By Henry Tennessee
I’m watching an interview with Erich Fromm. I know nothing about him. He speaks very eloquently, and speaks truth.
It makes me want to write something that hopefully, you will be reading now in the goose publication.
How do I convey a feeling in such a way that you might understand? What am I trying to say?
What has inspired me, moved me so much to start trying to attempt this, this thing?
God.
Let’s call it God.
But what I am trying to get at is not so much the religious version of it: yet in some ways it is. But that’s my personal journey. I do not want to confuse the two right now.
Here lies the problem I feel I must address.
I love life. I could never find something to do, because the true love of my life is it itself.
It is a joy to be here.
Do you ever have these moments?
Do you ever realise, that right now, you are breathing, and the more you realise this insane fact, you realise all the things around you are equally as magnificent and worthy of your adoration?
Here we find ourselves in 2025, and many a smart and wise person just under 70 or so years ago began to say “look, we might be screwing it a bit”. In 2025, we find ourselves scratching our heads wondering what the bloody hell is going on. I want to tell you what I believe is going on.
What I believe is going on, is the evolution of man, or of society. I believe that this has happened before, around the 60s and perhaps before as well. Why do I believe this? Look at how people talk on social media. Some of the things I see are very wise indeed, and it comes out as people just talking on their phones, getting information out to as many people as they can, because they feel they must. They must because that’s how wisdom works. It flows from one mouth to ears willing to hear, and so on.
This is happening more and more. But it has happened before.
I believe that’s what the 60s was. The parallels with our time are plausible. Vietnam and Palestine, for example.
The need for more expression. Many people believed we would wear less clothes by the 50s. Isn’t that a strange thought?
But what stops it? Money. People that believe they own this glorious land. You don’t own it. I don’t own it. God owns it.
It is not meant to be owned, to be dominated, it is meant to be lived on and with.
I believe that the elite classes are still clawing on. They claw because it is all they know, it is all they must do to survive. Their model is archaic. They know it is dying. To borrow a phrase, a wart must come to a head before it may burst. Well, the head is now.
That is why people are rising up. That is why people are slowly, very slowly, beginning to understand that God is not a white man on a cloud, but a loving entity that goes beyond anything we could conceive. Some call it the universe, or talk of vibration. But this loses its awe and only holds the logic as sacred.
How does this all sound? Crazy? Reasonable? Why?
Crazy because the idea of God goes out of your head, or perhaps you see it as a more religious entity?
Reasonable because you feel something in my words?
I tell you God is writing this. Not Henry. I get this when I play music. People say ‘how does that voice come from you’, and I say it’s not mine, it is a gift. I say it’s not Henry singing, it is a voice on loan. And the more you go into this thought, this feeling, the more you realise what God is, you begin to see not the differences between religions but how identical they truly are. And this is not trying to down play the beauty of each individual religion. Their traditions are unique, this is undeniable.
Now here is why I wrote this in the first place, I am realising the point now. The antidote to the problems of the world are what I have just described. What I have just described is how to access God, not from a materialistic stand point, nor an egoic one- that is to say an identity, but purely leaning into God. Remember, God is the adjective, not the noun. And if we, collectively, can realise this faster, we have the potential to divert catastrophe. Because as we go into ourselves, the things that used to satisfy us no longer do. They can not because everything becomes superficial. The things that you love become more and more apparent, not what you think you love. You dissolve. I have dissolved and set and dissolved many a time, and will probably continue to do so. We are doing this inevitably. True progress is this realisation, it has to be. And if enough of us collectively realise this, we are amplified enough to create a better world. A truer world.
This is the feeling of Christ. It is hard to do. What made him so remarkable was he did it 24/7. Go into yourselves. Really. Especially whilst you are young and at university. It may feel like you have many exams and things to worry about, but I promise you that you are at a time of your life where you can entertain these notions with more ease. It is dark at times, and very lonely. But it is truth.
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