A destination to die for

I listened to Shirley MacLaine this evening as she explained that she had a ‘knowing’ of spiritual self and has the strongly held belief that she had a past existence prior to this life on Earth and believes that what we call death is a transitional experience to another place where our conscious self continues to think and be. She is not alone in this belief and while not all Ministers. Priests, Rabbis and Imams specifically mention pre-existence, they most certainly preach life after death.

Ask one of those religious teachers about it, where it is and who’s there in this place that we go to after death and the answers are vague and illusory.

I’m not so well versed in so many ancient texts that speak of the afterlife as I am in the Bible. However, I know the interpretations of what Heaven, The Kingdom of God and the afterlife is, is taught to be pretty much the same.

When asked, far more people will tell you they believe in God and Heaven than don’t and they hope there is an afterlife all the while not knowing who God is, why they are here and where they are going. So I think it is intriguing that people can be complacent about their life’s purpose and destination. It’s like buying a ticket on a mystery tour and hope the destination is to your liking. I reckon the Traveller’s Guide to a Small Planet needs an entry for “The Afterlife”. Of course, that supposes someone could provide a write up. According to the majority of religious teachers around the globe, the write up for the afterlife is that heaven is the ultimate destination not to be ignored. A must for every “Bucket List” a destination to die for.

So where does the modern 21st century traveler turn to for a critique of cloud nine, how do you get the low-down on the digs behind Saint Peter’s pearly gates? Surely if the place is as good as the religious teachers teach there should be an up-to-date review ready for potential visitors to consider.

Unfortunately, the travel brochures supplied by the popular fanchises spruiking heaven as the ultimate destination are somewhat out of date. The most popular, the Bible, is almost two thousand years old and the self appointed agencies representing heaven guard their franchises very jealously because I was informed that if I were to try another agency I would most likely be unable to obtain a visa and be prohibited from visiting the ultimate destination altogether. Additionally, I was told by all the popular agencies that if I tried to go directly to the inhabitants I would be seduced by evil impostors and end up buying a one way ticket on an eternal bad trip.

So why the jealousy between Heaven’s franchises? If the destination is as good as they say it is, why can’t I look around and determine which agency I want to use just as I would if I were going to Fiji for the weekend?

My franchise told me the other franchises are masquerading and only mine was the franchise that could guarantee to deliver me to their Heavenly destination. So while each franchise competes for business and bad mouths the other I decided to see what other avenues to my Heavenly vision were available.

Looking outside the usual franchises, I found that the traditional owners of the planet had been teaching their children and children’s children how to maintain that spiritual contact with Heaven since before the franchises’ and their ancient texts were created. My franchise warned me to keep away from, the shamans, medicine men, seers and astrologers less I be seduced by evil spirits and others said I would end up in a fiery place of eternal torment. That one story alone has either frightened people to stay close to their family’s franchise or to give up believing in the spiritual realm alltogether. If they are correct, then heaven must have very few residents compared to hell which must contain the vast majority of humanity who bought a ticket on the wrong boat.

Regarding Heaven’s residents. It seems some are the same as those mentioned in the ancient texts. While warning spiritual travellers away from directly contacting heaven’s residents, the franchises had not renewed their acquaintance with those they purported to represent and had not heard from them in quite a while and no longer received updates or news of the latest Heavenly activities.

Meanwhile the indigenous continued to treat their dead ancestors with respect and maintain communication with the residents of Heaven knowing their ancestors make up some of those who are resident in that invisible place just as your franchise may teach that your ancestors may also be Heaven’s residents. While the popular franchises held some of the same beliefs as the indigenous they feared the way the indigenous contacted the spirit realm directly. They Feared they were contacting evil entities.

Both claim to be contacting their ancestors. Would our ancestors mislead us? Are they evil? Would you be misleading or evil to your children? To think that one franchise’s heavenly residents are favoured over another or that the ancestors of the indigenous spirits are somehow unwelcome by the God of one or another franchise is to fly in the face of what Jesus stated when he said “a house that stand against itself can not stand”. He spoke these words when he was accused of consulting the spirits from outside the agreed franchise of the Jews at that time.

Evil exists in the world and heaven’s franchises rightly warn you to be wary of evil. However, It is time you peeked into the doorway of the other franchises and the meeting places of the indigenous. You will find people like you, you will find they are receiving healing just like you and they treat each other with love like you do in your franchise and there is respect and a love for Heaven there just like yours. Just peek in the door if you’re near, have a little listen as you pass you will find a respect for Heaven there too. Everyone has purchased a ticket and the destination is the same even if the port of departure is not.

As long as tickets are purchased and sold with unconditional love you need not worry if you are travelling with the right franchise because the residents of Heaven will surround you and carry you to your destination.

One good turn deserves another

I visited the supermarket this morning and as I approached the door with its compliment of shopping trolleys I recalled the last time I visited. After unloading my trolley into the car I pushed it across the car park towards the trolley rack with the intention of retrieving my coin which is held captive as an incentive to return the trolley and lock it up again to stop it being abandoned at some far corner of the planet. That day I saw two blokes looking quite puzzled as I approached the rack. Both were tapping their sides, searching their pockets for a coin in order to release one of the trollies from captivity. Seeing their dilemma I offered them my trolley which they accepted with thanks.

The thought of that incident had only just crossed my mind as I approached the rack of trollies with the intention of feeding another coin into a waiting cart when a kind gentleman rolled up from behind with a trolly and said “Here you go mate.” and with that, left the trolley in my hands and headed across the car park.

Of course a cynic  would say it was a coincidence.

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Send a special kiss this Valentine’s Day

For many years Valentines Day has been a day dedicated to romantic love. Whether your focus this Valentines Day will be your love interest or the lack of a love relationship please save some special love in your heart for another.

This St Valentine’s Day send some love to Gaia, planet Earth, who is carrying the heavy burden humanity has placed upon her. She can use some love right now.

Spend just a moment in thought and blow a kiss to Mother Earth. She deserves your love for carrying the human race and the other kingdoms that call her home across this universe into infinity.

If you agree please share the sentiment.

Namaste

I had a dream

I had a dream last night. In the churches and meeting places all around the world teachers were telling the stories of the prophets and ancient writings about spirits or angels visiting humans with instructions on how to live a better life. But that story was of the past, so I asked, “Where are the stories for us?”, “Where are the visitors from the angelic realm that the ancient writings spoke about now?”

Now I could see them. They were watching those churches and meeting places. Then I heard ancient Eastern teachings being taught in the West and a new generation started to listen. It was unlike the Western teachings for the past one and a half thousand years.

I saw a new generation unlike any before unhappy with politics and war. They where beatnicks, hippies and the flower children and it was the Summer of Love. The message they chanted was make peace not war! But they kept making war.

Now there was great fear and expectation that there would be an apocalypse, armageddon, the end of the world as we know it. The hands of the Doomsday Clock where at one minute to midnight. Fear grew. Some pointed to ancient inscriptions, a Myan calendar. It corresponds with our year 2012 and marked the end of time. Twenty twelve came and 2012 went and as the planet moved through the procession of the equinoxes as marked in those ancient writings a new energy from the part of the galaxy the Earth was now travelling through fell upon the planet and the Earth started to change and along with it, humanity.

It wasn’t the end of the world, it was the end of the evolution of humanity. The light, the energy was effecting human mass consciousness and humanity was waking up! They where finally making peace not war!

The celestial beings of the ancient writings and our galactic neighbours who had been observing humanity rejoiced at this event because this time humanity didn’t destroy itself as it did in the past. This time we made it. Humanity side stepped the Armageddon of the Bible and world destruction prophesied in other ancient records.

Humanity and the Earth where now joining their Celestial and Galactic neighbours as beings of light in that realm from which all that is, is.

Be careful what you like

There are algorithms and robot watchers that follow you on the Internet. Every time you like something on Facebook it learns what you like and sends you more. When you search for a product, holiday or service, Google is watching and brings you more adverts just like the ones you searched for.

What you receive is what you were browsing for.

In order to receive worthwhile material it is important to be specific about what you view and like otherwise you’ll end up with all manner of unhelpful stuff that clutters up your in-box and valuable time.

Life is like that.

Sometimes you just can’t catch a break. You get up in the morning and it’s one thing after another. There’s no milk, it’s raining, the bus is late, then crowded. Your appointment doesn’t show and you forgot your lunch. That’s the day the credit card doesn’t work even though you know it has funds.

It’s times like these that you have to NOT click the LIKES!

Consider self talk as LIKES. The conversations with yourself as these things are occurring effect your emotions and your emotions telegraph the universe your current status or LIKE.

The Law of Attraction is real whether you understand it or not, whether you believe it or not.

The Law of Attraction: Like brings unto it, like.

So if you perpetuate your low emotional status with self talk, the universe says “Oh! Is that your status? Here, have some more.”

So catch yourself when something goes amiss. Instead of saying “That always happens that way” or “he/she always does that” while feeling frustrated, just don’t say it to your self. Self talk perpetuates the emotion and the emotion telegraphs the universe to send more just like it.

So the best way to ensure that you attract what you want rather than what you don’t want is to start with your thoughts.

“Everything goes right for me. Everything goes right for me.”

Don’t underestimate appreciation and gratitude. Look for the things you like and use the self talk to appreciate and be grateful for them. As you do, your emotional status will rise and that will be your signal to the universe to bring what you really wish to attract.

So tomorrow morning start the day with appreciation that the sun rose. Appreciate the rain that nourishes the plant life, that here in Sydney we have an abundance of food and we’re spoiled for choice at the supermarket. There are so many things to appreciate. Being grateful and filling our self talk with appreciation squeezes out the negative talk little by little. Try it, what’s the worst that could happen? Your emotional state might improve and joy and happiness may become more abundant.

Namaste

Mark

My First Time

 

My skin tingled as I turned and caught sight of how beautiful she was for the first time. The full moon, yellow and enormous, poking a curious eye over the horizon as if to say, “I see you.”

As I stood high on the Brown Street steps watching, the experience brought new emotions to the surface I had not experienced before. Although living by the beach, it was the first time I had seen a moon rise and this moon rise was a beauty.

Its huge yellow face peeked over the horizon. An enormous yellow orb with its familiar ‘man in the moon’ markings winking a knowing wink at me.

I stood there basking in the emotion until I was late for my appointment and hurried in the opposite direction while looking over my shoulder for any glimpse I might catch through the trees and houses of this delightful new acquaintance I had just made.

Later that night I tried to find that friendly floating orb that was winking at me from the horizon only to discover it had returned to its familiar lunar appearance and place in the sky. It’s ageless countenance illuminating the domain over which it glides. No longer paying me the close attention it had earlier in the day. The moon was busy being the moon again.

On the use of modern technical office equipment

 

I want to know if the Navy ever has similar situations in their work place as we do in our office?

I have a picture in my head. Instead of Victoria or Sandra standing at the photo copier with its flashing error light and one of them calling across the office and asking if I can make the copier work, I can visualise a seaman on board a Navy frigate standing next to a guided missile launch system watching the flashing error light on the panel and scratching his head.

“I don’t know why the error light keeps flashing! I cleared the fuel jam in the fuel filler three times now and it still keeps telling me to clear the fuel filler. . . It’s so frustrating.” Sargent, can you get this missile to fire?

“You’ll need to call the engineer. If he can’t make it work you’ll need to call the technician again. We had him out this morning for the Lazer Guided Guns, but they only come out on Tuesdays so you’ll need to call before two.”

If rocket science was like printing to the photocopier then down at Cape Canaveral the giant countdown clock would be stuck on 10 seconds to lift off and in the middle of the command centre would be half a dozen people or more standing around a big blast off button with a flashing error light. While one person is hands on all the others offer constructive assistance.

“Have you tried jiggling it? ”
“I’ve jiggled it and pushed it up and down and it still won’t blast off! ”
“Well you’d better call the technician before they go home or it’ll never blast off before knock off time”.

As each new thingamajig is launched at the crowd, it includes an array of features we only dreamed about a few years previous. Telephones that, with a single data call, you can access all the knowledge of mankind at your fingertips and what do we do with it? If we can find a technician that can connect it to the network we look at pictures of cats.

Hey mate! How do you make this thing turn on?

A beep and a chime to attract our attention
Ask Siri to answer the thing that you mention
It scans us and tracks us it knows where we are
Escape it you cannot no matter how far
A thousands hit songs on your phone play out loud
Can all be off loaded and stored in the cloud
You swipe it and wipe it, you tap it and tag it
At the market cash register it asks you to bag it
A must through the day is to take a short while
Turn the damned stuff off and give us a smile

I hope your day is abundantly free of stuff ups, paper jams and technician callouts.
May your day dreams be pleasant ones filled with marvellous things that bring joy and may all your error lights be off.

How are your savings going?

 

Have you been making regular deposits at the bank? If you have, then you probably are a little more secure knowing that you can access those savings for your needs and desires in the future and if you choose the right bank it will reward you by adding interest to your deposit.

What if I told you that you had an account with a bank that you probably didn’t even know existed? I discovered it by accident while looking for something I lost a very long time ago. The internet is so useful for finding information and discovering new things. Many items of discovery are bizarre and you just have to think twice, how can this be true when I knew nothing about this, nor my parents or my parent’s parent’s? You may have heard rumours of strange things and some of these may be so strange that you can’t fit them into your current paradigm, your current perception of the world and all you know. They belong in the realms of crop circles, ghosts, JFK assassination theories and little green men from Mars.

When I first found the information about this bank I was pretty curious I must say. I found out that I had been unknowingly making deposits my whole life without realising the wealth I had accumulated and I really thought I’d like a little bit of it back. So, I kept doing my research and found that access to the account was via that which I had lost so long ago. The very thing that I had been looking for was the key, the access code to my account.

Let me tell you, this isn’t any regular bank. This bank resides in the realm that physicists call the quantum realm. It’s the bank of thoughts and desires and everyone who has walked this planet has had an account.

Did you ever tell yourself that you would like a beautiful thing? It’s in your account. Did you wish for the right person to come into your life? It went into your account. Did you desire to live in a peaceful place with people you love? It was deposited by you into your account. Every thought and every desire you have ever had is stored in your account awaiting your withdrawal. All you need is the key.

The key to accessing your great wealth is Self Love. Pretty simple you would think. We were all born in loving bliss expecting unconditional love and pre tuned to our quantum account. However, from that day on we were conditioned to ignore love of Self and to think and act to please others, to conform to social, family and other’s expectations so most of us don’t even know how to recognise self love let alone summon the emotion.

This is the key I was looking for although I did not know it. Perfect Self Love. The key to all of our desires and happiness. I thought it was worth looking for, don’t you? 

Quantum physicists will tell you that all things are energy. The computer you are looking at right now is just a soup of atoms and electrons all whizzing about at their particular frequency. All matter has a frequency because all matter is energy. So, the hippies were right, you have to get the right vibe.

You have to tune into your account on your account’s frequency and when you do, bits and pieces of your wealth fall out. One way to find that frequency is to get happy. Happy leads to Love and your personal emotion of love unlocks your account so that your desires drop into your life just when you need them most. 

Some people are so focused on their desires and intentions they unlock their accounts without knowing how they do it. You’ve probably met some. They are the ones with incredible focus, intent and desire. Things fall into place for them and work out well for them. Some call them “lucky”.

This bank of thoughts and desires, as I call it, has been called many things. The Vortex, Source, Enlightenment, Salvation, Awakening or God.

How does that feel? By just reading these names you will either be uncomfortable or curious. These names elicit feelings and emotions and those feelings and emotions are the key to the bank account of your thoughts and desires. An uncomfortable feeling usually means you are not in alignment, not in tune, don’t have the vibe with your own Self Love which is the key. The concept may be so “outside the square” for you, you are already clicking off the page. However, the next time you are feeling a happy emotion within yourself, happy about the way life is treating you, think about what you desire and try to stay in that happy emotion as much as possible. Enjoy what the days bring, try not to allow other’s expectations to stifle that happiness and when you have it mastered, POP. Maybe not the thing you desired but the exact opposite. You wonder and think, “This is all rubbish!”

Then, that thing that was out of the blue causes the other thing to happen and it happens . . . and you say to yourself, “Did that really happen?” Perhaps.

Now, like Alice in Wonderland it gets curiouser and curiouser until you are convinced. These are not coincidences. This is really happening.

The Jew Jesus, having spent most of his life meditating and improving his love of self, love of others and awareness of God his whole life, was a master of understanding the energy of Love. He mastered Love, the connection and key to spiritual awareness, the Bank of thoughts and desires and the ability to manifest the thoughts and desires even as he thought them.

He said “Stop storing up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

How those events have been recorded and interpreted are the subject of contention, but what cannot be argued is that Jesus taught that God is Love which is the very same message you will find from other “enlightened” teachers. The key to that source, that spiritual energy that unlocks your desires and can drop them into your life at the right time is Love.

 

For further interest: https://www.deepakchopra.com/video/view/214/ask_deepak__the_seven_principles_of_manifesting_your_desires

What’s this “You have to love yourself” stuff?

 

Have you tried to be hospitable to an unfamiliar visitor who will not accept your hospitality? Not a cup of tea nor a glass of water. Their insistence that they are ‘just fine’ can create an awkwardness which doesn’t arise when the visitor accepts the offer with appreciation and thanks.

Love can be related directly to the act of giving and accepting. What is given or accepted doesn’t have to have a monetary value. A kind greeting, a glass of water or even the offer to sit a while and enjoy some talk on a shaded verandah are expressions of kindness and love.

So how are you doing when it comes to giving to yourself? Do you love yourself? Does that person in your mind always say “I don’t deserve this or I can’t do that or even more disheartening, I don’t deserve that”? Just like the visitor who refuses your hospitality, such self talk generates awkwardness with Self which can be uncomfortable. There is truth to the saying about being uncomfortable in one’s own skin.

Loving yourself doesn’t mean being vain or egocentric. In fact, it is the opposite. To love oneself is to understand what makes you happy, healthy and what doesn’t and to focus on the former. To love yourself may seem strange to some and difficult to grasp. One reason may be possibly due to a life long conditioning of being told that it is better to give than receive.

Generosity is noble. However, early life relationship lessons may have omitted that some kinds of giving should have limits. Perhaps discipline and consequences of some decisions moulded you into a consistentgiver. Maybe your parents, teacher or someone else always insisted you do things their way, never letting you express your own creative way of doing things. In effect, giving away your freedom, creativity and individuality so it eventually becomes a learned habit which carries over into other areas of life’s relationships by always feeling the need to please others.

Giving and taking in a relationship involves the transferring of emotions. However, the give and take in a relationship may become unbalanced with more taken by others while you, on the other hand, are all give and no take. This kind of giving is exhausting of vital energy which is necessary for healthy mental and physical health. When we are emotionally drained, taxed and exhausted our bodies suffer too. You need to protect yourself.

This is what it means to love yourself. Not asking too much from yourself. Learning to say no when someone is asking you to “give” when you are already spent and learning to say yes to things you have forbidden yourself. I’m not talking about donuts and cakes. I’m talking about clocking out at work on time to catch some sunlight or enjoy a walk on the way home. Ignoring the telephone and turning up your favourite popsong, opera or jazz. You know that thing you always wanted to do and will get around to it one day? Give yourself a gift. Love yourself and do it.

To love yourself is learning to say ‘yes’ to your own desires and ‘no’ to the taxing demands of others who have a history of drawing out your emotional energy for themselves. Saying yes to your own desires is not selfish, however, you may have to convince a difficult task master whose habit is to always say no. Yourself.

Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Repeating the same self talk and thoughts over and over again will reinforce and produce the same results in your life. It is reported that the average individual has 60 thousand thoughts a day and 95% of those thoughts are the same as yesterday’s. If you think this describes your thinking and you desire a change which includes more happiness, less stress and better mental and physical health, isn’t it time you loved yourself and said ‘yes’ to your heat’s desire? Change your thinking, change your life.

Strange Times

While winding back the clock this morning, I started thinking about time. I am told any physicist who knows anything at all about time, knows there is no such thing. Time is neither an event nor a thing and is unmeasurable as is the universe. The mystics, like modern physicists, have taught that the universe has no beginning or ending, it has no boundaries, no edges, no inside or outside. The further we explore subatomic particle inward or outward with all kinds of telescopes and probes we can find no boundary to this universe and cannot measure the timelessness of something with no beginning or ending. It isn’t just stranger than we think. It is stranger than we can think.