Manifesto of Kent Bull

Why does ThePollardBull exist? One reason and one reason only, bringing myself and others who so desire to enjoy the peaceful beauty that can only come from living a connected, meaningful life. This requires sensitizing oneself to the divine through a daily walk, ruthlessly confronting the truth, and direct experience with divine energy.

What does this mean? To become one must unbecome in addition to growing towards one’s goal. For me this gets specific about my past, my present, and my future.

1. Declaration of intent. I need to show what the problem is and my intended solution
2. Reconciliation of history. I need to show where my misconceptions, self-deceptions, and external bad information entered in and confused me.
3. Arguing for a positive vision of my life.
4. Rebutting the spiritual and economic traditions and results of my past and arguing for a spirituality, religion, and community culture that makes sense and is useful to build civilization.
5. Aiming the focus of my heart, mind, and soul towards liberty, responsibility, joy, and sacred union.
6. Cracking jokes and having a good sense of humor while I am at it, like a good comedy sketch.
7. Telling the story in a way that I connect with and like to tell any who are interested to listen.

My heart, mind, and soul friends will be freed from their present servitude to the chains of my past and I will meet God again, while I am yet alive. Yes, I do believe my mind was enslaved, by fallen and savage ideals from my youth, and by a misshapen history and a profane, or destroyed, spirituality. Yet I can recover and rehabilitate myself by creating a new identity and a new self, victorious over the old, and accomplished in my vision for life.

Part of this change includes calling out the challenges of my past, which include calling out those who have hurt me and specific ideologies and cultural practices which have damaged my psyche and heart. To learn I must identify what to leave behind, what to unlearn just as much as I must identify what to integrate and build into myself. This will include a full reconciliation of my past beliefs as a member of the Kingston group, also known as the Davis County Cooperative Society, the Latter Day Church of Christ, or the Kingston Clan in Davis and Salt Lake County, Utah.

Speaking up is the only way to begin change. This is the start of a very long, and worthy journey.

Argument Overview

Bottom Line Up Front

Getting right to the point, spiritual pride and abuse sundered my soul from the start, and overcoming spiritual pride and the concomitant victim mindset was the bane of my existence for many years. Only recently have I untangled myself from much of what troubled me. I still have plenty of work to do.

I need a reset. Here’s how we accomplish this:

1. Define and pursue a noble aim in my life. I call it the “Crypto Co-Op”
   • This looks like building a spiritual and economic bridge to my former community, developing a set of products, protocols, and practices that enable any group ranging from 5-15,000 to leverage their reputation, money, and assets to self-determine their future through proving their trustworthiness and value through verifiable history.
   • Allow the easy transfer of each member’s assets (units) externally as United States Dollars, Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC stablecoin, or otherwise, into an account they control.
   • Facilitate the community funding of businesses under a fair economic compact to liberate each family, one by one, to follow their God-given purpose and mission.
   • Conduct trustable, digitally verifiable votes and elections with a modern voting system to provide for secret ballots for all community positions from the top to the bottom.
2. Restore and reclaim my heritage to have an accurate, verifiable history by constructing as precise a perspective as can be had, source by source, story by story, using modern decentralized verifiable history technology.
3. Provide myself a spiritually complete belief system assisting me in transforming myself into a person who walks daily with the divine and continually abides the flow of divine inspiration, guidance, and invitaiton to create a beautiful world.
   • This requires collecting and combining the best of the world’s wisdom traditions including religions, philosophies, mystery schools, esoteric and mystical arts, sciences, and tribal and folk traditions.

Exposition

Recovering from the challenges of my youth and creating my way in this world with the best I can find starts with two things in hand, an understanding of the past and a vision for the future. My past has some evil, dark, yet instructive and painful lessons as well as some dreams that were planted by the vaunted claims of the religion I grew up in. My future contains the best of my past, yet I must do significant work to identify and call out the evil and mistakes of my past so that I will not repeat them and so that I can clearly identify what to stand for, and what to stand against.

Parts of my past dreams still guide my life. Yet also in my past were many painful, yet beautiful lessons learned through privation and suffering through things as a group with my family and friends. From the early days of my life I was misguided by an oppressive, deceitful, manipulative organization headed by a cunning, psychopathic, self-obsessed leaders, one of which is my Uncle, one of which is my grandfather, and another of which was my great uncle. This organization bore me out of a cultural morass of conformity, shame, reckless self-sacrifice, and hypocritical false piety. While the intentions of many of the founders included good ideas they were missing critical checks and balances and major spiritual concepts from the start, which resulted in a religion that was demonstrably misguided, savage, self-defeating, and spiritually dead, severing the connection that its members had with God.

Big Claims

These are big claims. I know this very well. I would not have opened my mouth to speak unless I had an answer for myself, an alternative, a path to send myself on. I strove for years to find something meaningful to base my life on, something I could feel proud of, something that spoke to my soul. What I find is that no matter where I go or what I find I am always drawn back to a simple truth spoken by Jesus in Luke 17:21 that “The Kingdom of God is Within You” he was correct.

What does this mean? How can one understand it?

Direct experience is the only way.

Direct experience of what? Of the divine, of God itself.

How would I know this? Because I experienced it, when I was 22, in a way that has lifted and guided my light, life, and love ever since. A future article and video will go in depth on my experience with God at 22 as well as my other experiences since then.

Now, to finish the business of this manifesto I describe to my past and future self a mind map on how to know if a religious belief or system is useful for the instruction of myself for the purpose of connecting with God, uncovering and drafting, with God, more and more of my mission, and to know how to avoid traps and things that do not work, spiritually speaking.

The point of all good, useful religion

The point of all useful religion is this: to teach and instruct man to connect with God and his mission by subduing the physical senses and the ego and developing and elevating the spiritual sense so that communion with God may be possible. Subduing, or disciplining the creature, is essential because the energy of the animal and the intellect, if not redirected and sublimated, will cause one to exist at the level of the animal. Self mastery is not just about negating or sacrificing the desires of the body and mind, it is about directing them and transforming them towards the effort of awakening and cultivating the spiritual sense so that one may reunite intentionally, consciously, and wholly with God, while alive and in the flesh.

Whether the Alchemical order Isaac Newton was a part of, the ancient Egyptian cults of Isis, Horus, Osiris, and others, whether the Norse mythological system with Odin and Thor, the Vedic religious system, whether Christianity or many others, each religion that is complete and useful all teaches a map of the human mind, body, and spirit, and how to subdue it in aim of spiritual living. It is a simple proposition that has become lost over the many years, centuries, and millennia while evil and ignorant men and women profaned the original purpose of religion and turned the religions of the world into tools of tyrannical oppression and manipulation.

Comments and judgments of the organizations of my past (DCCS, LDCJC)

What I wish I had known about Mormonism, polygamy, consecration, and united order as a young man I will describe in detail to myself in this blog. Particularly, those practices as implemented by the DCCS and LDCJC members are little more than a charade that props up failed leaders, steals from the general membership, and reduces members into cogs in the machine of the egotistical desires of the ruling family, in this case Ladonna’s boys, Rachel, and their sons. Poking holes in this facade is easy and terribly sad because of how many people are being hurt, yet poking these holes is absolutely necessary in order to learn and grow from the experience. So, I will do so with as much good humor and respect as I can. Many of the beliefs I now poke fun at are held very dear by my parents, siblings, and many I grew up with, so I will treat each subject with as much dignity as it deserves, although abusers and bad ideas deserve, nay even beckon, for a forceful rebuttal and sometimes ridicule.

The short version of all of this I would have told myself in the past is that the reason Mormonism was able to degenerate so badly into the form I saw in the DCCS and LDCJC is because it was incomplete. It did not contain enough spiritual knowledge and substance to guide men and women through a complete spiritual maturation and instead created children in adult bodies. Mormonism creates cowards of men because it disconnects them from their divine masculine purpose by chaining them to a church body that displaces their connection to god. This applies spectacularly to the DCCS and LDCJC.

How to fix it

Start with a ruthless determination to find and confront the truth, as itemized above, and do a fast follow with a belief system reconstruction. There is much work to do and fixing the problem will be the subject of many future posts.