This is not our usual book, but Amateur Radio has been a hobby of mine since 1987. This year I complete a book to help those who wish to enter into the hobby and go all the way to the highest class of license. 

JUST THE FACTS: The Complete Study Guide For All Amateur Radio Tests: Presenting the Questions and Answers to the Technician, General, and Extra ... Exams, and the Volunteer Examiner's Test

Technician Class pool valid until June 30, 2014, General Class pool valid until June 30, 2015, Extra Class pool valid until June 30, 2016. - - Amateur Radio, or Ham radio, as most know it, is a thriving community with over 700,000 licensed operators in the U.S. Over its years of growth radio amateurs have embraced and contributed to technology in ways that stretch the imagination. Hams have been involved in technology, inventions, and events that have changed history. From the ability to transmit and receive the first images from the moon to satellite communications, Ham Radio operators have been on the cutting edge of inovation. They are an elite group, called upon in times of trouble for community service, world events, and in times of crisis. This manual was published so that you too can become part of the family of radio operators. Using this book will allow you to pass each and every test and advance to the highest level in Amateur Radio. There are no formulas to memorize, no math, and no electronics or antenna theory to learn. This manual contains the questions and answers to every pool of test questions from Technician Class to Extra Class license exams as well as the answers to the Volunteer Examiners test. Contained in this book are also hints on taking the exams as well as reviews on radio equipment that will speed you along your way to beginning or expanding your station without making costly mistakes. Simply study this manual and take each test. The answers will be leap off the page, being easily recognizable in the multiple choice tests. Then follow the suggestions on equipment for the construction of that station you have always wanted. If you are not a math wiz, if you do not understand electronic theory, or if you simply do not have time in your busy schedule to pour over math, theory, rules, and regulations, this manual is for you. Good luck 73's See you on the air. Joseph Lumpkin AB4AN

Partnership and More Interviews

I wish to announce a partnership with "The Threshing Floor" radio program and host Randy Maugans. Please expect more shows, interviews, and a wide range of topics, from prophecies to fallen angels - from the Lost Books of the Bible to the decline of spirituality within the church, we will tackle it all. 

Joseph Lumpkin

The Threshing Floor
http://threshingfloor-radio.com/index.php/category/joseph-lumpkin/

Return of a Hobby

Return of a Hobby

I have not posted for a while. I needed some time away from the sometimes caustic nature of the religious world. My hobbies are martial arts and Ham radio. Recently, after my son graduated from high school and left for college, I decided to re-enter the amateur radio (Ham) hobby. As usual I went in full throttle. I am a research geek at heart so I asked myself, "What is the most geeky thing I could do?" The answer is satellite communications. There are a hand full of birds in non-synchronous orbits whizzing around in orbits going out af far 1500 miles. I put together a station and built an antenna system that could be rotated and elevated. For the last couple of months I have been focussing on working the birds.

It is my habit to fully research a subject, do it, then write about it. When I came back in to  Ham radio I held a lower class license, which I got in 1987. I studied in a particular way, using certain information such as the FCC question pool with just the answers and some basic formulas. This worked well. I passed the General class one moth, then the Extra class the next, and finally the Volunteer Examiner test. Owing to the success of the course study, I have published a study guide for all Amateur Radio tests.

JUST THE FACTS: The Complete Study Guide For All Amateur Radio Tests: Presenting the Questions and Answers to the Technician, General, and Extra ... Exams, and the Volunteer Examiner's Test

http://www.amazon.com/JUST-FACTS-Presenting-Questions-Technician/dp/1936533286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347455648&sr=1-1&keywords=amateur+radio+tests

See you on the air!

Joseph Lumpkin

AB4AN

It's finally available!
Purchase a copy today!

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: Wholeness, Enlightenment, and Individuation
[Paperback]


http://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Gospel-Thomas-Enlightenment-Individuation/dp/1936533278/


The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, containing History, Translation, Commentary, and Insights from a Jungian perspective - - We are born of wisdom yet unrealized and of divine power, yet undiscovered. We were created outside the “fullness,” but the fullness is within us, waiting, calling. Deep within there is a divine discontent. We are homesick for a place beyond where and what we are now. Fear and attachment hold us, but the gnosis is waiting on the other side. It is transcendental consciousness brought about by a realization sparked to flame by God, from his grace, as he answers the pleading of our hearts. This is the place where angels sing in silence. This is beyond religion. Religion is made up of commands, resulting only in ethics, but gnosis changes the heart. The change is the opus. Our magnum opus is to lay aside our ego and the fear that besets us, to step outside ourselves and become one, both with our true spiritual identities, and with God in his wonderful fullness. This is the peace that passes understanding. This is the Kingdom of heaven. This is what Carl Jung called, “Individuation.” It is wholeness. It is harmony. It is truth. It is knowing our true self and our divine nature. With insights gained from the Individuation process of Carl Jung, the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas bursts into flames of Gnosis, allowing us to see the truth about the deeper mysteries of life. If you have ever felt as if there was more to existence than you could see, that there was another world just behind the curtain of your mind, just out of reach, which contains the full truth, the words of Jesus according to The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas will echo within you and lead you into light.

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

Coming in June!

The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas:

Wholeness, Enlightenment, and Individuation

We are born of wisdom yet unrealized and of divine power, yet undiscovered. We were created outside the “fullness,” but the fullness is within us, waiting, calling. Deep within there is a divine discontent. We are homesick for a place beyond where and what we are now. Fear and attachment hold us, but the gnosis is waiting on the other side. It is transcendental consciousness brought about by a realization sparked to flame by God, from his grace, as he answers the pleading of our hearts. This is the place where angels sing in silence. This is beyond religion. Religion is made up of commands, resulting only in ethics, but gnosis changes the heart. The change is the opus. Our magnum opus is to lay aside our ego and the fear that besets us, to step outside ourselves and become one, both with our true spiritual identities, and with God in his wonderful fullness. This is the peace that passes understanding. This is the Kingdom of heaven. This is what Carl Jung called, “Individuation.”

There is something in the human psyche, which struggles to produce what Jung refers to as the "true personality." This struggle to bring about the birth of one’s "true personality," which is a fully integrated and healthy personality that is the basis for what Jung called the process of individuation. We are involved in a process of bridging the gap between the various parts of the archetypal pieces within us. The world of the unconscious and the everyday world of ego-consciousness must be brought together, in order to realize the potentialities of one’s individual psyche.

The parables of Jesus are designed, like the Zen koan, to go passed the logical mind and engage emotion and intuition also to bring forth a fuller understanding. This is the power of the Gospel of Thomas with it’s one hundred and fourteen saying, each one aimed like an arrow, to the heart of the matter.

Let us read these texts and do as the ancient Gnostics commanded. Wake up! Heal yourself! Seek the Christ within you! Let the oil flow down! Let the Word be heard! Let the Light show you the Truth! Become the Christ you are! Give birth to what is inside you! Let the sleeper awaken!

  Look for this book at:

http://www.fifthestatepub.com

Coming soon.

April 29. 2012 -
Here is a one hour interview on LA Talk Radio with Max Tucci, host of Max and Firends, discussing Duality in Religion. The discussion brings an understanding to the problem of duality and limited thinking. Concepts, dogma, and small boxes of thought will smother our spiritual growth unless we free ourselves from religion. Christianity, Zen, and Taoism are combined and compared to bring about a deeper understanding.
Click the link below to listen.

http://www.latalkradio.com/Players/Max-042912.shtml 

Released this week - Now on Amazon. Soon to be released globally!

The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles: A Different Faith - A Different Salvation

Containing the Didache in English and Greek, The "Q" (Source) Document, and the Book of James. 

What form did Christianity take in the first thirty years? Before the Jewish Christians were slaughtered by Rome and before the emergence of the Pauline sect, while the faith was still under the guiding hand of James, the brother of Jesus, what did the pure and unaltered church look like? By examining the Didache, the "Q" document, and the book of James we will look back into the first years of the faith. The difference between the beliefs of the apostles and modern Christianity will astonish you. The Didache is a manual written by the early Christians, a break away sect of Judaism, instructing converts on how to be Christians and how to conduct themselves in daily life. It is a magnificent view of the beliefs and rituals of the earliest form of Christianity as propagated by those who knew Jesus best; his brother and the original apostles. By the time of the Roman massacre of the Jews (66 C.E. - 70 C.E.) there were three major division in early Christianity: the original Jewish Christians, the gnostic Christians, and the quickly growing Pauline sect that was breaking away from its more formal Jewish roots. There was a one in three chance of the Pauline sect becoming the template of the Christianity of today. Had the war between the Romans and Jews not happened or had Paul failed to convert enough gentiles to his sect to outnumber those who followed James we could have a Messianic-Jewish based Christianity today. Our canon and our worship would be different, but because it would have been accepted, orthodox, and traditional, Christians would follow it as they follow the Pauline sect now. It is only by chance, or by the hand of god that the Didache is not the main document of catechism in the church today.

See it on Amazon.com at:  http://www.amazon.com/The-Didache-Teaching-Different-Salvation/dp/1936533251/

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