Rev. Richard Emmanuel was a minister of a church that had ‘no’ members. Still there was the question: Why ‘no’ members? Richard’s response, “How can one join something other than one’s quest to “know thy self?” The Reverend would remind visitors to his experimental church that those words are the warning inscribed above the portal of the Ancient Greek temple of Apollo at . . . Delphi, Greece.

The command is as valid today, as it was twenty-five hundred years ago.

“No matter how many people there are in your presence. . . ‘one‘ is still all alone. . . and he called that aloneness . . . “sacred space”.

On issues of “belief” Richard cautioned: belief creates its own prejudice. Even the notion “scientific ... truth” creates its own rigid constellations of celestial configuration of stars, planets, comets, galaxies, the universe, the cosmos . . . “whatever?”

The real questions he encouraged others to ask: “Are you conscious?” “Do you know that you must construct your own story of “being?” . . . wow! ... what a most terrifying state of “pure thought?”

Rev. Richard Emmanuel understoodthat our contemporary issues of human “sexual identity” are our final clues for our transcendence from “human sexual guilt.” To approach a liberated state of ‘being’ embracing a known and ancient “god concept” . . . monad.

Richard called out for one’s realization . . . he called forth the divine within ... to release the self from hope, programing, identity, containment… and above all . . . to get over it!

That is “being human!”