Chairperson

Ben Bussewitz, our chairperson, has come up with a goal and a plan for this church mission, Actualizing Ideas and Communities.  We are currently working with our partners and colleagues to bring it to fruition.  It is not overnight; in fact we intend and expect it will take about a decade to fully implement what we envision in this church news source and its diplomatic peacemaker largesse.

For more on Ben Bussewitz, check out his free domain: https://thelightningage.wixsite.com/benbussewitz

And to learn more about him, by means of ben bussewitz' statements of self, head over to the following website, or read on in this webpage:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HqIusG9J-2JZs7CVUq98xjIuj787aj-c/view?usp=sharing

2 young autobiographies and a short, a concise description of who I am, along with also an artistic statement of self— all written by Ben Bussewitz

 

Artistic Statement of Self (Framing)

 

This is the way it heads, from upstream where the fountains are framed in the Noble Firmaments of a castle tucked high up on a silvery, alacrity of a beautiful--impending to intruders whilst being a haven and Center of Truth for pilgrims and natives alike--castle that is made of sediment that was taken from the cliff's edge, and onward the zealous, sensuous riverway flows through the light of the land unto the light of its downward fizzling and hustling spiraling patterns of all around into the flying ships that take off from earth and are filled with turnips and kale to feed our mother the moon, a central governor of earth as she lights the night sky as the sun is the other one who is the origin of all energy in the earth's noble, beautiful sediments of color, earth, beauty, transcendent, texture, light of love and central and beautiful walks upward to the truth, walks upwards in terms of noble processions in what we do, a circumambulation of the mountain in which we fall down to our knees on the all around, the way in which the earth is moving to her midnight and then, a new day, the clock passes and fizzles out into a peaceful age of the world's people in a happy, loving frame, a state-of-mind, one could say, in which all the life on earth is in gentle peace of the way in which the time is in this new day, this (soon-to-be) future age, as per the earth's gravity in her awesome eon-aged ripe refrain.

 

- ben bussewitz 

About Me, Who I Am, ben bussewitz

In my years of engaging in profound creative endeavors, such as musical composition, writing poetry, and writing fiction, I have been able to shed light on the human condition in a insightful and illuminating mode that brings out the most pressing life issues.

I have shown through my artwork the center-piece of human engagement is empathy and understanding and also engaging in a shared mode toward the desire of happiness.

Through a paradigm of the nature of the universe I have created, an ecological patchwork quilt of the Whole. I have seen the way in which: when one is harmed, all are harmed, and when one benefits, all benefit.  This is a universal law, a property of nature, that shines through the ways in which the universe is interconnected.  For more on this, see the autobiography on my SoundCloud (while you're there, catch some tunes)-- https://soundcloud.com/benbussewitz for a description, explanation, and extrapolation of this topic regarding the nature of the universe, a metaphysical mode to see the way the Human Family goes together in light of Mother Earth.

To extend this idea differently than I put forth on the aforementioned autobiography, the law of karma: good consequences render out of good action and vice versa.  This is another property of nature that is attuned to the way in which the whole world is positioned to provide good, ethical standards in their comportment and transactions with their environments, however large or small, and in their thoughts.

I am so amazed by the life of the mind.  The process of thinking is a beautiful mountainous lifelong riveret that is always already a central salty pillar in our embodiment in our experiences.  On the contrary, who we truly are is more essentially not in the idealist and cognitive platform of our lifeworld, but all we contribute to our environments, not in terms of the seat-of-experience, our psychosomatic unraveling, the carrying forth of our soul, but in terms of what we do with that, in terms of how we engage with that which is surrounding us, in terms of the natural world and in terms of human interlocutors of our way of being as positioned in our self/universe nexus of reality.  Who we are is much deeper than how we relate to ourselves introspectively and see ourselves while looking in, but the reality is more central in light of all we are positioned in accordance with the universe-side of that self/universe paradigm, all we offer, all we contribute, all we give to the world, all we make of our existence.  In light of this, it makes sense to always utilize virtue and creativity.

 

 

 

short and concise autobiography at 35 of Ben Bussewitz:

We are in interaction always on a grand, moving scale.

I am so grateful for all the ways the interconnection of all people always abounds.  This is my basic ecological vision.  Holy Spirit is omnipresent, therefore, all people, in God's reaching out to touch them, by response to their situation, impact and affect all people.  All good actions produce good results for the World Family, the Human Family.  When one person helps someone, she helps everyone.  All our doings and all the words we say ripple outwards.  Likewise, all bad actions bring some overall burden upon us all.  We are so close and interconnected.  We can all cherish everyone's benevolent deeds.  People are thrown, or placed, in an environment that is not closed-off and isolated, but rather, open and porous with the larger world.  Environments near each other, surrounded by one another, are one in a network of environments.  Several networks of environments make up an ecosystem, which abounds in Mother Earth's resources and fabric for many species to carry on life and grow and prosper.  All ecosystems are then in a larger interconnection and are inter-bound in a network of all the earth's ecosystems, all the earth spanning outward in its reach together, brought together in in each other's co-harmonious, all welling up in a shared path to a shared world, with a shared future which finds its culmination with all the world resounding that Christ Jesus, the risen Lord, is the Messiah (Ephesians 1:19-21).  We are all, the whole earth-family in the shared intra-movement situated between the Creation of the World and the eschatological unwrapping of "[God's] will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

I have created a structural definition for the human mind, which can play a central role in our newest understandings of people's cerebral embodiments.  This structural definition can be laid out as looking at the human-mind  as, 1) a streaming cognizant-capacity to linguistically open-up in a linearly-expansive and inwardly-expressive way, 2) impacted through empathy and empathic mind-body interplay with various earth-compatriots when engaged with them in transaction and exchange, transferred through body-language, knowledge of the interlocuter, and understanding of her or him and the person’s situation and life, this dynamic which I refer to as the mental-faculty’s "thermodynamically open" property, 3) receptive of language in the human exchange ("semi-permeable"), 4) creative through both spiritual inspiration powers and inner-jubilation and inner-rejuvenation capacities, 5) directly-ascertaining of sensori-motor inputs exuded, implicit and co-emergent of the environmental embeddedness, 6) malleable/plastic in its transformative and shifting tones,  7) driven and responsive to the feelings and emotional life of the individual, 8) knowledge-caching and memory-amassing—embodied and transactional— the mind, an achromatic nimbus (spirit) plasma lighthouse of the human individual.  I hope this helps in your thinking about that with which you utilize for thinking and directing your action, your central powerhouse of the self.

Inspired by the eightfold path of Buddhism, I have found in my definition for the mind a path to improve and make the most of one’s mind; I call it The Mind’s Tree of Life:

1) Good Thought

2) Good Empathy

3) Good Communication

4) Good Creativity

5) Good Perception

6) Good Introspection

7) Good Emotional-Life

8) Good Focus

In light of these ideas, we see the way in which the mind is not sequestered, or cut-off from, one’s body and one’s environment, but embodied and in touch with the elements.  In light of the way the mind is interconnected with people, open to change and betterment from what one finds in her walk in life, and responsive to inputs from the lifeworld, the person can create more life for herself in terms of a greater energy and cognizance and relationships by energizing the mind and deepening and expanding in terms mindfulness.

Led by Jesus to be beacon, light tower, and a pillar to and for the earth and all her people, by fulfilling my responsibilities in my various civic and spiritual roles of human rights defender, poet, novelist, philosopher, and a musician, I am enraptured and passionate about how my career is opening up in journalism, as I carry out the position of the leader of the church's news by means of the church's primary and central news source, which I established and run, According to Time, (www.accordingtotime.one).  Eventually, my career will open up wider (on this straight and narrow path), and I will carry on to, while also working on my theology and literature corpus, and continuing to contribute timely and meaningful contributions to the public sphere channeled throughout the world by the aforementioned news journal, I will carry on to also work as a professor in a position that University of California, Berkeley has offered as a Full-time Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department, which the college has suggested that I begin whenever I am ready. I will start out by teaching Philosophy 741: Embodied Neuroscience and Empathy for the graduate school and Philosophy 101 for undergraduate students.  In terms of my calling as an author, I have written five books of poetry and a novel entitled, The Love Songs (which is interspersed with songs in poetry form), The Moment of Eyesight, Loving Tiea, The Acropolis, and The Wind Turbine, and the novel goes by the name of The Saltshaker.  A publishing deal with Cambridge University Press is slated for 2027, with a broad deal of flexibility in the specific timing.  Also, I am now in the process of writing a Religion, Philosophy, and Transdisciplinary Studies book called In the Beginning: Truth-telling- The Open Mouths of Awe and the Basic Framework of the Human Gene, which has a publishing deal with Cambridge University Press as well.  And, in the academic disciplines of Religious Studies, World History, and Philosophy, I am engaged in a redemption history book that the World Church has commissioned that I have titled, The Philosophy of Human Existence: The Philosophy of Suffering, Epiphany, Resolution, Happiness, Enlightenment and Salvation, Pertaining to the Struggle, Enduring, Recurring Catharsis, and Release of Human Existence-- A History of Jesus’ Project of Redemption through the Time and Struggle and Victory of the Early Church from the Messiah’s Entreaty Engendering the Great Commission Mission Embarked upon in the Salty River of Faith Comprising the Children of God to Spread the Gospel unto all Nations in Imitations Regarding the Ministry and Teachings of our Father in Heaven—as in the Likeness of Lamb Constituted in the Mold of Wit Yielding in the Way of Foxes in the Field of the Sunshine Current with their Forever Abode as their Golden Treasure—amidst Persecution and Martyrdom, from Brother Stephen to Brother Paul and unto this day, as Narrated in the Jesus Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles (Matthew 6:19-21).

I have earned 124 credits from Allegheny College toward a double major in English and Philosophy with a minor in History.  In the meantime there, in Meadville, PA, I have delved deeply into interdisciplinary studies and explored scholarship as diverse as neuroscience to economics to political theory.  In recognition for the great caliber and depth of my studies, I have already received an Honorary Doctorate in Ministry, an Honorary Doctorate in The Holy Bible and an Honorary Doctorate in Apologetics, those three from Open Christian University in South Africa; furthermore I have earned an Honorary Creative Writing Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley,  an Honorary Ph.D. in Music and one in Music Composition from Berklee College of Music, an Honorary Ph.D. in Philosophy and an Honorary Doctorate in Divinity from Harvard University and an Honorary Doctorate of Religion & an Honorary Ph.D. in Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, along with several other acclaimed degrees.

While writing and playing music, I am currently also engaged in profound and in depth studies through Amnesty International Human Rights Academy for two concurrent Ph.D. programs in “Deliberation, Dialogue, and Engagement,” & also, “Peace.”

I am serving as the acting Israeli Special Ambassador to the United States of America, scheduled to be stationed in New York City on each Jumu’ah, Shabbat, and Sabbath where I will spend time conversing and aspiring with the local community in exchange of ‘talk,’ meaningful dialogue, with democratic embarking.  Namely, we will carry on amongst each other interfaith dialogue within the three Abrahamic Religions that does not merely aim to discuss meaningful similarities, such as faith in the one true God, and respectively come to better understanding and appreciation for important differences in our belief-systems; we shall also discuss where Muslims, Jews, and Christians all as a peoples ought to head and forge ahead together in our shared future in the lifehood of ancient and teeming earth, in a shared path to peace, in a shared path to abundance, prosperity, and harmony.

I have found in all my mind, heart, and soul the greatest love for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

On my SoundCloud, one can discover and enjoy my album, published December 2024 and entitled "From the Smallest Seed the Largest Shrub," in light of a parable by Jesus that brings one to see that the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds and grows into the largest of trees (Matthew 13:31,32), just as knowledge of the kingdom of heaven brings a person, at first to merely take delight and be captured, and then it ultimately transforms into the largest part of her or his rapture.  Likewise, when hearing the Gospel-message preached, one responds with an open heart, and by allowing Jesus into his life, it starts with a inward transformation and deep spiritual calling, into a whole lifetime spent in Christ.  Another way to interpret the parable is the smallest of all seeds, the mustard seed, grows into the largest of trees, or the largest of “shrubs,” according to some translations, just as with the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20), the apostles of the Lord, Jesus, with his command, began spreading his gospel to all the land, and ultimately (as “earth, as it is in heaven”— is teleologically bound) the great act of faith will reign supreme in all people’s hearts, enacting a worldwide transformation from humble beginnings, a child in a manger.  Therefore, the smallest seed shall become the largest shrub!

Thank you for spending some time engaging with my artwork!

For some of my academic profile, head to:

http://allegheny.academia.edu/BenBussewitz

For the news source that direct, go to:

www.accordingtotime.one

For my Academic Portfolio, direct yourself to the following URL:

https://allegheny.academia.edu/BenBussewitz

For my twitter:

https://twitter.com/ceramic_sequoia

For my resume:

www.linkedin.com/in/benbuzzy

For my SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/rosepilesymmetry

For my ReverbNation:

https://www.reverbnation.com/RosepileSymmetry

For my main frame, my free domain:

https://thelightningage.wixsite.com/benbussewitz

 

Take care, now.

- ben yosaf james blu mencius aperitif bussewitz

 

short and concise autobiography at 34 of ben bussewitz:

Ben Bussewitz is a poet who has been distinguished by the ivory tower as an altogether brilliant, innovative, and unique up-and-coming academician.  Bussewitz was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 21, 1989 and grew up in Pittsford, NY, the son of a retired actuary who faced a chronic condition of Parkinson’s disease and a mother who worked hard to make ends meet for the family in her career in elementary education.  Bussewitz lived in this hard scenario with unquenchable graciousness and gratitude, and all their family, including his sister, worked together to watch out for each other and help provide a good life and good opportunities to one another.  As it turns out, he lived a happy childhood, while he grew substantially and deeply meaningfully in how he dealt with tremendous sufferings.  Throughout his life, he has carried forth a greatly resounding, dynamic and holistic, constitutive negative capability. The first poem Bussewitz wrote, when he was ten years old,  entitled “The Plains of My Confessions” was published by Poetry, an esteemed literary journal.  At the time, he was noted by the University Establishment as a great mind with a gift for beauty to keep an eye on.  Since then, Bussewitz’ poems have been published in a plethora of academic journals, including The Mediterranean Review, The Allegheny Review, and Pegasus.  Following in T.S. Eliot’s footsteps as “philosopher-poet,” Bussewitz’ poetry offers perceptive, intricate fields and landscapes in terms his literary commentary of the time, reflected in the timeless circle-of-life, forward-thinking with a great eye on his analysis of this epoch and his generation, along with his ancestors and who is to come.  In light of Bussewitz as a philosopher, he has presented philosophy papers at a few conferences.  These philosophic works were carefully-attuned, self-aware—in terms of where they stand in relation to the cannon and where Bussewitz is placed in relation to the Whole—and percipient.  His gifts are diverse and he also has special talent in Music, sciences of the mind, Religious Studies, international relations, and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Bussewitz travelled all around the United States, having driven from the east to west coast, on a two-month road trip (a dream many Americans may create for themselves, yet with lack of passion and being irresolute, turn away from it to self-pity or self-reservations in terms of meeting personal ambitions and hopes).  During that time, when he was eighteen, he explored the beautiful surround of Mother Nature, predominately crafting his time by driving from national park to national park, where he would camp for a few days in each one.  He even made it into Canada—over the border from Washington into British Columbia—traveling from Alberta (after making the trek northward to Lake Louise and Banff) and back into the states through Glacier National Park.  He had lots of fun visiting some of the big cities in the U.S. and Canada as well.

At the age of twenty-one, Bussewitz backpacked through Crete for a month, and in doing so, he documented the last remaining person on the Mediterranean who makes his full income solely on spearfishing.  This person, who Ben spent a lot of time with and got to know pretty well, as well as the people who lived in his local hometown— the spearfisherman constructed his home dwelling abode with his own hands with clay and grew all his own vegetables and raised goats and chickens for a source of protein, meanwhile trading his catches for feta cheese and olive oil from his neighbor, who produced those on his own property.

Bussewitz was intrigued by the love and beauty the Mediterranean world has to offer the heart-swept (this is where in 2011 Bussewitz stumbled upon and meditated in deep happiness and fulfillment, the beginnings of the world, in Monemvasia, Greece; only three years after Bussewitz followed God to the ends of the earth in Haiti), and inspired by the Real Democracy Movement (which is a name that is synonymous to the Indignant Movement), which were sweeping through Europe starting in 2011, Bussewitz took a ferry-ride back to mainland, Greece, and spent a week in Athens.  There, he documented in June of that year the Athens, Greece chapter of the Real Democracy Movement, with a firsthand account, by passing out handouts about Syntagma Square’s public assemblies through the city. Syntagma Square faces the Parliament Building, which then leads up to the National Garden, and it was in the Square where the Athenians and others based their center in terms of a pro-democracy protest movement.  It was there where Bussewitz interviewed and had dazzling conversations with the people, so any people, of multifarious (mostly Greek) nationalities, while spending his nights sleeping in tents in the makeshift community that had been occupying the Square for about a month, with the exception of two nights friends’ that he got to know in Athens apartments which were in different parts of the capital city of Greece.  The handout that Bussewitz gave to passers-by of the Square in June 2011, to tell them what it was about, is offered here as part of Bussewitz’ academic portfolio.

With conviction, prudence and hope, he continued in 2011, to continue abiding in God, refraining from pursuing the directing of the movement of his life toward the direction of the stock image educated individual who (so the archetype goes), more or less, tends to receive a degree in four years from an undergraduate institution and subsequently spends time working in a career with the aims of obtaining wealth, honor and social status just to find when she or he gets everything he has been looking for, he does not know why he had been looking for it, or what the accomplishments even mean, and a torrential wind blows those fickle and transient mere-surface affluence away into a prolonged state of emptiness in terms of emotional array, along with a sense of lack of purpose and feeling of abandonment. (Jesus had already had led Bussewitz on an arduous journey of love of wisdom and virtue.)

Bussewitz left college a year before earning his degree, intending to return there, untimely, to carry it on to completion.  He did not want to go back to fulfill the requirements of the college degree until after he carried out engendering the groundwork for the plan he brainstormed and come to early his senior year, to enact when corrupt politicians would hear.  The goal of his plan was to create better conditions and circumstances in the world in the regards toward engendering one of the University’s intentions/hopes: to align Academia and Praxis.  A good plan, to enable and bring about, the University’s intention/hope which found its beginnings in the ancient world, when civilization was framed, full citizenry of nobility in call.  Has been working his plan with close friends, confidantes, in this way and he has accrued meaningful victories implementing this change/transformation, route out corruption and send home or to prison corrupted in high positions of authority, lift of body of citizens, in the county— a change wherein praxis would work cooperatively with and take into account the complex and imperative insights of academia prudently in terms of the necessary and sufficient conditions that naturally arise of such.

Meanwhile, during his time working on behalf of the College to carry thusly put forth (envisioned and currently the top-down, well-embedded in structure of established parameters of national and global central-hierarchy authority selected will [scenic turn, scenic route… in or out] and its chosen and derivative-emitted and articulated—authoritative Top-Plan 2100 Christian Era —  plan to fruition) from the University from 2012-2022, he continued to devote time to independent research and studies, developing methods of bringing greater influence of academia into praxis while discovering an essential key to unlock the way in which the East and the West, and also all the academic disciplines, are interconnected and can be molded as clay, both individually and collectively, into one’s understanding and wisdom of the Whole and with that engender a permanent state of enlightenment.

His poetry has been published  in the Allegheny Review and Mediterranean Poetry and he has presented papers at the Global Citizenship Conference at Allegheny College where Noëlle McAfee stated he is invited to study in the Emory graduate philosophy program and Eduardo Mendieta claimed it was a genius presentation, and the students of the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Duquesne University were thoroughly fascinated by his work on the Philosophy of the Fine Arts.  For a resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benbuzzy/

He also is a gifted musician, a calling which he fulfills with a passion for bringing people joy.  For enjoyment of the music he shares, you can go:
https://www.soundcloud.com/benbussewitz

In 2023-2024, Bussewitz was awarded three honorary doctorates from the Open Christian University, located in South Africa—one in ministry, another in The Holy Bible, and finally, in the defense of the Christian faith. Also, he earned an honorary doctorate in Music from Berklee College of Music.

In their first movements towards the action-plan Bussewitz came unto the ideation in that liminal time after Greece prior to leaving Allegheny College during his senior year, presently, the central authorities and rulers of the earth, by the command of the church’s governing primacy, are engendering the spread and voicing far-and-wide through the globalized and increasingly interconnected public sphere, the news media publication of which Bussewitz established and conducts as editor in chief that embodies the church’s general and overall, their central and essential doxology and axiology regarding current events and frames such in light of the timeless book of myths and postmodern world we find ourselves in, at www.accordingtotime.one.  In light of this, he is proud and grateful for the important analysis and interpretation in global framework that he has offered thus far, including “The World Stage,” an idea that he had pondered and is currently offered to readers of the journal, According to Time.

Bussewitz completed 124 credits at Allegheny; on an extended leave for research.