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You are sincerely invited to add your thoughts and comments to the AllFaith.com Dreambook
I began AllFaith.com in 1997 as a place to share the findings of my lifelong Quest for Truth with those who might be interested. I am now (in 2010) entering the 41st year of my ongoing sojourn.
Regardless of your beliefs or where you are in your own journey, you are welcome here!
Because I have mainly viewed this web domain as an internet journal and library of my spiritual sojourn, I have avoided establishing an overall perspective for the domain. In other words, each section of the site has always stood independent of the other sections. The Hindu section has focused on Hinduism, the Jewish section on Judaism and so on without much overlapping. This has caused some confusion over the years. For example Nicean Christians who applaud my presentation of the Trinity in the Christian section have been shocked when reading about the topic in the Noahide Nazarene section (which does not accept this doctrine). I've received some very interesting e-mails over the years because of the diversity of my writings here!
Part of my process included learning all sides. I understand why people accept this (and other) doctrines and then determined my own beliefs.
For forty years (beginning with a vision I had in 1969) I have studied the world's religions seeking to understand what they teach and the truths they have to share from their unique perspectives. My belief has been that such a method would inevitably lead me to the One Truth to which they all point. For this reason I have generally avoided eclecticism (merging the various teachings as the New Age Movement and Universalism does), seeking instead to understand the religions as individual paths or denominations of the One Truth, rather than as aspects of a greater "perennial philosophy." This was a rather unique approach for someone in my situation. I now feel I have a good foundation in the major religions of the world and many of the lesser known ones.
Since 1997 I have tried to share information through this domain and other outlets from that perspective. Despite what I was currently studying at any given point I have always tried to keep AllFaith.com at large independent of any one belief system. Therefore this has never been a "Christian website," a "Hindu website," a "Noahide website" etc.
While of course I continue to seek and to be open to and desirous of ever greater spiritual Light, my core beliefs and views have solidified with one Path: The Noahide Nazarene Way (a name I coined in 2001). AllFaith.com is going to begin reflecting this belief system more and more in the weeks and months to come.
None of my previous writings will be removed and any links you may have to my content will remain active. The emphasis of this domain however will gradually be changing to reflect my Noahide Nazarene beliefs. Some of my previous writings will be updated or receive brief prefaces. This process will take some time of course as this is a fairly large web site and I do everything myself.
As always, your comments and/or questions are sincerely invited.
I make no claims of "divine knowledge" and I don't believe anything written here is the "Gospel truth." I'm just a seeker of Truth and this domain contains some of my thoughts at various points along my sojourn. Some of the writings here reflect my current beliefs and others do not. I don't even believe everything written here myself, so I'd never expect you to! So please take what works for you and leave the rest on a mental shelf. That way we'll both be happy! I pray you will be blessed and inspired by some of what you find here.
I, John of AllFaith, am the author of everything you will find on this domain, unless otherwise noted.
If you'd like to contact me, please use my contact form by clicking here.
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In case you're interested, I hold a Calvary Chapel (Christian) Ordination, an independent Missionary Baptist (Christian) ordination, an MA in Religious Studies from John F. Kennedy University, an ordination in Ministry and Spiritual Counseling from the Interfaith Seminaries, an ordination from the Universal Life Church, and am Pastor Emeritus of Grace Inclusive Church.
To varying degrees I have worked and studied with many different groups. I attained the position of Vaisnava brahmana within the International Society for KRSNA Consciousness and within the Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math (both members of the greater Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya). I'm a former student of Swami Muktinanda's Sidha Yoga Foundation and an initiate of the Yoga Society (of Sri Ramamurti Mishra). I was initiated as a Welsh Traditionalist Pagan priest. I have been a Wahabi Sunni Muslim. I've been a Taoist and a member of various Buddhist sects, including the Dharmad Hatu of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. I've been involved with various Hindu sects from diverse traditions. I've delved into the Occult Arts and the teachings of Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky and others. I've worked, worshipped and studied closely with numerous Christian denominations and movements including Missionary, Primitive, Seventh day, and Southern Baptists, Roman and Eastern Orthodox. I've been one of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, a Pentecostal, a Charismatic, Methodist and an active member of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), etc. I was a Missionary to Central America, carried a 12x6 foot wooden cross on my back from Atlanta Georgia to San Antonia Texas and in various other places, and have been involved with numerous other groups and movements too numerous to mention, although more is mentioned in Mystory and my Religious Studies sections.
In June 1997, I launched my first web site at AOL.com. It was called Jagannatha's Roam'n Church (as in roaming around looking for the Truth ). "Jagannatha dasa" (or servant of the Lord of the Universe) is one of my initiated names (I have several). Around August of 1997 I left AOL and created two websites, one at Geocities and the other at Tripod. Learning more about HTML and the Web, on September 12, 1998, I created AllFaith.com, and this remains my central on-line presence, along with my main Multiply Blog Site.
I also maintain a web site at Powwow. For a while I also owned Jesusfolower.com and SurferJohn.com, but have let those go. On January 7, 2005 I created SriJagannatha.com and at about the same time I closed SurferJohn.com. More than you ever wanted to know no doubt -- hehe.
You are cordially invited to roam through all of my sites and domains. The other domains, with the exception of SriJagannatha.com which is a completely separate thing, contains the same basic material as AllFaith.com, except that here you don't get pop-ups, bandwidth caps, and it's updated more often ;-) (so I'd just stay here).
Please note: All of the original material on the sites are copyrighted and while you are welcome to copy anything for your own use, none of the material found here may be published in any form without my express written permission. I make no money off these sites and you shouldn't either. My AllFaith Flix and AllFaith Comix may be shared and posted wherever you wish as long as they are not altered.
Please use the links to the left or the search engine below to find your way around AllFaith.com. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. I'm here to serve.
I sincerely hope you enjoy your time at AllFaith.com!
May you be blessed! Keep on consciously Reaching for the One and your life will be successful!
Long Live Israel!
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