Truth is eternally true.
God is truth. Everything else is temporary and must be let go of if one is to remain in truth. This is the secret to living. Last night I had a dream. I was at a festival of sorts. The main events had ended and people were leaving. The area was mostly dry dirt that had step like valleys. I followed along my level, and met those who were like me. I encouraged them to come with me, but they were attached to what they were doing. Some were using psychedelics and wanted more. I tried to talk with them, but there was no connection. I entered into a passage inside a cavern. There were dry reddish dirt walls, but no real ceiling. There were people up against the walls doing various things. Up ahead on my right was an Asian woman sitting in front of a sink. There was a mirrored medicine cabinet above the sink, and when she opened it, there was a passage. When I got to her, she opened the mirrored door, it was much larger than it looked and I was able to pass through, but I looked back and saw my bag was left behind. I asked her to retrieve it. She didn't respond, but I kept asking, and the people waiting kept showing me other bags, it kept morphing into other things. I eventually realized I needed to go on. When I went through the passage I was on a platform of sorts high up the inner walls of the new cavern. I was trying to find something to stand on, or a way to get down. Finally I found a ledge I could grab, and use as leverage to get down. However, I realized my legs were stuck inside something and I couldn't get them out. After some time of trying, I realized I was taking the wrong approach. I was an avatar, not a physical body. On Awakening/Interpretation. Most of this dream I was leaving behind the past and attachments of various sorts. In the first part of the dream, there were other people who didn't move on, who I was encouraging to come, They were attached to the experiences of their mind on drugs and to the social scene. It is interesting that it was the "others" who I was trying to come with me. To me that means I have already disassociated with that part of life. Considering that I just arrived at my 10 year sobriety anniversary, and am committed to exploring consciousness without drugs, I believe this is accurate. I have also split off my life from most of the traditional social scene, working and living in an independent circle where people are free from dogma and instituational bureaucratization of mind, to steal the term coined by Paulo Frere. There are several interesting things about going through the medicine cabinet mirror. First, the guardian of the gate was an Asian woman. I am not sure what that implies, perhaps Eastern spirituality, and the gentle or yin side of it, as it is the woman. Second, I was concerned about leaving my bag, and never could retrieve it. In my earthly life, the bag belonged to my step mother Sue, who was my mentor and hero in life. She was the one who guided me. Ultimately, I had to leave that behind to move through. Finally, there was the realization of being the avatar and not the body. This is relative to where I am in my own spiritual journey. The awakening to the truth as a spiritual being, and the need to recognize this to navigate this next phase. We are all on a spiritual journey. How long it takes to awaken out of the dream depends on how willing and determined we are to do so. It is easy to get lost in exploring. There is nothing wrong with exploring, but awakening allows for the freedom to participate on a next level. I hope that this dream means I am doing just that.
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Dreams are powerful connections with the subconscious. Dreams are travels within the astral world. All dreams are out of body experiences (OBEs).
Dreams can be prophetic. It is a powerful tool to listen to one's dreams. Here is a recent one of my own I will share. I was in a type of dirt colleseum. I was playing a game with dozens (maybe hundreds) of others. I was in the "pit" of the colleseum and others were up in the walls. It was all dirt. I was good at my role in the game, and they decided to promote me into a position in the walls. I climbed up the dirt steps and started to throw the "balls" which were all different little objects (like small toys). I threw mine at the opposing team, and then was waiting for it to be returned so I could play more. No one returned it. The game was so slow. I decided to go and see what other players were doing. As I walked up higher into the walls of the cavern, I saw that no one was throwing their game pieces. They were all waiting, for what I didn't know. I picked up somone's game piece and threw it down into the playing field, but I couldn't throw far enough. This was too difficult of a position for me. So, I started gathering up the pieces so that at least I could play them from my spot. When I got to my position, the players from the other team were changing places with me. Our turn was over. Interpretation: I am playing my part, but those who are above me are not. I cannot play anyone elses part. Time is short. The game will be over soon. I am still struggling as I work to be in truth. That is a life-long goal, but has been increasingly brought to bear in my journey into Christianity. There is definitely a battle in this world today around the truth. The way reality is warped and distorted, the increase in the attitude of moral relativism, and the perversion of those things that were once held as undeniable are all evidence of the way we have moved away from Truth, and therefore have also moved away from God. Because, God is Truth.
The one message that I can hold as the essence of Christianity that is beyond any dogma, is that Jesus is Love. I am a big fan of experiential knowledge and the wisdom of experience. This is more significant in my own assessment of reality than theoretical or philosophical truths. Phenomenon is data. I can take a large sample of these shared phenomenon and come to a deeper awareness than if I just adopt someone else's already digested truth. I guess this is where I am having my biggest issues with Christianity. Not all, but some of my experienc so far has demanded that I give up any quesitoning. That I adopt in pure faith the messages I am being told by the pastors. Personally, I have a problem with this because I feel as though these teachings are also interpretations. If someone has interpreted something it is already a perversion of truth. I need to experience and to know the truth for myself. Call me a doubting Thomas. But how can you know love from someone telling you about it? You have to experience love yourself to know it. So ultimately, what I am working towards is this perfect love. That is enough to work on. It is a lifetime's work to attain perfect love. I probably won't come close, but I know that if I am trying to achieve this love of my brother and of God I will be walking the path of goodness and be closer to God than if I am touting hatred and fear in the world. I have been opening up to the Christian path, a beautiful heart centered path of healing and deliverance from sin. In the ministry of Jesus, he taught, healed and cast out demons. His healing ministry is the reason I reconnected to the Christian path. My training in energy healing works both to remove negative energies and entities, as well as to heal and fill-up those who are being healed with divine light. Surely, the work with addicts has shown me that people can be possessed by these lower entities and energies. I believe these exist both outside of ourselves (such as living within spaces and within the drugs themselves, and I beleive that we ourselves can create them through our own constant negative emotions and thoughts. In Christianity they are referred to as demons and unclean spirits. Jesus frequently cast these out, and told his disciples they also had the authority in his name to cast out demons (Mark 16:17)(Acts 16:18). I always was attracted the the story of Jesus casting out the demons into pigs that then went and drown themselves in the water. It fascinated me because the consciousness of the demons needed to go somewhere...if not in the pigs what would have happened to them? Most certainly, people can be released from the bondage of these unclean spirits and healed. Yesterday, I had an encounter with a visiting pastor at our local church. He will be hosting a deliverance ministry next Saturday, and after our conversation he insisted I come. Not as an observer, but out of his perceived need for my deliverance. We had started talking about yoga and Wim Hof, which he let me know were both demonic. He showed me a list of things that were demonic three pages long. Yoga, meditation, Reiki and other spiritual practices were on the list. I even noticed sage and incense were on the list. (Didn't the wise men bring Jesus incense?) I told him I wasn't in a place to completely change my own beliefs. He became rather aggressive and said God had brought me to him so this could be revealed. I left the meeting angry and uninspired. I have only just started this journey on the Christian path and I am immediately being confronted with the reason I left this path in the first place. Here is how I see it, God is Good. Those things in alignment with goodness are of God. God is Truth, anything that is not true is not of God. When we start to demonize those who are good, we will be diverting all of the energy we need to address the true evil in the world. When we start creating divisiveness, we are moving away from God and Love. I have also spent the past 10 years working a powerful program of Codependency Anonymous. The teaching of CoDA are focused on how to connect to your inner truth. Developing a deep relationship with your higher self, and the God of your own understanding. I have a good sense of who I am today. I know that I can be used by God to do good in this world. I have learned to trust my inner self, and the guidance I receive from my higher power through prayer, meditation and yes breath-work. Did I mention there is a demon associated with breathwork? I have been struggling, because I know there is a beautiful truth in the Christian path, but this superstitious beliefs about the evil of yoga, meditation and breathwork I cannot abide by, at least not in this moment. I believe those who are Good in this world, lightworkers here to help uplift those who are suffering through love and healing, need all the help they can get against the truly demonic forces running the show. I also believe, that perhaps part of this new opening into the path of Christianity is to shine light on the real teaching of Love and Healing of Christ Jesus and to break the superstitions. If this is the case, I accept it fully. I ask God to show me the truth. How can one follow the teaching of Jesus without being demonized for the health giving and life affirming practice that have been and are being revealed through science and spiritual revelation? 5 Steps to Deliverance from Humble and Faithful Co.
Here are five steps to deliverance that can help you or someone you know:
This has been a particularly stressful end of the old, and beginning of the new year. Major changes in my life are taking place and it hasn't been the beautiful graceful transition that one would hope for. It has been more of a total upheaval of everything I hoped for and a disorientation of the turning my plans on their head. This type of experience can cause the spiralling into despair. The lessons from these moments are deep and meaningful and with time these dark days will become the most significant moments, but the days before that clarity arises, must be handled with grace. It is so necessary to get through this time with kindness and gentleness towards oneself. If you have the chance to retreat from some of life's responsibilities, then do so. But if you don't, be absolutely sure you are taking time to engage in activities that bring you joy. There is an exercise developed by Jennifer McClean that is simple and effective. Make two columns on a paper. On one side write the things that are causing you stress. Then give each item a number from 1 to 10 to quantify the degree of stress it is causing. In the second column, write down things that bring you joy. What do you enjoy doing? Take your time with this side of the list. This is important. Then quantify the joy each activity brings from 1-10. Finally, make sure you are balancing the equation each day. If you have a number 10 stressor, make sure you include some level 10 joyful activities in your day. Don't let yourself be consumed by stress. These dark days will turn to bright faster when you stay in the sunlight of the spirit. I love to play music, and so that is what I have been doing these past few weeks. Some new and amazing songs even came through the darkness. Some of our most creative impulses can be found there. Be patient with the process, know that things are working out for your betterments. Love yourself. As the saying goes, "Faith without works is dead."
So true, "Inspiration without action is just an idea." So come and join us for the New Year's Day as we tune into what we what to achieve this year and then commit to making steps towards that goal. We will examine 4 areas of life, Spiritual, Social, Emotional and Physical and challenge ourselves to move towards the positive vision in each area. Any worthy goal is accomplished by diligence and consistency. Once you have identified your goals, we invite you to participate in our 30 day challenge to get the year started right! Our group call starts at 1:11 PM and all are welcome. All attendees get free access to challenge pages, tips and tricks and all that you need to get started towards your goals. Topic: New Year's Goal Setting Time: Jan 1, 2024 01:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89794684181?pwd=RTY2V09OZHpzU3hxSmtrOFdIOU9PUT09 Meeting ID: 897 9468 4181 Passcode: Action --- One tap mobile +13126266799,,89794684181#,,,,*995120# US (Chicago) +13092053325,,89794684181#,,,,*995120# US --- Dial by your location • +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) • +1 309 205 3325 US • +1 646 931 3860 US • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) • +1 305 224 1968 US • +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) • +1 564 217 2000 US • +1 669 444 9171 US • +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) • +1 689 278 1000 US • +1 719 359 4580 US • +1 253 205 0468 US • +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) • +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) • +1 360 209 5623 US • +1 386 347 5053 US • +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) • +1 507 473 4847 US Meeting ID: 897 9468 4181 Passcode: 995120 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kek9cemrJJ There is so much fear in the Christian community regarding those who are energy and lightworkers. Personally I have spent more than 20 years studying and practicing energy healing techniques. I like to point out to my Christian cohorts that Jesus was the greatest lightworker of all time, and he said that in regards to his own miracles, we too had these abilities, through him.
John 14:12-14 New International Version12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. As I step onto the Christian path, being convicted in the faith, I do see that there are those who misuse the gifts of our spiritual light for nefarious purposes. However, it is also my belief that the unconscious ways in which most people direct their energy and drain and misuse their God given spiritual light is more prevalent and more tragic. Learning that we are spiritual beings having a human experience is the first step to awakening. Understanding how our spiritual nature is interacting in this world is the next, and finally learning to work within this matrix in order to do God's will, bringing more and more people out of the enslavement of addiction, depression and delusion, and into the truth of who they are is the ultimate goal of a Christian path. Why would I denounce all of the work that has been done up to this point in understanding my spiritual nature, when it would leave me without access to the spirit within me? I have been reading the book of Wisdom. What a beautiful spiritual text. It was written about fifty years before the birth of Jesus. It is in the style of Hebrew verse. Some of the text is written as King Solomon, although the author himself is anonymous. For me it has the power of the writings of Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics to quell the emotional turmoil of dealing with prideful and difficult people.
From Chap 5 8:13 What did our pride avail us? What have wealth and its boastfulness afforded us? All of them passed like a shadow and like a fleeting rumor; Like a ship traversing the heaving water: when it has passed, no trace can be found, no path of its keel in the waves. Or like a bird flying through the air; no evidence of its course is to be found-- But the fluid air, lashed by the beating of pinions, and cleft by the rushing force Of speeding wings, is traversed; and afterward no mark of passage can be found in it. Or as, when an arrow has been shot at a mark, the parted air straightway flows together again so that none discerns the way it went-- Even so, once born, we abruptly came to nought and held no sign of virtue to display, but were consumed in our wickedness. These words show that the life steeped in a focus on the world, leads to nothing significant. A life with no impact. Why does virtuos action alone have any significance in the world? It must be true that evil also has an impact on the world, selfishness and folly must impact the world negatively. But what if this world didn't really exist, or rather was simply here to test one's mettle? The only thing significant here is that one can demonstrate their ability to connect to Wisdom and live according to her guidance. Chapter 6 12:19 delves into how Wisdom presents herself to those who seek her. It also emphasizes the love of discipline. 12 Resplendent and unfading is Wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. 13 She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her; 14 one who watches for her at dawn will not be disappointed, for she will be found sitting at the gate. 15 For setting your heart on her is the perfection of prudence, and whoever keeps vigil for her is quickly free from care; 16 Because she makes her rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them on the way, and goes to meet them with full attention. 17 * For the first step toward Wisdom is an earnest desire for discipline; 18 then, care for discipline is love of her; love means the keeping of her laws To observe her laws is the basis for incorruptibility; 19 and incorruptibility makes one close to God; Wow! What a beautiful truth is presented here. I have always said that discipline brings rewards. Care for discipline is the love of Wisdom. To follow the laws of Wisdom is the basis of incorruptibility. You will always be in integrity with God in following Wisdom (which comes from God). Incorruptibility (Integrity) makes one close to God. These truths are powerful. When I can live in integrity with virtue, I am closer to God. This closeness also gives me Wisdom. They draw together. They represnt a true duality. The most popular reading in the AA 24 hour a day book is January 6th (the Epiphany) and the meditation that follows this text is all about discipline. Indeed, discipline leads to the path of Wisdom, which leads us directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. From Twenty-Four Hours a Day © 1975 by Hazelden Foundation Thought for the Day Keeping sober is the most important thing in my life. The most important decision I ever made was my decision to give up drinking. I am convinced that my whole life depends on not taking that first drink. Nothing in the world is as important to me as my own sobriety. Everything I have, my whole life, depends on that one thing. Can I afford ever to forget this, even for one minute? Meditation for the Day I will discipline myself. I will do this disciplining now. I will turn out all useless thoughts. I know that the goodness of my life is a necessary foundation for its usefulness. I will welcome this training, for without it, God cannot give me His power. I believe that this power is a mighty power when it is used in the right way. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may face and accept whatever discipline is necessary. I pray that I may be fit to receive God's power in my life. There is a dangerous path of spiritual belief that has infiltrated our collective thought, that is that since everything is of God, everything is Love and is good. This statement is dangerous because it allows evil to be seen as good.
The reversal and even celebration of evil as good is demonstrated all around us. Look especially at the movies in Hollywood. Are video games that celebrate murder good? What are we imprinting on our subconscious, or the subconsious of our children? I have been moving deeply into an understanding of this world from the Christian perspective. This states that the world was given to the fallen angel of Lucifer who brought with him 1/3 of all the angels in heaven. Luciferianism is at the core of various secret societies, including the Freemasons. This video was part of my own introduction into this idea, a powerful testimonial from someone who had been initiated. It is about the most revealing and expansive expose that I have watched in years, and it truly puts all the pieces together. youtu.be/gbUK4cFCTPg?si=F-xPOD7ymHW19ShJ The video by the founder of a children's home in Tanzenia, describes the fact that we are actually in the matrix, but that there are indeed two different matrices. One Good of God, one Evil of Lucifer. It is well worth watching. I like it because it does line up very much with the double torroid of Power vs Force. You are either in one or the other of the torroids. youtu.be/vNBUa-akMtM?si=AZ1gO7nit_5frnUZ I am not sure how I feel about Steiner's organizing principle behind his 12 senses. We just completed smell and taste, in the Transformative Learning Foundation course, and now we are exploring vision as part of the same category. I guess Steiner reasons that in each of these senses we take something in from the outside.
From a neurobiological perspective, this categorization doesn't gel. Taste and smell are confined to such lower, foundational brain networks, with most of their primary efferents connected to brainstem or archicortex. Vision, on the otherhand, first and foremost project through the thalamo-cortical networks, and though this and other neural systems is connected to almost every region of the brain. Vision researchers say 70-90 percent of the brain is visual depending on who you talk to. It is a highly dominant and interconnected sense with a strong top-down influence. Vision is connected to our inner visual imagination, and this is where so much power lies in our ability to create, and to understand. Creative people can see their work in their minds eye. They can then take that image and bring it into reality. Good leaders and futurists can "see" the big picture of an organization or social structure, and can envision how particular tweaks and changes to an issue will produce differing results. Many sages and seers have existed across time who have been able to see our unfolding future. Visions are not uncommon for any intuitive person. It is a capacity that can be developed through quieting the mind and simply setting the intention. Visions can come through dreams, or through meditation, or contemplation. I woke up early this morning and sat out on the hammock under the stars. It is unusually warm for November, so I got a hat and a blanket and just stared at the sky. At first I found myself trying to pick out stars, naming, or categorizing. I then starting thinking about the time of day, cloud cover, dawn and the like. I decided to really see, I needed to still my mind and stop naming. I started practicing a new approach to the Wim Hoff breathwork method that has been quite successful for me. It aligns the breathwork with the fibonacci sequence. I split my attention between counting and doing the breathwork which was quite effortful and viewing the stars. One star in particular caught my attention, and seemed more alive than the others. I had a feeling towards this star, its light seemed to separate and jump down to greet me. As the breathwork continued, I started to feel a metaphor for this star and our earth life. God's light having been given, broken off from its source, so that we could experience the illusion of separation. I felt that this was a great gift. Although we have done quite a job of it, this Earth project, the trust and love that was present in its creation, is a powerful manifestation of our own creative and destructive tendencies. There was a feeling that the entire project came out of the energy of Narcissism. A desire to know oneself separate from God. Well, what a disaster that has been. We are all feeling the pain of alienation from one another and God. The illusion of happiness coming from fame and glory given to oneself, is so radically demonstrated through the misery of those in Hollywood. Drug overdoses, domestic violence, self-destructive behavior and a level of self-absorbtion that is then portrayed to the world as something worthy of envy or worship even. Will we make it out of the suffering we have created? Can we find our way back to God and the awareness that we are all one? That seems to me to be the goal of this project. For myself, I find it necessary to make that effort everyday to quell my own desires for those things of the ego, and to remember that those can never satisfy what I am truly longing for. ++++Wim Hoff Breathwork+++ |
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