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A Freudian Interpretation Of Enlightenment

Sigmund Freud believed that human beings were motivated by two inner drives: eros and thanatos.

Eros was the drive for life, for more of it, for the abundance and fullness of it.

Thanatos was its opposite, the urge to overcome the disappointments of life by craving forgetfulness and, ultimately, oblivion through death.

While most of Freudianism has been debunked because his ideas, although exciting to the imagination, lack self-consistency, observed verification, and close correlation with reality, his ideas on life and death appear to have an axiomatic quality to them. This could be because these ideas have such a primal quality. It is difficult to deny they exist because a casual observation of any human life shows these two forces at work.

In fact, it may not be unreasonable to ask that since death is inevitable, we should not rush to it prematurely, by trying to arrest the quickening of our desires. Thanatos will have its day soon enough. Wisdom, perhaps, consists of simply embracing eros while it is still available to us.

When for a moment you stop thinking about all the things in your life that are not working very well and instead focus on the sensation of livingness, what you experience is joy. This joy is a powerful vibration. It stimulates more of itself and rises, if you let it, to the point of ecstasy, a place where you are standing outside yourself in exhuberant wonder at the miracle of it all.

Another interesting thing happens when you allow eros to have a say in your mien and predispositions. You experience a sense of communion and sympathy with other sentient beings. A corresponding reaction then manifests within them and they start to view you as a friend, as one who is aligned with their own urge for well-being.

This attitude, if allowed to continue, expands even more profoundly. From directing it to specific points of light, other places where sentience is vibrant, it moves to an all-encompassing, all-embracing perspective, where all things, living or non-living, close or far, familiar or unfamiliar start to correlate with your affection. You see not your own life or that of other beings, but a galaxy of Life. You experience not only your own awareness but that of all intelligence everywhere.

If pushed still further, you will fall into a mystical experience, where who you are is everyone, and in this oceanic consciousness of unification, life itself is seen as an infinitude and your view of thantos fades into viewing it as an illusion.

This idea is not a beautiful fiction. Examples of people who have reached this state, people like the later Lester Levinson or contemporary teachers like Echart Tolle, can be found.

The principle of eros then is one of circulation. It expands and explores, it connects with all, and it is in sympathetic vibration with all.

From this perspective, you find no opposite, no direct contradiction to eros. You step out of the realm of dualistic thinking. You enter the here and now and lose all interest in the then and there. Thanatos is exposed as an imposter. Instead, you appreciate that while forms come and go and entropy does appear to be a universal constant, consciousness itself never fades or dies but only transmutes itself into ever-widening arcs of comprehension of itself.

Yet the uplifting power of eros is rarely fully liberated in most human lives. People generally do not think of enlightenment as a possible future. If they do think about it, it is regarded as an anomaly best avoided. Their imagination is not inflamed by such visions.

The culprit for this narrow perspective is thanatos. It puts a lid on everything. You dare not hope too much, you dare not try too much, and you dare not say, feel, or think too much because of thanatos. Inherent in the cultural codes of most societies, encrusted in its mythos and logos, it has taken on a consensus reality.

Another way of looking at eros is love. Another way of looking at thanatos is fear. Love pushed to an extreme is liberation, but fear is what restrains love from full expression. The pursuit of enlightenment is the pursuit of pure being; it is a movement toward maximal allowing; it is a declaration of liberation. People who pursue it are those who desire to fully experience themselves, pushing their individuality until it expands into a universality. Most religions aim at fostering obedience, not release into true self-emancipation. They are corralled by a thanatos so subtle it is only discerned by the most acute, who upon suddenly discovering it may just as quickly repress it.

Eros is held in check by thanatos. When a person can get free of this bond, then life in its fullness is experienced and is embraced as an eternal factor. It is a rare and special experience; so rare and so special, in fact, that it is seldom even articulated. Thanatos has a way of squelching the idea of being more than human, of being more fully alive.

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Keeping The Faith

Two weeks ago my daughter, Christy, and I were having a conversation. She stated that most girls have the kind of mom who share a spa day with them, who invite them to go get their nails done together or try out a new hairstyle.

We both laughed at her words, because I was opposite from this kind of mom. In fact, my daughter ended the conversation with the statement, “Instead I get a mom who wants to save the world. And on top of it you dragged me into doing it too!”

I don’t know what I would do without my daughter, I trust her completely. She edited my book. She edits every article I write and of course made some of the article writing hers. Three of the titles were her ideas and she also is building my website

Christy has three children. Samuel is always reminding me that he is going to be four very soon. Paige just turned 2 and Sofia is 6 months. All are very energetic and Christy must give up sleep in order to work for me.

Her faith in God is great and she endeavors to teach her children the same principles. She is all about living a Christian life and being a faithful and loving wife to her husband and a loving and good mom to her children. I tell her all the time that she comes from a long line of great Christian mothers.

You would never believe that Christy had ever experienced anything but good in her lifetime. Most people believe that you can’t be so grounded and be such a good person if something bad has ever happened to you. You just had to have lived a charmed life!

The common phrase we always hear is ‘bad things always happen to bad people’. Yet what people think is truth is often a lie. The real truth is that bad things happen to good people because our world is under the rule of Satan.

John 5:19, “We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.”

When Christy was five and attending kindergarten the worse possible thing happened in her life. Her parents divorced and she and her brothers became the ponds in a huge custody battle.

I suppose this custody fight wouldn’t have been so traumatic if it weren’t for the fact that our family was so religious. Her dad was an ordained deacon and his father was a Baptist minister. My own sister and her husband were in full time ministry and I our family came from a long line of ministers and missionaries.

Everything Christy was ever taught was about obeying God and serving in church. You see in 1986 divorce was a very big sin! Yet there is a sin that is bigger than divorce and that is the sin of being gay! I would go as far as to say that for the church it is even bigger than murder!

Churches preach that homosexuality is wrong! Using Sodom and Gomorrah as a story illustrating God’s hatred of gays. But they quietly leave out scripture that leaves out the real reason for the destruction of these cities.

2 Peter 2:6, “God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.”

The scripture specifically states that it was not about sexual sin, but about godlessness. Never the less churches, families, and society throw out their gay family members because the churches skip these scriptures.

Because Theologians and religious historians refuse to set the record straight, homosexuals are deprived of their children and denied justice in the courts. They are humiliated, persecuted, killed and despised all in the name of God.

Ezekiel 16:48-50, “As surely as I am the living God, the Sovereign Lord says, ‘your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done. She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged. They were proud stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.’”

They say, love the sinner but hate the sin. But Christy can tell you that this is not true! You can not love what you hate. It is like telling Satan that he has to love God and we all know how impossible that would be!

Because people have been misled by the church, everything I did as a good Christian mother was counteracted by me falling in love with a woman. It didn’t matter how much I loved my children or how diligent I was in teaching them about God and doing service in my church.

Because of false teachings, a huge tug-of-war began not just between husband and wife, but with husband, church, family, friends and society all against me. A battle that was so tipped in favor of her dad that Christy struggled to love me regardless of what they said about me.

In fact, Christy and her brothers became so entangled in the fight for who had the right to be custodial parent that you would have thought that they would have never had anything to do with God ever! Because God was the reason they were not to love their mother.

They were told they couldn’t love me because I was living a life of sin. They were confused by strangers who told them how unlucky they were to have a mom who had fallen from God’s grace and chose to live an ungodly lifestyle. From church to school to the small town they lived in, they were constantly the center of unwanted attention because of their Satan possessed mother.

Christy didn’t want this kind of attention! She just wanted her mom. She didn’t care what the church had to say, she just wanted to live with her mom. She didn’t understand why everyone was in such an uproar, because she saw me as the same mom who loved her and had taken care of her since birth.

So you can see that her childhood was not peaceful. She was taken away from her mom and given to her dad. I was given no visitation and as a result I fled with my children and was arrested and put in jail while Christy endured being put in the hands of the SRS.

Christy saw her mother attacked by her father, while the pastor and a deacon watched. She saw her mother being stalked by church members in the name of God. She saw her grandparents turn their back on her mother and wish her dead.

She was forced into counseling as a small child. She was forced to go before a judge and tell him who she wanted to live with. Even after she stated she wanted to live with her mom, the judge ignored her words.

Time and again she was involved in one court proceeding after another while her testimony to live with her mother was disregarded. Whenever visitation resumed with her mother she was interrogated by her father, councilors, and family.

It is amazing today from the persecution my daughter endured from church, society and family members that she came through fifteen years of childhood holding onto her faith regardless of whether her prayers were answered or not.

It took until my daughter was an adult and able to make up her own mind that she began to see the mother that I really was. A mother who loved her and wanted the best for her and her family. Today our bond is strong because of our mission to tell the world the truth about God and love!

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Rain Dancing and The Law of Attraction

Wikipedia’s definition of a Rain Dance:

“A rain dance is a ceremonial dance that is performed in order to invoke rain and to ensure the protection of the harvest.

Rain dances can be found in many cultures, from Ancient Egypt to certain Native American tribes. They could still be found in the 20th century Balkans , in a ritual known as Paparuda (Romanian) or Perperuna (Slavic). The traditional Native American Cherokee tribe performed rain dances to both induce precipitation from clouds as well as cleanse evil spirits [1] . Cherokee legend says that the summoned rain contains the spirits of dead Chiefs who upon awakening from the clouds battle evil spirits in the transitional plane between our reality and the spirit world [2] . It was also believed that particularly elaborate and ornamental rain dances could inspire the participants as well as audience to partake in unusual acts of spiritual worship [3].”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_dance

Our definition:

The Conscious Creation Rain Dance: a ceremonial party of one or more of dancing, celebrating and creating using the power of the Law of Attraction and applying the principles of mind over matter.

In a ceremonial rain dance, the dancers do not pray for rain; they don’t beg, plead, or hope that rain will arrive soon. These acts (praying, begging, pleading, and hoping) although more positive than the acknowledgement of ‘the lack of rain’ and therefore helpful, do not have the vibrational power or the magnetic pull the participants are intending to harness.

The power of the rain dance lies in the intensity and the passion with which the dancers throw their entire being into the party. In addition to preparing their face and body with the proper ‘rain dance’ makeup and costume, they hop, jump, skip, bounce, dance, juggle snakes, chant, scream, shout, yell and immerse their entire beings into playing in the rain. This is why I say, “They are not praying for rain, they are already playing in the rain!”

The rain dance invokes rain because it invokes the power of the Law of Attraction vibrantly, powerfully, passionately, vigorously, fervently, and with conviction.

What would happen to your conscious creation aptitude, if you were to do your own version of a rain dance for the ‘things’ you want to manifest in your life?

I have discovered that most of us (myself included) are lazy and non-committal when it comes to really ‘playing in the rain’ in order to manifest. We say our affirmations, do our 17 seconds to one minutes worth of visualization, maybe even 3 minutes a day on EFT and then we go about our ‘business’ hoping that the prosperity we really want will arrive. Indeed, it will. Even the above exercises are enough to invoke the law of attraction and create what we want.

However, most of us, at one point or another want more and want it faster! This is where your rain dance comes in! The rain dance pulls forth the power of conviction and certainty. Every conscious creator that wants to manifest something quickly must embrace a solid sense of certainty if they are to achieve rapid manifestation.

It’s the power of absolute certainty and conviction that creates rapid manifestations.

Another example of how the power of conviction, passion, and the physical invocation of certainty creates a miraculous experience is known by firewalkers. If you are a fellow firewalker, then you already know how to do your rain dance. Simply, use the same passion raising dancing, clapping, and celebrating that you would use to walk that fire!

If you are not a firewalker (yet), then let me explain. One of my teachers, Dorothea Cangelosi, is a well-respected healer, intuitive, and spiritual icon in the Houston and greater spiritual community. What I love most about her is that she’s real, approachable, accessible and still congruent. She inspires me to reach beyond because of her heightened spiritual awareness and powers and yet she can still throw back a margarita, tell a dirty joke or curse a ‘jerk’ when she feels so inspired. Then, she can turn right around and perform a spirit-invoking crystal bowl meditation that transports her followers to new realms of spiritual evolution and even out of body experiences!

A couple of years ago, I went to a New Year’s Eve fire-walk that Dorothea was leading. We gathered the wood and lit the fire and enjoyed meaningful but ordinary conversations as the ceremony began. The coals from the fire burned red as we began to dance, chant, and summon the courage and conviction to walk the fire. The few reluctant guests that had no intention of walking the fire, watched with incredulous smirks on their brow as the rest of us began our passionate dancing.

Dorothea was as calm and blase about the entire fire as she would be if she were making scrambled eggs. To watch her, one would be convinced that the fire was bogus; it’s some type of optical illusion! There must be some type of special wood embers that although glowing red and smoking profusely, didn’t take on the heat from the flame.

Dorothea clapped and made the ‘fire fairies’ dance and walked the fire like a little girl jumping in a new pool. Dorothea embodied the conviction and therefore, didn’t require the same level of belief acceleration that was essential for the rest of us.

For the non-Dorothea’s in the group, we had to create the courage and belief before walking barefoot across those coals. I danced and worked myself up into a state of passionate conviction that the fire was cold! Then, I ran across the fire, at first very, very fast because there was still a part of me that was fearful. Then, as I continued to perform my trance-like dance I increased my belief that the fire was cold and I began to walk and even bounce and stroll across the coals because I knew that the fire was cold. I knew that my body was divinely protected, and that the entire experience was safe and ultimately empowering.

It was a cold fire because I invoked a passionate belief that it was so!

You too can invoke the power of conviction and certainty in order to manifest with warp speed.

You can do a rain dance for anything you want to create. If you want to attract your ideal mate, then Rain Dance it! If you want to create prosperity, Rain Dance it! If you want to create your life purpose, Rain Dance it! If you want health and wholeness, Rain Dance it!

You know what this looks and feels like already. Trust yourself, be brave, stand-up and clap, dance, celebrate, sing, and throw a personal creation party by playing in the rain (your dreams) now! If you feel silly, then you’re on the right track. You can throw your creation rain dance party by yourself or with a few brave friends. It doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that you are sending out a very loud, clear, vibrant, convincing signal to the Universe that you already HAVE all that you desire now and you are gratefully celebrating that Truth!

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Marketing The Gospel – Is It A Contradiction In Terms?

“If any man comes after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will find it.” (Mark 8:34)

‘Marketing the Gospel’ – is it a contradiction in terms? The concept sounds sort of self-defeating, like trying to get the church to run a protection racket or to set up a brothel as a form of Christian outreach. And at a glance, our Gospel text would suggest that, if there is such a thing as Gospel marketing, Jesus obviously didn’t know how to do it.

And yet, strictly speaking, we preachers are always doing marketing. Whenever we present a ‘product’ of any kind, we are marketing it, and that’s as true of our presentation of the Gospel as it is of any other product. It’s just a question of whether it’s good marketing or bad marketing.

What I mean is that you can never present anything in a neutral way. The way you dress, the way you speak, the way you present yourself to others, always shapes the way your message is perceived. If you preach the gospel in a way that is fiery and aggressive, that is going to affect the way your message is perceived by your audience. If you wear clerical robes that are colourful and symbolic, that is going to effect the way people hear you. If you try to remove yourself from the process completely by simply reading pieces of Scripture in a monotonous tone, that too is going to shape what your listeners hear.

There is no neutral ground. Every time you present anything by way of dialogue, written article or sermon, you package it in some way or other, and so you market it. Admittedly, some preachers package the gospel in such a way that the message seems to be more about the preacher than about Christ, but that just means that they are marketing their message badly (or marketing the wrong message). Either way, we can’t escape marketing. What we need is marketing that is appropriate for servants of the Lord Jesus. And there’s the rub.

The problem with most marketing, as I see it, is that it is judged solely in terms of its results. If lots of people buy your product as a result of your marketing, it is good marketing. Conversely, if only a few people buy it, you have marketed poorly. This is obviously is not sufficient for the Gospel marketer.

While it is tempting to assume that the sermon that leaves a goodly number of parishioners in tears is a good one, it may just be the result of clever emotional manipulation on the part of the preacher. Conversely, we may be quick to judge the sermon that has parishioners storming out during the service as a bad one, but isn’t that exactly the sort of response the Lord Jesus regularly received?

Now I know that we are taught to ‘know the tree by the fruits’, which means that good outcomes should indicate good marketing, but I’d suggest that we need to look for those fruits further down the track. Teary parishioners and large amounts of cash in the offertory are not necessarily the good fruits we need to look for. Changed lives that go the distance – now that’s fruit. Think again of the message of the Lord Jesus Himself. Over time, it turned human history upside-down, but in the short-term, the only obvious result was that He got Himself killed.

Let me cut to the chase here. The missing criterion by which good marketing ought to be judged is… truth! This is the ingredient that differentiates the marketing of Jesus and the Apostles from so many of their modern-day representatives.

Telling the truth, and marketing in a way that is true to the message – that’s what puts the Gospel into Gospel marketing.

Good Gospel marketing functions to make the Gospel clear, not necessarily attractive. It means communicating to people in a language that they can understand, but without importing the values that they are comfortable with.

Does this mean that we should disregard results as a means of judging our success? Undoubtedly the answer is ‘yes’ – at least in the short term. We must focus on faithfulness rather than results, and leave the long-term results up to God.

Does this mean that we should disregard all the obvious marketing mechanisms that appeal to the basic human appetites for sex, youth and beauty? Well, first and foremost we need to be true to the Gospel.

For the Christian faith does celebrate the ‘abundant life’, but it’s an abundant life that includes sacrifice, suffering and death, and these are difficult concepts to ‘sell’. And we do celebrate beauty, but if you can’t see the beauty in offering a cup of cold water to someone who is thirsty, well … you’re not ready to market the Gospel.

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Do Fish See Water?

Fish do not see the water they live in because that is all that they swim in. It has become an invisible part of their experience. It is not only in their environment but in themselves. Similarly, people who create limited thoughts, think that the world itself is filled with limitations.

How do limited thoughts create limited people?

Let us count the ways.

One: Reversed Use Of The Law of Attraction.

According to the Law of Attraction, you get what you think about most of the time. In other words, thoughts are things. And the more you think about things and the more you feel about them, the quicker you draw them into your experience.

The Law of Attraction is not an airy-fairy philosophy. You can find evidence for it.

In Quantum Mechanics. In Bell’s Theorem. In the traditions of many spiritual philosophies and ancient religions. But, above all, through trying it out and seeing the results for yourself. There is nothing irrational about this law. It is as solid and as irrefutable as gravity.

It works all the time. Those who do not know about it, use it by default. It is a perpetual source of their mis-creations. It seems to them that things are just flying at them, that things are always happening to them, and that they are innocent victims of other people and circumstances.

Many people actually know all about the Law of Attraction, but it still works against them. This is because they do not use it consciously. So, they continue to mis-create.

These people fall into two groups: one, the skeptics, who claim to have a rational predisposition; and two, those who forgot about it.

The skeptics dismiss it out of intellectual pride. They choose to dismiss it, not

because the theory is vague and there is no proof for it, but because they do not do any kind of research and experimentation with it. Even an elementary study of ancient spiritual literature, Jungian psychology, and the New Physics will show that the world we think of as common sense has some bizarre anomalies to it.

The forgetful dismiss it because they are overwhelmed by phenomena. They cry for a way to quench their thirst, while all along a glass of pure, clean water is sitting on the table before them. They yearn for the rich fruits of life while sitting in front of a banquet table.

If you fail to either acknowledge the Law of Attraction or fail to use it, for one reason or another, then you will continue to use it by default, bringing more and more of the things that you don’t want into your experience.

Two: Lack of Vision.

Those who think in limited ways, lack vision. They do not see the possibility and opportunity before them. They have learned how to filter out the good and focus on the bad.

Here is a real life example:

Thousands of people drive through the desert regions of the U.S.A. on a main highway. All they see is a lot of hot, dry, arid land.

One man, however, was driving through it, and he saw something different. He saw a man-made lake, shady trees, and a beautiful retirement village. He bought a parcel of land for a low price, after all, it was considered worthless, and transformed his inner vision into a wonderful housing complex. His vision transformed into reality made him wealthy.

Opportunity for self-betterment in every area of your life is available to you, but you have to notice it first before you can act. One way of failing to notice opportunity is to wear the blinders of limited thinking.

Three: Low Energy.

When you think limited thoughts, you tend to neglect good eating, exercising, and doing things that encourage your body to be in a state of optimum health and vitality. The result is low energy, and this, in turn, creates a highly unproductive way of living in the world.

Four: Birds of a Feather.

People who have limited thoughts do not like to mingle with those who have expansive thoughts. It irritates them. In turn, those who have an optimistic view of things, do not have the patience to spend time grumbling, gossiping, or playing the game of “Ain’t It Awful!” Limited people like to associate with others like them, who are open to their line of thought. This reinforces their tendency to think limited thoughts.

Five: Low Self-Esteem.

People who think limited thoughts have low self-esteem. This is because they have low energy, feel depressed, associate with people like themselves, lack vision, and are constantly baffled by how things just keep getting worse for them. They appear to have the Midas Touch in reverse. All of this results in low self-esteem. It’s really hard to feel like a winner when you’re losing all the time.

Wealth, health, romance, and success are possible when you step out of limited thinking and see the rich possibilities around you.

Read more: Do Fish See Water?

Determining Romance And Compatibility Using Palmistry. My Way!

Some people seem to be natural romantics, while others appear to be romantically challenged. To determine how romantic someone is, look at the height and quality of the Mount of Venus. If the mount is high and firm, the person is a true romantic.
If the mount is high and spongy, the person will be sensual and interested primarily in satisfying their own needs. Venus shows the amount of physical energy and stamina we possess and also reveals the degree of sexuality. Someone with a firm, high mount, will have a strong sexual drive. If this person’s partner has a similar mount, their sex life will be explosive.
Someone with a creative, curving Head Line will be more romantic than someone with a straight, practical, down-to-earth line. Again, though, we want balance. People with Head Lines that swoop right down into the Mount of Luna are likely to live in a world of day dream and fantasies. These people will be romantic, and in love with the idea of being in love. Unless they have some strong character traits shown elsewhere on their hands, they will always be disappointed with the realities of life and will retreat into a fantasy world where everything is perfect.

Compatibility
Compatibility is a fascinating area. I believe that most relationships can work as long as there is love and good will on both sides. However, some relationships involve an incredible amount of work, just to keep the couple together. In some cases, one partner is doing all the work.

Hand Shapes

Fire Earth
Air Water

First, look at the hand shapes. This reveals the basic temperaments of the people involved. It’s a positive sign if both people have the same type of hands. For instance, Fire and Fire are a good match since they have similar temperaments.

It’s not quite as easy if the hand shapes are different. Fire and Earth do not relate well, as fire scorches earth. Fire and Air get on famously, as air fans and stimulates fire. Fire and Water are not compatible, as water puts out the fire. Earth and Air get on well, as air allows living things to grow and flourish in earth. Earth and Water also get along well, as water enables life to exist on earth. Air and Water would have a placid, unexciting relationship as both are necessary for survival, but do little for each other.
Heart Lines
Once you’ve determined the hand shapes, look at the ending positions of the Heart Lines. The Heart Lines should be reasonably similar on both parties’ hands and should end at the same place. Bear in mind, if one partner has a chained Heart Line, they’ve experienced disappointments in love. This person will be cautious about a total commitment to a new relationship.
Ideally, the Heart Lines should end between the Jupiter and Saturn fingers. This shows that both people have realistic expectations. If both people have Heart Lines that end on the Mount of Jupiter, they’ll be overly idealistic and have many disappointments.
If one partner has a Heart Line that ends on Jupiter, but the other partner doesn’t, the relationship will be difficult. The partner with the Heart Line that ends under Jupiter will be constantly disappointed. They will dwell on their partner’s imperfections.
If one person’s Heart Line ends on the Mount of Saturn, they’ll be selfish. It’s hard to imagine a happy relationship when both partners have Heart Lines that end on Saturn.
If one person has a Mental Heart Line and the other a Physical Heart Line, check to see if they both end in a similar area. For instance, the Physical Heart Line may end between the Mount of Jupiter and the Mount of Saturn. The Mental Heart Line may end between the Jupiter and Saturn fingers. This still indicates compatibility, but the Mental Heart Line shows a more impersonal love and difficulty in expressing innermost thoughts. The partner with the Physical Heart line would want flowers, small gifts and constant reassurance that they’re loved. This partner with the Mental Heart Line would also tend to be a little detached at times. A number of compromises would have to be made by both partners in this relationship.

Thumbs
After you’ve assessed the shape of the hands and the quality of the Heart Lines, it’s time to look at the thumbs. For compatibility, both partners’ thumbs should be similar. Imagine the relationship if one person had a strong, thick, stubborn thumb and the other a small, flexible thumb. The second person would be constantly dominated by the first.
If both partners have strong, stubborn thumbs, they’ll have to learn to compromise. They’ll have some interesting learning experiences along the way, but ultimately will manage to adjust.
If both partners have highly flexible thumbs, they’ll get along very well. Both partners will be flexible and want to please. However, they’ll most likely have difficulties making important decisions.

Mount of Venus
Finally, check the Mount of Venus again. As mentioned earlier, both partners should have approximately the same size Venus Mounts. Partners with different size Venus Mounts will experience sexual frustration. A partner with the high, firm Venus Mount will have a strong sex drive, while a partner with a low, almost inverted Venus Mount, will find the occasional sexual encounter is enough. If a couple’s Venus Mounts are a similar height and degree of firmness, they are likely to be sexually compatible.

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Psychometry – My Way!

Have you ever touched someone or something and gotten some kind of message — such as ideas, pictures, or words? While shopping in an antique store, do you pick up impressions about certain pieces? You are experiencing psychometry.

Psychometry is the art of interpreting the psychic vibrations contained in objects. Sometimes referred to as “psychic touch,” it is the ability to read an object’s history or the history of those who may have handled it. While it deals most often with the past, it may often reflect present states as well. It is often used in cases of missing persons. The reader can touch an object the person has worn or touched, usually an article of clothing, to get intuitive impressions of the person’s whereabouts.

Some common items used in psychometry are rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and watches. Any of these items will hold information about the wearer, such as thoughts, their emotional state, and sufficient events affecting the person’s life. Through psychometry, a story unfolds that describes not only the events of a person’s life, but also how the person is feeling, thinking and reacting to these events. In order to receive clear information, the object should belong to and have been worn only by the person getting the reading.

The following exercises are very basic, but they will help you learn to develop your psychometric abilities, individually and in groups. Everyone has this ability to some degree, but most of us don’t focus on it consciously. With practice, you may become proficient in a very helpful tool. And as I always say, only use your gifts for your highest good. Any attempt to intrude on someone’s life without their permission is not only inappropriate, but clearly an invasion of privacy.

Which Hand To Use
The hand you use to get impressions from objects of very important. Your dominant hand gives or relays information, while your non-dominant or receptive hand receives information. Your receptive hand is the correct hand to use.

The following a simple test to find out which hand is most receptive. It is very important that you do this, as you will always use this hand to receive impressions, at least until you have become so accurate that you can use either hand.

For most right-handed people, the left hand is the receptive hand. For left-handed people, the right hand is likely to be the receptive hand. If you are in doubt, or were changed from a left-hander to a right-hander as a child, the following test can be used to discover which is which.

1. Hold both hands at chest level with fingertips pointing up and palms facing each other.
2. Rub hands together very lightly to stimulate the energy flow.
3. Move your hands closer together, then apart, feeling the flow of energy.
4. Whichever hand feels stronger, or that it is emitting stronger energy, that is your dominant hand. The other is your non-dominant or receptive hand. Always use your receptive hand in psychometry.

When you are beginning your work in psychometry, always pick up or touch an object with your receptive hand. If you pick up the object with your dominant hand, you may inadvertently transmit an impression as you do.

Form a habit of using your receptive hand to take things from others, and to pick up something you may intend to use. This will be a challenge, as you are probably used to picking things up and holding things with your dominant hand, but this practice will help you to remember to use your receptive hand for psychometric work.

How To Practice Psychometry
As we have already learned, all objects carry an energy frequency connected to the person they are most in contact with. You can learn to interpret these energies with the exercises that follow.

The first exercise is for the individual, but it is best performed with a friend from whom you can receive feedback.

1. Sit relaxed with your eyes closed and your hands in your lap, palms up.
2. Instruct a person to place an object that they have had in their possession for a long time in your receptive hand.
3. Relate everything that you see in your mind, think of, hear in your head and any feelings that you have while holding the object.

You may pick up some thoughts, feelings, and symbols that seem meaningless to you but keep talking as much as possible about what is in your mind and you may be amazed at how much is relevant to the owner of the object. This technique develops your gift of feeling. It gives you the experience of learning to tune into another person’s vibrations to discern what you are feeling.

Sometimes, while practicing psychometry, the feelings associated with the object are vague and don’t seem to bear much relevance to anything recognizable to the owner of the object. On other occasions, the opposite is the case and intricate details can be discerned. Some people are more relaxed and trusting and so they get many messages immediately. Some people are afraid they will say or do it incorrectly so they get nothing. Don’t worry. You can’t do it wrong!

The following exercise is for a group of people. Group practice is best because you can all put an object into a bowl without knowing which object belongs to whom. In a new group setting such as this, try not to say anything that might make someone uncomfortable. Be tactful and diplomatic, but as descriptive of your thoughts, feelings, or symbols as possible for feedback from the owner of the object.

1. As discreetly as possible, everyone puts an object of theirs in a bowl.

2. Each person then reaches in and takes out an object that it is not their own.

3. Hold the objects in your receptive hands until you receive an impression.
Sometimes I ask specific questions such as, “Will this person change their job or career?” “Will he or she find love?” “If so when?” “Who?” What lesson does this person have to face at this time? … etc.

4. Each person then takes a turn describing his or her impressions. Relate everything that you see in your mind, think of, hear in your head and any feelings that you have while holding the object.

5. Everyone should give some kind of feedback. Feedback is what helps us to develop your skills.

Dermo-Optic Perception
Another area of psychometry is dermo-optic perception, or “sight through touch.” It refers to ‘seeing’ by touching the skin’s surface. Some people have developed this sensitivity quite naturally, especially those who are sight impaired and must rely on touch.

Everyone emits electromagnetic energy. When we tap into this energy, we can see as well as if we were using our eyes. But regardless of continuing proof that such a thing as dermo-optic ability is present in many people, arguments still abound that relate dermo-optics to telepathy and clairvoyance. Therefore, it should be mentioned that in many cases where dermo-optic perception ability was found evident in a certain person, that person was separately tested for telepathic and clairvoyant abilities, and in most of the cases, no such ability was present!

Some people can distinguish colours and patterns through dermo-optic perception. Various colours have different feeling. Some have described black as “sticky” or “clinging” to the touch, while yellow was “slippery” and blue was found to be “still more slippery, but cool to the touch, like delicate ice.” Red causes great, bold radiation, and according to some, is so hot that the subject immediately draws his hand away, as though from searing heat.

It seems that small children are sensitive to colours, and can easily distinguish them merely by feel. One young mother reports the case of her six-year-old daughter’s ability to distinguish colours by touch. She shared that on day while she was wrapping Christmas presents, she asked her six-year-old daughter to give her the bolt of red ribbon. Her daughter immediately pulled the right colour ribbon out of the bag, and repeated this with green, gold, white, and blue ribbon. She never pulled the wrong colour out of the bag.

With practice, we can all master the ability to read by touch. Here is an exercise to help you develop your sense of touch.

1. Prepare a bowl of lukewarm water.

2. Close your eyes and gently dip your fingers into the water.

3. Repeat this exercise for about five minutes at a time.

At first, you may have some difficulty knowing exactly when your fingers make contact with the water, but after a short amount of practice, you will feel the tips of your fingers becoming more sensitized.

Feeling textures is also a helpful means of developing dermo-optic perception. Place various specimens such as salt, sugar, sand, or other granular substances into small separate envelopes and touch each substance through the envelopes. Don’t reach in and touch the substance directly. First, try to distinguish it through the paper of the envelope. At first, it may seem impossible to detect exactly what your fingertips are touching through the paper, since all of the substances are similar in texture. Here is the point of the test where you must not doubt! Trust your instincts. With patient practice, you will be able to detect through your fingertips the substances in the envelopes.

Various objects have different feelings, not just in texture, but because everything radiates its own specific energies, and trained fingertips can sense these differences. Awareness of this speeds the process of your own development in dermo-optical attempts.

Feel the difference between wood and paper, plastic and metal, wool and silk, china and glass, or hair and fur. This method will help to enhance your sensitivity to feel the varying objects and textures.

Such practice raises your vibration so that eventually you will be able to “read” someone just by touching him or her, as you learned psychometrically, remembering the ethical application of first obtaining one’s permission to do so.

Read more: Psychometry – My Way!

Reading The Hand lines – The Heart Line.

Your hand changes throughout your life. The lines you see in your palm today are not quite the same as they were a year ago and probably very different from five years ago.
Although your hand gives an outline of your life, it’s only a tentative outline. You have the final decision on the course your life will take. Whether you want the position or not, you’re the captain of your own destiny.
Palmistry, like a doctor‘s examination, is strictly a diagnostic reading. It can point out the forces that operate within you, and it can point out the logical results of these forces. You can accept them as they are or begin to change them.
As with the Tarot, be very careful in your phrasing of what you see in a person’s palm. Some lines may show a particular area in which your subject has very serious problems. This should be presented as “an area of possible weakness and something for which you should be particularly watchful.”
On a few occasions you may encounter a particular combination of lines which indicates a premature death. If this is the case, don’t blurt out what you see. Rather, emphasize the need for great care to avoid illness, accidents, violence or whatever the rest of the hand may seem to imply as possible causes. Remember, palmistry is only a diagnosis it’s never a final pronouncement.
As a palmist, your attitude is of great importance. Never try to “second guess” your subject by adding on-the-spot observations and facts you know from beforehand. Only read the palm. Ideally you should know nothing whatsoever about the person you’re reading. Their hands and your intuition should be enough.

THE HEART LINE

The Heart Lines (various ending positions)

The heart line governs our emotional lives and shows how we relate to others. It’s the major line nearest the fingers. It runs across the palm, starting under the little finger and usually ends in the area between the first and second finger.

Physical Heart line

If the Heart Line forms a gentle curve, starting under the little finger and ending between the first and second fingers, it’s known as the Physical Heart Line. People with Physical Heart Lines are generally able to express their feelings well. Although they suffer their share of ups and downs, they pick themselves up quickly and get on with their lives. They’re likely to express their feelings in a physical, assertive manner. You could say to someone with this type of heart line:
“As your heart line ends right up under the fingers, it shows that you have an open nature and can express your innermost feelings. You’re warm and affectionate. When things go wrong you manage to pick yourself up quickly.”

Mental Heart Line

The other type of heart line is the Mental (or Humanitarian) Heart Line. This runs in a straight line right across the palm of the hand and does not curve at the end. People with Mental Heart Lines find it hard to express their innermost feelings. They’ll suffer in silence rather than make a scene. They’ll have plenty of romantic feelings which take precedence over common sense. They’re very sensitive and need plenty of room around them. You might say to these people:
“You have a heart line that comes straight across your palm. This is known as a Mental Heart Line, and makes it rather difficult for you to express your innermost feelings. It will gradually become easier for you, but you have to work at it. You can be sensitive at times and possibly bottle things up a bit. You like people, but you need to have room around you at the same time.”
As this line governs the emotions it’s common to find one with defects, as all of us have ups and downs at different times in our lives. The most common visible signs of trauma are a series of islands on the heart line. These islands indicate a period of difficulty. Generally, the problems stem from a relationship. This makes it very easy to determine if someone had an unhappy marriage followed by a happy one. In this case, the earlier part of the person‘s life (the part nearest the little finger) will have a multitude of islands, while the rest of the line will be clear.

Ending Positions

The Heart Line’s end location is extremely important. Ideally, it should end between the first and second finger. This gives a balance between the ego (represented by the first finger) and the rest of humanity. People with this are realistic about their emotional life and don’t have impossible expectations.
If the line ends on or directly under the first finger, the person will be idealistic and easily hurt. Other people will seldom live up to their expectations, leading to frequent disappointments.
If the heart line ends on, or directly under the second finger, the person is inclined to be selfish and think only of themselves and their own personal gratification. They’ll lack emotional involvement.
Often, you will find a heart line that forks in two directions at the end. This person has a complex emotional nature. He or she will see both sides of a situation.

The Girdle of Venus

Every so often you’ll find a Girdle of Venus. This line is often made up of a series of disjointed small lines. It runs parallel to the Heart Line and is located between the Heart Line and the fingers. This indicates an extremely sensitive and highly emotional person who may be unstable and neurotic.

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Determining the Thumbs Two Phalanges – My Way!

The Thumb’s 2 phalanges

The thumb plays an important role in palmistry. I have seen palmists in India doing most of their readings from an analysis of their clients’ thumbs. There is a good reason for this. The thumb can provide a great deal of useful information about the person’s character. For instance, it can tell us how the person will make decisions and how they will follow through.

Humanity is the only animal blessed with opposing thumbs. Chimpanzees come close, but their thumbs are very primitive compared to ours.

A unique feature of our thumbs is the Radial Nerve which is made from the same nerve fibre as the middle of our brains. This nerve fibre also runs through our spinal columns.

This Radial Nerve is responsible for our superior reasoning capabilities that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Length of the Thumb

The larger the thumb is the greater the degree of success. Apparently Napoleon had an extremely large thumb. It’s an interesting exercise to watch people’s hands on television. Often you will find actors playing roles that they could never have achieved in real life. An example of this would be someone with a small thumb playing the part of a successful business tycoon. In India, it’s believed that the size of the thumb has a direct relationship with the degree of success the person will have in life.

I find this interpretation a bit too fatalistic, but there is no doubt that people with large thumbs usually reach top positions. These people are generally more motivated, ambitious and persistent than people with small thumbs.

Charlotte Wolff did a survey of the thumbs of successful individuals and found that most had thumbs of normal length. Certainly, people with long thumbs will try much harder to get what they want than people with short thumbs.

If you find someone with an extremely long thumb, they’re capable of a leadership role in any situation. This person will be intelligent, decisive and have a very strong will power.

People with short thumbs are lacking in will power. They can be stubborn, though often for no apparent reason.

People with medium length thumbs (reaching at least halfway up the lowest phalange of the First finger) are fair and can stand up for themselves. They show common sense and possess reasonable will power.

If the thumb is broad, looking at it from the nail side, the person will be prepared to do whatever is necessary to get what he or she wants.

Someone with a thick thumb, will be extremely blunt and forthright. This person will be stubborn and want their own way at any cost.

Sections of the Thumb

The fingers and the thumb are divided into three sections, known as phalanges. The joints divide the fingers into three phalanges, but the thumb appears to have two sections. The Mount of Venus, which is the fleshy mound at the base of the thumb surrounded by the Life Line, is called the third phalange.

Ideally, the first and second phalanges of the thumbs should be the same length. The first phalange, containing the thumbnail, represents will power and the second phalange represents logic. Someone with first and second phalanges of the same length will possess an equal amount of logic and will power. He or she will be able to come up with a good idea and then have the necessary drive and energy to carry it out.

If the first phalange is longer than the second, the individual will have more will power than logic. This person will make plenty of mistakes but will regroup each time and

carry on until he or she reaches his goal. This combination gives great determination. He or she will be prepared to work long and hard, but can also be domineering.

Most people’s second phalange is longer than the first. This means there is more logic than will power. Someone with this combination will have lots of ideas, but somehow never get around to doing them. They will think, and think, and think, and then think some more. Everything is present except the motivation to act. That, of course, is why

so many of us achieve only a minute fraction of what we are capable of doing. Too much analysis causes paralysis.

Flexibility

Thumbs are either firm or flexible. If it bends backwards from the joint it is regarded as flexible. Someone with this characteristic will be easy-going, positive and flexible. He or she will also give in under pressure, rather than create a scene.

If the thumb is stiff and does not bend back at the joint, it is classified as being firm. Someone with this type of thumb will be determined, reliable and stubborn. He or she will be unyielding and not give in under pressure.

I worked for many years as a salesman and this knowledge was very useful to me. If I was dealing with a customer with a flexible thumb I could push to make the sale.

When dealing with someone with a firm thumb, I would not push, but would gently retreat and try again later. If I had tried to push the firm-thumbed clients into a sale I would not have succeeded and would have created obstacles to later success.

Read more: Determining the Thumbs Two Phalanges – My Way!

How To Maturely Deal With Upsetting Experiences

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to keep things organized and running efficiently in your life, unexpected things happen that threaten to completely undermine your sense of well-being.

These upsets can be big or small, ranging from identity theft to losing your car keys. Yet they are enough to make you feel that they completely ruin everything for you. They hit you emotionally like a punch in your stomach, knocking the wind out of you.

I’m not sure why life throws these curves. Is it a product of our own thinking coming to attack us, some type of karmic rebound? Is it random misfortune? Or is it some weird cosmic “test” of our mettle. It is almost impossible to find the cause. Focusing on the cause is one way to become confused and unglued.

However, understanding the cause may not be necessary. Instead, dwell on the solution. This is the mature way to keep your sense of balance when the ground has been pulled from under your feet.

Here are some emergency steps to take:

1. Release the frustration and all the other emotions. Do this immediately. You can do this through deep breathing and imagining letting it go, talking with a friend to get some perspective, or simply taking a long walk until you calm down.

2. Assuming you are now calm, the next step is to regain your control. Here is where you regroup your resources. It may help just to start tidying and organizing things around you, thus restoring your faith that order can be regained. In other words, you will get a sense of order by doing some routine ordering in your environment.

3. Now that you are calm and in control, make a list. Start with a question that asks you what to do about the situation. Then answer that question by making a long list of possible answers. Do this quickly, without thinking too much about it. What you want is to push past your conscious ideas and dig up some original insights. This is why speed is important.

4. Refine that list. Hone in on your best possible choices.

5. Take action. Do what you can. Make things happen. This will make you feel a whole lot better. If it is a theft, file a police report. If it is a financial issue, find ways to get money flowing into your life again. And so on.

Sometimes the situation may be really bizarre, where you have no idea what to make of it. Yet you also find you need some insight before you can take any type of meaningful action. In this case, at step 3, ask your question then leave it blank and go do something else, including taking a long nap. You can even do step 3 just before bedtime. Your subconscious mind will now work on resolving it.

A farther way to deal with this upset is to imagine the opposite. If for example, someone stole your credit card, think about how the bank has restored your balance and sealed off the card from future use and how it is engaged in issuing you a new one.

Doubtlessly, fearful thoughts will start creeping in throughout the day. If you respond to them, they will force you to go on all sorts of nightmarish mental safaris. Do not go there.

Depression, helplessness, emotional outbursts, behavioral acting out is not the solution.

Bad stuff happens to all of us at some time or another. The trick is to grow stronger, not to fall apart. As Nietzsche said, “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

There is no point in futile analysis, “why me?” “why now?”

You have to keep reassuring yourself by thinking of a new scene, where you not only envision getting what you lost but even better things are showing up for you.

None of these steps are easy to take, because your natural inclination is just to rant and rave and progressively fall apart. You feel as if there is a huge hole in your chest. However by taking these common sense steps, you get your common sense back. By taking the best action you know how, you can either mitigate the problem or even resolve it in a meaningful way.

Even when really bad stuff happens, know that you are a powerful person and will not let it ruin your life. Focus on what you still have left. Focus on the new way that has opened up for you.

Sometimes out of the worst situation, miracles come out of nowhere. Who you are is greater than the misfortune life may sometimes throw at you. When you cleave to a mature view, you will come out of your upsetting situation and regain your sense of personal power.

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Diet Tips To Lower Your Cholesterol Levels Naturally

Are you gaining weight? Does this make you worry about your cholesterol level? Do you feel like you need to do something about your eating habits particularly your cholesterol diet?

What is the first thing to consider in a low cholesterol diet? Knowing the purpose of a low cholesterol diet will make you adhere to it more sincerely. Then before indulging in any strict diet, low cholesterol diet included, you have to know why some foods are safe to eat and why some are not. However, a lifestyle change that would include a good cholesterol diet as a first step would work best.

The basic of cholesterol lowering diet is the decrease in the total intake of saturated fat, calories, and cholesterol in the body to decrease weight. These types of foods are mainly fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables have very high fiber content; this soaks cholesterol like sponge and disposes it out of the body. Apples, oranges and pears are high fiber foods. This includes oats and carrots. Pasta, whole grains and potatoes are samples of complex carbohydrates.

If you want to go on a cholesterol diet you should minimize your intake of the day’s total saturated fat calorie by 7% and fat by 25-35 percent. Limit your sodium intake by 2400 milligrams daily.

Remember, cholesterol lowering diet and maintaining a daily exercise are major factors in lowering the cholesterol level.

Here are some tips on cholesterol diet approaches:

•Taking fiber-rich foods such as whole grains as your primary source of carbohydrates. This should go hand in hand with an increase intake of fresh fruits and vegetables such as berries, oranges, apples, pears, grapes, bell peppers, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, tomatoes, dark leafy greens celery, squash and eggplant among others.

•Staying away from saturated fats which are mostly found in animal foods such as meat, poultry and dairy products is a good cholesterol diet. Opt for unsaturated fats instead, specifically omega-3 fatty. Good sources of these would be the vegetable and fish oils.

•Source out protein from soy protein, poultry, and fish instead of meat.

•Major lifestyle change as a part of cholesterol diet would mean weight control, exercise, and quitting smoking.

If you want to dine out and still stick on your cholesterol diet, here are some tips for you to follow so that you will be able to maintain your cholesterol diet.

•Find out which restaurants have low saturated fat and have a low cholesterol menu.

•Sharing your dish with your companion or taking some home is advisable, better yet, you can also ask for appetizer-size servings or a side dish.

•Ask to separate the gravy, butter, rich sauces and dressings. You can control your cholesterol and saturated fat much easier that way.

•Ask the extras (salad, fries, baked potato) to be left off or substitute them.

•If you are craving for pizza, order the one that has vegetable toppings (green pepper, onions, and mushrooms) instead of meat or extra cheese. Or to make it easier for you, order it with half of the cheese or no cheese at all.

•If your dining on a fast-food restaurant, order salads, grilled skinless chicken sandwiches (fried and breaded are a no no), regular-sized hamburgers or roast beef sandwiches. Avoid large burgers, sandwiches and french-fries.

•Choose the dishes that are cooked on a low cholesterol method (broiled, steamed, au jus, garden fresh, baked, roasted, poached, tomato juice, dry boiled and lightly saturated)

•Be mindful of dishes that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. (butter sauce, fried, crispy, creamed, au gratin, au fromage, escalloped, parmesan, hollandaise, béarnaise, marinated, stewed, basted, sautéed, casserole and pastry crust)

Take note that if you lose weight, your calorie needs will also be lowered. It will decrease the amount of saturated fat and the fat that you will be able to consume on the cholesterol diet.

If you are having a hard time of making changes with cholesterol lowering diet, consult a nutritionist or dietitian so that you can work up some sample diets.

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Church Planting in Cambodia

A scarred past.

In Cambodia, a church might consist of 10 Christians gathered beneath a sugar palm, its trunk still bearing shrapnel scars from the battles that have been fought around it. Or it might be 40 worshippers who congregate in the house of a specially trained church planter.

In either case, Cambodian Christians cannot erase the deep scars that have been left by decades of brutal violence.

Years of atrocities and political turmoil have gouged out a spiritual void in the hearts of Cambodians. It is a void that the national religion of Buddhism, with its unattainable path to enlightenment, has failed to fill.

Picking up the shards

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Cambodia was left with socialist groups fighting for control. Millions of innocent people were executed, and civil war raged for decades.

Although a democratic government has begun with the help of the UN, the painful scars still remain. And the wounds reopen every time another mine explodes, planted years ago by the warring factions.

The vast majority of Cambodians have looked to Buddhist rites to try to heal their wounds. But Christians in Cambodia know that the peace their country aches for is a peace that only Jesus Christ can impart.

A different explosion

Eager to impart that peace to their fellow countrymen, Cambodian Christians are enthusiastically entering church planter training. And church growth is exploding.

Cambodia is the first Buddhist country in Southeast Asia to show such a mass movement toward accepting the Gospel message. In a country shrouded so long by Buddhism, it is remarkable to see hearts being opened, one by one, to the light of the truth.

The people of Cambodia are on their way to discovering that the only true refuge from turmoil and trouble is found in the saving blood of Jesus. And trained church planters long to shepherd them with an eternal, unshakable comfort.

Fire burns their heart

Cambodian Christians have a vision for their nation and a heart for the whole world. Fire burns in our heart! one pastor says. We long to bring our nation, every community, into His heavenly kingdom.

And God is using them to do just that. As they impact their communities with the love of Jesus, their nation is changing, one soul at a time. The body of Christ is growing, as local gatherings of believers are established in areas where there were no churches before. We are excited to be a part of what God is doing in Cambodia.

The Lord uses trained church planters here in Cambodia, another pastor explains. It is really a great help to our hungry nation and us. His living Word enables us to be fully fed, and will help us bring our whole nation to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Lord in the near future. May the Lord bless the workers to carry on this good ministry until we reach the whole world for Jesus. Amen!

The future for Cambodia

As more Cambodians are brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ and His Church, please pray for the shepherds who care for this tender new flock. Pray that God would call more Christians to labor in this teeming harvest field, as the indigenous church planting movement spreads throughout the country.

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Are You Psychic?

There have been many famous psychics. Edgar Cayce is probably the most famous, but there were others. There was a Dr. David Hoy who was born in Evanston, Indiana around 1930. One of the main differences between Cayce and Dr. Hoy was that Cayce went into a trance to access his psychic abilities, and Dr. Hoy had his abilities readily available at all times. These two psychics show us that psychic abilities can be extremely accurate and reliable, and that each person has a unique method of accessing them.

Here’s the first question, why does this matter? What benefit can we gain from this information? A lot of people feel that anything psychic is too “out there” to be of any real use, that the whole subject is one for those who are “a little off”. But is it? Don’t we all trust our “gut instinct” about certain matters? When we meet someone for the first time, don’t we trust our “first impression”? What is a first impression, anyways? Science tells us that the first impression is the subconscious reaction to a wide variety of subtle clues including a person’s body posture, tone of voice, facial expressions, fluidity of motion, and factors such as how they wear their clothes.

What if there are other clues, even subtler? Have you ever met someone who seemed completely confident, well dressed, and in complete control of the situation, yet had an uneasy feeling about him/her? Where did that feeling come from? And what about the feelings we get about things and places? Yes, it could be simply a resemblance to something in memory, which brings up forgotten feelings associated with whatever we are remembering on the subconscious level.

But here’s the catch. The ability to know things totally unavailable to physical sense has been proven, scientifically. Whether we want to believe in psychic abilities or not, they have been proven to be real. So the question comes back to what benefit can we get from this information?

In our information age (some are saying that we’ve past the information age and entered the communication age) we generally agree that more information gives us more choices, more power in a situation. If you know that the confident person in front of you who’s offering you a fabulous high-paying job will fail in the next year, then you can save yourself the trouble and say no to the job offer. If you know that the business opportunity in your email inbox will make millions in the next several months, then you can jump on it before it’s too late.

Or, along another line, if you know that that sexy person you just met will become the person of your dreams, but only after having some rough times, you can choose to stick with them and receive the rewards of a satisfying relationship. Actually, the benefits of knowing more information (physically or psychically obtained) is always the availability of more choices, and the ability to make wiser decisions.

Okay, so how can we develop our ability to use the psychic senses reliably. That’s the trick, isn’t it? While there have been those who were famous for their psychic abilities, they have been famous because they were unique. For most people, it seems that psychic abilities are far from reliable. Even the psychics working on the 900 lines, and those who make predictions for the papers give inaccurate information. Is the development of psychic abilities possible, or do we get what we get?

When I first started working with psychic abilities, my accuracy rate was a flat zero. Nothing outside of chance. If the ability could not be developed, I would not have been able to improve that. Yet I did improve my accuracy rate. It wasn’t easy, mainly because I couldn’t find any good information on developing these abilities. Most of what I found were tests and games. And while simple exercise of an ability may make it improve, it didn’t work well. So I went back to basics and started working on my own techniques of development.

To make a long story short(er), I found that working on the physical senses (trying to focus my sight, hearing, and other senses to pick up every detail around me), a different type of meditation, and some light hypnosis worked amazingly well. I also found that if I tried too hard I blocked myself off from whatever I needed to make contact with to get the psychic information.

I also found that I could use that same connection to make changes in the world around me. The power of prayer and stories of spiritual healing also intrigued me. This is probably why I experimented with using the psychic connection in this way.

So the bottom line is that psychic abilities can be developed, and the abilities manifest in different ways for different people. Also, psychic abilities can be used for more than gathering information, but can be used to create changes in the world around you.

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What is Grace?

This question, “what is grace” plagued me more into knowing the answer and being sure beyond a shadow of a doubt.

In the beginning of time, It was God’s intention to be in fellowship with His people. We all know that sin took us right out of that equation. But, since God is always way ahead of Satan, He already had a plan set in motion to bring us back to Himself, all was not lost.

He told Satan that the seed of the woman would crush his head. That seed was Christ who would be sent to redeem God’s children and set them free grace from captivity to sin. Through Christ’s sinless life, death and resurrection, He alone healed all our diseases and freed us from Satan’s trap of death. This is the doctrine of Atonement.

Christ came to earth as God in a manly form to show us the way to become grace “at one” with Him. This atonement increases our desire to enter into God’s Kingdom with righteousness and virtue. This “at one” experience is God’s free gift of grace. Yes, it is undeserved, it’s unmerited but He gave us His all in order to humble us and give Him all our praise.

God gives this free gift of grace to those who are truly repentent of their sins. Not everyone will take it. This is not a gift for the faint of heart. God is just and holy and therefore He will not wince at our sins, He will punish those who do not accept this gift.

We can either pay for our own sins, but that would take forever and then some as we would spend our eternity in hell. It is a serious crime against God. Or…we can let someone else pay the price for our sins. We all have them and Jesus is the One Who paid that price already.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16

This is the ultimate gift of unconditional love that God so freely gives us. It’s ours for the taking when we truly confess Jesus with our mouth and mean it with our whole heart.

Upon this confession, God then makes new creatures out of us. His grace isn’t ever having to go through life on our own. Even though things seem overwhelming, His grace is sufficient to carry us through the tests so that they may become our testimonies in giving Him all the glory.

Salvation is not to be presumed however. It’s not just doing good works. Being a good person who has no faith will not earn you a place in God’s Kingdom. Only true faith through His gift of grace will get you there.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephes. 2:8-10

In the end times, people will listen to false doctrine and they will ask “Where is God?” But know this, He is in you, He will never leave you nor forsake you.

“You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away be the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen” 2 Peter 3:18-19

We will have to face God on judgement day, first those of us who are saved through grace. We will have to answer for the deeds we did while here on earth and then those who remain unrepentant will have to answer to Him at the Great White Throne of Judgement before He casts them into the lake of fire forever.

Just as He did in the days of Noah, those who weren’t prepared were destroyed in the flood. The second time around He says He will destroy us with fire. This is something I don’t care to test Him on.

Read more: What is Grace?

About Intuition and How You Can Enhance Yours

Do you believe in synchronicity? Do you believe in ESP? Have you ever felt a strong hunch?

Have you had that eerie feeling that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, it eventually translated to reality?

Welcome to the world of intuition! This is when you feel strongly about something without logical explanations. All shamans have a developed sense of intuition and it enhances thier life in many ways. Here are the types of intiution…

Intuition comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or “the third eye”, sensing clearly, and feeling through listening.

Clairvoyance refers to the capacity to see beyond what others see. This is when you are able to second guess what is happening somewhere or what is about to happen.

Sensing clearly is what we commonly know as “hunch” or “gut feel.” This is the time when you are overwhelmed with a feeling and you cannot explain it. All you can say is, “I just know.”

On the other hand, feeling through listening or clairaudience is the capacity to “listen” between the lines. Intuition also happens at times when a certain sound, like car’s honk or a bird’s twitting – ushers in an intense feeling.

Some groups argue that women have greater intuition powers than men. Astrologers even insist that people born under the Scorpio or Pisces signs are naturally intuitive. However, studies have shown that anyone can develop intuition.

What go the trouble of unlocking the powers of intuition? What do you stand to gain?

First, intuition promotes better relations. This is so because intuition makes you more sensitive of the thoughts and feelings of other people. This makes you more conscious on how to convey your messages in such a way that you will not hurt or offend anyone. It helps you communicate better, especially with those whom you love, because you are intuitive enough to understand them.

Second, intuition enhances your creativity. Intuition stimulates the release of creative juices as you search for venues for expression. Some intuitive persons engage in painting, writing poetry, gardening, sewing, pursue music or drama, etc.

Lastly, intuition helps you find your authentic self that lies buried through out the years. In this sense, intuition has healing powers. Although not in the physical sense, it allows you to delve deep into your soul to eradicate some negative energy buried in it.

With these reasons, are you ready to develop your intuition? Here are some ways to unlock this gift:

1) Think Good Thoughts

Worry and fear block your intuitive powers. Improve your intuitive ability by cultivating a worry-free and fear-free state of mind. Stay positive in order to attract good energy and enable you to recognize imminent feelings and events.

One of the best ways to attract good energy is to be happy.

Happiness attracts immense power and such power includes intuition. In tapping your intuition, your motivation must be happiness and contentment. Given that premise, intuition will fall to you easily.

2) Trust A Higher Source and Have Patience

Trust that a higher source knows what is best. Trust means believing that you will get it, despite not knowing how. Do not get too stressed about developing intuition. Relax and let it flow.

After letting go of all those things that stop you from thinking and feeling clearly, never expect for an answer right away. Never expect that the “hunch” would fall on your lap immediately. Give it a little time then you would be surprised that you will get your answer in a variety of ways.

3) Believe in your first impressions.

First impressions last. When meeting people for the first time, be observant of what you feel. One time, I introduced myself to a fellow. Upon our initial handshake, I felt a sense of discomfort or dislike towards the person. As it turned out, he duped his business partner before moving on to our neighborhood. Initial impressions are signals to us by intuition.

4) Work With A Certified Hypnotist

Get yourself hypnotized. Our image of old style hypnosis consists of a pendulum moving back and forth. Work with an expert. The internet can be a source of hypnotic programs that can strengthen your intuition.

5) Meditation

Technically, meditation is being in the alpha state. Meditation allows you to find inner peace. Those who are new on this may opt for a guided meditation. There are books and tapes on this topic.

Meditation is a technique to clean the clutter in your mind and heart and unload you of the hurt buried deep within you. A cluttered mind makes it difficult for intuition to come in. There are so many ways to meditate: take a yoga class, or just simply practice some breathing that could bring you straight to Zen.

Intuition is helpful and practical. It can sometimes facilitate the achievement of your dreams and goals. Many find it easier to make decisions when relying on this gift. It can even save lives.

Develop intuition now and reap benefits you have never imagined.

Read more: About Intuition and How You Can Enhance Yours

The Battle Over Love

The war between brother and sister began as the chess board was placed on the center of the table. Tension filled the air with every move. Mom worriedly looked at our faces hoping and praying that we would finish our game in peace and not in another fight.

Any game my brother and I played together was certain to lead to a continued standoff. A complex theatrical challenge that could put either of us over the edge throwing the game into the air and snorting as if we were two bulls in an arena daring the other to win the next game.

The Chess game has always been a great way to illustrate the battle that each of us face. A complex arrangement of opposing forces positioned to challenge the players to prove who is the best and who is the biggest loser.

Unfortunately, unlike chess, the world game is not so plain to see. It has been disguised to catch a person by surprise. It throws the way we think, off balance just enough to teach us a revelation that we would not have understood without the challenge.

Because our world game is so unexpected it can keep us on the edge of our seats wondering exactly what else can go wrong. I suppose that is the reason why my being gay caused such a stir in my very religious family.

You see I grew up loving God and being taught all the religious values a student of Christ could understand. I was taught to love and to be compassionate to all people.

I was faithful and committed and I loved to serve God from camp to choir to testifying before people how good God was. But then a game formed and pulled me into a valley that required more than what I was taught.

A challenge to love a person in a way that suddenly positioned me against the very church I loved. A game of life that stirred war between what kind of love was right and what kind of love was sin.

I was not prepared for the battle that began to stir. I was thirty-one years old and up until this time I had lived a perfect life. I married as a virgin, had three children and attended church faithfully.

The spirit within me changed making me feel things I had never felt before. My eyes saw a face and the heart of another woman and I wanted her more than the blissfully peaceful life I had once been a part.

I didn’t know that when I followed my feelings of love, that I would open a door to a war that would turn my entire family away from me. I had no idea how everyone could change from praising my every move to wanting me to suffer for ever thinking I should give into this kind of love.

I had been raised that God was love, but now according to everyone I ever knew, the love I was experiencing supposedly was wrong. I didn’t understand because this love was better than anything I had ever felt before.

A fight of epic proportions raged around me. People who had loved and knew me since I was a child looked at me and despised me. Church people who were to show compassion and care, stalked my every move to prove to the court system that I was gay and thus unfit to be a mother to my children.

My ex-husband in a fury of emotions slammed a car door into my leg over and over again while our pastor and a deacon watched him vent his rage. I couldn’t believe what was happening to me. Just a few months before they had loved me and sought my help in educating others in the love of Jesus Christ.

I thought that love equals God and hate is Satan. Here I was loving for the first time and people who were to be the example of God’s love could do anything they wanted to me and not feel ashamed.

I wasn’t prepared for the fight I would face or the challenge I had to just stay alive! The court stripped me of my children. In protest I ran with my kids and was thrust into jail.

God came to me in a real way by sending me an Angel from heaven to encourage me to not give up. He said, “My Ways Are Not Human Ways Trust In Me, God Has Spoken!” He sent me messages of encouragement telling me that it was man and Satan that was hurting me, not God. “For God Is Love”!

John 15:18-20, “If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first. If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you; ‘No salve is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.”

This kind of war was not like any chess game I had ever experienced. It was an unseen war between spiritual forces of good versus evil. It was a war that gives revelation to some people and brings the worse out of others.

Because of the harshness of my reality God educated me in understanding the differences between love and hate. God opened my mind up to the concept of seeing our world as a game. A game pitting people against each other so they would come to a truth that would lead them to choose to do right.

God showed me scripture verse after verse proving to me that our world is under the rule of Satan. Satan was given control in order to test men through the evil experiences found in this world.

However, not all tests result in a person doing right. Many tests reveal the hearts of men who choose evil. When a person chooses evil, darkness comes into their lives and prevents them from understanding the truth.

It is a tool used by Satan to lead people into using the world for what they can get from it. That is the reason that people during the time of Lot perverted themselves in sexual ritual.

It was like a sex party. Crowds of people would take part in the excitement of this pagan ritual. Taking a sacrifice of a human life to use for this ritual had two fold benefits. One, they appeased the requirements of the temple god and second, they received the pleasure of the sexual act.

The men of Sodom went to Lots home in order to use the angels in their perverted rituals of fertility. These two men were beautiful beings and offering them in this ritual was considered to bring great blessings upon their community.

Worshiping and practicing rituals to gods that are not gods is leading people away from God. It allows Satan to win the game of life for evil and prevents people from understanding the difference between good and bad.

Our world must have clear differences! What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with homosexuality. It have everything to do with Satan leading people down paths that would keep them from understanding. Evil paths of sin that lead to godlessness!

Sin equals darkness. Sin makes people hate. Sin prevents people from knowing God. If sin is allowed to grow it can destroy good peoples lives and prevent God’s children from winning their game of life.

God had no choice but to take action against theses cities in order to destroy the blindness from reaching out and capturing more and more towns. God sent fire from heaven to destroy this evil pagan ritual.

Exodus 20:3-6, “Worship no god but me.

Do not take for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation. But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.”

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroy as a result of godlessness. It had nothing to do with God not creating homosexuals!

The Chess game took on a form of war that led to a truth. A truth that was disguised so that the evil found in the hearts of men would be revealed.

Good men recognize love and do what is right, but if you are not careful a good man can be used as an instrument of hate.

Read more: The Battle Over Love

Father Dave’s Review Of ‘The Passion Of The Christ’

Here we are at the end of Holy week, and I must admit that the only pilgrimage I’ve made this Lent was to the theatre to see Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” again.

I am serious about this though. For me the movie was a religious experience, though it did leave me with one grave concern.

It wasn’t the alleged anti-Semitism that bothered me.

Certainly ‘The Passion’ depicted Jews as being Jesus’ chief opponents, but it also depicted Jews as being Jesus’ greatest friends, and let’s not forget that Jesus Himself was a Jew. I don’t think the movie loses sight of this.

And it wasn’t the violence that bothered me.

I heard one radio commentator saying that to actually enjoy the movie you’d have to be ‘a sicko or a religious nut’! This was a bit over the top, but it reflected the same feeling expressed by a friend of mine who said that he couldn’t understand how anyone could be entertained by watching someone being tortured for two hours!

Such comments fail to appreciate that for Christians, what is being portrayed in ‘The Passion’ is not simply individual human suffering, but the self-sacrifice of God for humanity! This is the story we retell every week in the celebration of the Eucharist, so for regular church-goers the connection is close to our hearts.

No. What bothers me about “The Passion of the Christ” is rather the extent to which the movie embarrasses the church! For “The Passion” very accurately portrays the historical Jesus – suffering, bleeding, and laying down his life for others. And I hate to admit it, but there’s not much in our modern church that resembles this!

Am I being too harsh? Take a look at your average Christian congregation in Sydney today. You’ll likely find a brightly dressed pastor leading a trim and successful congregation of upwardly mobile families. The image is one of cleanliness and sophistication – hardly consistent with the bleeding, tattered and wretched figure portrayed in Gibson’s movie.

The movie highlights a credibility gap, similar to the one that McDonalds struggles with, as it tries to reconcile the bounteous burgers displayed in its advertisements with the measly meals that emerge from behind the counter! The Jesus portrayed in ‘the Passion’ is open and honest, great-hearted and human, strong and courageous. I don’t think we (the church) have ever been shown up quite so badly!

I don’t pretend to understand exactly how it happened that the original band of rag-tailed disciples ever evolved into what we experience today as church, but I can see that we sanitized the story of the Passion somewhere in the process, presumably to make it more acceptable as bedtime reading for our children. I do know that crosses didn’t start out as fashion accessories, and I do know that the church was once more of a working class phenomenon, made up of struggling and sorrowful people who understood Jesus and his path of sorrows better than do we well-educated and well-healed representatives of the church today.

Somewhere along the line we remodelled Jesus – made him more respectable, put a suit on him, cleaned up the blood and had him join the local Rotary club. It was all done with good intent, but in the process we lost touch with the poor and the weak members of our community – the ‘little ones’ towards whom Jesus Himself always seemed to gravitate, like a shepherd in search of His lost sheep.

It is my belief that if we, the church, want to re-establish contact with those on the underside of our community, we do need to first reconnect with our crucified Messiah and His via dolores. Perhaps “The Passion of the Christ” can help us do this?

It is an odd thing to confess that this Easter a movie might be enunciating the story of Jesus more clearly to the world than is His church, but it seems strangely characteristic of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ to choose to work that way. How typical that He should choose to bypass our grand and wonderful ecclesiastical institutions to communicate his message to the world through the godless celluloid of Hollywood.

And people say that God has no sense of humour!

Read more: Father Dave’s Review Of ‘The Passion Of The Christ’

Truth New Year 2007 Message

To all of us, we wish a wonder-filled 2007. May we all be there inOneness at the Last Supper of the Night we are traveling together asThe One, and enjoy the delights of its manifold tastes before Lightbreaks open and wide in the unfolding of the Morning of our REALexistence as the IS.

Greetings to all, and many blessings. Thecusp of W-In-t(o) (h)er has infolded the Sun of our Existence in itsfreezing grip again, and during the long nights of our new winter, weneed to pause and take account and hold of our inner strengths,weaknesses, and stores of reserves, in trying to bridge our Fall asMankind to our possible Spring back into a blazing and radiating SummerSun, revived and born again from our inner hearts.

I wentyesterday into a deep meditation within the One Light, and received amessage from the Oneness, which I will share with you below.

Thisyear’s New Year’s celebrations were luring me as I watched them takingmillions across the globe into a spirit of hope, wishes, and happinessspreading its magnificence in a contagion of smiling faces. For oneday, no dark events, disasters, or lack of inner spirit darkened themagnificent faces of Humanity. I watched, partook in the smilingenergy, and remembered.

I remembered when only 6 years ago on theEve of the Millennium, all nations on the face of Earth, from themightiest countries to the tiniest of islands, went into common andheart-felt celebrations of the great adventure of being part of themulti-faceted Kaleidoscope which we project as Man-kind when we feelthe Great Spirit of Oneness which is at the very core of our beings.

Asmidnight January 1, 2000, spread its gentle presence across the world,broadcasts were following the magnificent celebrations offered by eachand every nation as a gift to its brethrens in the adventure which Lifeis.

What a moment frozen into the eternity of The One this was!Veils of doubts, old programs and associated passions, had been broughtdown by Oneness, in order for us to experience in advance what ourfuture IS to be when we all know ourselves as One and united within theflagship of joy of having reunited a divided family originating fromthe same Father and Mother as One.

And very shortly after that,darkness attacked again, when we least expected it. Surreptitiously atfirst; ensnaring us all into old beliefs of separateness. And then moreviolently so, causing us to lock ourselves again into a Dark Age’smentality. We had started the Exodus from slavery of old oppressivebeliefs and grasped Light, but had lost our understanding that allmovement into a direction of Oneness causes an automaticcounter-movement reacting to it, for such are the laws by which ourinner and outer reflected Nature were created in the wheel of Life.

Atfirst we were all stunned; shocked back into old reflexes.Nationalisms, old beliefs in the One Energy Source being different andopposing gods called by different names, and all the aspects whichpromote separateness and differentiation amongst us were the firstinstinctive refuge for so many. Armies were rumbling the trumpets ofwar everywhere. The earth was shaking again with their robot-like heavysteps. The darkness of fear was greeted with vengeful battle cries. Andthe explosion happened again.

At first, its resolution was toutedas obvious. The many would conquer by the sheer force of multitudes andaccumulated power that this illusion gives us the One’s lesserfortunate ones in number or capacity. All opposing sides were takingcount of their quantity of accumulated consciousness. The many wouldconquer the One, was the battle cry!

The One, through so manyways again, was trying to first forewarn the many that they were erringagain on the path of separation and belief in the conquest by the manyof the lesser and of the Idea of One. Little credence was given to it.Mankind blindly again walked into an ever repeating trap. Because ofthe nature of its misconceptions, much of what was needed and wasstarting to be healed bled again, and the wounds became deeper. Therift between man and man was becoming ever increasingly, and in anexponential way, greater. And so was the gap between man and his MotherNature.

Many at first saw the ploy and danger, but as more andmore of man attacked its Self, many got tired of the pain of destroyedhopes and turned a blind eye to the pillaging and raping that thespoils of the conqueror were inflicting upon the natural world, andtheir human brethrens.

Peace, if it were to be achieved, wouldagain come from the final exhaustion of the protagonists, until thenext round. Or so it was perceived.

Whole generations werebecoming at risk. This was unprecedented in human history. There was aninner revelation and undertaking that not only a tribe, country,culture, religion, or color were threatened but that future generationsgetting evermore closer to our own, would be at risk of not survivingor be decimated. The idea of the end of all of mankind became part ofthe gestalt conscious awareness of man, first expressed almostrejoicingly so by some distorted minds corrupted within the grips offalse degenerations of old spiritual belief systems, and then within amuch grimmer reality when wave after wave of scientists realized thatwe were really on the brink of annihilation or impending greatdisasters of a magnitude which defies existence. The force withinmankind which for eons cherishes such events, was telling us “I toldyou so!” “It has been already written.” “It is in a book.” “Holy Fate!”“Karma!” “You deserve it!” “The future is already inscribed and static,not a game of probabilities which you can change!” “You have noindividual power, no real input!” “Watch the horror show I haveprepared for the sinners or the un-this and un-that!” “You and yourswill be saved and elevated in this glorious fight, so why care?”

Manstarted believing that the future was only a reality show that he wouldwatch on a screen, and not experience in his own flesh-and-blood. TheTrickster had done well Its job, for so It is programmed to do. Thedice were thrown. We were slowly sinking into un-consciousness. Ourinner Light was extinguishing itself. Most chose the way of innerdenial within their own created world, not realizing that All IS Oneand interconnected. Nothing can escape that One and Only Reality, asthe “Nothing” of SepAraTedNess threw us into a false and powerful senseof separation. The reality was that when one Light was plunging intounconsciousness, it was affecting all the lights of humanity: for TheOne was sinking with it.

Many parts of Humanity were alreadysuffering, and in great pain. Others were falling into non-beingthrough numbing their senses of awareness. Chemically or naturallyproduced and pushed drugs and alcohol were helping the process ofdimming the Inner Light of awareness.

Problems were piling up.The balance of Mankind and Nature was swaying dangerously close to aperceived precipice. So why not rejoice and enjoy the day, one day at atime, and try to forget what you cannot control or see?

The One was trying to speak to our inner heart, for that is where its Kingdom lies. Most were deaf to its Small Inner Voice.

Thechildren of our future Dream were becoming aware that theirs was thegeneration which would most probably have to bear the brunt of theMadness of their parents. They were remaining much more aware thantheir heavily adulterated parents, as we were slowly killing theirfuture. The pain was too great to bear for many, so that theyinstinctively sought refuge in the same immediate solution of immediatepleasures and gratification, sensing as instinctive parts of MotherNature, the necessity to enjoy life when they still could. Ourspiritual and political leaders were inept and uninspiring, mostlyignorant of Oneness and misguided. We were slowly losing faith in thebelief of a possible future.

Night was slowly engulfing Creation, and night-mares were everywhere, either as potentials or already felt realities.

Haveyou ever heard the story? Do you really want to continue and experienceits unfolding? Do you want to experience the end as a REAL end?

Youhave read books and volumes about it. You have watched TV shows andmovies about all the possible ending destructive paths. You werealready born into it and programmed, religiously so – as small innocentchildren – into its beliefs.

Do you want to experience yourdarkest nightmares? In your flesh, with the pain which your senses giveyou? Have you lost your senses? Have you gone mad?

Are we all going mad?

Has A-DAM as the One Higher Consciousness of ALL of mankind fallen into an inverted tree, as A-MAD-Man?

Asyou are all watching the lives of Hollywood stars as the little lightsof your reality TV-like life, please stop and ponder if the real showof LIFE-as-we-know-it is unfolding its tentacles without you having asay in it, while you are stuck watching cartoon-like characters. Forthat is what is happening, and ONLY because YOU AGREED to become asleepat the wheel, or drunk on reality alteration stories, and are invitinga crash. You hold the ultimate power, which is to wake up to One and toOneness Itself.

Are you going to fight the wars of the No-thingabout nothing? How long are you going to watch the political andspiritual pawns of Nothing and their dramas about NO-Thing which onlyserve separation and may engulf us into the No-Thing, if we allow it,by not waking up and shaking it loose?

You are the only and realStars of your show. Please look at yourselves. Care about yourselves,for you inner core Selves know themselves as One.

Do you rememberthe eve of the New Millennium? How long ago was it? Can’t we all bringthat feeling amongst ourselves back and let go of all our inner demons,once and for all? Of course we can, and we will!

Starting right now.

Youmake the choice. That is your free-will. I know my decision, andfrankly I also know yours, for we all originate from the same One Seed,and, deep in your self, you long for that moment of recognition of yourLight, as you then start the inner great fire of Real Passion for Lifeand not Passion for Death, and express it as total Love – a Love whichwill burn all barriers and frontiers; a Love which we are definitelygoing to experience soon as One Creation as we all awake.

Enough of repeating His-Story! Time to start Our-Story, and enjoy it to its fullest and brightest potential.

Timeto bring about our co-creative potential which is immense and infinite,and reboot the old programs from the Nothingfighting-and-dying-about-nothing. Eat from the Tree of Life and notfrom the Tree of Death. So say I, and in that act you shall not dieanymore.

Unless you are so obsessed with the INTIMATE knowledgeof the Tree of Good and Evil that you do not realize that this veryobsession which you have with destroying and killing what YOU perceiveas Evil is the very root which spreads Death and Destruction amongstyour interconnected Selves.

You can do it. It is your right as part of One.

Don’t let your old beliefs blind you. Don’t let old programs assail you.

You are revisiting the Old Genesis of your Life backwards, back to its One-And-Only Source.

No-THINGcan exists outside of One, the rest is only reality TV which you makeyour reality as you watch its empty and dangerous show, throwing youinto a sleep-like state.

The force of the Nothing fighting aboutnothing is only there because YOU give it force and attention. It isNOTHING, as long as you make it what it is as the ultimate illusion inthe One Show of the One: Creation. It has no power and dies, as youpull away from its intoxicating drink. Time to sober up!

Pleasestop this tube of emptiness which is ruling your life, or, at the veryleast, start by changing the channel and watch loving shows in order toremember that you are that Love, you are that laughter, you are thatLife, you are that Romance, and then finally shut the old stories off,and Create your OWN.

Happy Creation 2007!

Before I sharethe message I want to below, let me state that starting in the next 10days and going on henceforth, for the ones who are really ready tochallenge and absorb material which may allow them to de-programthemselves once-and-for-All from old forms of thoughts proven again andagain to be self-destructive, I will share some knowledge which is partof the start of my attempt to lighten up the load and baggage we carry,and make us at the very least question our beliefs about Truth. TheTruth is that it is the questions which motivate us to change. TheAnswer to All is in the Question! Do not stop questioning for that iswhat will propel you to new vistas, new frontiers breaking infernalcycles of painful revisiting of His-story.

Nevertheless, you havefree-will. Free-will to stay static, or to enter a dynamic of realchange. Nevertheless, if you decide to stay static within your beliefsystems, I beg you for One’s sake to pause and truly state that youfeel that the path you are within now will ensure your present and yourprobable future as a reality which you really want to EXPERIENCE,intimately so and with full awareness. And if it is so, then you wouldhave made a Real Creative act in choosing that probable future andmaking it you reality.

This is why only individuals who want tobe exposed to the material, which I will start to reveal, and maketheir own inner direct judgment about it and integrate it in their ownCreative ways within their existence, as Conscious Beings, will beexposed to it. For the Real World is a world of Ideas. That is all theOne Mind can Be. That is why only the ones who desire to question ideaswill be given a link to the restricted (for now) area of our website,so they can climb back the Tree of their deep Inner awareness.

Andit should be so, for you must understand that just by being exposed toan idea for even a moment will make you change and evolve as you giveit emotions and energy. Remember New Year 2000 and what you felt then!

This is a message from the Oneness, received on December 31, 2006, which I want to share with you now.

Thisis a Holy year. In this year much of what mankind considers to beReality will be decided. There has been a big gap between reality andits perception.

Much of what is happening below the feet of man,above his head, and within him, has gone unnoticed, to the real dismayof The One who has been trying to send warnings through many directchannels and through a multitude of events. Even though the One knowsHimself to Be One, that notion is so far remote from His Creatures thatthe mere mentioning of it often brings great discomfort to them.

Inthe next period of Creation, a time limit needs to be set to theperception of non-interference by the Godliness in the affairs ofmankind. When that moment is reached, the dice would have been thrown.

This is the beginning to the end of His-Story, and the beginning of Your-Story.

Muchof what you believe in and have been taught as being real, has been butcreated by the Godliness in advance, in order for you to have a supportin which you will be able to express your Creative potential.

Time, as we know it, is about to take on a different dimension which many of you shall experience soon.

Truth is where you will all be.

Inthis process of Creative endeavor, The Godliness shall be experiencingit with you as you, for you, so that you can all potentially reach theBeginning of Time.

Great responsibilities lie upon each of yourshoulders, each and every one of you, and you need to become soonsentient and aware of what your real purpose is as a Creation, which isto Create and improve upon the original program that The Godliness hasprepared for you as Himself to experience, and hopefully enjoy, as Hetravels within each and every one of you the path of His Creativeprocesses in the infinite lattice of possibilities that He has Createdin advance, so that He experiences His Being in the many.

The Oneis asking the many to slowly, patiently, pay attention to much of theguidance that He will tend to project from within their inner selves.

Hewishes often that the unfolding of events be smoother. Nevertheless, Hehas allowed Himself to be restricted by His original plan and programas a challenge to Him, as the many facets operating within His giganticMind.

There is still a small window of opportunity to soften theblow of the awakening process, and it is The Godliness’s dream and wishthat mankind shall invite within its heart the attention it needs nowin order to show Oneness of purpose and existence to all and resist thetemptation to slowly extinguish its inner Light as challenging events,which will call upon the inner resources of the many, will try to starthappening to project Oneness within the One Heart of ALL.

Gerald O’Donnell

Academy of Remote Viewing and Influencing reality and thought

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Scientific Explanations For Remote Viewing

Eighteenth and nineteenth century physical science had completed andembellished the “golden age of a mechanistic and deterministic modelsof the universe” where the universe and its constituents are ruled byrigid interactive forces that can be measured, phenomena that can bepredicted using mathematical tools, and where the universe or anysystem operating within it is made of the sum of its parts.

Lightwas thought to be an electromagnetic wave vibrating in an undetected,and later experimentally disproved media: “the ether”, at certain ratesof vibration that would define its color. It was part of theelectromagnetic wave spectrum that allowed one to perceive anelectromagnetic wave as heat, light , radio waves, or otherelectromagnetic radiations depending on the frequency of itsvibrations. This spectrum had been well-defined by the equations of theEnglish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1864.

Man’s biology wasreduced to a mechanical system albeit of extreme complexity, andthought was perceived to be but an epiphenomenon of the mechanicalbrain.

All this was very hygienic, logical, and comforting. Itallowed to view the so-called invisible world of spiritual forces orentities as a personal unproven hypothesis, and permitted thejustification of atheistic concept to be scientifically sound.Basically it allowed for purely atheistic politico-philosophies alikecommunism to find a sympathetic resonance within the “intelligentsia”and the masses.

It also gave a great mechanistic impetus andapproach to the fields of biology, microbiology, psychology,neurobiology, and the allopathic technical mechanistic approach to thehealth sciences. Technology was “king” and the understanding ofinteractions between well-defined separated systems would bring thepossible conquest of disturbances and imperfections in the “machinery”of biological entities.

Man having created a new religion called”science”, which revered himself and his intellect, had the perceptionof having attained a Godlike control over nature.

By the end of19th century the ultraviolet catastrophe – as it came to be known – putthis whole hygienic view of the world in question, and the theory of”quanta” of Max Planck was introduced in 1900. The German physicist MaxPlanck introduced the notion of packets of energy that he called”quanta” in order to explain why the wavelength (color) of theradiation given off by heated objects did not rise in a continuousmanner but in discontinuous spurts from value to value as they grewhotter. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who was to become later one of thefathers of the “Manhattan Project” that developed the first US A-bombduring WWII, used in 1913 the theory of “quanta” of energy in order toprove that the whole world of atoms was full of “quantum” jumps. Anelectron could jump from one level of energy (so-called orbit) toanother without appearing in-between these states. Discontinuity hadbeen introduced in our equation of the universe!

In 1905 AlbertEinstein defined light as made of quanta of energy or particles that hecoined “photons” in his famous paper explaining the photoelectriceffect for which he received a Nobel prize in 1923. He neverthelessacknowledged that light could also be defined as a wave, depending onthe mode of observation used in a chosen experiment, and theparticle/wave duality was introduced in our attempts to grasp themysteries of nature.

The new physics of the beginnings of thetwentieth century gave a mortal blow to the deterministic principles ofthe old school of thought. Time and space became relative notionsaccording to the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein. Quantumphysics stated that all particles of matter could be viewed either asmaterial bodies or as waves. It allowed for one electron (or any otherparticle) to be in two locations at once (double slit experiment), andproved that one could not predict the next location of a particle byknowing its present one.

In the strange world of quantum physics,particles dematerialized themselves into waves (such as in transistors)and rematerialized themselves later into particles. This depended onthe type of experiment they were subjected to, and most importantly:the choice made by a conscious observer as to how he or she would viewthese particles.

To most theorists, the phenomena of natureexisted only as determined states as a conscious observer witnessedthem, either directly, or through the artifacts of a measuring device.Quantum mechanics was born, and with it our view of reality would beforever changed.

In order to comprehend events in the phenomenalworld, one needed to introduce a major variable that had until thenbeen ignored: The consciousness (self reflective thought) of theobserver. Without the perception of a material world by a consciousentity, there were great doubts as to the existence of that materialreality independently of its observation.

In other words we makea potential reality manifest itself by our choices, even retroactivelythrough time and immediately across the perceived infinite space, asthe two experiments mentioned hereafter have proven, to the surprise ofmost physicists. Or, in other words, volition and free will operateoutside the confines of time/space, and our impression of makingchoices is but a delayed awareness of events that higher levels of ourminds have already made for us and therefore project to our awareness(ego) as a holographic packet of sensory information, post facto. Weare therefore, at a higher level, the maker (subject) of our realityprojected to one’s self (object) within the web of probabilities of thequantum world that we “materialize” for both the subject and the objectthat are but two mirrors of one same reality: Consciousness, defined asself -reflective awareness.

Very advanced “remote viewers” knowat which points volition is part of the higher levels of one’s self andat which points it is made available to the lower (conscious level), asthe quantum self or higher self merges with the lower self (ego).

Ourcourses attempts to allow the conscious part (reactive sensoryapparatus operating as intellect) and the much higher vibratory mind(deep subconscious level) to merge with each other in awareness inorder to allow a human individual to be more in control of one’sreality and probable future. At the level of the higher mind time/spaceis instantly bridged. “Remote Viewing” and especially “RemoteInfluencing” allows one to connect to that level.

Mr. O’Donnellonly mentions quantum physics in order to allow for the comforting viewof reality of most individuals to be shattered and at the very leastquestioned. Each one is to find his or her own truth, using eventuallyhis or her own path. The course is only meant as a guide to a newworld, an opening to a new way of viewing and experiencing reality.

In1982 at the Institute of Applied Physics and Theoretical Optics at theUniversity of Paris, France, the team of physicists composed of AlainAspect, Jean Dalibard and Gerard Roger made what may prove to be thegreatest scientific discovery of this century. They provedexperimentally that the world is non-local or non-separable. This isequivalent to saying that space, as we perceive it to be, does notexist, but is an illusion of our senses. Projected by whom? This is thebig question that science tries to answer.

In the same field ofquantum theory, time is not only relative but one can experimentallychange the past, as the delayed choice experiment, carried out byscientists in the 80′s at the University of Maryland and the Universityof Munich has proven.

Although this all seems to belong to therealm of science-fiction, it is a reality, albeit hard to accept, forall the minds that dwell in the world of the quanta: a world full ofseemingly contradictions, surprises, and a certain sense of humor.

Allmodern disciplines are nowadays affected by it, short maybe of modernbiology, neurobiology and surprisingly psychology that are stillembracing a mechanistic view of thought and have not, as yet, been ableto define it.

Quantum physics gave us the invention of the atomicbomb, the transistor, the computer chip, laser and devices using laserlight as a conduct for information, Josephson junctions insupercomputers, superconductors etc.

You should never doubt yournatural-born ability to operate at such a high vibratory level ofthought. This ability has been proven since antiquity, and is stillutilized successfully by highly secretive intelligence units belongingto the major world powers.

This is one case where a dose ofskepticism in the field of thought orientation and exploration isunhealthy, and the fear of ridicule even more so. You have to becomeopen-minded, as a child is. All major shifts in scientific thought haveincurred the ire of the static-minded old Praetorian Guard of proveninadequate sclerotic systems that are beginning to hit too many wallsloaded with points of singularity.

The methods taught in ourcourses are probably part of the dawn of a new paradigm shift inscientific thinking that will revolutionize and change the “oldclassical scientific concepts” of the late 19th century that still rulefor most of us our interpretation of our perceived material reality.This will have major implications in the natural and health sciences,the biological perceptions and their assumed correlations, all otherphenomenal science, and the understanding of what the mind is.

Ifwe are in the process of constantly creating our reality by thinkingabout it in an individualized and global manner, and that sciencereflects but a snapshot of our attempt at understanding our Creation, amajor shift in our thought- perception will induce totally differentways at experiencing the phenomenal world and controlling it to ourdesires.

All aspects of our lives in this new Millennium will, most likely, be profoundly transformed by it.

Theintroduction of consciousness as a major factor in the equation ofreality by modern quantum physics is at the core of one of the majorparadox of so-called psychic research. According to quantum physics,the thought of the observer has an influence upon the result of anexperiment. Therefore, if we are co-creator of our reality by merethought, the natural imbued skepticism of many scientists and theirmethodologies introduce a negative bias in the results that they wouldobtain in thought experiment such as “remote viewing” etc.

Inother words, in order to achieve 100% success at proving the efficacyof “remote viewing or influencing ” one would need to deal withscientists and tests subjects that are of the firm belief of the easyachievement of such mental feats, which would automatically be called abias experimental protocol by the skeptical scientific community. Thatis why the best results at remote viewing were always achieved withinintelligence and military secret units that pragmatically only caredabout bridging time and space effectively using mental technologies,and were not the least concerned about peer recognition and the fear ofbeing ridiculed.

Gerald O’Donnell

Academy of Remote Viewing and Influencing reality and thought

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