Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

On Sunday afternoon, May 17th, my website, NatureCreature.net will go live. A project now over 4 years in the making is now finally going interstellar. 2.5 years originating videos and building my YouTube page. 1.5 years weekly live shows to build the page further, and now about 2-3 months of compiling everything, organizing, and building the site. We have arrived. Mission accomplished. Thank you Pete for your incredible, monumental effort to build the site and see us through the finish line. Thank you everyone for your support of NatureCreature.net. Let’s do this.

It’s our third week (second consecutive) examining The Perennial Philosophy from Bastian and Huxley alongside the tutelage of Campbell. In this part 3, Campbell exposes the nitty gritty cores of our Western religious situation, and it truly does come down to the exclusive, conditional, patriarchal, dominator posture he describes for each. So Saturday will afford you Joseph Campbell’s scholarly views of the religions in the west, and let me tell you brothers and sisters, you will not want to miss this. Saturday’s show will render a long hidden gem in the almighty lecture collection of Dr. Campbell, and I will bring it to you in all its glory without apology.

The general population in the West do not respect the continuing workings of Rome, and that naïveté has been pilfered for 2,000 years by authorities who understand advanced spell casting. The West in result has become consumed with spiritual costumes and conflict, and has unwittingly given away their human sovereignty. Most have become hypnotized with obedience and assurance to leverage imagined security, rather than simply balancing epiphany and wonder, with conscious awe and reason. We came here to grow, not obey, my friend.

McKenna said decades ago, “We have come to the end of our sojourn into matter. We have come to the end of our separateness”. The iconoclast, the cynic, the aware have gotten their fill of Roman spiritual slop (Catholic or otherwise), and NatureCreature.net is a viable reply to their predation oriented, pathologic, pedophilic, anti-human spirituality.

See you in about 5 hours! We start at 5:00pm Seattle (Pacific) time zone. I am live on YouTube, X, Rumble, and FaceBook.

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Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

Greetings from the lair-
This week we are going to be continuing our 3 part series studying the Perennial Philosophy as originated by Adolf Bastian, expanded by Aldous Huxley, and elucidated by Joseph Campbell. We are looking at the Perennial Philosophy (God, Ultimate Reality, Aether, Lux Natura) in the sense of the essential Principal that undergirds and identifies all things, time, space, events, and ideas. I am doing this because it perfectly coincides with where we are at in Zen, and offers a two week break from a subject we have been looking at now for 7 months!
This Energy, or God, or Aether, or Lux Natura, is given forms by each society over time and these conceptual forms are called “Folk Ideas”. Folk ideas add imagery, mythology, and conceptual substance to the Energy so we can talk about It together.
Folk Ideas are the forms and images the local society uses to costume the Energy, and talk about what essentially can’t be talked about. Today in the West, the local folk ideas are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In the East they are Confucianism, Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, Tao, and the like. These folk ideas, or deśi mythologies, contain interpretations of the Energy relative to the morality, customs, and times of each modern society. Society, or what can be called “The Collective”, takes on these established folk ideas, and make them implicit.
Therefore, anyone who questions or doubts established folk ideas, are ostracized, marginalized, and alienated from the local establishment.
Therefore, the hero is the one who questions the local establishment, and courageously discovers for themselves a deeper understanding than any society could offer.
By looking at and considering the existential values of a society from a higher perspective, it becomes very easy to see that societal folk ideas are inevitably shortsighted views of Nature, the Perennial Philosophy…THE Energy. Meaning, the individual must move beyond constricting folk ideas, and establish a bespoke, original concept of themselves and the world based on direct experience so the Energy can be experienced and understood. Carl Jung called this activity “self-identification”, or “individuation”, and that experience is the essential component all philosophers and shamans have been pointing to since the beginning. Why? Because it leads each individual to their own deśi, their own innerstanding personally experienced, so to move from identity as a social creature, to a nature creature.
Since experience is the only true knowledge one can acquire, one finds themselves alienated from the establishment when experiencing life as a nature creature rather than a social construct. If courage, authenticity, and transparency are the telos of the experiencer, they will leave the establishment, and discover for themselves a deeper realization than the society is capable of offering. This is called “Enlightenment” or “Awakening”, and that individuating experience free’s the individual to think for themselves, so to realize a higher resonant frequency to base their life upon than what the establishment insists.
This is why we are studying different philosophies and scholarly works from the past…so to understand the human experience past the concepts of the general so to experience the specific. This way, we learn from wise ones who came before us, so to eventually experience life past their concepts of reality.
See you Saturday at 5pm Pacific Time Zone!

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Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

Friends,

On Saturday we will continue in our study of Zen after we watch a medical jester video that is going to set the chat room alight. I am looking forward to watching the mind melt in real time. :) I will be there to assist with the suffering, and in the end we will be the better for it. After that heretical soirée, we will be finishing up part 3 in The Way of Zen. I’ve got a hum-dinger ending I’ve developed over the last two weeks involving this subject in Zen called, “Spiritual Inflation”, and let me just tell you, it will punt some serious stumbling blocks into the sin and atonement courtyard. The big mother truckers from the psych department will be firing the catapults on this one ladies and gentlemen, so gird your loins by reading pages 154-173, so you don’t get burned by friendly fire.

Campbell will lead us next week as we take a break from Zen to cover some heavy comparative mythology subjects necessary for our continuing societal egress.

I’ll see you Saturday evening at 5pm Seattle, WA (Pacific Coast) time zone on Youtube, X, Rumble, and Facebook.

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Greetings friends and neighbors,

This week we will be covering the second part of the Sukavati talk from Dr. Campbell. Part 2 of 3 goes deeply into the Perennial Philosophy from Huxley, who picked up on Bastian’s Elementary idea (God, Ultimate Reality, Universal Force, etc), and every societies folk ideas about it. This perennial force is uniquely described and costumed by cultures, and those ideas are called “folk ideas”. Every society has their own local “deśi”, their own costume and narrative for this prevailing, perennial Energy.

Raised in the cultural context as we all are, we get the myopic idea that our own, locally instructed folk ideas are the absolutely correct ones! Then we commence to whole-heartedly entangle our life into them—birth to grave. In fact, many will proudly defend their instructed folk ideas to the point of death, thus giving their sovereignty away to a local societal concept. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

So the Perennial philosophy is a very real, life impacting phenomena, and folk ideas about it act like a contagious telekinesis--bending society and shaping the world experienced by every individual. Campbell will walk us through more of it on Saturday, so we all can more fluidly understand why we have always thought about ourselves and the world in the way that we do. Awakening requires self-examination and this study is a great way to criticize one’s own absolutes. A very healthy activity for all of us!

After that we will begin and finish the next chapter in The Way of Zen, “Za-Zen and the Koan”, pages 154-173. Since we have looked at koans extensively in past chapters, our time on Saturday will be considering the application of, and philosophy in, the Koan. We have 6 sections to cover, and I have an epic, absolute nut buster connection on page 170 regarding “spiritual inflation”. It perfectly describes mind-destroying anomalies like “competitive yoga”, “meditative accomplishment”, “wrong spirituality”, “becoming a Buddha”, “God in form”, and similar incoherence that haunts young Buddhist and Zen students alike, while basically underlies western spiritual concepts in their own spiritual vocabularies.

See you Saturday at 5pm Seattle (Pacific coast) time zone!! I live stream the show on X, YouTube, Rumble, and Facebook. We will start at 5pm sharp this weekend.

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Greetings,

On Monday this week I received a letter from a Zoom member asking about near-death/trauma experiences. Within that was a concern between notions of God in the devout Christian and the notions of Void in Zen. My answer involved Adolf Bastian’s Perennial Philosophy, judicial conflict of interests, and Stockholm Syndrome. I got so involved with the darn thing, it spawned a pulse, and became Saturday’s opening sequence. Go with the flow.

The good part is that my reply offers practical, common sense substance to how and why the west thinks/assumes as it does spiritually, and this elicits the answer. My essay will offer awakened folks some psychology to build a bigger ontological mousetrap, and for the slumbering among us some luminance to leverage a lucid look out of Plato’s Cave.

We will jump out of the gate at 5pm on-the-money, and there will be no prelude or early intro this week. We have plenty to cover with the 12 slide spiritual mind opener and call to action I assembled, plus we have a critical slide that I did not have time to cover last week regarding Parzival, and 4 more slides to finish in our “Sitting Quietly Doing Nothing” study. There’s plenty to chew on this weekend.

See you Saturday, nature creature.

I’ll be live right at 5pm. No prelude this week. See you right at 5, USA Pacific Time Zone. I’ll be live on YouTube, Facebook, X, and Rumble.

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Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

Greetings friends. Hope everyone is doing ok.

Are you enjoying our study of Zen? I certainly am. Personal growth is our greatest asset right now, and a great way to spend our time as the world just keeps getting nuttier and nuttier and nuttier. I am glad we have our Saturday study as it shines reason, pragmatism, and the nonplussed state into our untenable situation.

Great change brings great upheaval, and all that goes with world empires collapsing in a Great Awakening...so my thought is to continue full send in Zen as McKenna’s 2012 derail becomes a dive into the Abyss. The idea at this point is to stay as sane as possible, grow with the flow, and disobey wherever best applicable. We will simply continue our enlightening walk into Zen and considerations of the Eastern sense of life.

Pro Tip: When life is spinning, stand in the hub where there is no movement.

Our opener this week is a lecture we will be portioning over the next few Saturday's called, “Do you do it, or does it do you?” It's an early 1970’s talk from Alan Watts in reference to life, passions, motivations, and identity. Lucky us, I found a mouth watering French bakery that uses a wood burning stone oven to make breads to die for...all while you listen to Alan’s wise words. What a combo! Everybody wins! Then we will have some catch up time in chat, and thereafter dive right into chapter 2 of The Way of Zen. I actually finished (or will finish :) all the chapter 2 slides this week, so hopefully we will get through page 55 this Saturday.

I will be starting the show about 30 min early this week to have time to hear Alan, so I will join you live to start, and then again at the top of the hour, after Alan finishes.

See you kids on Saturday 5pm, Seattle time zone, LIVE on YouTube, Rumble, and X!

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Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

Greetings from the lair!

I have an outstanding presentation for you this weekend, as we begin chapter 2 in our study of Alan Watt’s, The Way of Zen.

In my studies this week I noticed something. On page 32, Alan is discussing the origins of Buddhism and so is elucidating some of the Hindu Upanishad’s myths of origin (some Hindu beliefs are in Buddhism like karma and re-birth), and the poetry reads of self-sacrifice/self-forgetting/dismemberment, the splitting of Flow (like a stream splitting), or some ineffable “portion” of God dismembering, and this manifests life...a stream of consciousness. Consciousness manifests in the 3D layer as a flowing, growing, endlessly expanding universe: the tree is conscious, the sun is conscious, the earth is conscious, the black hole is conscious, we are conscious. This is essentially the discourse in the Upanishadic records—which were part of the discourse or philosophical context the Buddha grappled with in India. The ascetic and philosophical currents of ancient India shaped the Buddha's perspective landscapes, even as he navigated beyond them to emphasize impermanence, suffering, and the Middle Way…All of which concern us in our study of Zen as they represent the Eastern spiritual palette which we are using to grow our identity and expand our minds.

I thought it interesting how this ‘Upanishadic’ idea of giving up of life for there to be life (consciousness), the transitioning of Flow for more flow, the dismemberment of Immortality so to bring about Consciousness—a stream of epiphany, is the poetry used in the near Eastern texts. This is the same from death comes life metaphor used in the Hermetic system of thought. This also parallels the ‘as above so below’ moniker manifesting as conscious wholeness from the Void (yin yang last week). This is an identical picture as Kenosis—to self empty so to live (become relative to Spirit). Or the alchemical idea of calcination—to burn away the thoughts/anxieties of the mind to free it. How bout them apples? We will look directly at this on Saturday. We have a good foundation now, and can begin accelerating and deepening our concepts as we build on what we have learned over the last 10 weeks.

We start Saturday with a 3 minute lost interview of Robert Monroe (out of body experimenter, developer of the Hemi-sync brain sync system, and founder of the Monroe Institute—yes THAT Monroe Institute the CIA highjacked to elicit information for their research in the Gateway Project—that should tell you the guy was onto something) talking about what we are, and his opinion of why we are on earth. The dude recorded 1,000’s of independent studies of out of body experiments (like Sahsha Shulgin did for psychedelics), so you may want to pay attention to what he has to say. Then we have an outstanding 17 minute monologue from Watts alongside an extremely talented carpenter building a drop dead, and I mean…Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. coffee table to accompany our time with our buddy, Alan.

See you this Saturday 20 or so minutes before 5pm Seattle time zone on X, YouTube, and Rumble!

PS, If you are on the weekly Zoom list, please note our special guest for this Friday’s focus on marriage/relationships! :)

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Chuck Swindoll, Jr.

ANNOUNCEMENT!! NEW F1 NFL ZOOM GATHERING!!

Ok sports fans, this is out of my ordinary subject sphere, but as Chevy Chase said in National Lampoon’s vacation, “I’m goin’ for it honey!”

This is something I have decided to do to gather more community interaction, and lighter-hearted times with some tasty subject matter in fields of play where I am seasoned and relevant. Yea buddy. Let’s do this.

SO! This is an exclusive invitation to join a new Formula 1 and NFL sporting discussion group I am starting on Zoom so we can talk and see one another face to face like the parking lot before the game or the welcoming center before the race. Bring your insight, opinions, smiles and let’s do this!. What better place to start a light easy dialog, and make some new friends along the way!? I think it’s a fantastic idea—a space totally dedicated to Formula 1 and NFL sports and the joys, laughter, competition, and utter nonsense that go on in these circuses!

I have been a fan of F1 since 1986 when I was introduced to the sport by a former racer. I watched Senna in his prime, Mansell destroying the field, Schumacher at Spa in a Jordan, Ron Dennis psychosis, and the wave of Peter Sauber going from his personal garage to now Audi in 2026. Attending a race (preferably Spa) is on my life experience bucket list. I no longer have a favorite F1 team or driver, but I am partial to some. I most appreciate who is the best that year.

I have been an avid fan of the NFL since age 6, so I’ve been dedicated for about 50 years. My favorite team is Green Bay for endless reasons: Lombardi, their historical quarterbacks, Lambeau field, their storied history, and still owned by the people. I met the Joe Green in the 80’s with my dad when he did a bible study for Steelers pregame. Dad was also friends with Tom Landry, and they spoke from time to time. My dad was/is an avid Cowboys fan, tho I am not. I have been to one NFL game when I was 8—Steelers vs. Chargers.

These two sports run deep in my history and wheelhouse, and I am looking forward to some good discussions as I know many of you have garages of knowledge to offer. Bring your arsenal. Let’s talk!!

BONUS ROUND: As of today’s Zoom, I found out I have an ex-McLaren employee who toured the world with McLaren Racing, twice, in my chat and he will be there!! YEA!!

Hopefully this will spawn some novelty, fun camaraderie, and well, some downright big belly laughs as we talk about two near and dear sports many of us have enjoyed for decades. Good times!
If this sounds like something you want to be a part of, awesome! Our first meeting will be THIS COMING Monday, December 22, 2025 at 3pm, Seattle, WA time zone.

Send me an email at contactchuckjr@yahoo.com and let me know you would like to attend and I will send you the invite. I will then send you the link and password to join us on Monday.

See you soon!

Chuck

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