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Discussion of beliefs - You are right!  And so are you!

3/22/2015

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Many of the fundamentalist churches and others have decried what has come to be known as "New Age".  This fellow offers perhaps the best defense I have seen to the "eye for an eye" and divisive movements, which feel moved to attack those who are trying to investigate and find answers to their personal issues on a higher plane.  There are a plethora of belief systems and each are valid at the particular moment for any number of human beings.  My great connundrum, which I believe is engendered through schooling practices is this, why do we have the audacity to think that anyone who believes differently than us is wrong and should be attacked?  Is it because at some point we have felt our own intrinsic beliefs disapproved of and negated by well meaning parents, teachers, or others? 
I believe that co-operation and acceptance are the true building blocks of community.  To any fundamentalist christians I would suggest that you follow your truth.  Christ discussed love at many points and it was the most important part of his ministry - he showed love regardless of the people's viewpoint or belief system.  He also said about his miracles "Greater things than these will ye also do.  If ye believe."  He did not say "if ye believe in me."  This is the fundamental principle behind much of the "New Age" movement. 
So where exactly is the disconnect?  Perhaps anything "New" or different is automatically feared by some of these insular groups?
Perhaps being an exclusive group rather than an inclusive one is the problem - we are christians and they are not?  Christ did not have that mindset, I would suggest to you.  The division does not come from Christ but from the dogma of the religion.  Dogma is a way of "nailing down" beliefs so that they cannot progress to another level.  How do people then grow and learn more?
But I digress.  This Mark Passio of whom he speaks in the video is an advocate of violence.  If someone comes against you, you should violently oppose them and, he says, the New Age says you shouldn't.  This is ridiculous nonsense.  The New Age as Gabriel notes in the video is not a religion and has many different facets.  This Mark fellow has entirely misunderstood what the movement is about and is ranting his "eye for an eye" philosophy.  One wonders if some of these people on Youtube are not plants to incite violence.  But in any event, I put this up here to counter people coming out against the New Age (not that I don't believe they have a right to free speech - I do) and the misunderstanding it could create.
When free thought is not allowed, we have facisim.  We stray into dangerous territory when we fear and hate groups who have different belief systems.  We are all different.  We will all need different belief systems.  That is okay.  Just because I hold one and you hold another, doesn't make me better or worse than you, just different.  Five years from now we may both be on to new vistas and that is okay.  It does not make the old viewpoint wrong, just wrong for us now. 
Let's get away from the idea we were taught in school - there 's one way, (that would have been the teacher's_) and if you don't espouse it you are bad and I will send you to the office for discipline.  Come on now, we are adults.  Let's let the little kid stuff go.
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Which will you choose - Fear or Love?

3/20/2015

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Most of us are conversant with a wide range of emotions - anger, sadness, joy, upset, worry, happiness, etc.  But perhaps you would be surprised to learn that all emotions really fall into two categories - fear and other negative emotions on the one end of the spectrum and love being the gateway to the other. Like baking soda and vinegar, when mixed together they create a powerful reaction.  Although it is always love (in its purest form) which will be the stronger.  Unfortunately this kind of love is not something promoted by our society. Fear on the other hand is rampant.  Think of all the scary moves or even the nightly newscast.  Love doesn't really figure in there. And for some of us unconditional love is not second nature but it is something that is able to be developed. 
How?
The best way is through meditation.  Studies show that when people meditate, the parts of the brain associated with empathy light up.  There are certain meditations designed to help open the heart chakra (the heart energy centre) in order to help develop compassiona and unconditional love.  Drunvalo Melchizadek  in his book, Living in the Heart gives an excellent meditation to connect with your heart.  Many of us, particularly those who are university trained, are taught to downplay emotions as inferior.  We are taught that reason trumps love.  But this is not true.  In fact, science has now found that it is the heart which emits far more energy (electro-magnetic) than the brain and the heart even has its own brain cells.  This gives new meaning to the Biblical quote "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." 
The consciousness scale calibrated by Dr. David Hawkins  puts fear near the bottom end of the scale at 100 compared to love at 500. What is the difference?  The real barrier according to Dr. Hawkins, between fear and love is courage.  It is having courage to conquer your fear that allows you to move past negativity and get into the upper positive spectrum, where love and reason reside.  Reason , at 400 on the scale, is obscured by fear and reasoning needs a certain amount of courage and a willingness to let go of preconceived ideas in order to arrive at logical conclusions.  Past reason is love and above - joy, peace and even enlightenment.   Food for thought! Perhaps it is time to turn off the newscast?
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The Making of a Mandate ( A short story Part One)

3/16/2015

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The Making of a Mandate ( A  Short Story or a Tragedy - Part One)

It was a cloudy day all the way along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.  On the 22nd floor in a plush board room of one of the Pharma companies the following took place about two months ago.

"The Ebola outbreak fizzled out and the legislating of mandatory vaccines is taking a long time."  The Director whined, swilling his second cup of coffee.  He was a tall man with listless blue eyes.
"I don't want excuses.  Dammit!  I want results!"  The Chairman of the Board exploded.  "We've been paying millions for those ads for a long time and putting education plans in for the masses.  I want more revenue now!  We've made heavy investments here and we want to get along the road to the micro-chipping of humanity.  How the hell will we be able to do that if we can't even get them dummed down with vaccines!"  He pounded his fist on the table, sending the papers flying.  Several underlings scurried to retrieve them.

What to do? The room fell silent. The ticking of the clock became the only sound.  A few of the meeting contingent then started to shift in their chairs as the minutes became extended.  The atmosphere teetered on the brink of hopelessness.

One of the younger execs who had come out of the media unit piped up at last.  His now wrinkled white shirt was straying out of his pants and his tie was awry.  "Why let's stage one, you know, an outbreak and 'suggest'  that people get vaccinated.  They'll believe that they should of course because they've been taught to.  Once our foot in the door that way, we'll be on our way! The next time we stage one, it will be something deadlier and we can mandate it."  He looked at the Chairman expectantly, like a small dog waiting for its owner to throw it a crumb of food.  The Chairman did not look at him.

One of the older execs patted him on the shoulder. "We tried that.  Measles, remember?  Nothing!"  He shook his head wearily.

"No.  Not measles.  It's not fatal.  What about an exotic disease?  Hep A or B?  Something that most people won't be vaccinated for.  People are always more afraid of what they don't know."  The young exec persisted, gesticulating wildly as he made his point.

The Director peered at him, scratching his chin thoughtfully.  "Son, you might just have something there.  But where?  Not where we tried before."

"What about Canada?  B.C maybe.? We've got people there and they really don't have that vaccine available unless they've traveled. We could hit a school.  Children don't get a vote in what happens to them and the parents will react before they think it through.  Peer pressure from other parents will cause the objectors to fall in line."  The young man persisted.
The Chairman of the Board looked over.  He looked directly at the young man.  Slowly by increments his scowl turned into a wide grin.  His eyes danced with delight.  "Son,"  The Chairman of the Board chuckled as he stood up. "You have a bright future with us."  He turned to the Director.  "Make it happen!"

To be continued.
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Catholic - what does that mean?

3/15/2015

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Catholic - means universal?  Maybe technically but let's not forget the tremendous amount of bloodshed perpetrated by this organization throughout all of history.  Anyone who wasn't Catholic or didn't at least pretend to be was brutally murdered.  That included those who protested against this "church" and especially any other belief system.  And if you were Aboriginal, you had better conform or be slaughtered!  If you weren't slaughtered your children would be sent to school (forcibly) and taught the ways of the Catholic church.  With great power goes great responsibility and this "church" has misused their power again and again.
The Catholic "church" has been a power broker behind governments for at least a thousand years and has either helped start wars to disempower those who would not get in line or advance the Catholic empire by exploration (read: exploitation) of new worlds.  There are no new worlds now and due to recent uncovering of some of the abuse of power - monetary, sexual, etc. - the "church" has fallen more and more into disfavour, although they remain the wealthiest organization in the world. 
So now they have decided to further the ambitions of the UN and invite all the disputers back into the fold?  To promote a universal religion under their guidance? 
That is worrisome. Although everyone's experience of life is different.  Here I will insert why this is a topic that hits home with me and why I am blogging about it.   I was raised in a Catholic home.  I am not really prepared to share the details of how dysfunctional my early life was, it was long ago and is now far away from who I have become, BUT we always looked good in "church".  One minute before we arrived and one minute after we arrived back home it was open season for cruelty and pain but while we were on display at "church" everything was absolutely PERFECT.  I watched and learned about what TRUTH was and how little it had to do with the Catholic organization - it is a religious business.  You pay your money to the "church" for the privilege of losing your Sunday mornings and any other time as ordained to their rituals. 
My parents were heavily involved in this organization so the priest used to occasionally come to our house and swill beer.  He took two vacations a year in Hawaii.  When I questioned him on how this lined up with his vow of poverty, he got angry.  Do you really think that that is okay, I dared to ask him, when there are people in your parish that can't feed their families?  He still kept going to Hawaii and his parishioners, rich and poor, kept subsidizing him.  But a greater power than his must have heard the question and it answered because  soon after that priest was transferred to a much poorer parish where he could no longer take those vacations.  Karma? 
I have also spent time in a fundamentalist Baptist denomination.  That pastor absconded with the funds.  Just so you know that it is not all roses in the other denominations either.  Ultimately I left religion in favour of spirituality.  I truly believe that abdicating your spirituality to some organization and letting someone else tell you what to believe is no longer, if it ever was, resonating with people.  It is time and past time for us to stand up individually and collectively to fulfill Jesus' prophecy of us - "Greater things than these shall ye also do, if ye believe."  He was speaking of the "miracles " he did and he did not mean to believe in him but rather to understand and believe that we are capable of emulating him in every way.  But that is another blog for another day. 
Please understand that I believe there are well meaning people in all denominations - they are not what I am questioning here.  And I have no problem whatsoever with Jeshua Ben Hur's message ( most people call him Jesus Christ but that is not his real name) in fact I believe that his message is timely and something that we as a species need to adopt but it is not and has never been, except in name embodied by the organization known as the Catholic or more properly, the Roman Catholic "Church".
Check out the verifiable facts in the video at the end of the post, put out by one of the non-Catholic denominations involving Biblical prophecy of "the Beast" and its corollation with the Roman Catholic organization.  It is interesting.  Watch and you decide.  I am not telling anyone what to believe only bringing up things here which have come to my attention and which I have been moved to share to bring others to an awareness of what is being said and done.  As always you need to process it and see if it rings true (or false) for you.
The Catholic "church" usurped some of the teachings of Jesus Christ when the movement became so popular as to threaten the Roman government.  The story goes that Constantine "saw the light" and converted to Christianity.  This is blatantly not true.  It was a smart political move.  It was a way of bringing back into the fold all of the slaves and others so essential to the Roman way of life, who were converting to Christianity and leaving their masters.  You see, the followers of Jesus promoted far more than Sunday worship, most of which was conveniently discarded by the Romans in favour of their existing religious structure.  The hybrid of the Christian and Roman churches is what we have today.  They simply changed out the statues that the Romans had been worshipping, renamed their holidays and retooled some of the prayers and songs and carried on.  The Bible was adopted with all of the books which taught about reincarnation, community, equality of the sexes, equal worth of every human being, unity consciousness and compassion, among other things torn out.  In their place the Jewish Old Testament was inserted, giving license for "an eye for an eye" and other such brutality, which Jesus never condoned.  The Jewish section was far more about a "jealous" god who would kill those that did not believe or those that sinned.  Jesus never preached that.  In fact the great irony that the Jewish readins would be side by side with Jesus' must have been a great joke among those Romans in the know - the rabbis who presided over the Old Testament were the very ones who wanted to kill Jesus!  What a slap in the face!  And these Catholics think he's coming back for them?  They have no idea who Jesus was nor do they care.  They do what is expedient for their own organization.  Nor do they care about their members.  And they especially have shown no compassion to any outliers.  Unless you have been baptised you are a sinner and sinners can be killed unless they repent.  Think of all the people through history who were killed for not recanting the truth!
Jesus said "For ye shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall set you free."  He did not say - The Catholic Truth or the convenient "truth".
And it is not the person Jesus Christ that is coming back at the end of the age but the Christ Consciousness.  Christ Consciousness is about compassion and unity - unity with Source (God) but not through a mediator .  The Catholic organization set itself up as a mediator between God and man.  This is part of why Luther and his thousands of original followers, fed up with the lies, taxes and exploitation of the Catholic church broke with them.  Others followed in rapid succession.   They were persecuted and murdered without merch until the  outcry became so great that the Cathoic "church" had to stop.  This Catholic "church" has never embodied the qualities of Christ consciousness. 
Father Tony is an interesting guy though isn't he? "Come home, prodigal sons!  Come home ot the father!  We will receive you with joy and richness!"  Slick.  I think he could sell igloos to eskimos.  And maybe in today's climate change they would go for it.  Maybe these guys will too.   After all, all that persecution stuff was so long ago.  They wouldn't still do those things, would they?
I don't really subscribe to fear.  But I watch this with some trepidation, cognizant of what a polarized righteous "church" did to so many for so long.  Let's not let that happen anymore.

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