Barry Emanuel Zeve

Spiritual Author and Teacher

I’m a self-ordained, gay rabbi and Jew-ru. I’m also a world class expert on insanity, having tried to kill myself three times and involuntarily committed to mental institutions twice. I was also addicted to drugs, alcohol, food and sex, but I’ve been clean and sober for over 40 years.

If you feel you’ve become an expert on pain and/or suffering over your lifetime, I think I can help you help yourself. The trauma I held inside became externalized through compassionate regard for the trauma my parents held inside as Holocaust survivors. In part, by honoring my parents, I healed myself. I’ve written 37 books on spirituality; produced over five hundred 3-minute TikTok videos; and several longer YouTube videos on the Spiritual Operating System [S.O.S.] that runs us all.

I employ the seven major world scriptures, chronologically given by God as:

  1. Indigenism prayer
  2. Hinduism navel: self-contemplation
  3. Judaism head: wisdom
  4. Buddhism genitals: desire
  5. Taoism: anus: paradox
  6. Christianity heart: love
  7. Islam soul: loyalty

3,800 years ago, our indigenist ancestors in India unified their belief in millions of gods through Hinduism, using Brahma consciousness as their goal, achievable through reincarnation. It then became apparent to ancient man that there was a spiritual method under construction by our Creator, even though they thought it would take many lifetimes to perfect it.

Today, most people sense that life is like a school. Birth is like enrollment in this school. Death is like graduation. Even Jesus was enrolled [Christmas] and graduated[ Easter]. There’s only One God. God is like The Teacher. Nobody really knows if anyone returns to this school after we graduate, but we all hope and pray that others’ grades won’t go on our report card.

The major I’ve chosen is me. I believe I have the tools to teach you how to achieve a Ph.D. in becoming a more authentic self. I believe “the meaning of life is to give life meaning.” [Viktor E. Frankl]. The meaning in me having been created by God is the mystery [my story] that I’m seeking by becoming a part of history [His story].

I’m like a forbidden tree of knowledge planted as a seed in a garden. Every man is like a tree of knowledge with two fruits [testicles] hanging down from his trunk. There’s a defiant serpent in every man’s tree. The juice of his fruits [semen] corresponds to the words of the serpent in the Creation Story that are uttered by every boy for the first time at puberty. Orgasm is the defining experience that separates boys from men.

If you’re female, there’s a defiant worm in your apple. Everyone becomes defiant in their own way based on their individual trauma. So, be sure your defiance develops into opposition to the part of yourself that refuses to obey you. Don’t become like Dr. Jekyll who struggled with the consequences of Mr. Hyde’s actions, which the good doctor couldn’t always relate to.

For a man to become capable of guiding himself through his own trauma, he must recognize that he’s half man, half woman. He must acknowledge the feminine side of himself that he’s oppressed, suppressed and repressed that has caused him to become depressed.

Marriage equality is the Achille’s heel of all religious fundamentalists, especially those in the Abrahamic faiths who project the war within themself onto one another. Christians and Muslims have projected the serpent in their tree onto a fallen angel they believe beguiles them. They only see evil as coming at them from the outside in. They don’t perceive evil as emanating out from within.

The milk of man emanates out of his penis to create life. The milk of woman emanates out of her breasts to sustain life. But without the inspiration gay people bring to life through sex for the sake of intimacy through pleasure, what’s the point in living? Passion is primary.

Moses described this passage to adulthood in his Creation Story. His words have inspired the Jewish people for 3,400 years. His words inspired Jesus 1,400 years later and the Prophet Muhammed 700 hundred years after that. The Abrahamic faiths are one long poem, not separate prosaic treaties.

The rainbow of hope God gave to Noah shines in the heart of those who yearn to know and love themself. Those seven colors stand for:

  1. Red – rage
  2. Orange – anxiety
  3. Yellow – fear
  4. Green – jealousy of others container [body] and envy of their contents [virtues]
  5. Blue – sorrow
  6. Indigo ± mystery
  7. Violet + ecstasy

Self-ignorance is universal. Therefore, guilt unites us all. Guilt consists of embarrassment, shame and humiliation. Embarrassment of your body can be plummeted with modesty; shame of your character with humility; and humiliation of your circumstances with self-loyalty.

The institutions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all partially right and partially wrong when applied prosaically. Hope for the future won’t be achieved until there’ll be a Palestinian state side by side with Israel in which both have achieved marriage equality. Palestine must become a school for spiritualists, not a launching site for missiles from Iran. Islam must give up their hatred of gays and Jews and apologize to the world for their bad behavior. Everyone on Earth must agree to defy the ancient edicts of their faith for having oppressed women and gay people down through the ages. Without an understanding of the importance of all the world’s faiths in mastering our Spiritual Operating System [S.O.S.], peace within and peace on Earth will be further postponed.

Because my unorthodox curriculum uses metaphors from Judaism, symbols from Christianity and similes from Islam to unlock secrets for the modern age that are infused in the Abrahamic scriptures, you’ll find me to be an unusual tutor in the school of life. But I’m also a student just like you. My boyfriend calls me an academia nut, but I’m also a fruit from a forbidden tree with my own curriculum, spot quizzes and tests. I’m always working on my final exam because none of us knows when we’re going to graduate this school for fools.

I’ve used personal experiences combined with poetic interpretations of scripture and storytelling to overcome my prosaic nature and self-defiance. I’m poetry in emotion. In making my conscience my guide, I’ve put my love for me above all other expressions of love. I can’t give God [The Teacher] or my classmates love that I haven’t first given myself.

The philosophy I’ve developed will teach you how to become more intimate with yourself. I believe our Teacher is teaching most of us how to become wise, loving and loyal to ourself, whether our personal Tutor is Adonai, Jesus or Archangel Gabriel. The more we all achieve a Jewish head, a Christian heart and a Muslim soul, the more genuinely we’ll be able to express our faith in ourself through our interactions with humanity, and with God through prayer.

  1. Don’t be afraid to believe in the God of your understanding as your understanding grows.
  2. Many in the LGBTQIA+ community seek self-love, despite how we’ve been neglected, rejected, abandoned and betrayed by others.
  3. Don’t be afraid to learn how to pray in new ways.
  4. Keep the hope in your heart alive and actualize your potential by improving your grades.
  5. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Rome was built day-by-day. You don’t have to roam about inside yourself without a sense of personal purpose.
  6. You don’t have to remain a wandering Jew within. Inner orientation is the key.
  7. You’re a spirit in a vehicle on a journey.
  8. Nobody knows what comes next.
  9. Therefore, love yourself and endeavor to like others. That’s far harder to do.
  10. We’re all creating a transcript to be used on our next destination.

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