tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326404272024-03-16T16:03:00.478-07:00Eternal Oasis Of SoulsWelcome to an area where souls who may have strayed from SOUL, may find Spiritual nourishment, and medicine to heal old divisions that have prevented soul from merging into SOUL, or the individual spark merging back into the Flame. The Scarlet Thread of The Creator links all Religions and Spiritual Paths together, in spite of obvious divisions. Eternal Flame believes in the Fatherhood of God, and the Brotherhood of men, ( and the Sisterhood of women.)Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-165873590295780302024-03-16T16:02:00.000-07:002024-03-16T16:02:15.567-07:00<p>I posted the following last Aug. 2023. Its worth a repost, as its still fairly up to date, but I could add a lot more of my present thoughts here, but most of the friends I still have left here, that have not died, know me by haven met me on some of tne various Chat Forums I have posted on, in the past, until I was being Shadow banned, i.e. censured, because I quit singing with the Choirs, so quit posting there. During those years I have rubbed elbows with, and grappled with various people on the Internet, I have not completely driven away those friends I still have left here on Face book. I appreciate you all. Forgiveness is the Key, in the Big picture, because we only know what we THINK we know, which in the end, especially where we become sick, in pain, and unable to heal our selves, we KNOW we are ALL powerless over even our own destiny, let alone other’s! We need to extinguise the fires in our own burning homes, before looking for smoke in other people’s homes. </p><p><br /></p><p>That the above said, here was where I was in Aug. 2023, and am not far away now. I am greatful for my friends who are spread out over the U.S., India, Bhutan, Sweden, U.K., Austrailia, Canada, Mexico, So. America, France, Israel, and others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim's Maze of Seeking God:</p><p><br /></p><p>As a baby Christian, I was like a lamb being thrown to the wolves, when I first entered the Church arena, after becoming Born Again in April 1977, which changed me in to a “New Creation, crucified with Christ.” I was “Baptised in The Holy Spirit” with evidence of speaking in tongues as per Acts. Chapter 4. In my mind’s eye I considered God the Father in the center of the Universe, with Jesus, the Christ, as the Intercessor between the Father and I. But, as I started to interact with other Christians, I started to add circles in my diagram branching out from the center, where the Father is located. In each of my circles, as I studied the different denominational dogmas, I circled Atonement; Righteousness; Eucharist, or Communion; Justification; Creator; Love; Grace; Faith; Mercy; Eternity; Immortality; Sin; Demons; Angels; Miracles; Church; Temple; Election; Predestination; Fate; Karma, Action or inaction; Reincarnation, Transmigration, Metempsychosis; Incarnation; and Resurrection, and last, but certainly not least, FORGIVENESS.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple years study of The Assemblies of God’s Berean Bible School earned me a Graduation Diploma, and a License to Preach by The A/G Denomination, and prayed for many Seekers to reveive the Baptism of The Holy Spirit as I had been gifted. ( that initial Gift is what originally opened me up to “The Kingdom Within” that I became a member of. ) </p><p><br /></p><p>I ended up pastoring a small Assemblies of God Church in Laguna Beach, Ca. , that became much too controlled by the Parent A/G Org. and not allowing me to preach from my heart what I felt, but only their Dogma, so I resigned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I then enrolled in a large Non-Denominational Seminary, was Oradined, while earning my B.Min., M.Min., and final Th.D. By that time, I was choked up on Fundamentalist Christian Dogma, and resigned from all Organisations and Credentials. It was a hard decision to part Company after all. Those years of hard work, study, and monitary expenditures, but I am a Free Spirit that can not be harnessed and bridled by ANY Fundamentalist group of Over Seers! </p><p><br /></p><p>But, then, I started to venture off the beaten Fundamentalist track, and my search took me in many other directions included in the Maze of seeking God in new mysterious areas never before ventured. </p><p><br /></p><p>I studied Manly Palmer Hall’s writings, and attended many of his lectures, in person, when he was alive. He was the founder of Philosophical Research Society. I studied the writings of Douglas Baker, Barret, The Magus; Maurice Burke; Aurthur Edward Waite, Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled; Alice Baily, Many Theosophy writings; Lost Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria; I read the entire Tome of the book called Urantia; as well as Eliphas Levi, Lewis Spence; the Matrix books of Val Valarien, Aliester Crowly, Edgar Cayce, which could all fall under the banner of Occultism, plus a Bibliography that could fill pages. All of no interest to non Seekers of the After Life. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, I studied the UFO Sects, such as Shirley McLean; Schonfield; Erick Von Daniken; The Hollow Earth Theory; Zechariah Sitchen; Dr. Horn; and most of the main stream UFO Sects along with keeping up to dste with Dr. Richard Greer and Kerry Cassedy of Project Chamelot. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, I also investigated Shamanism, starting with Terrence McKenna, progressing out to Spiritualism, Spiritism reading all of Allan Kardec’s book, Channeling, and even read Anton LeVey’s Satanic Bible!</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked out most of the Christian Cults, as well. Then of course, I subscribed to the Skeptical Enquirer, and gleaned the wit of Paul Kurtz and The Amazing Randy, while I was honing up on Col. Ingersol’s volumes of Atheist books. I fought my way through the maze of Roman Catholicism, wondering if I had made the correct move, when I ventured away from my Catholic roots, and ventured into Protestantism. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, I had to be tossed back and forth as a ping pong ball between the Charismatic Pentecostals and Traditional mainline Fundamentalist Protestants. Then I had to decide between Historicity vs. myth vs. Tradition of the Bible. And, now allegory enters into the mix!</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I found that Christianity gleaned the writings of Eastern religious writings, I was drawn into the maze of Eastern religions, simultaneously, while I was working through the ten year program of the Twelve Rosicrucian (AMORC) Degrees. Then, I took the Three Martinist Degrees as icing on the cake of the Esoteric Christian Maze.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to wade through, or sort out Eastern religions, other then the main stream Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, or Islam, I had to read Ram Dass, Charles Tart; study the drug Altered states of consciousness, read Benjamin Crème’s works; Sri Aurobindo; Nitananda; Yogananda; Dr. Paul Brunton; Muktananda; Satia Sai Baba; The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy; Rama Khristna Vedanta; Khrishna Consciousness; Meher Baba and the Sufi Mystic literature; Tibetan Buddhism and the Dali Lama ( Once saw him in person); Taoism; Confucianism; Shintoism; Essenes; Jainism; Transcendental Meditation; Egyptology; Judaism and the Kabbala; all leading me to the Radhasoami Sect! </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, after being initiated by Thakar Singh, then Charan Singh, I found myself into the Maze of historical bickering among the various Radhasoami Sects, each saying; My Master is the only Perfect Master, and all others are pseudo masters!” </p><p><br /></p><p>Along the way, while in the Maze, I had owned and read more Gnostic works than many could even imagine, and I went DEEPLY into both the Mormon religion, as well as Jehovah’s Witnesses. </p><p><br /></p><p>I owned the entire Nicene Church Father’s Series, all 50 plus volumes that ---- quotes from to support his Bible quotes. I have studied the Mind Science religions, such as Religious Science, Unity, and owned most of Ellen G. White’s works, including the 6 volume set of when she published editorials in the newspaper while she was alive. ( I donated most of my books to the local Library early 2023. I am no longer interested in other people’s experiences that I can’t access inside my own Kingdom Within.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Then, an exhaustive research of all Robert Monroes and TMI’S generous contributies after reading Monroe’s 3 books will never be forgotten. </p><p><br /></p><p>And, my dear friends and fellow Travelers, the above is only what comes to my immediate mind, of what I remember. I have bought, read, and sold and donated more books, in the past 40 years than the average Christian Church combined! ( Because most of them have not found the liberty to venture outside of their local Dogma.) Thank The Lord alone that my "Karma has run over my Dogma!!</p><p>THERE WAS MORE, BUT THIS WAS THE HIGH LIGHT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim Sutherland, A work still in progress, as of 3/24</p>Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-65047010418581652422020-06-28T14:10:00.093-07:002022-09-08T17:58:40.257-07:00Meditation for Neophytes, who have not found a satisfying Technique nor Teacher. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> I have been using the same Meditation Technique since April, 1988. I still meditate 2-3 hours daily, using exactly the same Technique that many Teachers still share with all their Initiates. NADA, ….i.e. listening to the Sound. In the Initiation I took in 1988, we were told there are 10 or more sounds, but were asked to focus on only two., i.e. the Conch, ( a big Sea shell ) and the Bell. Actually, the Conch sounds like a big sea shell, when lightly plugging the right ear with the thumb. It also sounds like Jet Engines when flying. But that is no longer needed once the Ringing Radiance of the Bell is heard. Seasoned Initiates usually hear the Bell</span> <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.38); word-break: break-word;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">24/7</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">. The Path of The Masters, or NADA Yoga, is the Path of the Sound Current. ALL Lights, and Visuals originate from the Sound Current, which is called by many different Names by various Sects. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">When initiated in to this Sound & Light Meditation, we were instructed to spend 3/4 of first time, focusing at the 3rd Eye, looking in to the black Void, while doing “Simran”, which means Repetition of the Mantra we ALL were given, as Initiates of this lineage of Living Masters. During this time doing Simran, the very same internal visions at the forehead, inside, is duplicated in almost every “ successful” Meditation, by ALL Initiates of this Lineage , who took the Vows , and continue to do their best to keep them to their ability. The internal Signs are specs and flashes of silver white light, of various shapes, then a golden Sun or Sphere, which then forms a Silver White Moon inside, or within the Sun, ......until the Golden Sun dissolves , leaving only the Moon,....until it morphs in to a swirling Silver White rotating Cloud, with a black hole in the center that either sucks you in, or you rapidly fly thru the black hole to rest in the Black Void, where all visuals and sounds cease. This is the Region of Samadhi , of Hindus, Nirvana of the Buddhists, Sat Nam of the Sikhs, Shekhena Glory of the Hebrews, Heaven of the Christians, or Sach Khand of the Radhasoamis, or the I AM THAT of the Advaitists. Only Awareness remains there. Only the “Observer”views all observed material impermanent visions , of people, places and things, But this “death” in this Void, is only temporary, while traveling there to die while living, ......until the physical body dies, and the knotted mind/soul remains in the Void , until Reincarnation back in to Duality, ( to further become Missionaries of our Higher Soul Selves to balance Karmas.) , or ascend to higher Spiritual Regions and remain for further merging in to the Observer. . During Meditation, after the 3/4 time is completed doing Simran, or Mantra repetition, silently, , focused at the forehead behind the eyes, ( For Initiates, we ALL use the same Mantra, but for those not initiated, I suggest using your own favorite Mantras during Simran) , then comes the time to devote the last 1/4 time to doing listening to the Sound, or the Ringing Radiance of the Audible Life Stream. This is similar to doing “Mindful Meditation” while listening to the Sound. Using a Recliner Chair, as I do, its very easy and practical to raise my knees up far enough to support resting my elbows on my knees, instead of sitting on the ground, or floor in the Indian Squat position we were shown at Initiation. Or, using the T - Stick to support the elbows as Yogananda taught in his Home Study Lessons. In the Recliner, minimal change of position, or interfering with exiting Samadhi, or the Void , interferes with transition from Simran to Bahjun. Once the elbows are resting on the Knees, then, the RIGHT Thumb LIGHTLY plugs the hole of the RIGHT EAR, ( experiment with how much pressure is needed to listen to the variance in Sounds). The LEFT thumb should NOT plug the left ear, but only rest on the ear flap. The reason only the right ear is plugged, is that we are instructed to listen to the sounds coming from the right of the 3rd eye first, until it centers in the middle. Now, we were told that there may be 10 different Sounds, but once the right ear is plugged, the TWO Sounds to listen for , is first, the Conch, ( sounds like large sea shell, or roaring wind, or Jet engine while flying),......until the Sound becomes the ringing Radiance of the Bell tone, with out any breaks in the Ringgging! Once this Rinnnngggging Sound has been reached, most Initiates continue hearing the ringing Radiance</span> <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.38); word-break: break-word;" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">24/7</a> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">when ever the mind is unoccupied by work, or normal duties. THEN the Visuals of people, places, and things start being visualized, inside the Astral Realms. From here, all of our experiences are different, and vary, depending on our past lives, memories, and Samsaras and Karmas. Hope this helps my Fellow Travelers in the Journey of Souls.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="word-break: break-word;">Here are a few more tips, for accessing the Astral Planes for new Initiates, or Meditators. It really doesn’t matter who your Master or Lineage happens to be, as long as you are using the NADA Meditation Technique, focusing at the black Void at the Third Eye , while doing Mantra Simran, or Repetition. Before the whirling Silver White Multi-pointed Diamond appears, it usually first manifests as a greyish white cloud. To increase the size and clarity of the cloud, after it appears inside the forehead, move the cloud up to the Crown Chakra for a few seconds, by raising your physical eyes up, but kept closed, then back to the center; then down towards the heart for a few seconds, then, back to the center; then to the right for a few seconds, then back to the center; then to the left and back to the center. Continue to manipulate the cloud like this several more times until it will SEEM to disappear! But don’t quit doing repetition or Simran. The cloud has not disappeared. What is happening is, YOU have entered the Cloud, and should now be watching for the Silver White Star Gate inside the Cloud. Then, as you keep focusing at the tiny black hole in the center of the Star,....either you will travel through the Star in to the Astral Plane, or it will seem to travel towards you, engulfing you. Once your in the Astral Planes, all experiences will be unique and individual ,depending on your individual Karmas. Bon Voyage of becoming the Observer of the observed! </span><br />
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-61488906694430826942020-01-22T06:15:00.001-08:002020-01-22T06:15:22.508-08:00TRUE HOME LOCATION?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I feel sorry for him, because I think we ALL are much closer to his position, if we live that long, regarding what we write, preach, share, with others, while hiding our real realities beneath our Earth suits and masks! We write and share what we imagine, not realities! But who among us are absolutely certain that there really is, a True Home, where we are destined to return, where we no longer need to compete for survival, love, etc., among the unending things thrust upon us the moment we were ejected out of the Womb and have been competing to survive to avoid the Tomb? </div>
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Keeping it real, I don’t know about any other Reader here, but speaking for my self, If there is such a Place as Heaven, Paradise, or any of the other places Religions and Sects claim is where only THEY, the “saved” ones, like them, of course go, than in my 78 years, I have yet to know of such a place where I would choose any group of like minded people I have ever met, to spend Eternity with , that would make me feel like I would never want to leave again. I obviously was never in such a place ever, or I would have never chosen to leave. </div>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-26884226003401274532018-11-16T05:53:00.008-08:002023-03-05T13:59:03.295-08:00 Advaita Vedanta Oneness teachings mock and challenge Supreme GOD, Who is NOT Brahma or Vedanta Turiya.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is my take on Advaita Vedanta Oneness teachings. Advaita Vedanta Teachers who follow Ramana, Niz, etc., that presently created a host of Neo-Advaita Oneness teachings of “ I AM THAT” , who have decided that they were , and are, GOD. Of course, no one has ever been able to know exactly WHO, or WHAT God is, other than ultimately the beginninig and ending of Awareness or Consciousness. And Consciousness is not God , Who has been described as the Ocean, Fire, Light, by Mystics , who claim to be One and the Same. I have never subscribed to such an egotistic belief system, because,.........</div>
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“i” am NOT God! I never was, am not now, and never will be! I do identify as Turiya, i.e. an agent of Universal Mind , but certainly not the Supreme Creator of Braham , and all forms assigned to Braham’s Dominion, which includes Turiya in Waking, Dreaming, and Deep sleep while incarnated in human forms. </div>
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“i” am not a drop of the Ocean, WHO IS God. “i” am a creation of God, The Ocean, that unlike God, Who had no beginning, Alpha, nor will have no end, Omega, HAS had a beginning, when God, the Ocean , created “me”, the Soul that now temporarily manifests as the identity of Jim Sutherland. Jim’s soul , or drop, is an OFF SPRING of Ocean Soul, ....not the ONE and only Ocean SOUL. </div>
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The Created Soul that has manifested and lived in The Wheel of 84 since being created by God, from Amoebas to the present Container Temple of Jim Sutherland, and will continue to manifest in future unknown Containers, for Eternity, is unknown by “me”, the soul , and is only known by The Creator, Who is Christ, Who is also known by other Names and Identities, such as Anami Purush, </div>
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“i”, the Soul presently manifesting as Jim, will NEVER completely merge with God, or become a completely dissolved drop merging back to the Ocean, as Vedanta Advaitist teachers mistakingly teach, because “i” was never the Ocean, or God. “i” was only an individual creation by God, that became a drop in the Mind of God, as Kal ( Universal Mind; Time; Braham; Satan; Demiurge, was also created by God, to become Universal Mind, or the Hindu Brahm, the Agent of ALL minds, including not only mine, but every mind in The Wheel of 84, Charausi! Kal is the Prison Warden that has been created by GOD to incarcerate all souls created that have been Projected to the Matrix of TIME. </div>
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Any Drop that completely merges in to the Ocean, is annihilated, as far as individual Duality is concerned, and commits Spiritual suicide by claiming to be God in human form! </div>
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No doubt, God is in all of us, as Christ, and We are in Him, but will always remain in Duality for Eternity as created Individual souls have lived in Charausi , progressing to present, with out ever being sentenced to Annihilation by God , as drops merging completely back to the Ocean.</div>
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God has a Chain of Command He uses to draw his created souls back to the Cradle of Creation, where they may enjoy His Ocean of Glory, with out annihilating their Duality.</div>
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Spiritual Seekers are those created souls who have tired of experiencing the adventures in the Play of Consciousness, and are becoming detached from the impermanent enticements of the Sensory pleasures of the material world of Duality. </div>
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But, escaping the world of Duality, permanently, with out being annihilated, as taught by Vedanta Advaitists, is impossible, because according to the Bible, only God Alone knows all the secrets, and the Prophets, Masters, Avatars, only know the secrets God reveals to each of them, in Duality, as individuals. </div>
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If this is not so, there would be no secrets, and we would all know each other's thoughts and desires, actions, histories, since bring created, and we don’t, NONE of us, including Masters, Teachers, Avatars, Saviors or Mediums. </div>
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I consider “my” self, as the present culmination of all of the same Soul that has lived numerous past lives in Charausi since being created by God , a projection of my Higher Soul Self, that is now a Multidimensional Consciousness, with the present identity of Jim Sutherland, now in Duality, as having started in Duality at the time “i” was created by Christ, The WORD made flesh of John 1:1, i.e. God.</div>
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“I” will Eternally remain in Duality, as long as Consciousness of awareness is retained, but have been given the Keys of Knowledge , which is the Technique of The Science of The Soul, which may be used to escape the horrors and suffering of Charausi , when ever “i” choose to use the Prescription administered by Master to temporarily rest in the Glory of Bliss of Samadhi in Anami.</div>
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Drops never completely merge in to the Ocean with out becoming annihilated. </div>
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But, Drops may sail on The Ocean , enjoying the Sights, Sounds, Lights, Bliss, by taking refuge on various Cruise ships, which are Masters of various Lineages , or Cruise lines. </div>
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The Masters are the Cruise Ships escorting Spiritual Seekers on Adventures enjoyed and experienced ON, the Ocean, but not IN the Ocean, unless those souls manifesting in human forms desire to become souls in Aquatic Sea living forms. </div>
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Individual Saints, or Spiritual Seekers, on individual Paths of Duality, seek God by sailing the God Ocean only by sailing on the Surface , in various mixtures of Material/Spiritual Life Support Vehicles such ad Kayaks, Canoes, Rafts, Yachts, etc.</div>
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But Masters, are the Cruise Ships, that escort and ferry Seeker Souls through the Multidimensional Planes of Consciousness on the Ocean of Christ. </div>
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Kal, i.e. Satan, is God’s created Agent of Time, in Duality, who is the Annihilatior of all souls who seek to venture in to the Ocean , as drops are obviously, timeless, individual creations that sail and ride the Ocean of Christ . Kal’s Agents are human Battle Ships, Submarines, loaded with poisonous demolition propaganda, used to annihilate Souls in Duality , that have ventured from Heaven/ Paradis/Sach Khand to enjoy the Play of Consciousness with out loosing Awareness or Individuality.</div>
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Caveat Emptor! ( let the Seeker Beware ) </div>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-35736722315688796772018-10-15T17:17:00.001-07:002018-10-15T17:17:06.135-07:00Being in the right place at the right time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear Souls,<br />
Its been awile since I have had any thing unusual to share, but I shared this experience on my Facebook site with the few friends I have there, and decided to share it here as well.<br />
I just returned a couple of weeks ago from a 20 day trip that took me to the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and the Check Republic. These were all new places I had never visited before. Other than visiting many Christian Churches in each city I toured, I felt Spiritually disconnented from my usual Samadhi experiences when I am home, because when traveling, my Meditation disapline is non existant, because of the travel. So, other than a normal Travel Log, I have nothing sgnifically Spiritual to report. In fact, l was feeling useless to the world, when I got home.<br />
When home, I keep from stayimg bored between Meditation times by a daily cruise on either my Can-Am Spyder Trike, or my Harley Motorcycle for 2-3 hours daily when its not raining. So, on my very first day back from my 20 day trip, I decided to take my Spyder out for a Cruise. Here was what happend!<br />
I happened to be in the right place at the right time!! I took a cruise on my Spyder today, and came around a corner on a narrow country road, and saw an over turned car on its top, with smoke coming out of the engine, rear wheels still turning, and glass all over the road. No one around. I secured my Spyder, ran to the car, and tried to open the passengers door, but could not. The driver was a female caught up side down and could not unlock her seat belt. She was on her cell phone with her mother, and was crying, and saying she was sorry. I finally got the driver’s side door open a couple of feet. She kept saying,....”Please help me, please help me, I’m so scared. “ All I could see was her legs, as she was up side down strapped in. She said her seat belt would not unbuckle. I don’t know how long she had been there, but she was on her cell phone with her mother who must have been trying to call the Police. I was touching her arm, and trying to calm her down as I was trying to reach over her to locate the seat belt buckle. I could not, as it must have been under her body. Also, I could not get to the Ignition Fob to shut off the motor, as her body was in the way. Then, a car stopped and a man ran out to help me. I quickly told him she was alone, and I couldn’t get her unbuckled, he had a pocket knife, and handed it to me and told me to cut the straps. I started cutting, and when half way thru, told her to get ready to drop when I cut the strap. She did drop, so now I could see her face, but both legs and feet were stuck inside. I pried one foot out first, hoping the car wouldn’t explode, then got one leg out side of the car. She was spread eagled, and still stuck! I then crawled far enough in to the smoking car to get a hold of her other leg. I pried on it until her foot came loose, then I got her other leg out and grabbed both legs and drug her out of the car. I was still concerned the car might explode, so wanted to get her away from the car. The other man helped me get her to her feet, and she was able to walk with us to the other side of the road. She gave me the biggest hug I got in a long time, and didn’t want to let go, as she kept repeating,....” Oh Thank You Sir, Oh Thank You Sir, thank God, Thank God.” I found a safe place to sit her on side of the road, away from the car, and told her to stay there. I then went back to the car and crawled back in and found the Ignition Fob and shut off the engine, but I could not get it out of the car, but at least the engine quit running and smoking. Mean while, several more Vehicles were at the scene, with a couple directing traffic over the broken glass. Finally two Rescue guys showed up, and took over. The first asked if she was hurt and she said she didn’t think so. ( a Miracle! ) then he asked her name, and she told him. He asked her old old she was. She answered,....I am 18, TODAY! Its my Birthday!” Then,....a woman came running thru the crowd and dived through falling on her knees crying, and buried her head on to her Daughter’s lap, ( it was her Mom ) and they were both crying. Then, the State Trooper appeared asking for witnesses . No one, included me saw it happen. I told him I was the first one there, and how I had gotten her out of her car. He said,....”Thanks for stopping and helping her, Sir, your a good man.” I thanked him, and said any one would have done the same. He then told me I was free to go. The Ambulance was on the way to take her to ER for evaluation. So, just another dull day in the life of an old Geezer. A week ago, my Harley broke down, and I almost hit a Bear with it! Its in the Shop for diagnosis. I am glad I had the Spyder today.<br />
Until we meet again, be well.<br />
Eternal Flame</div>
Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-19876575846781112442018-05-24T08:05:00.003-07:002019-04-14T18:23:11.925-07:00Countries we have toured since Aug. 2012, after retirement. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 19px;">Countries We've Visited: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 19px;">Andorra, Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chili, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Vatican City (Holly See) Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Portugal, Russia, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Singapore, Saint Maarten, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, United States, China, Tibet, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slavakia, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg</span></div>
Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-40377858815307489612018-05-23T13:44:00.004-07:002018-05-23T13:44:55.267-07:00Touring Tibet & China<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Hi Y’Alll,.....</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> I just returned a few days ago from touring China for two weeks , and Tibet for three days. So, I want to post a few comments about my Spiritual experiences I found there, in order to stay current. ( I did not feel very spiritual there!) </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> Actually, seeing the Dali Lama’s Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, is the last place on my Bucket List I really wanted to see before I die. So, now, The Lord has given me the Grace to make it happen, and I am grateful. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> It was a good trip, with sunny days every day except our last day in Shanghai, China where we got a little rain. We visited Beijing, and did all of the Tourist tours, such as the Forbidden City, Great Wall, and saw the Terre Cotta Soldiers in Xian. We also took a 6 day Cruise down the Yahtzi River, and toured the cities along the way. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> The Altitude of 12,400 feet at the Potala Palace made it difficult to breath. The air inside the Palace was rancid, because many Wax Candles were burning inside, along with Incense, sucking out the little remaining Oxygen and there was lots of air born dust and particulate from the candle wax and dust inside. Every thing inside was old, and not well maintained. Over all, I was not very impressed with what I saw. I doubt the Dali Lama would really desire to return and live there, in spite of his Political talk. He left there at age 25 and has a much better life now, where he is in India. Lhasa has been modernized a lot, since the Chinese took it over. They built a nice Airport and a lot of new Infrastructure. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> We also visited the Monastery, where Monks are still living and studying, and also we visited a Nunnery. Its a hard life living there, in that high altitude, and it requires a lot of extra energy to even walk, much less feel comfortable. We were about 100 in our group, and all of us felt bad, but many vomited, and had to go to the Clinic and get treated interveniously. My wife and I were on Prescription Medication, but we still had headaches, and nasal dripping constantly. We all felt much better after we descended the Altitude. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> We watched the Monks debate each other, in the Monastery Court Yard, with their hands clapping. Fun to watch. Many Pilgrims were prostrating outside , which many did for miles traveling from their Villages. In Summary, Tibetan Buddhism requires a much different Faith than I have, but each to their own. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> As for China, there are 1.6 billion people there, spread out across the country, with Buddhism, Taoism, and a small amount of Christians and Jews. But the Chinese Govt. Keeps all Religeons separated completely from their Politics. But there seems to be freedom of religion, as long as it does not enter Politics. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> China is growing rapidly, and grew 10% yearly for ten years in a row, so the large Cities are clean, and modern. New Building construction is going up all over, and the Apartment High rises look like another planet! The Communist Govt. owns all of the land, but leases parcels for private and commercial buildings for 70 year leases. It seems to be working quite well, because there is a building Boom! There are also mostly, new cars, with the same makes we have in the U.S. The traffic is heavy, in the cities, but no worse than our large cities. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"> All in all, China and Tibet were great to visit, ...but there is no place I’d rather be than right here in Virginia, the good old USA! </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Until we meet again, I remain,...</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Eternal Flame</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span></div>
Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-41629420578821056652017-11-20T09:43:00.001-08:002017-11-20T09:43:16.082-08:00Gimmi That Ole Time Religeon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">I am long over due of writing my latest thoughts on Spirituality, and where I think I fit in to the Cosmic Puzzle of Birth, or Rebirth, i.e. Reincarnation, back to a human body, or God forbid, or the horror of Transmigrating back to a lower animal specie than human, as taught in Hindu Scriptures, called, “ The Wheel of 84”, or “ Charausi”, meaning that are a possible 8,400,000 possible material bodies a soul trapped in Duality might incarnate in to, depending on Karma, or actions produced while in human incarnations only, because humans only, are bound to the Law of Karma, while all lower species are exempt from Producing further karmas, and are only in those species to pay retributions for Karmas created by souls that made choices while experiencing Duality while in human bodies. The present Guru at the Beas Dera in India, teaches that being Initiated by a Living Master-does not guarantee Salvation from Reincarnation or even Transmigration back to a lower specie!</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Most Hindu Sects believe in Reincarnation or Transmigration, based on Karmic Retribution, based on actions while incarnated in human bodies. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Christianity Teachings teach, that the Cycle of Reincarnation may be broken, or ends, once an Elect soul is saved by Grace and is called by The Father to return Home, as a Prodigal Son who ran away from Home and squandered his inheritance as a rightful Heir of the Kingdom of Heaven. I have shared my Master’s Thesis on Eternal Security here, on my Blog, which was written by me in 1983 for my Seminary Master’s Degree Thesis. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">I share how I answered my Call to Salvation in April 1977, and have felt Secure every since! </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">I have never been afraid to loose my Salvation or Promise of Redemption, as I have since studied and sampled as many other Sect’s paths to God as taught in their Scriptures. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">My blog has shared some of my observations, trials and tribulations along The Way, as my soul grows in Grace and Knowledge. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">I recently toured Bhutan for 8 days, Nepal for 4 days, and India for 12 days.. The Tours were quite exhausting for my 75 year old body, but added insight and experience to my book knowledge.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Bhutan was a beautiful country, with friendly, kind people. Most, if not all, are Tibetan Buddhists, and live under the superstitions and rituals taught by Tibetan Buddhist Lamas, Monks, Nuns and Teachers. Their lives revolve around Rituals performed by Monks to frighten away evil spirits, and teach enlightenment to the citizens by prostrations, and Idol worship of the Buddha Statues in the Monasteries and high on the mountain sides. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">I toured many Monasteries, and sat with the Monks , while they were chanting their Mantras, blowing their horns, ringing </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">their bells and cymbals, and beating their drums. It was interesting to be there, feel the Vibes, and watch, but a complicated way to work out Salvation! For females, that Brand of Tibetan Buddhism does not even allow release from Reincarnation, or enlightenment, as a female. Females MUST reincarnate as Males, in order to practice the rituals to become enlightened. I even visited a Nun Monastery, and sat n Meditation with them, and was served Tea and Cookies. Poor Nuns have the short end of the Salvation Deal! They have to serve Monks as Nuns, then, reincarnate to earn earn a chance of becoming enlightened! Its complicated,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">and certainly not my Path, but, interesting. My Trekk to visit the Tiger’s Nest Monastery and sit in Meditation, high up on the mountain, was an experience I will never forget, and will treasure always, but will always be grateful, I am a Christian, and not a Tibetan Buddhist! I have been saved by Grace, and being a Tibetan Buddhist is far too much work for me! </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">In Nepal, I visited both Buddhist Monasteries, and Hindu Temples. Both Sects seek enlightenment and Salvation by Idol worship, Rituals, and are interesting to observe, but far too complicated to understand, or ever feel saved from Reincarnation or from The Wheel of 84. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Visiting India for 12 days was a culture shock that most Westerners don’t know how to deal with. I had already spent 4 days in South India, before this trip, from Mumbai to Cochin, so knew what to Expect. This time, I toured New Delhi, to Amritsar, so experienced North India, including the Dera, in Beas, and stayed 2 days and nights there, for the first time, after being involved with their Teachings since 1990,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">But, my visit there did not meet my conceived expectations, and actually disappointed me enough, that I failed to encounter any spiritual vibrations there, what so ever. What ever might have been there in the past, has been replaced by just another religion, altho, free of rituals and Idol worship. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">How ever, the Idol is replaced by an Indian Man, thought by his Devotees to be God In Human Form. ( He has never, claimed such an honor, tho)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">It didn’t take long for me to see his human features, and write him off as even being a Spiritual Teacher, much less a God man. He is a smart Business man, that has built a City that will last as long as his followers will work for free to keep it operating, and wealthy Foreigners will keep sending money there to appease their own guilt and short comings, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">As for me, ....... “ Gimmie that Ole Time Religion,”................</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">You can find it starting at the beginning of my Blog and working back. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Until we meet again, I hope to remain,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 19px;">Eternal Flame</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christians, believe that they are transferred to Heaven by Faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross 2000 plus years ago. ( Where ever Heaven is, remains vague. ) They believe those with out faith in what Jesus did for them suffer in Hell,.....where ever Hell is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most Eastern Religions teach that individual souls Reincarnate or Transmigrate to other physical bodies after death of present bodies, based on Karma created from present and past lives, until all Karmic actions are exhausted, by various methods too complicated to describe in this Article. But the final Goal is to return to the One Creator of all life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Krishna Consciousness Teachers do not subscribe to the "Oneness" teaching of Advaitists that Individually of souls are ever completely lost or absorbed in to the Whole. ( of which I also agree, along with the Krishna Folk and Spiritists)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dvaita</i> means "dual,” and <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">advaita</i> means "nondual." The <a href="http://www.krishna.com/info/material-world" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">material world</a> is a world of dualities—heat and cold, happiness and distress, up and down, black and white. According to the <a href="http://www.krishna.com/info/vedas" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vedic </a>literature, however, the<a href="http://www.krishna.com/info/absolute-truth" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Absolute Truth</a> is free from all such material dualities. It is called <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">advaita</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some philosophers hold the view that because the Absolute is free from dualities, it must be totally impersonal and devoid of qualities. According to this view, known as <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Advaita Vedanta</i>, in the Absolute there can be no desires, thoughts, or perceptions, no sense of personal identity, no forms, qualities, or activity, but only undifferentiated spiritual oneness. This being so, whatever we now perceive is illusory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But this view raises a question which Advaita Vedantists can't answer, "If nothing really exists but one undifferentiated Absolute Truth, where does the illusion of variety come from? How can illusion exist (or even appear to exist)? And if truth and illusion both exist, how can there be oneness?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our view is that the Absolute Truth manifests itself in unlimited diversity. The Absolute is void of <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">material</i> characteristics, but that doesn't mean that it has no characteristics at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Absolute Truth is understood to have a multitude of energies. But because the Absolute is spiritual, these energies are ultimately spiritual, too. In this way, there is oneness between the energies and their source. The varieties we perceive are not illusions; they are energies of the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, Krishna.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our vision may also be enlightened by truth or bewildered by illusion, according to our own desires. This, too, is made possible by Krishna, through His energies. As parts of Krishna, we are naturally meant to serve Krishna, and when we do so we are in perfect oneness with the Absolute Truth. But when we separate ourselves from Krishna we plunge ourselves into illusion and duality. We attain liberation from illusion and duality by surrendering to Krishna, accepting Him as <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">advaita</i>, "one without a second."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Choose between three theoretic alternatives: Annihilation, Absorption, or the individuality of the soul before and after death. It is to this last belief that we are led by reason; and it is this belief that has constituted the basis of all religions in all the ages of the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Following is taken from Allan Kardec's Spiritist book, Heaven and Hell, and offers very reasonable arguments regarding survival of individual Personalities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />"1. It is certain that we live, think, and act; it is no less certain that we shall die. But, on quitting the earth, whither shall we go? What will become of us? Shall we be better off, or shall we be worse off? Shall we continue to exist, or shall we cease to exist? “To be, or not to be,” is the alternative presented to us; it will be for always, or not at all; it will be everything, or nothing; we shall live on eternally, or we shall cease to live, once and forever. The alternative is well worth the consideration.<br />Every one feels the need of living, of loving, of being happy. Announce, to one who believes himself to be at the point of death, that his life is to be prolonged, that the hour of death is delayed—announce to him, moreover, that he is going to be happier than he has ever been—and his heart will beat high with joy and hope. But to what end does the human heart thus instinctively aspire after happiness, if a breath suffices to scatter its aspirations?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Can anything be more agonizing that the idea that we are doomed to utter and absolute destruction, that our dearest affections, our intelligence, our knowledge so laboriously acquired, are all to be dissolved, thrown away, and lost forever? Why should we strive to become wiser or better? Why should we lay any restraint on our passions? Why should we weary ourselves with effort and study, if our exertions are to bear no fruit? If, erelong, perhaps tomorrow, all that we have done is to be of no further use to us? Were such really our doom, the lot of mankind would be a thousand times worse than that of the brutes; for the brute lives thoroughly in the present, in the gratification of its bodily appetites, with no torturing anxiety, no tormenting aspiration, to impair its enjoyment of the passing hour. But a secret and invincible intuition tells us that such cannot be our destiny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />2. The belief in annihilation necessarily leads a man to concentrate all his thoughts on his present life; for what, in fact, could be more illogical than to trouble ourselves about a future which we do not believe will have any existence? And as he whose attention is thus exclusively directed to his present life naturally places his own interest above that of others, this belief is the most powerful stimulant to selfishness, and he who holds it is perfectly consistent with himself in saying: “Let us get the greatest possible amount of enjoyment out of this world while we are in it; let us secure all the pleasures which the present can offer, seeing that, after death, everything will be over with us; and let us hasten to make sure of our own enjoyment, for we know not how long our life may last.” Such as one is, moreover, equally consistent in arriving at this further conclusion—most dangerous to the well being of society—“Let us make sure of our enjoyment, no matter by what means; let our motto be: ‘Each for himself;’ the good things of life are the prize of the most adroit.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />3. Let us suppose an entire nation to have acquired, in some way or other, the certainty that, at the end of a week, a month, or a year, it will be utterly destroyed, that not a single individual of its people will be left alive, that they will all be utterly annihilated, and that not a trace of their existence will remain; what, in such a case, would be the line of conduct adopted, by the people thus doomed to a certain and foreseen destruction, during the short time which they would still have to exist? Would they labor for their moral improvement, or for their instruction? Would they continue to work for their living? Would they scrupulously respect the rights, the property, and the life, of their neighbors? Would they submit to the laws of their country, or to any ascendancy, even to that parental authority, the most legitimate of all? Would they recognize the existence of any duty? Assuredly not. Well, —the social ruin which we have imagined, by the way of illustration, as overtaking an entire nation, is being effected, individually, from day to day, by the doctrine of annihilation. If the practical consequences of this doctrine are not so disastrous to society as they might be, it is because, in the first place, there is, among the greater number of those whose vanity is flattered by the title of “free-thinker,” more of braggadocio than of absolute unbelief, more doubt than conviction, and more dread of annihilation than they care to show; and, in the second place, because those who really believe in annihilation are a very small minority, and are consequently influenced, in spite of themselves, by the contrary opinion, and held in check by the resistant forces of society and of the State: but, should absolute disbelief in a future existence ever be arrived at by the majority of mankind, the dissolution of society would necessarily follow. The propagation of the doctrine of annihilation would lead, inevitably, to this result.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But whatever may be the consequences of the doctrine of annihilation, if that doctrine were true, it would have to be accepted; for, if annihilation were our destiny, neither opposing systems of philosophy, nor the moral and social ills that would result from our knowledge that such a destiny was awaiting us, could prevent our being annihilated. And it is useless to attempt to disguise from ourselves that skepticism, doubt, indifference, are gaining ground every day, notwithstanding the efforts of the various religious bodies to the contrary. But if the religious systems of the day are powerless against skepticism, it is because they lack the weapons necessary for combating the enemy; so that, if their teaching were allowed to remain in a state of immobility, they would, erelong, be inevitably worsted in the struggle. What is lacking to those systems—in this age of positivism, when men demand to understand before believing—is the confirmation of their doctrines by facts and by their concordance with the discoveries of Positive Science. If theoretic systems say white where facts say black, we must choose between an enlightened appreciation of evidence and a blind acceptance of arbitrary statements.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />4. It is in this state of things that the phenomena of Spiritism are spontaneously developed in the order of Providence, and oppose a barrier against the invasion of skepticism, not only by argument, or by the prospect of the dangers which it reveals, but also by the production of physical facts which render the existence of the soul, and the reality of a future life, both palpable and visible.<br />Each human being is, undoubtedly, free to believe anything, or to believe nothing; but those who employ the ascendancy of their knowledge and position in propagating, among the masses, and especially among the rising generation, the negation of a future life, are sowing broadcast the seeds of social confusion and dissolution, and are incurring a heavy responsibility by doing so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />5. There is another doctrine that repudiates the qualification of “Materialist,” because it admits the existence of a principle distinct from matter; we allude to that which asserts that each individual soul is to be absorbed in the Universal Whole. According to this doctrine, each human being assimilates, at birth, a particle of this principle, which constitutes his soul and gives him life, intelligence and sentiment. At death, this soul returns to the common source, and is merged in infinity as a drop of water is merged in the ocean.<br />This doctrine is, undoubtedly, an advance upon that of pure and simple Materialism, inasmuch as it admits something more than matter; but its consequences are precisely the same. Whether a man, after death, is dissolved into nothingness, or plunged into a general reservoir, is all One, as far as he himself is concerned; ..................</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I prefer to be compared as a grain of sand returning to the Beach or Desert, retaining my individuality and accumulated Personality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A current Sant Mat Guru, Dr. Ishwar Puri, if correct, about our Astral Body living 1-3 thousand years, depending on Karma, and our Causal body living another million years or more, then to me, Soul growth after transition from the physical body most likely happens on other less dense, higher Spiritual planets than Earth, and if we do have to reincarnate, it will be on higher Spiritual Planets as taught by Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita. It all lines up perfectly. You can have your individuality, and KEEP it, not loosing all the positive things and knowledge you have done in this life and past lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Live Life and enjoy it to the fullest now, but do consider all life has an expiration date!</span></span></div>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-60376567101666877902015-09-10T08:13:00.000-07:002015-09-10T08:13:23.807-07:00Survival of Individual Soul Identity <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">RETURN FROM THE CORPOREAL TO THE SPIRIT LIFE</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. THE SOUL AFTER DEATH; ITS INDIVIDUALITY; ETERNAL LIFE - 2. SEPARATION OF SOUL AND BODY - 3. TEMPORARILY CONFUSED STATE OF THE SOUL</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AFTER DEATH.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Soul After Death</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">149. What becomes of the soul at the moment of death?'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It becomes again a spirit; that is to say, it returns into the world of spirits, which it had quitted for a short time."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">150. Does the soul, after death, preserve its individuality?'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Yes, it never loses its individuality. What would the soul be if it did not preserve it?"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- How does the soul preserve the consciousness of its individuality, since it no longer has its material body?'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It still has a fluid peculiar to itself, which it draws from the atmosphere of its planet, and which represents the appearance of its last incarnation-its perispirit."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Does the soul take nothing of this life away with it?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Nothing but the remembrance of that life and the desire to go to a better world. This remembrance is full of sweetness or of bitterness according to the use it has made of the earthly life it has quitted. The more advanced is the degree of its purification, the more clearly does it perceive the futility of all that it has left behind it upon the earth."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">151. What is to be thought of the opinion that the soul after death returns to the universal whole?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Does not the mass of spirits, considered in its totality, constitute a whole? Does it not constitute a world? When you are in an assembly you form an integral part of that assembly, and yet you still retain your individuality."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">152. What proof can we have of the individuality of the soul after death? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Is not this proof furnished by the communications which you obtain ? If you were not blind, you would see; if you were not deal you would hear; for you are often spoken to by a voice which reveals to you the existence of a being exterior to yourself."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those who think that the soul returns after death into the universal whole are in error if they imagine that It loses its Individuality, like a drop of water that falls Into the ocean they are right If they mean by the universal whole the totality of Incorporeal beings, of which each soul or spirit Is an element.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If souls were blended together Into a mass, they would possess only the qualities common to the totality of the mass there would be nothing to distinguish them from one another, and they would have no special, intellectual, or moral qualities of their own. But the communications we obtain from spirits give abundant evidence of the possession by each spirit of the consciousness of theme, and of a distinct will, personal to itself; the infinite diversity of characteristics of all kinds presented by them Is at once the consequence and the evidence of their distinctive personal individuality. If, after death, there were nothing but what is called the "Great Whole," absorbing all individualities, this whole Would be uniform in its characteristics and, in that case, all the communications received from the invisible world would be identical. But as among the denizens of that other world we meet with some who are good and some who are bad, some who are learned and some who are ignorant, some who are happy and some who are unhappy, and as they present us with every shade of character, some being frivolous and other. serious, etc., it is evident that they are different individualities, perfectly distinct from one another. This individuality becomes still more evident when they are able to prove their identity by unmistakable tokens, by personal details relating to their terrestrial life, and susceptible of being verified; and it cannot be a matter of doubt when they manifest themselves to our sight under the form of apparitions. The individuality of the soul has been taught theoretically as an article of faith; Spiritism renders it patent, as an evident, and, so to say, a material fact.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">153. In what sense should we understand eternal life?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is the life of the spirit that is eternal; that of the body is transitory and fleeting. When the body dies, the soul re-enters the eternal life."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Would it not be more correct to apply the term eternal life to the life of the purified spirits; of those who, having attained to the degree of relative perfection, have no longer to undergo the discipline of suffering?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The life of that degree might rather be termed eternal happiness; but this is a question of words. You may call things as you please, provided you are agreed among yourselves as to your meaning."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">154. Is the separation of the soul from the body a painful process?'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">to the body. The sensations experienced at the moment of death are often a source of enjoyment for the spirit, who recognises them as putting an end to the term of his exile."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In cases of natural death, where dissolution occurs as a consequence of the exhaustion of the bodily organs through age, man passes out of life without perceiving that he is doing so. It is like the flame of a lamp that goes out for want of aliment.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">155. How is the separation of soul and body effected?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The bonds which retained the soul being broken, it disengages itself from the body."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Is this separation effected instantaneously, and by means of an abrupt transition? Is there any distinctly marked line of demarcation between life and death?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"No; the soul disengages itself gradually. It does not escape at once from the body, like a bird whose cage is suddenly opened. The two states touch and run into each other; and the spirit extricates himself, little by little, from his fleshly bonds, which are loosed, but not broken."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During life, a spirit is held to the body by his semi-material envelope, orperispirit. Death is the destruction of the body only. but not of this second envelope, which separates itself from the body when the play of organic life ceases in the latter. Observation shows us that the separation of theperispirit from the body is not suddenly completed at the moment of death. but is only effected gradually, and more or less slowly in different Individuals. In some cases it is effected so quickly that theperispirit is entirely separated from the body within a few hours of the death of the latter but. in other cases, and especially in the case of those whose life has been grossly material and sensual, this deliverance is much less rapid, and sometimes takes days. weeks, and even months, for its accomplishment. This delay does not imply the slightest persistence of vitality in the body, nor any possibility of Its return to life, but is simply the result of a certain affinity between the body and the spirit which affinity is always more or less tenacious in proportion to the preponderance of materiality in the affections of the spirit during his earthly life. It is. in fact, only rational to suppose that the more closely a spirit has identified himself with matter, the greater will be his difficulty in separating himself from his material body; while, on the contrary, intellectual and moral activity, and habitual elevation of thought, effect a commencement of this separation even during the life of the body, and therefore, when death occurs, the separation is almost instantaneous. The study of a great number of individuals after their death has shown that affinity which, in some cases, continues to exist between the soul and the body is sometimes extremely painful for it causes the spirit to perceive all the horror of the decomposition of the latter. This experience is exceptional, and peculiar to certain kinds of life and to certain kinds of death. It sometimes occurs in the case of those who have committed suicide.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">156. Can the definitive separation of the soul and body take place before the complete cessation of organic life?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It sometimes happens that the soul has quitted the body before the last agony comes on, so that the latter is only the closing act of merely organic life. The dying man has no longer any cons- sciousness of himself, and nevertheless there still remains in him a faint breathing of vitality. The body is a machine that is kept in movement by the heart. It continues to live as long as tile heart causes the blood to circulate in the veins, and has no need of the soul to do that."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">157. Does the soul sometimes at the moment of death, experience an aspiration or an ecstasy that gives it a foreglimpse of the world into which it is about to return?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The soul often feels the loosening of the bonds that attach it to the body, and does its utmost to hasten and complete the work of separation. Already partially freed from matter, it beholds the future unrolled before it, and enjoys, in anticipation, the spirit-state upon which it is about to re-enter."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">158. Do the transformations of the caterpillar-which, first of all, crawls upon the ground, and then shuts itself up in its chrysalis in seeming death, to be reborn therefrom into a new and brilliant existence-give us anything like a true idea of the relation between our terrestrial life, the tomb, and our new existence beyond the latter?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"An idea on a very small scale. The image is good; hut, nevertheless, it would not do to accept it literally, as you so often do in regard to such images."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">159. What sensation is experienced by the soul at the moment when it recovers its' consciousness in the world of spirits?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"That depends on circumstances. He who has done evil from the love of evil is overwhelmed with shame for his wrong-doing. With the righteous it is very different. His soul seems to be eased of a heavy load, for it does not dread the most searching glance."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">160. Does the spirit find himself at once in company with those whom he knew upon the earth, and who died before him?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Yes; and more or less promptly according to the degree of his affection for them and of theirs for him. They often come to meet him on his return to the spirit-world, and help to free him from the bonds of matter. Others whom he formerly knew, but whom he had lost sight of during his sojourn on the earth, also come to meet him. He sees those who are in erraticity, and he goes to visit those who are still incarnated." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">161. In cases of violent or accidental death, when the organs have not been weakened by age or by sickness, does the separation of the soul take place simultaneously with the cessation of organic life?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It does so usually; and, at any rate, the interval between them, in all such cases, is very brief."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">162. After decapitation, for instance, does a man retain consciousness for a longer or shorter time?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He frequently does so for a few minutes, until the organic life of the body is completely extinct; but, on the other hand, the fear of death often causes a man to lose consciousness before the moment of execution."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The question here proposed refers simply to the consciousness which the victim may have of himself as a man, through the intermediary of his bodily organs, and not as a spirit. If he have not lost this consciousness before execution, he may retain it for a few moments afterwards but this persistence of consciousness can only be of very short duration, and must necessarily cease with the cessation of the organic life of the brain. The cessation of the human consciousness, however, by no means implies the complete separation of the perispirit from the body. On the contrary, in all cases in which death has resulted from violence, and not from a gradual extinction of the vital forces, the bonds which unite the body to the perispirit are more tenacious, and the separation is effected more slowly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">163. Does the soul, on quitting the body, find itself at once in possession of its self- consciousness?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Not at once. It is for a time in a state of confusion which obscures all its perceptions."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">164. Do all spirits experience, in the same degree and for the same length of time, the confusion which follows the separation of the soul from the body?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"No; this depends entirely on their degree of elevation. He who has already accomplished a certain amount of purification recovers his consciousness almost immediately, because he had already freed himself from the thraldom of materiality during his bodily life; whereas the carnally minded man, he whose conscience is not clear, retains the impression of matter for a much longer time."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">165. Does a knowledge of Spiritism exercise any influence on the duration of this state of confusion?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It exercises a very considerable influence on that duration, because it enables the spirit to understand beforehand the new situation in which it is about to find itself ; but the practice of rectitude during the earthly life, and a clear conscience, are the conditions which conduce most powerfully to shorten it."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the moment of death, everything appears confused. The soul takes some time to recover its self- consciousness, for it Is as though stunned, and in a state similar to that of a man waking out of a deep sleep, and trying to understand his own situation. It gradually regains clearness of thought and the memory of the past in proportion to the weakening of the influence of the material envelope from which it has just freed itself, and the clearing away of the sort of fog that obscured its consciousness.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The duration of the state of confusion that follows death varies greatly in different cases. It may be only of a few hours, and it may be of several months, or even years. Those with whom It lasts the least are they who, during the earthly life, have identified themselves most closely with their future state, because they are soonest able to understand their pew situation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This state of confusion assumes special aspects according to characterial peculiarities, and also according to different modes of death. In all cases of violent or sudden death, by suicide, by capital punisment, accident, apoplexy, etc., the spirit is surprised, astounded, and does not believe himself to be dead. He obstinately persists In asserting the contrary; and, nevertheless, he sees the body he has quitted as something apart from himself he knows that body to be his own, and he cannot make out how it should be separated from him. He goes about among the persons with whom he is united by the ties of affection, speaks to them, and cannot conceive why they do not hear him. This Sort of illusion lasts until the entire separation of the perispirit from the earthly body, for it is only when this is accomplished that the spirit begins to understand his situation, and becomes aware that he no longer forms part of the world of human beings. Death having come upon him by surprise, the spirit is stunned by the suddenness of the change that has taken place in him. For him, death is still synonymous with destruction, annihilation and and he thinks, sees, hears, it seems to him that he cannot be dead. And this illusion is still further strengthened by his seeing himself with a body similar in form to the one he has quitted for he does not at first perceive Its ethereal nature, but supposes it to be solid and compact like the otherand when his attention has been called to this point, he is astonished at finding that it is not palpable. This phenomenon is analogous to that which occurs in the case of somnambulists, who, when thrown for the first time into the magnetic sleep, cannot believe that they are not awake. Sleep, according to their idea of it, is synonymous with suspension of the perceptive faculties; and as they think freely, and see, they appear to themselves not to be as leep. Some spirits present this peculiarity, even in cases where death has not supervened unexpectedly but it more frequently occurs in the case of those who, although they may have been ill, had no expectation of death. The curious spectacle Is then presented of a spirit attending his own funeral as though it were that of someone else, and speaking of it as of something which in no way concerns him, until the moment when at length he comprehends the true state of the case.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the mental confusion which follows death, there is nothing painful for him who has lived an upright life. He is calm, and his perceptions are those of a peaceful awaking out of sleep. But for him whose conscience is not clean, it is full of anxiety and anguish that become more and more poignant in proportion as he recovers consciousness.</span><br />
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-19918055716152735752015-03-01T11:55:00.001-08:002015-03-01T11:55:25.884-08:00FAITH or FALLACY? SPIRITUAL or KNOWLEDGE? GNOSIS? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I hear about more of my friends and acquaintances passing away, either from disease or old age, I am constantly reminded that my turn is coming, and I will also be either be gasping for my last breaths of air to remain attached to my physical body, or,..........I will either be praying to the invisible God Who has been using my body or another individualized Play of His Consciousness since He Breathed His first Breath of air in to my lungs seconds after I was born in to this world from my Mother's womb. That Breath has been what has retained my soul in the ever changing physical body of what is keying this Post. That Breath has become automatic, operated by the Subconscious part of my mind, and is the Cord that binds my soul to my physical body. Once I stop breathing, my soul departs this body to join my friends who have already been initiated in to passing over, ....from physical to spirit. </h3>
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Now, of course, this body has required much more that Air to sustain my soul in this body, but Air is the Cosmic ingredient that has kept my soul in this body. I am assuming the reader has hope that we are souls having experiences in bodies of flesh, bones and blood, rather than bodies only, with out souls? </div>
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I know that many that pass over are given Morphine or other drugs to either lesson their pain, or tranquilizing them during the last minutes of life, but I am hoping that I will be able to consciously pass over, in to the spirit realm with out drugs, so I may witness the process of leaving my physical body, the same way I have attempted to do, many times, in Meditation, but this time, a one way trip. </h3>
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Now, considering I have studied this topic for the last 40 years, at this point, if I quoted even a small portion of all the Teachings I have either read about, heard about, or tried, It would take volumes of books to reference. I know I will be unable to remember most of what I have read or heard, during my last gasping breaths, and will be unable to Google one last best instruction of how to pass over easily. So, my thought is, if I haven't decided to choose my best way of exit by then, .........well, its to late to do any thing else other than to just take my last Leap of Faith, and let what ever will be,...or not be, ....be! </h3>
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I have all ready posted many of my thoughts, during my ever changing speculations on Theology, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Mysticism, etc., some of my own thoughts, as well as others who have nourished my Faith, along the way, but considering not a single one of my friends who have passed over, or any relative has returned to instruct me, about what REALLY happens ,....if we survive, than, all I have to go on, is what they have written or said when they were alive physically, unless I place my belief in the Channeling of Psychics, or Spiritualists who use Mediums to seek messages departed souls who supposedly share messages. </h3>
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So, I am hoping my best thoughts will be able to be Assets to me, from my years of study and practice, of praying, meditating, experimenting, etc. from what I have taken from Scripture, Holy Writings, sermons, Teachings, of all of my past Teachers whom I retain in my memories. </h3>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-16827485307881299092015-03-01T11:49:00.003-08:002015-03-01T11:49:53.461-08:00SEEKING GOD: WHERE TO SEEK HIM?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If we ask any normal person, regardless of Gender,
Nationality, or Race, who claims to believe in God, to introduce us so we might
also know Him…we might expect unlimited descriptions of that God any of the
seven billion humans living on the planet might describe. So, with that
conclusion, there is no doubt, that seeking God is an individual, process,
because we are always unable to verify another person’s individual god they
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I do not put my self up on any higher pedestal than any
other seeker of God, and admit that I am just another unknown seeker among the
other 7 billion humans on the planet, who at some time in our lives, become
curious enough to wonder if there really is a God that has created us, and if
so, why does He use the Path of making Him/Her/Its Self invisible, to every one
claiming to know Him, other than self proclaimed Sects that claim to not only
know Him, but are in daily contact with Him, and are very anxious to introduce
Him to the world, and us…for a fee, such as Tithes, Dues, Sales of their Books,
or Donations to contribute to their Building Programs of Worship Edifices,
Churches, Temples, Cathedrals, or Meeting Halls, Ashrams, Retirement
Communities, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I feel inadequate to write, or share any thing on the
Internet, when I see the unending wonderful Web Sites, with just about every
instruction any one ever wrote regarding God. Every Religion has its
Scriptures, which I have read samples of most of them, during my last 40 year search
to have a one on one, face to face meeting with, that Mysterious Invisible God
who chooses to hide from most seekers, including me! Religious Clerics, of the
Priest Craft are too numerous to count, and each offering to enlighten us with
the god they know, ….for a Fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, after sampling many of the various offers, seeking
God, during my last 40 years, I have come to the conclusion that not a single
seeker of the 7 billion humans on planet earth comes even close to knowing our
Cosmic Creator we call, or refer to as “GOD” , but each of us having our own
individual interpretation of just Who God is, what He looks like, Sounds like,
where He lives, or operates from, or why He has any interest in our individual
day to day floundering around in linear space time, on planet earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">My Blog offers samples of some of the places I have searched
for God, but, other than serving to keep my Faith in some type of an after
life, or individual survival of what ever “me”, or “i” really am, other than a
spark of God’s Fire, or drop of His Ocean, I have to admit at this time of my
search, that my understanding of Metaphysics seems to end up at the starting
point, or where the Alpha meets the Omega claimed in the Bible. That’s why the
Symbol, “0 “ in Occult Literature esoterically hides the fact that in spite of
every material creation haven been created, at some distant point in Time, all
creation is impermanent, and must eventual return to its point of origin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Bible teaches we are created in the Image of God, and
that God is Spirit, and must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth. So, each of
we 7 billion individual humans on planet earth must contain an “Image” of God’s
Invisible Spirit, which created our bodies and keeps us alive, moment to
moment. I have shared many Philosophical possibilities of how our individual
spirits team up with our physical bodies to experience the Play of
Consciousness, here on earth, so God may expand His Creation as He sees fit,
for His pleasure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Seeking” God is as easy as listening to Sermons, Lectures,
Work Shops, being initiated, taking courses, or reading. But FINDING God, is
not as easy as claimed by the Priestcraft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ago, and am more aware of my limited mortality…in this body, than ever. I am in
pretty decent health, for my age, and other than the usual aches and pains, and
problems of an aging Male, I am not expecting to die any time soon, yet I fully
know that my remaining time left in this body could be taken away any time. I
live each day, ready to depart, should I be called to leave, with full Faith
that should my Creator take my spirit from this body, that He has His Plan, “
His” Plan, that He has yet to share with me, regarding my future Missions
between now and the time when I return to Him, as a drop in His Ocean or a
spark from His Fire, as the Alpha meets the Omega! Or, if the Atheists and
materialists are correct, in that it all ends here, with no survival, or after
life, than, so be it. What we will never know should never hurt us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With the above introduction to what I feel like sharing, at
the moment, because its been on my mind for a few days, and won’t go away, I
feel I better log it in to my Blog before it goes away, and might be of value
to another seeker who stumbles on to it in some time in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">AS an Ex Preacher, I have obviously tried all of the types
of Prayer, or praying that Christians shared or wrote about in the past. I have
always taken the path of listening to claims of those who claim to know God before
rejecting their claims, to first try to follow their instructions, or way of
praying, before rejecting the results. Well, if the reader starts at the
beginning of my Blog, and reads all of my Christian Seminary Theses regarding
the subject, my story is all there, along with my failures and successes. Along
with my Christian experiences, I have also shared some of my Rosicrucian,
Martinist, and Sant Mat experiences. ALL of these experiences have assisted me
to KEEP what ever Faith I experienced, up to the time, but, as now, none of
them ever satisfied my desire to meet, God, Face to Face, and SEE Him, Hear
Him, and Bask in His Glory!! Oh yes, I have had many, many experiences of
Bliss, expecting to meet Him any moment, and that He was ready to stop hiding
from me, and expose Him Self to me! But,…..I have come to my conclusion that
until I depart ALL physical Materiality, once and for all, and return to Him,
than, that part of “i”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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witnesses, the creations that my mind creates. ( Mostly illusions. ) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have been a Devotee of Meditation, since I was 45 years
old, and have tried quite a few different Techniques, in addition to the Sant
Mat, Rosicrucian, or Martinist Meditation Techniques I was initiated in to.
During Meditation, we are seeking God, and listening, rather than when by
Prayer, we are either asking, or begging for Him to grant our desires. I have
done plenty of begging and asking for all kinds of favors from God. I have
prayed for favors for my self, as well as for others, and have experienced many
answers to Prayer. But, in Meditation, we are ONLY seeking God, or Images of
Him. The Sant Mat Teachers teach that we experience God by Light & Sound,
and during meditation, if successful, we may see glimpses of Light, see images
of the sun, moon, star, or images of Inner Masters. I have experienced all of
those, as shared in another post on an early peak meditation I had. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paramahanda Yogananda taught that God expresses Himself as
Light & Sound, but he taught that by breathing through the nostrils,
imagining that the spinal column is hollow, and watch the inhaling of Air
descending in to the lower body areas, then returning back up the spinal column
exiting the top of the Medulla Oblongata , the tube that links the top of the
spinal column to the brain, where the Pineal Gland sits at the Third Eye Level
in the forehead behind the two physical eyes, reveals memories stored from past
lives there, which is like a Pine Cone, with different layers of memories. In
fact, there is a large Pine Cone Icon sitting in front of the Vatican, and the
Pope carries a Pole that has a Pine Cone of the top if it, so He must be
knowledgeable regarding the symbol it is linked to, i.e The Third Eye. Yoganada
describes the Third Eye, inside, as a 5 pointed Star that is encased by a blue
sky with a gold ring around the round spherical object. I have never see the 5
pointed Start, but I have seen the glittering diamond shaped image inside the
blue sphere, and I have also seen the gold ring. But I have never seen them all
together, only one at a time. There are many variables that might be involved,
to be able to successfully experience these images, such as diet, life style,
health, ago, and for sure, past KARMA. So, I am pleased that I am able to still
experience some of these images during meditation, so it keeps my Faith secure
enough to keep meditating, when ever I have a chance, or wanting to seek God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then find out what will happen, but, I prefer to seek a Preview of what I
expect to experience once I leave my physical body for a one way trip. I prefer
not to be taken by surprise. I hope to consciously pass from this Realm to the
Spiritual Realm, when I die, the same way I do during meditation, which is an
exercise of “Dying While Living” as the Apostle Paul said he did daily. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-9751055830934675592015-02-03T08:06:00.004-08:002015-02-03T08:13:05.754-08:00Dr. Randolph Stone's Polarity Therapy Link <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dr. Randolph Stone, who authored The Mystic Bible, was a Radhasoami Initiate, who developed a Holistic Healing System he names Polarity Therapy. He traveled the world giving this practice and Teaching, FREE. Here is a Link to his Free System. </h2>
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Eternal Flame</div>
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Eternal Flamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909919378978271230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32640427.post-81448845475069792582014-11-23T17:45:00.001-08:002017-01-12T15:40:17.411-08:00Soul Convicts Wanted, .....Dead or Alive!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My Soul is an Escaped spirit who has wandered away from
Spiritual Home, to become WANTED: Dead or ALIVE,by either the god of
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was once a spirit,….fully
alive,…Eternally, that for reasons
forgotten, decided to venture away from the Home of The Living to explore the
land of the dead. I only intended to go for a brief visit, to have a few
material adventures, but now have been gone so long, I have forgotten my way
back to the home I once left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As the Eternal spirit I was,
I projected in to matter and became a soul, once I was joined to my physical
container I now call the body I am able to see in a mirror. But once joined to
this body , my spirit has bonded to this body, and has become the soul that has
been shaped by the mind that has taken the soul prisoner, and projects me, as a
mind trained soul, out into the material world of existence, through the sense
gates of my prison ward I call my body. My spirit that was alive before
becoming soul, now is asleep in slumber, and is in hibernation until either the body expires, releasing the knotted
mind/soul back to the spirit realms, or,…..until the longing of the spirit to
return to the forgotten Home I once left wakes up from slumber, and seeks for a
Source of Assistance to commence the Journey of souls to return to the Home all
incarnated spirits once left to seek material adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Before I left home, my Instructions were to stay in full contact
with my Spiritual Over Seer once I became a soul. Had I obeyed, I would have
remained a living spirit attached to a material body that became a living soul,
how ever, I instantly became enticed by the </span><br />
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out of my body through one or more of the nine sense gates, where my training
to become dead to the spirit world rapidly began. The more material adventures
I explored, the deader to the spirit world I became. The tighter my soul became
knotted to the mind that kept increasing in material knowledge, with
experience, the deeper my Eternal
spirit went into hibernation giving over its Authority to the knotted
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Divine Plan was, the
spirit was to become a living soul, teaching the mind to become a Spiritual
Teacher to lost souls, by taking Instructions from the Spiritual Over Seer, not
from the material god of this world received through the nine sense gates of
the body that entices the knotted mind/soul to become educated to the ways of
the world.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I know I am human, because,
unlike the lower species, I know and
recognize I am conscious. Consciousness is defined as many ideas, and numerous
papers have been written defining consciousness as per the writer’s perception.
But for me, I like to think I am conscious, as a soul, because of my individual
awareness as well as my unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and
environment, as witnessed by my writing this Article.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I know I am not just a
clone, or an identical thought form, wherever I came from, because I have yet
to ever meet another human being that agrees with much of what I have tried to
share since I started trying to share any thing I have been taught as Truth. It
appears each of the 7 billion humans on planet earth have their own truths, and
also seem to be hard</span><br />
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and thought forms into any othesr they interact with. </span><br />
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projected spirit who has projected into an average human body like mine, and
has become entrenched in to a Biological Prison that has 10 to the 13<sup>th</sup> power average cells, or
10,000,000,000,000 average cells spread out all over my body from the top of my
head to the tip of my toes, have of ever being able to escape back into the
Spiritual Realm that I once left? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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expires, which it will, as all physical material is impermanent, including my
present old ageing body ( now 2 months short of 73 ) will my knotted mind/soul
instantly release my Eternal spirit and free it from bondage from each of the
possible material realms? Metaphysically, depending on which School of Thought
one chooses to adopt, there may be
numerous material/spiritual realms or planes of existence, that are linked to
the physical body while the body is alive, but once that body expires, each
surviving plane connected to that body, also has its own time limitation to
remain alive in that particular realm, that still has the Eternal spirit held
hostage by the knotted mind/soul until EACH surviving realm also expires, which
means that each has an allotted time factor, which might be unknown to my
unawakened ( or the reader’s ) spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">With out delving into
Metaphysics, Biology explaining DNA. or the unending Religions, Fraternities,
Sects, etc. etc., which may be seen all over the Internet, as well as more
books than can be read in millions of life times, ( assuming one subscribes to
the teachings of Reincarnation and Karma, as I do ), I once decided to use my
own body, as a spiritual laboratory, or Temple of my soul, to experiment with
different spiritual exercises, using my body as a Spiritual University, so to
speak. I obviously have not yet graduated from my University, because I am
still here sharing a little of what I feel like sharing, with out acting as
just another Dominant Alpha Male trying to corral the other 6.99 billion
opposing souls on earth into doing what
I do, to become liberated from the Prisons of the soul. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But, in simple Laymen’s
terms, imagine how the tiny Point of Light that my spirit was that entered the
body that has become my prison, when the first Breath of Life was Breathed into
my body at birth, and I became a Living Soul. Immediately, this tiny spirit 0f
Light started down loading into every available cell in my tiny infant body,
and my life journey, this incarnation began! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Well, what can I saw,
….other than, its been an interesting ride, surely different than any other
human presently on earth, due to our differences in life experiences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But, the interesting thing
to consider, is we ALL arrived here, and took birth in our individual
respective bodies the same way. ( unless Aliens are reading this? ) We ALL
became prisoners of our body/mind/souls the same way! Why? Because we all have
the same human organs, with biological cells, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So, we all have an
opportunity to enroll in our own Spiritual University to experiment with our
own spiritual exercises while we still retain human Temples to seek our
Spiritual Over Seer, in order to try and hook up with. If we fail to make the
connection here, in the physical body, then, we must reincarnate again, and
again, and again, until we are successful. Not a good choice,….if one has
decided they have had enough of this form of life, on planet earth, and seek to
ascend to higher or more Spiritual, and less material realms, or planets, where
wars, killing, exploiting and eating lower species, along with all the other
horrors of what we spirit prisoners have been seduced in to accepting as normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This Article is not intended
as a Discourse or Lesson on how to become enlightened, as many Religions and
Sects already teach, but only as a
reminder that we, as spirits, are not who most of us think we are, or have
recognized our selves to become, in these bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If a fragment of my spirit
consciousness is in one of the cells in my big toe, I need to figure out some
way to entice it to vacate that cell and to travel up to the top of my head,
where it may be allowed to escape the prison of the body, and start the Journey
of souls back to the home I once left. Now, imagine, not only do I need to vacate
that big toe cell, but the rest of the 10 to the 13<sup>th</sup> power of
remaining cells in the body as well, in order to travel the spirit world! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The above is only an
Appetizer, that might serve to activate the Reader’s Spiritual thirst, to
desire to seek further ways to become liberated, from the Prison of souls to
return to the Home we all left as Living spirits, Eternal Ageless, individual
spirits, reunited with our Spiritual Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Reading other Articles on my
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Until we meet again, I
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