The William Edelen Ministries

Lecture & Discussion 10 a.m.
Palm Springs Tennis Club
701 West Baristo Road
Palm Springs CA

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"William Edelen was chosen, by a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, to receive a STAR on the WALK OF STARS in the downtown area of Palm Springs. The dedication was on January 15, at noon. The STAR was awarded to him for his contribution to the city in religious literacy and general education. The police said it was one of the largest crowds they had seen at a STAR dedication. The STAR is located in the VINEYARDS area at Baristo and Palm Canyon Drive. That location was chosen by Edelen."

Saw this beautiful poem in a book & wanted to share, it is by Charles Snell and was written in 1914.

Title This is My Wish For You

This is my wish for you That the spirit of beauty may continually hover about you and fold you close within the tendernesses of her wing.
That each beautiful & gracious thing in life may be unto you as a symbol of good for your soul's delight.
The sun-glories and star-glories
Leaf- glories and bark-glories Flower-glories and glories that lurk in the grasses of the field
Glories of mountains and oceans of little streams of running waters
Glories of song of posey of all the arts
May be to you as sweet abiding influences that will illumine your life and make you glad.
That your soul may be as an alabaster cup, filled to overflowing with the mystical wine of beauty and love.
That happiness may put her arms around you,
And wisdom make your soul serene.
This is my wish for you.

Charles Livingstone Snell

So many have asked me for a Joseph Campbell reading list...here we go...good reading.!!!!

• THE POWER OF MYTH...with Bill Moyers...Doubleday
• THE FLIGHT OF THE WILD GANDER...Viking Press
• THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES...Princeton University Press
• A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION Harper Collins...Edited by Osbon
• THE INNER REACHES OF OUTER SPACE...vam der Marck Publisher
• THE HERO's JOURNEY...The life and work of Joseph Campbell...Harper...EXCELLENT
• Start with THE HEROS JOURNEY...AND...A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION

You are about to find a treasure...

Due to many requests here are a few of my "Favorite Books"...

• TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE by John Steinbeck
• A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION by Diane K. Osbon
• WHEREVER YOU GO...THERE YOU ARE by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• FEATHER FALL by Laurens van der Post
• LETTERS FROM THE EARTH Mark Twain
• THE TRUE BELIEVER by Eric Hoffer
• THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN Joseph Epes Brown
• THE IMMENSE JOURNEY by Loren Eiseley "FABULOUS BOOK"
• SO HUMAN AN ANIMAL by Rene Dubos "A Pulitzer prize winner"

Books that are out of print usually present no problem at AMAZON...you can get them easily on the computer...www.amazon.com at much less price than the average book store...Altho sometime BARNES AND NOBLE can find them...

So...have fun...TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE was the final work that got a NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE for Steinbeck...and is one of my all time favorites for general reading..."Charlie" was his poodle...and they tour America together...it is a classic

The present "born again" Christian hogwash with George Bush has reminded me of the Republican Convention in 1992. It was too much for even conservative columnist George Will, who wrote in his nationally syndicated column:

"The convention proved that there can indeed be indecent exposure of the mind as well as the body. They pounded "family values" into shapeless mush with a bad odor. The effect of four days immersion in this thick soup of values-blather was cloying to the point of gagging."

No one has hit these phony shysters and Jesus jazzers harder than Carl Sandburg in his classic essay

"To A Contemporary Bunkshooter"

"You come along yelling about Jesus. What do you know about Jesus? You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist so fierce the froth slobbers over your lips...always blabbing we're all going to hell straight off and you know all about it. You don't scare me. I've got your number. I know how much you don't know about Jesus."

"You slimy bunkshooter. You put a smut on every human blossom in reach of your rotten breath belching about hell fire. You, driving women and girls crazy with wrecked nerves from your gibberish about Jesus. You four flusher, causing people to puke. You are only a bughouse peddler. You tell people in shanties that Jesus is going to give them mansions in the skies after the worms have eaten them. You tell department store girls all they need is sweet Jesus."

"I'm telling you, you slimy bunkshooter, Jesus would not stand for the stuff your're handing out. I don't want a slimy bunkshooter in my religion."
Carl Sandburg

Reminds me of a Letter to the Editor I recently wrote about a shyster fundamentalist minister in the Palm Spring area.

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