Bøger af Thomas J Mason

We come back, we know it, yet we start out each life pretending it's going to be different this time around. That is probably for the best. Otherwise, we would carry on from where we left off last lifetime: right in the middle of that argument or fight - actually we do that, don't we? Still blaming the same people for the world's problems. The reverse of that is true as well: still courting the same girl; still trying to complete that project; still hanging out with the same friends; or being born back into the same family. Each time I've had a new understanding about what Douglas Adams, of "Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy" fame called "Life, the Universe, and Everything", I've eventually realized that I've had that same realization before. The most recent was just yesterday, when I realized that all the new revelations I've recently had were revelations I've had before. Which makes me wonder why I got myself into the situation where I had to have these same realizations again. Am I really stupid, or is playing The Game more interesting than understanding it and getting out? Obviously! You Don't Need to Reincarnate If You Don't Dis-Incarnate! Sounds simple doesn't it? Avoid potty training by just not dying. I don't know how long these human bodies can last, but I do know they will live longer if we don't do things to kill them. I'm not talking about driving off a cliff or some other violent, quick death. I'm talking about the slow death of eating sugar or red meat or being exposed to pollution. In this, I know what I'm talking about. At sixty-two, I thought I was going to die. Since then, I have had to be careful with my diet. I like chocolate. "Death by chocolate" is a real possibility. Each time my cancer seems to be under control, I indulge. The result? It's ba-a-ack!

What Kind of Book Is This?This is the kind of book that tells youThat God loves you.That God made only one of you.That God gave you life to have a life.That it is up to you to take responsibility for your life.This is the kind of book that tells youThat God loves you, and you are worthy of love.That you are worthy to love and be loved.That you can love yourself and care for yourself, your body, your thoughts and ideas, your creations and possessions.This is the kind of book that tells youThat you can extend that love outward from yourself, through all of God's Creation, all the way to God, and you can feel that love resonate through all Creation.May your life be filled with love and joy.Table of ContentsWhat Kind of Book Is This?1The Restart of My Life3The Near Death Experience5God's Love7What Can You Do For God?9Listening to God11Connecting to God13Some Spiritual Notes17Created or Creator?21Choose Life23Be Positive About Life27Advice for a Happy Life29About The Autho

I have not considered myself a Christian since I was twelve years old. Prior to that age, I went to Sunday School; then I went to Church every Sunday; I was an usher in our church (at twelve, I stood six feet, two inches tall and was bigger than most of the men in the Church).My Mother's family had been deeply involved in the Church: Ministers, Deacons, choir-ladies, and organists. My father's father had been a glazier, working on church windows, prior to World War One. One of my great-uncles was a Minister and then became a Professor of Theology. My ancestors came to the American colonies, starting in 1622, seeking religious freedom. I come from a long line of devout Christians and I was a believer myself, until something unusual happened.During a communion service, the choir sang the hymn, "Saved by the Blood of the Crucified One." I was standing at the side of the church, waiting to relay the Collection Plate, when I had a vision that freaked me out. I walked out of my Church.After disassociating from the Christian Church as a child, I find myself coming, through my own experiences, to the same message that Jesus taught, that we should love one another as God loves us.

The Way of the Clan is Love.Albert Einstein and others have searched for a Unified Field Theory that ties in all physical phenomena.Religions also seek to explain everything.This writing could be called, "Tommy-Joe's Unified Field Theory", since it is a summation of my attempts from childhood to understand everything.The realizations that an individual has about, as Douglas Adams calls it, "Life, the Universe and Everything," are truly personal.Those realizations are most real to the individual who has them. Understanding that, I hope that in some future life, when I have once more thrust myself into ignorance, someone makes a copy of this book available to me.

God gave you life to have a life. You took a body to have a life. My idea is to give you a positive pep talk so you will realize the importance of maintaining a positive attitude while dealing with cancer. It is very important not to let yourself get stressed out. On the internet, you can find many articles describing the negative effects of stress on the body. There are many people, doctors and others, who will tell you things to try to cheer you up. Sometimes their articles remind me of people without children, who have no responsibility for the health of their own children, saying that children should not be vaccinated. People who do not have cancer, do not understand what it can be like, emotionally and mentally, to realize that you have a disease that can kill you. Cancer can make you feel helpless, but I want to tell you, as someone who has cancer, stage four prostate cancer, metastasized to my bones, that there is something you can do about it.This book is not a rant against the medical profession and the current state of medical profiteering from cancer. It is a rant about personal responsibility and using the current state of medical knowledge and diet and everything else you can to survive cancer. It is my observation that people who want to survive will see their doctor when they notice something wrong and will do what they can to change their diet and add nutritional supplements to get their bodies back on a survival path. People who ignore symptoms and just assume they will go away, end up having all their current body problems go away, along with their bodies.First, realize that you are a non-mortal, spiritual being, who has a body. You are not your body. This is important, to introduce some separation between you and your body. Not too much, mind you. I want to help you keep your body going. Now consider the reasons you might want a body. In my own case, when I had a Near Death Experience, the message from God was that I had taken a body to have a life. How about you? What reason did you have for taking a body? Did you accomplish all you set out to do? Have you shown those you love that you love them? Perhaps you have more to do.Second, realize that while your body has a life of its own, it needs you to direct it. Bodies evolved being directed by spirits. You have a job to do.Third, realize that there are actual physical things we can do to fight the conditions that caused our cancer. I will go over them more extensively later in this book, but the most important are: cut out sugars from your diet - sugar feeds cancer and fructose stimulates cancer cells to divide; reduce your intake of mammal flesh - it contains a sugar, Neu5Gc, not found in humans and so our immune system attacks it, causing inflammation; breathe deeply, as often as possible - oxygen deprivation from inflammation is one of the main causes of cancer. Breathing deeply and slowly is also very calming.

The HORRIBLE Truth About Reincarnation is that we do come back. Death is not an escape. The Near Death Experience that I had this lifetime showed me that God is with us always and we are already with God, wherever we are. As God's children we are always welcome to come Home for a visit, but God did not create us as individuals, with self-determinism, to hang around Heaven all day, as that "Lucky Old Sun" does. God gave us life to have a life.In my understanding, and realize that is all I know - in my understanding, God gave us life to have a life, to create our lives as we choose, to be a man or a woman, to be a highwayman, or a spaceship captain, or a drop of rain or a rock, or a tree or a fish, or a hamster - whatever we choose. Even if we choose to be a pebble on a beach, we have God's blessing to contribute to God's creation by creating.The HORRIBLE truth is that we will be back in the world we leave. We are, by this time in our eternal wanderings, so bound to the lives we are living, by our good deeds and our bad deeds; by those we love, and those we hate; by all the interconnections to others and this planet and this universe; by our successes and our failures; by all the incomplete projects in our lives, all the things we wish we had done differently, that we cannot get our attention off these lives and this planet and this universe. We are doomed or blessed to come back and have another go at it.

My actual experiences, Connecting to God, and being aware of the life in my body, do not fit neatly into any of the religions or philosophies I have studied. As Shakespeare's Hamlet said to Horatio, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8) When I started this book, I was initially more concerned about the physical, my diet and supplements, than the spiritual. However, I have discovered that the spiritual and mental are vastly more important than the physical. Without the spiritual and mental, none of the physical solutions continued to work for me. I thought I was going to die. As I wondered what it would be like losing my body, and going home to God, I had the most incredible experience: the barrier I had placed between God and me disappeared. God was always there, but there was always a separation: God was THERE and I was HERE. For that timeless moment, I was open to God. I was not asking for anything, or trying to get God to do what I wanted, I was just curious what it would be like to go Home to God, and I was there. The first thing I did was offer up some of the things I had done this life that still bother me. You could say, I confessed my sins. Instead of being told I was wrong, or being punished, or being forgiven, I was greeted with understanding. God already knew what I had done. I was still loved and so were all of God's children. God loves all of God's children just the way they are. The experience was like being oriented to The Game of Life. The message was, "I gave you Life, to have a Life." I was not being welcomed Home to stay at Home, but for a pep talk and some advice. Like a player who had been battered in a game, I was being dusted off and sent back into The Game. God was not welcoming me Home to stay, but giving me strength to deal with the life I had chosen and would give me strength whenever I was willing to ask for it. When I told my wife about the experience, she saw it as a mother would: God did not want God's children under foot, God wanted them to get out of the house and play, to get a life. Each of us is a unique individual and will have a unique perception of God. My experience is my experience. When I told my brother-in-law about my experience, he could not accept it. He did not believe that one could communicate directly to God. He believed that one needed to go through Jesus. His experience was of calling on Jesus in his moment of need. He received the strength he needed to stop drinking and stay sober after the loss of his wife to cancer. Seeing him sober and carrying on with his life, one can see that what worked for him, definitely worked for him. His life was changed by his experience. I think each of us experiences God as we can accept God. We mentally filter our perception of God to be something we can accept. My experience leads me to believe we are all the children of God, and that God loves all God's children. It is only now, as I am writing this book, that I am understanding that the spiritual is truly the most important factor in health and sickness. Over the years, I have studied and been involved with various religions and philosophies, including Christianity, which seemed to me to treat the body as secondary to the spirit. At least that has been my interpretation, and my error. As I look at it now, the attitude I accepted, and held, was that the body was an encumbrance on the spirit being free. The truth, as God told me six years ago, is that I was given life to have a life and I took a body on this Earth to have a life. It is here, on this Earth, that the people I love the most, have also taken bodies to have a life. We are all children of God playing this game together. We can make this life and this planet a wonderful thing or a terrible thing. I think God would have us choose Life and Wonderful.

Originally published by the NCI/EPA Interagency Agreement on Environmental Carcinogenesis in September, 1983, this series of books included a detailed list of rates for major cancers for every county in the United States covering the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The basic information had been obtained from the state cancer registries and then compiled by researchers at the National Cancer Institute. Interestingly, the series had a very short lifespan; by the mid-1990s the US Government Printing Office was no longer publishing the book. By 2000 the series had become almost impossible to find anywhere. The data has a heavy computer quality about it--the values were printed using a Courier typeface, and instead of zeroes denoting zero rate (no cancers) there is only blank space. Additionally, counties showing no cancers for the three-decade time period simply don't show up on the list at all. On the positive side, the information found in this series is far more precise than even the NCI's recent 2000 Cancer Atlas. Mason and his colleagues listed cancer rates by decades while the NCI's 2000 effort includes only two categories: 1950-69 and 1970-94. Additionally the 1983 Rates and Trends includes columns showing percentage increase or decrease through the decades. Anyone wishing to study the possible relationship between cancer and any environmental agent should consider Mason's Rates and Trends series. Volume I: Cancer rates include: All cancers combined; lip; oral cavity and tongue; salivary gland; nasopharynx; esophagus; stomach; large intestine; rectum; liver and gallbladder. Volume II: Cancer rates include: Nose, nasal cavities, middle ear and accessory sinuses; larynx; trachea, bronchus andlung including pleura and other respiratory sites; bone, including jaw; connective and soft tissue cancer; malignant melanoma of skin; nonmelanoma skin cancer; breast; uterus; cervix uteri; ovary, fallopian tube and broad ligament; prostate; testes. Volume III: Cancer rates include: Eye; brain and other parts of the nervous system; thyroid gland; thymus and other endocrine glands; lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma including other lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; leukemias; secondary, site unspecified and not previously listed cancers. Volume IV: Cancer rates include: Pancreas; bladder and other urniary organs; kidney and ureter.

Originally published by the NCI/EPA Interagency Agreement on Environmental Carcinogenesis in September, 1983, this series of books included a detailed list of rates for major cancers for every county in the United States covering the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The basic information had been obtained from the state cancer registries and then compiled by researchers at the National Cancer Institute. Interestingly, the series had a very short lifespan; by the mid-1990s the US Government Printing Office was no longer publishing the book. By 2000 the series had become almost impossible to find anywhere. The data has a heavy computer quality about it--the values were printed using a Courier typeface, and instead of zeroes denoting zero rate (no cancers) there is only blank space. Additionally, counties showing no cancers for the three-decade time period simply don't show up on the list at all. On the positive side, the information found in this series is far more precise than even the NCI's recent 2000 Cancer Atlas. Mason and his colleagues listed cancer rates by decades while the NCI's 2000 effort includes only two categories: 1950-69 and 1970-94. Additionally the 1983 Rates and Trends includes columns showing percentage increase or decrease through the decades. Anyone wishing to study the possible relationship between cancer and any environmental agent should consider Mason's Rates and Trends series. Volume I: Cancer rates include: All cancers combined; lip; oral cavity and tongue; salivary gland; nasopharynx; esophagus; stomach; large intestine; rectum; liver and gallbladder. Volume II: Cancer rates include: Nose, nasal cavities, middle ear and accessory sinuses; larynx; trachea, bronchus andlung including pleura and other respiratory sites; bone, including jaw; connective and soft tissue cancer; malignant melanoma of skin; nonmelanoma skin cancer; breast; uterus; cervix uteri; ovary, fallopian tube and broad ligament; prostate; testes. Volume III: Cancer rates include: Eye; brain and other parts of the nervous system; thyroid gland; thymus and other endocrine glands; lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma including other lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; leukemias; secondary, site unspecified and not previously listed cancers. Volume IV: Cancer rates include: Pancreas; bladder and other urniary organs; kidney and ureter.

Originally published by the NCI/EPA Interagency Agreement on Environmental Carcinogenesis in September, 1983, this series of books included a detailed list of rates for major cancers for every county in the United States covering the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The basic information had been obtained from the state cancer registries and then compiled by researchers at the National Cancer Institute. Interestingly, the series had a very short lifespan; by the mid-1990s the US Government Printing Office was no longer publishing the book. By 2000 the series had become almost impossible to find anywhere. The data has a heavy computer quality about it--the values were printed using a Courier typeface, and instead of zeroes denoting zero rate (no cancers) there is only blank space. Additionally, counties showing no cancers for the three-decade time period simply don't show up on the list at all. On the positive side, the information found in this series is far more precise than even the NCI's recent 2000 Cancer Atlas. Mason and his colleagues listed cancer rates by decades while the NCI's 2000 effort includes only two categories: 1950-69 and 1970-94. Additionally the 1983 Rates and Trends includes columns showing percentage increase or decrease through the decades. Anyone wishing to study the possible relationship between cancer and any environmental agent should consider Mason's Rates and Trends series. Volume I: Cancer rates include: All cancers combined; lip; oral cavity and tongue; salivary gland; nasopharynx; esophagus; stomach; large intestine; rectum; liver and gallbladder. Volume II: Cancer rates include: Nose, nasal cavities, middle ear and accessory sinuses; larynx; trachea, bronchus and lung including pleura and other respiratory sites; bone, including jaw; connective and soft tissue cancer; malignant melanoma of skin; nonmelanoma skin cancer; breast; uterus; cervix uteri; ovary, fallopian tube and broad ligament; prostate; testes. Volume III: Cancer rates include: Eye; brain and other parts of the nervous system; thyroid gland; thymus and other endocrine glands; lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma including other lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; leukemias; secondary, site unspecified and not previously listed cancers. Volume IV: Cancer rates include: Pancreas; bladder and other urniary organs; kidney and ureter.

Originally published by the NCI/EPA Interagency Agreement on Environmental Carcinogenesis in September, 1983, this series of books included a detailed list of rates for major cancers for every county in the United States covering the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The basic information had been obtained from the state cancer registries and then compiled by researchers at the National Cancer Institute. Interestingly, the series had a very short lifespan; by the mid-1990s the US Government Printing Office was no longer publishing the book. By 2000 the series had become almost impossible to find anywhere. The data has a heavy computer quality about it--the values were printed using a Courier typeface, and instead of zeroes denoting zero rate (no cancers) there is only blank space. Additionally, counties showing no cancers for the three-decade time period simply don't show up on the list at all. On the positive side, the information found in this series is far more precise than even the NCI's recent 2000 Cancer Atlas. Mason and his colleagues listed cancer rates by decades while the NCI's 2000 effort includes only two categories: 1950-69 and 1970-94. Additionally the 1983 Rates and Trends includes columns showing percentage increase or decrease through the decades. Anyone wishing to study the possible relationship between cancer and any environmental agent should consider Mason's Rates and Trends series. Volume I: Cancer rates include: All cancers combined; lip; oral cavity and tongue; salivary gland; nasopharynx; esophagus; stomach; large intestine; rectum; liver and gallbladder. Volume II: Cancer rates include: Nose, nasal cavities, middle ear and accessory sinuses; larynx; trachea, bronchus andlung including pleura and other respiratory sites; bone, including jaw; connective and soft tissue cancer; malignant melanoma of skin; nonmelanoma skin cancer; breast; uterus; cervix uteri; ovary, fallopian tube and broad ligament; prostate; testes. Volume III: Cancer rates include: Eye; brain and other parts of the nervous system; thyroid gland; thymus and other endocrine glands; lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma including other lymphoma; Hodgkin's disease; multiple myeloma; leukemias; secondary, site unspecified and not previously listed cancers. Volume IV: Cancer rates include: Pancreas; bladder and other urniary organs; kidney and ureter.