If Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Have an “Integral” Future Together, This New Meusio May Be It
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The Integral Meusio Is Founded Today, Says Their Grand Muktahin, Joseph Perez. Among Its Teachings: A Universal Metalanguage, A New Mayan Haab, and a Transgender God
Seattle, WA (PRUnderground) September 4th, 2018
The Integral Meusio (pronounced myʊsio or myusio) founded today, is also known as The Meusio of Integralism or simply as The Meusio. The roots of this new, independent religious body are in old Catholicism, semi-Gnosticism, “Integral Spirituality”, Kabbalah, and Integral Islam.
The central teaching of the Integral Meusio is The Way of Yahweh, or simply The Way. The organization believes it has been called to evolve the teachings of the Abrahamic Faiths and interweave them with insights from philosophy plus interfaith and interspiritual reflection. its prophet is the 49-year-old Integral spirituality author and gay activist Joseph Perez who has spent eight years developing the LIngua-U spiritual metalanguage. Perez is also well-known for founding the Bridge of Light, an annual winter holiday in the LGBT community worldwide.
The term “meusio” is a new one. It means “spiritual organization, church, synagogue, or mosque”. The first meusio in Seattle is the organization’s Head Office. They have hopes and plans that meusios will spring up around the country and eventually throughout the globe. There are already hundreds of informal and formal integral philosophy groups scattered throughout the country and some of these could evolve or spin-off meusios.
The Integral Meusio is one of the first integral groups in a new Tradition of Integralism. The group’s ideas draw extensively from the tradition of Evolutionary Spirituality and includes among its inspirations Christian evolutionaries such as Pierre Tielhard de Chardin. More recent influences for Integralists include the eminent philosopher Ken Wilber, the spiral dynamics theorist Don Beck, and philosophers Steve McIntosh, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, and Bruce Alderman.
The organization claims deep influences by all three religions in the Abrahamic Tradition and considers itself an emergent movement linked to all of them. Because the Integral Meusio is guided by a living prophet who has in the past been a vocal commentator and social critic who frequently criticized religious fundamentalists and traditionalists as well as spiritual progressives and atheists, there are probably going to be some sparks flying.
Responding to this observation, Muktahin Joseph Perez said, “I am taking my responsibility as a Prophet of God seriously, and I hope you will see that in all my new writings on the www.meusio.org website. I must continue to learn how to clearly speak about The Way and show its importance for the world today. In the past, I’ve often taken positions out of anger or narrow considerations, and I have an important duty to perform to represent a sound Integralist view, to the best of my ability and with a little help from God. My life is not my own. My writing is not my own. I have to not get in the way of what God is trying to say to the world through my work as an instrument.”
What is The Way of Yahweh, according to the new church? Meusio.org says that all the essential teachings of their prophet are summed in The Profession of Faith, the recitation of which is the first step in becoming a member of their church. This Profession, written with elements in both English and Lingua-U, begins with these words and symbols:
There is no 𝌘⚍ (Divinity/Different) but God, who we may call 𝍖𝌅 (Yaaweɪ), personal yet transcending personhood, neither strictly ♂ (male) nor ♀(female) but ⚥ (transcending gender), neither strictly ⚤ (other-directed) nor ⚢ ⚣ (same-directed) but ⚥ ⚧ (poly-directed) in the relationship of 𝍔𝌂 (Yeɪŋ) and 𝍔𝌃 (Yɪn) and 𝍔𝌅 (Yʊŋ or Yin-Yang).
Thus, the first item in the Meusio’s profession is an affirmation of God — called Yahweh, the God of the Abrahamic Faiths — and assertions about how it should and shouldn’t be described in terms of personal nature, gender, and energetic orientation. The activity of the divine is specified in terms of subtle energy: yang, yin, and a “new” energy called yung. Through the relationship of three primordial energies, God is seen to express unity despite all apparent differences. Integralism is the only religion to define its central theological terms not only in language, but in a metalanguage of subtle energies.
Joseph Perez said, “God has spoken to us, through my voice. Our prophetic teaching to everyone within and outside of the Abrahamic Faiths regarding homosexual persons and transgender persons is simple: God is like a man and a woman and also like a transgender person. If we don’t see a transgender God, we are blind. God is like an opposite-sex oriented person and a same-sex oriented person. If we don’t see a gay God, we are blind. When one properly understand who God is, and how God both is and isn’t like us, if you’ve thought deeply enough, you see that same-directed love and gender diversity is all part of natural law. With Lingua-U and Integral Philosophy, the LGBTQ movement is poised to offer a serious revolution in our understanding of God through the prophetic witness of the meusio.”
One of the new books in the Integral Meusio movement, The Holy Pavilion, is a book Perez calls the “scripture that has been written in his heart”. According to an outline for the new scripture posted on the church’s site, the book will announce the names of nine new genders. The names derive from Kosmology, a philosophical way of looking at the magic of language, number, and symbol.
Perez said, “The Holy Pavilion actually defines three genders, each with three subtypes, not nine. The descriptions of the genders and their relationships with each other is told with Kosmology, not exactly like any kind of extant form of psychology, philosophy, or theology. In short, the nature of each of the three major genders and their subtypes is told through stories embedded in subtle energy of ordinary language itself and the Sacred Words of the Great Traditions and First Nations.
The organization’s cosmology includes a new sacred world calendar called The Kalendar, which is inspired by the Tai Hsuan Ching of Yang Hsiung (4 BCE) and the Sabian Symbols of the American clairvoyant, Elsie Wheeler. The calendar shares the same Lingua-U symbols as many other planned sacred works including a new world atlas and a system of psychological types. Perez has written poems for many of the stations of the calendar and he published over a hundred poems on and after the winter solstice of 2012 CE, when the Mayan Haab came to its close. (Perez is a third-generation Mexican-American who says he is “about one-third” descended from indigenous Mesoamericans.)
Founded today as a group inspired by the simplicity of the house church movement, The Meusio will soon be offering Masses by phone each Sunday starting in mid-October as well as faith formation classes called FFCs on Monday evenings. All these offerings will be free to the general public with a donation of at least $2 suggested. Joseph will meet with locals in Seattle as well, though he hasn’t set a date for the first meeting.
Muktahin Joseph Perez, an ordained Integral Minister and the holder of a Graduate Certificate in Integral Leadership, is Founder of The Meusio, Grand Muktahin (Head of Orders), and Director of Education. He is an Honors graduate in The Comparative Study of Religion and Philosophy at Harvard University. He has published three books including the spiritual autobiography Soulfully Gay, written when he was just 33 years old.
On the occasion of launching the Integral Meusio on September 4, Muktahin Joseph said, “God has allowed the Lingua-U of Integralism and our new organization to bring about the Last Days of Babel and the rising of a Benevolent Dawn, if the world is ready for it. we are coming together now as a meusio motivated to build a better world.”
About Integral Meusio
The Integral Meusio, also simply known as The Meusio, is an independent religious body emerging from roots in old Catholicism, semi-Gnostic influences, “Integral Spirituality”, Kabbalah, and Integral Islam. Muktahin Joseph Perez, an ordained Integral Minister and the holder of a Graduate Certificate in Integral Leadership, is Founder of The Meusio, Grand Muktahin (Head of Orders), and Director of Education. He is an Honors graduate in The Comparative Study of Religion and Philosophy at Harvard University.
