It’S Only a Delusion If It Doesn’T Work: Everyone Has a Delusion! What’S Yours?

By Ray Loyd Tune

I saw Christ during a near death experience (NDE) in January 1969 while buried beneath a pile of biomaterial, outguessing poisonous methane gas. I had multiple compound fractures and no air. To this day, I swear it being as real as you, me or anyone else.
Yes, I saw the tunnel of light with Christ at the opposite end. The Christ I saw had long brunet hairthe one I knew from Sunday school and books. Now that I have actually studied the Bible, I know He almost certainty had short hair, like his peers, the other men in his culture.
Check it out. First Corinthians 11:14 says, Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to Him? God Himself thought long hair on a man was an abomination. It's obvious that is a disgrace for a man to have long hair!
The most common word to describe long effeminate hair is the very word Paul used in First Corinthians 11:14: degrading (atimia), the major reason for objecting to long hair. How do we explain all the pictures of Christ depicted with long hair? Is that delusional thinking at the mass level? Again, did the Holy Word mislead us poor ignorant Christians, or did we fill in the gap for God? Im laying my money on God long hair was abhorrent to Him. As such, His son arrived with short hair. Now if Christ was anything like todays youth, he would have rejected long hair it simply wasnt in style.
Is humankinds vision of Jesus just a delusion?
Is the phenomenon of UFOs but another case of MASS delusion? It has happened before and within the past one hundred years Invasion of Mars, Orison Wells Broadcast.

Could be, but humankind has been reporting them through word, paintings, or hieroglyphics since 29,000BC. If one buys into that, but not into UFOs, then one must conclude that the entire world, since the beginning of time, has BEEN A DELUSION.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 27, 2014
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Ray Loyd Tune

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ------------------------------------------------ Ray Loyd Tune grew up on a prairie farm between the towns of Ft. Supply and Buffalo, Oklahoma. Ray currently lives in Morrow, Arkansas, near the top of Mt. Hale in the western part of the Ozarks. He received his bachelors from St. Edward’s University and an MBA from Texas A&M. Ray also published “Can You Come Play Lil Boy”, “It’s Only a Delusion If It Doesn’t Work”, and, “Bipolar Party: Austin, Aspen and Beyond”. Ray has written many articles for trade magazines and periodicals. He continues to work as a free-lance writer for industrial publications. He taught business related courses at two colleges for three years in the 1980’s.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

SYNOPSIS

Foreword

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Chapter 1.   Strange World

Chapter 2.   Delusional Disorder

Chapter 3.   My Delusional Life

Chapter 4.   Welcomed Companionship

Chapter 5.   Consequences of being thought of as a delusional person.

Chapter 6.   Alternative Triggers of Delusions

Chapter 7.   Delusional Triggers Other than Drugs

Chapter 8.   Can Sane People be Delusional?

Chapter 9.   Sleep Deprivation

Chapter 10.   World’s Most Notorious Delusionals

Chapter 11.   Life after Death (NDE)

Chapter 12.   Multiple Universes—Fact or Scientific Delusion

Chapter 13.   Delusions of Biblical Characters & UFOs

Chapter 14.   Age of the Aeroplane (What a DELUSION!)

Chapter 15.   From Air Planes to Rockets

Chapter 16.   UFOs and Alien Sightings

Chapter 17.   Aliens, UFO’s, and Space Travel—

Chapter 18.   Was Jonah swallowed by a fish, or by a Sub Sea ET

Chapter 19.   Explosion of Technology on Earth

Chapter 20.   What’s not to Believe

Chapter 21.   So what is a DELUSION?

Chapter 22.   Religion and Reality

Chapter 23.   Modern Day Witnesses of UFO’s Corroboration of Alien Flying Objects

Chapter 24.   Prophetic Quotes Concerning Flight

Chapter 25.   What the Ancients Saw

Chapter 26.   UFO’S in Religious Art

Conclusion

Sources

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people have helped me throughout my life. Below are just a few of them:

Brother Lucian, St. Edward’s University—Math Dept.—Contribution: Morals

Brother Germaine (Now Jesuit Priest)—Contributions: Friend, Confidant, and Composition

Dr. Leo Osterhaus—Genuine Gentleman, Dean of Graduate Business.

Dr. Hughes—Contribution: a character of high Morals and one whose advice I wish I had heeded.

I summarize by saying—St. Edward’s University.

My wife, Judy, who worked so hard to provide the funds for us while I was in school.

God almighty who pushed and shoved me to carry on (for what reason, I’ll never know).

Dixie Howell, Ft. Supply, Oklahoma, school superintendent, coach of everything. Bandleader—and English etymology. Bless you Dixie. Wish I had your old textbooks.

SYNOPSIS

I saw Christ during a near death experience (NDE) in January 1969 while buried beneath a pile of biomaterial, out-gassing poisonous methane gas. I had multiple compound fractures and no air. To this day, I swear it being as real as you, me or anyone else.

Yes, I saw the tunnel of light with Christ at the opposite end. The Christ I saw had long brunet hair—the one I knew from Sunday school and books. Now that I have actually studied the Bible, I know He almost certainty had short hair, like his peers, the other men in his culture.

Check it out. First Corinthians 11:14 says, Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to Him? God Himself thought long hair on a man was an abomination. It’s obvious that is a disgrace for a man to have long hair!

The most common word to describe long effeminate hair is the very word Paul used in First Corinthians 11:14: degrading (atimia), the major reason for objecting to long hair. How do we explain all the pictures of Christ depicted with long hair? Is that delusional thinking at the mass level? Again, did the Holy Word mislead us poor ignorant Christians, or did we fill in the gap for God? I’m laying my money on God—long hair was abhorrent to Him. As such, His son arrived with short hair. Now if Christ was anything like today’s youth, he would have rejected long hair—it simply wasn’t in style.

Is humankind’s vision of Jesus just a delusion?

Is the phenomenon of UFOs but another case of MASS delusion? It has happened before and within the past one hundred years—Invasion of Mars, Orison Well’s Broadcast.

Could be, but humankind has been reporting them through word, paintings, or hieroglyphics since 29,000BC. If one buys into that, but not into UFO’s, then one must conclude that the entire world, since the beginning of time, has BEEN A DELUSION.

FOREWORD

I’m neither a philosopher, scholar, nor a medical doctor. However, from time to time I quote sources other than my own. When I do so, I make an effort to maintain intellectual honesty. What I am is an individual with diagnosed bipolar disorder and some occasional prescription, medical-induced delusions. My story gives the reader a brief background of how a delusional mind works, thinks, and the results. At best, it is an anecdotal account of one individual’s delusions, as well as some past leaders of our earth.

I’ve never had a desire to remove someone’s head with a chainsaw or to kill. I’ve had sufficient AA training to know when to turn it over to God. There have been times when I’d have liked to beat the living shit out of someone, but I refrained. Instead, I call the Fayetteville police department. Those same police reported to my VA psychiatrist that I’m delusional.

I told my Doctor he could’ve saved years in medical school and hundreds of thousands of dollars simply by joining the Fayetteville police force. Shit, the Fayetteville police must have PhDs and MD’s on every shift.

This book exposes my own delusional experiences and explores the possibility of another dimension in the minds of humans.

CHAPTER ONE

Strange World

Is extra sensory perception (ESP) delusional? Anyone doubting the ability to see both the future and past must read the life and works of Edgar Cayce. His prognostications are unequaled in our times.

The CIA and Army Intelligence feel strongly enough about the ability to see beyond our immediate surroundings that they established a group of seers to see what the Soviets were doing, via distant telepathically. Amazingly enough, a great number of the reports were spot-on, down to the point of what the windows in a stone building looked like.

Is that Delusional?

Is sashquash a figment of one’s imagination? How about the Jersey Devil or Loch Ness Monster?

According to quantum physics, there has to be multiple universes, and each of us has a double in each of the other universes. (This is no Dr. Spock fairy tale.)

Every advance the astrophysics’ make, the closer we come to believing there had to be a divine creator. Were Noah, Moses and God all the result of mass hysteria? Simply put, were early religious believers delusional. Is the evangelist of today delusional or just damn good marketers?

This books content is somewhat like the textbook for an abnormal psychology course. After reading a chapter about some aberration of the mind, first year students say to themselves Oh my gosh. That’s me." This book will give one the same sensation. Not to worry, we are all a bit delusional at one time or another. Thank God for that.

Alchemists of the past believed they could convert various minerals to gold. What a delusion, we thought. However, in the 21st century a scientist did exactly that. At prices of $1,800 per ounce, why aren’t we producing gold in mass quantities’? As it turns out, the process is cost prohibitive. Alchemy: Fact or Fiction?

A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction, despite superior evidence to the contrary. Unlike hallucinations, delusions are always the result of an illness or illness process. As pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, dogma, poor memory, illusion, or other effects of perception.

To cite a few examples of popular delusions (of the times)

Nothing will ever fly that is heavier than air… . Reflect back on the Wright brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk of yesteryear and our supersonic stealth bombers of today, capable of reaching altitudes of 60,000 feet at speeds in excess of 2,000 mph. (I wonder if they thought birds were weightless.)

Leonardo da Vinci, a self-educated bastard child, designed, drafted, and documented the first helicopter, airplane, multi-gun arranged armored tank, parachute (anyone can jump from no matter what height without any risk whatsoever), and a giant catapult. (Facts indicate the highest jump was 108,900 by Captain Joseph Kittinger.)

Some of da Vinci’s contributions to our modern world include the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Virgin of the Rocks, and The Virgin and Child.

General George Armstrong Custer advised by a scout that the number of Indians gathered at one encampment was between 1,500 and 2,500, said, Don’t worry. They’ll break up and scatter.

Albert Einstein said, Imagination is more important than IQ. I wonder how much of da Vinci’s work influenced Einstein’s observation.

Some of the best artistic work and scientific advancements have come from delusional thinkers and SCI-FI writers. If you really meditate on the true meaning of a delusion, one will say, . . . all of us have one delusion or another. What’s yours?

CHAPTER TWO

Delusional Disorder

The exact cause of delusional disorder hasn’t been conclusively determined, but potential causes include heredity, neurological abnormalities, brain injuries, drugs such as steroids, drugs (both street drugs and prescribed) and changes in brain chemistry.

Some studies indicated that delusions align closely to abnormalities in the limbic system, the portion of the brain on the inner edge of the cerebral cortex, which functions to regulate emotions.

Delusional disorder is