Caleb Eaton
Caleb is a Personal Contact Minister in Texas
Background
Religion
Tyler/Longview, East Texas
I was raised in World Wide Church of God—Sabbath keepers and no unclean meats—so I started out with a slightly different view of the world. My family then moved on to mainline churchanity with a fondness for all things charismatic. I grew evermore disenchanted with it all and left the entire scene when I quit my last job on Y2K where I had worked for the previous 4.5 years at the largest "Christian" camp in the U.S. And I became a comfortable hermit until discovering HHC.
Health
This subject is another thing that found me at odds with churchanity. As you read below, understand that all these points made me the exception rather than the rule where the population of mainstream churches are no different than the general population in that they'd rather trust doctors (priests in white coats) than God (which involves taking responsibility for one's own health).
- Born 1967 without an MD. Same with my four siblings. Dad performed highly complex job of "catcher" without the benefit of 8 years higher education. Amazing! BIRTH HAPPENS.
- Never had a vaccination. Yet somehow I thrive like the birds and bees that don't get vaccinated either. Gasp! IMMUNITY HAPPENS.
- Labeled by MDs as a "vegetable" at 15 months of age after falling off the bed and being paralyzed on right side. Parents were told to just get used to it. Yet today no one knows unless I tell the story. Blasphemy! HEALING HAPPENS.
- Grew up watching people come to my Grandpa (an old codger, self-taught, unlicensed "chiropractor") for help after MDs sent them home to get their affairs in order. Some still live today, 30 years later. Shazam! LIFE HAPPENS.
- My Grandpa's death was a wake-up call to get serious about my own health issues. I was introduced to the [medicinal power of essential oils] and the fact that they were mentioned more than 500 times in the Bible. (Funny, I had attended church all my life and yet I was oblivious to one of the Bible's biggest, most practical subjects.)
Politics
I was a delegate to the Texas Republican convention in 1988 and became a Rush devotee pre-1990 when he was still doing animal rights updates and caller abortions. I started to questioning Rush's judgement when he bragged about going in for a [root canal] and instructing his dentist to do it for all teeth. (I'm convinced this was the source of Rush's later hearing loss.) I started becoming seriously disenchanted with Rush (and the entire political machine) when he flipped on things like immigration. He once took a small government stance of getting rid of the benefits that attracted the slothful and allowing anyone to come to the US as long as they were willing to work. Also, in the early days he would brag about Reagan building a strong military so we didn't have to fight. He now supports perpetual war and the policing of the world.
Introduction to HHC
I was introduced to The Living Network when a friend emailed me a link to the article Holy Matrimony vs. Marriage. I had ignored a couple previous links he had sent because I wasn't interested in anything "religious." Yet the title of this article hit home because I had decided a few years previous that I would NOT get a government marriage license because I didn't want the unnecessary third party intrusion into that sacred relationship. Although the decision was made for moral reasons, it went against all the mainstream churchian institutions that I was aware of. Yet here was an article that distinguished the difference between the licensed and unlicensed relationships. And did so with an entirely new view of scriptures that stripped away the mythology and mysticism and put them into the realm of practical everyday-life reality.
I've methodically devoured HHC-related MP3s ever since. I see this approach as the "unifying theory" that brings a huge level of practicality to the Bible and has the potential of creating a people who are truly separate from the world's system of government...in it, but not of it.
Recommended HHC Articles & Links
Besides the Holy Matrimony vs. Marriage article already mentioned above, here are others that have been similarly influential and wonderfully validating for me..
Photos
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Caleb at 2012 Missouri Gathering
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Caleb at 2012 Burning Bush Festival
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Caleb at 2013 Missouri Gathering
Local Network
A group of us are building relationships in the Northeast Texas area and moving toward becoming an official Congregation of Record. The last thing I want to be a part of is another social gathering—commonly called "church"—designed to make people feel good about themselves simply because they meet once or twice a week to sing songs and listen to a windbag with no practical life skills talk about theories of the by-and-by while never addressing the practical everyday responsibilities/duties that have been steadily abandoned to the government of the world. Instead, I seek deep friendships with those already participating in the Kingdom without realizing it:
- the homeschoolers raising wholesome kids
- the home gardeners and farmers raising wholesome food
- the ranchers producing wholesome meat
- alternative health practitioners teaching people health self-sufficiency
- and anyone interested in participating in work days designed both to get to know one another on a real-life level and to create a stronger, more self-sufficient group of people.
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