would safeguard and carefully pack the contents
of the Dahshiest Museum and Library intowooden crates destined for the United States,

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their work interrupted only by the suddenbarrage of bullets, bombs, mortar fire
and rockets. Tragically, on Decemberfifteen, nineteen seventy five, the Dahishist
Ali Umbargi would be critically wounded whileprotecting the beloved Prophet and the house of

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the Beloved Prophet, and would laterdie at six pm Beirut local time.
And so, in light of allthe bravery, toil and sacrifice that went
into safeguarding the Dahishist Museum, asdoctor Dash would call it, I would
be remiss if I did not shinea lit light on the fact it transcended
the mere, albeit noble, pursuitof collecting art for art's sake, stup

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Us. In this brief interaction thattook place on the evening of February twenty
nine, nineteen seventy six, ataround ten fifty five pm, we can
hear my eldest brother Shukri Shakur reaffirmedto doctor Dash all the things that would
take place back in Paris when heand others would travel with him. Chukri

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says, the way through which wewould look for paintings and the way through
which we would find them. Doctorone realizes that there isn't one thing that
you do that does not involve aspiritual reason. No way. If you

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want to move a cup from oneplace to another, there is a spiritual
reason. Doctor Dash responds, lovewomen issue games of God willing this museum
will be completed, and we donot want anything else, believe me,

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describing the museum as really wonderful fromamong the most wonderful museums. And Rick
adds that it is the greatest ofmiracles, referring to the fact doctor Dahsh

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was able to build the dahishest museumcollection in spite of all the financial,
physical and logistical hurdles, to saynothing of the numerous deliberate attempts by doctor
Dash's sworn enemies to assassinate him witha vent engines why risk life and limb

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for a museum? Was it allabout promoting French academic art and memorializing the
likes of Bugout? Where does Dashismfit in this narrative? True, it
is no secret that doctor Dash lovedart, and he had even instructed me
in nineteen seventy nine to keep myeyes peeled for good paintings quote unquote,

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and to collect them. In thisparticular instance, he and I were alone
in his study inside the mission house, and he had been admiring this painting
he had, which depicted a pastoralscene featuring a small herd of sheep,
and I distinctly remember looking to myleft and then to my right to make
sure he was actually talking to me, because, after all, I was

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barely nineteen and the idea of collectingart was such an unattainable goal, although
I must say that about sixteen yearsfollowing that I would in fact end up
featuring a great many artists, whoall told were kind enough to send hundreds
of digital paintings to be included inthe galleries of finished work that followed each

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chapter of my first step by stepinstructional book, Painting with Computers, which
was a watershed moment in my professionallife, one that celebrated the marriage of
traditional methods of art with the thenrapidly expanding technology of computers. I'll never
forget that moment when the president ofRockport Publishers, Stanpaedi, asked me,

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after I pitched my concept to himin nineteen ninety five, if I could
create a book that would contain aminimum of three hundred paintings, which meant
including somewhere in the vicinity of twohundred digital works of art that would not
be my own, and so Isaid yes, having no clue what I
had just gotten myself into. Ofcourse, I didn't know the first thing

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about convincing anyone to allow me topublish their work in my book for free.
Plus this was nineteen ninety five andthe telephone was still the communication tool
of choice. One day, afterlong fruitless search, I gathered enough courage
and called the renowned Colossal Pictures inSan Francisco. I had heard about Dewey

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read, their award winning commercial TVdirector, who, in his capacity of
director of New Media, was leadingtheir transition from analog to digital filmmaking.
But beyond that, I had longbeen a fan of his creative contributions,
whose distinctive signature had graced many ofthe movies, TV shows, and even
commercials that had left their mark onme. So yeah, I was sweating

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bullets. To my relief, Deweywas gracious and supportive of my project and
would pledge to include many of hiswell known illustrations in its publication. This
not only allowed me to put togethera serious book dummy as it's referred to
in the publishing industry, which inturn allowed Rockbord Publishers to promote and pre

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sell the book. It would alsogive my labor of love the validation it
needed in the eyes of other digitalartists, who were more than happy to
participate in a project featuring the workof dow We Read. But the highlight
of that initial phone conversation came aboutas I mentioned to Dewey that some of
my work had been commissioned by someonehe most certainly had never heard of,

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called Slim musa Ashi, also knownas doctor Dash. That's when do we
read? Surprised me by asking youknew Dash, to which I responded,
how do you know about Dash?And just as I was about to think
I was being pranked, Dewey beganto tell me how on one of his

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spiritual retreats he had heard stories abouta mystical figure from the Middle East who
could perform miracles, who had beenexecuted, had come back from the dead,
and who had single handedly fought againsta government that wanted to get rid
of him. And I'm thinking thishas got to be legit, and it
was. And on top of itall, he had heard about the museum
that doctor Dashesh had collected. Ifthere is one thing my very first and

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very lengthy conversation with Dewey read wouldshow, it is that the Dashist Museum,
the Dashist Library, and Dashism,which would include the more than one
hundred and fifty books that doctor dashhad authored, formed a continuum, meaning
not only were they mutually inclusive,they were necessarily so. Then again not,

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according to the official statement made onbehalf of the Dash Museum Board of
Directors, in which was published inthe December nineteen ninety six issue of Art
News magazine as part of a sixpage feature article called The Riddle of Doctor
Dashesh written by award winning author andjournalist berdnand Prattsman. The article starts off

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with the following summary quote. Almosttwo years after its founding, New York's
Dash Museum remains an enigma, shroudedin secrecy by the family that established and
controls it. The man who wasits guiding spirit was either a successful Middle
Eastern writer and art lover, orhis followers a miracle working and religious prophet

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whose presence in the world was onthe order of Christ's second coming end quote
and then the article would touch uponthe many fascinating facets of a saga that
must have left the uninitiated scratching theirheads. For example, on page five
of the article, political writer andconservative activist Kenneth R. Timmerman, founder

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and director of the Middle East DataProject, Incorporated, who's an internationally recognized
expert on Middle East security issues,is quoted as saying, quote, it
is inconceivable to me how someone couldtrain transports something so voluminous as that out
of Beirut at the peak of thecivil war. It would have been almost
impossible without assistance from either the Lebanesemilitary or one of the sectarian militias end

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quote. Of course, I haveit on good authority that neither was the
case, as we shall see ina future episode. Furthermore, according to
the article, the Dahesh Museum director, doctor David Farmer quote clearly insists that
there is no relationship between the spiritualmovement and his institution and that neither he

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nor his staff members are Dasshists endquote. Fair enough, and nothing out
of the ordinary here, given thatat around nineteen ninety I interviewed potential directors
for the museum on behalf of themuseum Board of Directors, and none of
the applicants were Dashists, nor hadto be that. Notwithstanding, however,

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and in terms of its core mission, the original museum was Dahishist. Explain,
during a dinner conversation I was havingwith the late doctor Ghazi Bracs ad
Bertucci's in Oldtown Alexander, Virginia inthe early two thousands, he confirmed that
the artifacts Doctor Dash had been collectingup until the end contained within them spiritual

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fluids that needed to be reunited withtheir respective owners. In other words,
let us say a person visited thecollection and came face to face with a
particular painting or piece of art thatcontained a spiritual fluid that linked back to
them. That person might be ableto reclaim it if he or she so
merited. This is important because,and from a Dash's perspective, the ultimate

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goal is to reclaim, if youwill, all the spiritual fluids belonging to
us, and strive to elevate themto a higher dimension through the thousands of
cycles of reincarnation. In any case, Ghazi Bracts went into vivid detail about
the time he accompanied doctor Deasesh tothe then vacant gallery of my art,

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originally commissioned by anpair and art collectorHuntington Hartford in nineteen sixty four at the
Columbus Center, located between Eighth Avenueand Broadway, with its marble cladding featuring
Venetian motifs and a curved facade,which, according to New York Times journalist
David Dunlap, was quote an abandonedwork of Romantic modernism that has irritated and

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amused New Yorkers for thirty years endquote. At my architecture school, we
simply called it the Lollipop building,you see. Before transferring to the Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn, I had brieflyattended the New York Institute of Technology,
whose Manhattan campus was situated right aroundthe corner, and so I can attest

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to the fact that stylistically speaking,it was an acquired taste. Seen in
the context of the adjacent buildings,it was flamboyantly iconoclastic, while oddly enough
the forhead to the past. Itwas awkward but affable, and unlike the
revamped version introduced in two thousand andeight, which blends perfectly into the background,

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so please don't blink or you'll missit. You couldn't miss the old
version for the glaring landmark that itwas no matter how hard you squinted.
Plus, I had always felt therewas something eerily familiar as well as comforting
about it, but I couldn't putmy finger on what that was until I
learned that it was designed by thearchitect Edward Durlstone, who had also designed

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the Phoenicia Hotel complex located right infront of my childhood home in Beirut,
which would later be turned into alaunching pad for rockets and mortifire during that
infamous Battle of the Hotels. Andthey say muscle memories a myth, and
that was the building doctor Dehesh hadalways wanted for his museum. Unfortunately,

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at the time, the asking price, though relatively affordable by New York City
real estate standards, was too richfor the Dashist Mission's blood. But what
I didn't know was that doctor Deshhad also wanted a bookstore that would sell
his books to be located in thatbuilding as well. Apparently, doctor Desh

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walked around to Columbus Center, pointingand describing his vision in terms of where
things would go. Gussie bracts whenas far as emphatically acting out doctor Deashesh
gesturing and saying this is where thebookstore would be. In other words,
doctor Dash did not dissociate the museumfrom Dahishism, because their narratives were intertwined.

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The books, the library, themuseum, and the revelations, while
discrete, are different facets of awhole that is other than the sum of
its parts. And as a casein point, I dare anyone to attempt
to teach the more subtle points ofDashishism, such as the secret life of

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inanimate objects and by the way,you'll never look at your car or blender
the same way ever again without citingmany of the textbook examples in Dash's literature,
one in particular involving the riveting conversationthat took place between two majestic wooden
sculptures, and which doctor Dash relayedin great detail in the non fictional story

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called and the Eagle Met the Tiger, which he wrote on April nineteen,
nineteen seventy eight, and which canbe found on page forty three of the
first edition of Strange Tales and WondrousLegends, Part two, published in nineteen
seventy nine. How can anyone,after reading this story and many others,
not think there's a link between thebooks, the museum, and the teachings,

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especially that doctor dash wrote that thesestories were once again non fictional.
And to claim or pretend that Dahishismis not intrinsic to the Dashist Museum collection
at best demonstrates a lack of understanding. Of course, nothing says you have

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to include the broader Dahishist narrative inthe story of the museum, if at
all. And as it so happened, the Dahish Museum board of directors had
dominion over the collection and for thatmatter, the books and everything doctor Dahish
had authored, and so they hadthe unfettered legal right to remove the aspect

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of Dahishism from the equation, orto do anything they wanted with the museum,
the writings, and the library,being that they were the principal beneficiaries
of Salim musa Ashi's will and testament, which incidentally, my eldest brother Shikri,
had witnessed. Now, not includingDahishism in any equation is one thing.

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Publicly denying that Dasism ever existed,however, is a completely different ball
of wax. Enter Flora Kaplan,an anthropology professor at New York University,
on page six of that same ArtNews article, we read quote. Caplan
goes even further, speaking on behalfof the board. She denies that doctor

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Dahesh founded the spiritual movement. Hedidn't establish it. Caplan says, the
fact is these people dashists in parentheses. That's what they say. He never
proclaimed himself anything, not a prophet, not a reincarnation. He never claimed
anything that people are claiming for him. He was born a Christian and he

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must have been very charismatic end quote. And just like that in one fell
Swoop, Dashism had been disavowed byits founder's namesake, and anyone who challenged
that assertion was either a liar orlooney tunes, which on the face of
it doesn't bode well for me,particularly considering that anyone who challenges Darwinism,

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as I am planning to do,is also looney tunes according to the likes
of Richard Dawkins, whom I viewas a great snake oil peddler in the
war against teleology. But more onthat later in the meantime, and going
back to Flora Kaplan's statement, whosefar reaching ramifications we shall never know,

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and based solely on certain writings ofdoctor Dash alone, if one is fortunate
enough to find them in their originalArabic version, never mind translated to English.
Every assertion allegedly made by her innineteen ninety six on behalf of the
Dash Museum board of Directors was sooff the mark it had all the markings

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of a tragic comedy. In hindsight, why didn't the board of directors,
when pressed on the matter of Dashishism, which incidentally was at the heart of
the literary works of Doctor Dash theythemselves had been publishing and promoting at book
fares under the banner of the DahishistPublishing Company, simply say no comment and
leave it at that. I mean, seriously, why didn't the same people

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who sponsored and videotaped for posterity thevery first lecture on Dahishism to be given
outside of Lebanon in nineteen eighty sixat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which
I co presented Pivot Like any honest, quote unquote politician would have done or
created the version you know what wasthat? Oh? Look, bunnies who

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just say no ablamos in glaz anythingthat would have elicited at worst pity instead
of what speaking of Jedi mind Tricksgone Bad twenty some odd years prior,
On a relatively peaceful evening, startingfrom nine pm, Doctor Deahesh, in
order to boost morale and combat shellshock with a good dose of histerical laughter,

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her would relate to parageantry of reallife hilarious stories, including a couple
of which involved the misadventures of platformmagician and mentalist Sammy Roska. Little you've

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just heard doctor dash logging in theday and time of February ninth, nineteen
seventy six, at nine o'clock inthe evening. It was that one time
Sam. He was big. Hewas from Aleppo. He passed away in
Marseille five six years ago. Hewould hypnotize. What do I mean by

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hypnotized something? I mean really silly. He wasn't trained and you knew that
hypnotism involved coded messages. He musthave learned it from someone nature from them
and he had a brother school dead. What do you call it? A
show? Roska would put on thekind of shows that often led to mayhem,

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and which, despite their lack ofingenuity, made up for it by
being pure comedy fodder, all inall, resulting in situations so bizarre.
You couldn't make that stuff up.So much so that, according to doctor
Dash, if this were ever madeinto a movie, believe me, it'll
be one of the most beautiful movies. If they ever made this into a

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movie, I mean one that wouldfeature actors. In any case, ten
incidents is like that one would takeup three to four hours worth of movie
run time. And until such timeas this movie is made, here's the
abridged version of the story involving thatone time Sammy Roska attempted to perform his

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standard issue mentalism trick at the SacredHeart Catholic School in this amazic or in
Beirut, which is part of theInstitute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
founded by Jean Baptiste de la Salle, And, by the way, having
attended that particular school myself, aswell as two other LaSalle institutions in Lebanon,

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I can vouch for the fact thereauditoriums were prized venues where the Brothers
would organize variety shows featuring well knownperformers and top acts of the day.
And so you can imagine how beforetelevision, events such as these would have
been a very important part of thesocial fabric. They certainly were in my
day. In fact, I stillremember looking forward to these college lasale events

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with joy and anticipation. In anycase, and back to Sammy Roska.
Inside the packed school auditorium, Sammyhad a son and partner in crime on
stage, seated on a chair,induced into a hypnotic state with his back
turn to the audience consisting mostly ofyoung students. Essentially, the trick consisted
of Sammy Roska going around collecting sundryitems from the audience, placing them on

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a small platform he would carry around, and then asking his entranced son to
identify each item he would pick outof the mix and hold up. Doctor
Dash was in attendance, always asSammy's guest of honor, being that his
reputation for the bunking Charlatan's preceded him, although and it must be said,
he appreciated a well executed sleight ofhand and even a well maneuvered mentalist trick,

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provided that these were all promoted asentertainment. In Samy's case, as
I said, there was practically noskill, but plenty of entertainment. So
doctor Dash cut him some slack andwould never hackle or embarrass him in public.
Besides, it would have been redundant, given that sam E Roska usually
had that covered anyway. The sceneopens inside the Sacred Heart School theater.

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Samu Roska has just finished gathering theitems that he has placed on a small
platform. Doctor Dash describes what transpirednext. Now all the items are gathered,
he grabs, but some of itjust so happened that when he did
this at the brother's school, thefirst thing he grabbed, so he could

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have picked up a pen or somethingelse. As luck would have it,
he picked up a cigarette. Sohe held up a cigarette, and his
partner knew it was a cigarette.What am I holding in my hand,
Samuel Roska asks, and the otherone tells him a cigarette. Of course,

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his accomplice knew he had a cigarettein hand at that moment. The
brother who was there said, stopme, didn't have to cigarette. Which
is one of your children gave himthe cigarette, asked the brother who was
chaperoning the event. Nobody give himselfaway. He's the one who put it

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there. He told his son thebrothers cigarettes are forbidden for children, and
was about to be I'm not oneto put in a cigarette. Speaking of

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wrecking balls when in nineteen eighty sixI read The Blind Watchmaker, Why the
evidence of evolution reveals a Universe withoutDesign? By Richard Dawkins, in which
he writes, quote, biology isthe study of complicated things that have the
appearance of having been designed with apurpose end quote. The first question that

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jumped out of me was, asidefrom whatever happened to the disinterested pursuit of
knowledge, how does such a categoricalassertion not potentially incline a person's mind towards
atheism? And for the record,I'm not conflating atheism and immorality or implying
it connotes a lack of spiritual ornot pursuing profundity from a Dash's perspective and

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wireless sincere belief in the Creator,and in particular in doctor Dash as his
beloved guiding profit, would certainly benefitone's spiritual fluids. There are many variables
that decide the fate of every spiritualfluid in terms of its spiritual ranking criteria,
such as its tendencies, thoughts,motives, and actions, and might
I add, judgment is rendered ona relative scale. Because Dashism teaches that

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whoever understands and appreciates the gravity ofthe spiritual truths, bears more responsibility than
one who does not, and forsure, mitigating circumstances and degree of awareness
dog in, a person who willinglyabuses his or her position of power,
who willfully prays on the helpless,will be judged on a different scale than

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one who is constantly, albeit unsuccessfully, combating inner demons and doing so earnestly,
not just putting on a show.Moreover, in the prayer of Dash
to God and say keep us awayfrom the wicked, and the scoffers at
the Word of God illuminate their eyesand quote, the prayer says nothing about
atheists. Wicked can apply to thosewho claim to believe in God, and

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the same goes for the scoffers atthe Word of God, in other words,
who wilfully mark the word of Godand encourage everyone else to do so.
On the other hand, a personcan be an atheist and decent spiritual
Even so, what's my problem?Well, according to March fourteen, twenty

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nineteen Time magazine article, the suiciderates are rising sharply. Yes, I
know, there are so many variablesand pathologies that might lead a person to
take his her own life. AndI know correlation does not necessarily imply causation,
but are we really going to makethe case that it's better for a
person to believe that life has noobjective meaning and that there is no after

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life, Especially that this is sir, has no scientific evidence to back it
up, and putting the issue ofinfinite regress aside for a moment. Anyone
who says it is absurd or irrationalto believe in an intelligent designer has obviously
not weighed in the balance the absurdityof believing that the universe came into being
from nothing. In other words,no matter which proposition we choose, when

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we get right down to it,we are effectively romancing the absurd One evening
back in New York City, whenafter pondering the mere notion of existing and
feeling overwhelmed by it all, Iwent up to doctor Dash as he was
working away at the desk in myapartment, and quietly blurting out, mind
you, in a show of surrenderto all of the implications in which I

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believed, though I could not fathomhow they could exist, Doctor, I
said, this whole thing, allof it, the fact we exist,
the miracles, all of it.It seems so absurd, to which he
smiled, nodded his head in agreement, and with sober alacrities, said I
know. And so if you askme, when we apply rational thinking,

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quote unquote to what I'm describing,it all sounds definitely absurd for my part,
and at the risk of appearing asthough I were promoting anarchy and mayhem,
there are limits beyond which rational thinking, pure abstract mathematical thinking even begins
to break down. But back tothe original question of whether or not it
is better for a person to believelife has no objective meaning, that is,

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from the point of view of intellectualfulfillment, because and after all,
and as scientific atheists would have us, believe, there is no mind,
there is no spirit. It's allan illusion, and whatever we think of
as mind is nothing but the brainhaving evolved to give us that illusion.
And simply put, when I alludeto evolution in this case, I mean

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Darwinian evolution. In other words,blind, non intelligent, not equipped with
high not equipped with foresight, nonsentientnatural selection acting on random mutation. And
I'll be talking about that in moredepth in the next episode. For now,
However, this question bears asking,because although we no longer have the

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miracles and prophecies of doctor Dash,which typified tangible evidence that, among many
other things, reincarnation was a realmechanism, and that the lines between monism,
dualism, and idealism were artificial.He was right in promoting scientific literacy

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as a means to reinforce one's faith, despite the long held belief that science
and faith cannot mix. Apparently,and it took a few decades to get
to this point, there are severallines of empirical evidence that can be used
to challenge the deeply entrenched materialist worldviewon several grounds, none of which have

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anything to do with religious belief,not even remotely, as we shall learn
in the next episode. First,however, please know that from a dacious
perspective, if you commit suicide,the divine spiritual laws are such that you
will have to come back in oneform or another to perhaps undergo a similar

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test, this time with compound interestadded to your sentence. And I use
the word sentence because we all havematerialized on this earthly plane of existence as
the result of our spiritual fluids thathave brought themselves down or even up the
planet Earth. We are here inorder to pay our debt or debts.

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If you will, our thoughts,our deeds together follow us wherever we might
go. Only through goodwill, fairplay, hard work, and perseverance can
we hope to expunge our actions andpurify our tendencies. It is not only
about the end result, but aboutthe process as well, and ultimately it
should be for the love of GodAlmighty, because, as I indicated in

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Part two the mechanics of existence,each of our spiritual fluids is dispatch from
its respective mother spirit residing in theworld of the spirits, also known as
the divine worlds, and that thehighest or purest of these divine worlds are
called the heavens, the realm ofGod Almighty. And once again, God

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is nothing we can understand, letalone. See doctor dehsh wrote, God,
nobody has seen him, nobody knowshim. The mysteries of creation are
beyond even his archangels. And yeteverything in this universe bears his imprint,
tells us of him and sings hispraises. And the unfathomable galaxies of thought,

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from the infinitely small to the infinitelylarge. God is everywhere and in
all things. But if you donot first and foremost find his kingdom within
yourself, try as you might,you will not find him anywhere. In
any case, Have you ever hada mishap you thought was just about the

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worst thing that could ever happen toyou, only to find out it was
a blessing in disguise, or narrowlyescape injury or death, even congratulations,
More than likely you were the beneficiaryof spiritual assistance. Of course, we
could never know for sure. However, protocol dictates that we raise a prayer

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of thanks to our creator, andaccording to Dashism, it was not random.
There is no such thing as coincidence. It only appears as though there
is, and that is because notonly do we not understand infinity, we
simply lack the capacity to imagine thecombinatorial possibilities. And I'll have to tell
you more in subsequent episodes where Ihope to do justice to the nuances and

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subtleties within Dahishism, which is alifelong journey. In fact, doctor Dehesh
told my brother Shukri that it tookhim twenty years to make a Dahsist out
of someone. Until then, letme just say that all the hard work
that one might do from here toSunday will not mean anything if done in

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bad faith or begrudgingly. That isonce more, because thoughts and intentions carry
as much weight, if not more, than our actions. In some cases,
for example, a bedridden criminal mastermind, or for that matter, a
hapless half wit inciting others to dohis bidding, might as well be the
one committing the actual crimes. Conversely, perfunctory thoughts and prayers are as useful

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as the platitudes they are often doomedto serve. That being said, and
as though the tests of life werenot exponentially hard enough with their characteristic shades
of gray, there are times whenwe need to out fox fox somehow,
and without compromising our principles or makinga pact with the devil. And until

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we revisit this in greater depth ina future episode, let me just share
with you two pieces of wisdom fromdoctor dash. In his book Words,
doctor Desh wrote it would be adisgrace if you died before performing good deeds
for humanity, a statement he temperedby also writing in that same book,

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it would be insane to burn yourselfin order to illuminate the path for others.
And so back to my original point, action matters, so does speaking
out. Speaking of which, andback to this unfortunate business of suicide,
and especially as it pertains to euthanasia. Please, every second we have left

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is a gift that allows us torealign our spiritual fluids with loftier goals than
that of clinging to the earthly realm. And rest assured we are graded not
compared to others, but compared toourselves. And as I've explained, nothing
is random, and there are reasonswhy some of us are in the predicament

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we're in. So we must bepatient and hang on and be strong in
faith divine mercy. In Dashism,one overarching principle is that, barring divine
revelation, which is strictly the purviewof the divine prophets, no human being

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can gain insight into their former livesor future ones for that matter, by
their own volition, and that isan act of divine mercy on the part
of the almighty Creator, who,by imposing involuntary amnesia, as it were,
on all the members of the humanspecies, spares them the psychological burden
as well as any potentially dangerous,if not fatal ramifications. In other words,

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if we think humanity is already sufferingfrom too much rampant violence and revenge,
just imagine what would happen if allof a sudden everyone remembered who did
what to whom. Chances are therewould be around the clock carnage. To
be fair, and this based onwhat the founder of Dashism himself made me

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understand following an incident whose details Iwill expand upon in the future. Not
all past actions committed need be ofthe egregious kind, and not every mishap
or misfortune that befalls us should beautomatically construed as punishment. Once again,
please consider that the full extent ofcombinatorial possibilities within the space of interaction scenarios

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is beyond our reach. What we'reexperiencing at the moment is only part of
a story with many prequels and sequels, of both the concurrent and consecutive nature.
And I say all this with acaveatic attached, mainly because time,
which cannot exist without space, alwaysappears to move in one direction. Hence

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the nonintuitive, nonsensical, totally absurdnature of what I've just laid out for
now, let me just say thatfrom a Dais perspective, regardless of what
we might have done in a previouslife cycle, though it certainly had set
the stage for both the multitude ofevents that ensued the moment we quote unquote

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woke up into this reality and thosethat still lie in wait for us.
What matters is how we think,behave, and act in this lifetime.
And so, to put it simply, some life scenarios are destined to happen,
while others are a function of ourconduct, and the governing axiom that

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all dascists must unequivocally accept is thateverything happens for a reason. Having said
that, and to avoid any misunderstanding, and without going into too much detail,
the proceeding only applies to situations thatare absolutely beyond our control. So,
for example, invoking thee There's areason behind everything, defense to whitewash

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or rationalize a premeditated or wilfully clumsyact would be tend to mount the abuse
of power with potentially serious spiritual ramifications. And to put it in more eloquent
terms, that's a no no.And while a person might seemingly get away
with it in this lifetime, doctorDash reminds us that Heavenly Justice and her

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lofty systems are always watching. Allahhu yummehl yumel. Doctor Dash would often
say God grants time but never neglects. And as regards failure after an earnest
attempt, many a time I wouldhear doctor Dash say, have you done
all you can do? If yes, then leave the rest to God.

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And in terms of mannering people's expectations, and according to my brother Shukri,
he would cite the old Arabic adageeither aratta antotar forteble mustatar in other words,
if you want to be obeyed,ask for what is doable. In
any case, the crux of thematter is that by not remembering his or
her past lives, a human beingis given an opportunity for fresh start towards

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redemption, in other words, beingoff the debt, unhindered by the constant
memories that might cripple any prospect forbetterment in this lifetime. But if all
this is true, how come noneof the Abrahamic religions believe in reincarnation or
do they? In the beginning linesof the introduction to his book Strange Tales,

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and Wondrous Legends. Part two dependon January twenty one, nineteen seventy
nine, Doctor dash and right afterhe defines reincarnation as quote man's repeated return
to Earth in order for him tocleanse himself of his impurities and get rid
of his heavy burdens. End quoteaddresses the categorical, flat out rejection of

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reincarnation by the representatives of the Abrahamicreligions. Simply stated, he makes the
case that the followers of Judaism,Christianity, and Islam did not believe in
reincarnation owing to the manner they haveinterpreted their respective sacred texts. Furthermore,
in an appeal for them to lookat what they might have overlooked, he

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cited, among others, examples fromthe Torah, the New Testament, and
the Qur'an, all of which,in his view, would support the existence
of reincarnation, especially when seen withthe then modern late nineteen seventies lens.
I will table this particular argument fromtheology for now, because I feel I

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must address the pervasive materialist worldview thathas been built upon a pretense of irrefutable
scientific evidence, namely Darwinian evolution andspeaking of evolution at large, once again
in the sense of change over time, and at the risk of sounding like
Captain Obvious, Because minds evolve,prophets have addressed the people they were sent

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to communicate with according to their emotionaland intellectual acuity. Prophet Moses gave the
ancient Israelites the ten divine Commandments andall the laws that followed. There was
no mention of love thy neighbor,probably because and back in those days,
a person might have had enough troublerefraining from quote unquote loving their neighbor's spouse.

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In any case, considering abiding bythe spirit, never mind the letter
of a would be commandments such aslove thy neighbor, would have required a
more advanced state of mind. Simplyput, the spiritual fluids populating the earth
at the time of Moses were simplynot ready to adopt the concept of forgiveness,

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for example, as an alternative toexacting controlled revenge, as it were.
That is not to imply that thespiritual fluids that populated the earth had
all evolved to adopt and implement theGospel of Jesus Christ, which was essentially
a major update to the divine instructionsthat had been given to them. And

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here I should probably tell you thateach of the major prophets carried a vital
spiritual fluid that had been tasked withthe mission to materialize un planet Earth in
order to establish a religion compatible withthe spiritual fluids that had been populating it
at the time. And the sourceof all these lofty spiritual fluids is the

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Christ, our heavenly Father, simplystated, and I refer you once again
to the section on mother spirits inepisode two the Mechanics of Existence. The
Christ, whom we referred to asthe heavenly flight Father, not to be
confused with God Almighty, is technicallyspeaking a mother's spirit of the highest ranking

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residing in the realm of the heavens. And before I continue, let me
simply add that in this context weuse honorifics such as mother and father as
convenient placeholders to describe the indescribable inreality, and up there, quote unquote,
in the realm of the heavens,the familiar human, biologically based notions

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of mother and Father do not applyin the literal sense. That is,
With that out of the way,let me give you a quick overview from
the christ emanated spiritual fluids that incarnatedin not only the divine prophets, but
also in many pillars of human civilization, from philosophers like Socrates, the leaders

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like Alexander the Great, to composerssuch as Beethoven, the scientists like Einstein,
and authors like Caliphs Braun. Onespiritual fluid in particular, that emanated
from the Christ would incarnate as themain or vital spiritual fluid within Jesus and
Dahesh. Furthermore, the twentieth spiritualfluid was also part of Adam, although

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it was not the main or vitalspiritual fluid of Adam. And once again
please hold that thought now. Ifyou were paying attention in class, you
might remember that I said an episodetwo that spiritual fluids which emanate or extend
from the Mother's spirits can only materializein the realms of Paradise and Hell,

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being that Paradise and Hell are materialrealms as opposed to the heavens, which
are spiritual realms. And you mightalso remember that I mentioned that Earth sits
at the threshold of Hell. Thatbeing the case, the spiritual fluids on
Earth are ranked from one to twentytwenty, being the highest or the loftiest.

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And again it is the degree ofspiritual fluid, the twentieth spiritual fluid,
also known as the spiritual fluid ofredemption, that would materialize an Adam,
Jesus Christ and Ahesh, or moreprecisely, in addition to materializing as
one of the spiritual fluids of Adam, the twentieth spiritual fluid would materialize in

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both Jesus Christ and Desh as theirrespective main or vital spiritual fluid. And
I will eventually cover that in moredetail, especially that unlike both Jesus and
Desh, Adam was not born intothis earthly realm from human parents, but
was spontaneously created in the garden ofEden, which was hidden from the rest

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of humanity. Again that's for alater episode. And so in Dahism we
make a distinction between Jesus Christ theprophet and the Christ the source. Whence
Jesus Christ had come once again,and to summarize, the particular lofty spiritual
fluid in question is known as thetwentieth spiritual fluid, and the designation number

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twenty pertains to that spiritual fluid's spiritualranking, which let me just say,
is very high. And you shouldknow that doctor Desh revealed that Mahatma Gandhi
had a spiritual fluid from the Christas well. In the introduction to the
first volume of Strange Tales and WondrousLegends, Doctor Desh would mourn honor and

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canonize Gandhi under the heading of Gandhithe Prophet of the twentieth Century. But
let's get back to Jesus Christ fora moment, and let me share with
you what doctor Dehesh told me duringone of his many stays with me in
New York City, the necessity ofdivine miracles. Doctor Dehesh taught us that

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at the core, everything about lifeincl scluding the immutable laws of nature,
should be thought of as a miracle. The problem, however, is that
our human species is quick to takethings for granted and consequently absteante on the
divine force whose ultimate goal is toprovide us with the knowledge that would enable
us to eventually escape the predicament ofour own making. Not only has this

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been happening through the millennia, butthrough the many cycles of utter destruction and
subsequent recreation on that front. Andfor now, please know that we are
in the throes of the seven hundredand sixty first Genesis, which began after
the Great Flood and miracles, maybethe kind many were privileged to witness at

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the hand of Doctor Desch or theones manifest in the billions upon billions of
biological cells teeming with molecular machines workingaway to keep us alive long enough to
do our o but most to bringabout a positive change as we serve our
sentence in good faith. Though wewill never know what sins we might have

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committed in other life cycles, rightdown to the strange coincidences, that,
while seemingly random, our spiritual interventionson our behalf the kind we should be
grateful for. And so if therewere one takeaway, it would be this
never become jaded. Allow me toillustrate. One time at the New York

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City apartment located at the corner ofthirty fourth and Second, Doctor Deesh told
me, if God Almighty himself materializedon Earth and sat down with man for
a cup of tea in a tent, the whole world would clamor with the
news, whose shockwave would be feltaround the globe. Eventually, however,
and given man's pension for becoming quicklyjaded. The next time God came around

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for tea, people would just languidlyannounce, well, what do you know,
God's coming over tea again? Andto underscore the importance of miracles or
spiritual manifestations as he often referred tothem, Doctor Desh revealed to me what
actually transpired during the events described inJohn chapter eight, verses one to eleven.

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According to the New International version ofthe Bible and I quote, the
teachers of the Law and the Phariseesbrought in a woman caught in adultery.
They made her stand before the groupand said to Jesus, teach her.
This woman was caught in the actof adultery in the law. Moses commanded
us to stone such women. Nowwhat do you say? End quote.

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According to the text quote, theywere using this question as a trap in
order to have a basis for accusinghim. But Jesus bent down and started
to write on the ground with hisfinger. When they kept on questioning him,
he straightened up and said to them, let any one of you who
is without sin be the first tothrow a stone at her. Again,

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he stooped down and wrote on theground. At this those who heard began
to go away, one at atime, the older ones first, until
only Jesus was left, with thewoman still standing there. Jesus straightened up
and asked her, woman, whereare they? Has no one condemned you?
No one, sir, she said, Then neither do I condemn you.
Jesus declared, go now and leaveyour life of sin. Quote.

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That is what the New Testament teaches, and by all accounts, it is
a beautiful story of forgiveness and redemption, a true Kumbaya moment that should bring
a lump to your throat when youimagine how mere words by our Lord Jesus
Christ melted the hearts of an otherwisemurderous lot who incidentally would eventually play a

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key role in ambushing, imprisoning,torturing, and crucifying him. However,
according to doctor Dehesh, that isonly part of the story, and it
has been, for lack of abetter word, sanitized. What according to
doctor Deesh, really happened was thatJesus did, in fact stooped down to
write on the ground, which shouldautomatically beg the question of what did he

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write and what part did that playin his ability to prevail on them to
reconsider killing the woman. According towhat doctor Desesh told me, what Jesus
did was to draw a five pointedstar a pentacle in the sand. The
moment he finished drawing the five pointedstar, each of the men who were

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about to stone the woman suddenly hada vision appear before them, which replayed
an egregious sin they had themselves committed. The men, according to doctor Desh,
freaked out and ran away screaming.Then doctor Dash told me, do
you really think Jesus Christ would havebeen able to convince this murderous bunch without

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the assistance of a miracle. Hadhe not put the fear of God in
them by virtue of the spiritual manifestationthat exposed their hypocrisy and sins, they
would have stoned him instead. Inany case, Dashism never drew a fault
line between science and faith. Infact, as I alluded to earlier when

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describing the many ways the Christ hashelped advance our human civilization, it is
part and parcel of Dashist belief thathumanity was allowed to advance scientifically thanks to
the materialization of the lofty spiritual fluidsthat inspired their hosts to make monumental discoveries

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in physics, chemistry, medicine,and so on, and despite the fact
many of them actually rejected the ideaof a higher being, such as Albert
Einstein and so to recap the interventionof divine mercy is not limited to simply
sending us divine prophets whose mission isto guide us, which in of itself
is an incredible blessing, of course, or scientists who make our life easier.

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It extends through many fields, suchas architecture and engineering, as well
as art, music, and literature, and so as far as Dasism is
concerned, they all constitute to continuethem and science is certainly an inescapable part
of the discussion. For example,one time around nineteen eighty two, doctor
Desh dropped the bomb when he madea shocking revelation during a conversation he and

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I were having about the virgin birthand during which he was expressing how odd
it was that many rejected the notionof Jesus Christ having been conceived naturally by
human mother and father, an issueincidentally addressed at length in part three of
his book series Strange Tales and WondrousLegends, and on page eighty six.
In that book, we learned thatJesus Christ had to be conceived and born

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like any other human because he hadto undergo the full extent of what it
meant to be human. He hadto resist all of the earthly temptations that
sought his perdition. In essence,it was the only way for him,
as a divine prophet of God,to be worthy of the title and be
in a position and to act asa genuine role model for others to follow.

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In other words, when the twentiethspiritual fluid stepped in and volunteered to
descend from the one hundred and fiftiethlevel of Paradise and materialize on Earth,
which, as a friendly reminder,sits right on the threshold of Hell,
in order to help humanity. Forreasons I will have the table for a

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later episode, it needed a humanbody or an unimaginably complex biological machine that
requires both information and energy to beoperated, if you will, which would
be subject to all of the associatedoccupational hazards of being human in any case,
And no sooner had doctor Desh finishedsaying I don't understand what the big

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deal is than he said, Besides, and scientists don't know this yet,
but a woman can conceive a childwithout a man. Now. Since scientists
at the time he met aid thisdeclaration had already known about artificial insemination for
nearly a century, I can onlydeduce that he was definitely talking about something

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else entirely. If I'm right,and to paraphrase what doctor Desch said,
women in so far their genome aresomehow capable of asexual reproduction, in other
words, virgin births. And forthat to happen, and theoretically speaking,
at least for now, geneticists wouldneed to find the appropriate master switches in

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woman's DNA and engage them in theright order without triggering any potentially deleterious mutation.
Speaking of inconceivable conceptions, earlier inthis episode, I brought up the
matter of spiritual fluids coaxing us fromthe lower dimensions, and I asked you
to hold that thought. Thank youfor indulging me, And so I would

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like to pick it up where weleft off and tell you that doctor Desh
taught that in reality God punishes noone. Rather it is we who punish
ourselves, as I briefly alluded toearlier, when we cause the fall or
degradation of a spiritual fluid and subsequentlycondemn it to materialize in a lower dimension.

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It will seek revenge on us.Remember, spiritual fluids are sentient.
Now put yourself in this spiritual fluid'sproverbial shoes. You've just committed it to
materialize and suffer in a world whereperhaps the worst thing that could ever happen
to you is for someone to threatenyou with life. As a result,

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it will hate and resent you.There's no forgiveness in Hell. That's probably
why they call it Hell, andso it'll try its best to make you
fall even further and consequently cause youto commit even more of your spiritual fluids
feeding it in the process. AndI grossly over simplified the example, because

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remember Hell is broken down into onehundred and fifty levels, each teeming with
an untold number of worlds. Now, the good news is that the same
applies when we allow one of ourspiritual fluids to rise to a higher dimension.
Hence the inner struggle we might experienceas a result of that proverbial tug

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of war between our spiritual fluids.And while I'm at it, remember what
I said about holographic projections in partone the multi dimensional universe, meaning,
don't get too bogged down with tryingto define what the reality is. As
illogical, absurd, and counterintuitive asit may sound, just keep in mind
that we are projections. That's why, try as they might, scientists cannot

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find the mind. They know wherethe brain is, but they don't know
where the mind is, and consequentlymany of them reject its existence. In
fact, and as far as thematerialists, neo Darwinists, and scientific atheists
are concerned, there is no consciousnessin the real sense of the word,
because until we can see it,measure it, and test it, it

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does not exist. By the sametoken, there is no soul and the
mind is nothing but a physical phenomenonthe byproduct of brain activity. But that's
for later. In any case,Dahsism teaches that it is not God who
punishes us, instead that it isour own spiritual fluids that do so.

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And as we shall learn in afuture episode, spiritual fluids interact and mix
with other spiritual fluids, thus formingan unimaginably complex cybernetic control and communications system.
We are not alone. Doctor Deshwrote to a Dashist defending freedom is

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a sacred heavenly duty, because itis the Creator's gift to his creations,
and so it is my sworn dutyto defend your right to choose not to
believe. However, as I havealready said earlier, I must draw the
line when a belief is built upona lie. And before I continue,

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let me reiterate that doctor Dahish investeda lot of time and energy in the
bunking, quackery and shams, andin fact, I will eventually tell you
the story of how Dahish Bay wouldbecome doctor Dahish in nineteen thirty and how
he used in order to outfox thefox, as it were, the doctorate

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awarded to him in Paris, Franceby an institute with ties to an organization
headquartered in Rochester, New York,which, come to find out, pedaled
in pseudo science and preyed upon thegullible worldwide through its correspondence courses. In
any case, this honorific obtained froman institute in France would do wonders for

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the reputation of doctor a chess movethat allowed him to intercept and deprogram many
seekers of spiritual enlightenment who would haveotherwise fallen victim themselves to con artists masquerading
as scientists, who purportedly not onlyhad unlocked the mysteries of the universe,
but were willing to share their knowledgefor a modest fee. And just to

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give you a taste of where doctordash officially stood on the matter, let
me read you an excerpt from anopinion piece written by doctor Dahesh and which
was published in the May twenty three, nineteen sixty eight issue of a magazine
called Lightning and Thunder. In thesection called you ask, and Doctor Dahesh

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replies, quote the alleged quote unquotespiritual mediums are, in truth, nothing
more than quackery and charlatanism, daubedupon the simpleton, but not upon the
intelligent and enlightened. And the onlygoal of those claiming to be spiritual mediums
is to extricate money from the gullibleend. And so, when I'm convinced

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that notable scientific scholars and stewards ofour science curricula and educational system dismiss outright
an absolutely serious scientific counter argument thatconstitutes an inference from empirical biological evidence,
a line must be drawn. Therefore, in the next episode, I aim

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to present compelling, well documented factsthat, while not conclusive, are suggestive
of the following. Like many ofthe Charlatans who claimed to perform white magic
or black magic, and whom doctorDesche spent a lifetime shaming and a bunking,
many so called scientists are guilty ofa conspiracy to mislead the public.

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To paraphrase the words of Tom Bethel, journalist and author of Darwin's House of
Cards, those scientists have replaced evidencewith authority. And so if a person
since's decision to become an atheist stemsfrom what he or she had been taught
in biology class, then I considerthat a problem, because after careful study,

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I can now officially state that thecore message of the Darwinian theory of
evolution is not science. It ismythology masquerading as science. Historically, it
was the inspiration for eugenics and theidea that you have to perfect the human
being. And while we learn thatthe relationship between communism and Darwinism is a

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matter of contentious debate between scholars,in his evolutionnews dot org article Darwinism and
Communism, Part two, David Klinghofferrightes quote Marxists and Darwinists are heirs to
the materialist revolt against metaphysics that beganin the seventeenth century with Hobbes and Locke,

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and the eighteenth century naturalist revolt againstChurch and throne inaugurated by Rousseau end
in all repudiating the idea of anafterlife and seeking to create a utopia right
here on earth, which led tounfathomable and horrendous acts throughout the twentieth century.

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And so Darwinism makes claims that shouldworry anyone who takes the time to
consider their implications. Furthermore, youhave a situation in which evolutionary biologists are
blatantly removing the creator from the equationby imposing still to be proven explanations for
the origin of life on Earth andhow it subsequently evolved to encompass everything we

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see from just one accidental living cell, which still no one knows how it
came about. In fact, theymight as well be describing a miracle.
And so they are essentially brainwashing theirstudents into embracing materialism, which is a
philosophy, and pass it off asscientific fact, and speaking of scientific facts

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or a lack thereof. Apparently,Charles Darwin himself had advanced the following argument
in defense of his theory in theOrigin of Species. Darwin wrote, and
I quote, if it could bedemonstrated that any complex organ existed which could
not possibly have been formed by numeroussuccessive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely

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break down. But I can findout no such case end quote. In
other words, Darwin challenged us toprove a negative. Yet neither in science,
nor in law, for that matter, can anyone prove a negative.
Go ahead, prove that unicorns donot exist. And to base a scientific

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theory on such a premise is thedefinition of an unscientific argument, if ever
there was one, and yet itslipped under the radar. I mean,
never mind slight modifications. This is, of hand, but more on that
rest assured in the following episode.In the meantime, I would simply like

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to stress that belief in the afterlifeshould never be at the cost of neglecting
this here world. And lastly,we must never give up. One time,
in New York City in nineteen eightyI telephoned doctor Dehesh, who was
still back in Beirut, and heasked me how I was doing. I
hinted that I was not feeling atpeace, to which he quietly said,

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our spiritual fluids are constantly rising andfalling. Later, in nineteen eighty three,
he offered me a copy of hisnewly published second edition of Words,
in which he had written the followingpassage, do not despair if the cruel
events of life should shake you.Instead draw upon them an unrelenting war,

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without clemency or leniency, with yourwill power and demand to engage them in
a duel by sending them your twowitnesses, endless hope and doing as much
as you can. And that bringsus to the end of the Dahishist Theory

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of Reincarnation, Part three, TheDynamics of Life. For a transcript,
please visit doctor dash dot com.That's do O, C T O R
dash dot com. You may alsovisit dash dot org or dash dot Tv.

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This is Mario Henry Shakour saying goodbyeuntil next time.