The Church of The One Holy Source
The Church of The One Holy Source Inc was officially formed on Tuesday, September 24th 2019.
This site is getting only about 20 to 30 visitors per day with no advertising. Spending money to get the word out rather than letting it grow organically seems like a pretty good idea worth testing.
I'll put a bit more of my own money into the project.
I recently doubled my net income in about 2 months after posting a financial goal on this site of $40,000 net per year as of mid 2020.
Albeit it was a modest goal.
Achieving goals is easier when doing it according to the rules.
Imagine that.
Using the church as an income source isn't my intention.
I edited my income goal to at least $90,000 net per year.
Donating 10% of my income to the Church of The One Holy Source is my intention.
Tithing has a lot of collective belief associated with it.
Aside from facilitating God-Self recognition, it would be helpful for the church to get involved in a number of other things such as reducing recidivism, helping inmates with re-entry, growing food in urban environments using aquaponics, and finding good ways to deal with climate change among other things.
This may involve formation of a separate organization.
The formerly incarcerated have great difficulty getting decent jobs and housing.
Inner City urban populations have little access to healthy food choices.
Climate change is happening at an accelerating pace and will continue to happen. Its inevitable now. Ocean levels will increase significantly. There will be massive population displacement, crop losses, starvation, and conflict.
The climate refugee crisis will be intense. Helping refugees of any kind is obviously the right thing to do.
Dealing with the effects of climate change seems more practical than trying to stop it at this point.
Certainly doing whatever is possible to mitigate climate change would be helpful.
Group behavior tends to reinforce the inevitability of drastic climate change.
Assuming humans survive climate change and its attendant catastrophes, it may turn out to be beneficial.
Those who fear death and believe the hardships associated with climate change is to be avoided should think about how the black plague kick started the renaissance.
After the plague receded there was a concentration of wealth. Among other things people bought more linen garments which were discarded and recycled into inexpensive rag paper. This facilitated the dissemination of printed information. Books became relatively cheap.
It'll be okay.
The Practice Associated with the Church of The One Holy Source is Sweet and Simple
Ritual chanting is a tried and true form of spiritual practice.
Chanting "In God we are One" is what the practice shall be.
The idea of separation is very persistent. This chant will help to minimize it and perhaps eliminate it entirely for some.
If you want, chant in the morning after meditation and in the evening before bed.
If you're into achieving goals post them in front of you while chanting. Posting them on this site would be good.
Nichiren Shoshu Buddhists chant "nam myoho renge kyo" with their goals posted in front of them. When giving testimony many practitioners speak of goal achievement being a benefit of their practice. Getting stuff is a big motivator.
The meaning of the chant doesn't necessarily matter. Ritual chanting occupies the left brain ego-mind or conscious mind.
Chanting while reviewing your goals helps get your right brain or unconscious mind involved in achieving your goals.
Your unconscious mind or right brain is dominant and is where your God-Self is. This will help you get results tremendously.
Goal achievement involves a number of things, particularly reviewing them daily and sharing them with others. Posting them on a page on this site and reviewing the page while chanting will handle these elements well.
Chanting "In God we are One" works and is arguably more spiritually impactful in the context of God-Self recognition.
Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale studied and wrote extensively about goal achievement.
Hill wrote an allegorical novel called Outwitting the Devil that needs more exposure in my opinion.
Neuro Linguistic programming provides some highly effective ways to change your unwanted or unproductive beliefs as well as structuring goals as well-formed outcomes.
Creating well-formed outcomes increases your likelihood of achieving your goals and minimizes the chance of finding out the goal you've achieved isn't what you really want.
The Church of The One Holy Source may or may not amount to much. It's up to us to decide and to take action.
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Caring for the Body as Part of a Spiritual Practice
Many people want to get old without being old. They want the years, but not the consequences. They hope for wisdom without decline, vitality without restraint, and spiritual insight without the discipline required to maintain the body through which life is actually lived.
This hope is understandable. It is also unrealistic.
The human organism is not an accessory to the spiritual life. It is the medium through which perception, thought, and awareness occur. Every spiritual tradition ultimately operates through a biological system with limits, vulnerabilities, and predictable responses to neglect. To disregard those realities while claiming to pursue higher awareness is not transcendence—it is a kind of denial.
It is therefore not unusual to encounter individuals who sincerely believe they are on a spiritual path while maintaining habits that steadily degrade their health. Chronic overeating, poorly chosen diets, lack of metabolic discipline, and disregard for physical conditioning gradually diminish energy, clarity, and resilience. These patterns are often rationalized as irrelevant to spiritual development, as though consciousness could somehow flourish independently of the body that sustains it.
But the body keeps the ledger.
Over time, metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, and declining physiological resilience impose limits that cannot be bypassed by philosophy or belief. The organism responds to inputs—food, activity, rest, fasting—with remarkable consistency. When those inputs are careless, the results are equally predictable.
A more coherent view recognizes that caring for the body is not separate from a reflective life. It is part of it.
Food choices require awareness. Restraint around consumption requires discipline. Periods of fasting require patience and the ability to tolerate discomfort without immediate gratification. These are not merely health techniques. They are practices that mirror the same qualities cultivated in contemplative traditions: attention, restraint, and clarity about one's habits.
In this sense, health practices can function as a form of grounded spirituality—one that does not pretend the biological organism can be ignored while pursuing meaning or insight. Instead, it treats the body as the necessary foundation for sustained awareness and agency over the long arc of a lifetime.
For readers interested in exploring this perspective in practical, evidence-minded terms, Longevity Secrets examines how food choices, fasting patterns, and metabolic awareness can support a longer healthspan and a clearer relationship with the body that makes every human experience possible.
Longevity Is Cumulative
Healthspan reflects how well decisions were understood when they mattered.
A practical, evidence-minded book on fasting, nutrition, and aging—without hype or programs.
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