Here is an excerpt from Conversations with God Book 3. At the end of the excerpt, God uses a similar analogy to one that Abraham often uses:
"The people of every country think I condone the war they are fighting, and condemn the war that their opponent is fighting. The people of every nation believe they have "God on their side." Every cause assumes the same thing. Indeed, every person feels the same thing-or at least hopes it is true whenever any decision or choice is made.
And do you know why all creatures believe God is on their side? Because I am. And all creatures have an intuitive knowing of this.
This is just another way of saying, "Your will for you is My will for you." And that is just another way of saying, I have given you all free will.
There is no free will if to exercise it in a certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.
So with regard to abortion or war, buying that car or marrying that person, having sex or not having sex, "doing your duty" or not "doing your duty," there is no such thing as right and wrong, and I have no preference in the matter.
You are all in the process of defining yourselves. Every act is an act of self-definition.
If you are pleased with how you have created yourself, if it serves you, you will continue doing so in that way. If you are not, you will stop. This is called evolution.
The process is slow because, as you evolve, you keep changing your ideas about what really serves you; you keep changing your concepts of "pleasure."
Remember what I said earlier. You can tell how highly a person or society has evolved by what that being or society calls "pleasure." And I will add here, by what it declares to serve it.
If it serves you to go to war and kill other beings, you will do so. If it serves you to terminate a pregnancy, you will do so. The only thing that changes as you evolve is your idea of what serves you. And that is based on what you think you are trying do to.
If you are trying to get to Seattle, it will not serve you to head towards San Jose. It is not "morally wrong" to go to San Jose-it simply doesn't serve you."
Edit: Gotta love the synchronicity! Here is a paper I stumbled across while looking for the trouble religious fanaticism has gotten us into. I will paste the link and first two paragraphs here:
On Religious Fanaticism
A Look at Transpersonal Identity Disorder
by
John Firman and Ann Gila
Our world today is torn asunder by men and women who claim that
God is on their side, and who, secure in the righteousness of their
positions, perpetrate acts of violent destruction. Such individuals are
driven by the certainty that they are privy to sacred truths and are
therefore morally obligated to do everything in their power—no matter
how many people may suffer—to act upon these truths. Coupled with
their inflated sense of personal rectitude, moral certainty, and ideological
purity is a tendency to dehumanize and even demonize those who oppose
them.
Although this disorder can be called “religious fanaticism,” those
afflicted need not appear wild-eyed or deranged; quite the contrary, they
can present themselves as thoughtful and responsible people inspired by
the loftiest of ideals. Nevertheless, their absolute confidence in themselves
and their cause, their willingness to create massive destruction for a
supposed higher good, and their dehumanization of their opponents, all
indicate the imbalance of a personality disorder. We need not point out
specific examples of this disorder perhaps, except to say that it can afflict
anyone, from the person on the street, to the international terrorist, to
the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
http://www.psychosynthesispaloalto.com/pdfs/Religious_Fan.pdf
An interesting read, to say the least...
Edit #2, here's another similarity between the teachings of CwG and my new favorite book, My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell. Here is one place where Tom talks about superiority (I added the bold): "How many of our wars, atrocities, and general acts of meanness have sprung from a sense of superiority? A belief in the supreme importance of humankind is the ultimate source of much mischief. The notion that humans are inherently superior leads to the idea that some humans are superior to, or more significant than, others – a concept that represents the first step down a slippery slope that is both steep and long."
Thursday, October 1, 2009
What's it gonna be? Emergence or emergencY?
From Solara's Surf Report 2009
(reposted without permission)
THE PATH OF EMERGENCY
If we continue walking on the crumbling road of duality, we will experience a continual state of emergency. If we are still working at a job we hate, it may well disappear. If we're still holding onto a partner who is not our One True Love, the partnership has a good chance of splitting apart. If we are still filling our lives with activities that have expired or are superficial, they will be cut away from us. If we still believe in lack and scarcity, we will experience more of it. If we hold onto the belief that hardship is a natural part of life, life will be hard. If we are still hiding from our True Selves by building walls of resistance, all our hiding places will be stripped away. If we cling onto our old security nets, they will disappear from under our feet. If we are still basing our actions upon fear, then our fears will be so greatly magnified that we will either break down or breakthrough. This is the Path of Emergency.
THE PATH OF EMERGENCE
If this road doesn't sound very appealing, we all have the choice of walking a totally new road, the Path of Emergence. Here, we put all our efforts into emerging as True Core Beings. We continually remove each old pattern, each glitch that arises, all past residue, from our Personal Matrix. We constantly hone our beings so that we only speak our truth, so that we only express our true feelings. We let go of any activities, friendships and partnerships that are no longer real and true. We stop working at jobs that drain away our lifeforce and create new jobs where we can fully express our creativity and serve our true purpose. We find our hidden bank accounts and know that we will always be taken care of. We expand our stance and stand as the true King of Kings or Queen of Queens that we really are. We become Warriors of Love and spread LOVE everywhere we walk!
2009 is the Year of the Emergence of the True Ones. It is time for us to step in, step forward, join together as One, awaken the vast potential of the sleeping giant of our One Being and finally do what we came here to do. The more we do this, the easier everything will become. The miracles will manifest, the Green Lights will not only remain on, they will become increasingly brighter, illuminating our clear pathway into the New and True.
(reposted without permission)
THE PATH OF EMERGENCY
If we continue walking on the crumbling road of duality, we will experience a continual state of emergency. If we are still working at a job we hate, it may well disappear. If we're still holding onto a partner who is not our One True Love, the partnership has a good chance of splitting apart. If we are still filling our lives with activities that have expired or are superficial, they will be cut away from us. If we still believe in lack and scarcity, we will experience more of it. If we hold onto the belief that hardship is a natural part of life, life will be hard. If we are still hiding from our True Selves by building walls of resistance, all our hiding places will be stripped away. If we cling onto our old security nets, they will disappear from under our feet. If we are still basing our actions upon fear, then our fears will be so greatly magnified that we will either break down or breakthrough. This is the Path of Emergency.
THE PATH OF EMERGENCE
If this road doesn't sound very appealing, we all have the choice of walking a totally new road, the Path of Emergence. Here, we put all our efforts into emerging as True Core Beings. We continually remove each old pattern, each glitch that arises, all past residue, from our Personal Matrix. We constantly hone our beings so that we only speak our truth, so that we only express our true feelings. We let go of any activities, friendships and partnerships that are no longer real and true. We stop working at jobs that drain away our lifeforce and create new jobs where we can fully express our creativity and serve our true purpose. We find our hidden bank accounts and know that we will always be taken care of. We expand our stance and stand as the true King of Kings or Queen of Queens that we really are. We become Warriors of Love and spread LOVE everywhere we walk!
2009 is the Year of the Emergence of the True Ones. It is time for us to step in, step forward, join together as One, awaken the vast potential of the sleeping giant of our One Being and finally do what we came here to do. The more we do this, the easier everything will become. The miracles will manifest, the Green Lights will not only remain on, they will become increasingly brighter, illuminating our clear pathway into the New and True.
Excerpt from Communion with God
Please forgive my blatant copyright infringement for reposting this important message (without express permission) from Communion with God, Neale Donald Walsch.
We Are All One.
This is the only message that matters. It is the only message there is. Everything else in Life is a reflection of this message. Everything else sends it.
The fact that you have so far failed to receive it (you have heard it often, but you have failed to receive it) is what has caused every misery, every sorrow, every conflict, every heartache in your experience. It has caused every murder, every war, every rape and robbery, every assault and attack, mental, verbal, and physical. It has caused every illness and disease, and every encounter with what you call "death."
The idea that we are not One is an illusion.
Most people believe in God: They just don't believe in a God who believes in them.
God does believe in them. And God loves them more than most of them know.
The idea that God turned stone-silent and stopped talking to the human race a long time ago is false.
The idea that God is angry with the human race and kicked it out of Paradise is false.
The idea that God has set Himself up as judge and jury and will be deciding whether members of the human race go to heaven or hell is false.
God loves every human being who ever lived, lives now, or ever will live.
God's desire is for every soul to return to God, and God cannot fail in having this desire fulfilled.
God is separate from nothing, and nothing is separate from God.
There is nothing that God needs, because God is everything there is.
This is the good news. Everything else is an illusion.
The human race has been living with illusions for a long time. This is not because the human race is stupid, but because the human race is very smart. Humans have understood intuitively that illusions have a purpose, and a very important one. Most humans have simply forgotten that they know this.
And they have forgotten that their forgetting is itself part of what they have forgotten-and therefore part of the illusion.
Now it is time for humans to remember.
You are one of those who will lead the vanguard in this process. There is nothing surprising in this, given what has been going on in your life.
You have come to this book to remember The Illusions Of Humans, so that you may never again be caught up in them but achieve communion with God once more in the living of your life through the awareness of Ultimate Reality.
It is perfect that you have done so. And it is, obviously, not happenstance.
You have come here so that you may know experientially that God resides within you, that you may have, whenever you wish, a meeting with the Creator.
The Creator may be experienced and found within you and all around you. But you must look past The Illusions Of Humans. You must ignore them.
Here are The Ten Illusions. Get to know them well so that you will recognize them when you encounter them.
1. Need Exists
2. Failure Exists
3. Disunity Exists
4. Insufficiency Exists
5. Requirement Exists
6. Judgment Exists
7. Condemnation Exists
8. Conditionality Exists
9. Superiority Exists
10. Ignorance Exists
The first five of these are the Physical Illusions, having to do with life in your physical body. The second five are the Metaphysical Illusions, having to do with non-physical realities.
We Are All One.
This is the only message that matters. It is the only message there is. Everything else in Life is a reflection of this message. Everything else sends it.
The fact that you have so far failed to receive it (you have heard it often, but you have failed to receive it) is what has caused every misery, every sorrow, every conflict, every heartache in your experience. It has caused every murder, every war, every rape and robbery, every assault and attack, mental, verbal, and physical. It has caused every illness and disease, and every encounter with what you call "death."
The idea that we are not One is an illusion.
Most people believe in God: They just don't believe in a God who believes in them.
God does believe in them. And God loves them more than most of them know.
The idea that God turned stone-silent and stopped talking to the human race a long time ago is false.
The idea that God is angry with the human race and kicked it out of Paradise is false.
The idea that God has set Himself up as judge and jury and will be deciding whether members of the human race go to heaven or hell is false.
God loves every human being who ever lived, lives now, or ever will live.
God's desire is for every soul to return to God, and God cannot fail in having this desire fulfilled.
God is separate from nothing, and nothing is separate from God.
There is nothing that God needs, because God is everything there is.
This is the good news. Everything else is an illusion.
The human race has been living with illusions for a long time. This is not because the human race is stupid, but because the human race is very smart. Humans have understood intuitively that illusions have a purpose, and a very important one. Most humans have simply forgotten that they know this.
And they have forgotten that their forgetting is itself part of what they have forgotten-and therefore part of the illusion.
Now it is time for humans to remember.
You are one of those who will lead the vanguard in this process. There is nothing surprising in this, given what has been going on in your life.
You have come to this book to remember The Illusions Of Humans, so that you may never again be caught up in them but achieve communion with God once more in the living of your life through the awareness of Ultimate Reality.
It is perfect that you have done so. And it is, obviously, not happenstance.
You have come here so that you may know experientially that God resides within you, that you may have, whenever you wish, a meeting with the Creator.
The Creator may be experienced and found within you and all around you. But you must look past The Illusions Of Humans. You must ignore them.
Here are The Ten Illusions. Get to know them well so that you will recognize them when you encounter them.
1. Need Exists
2. Failure Exists
3. Disunity Exists
4. Insufficiency Exists
5. Requirement Exists
6. Judgment Exists
7. Condemnation Exists
8. Conditionality Exists
9. Superiority Exists
10. Ignorance Exists
The first five of these are the Physical Illusions, having to do with life in your physical body. The second five are the Metaphysical Illusions, having to do with non-physical realities.
forced vaccinations
When they forced vaccinations on the children I remained silent; I was not a child.
When they forced vaccinations on the military I remained silent; I was not in the military.
When they forced vaccinations on health care workers I did not speak out, for I was not a health care worker.
When they forced vaccinations on the pregnant I remained silent; I was not pregnant.
But then I thought, if I remain silent, who’s going to speak out for me, when they try to do it to me?
I do not want a mandatory vaccination and I do not want to be RFID’d or microchipped. Is there anyone out there who feels the same way?
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/RS21414.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MEWP4A6ug&feature=player_embedded
http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/news.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGEq2C2Tjuc
When they forced vaccinations on the military I remained silent; I was not in the military.
When they forced vaccinations on health care workers I did not speak out, for I was not a health care worker.
When they forced vaccinations on the pregnant I remained silent; I was not pregnant.
But then I thought, if I remain silent, who’s going to speak out for me, when they try to do it to me?
I do not want a mandatory vaccination and I do not want to be RFID’d or microchipped. Is there anyone out there who feels the same way?
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/RS21414.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MEWP4A6ug&feature=player_embedded
http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/news.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGEq2C2Tjuc
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Back to Basics
Well ok, I admit it. I confess. I have been out there seeking other spiritual nutrition besides Neale Donald Walsch. I finally got to meet the man in person and spent a little quality time with him over the weekend of July 24th/25th, and then I spent the rest of the summer off behind his back, hunting down other material, listening to other so-called Channelings, but you know what, it always comes back to Conversations with God.
Yesterday I had to go bring the WECCE book back to the library because it had become severely overdue, and didn't even belong to my local library branch, but was borrowed from another town. So, I go bring the book back, mostly unread, and pay the forty cent fine. I print off some forms that my bank needs in order to modify my mortgage, (I use the library or the career center's printers since I don't have one of my own), use the ladies room and start to head out. But something told me to see if they had any interesting audios or videos and wouldn't you know, coincidentally, I happened to notice CWG Book 3 on cassette, read by NDW, Ed Asner and Ellen Burstyn. I could hardly believe my luck! With the fall leaves starting to change, my two obligations out of the way for the day, and a growing Powerball jackpot (tickets can be purchased in NH but not in MA) I suddenly realized I was going on a road trip! Gorgeous sunny day, full tank of gas, something amazing to listen to for what I hoped would be hours, and I was on my way. Well just the sheer synchronicity of that entire library trip had tears pouring down my face by the time I got back in my car. And even though cassette 1 had not been properly rewound prior to being returned, I went ahead and jumped right in on side 2 knowing I had read all of this material before anyway and could most likely listen to it out of chronological order and still be ok.
Well the tears continued to flow as I listened and drove, and revelation after revelation kept sweeping over me like waves, to the point of needing to actually turn off the beloved material so I could ponder my own thoughts for a bit and follow them off on whatever tangential paths they were inspired to take.
I came home fully inspired to start spreading this material more aggressively than I already have, because now more than ever we need the answers that have so lovingly and generously been provided therein.
Yesterday I had to go bring the WECCE book back to the library because it had become severely overdue, and didn't even belong to my local library branch, but was borrowed from another town. So, I go bring the book back, mostly unread, and pay the forty cent fine. I print off some forms that my bank needs in order to modify my mortgage, (I use the library or the career center's printers since I don't have one of my own), use the ladies room and start to head out. But something told me to see if they had any interesting audios or videos and wouldn't you know, coincidentally, I happened to notice CWG Book 3 on cassette, read by NDW, Ed Asner and Ellen Burstyn. I could hardly believe my luck! With the fall leaves starting to change, my two obligations out of the way for the day, and a growing Powerball jackpot (tickets can be purchased in NH but not in MA) I suddenly realized I was going on a road trip! Gorgeous sunny day, full tank of gas, something amazing to listen to for what I hoped would be hours, and I was on my way. Well just the sheer synchronicity of that entire library trip had tears pouring down my face by the time I got back in my car. And even though cassette 1 had not been properly rewound prior to being returned, I went ahead and jumped right in on side 2 knowing I had read all of this material before anyway and could most likely listen to it out of chronological order and still be ok.
Well the tears continued to flow as I listened and drove, and revelation after revelation kept sweeping over me like waves, to the point of needing to actually turn off the beloved material so I could ponder my own thoughts for a bit and follow them off on whatever tangential paths they were inspired to take.
I came home fully inspired to start spreading this material more aggressively than I already have, because now more than ever we need the answers that have so lovingly and generously been provided therein.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This is the week for meeting famous people
Well I had already planned on going to Amesbury this Friday night to meet my favorite author, Neale Donald Walsch. I was thinking maybe I would bring one of my Conversations with God books for him to sign. Not sure whether I need Neale's autograph or not, I think meeting him might be enough. But one person's autograph I definitely DO need, and may have a chance at getting, finally, tomorrow night, is Joey Kramer, drummer for Aerosmith. If you've read my blog about my two prized possessions, then you know that four out of the five members of Aerosmith have already signed my concert tee from a few years back, 6 years back or more now I guess, and the only one I had left to get was Joey. Well, he's going to be in Hingham tomorrow night to sign copies of his books. Now, I realize sometimes at these events, they are only "allowed" (duh! by whom?) to sign the book and nothing else. But I have also seen with my own eyes Joe Perry signing many other pieces of memorabilia besides the book or CD we were there to purchase and have autographed. Of course, Joe is not Joey. And there's no telling until I get there. So the suspense and exhilaration of even the possibility of having him sign it are delightful! And the not knowing makes it even more delicious!
I know if I don't get it tomorrow night there will be other chances, and I have never worried about completing the shirt, I've always known it will one day be complete, but right now I feel like I am Very Very close to having it done! Hooray for me! I will let you know what happens...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Edit 07.24.09
OK, so he didn't sign my shirt. It seemed to be Barnes & Noble's policy more than Joey's personal choice, but they were adamant about it so I didn't even ask. But I did have the presence of mind to ask if, the next time I meet him, he would and he said "sure". Anyway, he did sign my book, and I did get to pose for a picture with him, and I am pleased with the way the picture turned out, and now I still have something to look forward to in the future.
Meanwhile, meeting Neale Donald Walsch and getting to hear him speak in Amesbury for free tonight not only lived up to but in fact actually exceeded my wildest imaginings of how good it could be. He was funny, he was poignant, he had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand, and I swear I got the best seat in the house. Unfortunately I left my Dark Side of the Moon hoodie behind, but the good news is, I requested and have been granted a scholarship to tomorrow's full-day intensive, so I get to go back and spend the whole day with him tomorrow! I am so glad I was inspired to ask if they had any reduced rate or scholarship programs, because I really cannot afford the $249 to get in the door, but I really REALLY did not want to miss spending the day with him! I am so happy I get to go back! Thank you, God!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Importance of Breathing
Many texts have instructed me to pay more attention to my breathing but none got through to me the way Michael Sharp's work did. Michael never comes out and says "You must quit smoking" but everything he does say about breathing, maintaining a healthy physical unit, and acting consciously with the highest good of all concerned in mind clearly points to this necessity. Not to mention, cigarettes are becoming damned expensive! So now of course it is necessary for me to quit and I intend to work towards that but in the meantime, I am busy giving every breath, smoke filled and not, over to God. I have been giving each day to God for several years now, but Dr. Sharp's work has made me realize, in a more profound way than the Conversations with God material, that every breath can indeed be an act of Communion with God. I have given over my life to him, now I dedicate to Him every individual breath. He has done an amazing job in delighting me with this life I have handed over to Him, now let's see how far he can take me now that I am devoting every breath.
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