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I’m sure there are many different answers to this question, and no doubt some of them are contradictory. I can only offer some observations.From my background attending church services, I’ve come to the conclusion that attendance at worship services is not necessarily about knowing God. Rather, it is a social function for many people. On the other hand, there are many people who simply want to know how they’re supposed to act, and a church provides plenty of advice on how to do this.Now, there’s nothing wrong with those reasons. We all need social contact, and in a world that’s very confusing, some guidelines on behavior or quite helpful. For the most part, Christianity provides a decent set of rules for behavior, though there are some groups who are more interested in setting themselves up as superior to everyone else.But for me, the most important thing is knowing about God. While church services for me got me started, they also didn’t really give me what I was interested in, and that was a firm grounding in the more mystical traditions. For that, I had to do research on my own, and get acquainted with many different religious traditions. Churches don’t particularly specialize in such an approach to theology.So if you look for the reasons that people attend church, you find that a mystical approach isn’t really what people are looking for in a church environment. I see no reason that these traditions couldn’t be treated more fully. When I taught adult Sunday school classes, I tried to include more information about mystical traditions in my presentations, but I found that only a small number of people were interested in learning about these things. Like any organization, churches can only exist if they meet the needs of those they’re serving. Unfortunately, at least from my standpoint, mystical traditions just don’t fall into those categories of needs.

The first work that comes to mind is the final movement of Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This uses a wordless choir and is really ethereal in mood.Also rather mysterious, but of a very different atmosphere is the Kyrie of György Ligeti’s Requiem. This is a harsh kind of mysticism, but a tremendously powerful cry from the depths of the human soul.While not choral, Allan Pettersson wrote some very mysterious music, the best example of which I think occurs about halfway through his eighth symphony.

The Altgens # 6 photo shows a shattered windshield at the same time JFK is clutching his throat doesn’t jive with a lone assassin, as the Magic bullet wounded both men and was recovered after it fell out of Connally’s leg at the hospital.Let’s review that mystical magic bullet theory. We know that a bullet entered JFK’s throat. The Parkland Doctors (who had seen many bullet wounds) officially called this an “entry” wound. The non-medical Warren Commission instead called this an “exit” wound with the bullet continuing onward to cause massive wounds in the Texas Governor.Regardless of entry or exit, Kennedy’s hands didn’t rise up to his throat until after he had been shot. The Governor shows no signs of being wounded until many seconds later. While JFK will slowly start to lean forward and begin dropping his arms away from his throat, just before the fatal head shot, Connally can be seen turning almost completely backwards to his right, facing JFK, looking for where the shot had come from (three seconds since Kennedy reached for his throat).As Connally begins turning forward he seems to be hit just mere fractions of a second before JFK’s fatal head shot. Both men seem to collapse to their seats at the same time. All one has to do is watch the Zapruder film and this is plain as day. There isn’t any connection between the throat wound and Connally being injured. NONE!But because the politically hastened Warren Commission said there was (and so that their Magic Bullet theory would go unchallenged), the Zapruder film was withheld from the American public for 12 years (it was finally shown on national TV on March 6,1975 on an ABC program hosted by Gerldo Rivera). It is amazing how anyone can tell people with a straight face that the “Magic” bullet wounded two men.Before the injury to James Tague was taken into consideration, both the Secret Service and the FBI assumed the firing sequence had been, JFK, then Connolly, then the JFK fatal head shot. They arrived at this sequence after reviewing the Zapruder film.So a person has to man up and declare that the Magic Bullet Theory is pure garbage. Garbage in = garbage out. So, if the Magic Bullet Theory doesn’t hold up, there was a conspiracy. And if there was a conspiracy, there isn’t any definitive proof that Oswald fired the fatal head shot.Now that a conspiracy has been established, which wasn’t hard to do, just by reviewing the Altgens #6 photo and the Zapruder film, one has to wonder why the FBI would so obviously mislead the American public to pin the blame totally on Oswald, while not pursuing the other assassin(s). This points to FBI Director Hoover purposely misdirecting the investigation. But this gets beyond the simple point that the known assassin was likely shooting from the grassy knoll, where Oswald most certainly wasn’t.