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It’s been awhile since we posted to our blog. I apologize and want you to know that I must confess that I allowed out side forces to affect my attitude. Someone has been spamming the comment section with ads that are contrary to my lifestyle and beliefs. Over 4500 in the past weeks and I have allowed this to stop my interacting with you and others who have been so kind in telling me that you appreciate the words that we share. Since our focus is completely on Spiritual matters and the Law of Attraction in operation, we have to admit that somehow, we have attracted these actions and are perpetuating them through our upset and beliefs that someone can affect the outcomes in our lives. So we will begin anew and realize that each of our beliefs attracts that which we think and feel into our experience. We see only good and Blessings for everyone who reads these words.
Each of us is responsible for every event in our lives. When we operate with integrity, love and appreciation , that is what we see coming back to us in the experiences of life. Thank you for the lessons we have learned from our wonderful spammers. You have shared a wonderful lesson with us. I hope life works well for you! Blessings,
Robert Test
Note: this is a guest article by Ron Barton.
We suspect the answer to the question is NO! Otherwise we would be one big spiritual group of many cultures evolving in the unlimited knowledge of God furthering our understanding of the reason for our existence. Our dependence on a man-made fragmented system of religion full of contradictory interpretations has resulted in many different groups claiming to have a superior belief system. When a group within a group has a disagreement, they seperate into a new group creating more seperation and fragmentation. “Real truth” cannot be fragmented or changed.
Our knowledge of truth is like the tip of an iceberg. We only know what we can see, feel and touch and there is so much more.I’m sure you have heard that we use only a small percentage of the brain. What happens if we learn to increase the use of our brain? These same ideas can apply to our Spirituality. Our loving God would not abandon us nor want to live seperated, broke, in ill health, and without love.
The promise is that we are children of God and it is His intention to give us the Kingdom. He has given everyone access to to unlimited resources that help us become happy, kind, and successful living beings. We have the ability to reconnect with our source and live in bliss and joy.
In the last few weeks I have been observing the political situation primarily in the USA and working on a a philosophy that embodies a Spiritual answer to the divide in our culture. I’ve come up with a sort of answer to the question: what would Jesus/Spirit do or say? A rather ambitious project I must admit and one that is strictly my opinion.
Jesus, as well as many of the ancient philosophers have said “as a man (human) thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so is he”. He is also quoted as saying “know ye not that ye are gods!” Our modern day science of “Quantum Physics” begun in the early 1940′s by scientists like Max Planck and Heisenberg, has added to the chorus of self guided responsibility by postulating that our thoughts and beliefs even determine the outcome of scientific studies on light.
Once we are presented with the ideas of self responsibility through our thought structure, it is apparent that our attitudes and thoughts about life create the circumstances and outcomes we experience in this journey of our life. So, there is no one to blame but ourselves for the experiences that show up in our everyday Game of Life. This is the true Spiritual answer to the quesion of ” how come some people lead a better life, have more money, and experience more happiness and others experience poverty, sickness, crime, homelessness and many of the other negative aspects of life.
Jesus was asked to explain how you can tell if a man is righteous and his answer was : “ by their fruits ye shall know them” , meaning you can tell how a human is thinking by the things that are in their lives. Good, positive, self responsible thinking creates good things and negative, angry, bitter, blaming, thoughts create negative, lack experiences in life. So, the answer to the question of why there are such disparities in peoples lives becomes evident in the phrase “thinking makes it so.”
Ultimately we wind up with two major categories of people in our culture. Those that are creators that know how to use their Universal powers of creation by using positive thought, visualation, integrity, belief, and work to supply their needs and those of countless others and the second category of people that have been trained to believe they are powerless, helpless, and not able to provide for themselves. I call this group the “victims”.
A “victim” believes and has been told that the “creators” have taken things from them and they should expect to be given what is rightfully theirs by a third party/government. This belief actually keeps the “victims” in their poverty because it reinforces their belief that they are powerless when the real truth is they are children of God, with the power to change their thinking and change their life into the lifestyle of a “creator”. I’m starting to believe that anything that supports people in the belief that they are dependent on government, charity, comfort etc. for sustenance in life is in violation of Divine Law.
The Apostle Paul said: “let this mind be in you which is in Christ Jesus.” What a suggestion and promise. Learn to think like Jesus ( or any Avatar of your choice) and you can experience the joys of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Even Jesus said ” these things I do you shall do and even greater things”. So what is possible for you as a human being? Your thinking makes it so!
The Biblical saying “as a human thinketh in their heart so are they” is a clear description of the natural law: “what you think about and dwell upon eventually shows up in your real world life”. These ideas have been with us for years and have been substantiated in the last century by the Quantum Physics work of Max Planck and other scientists. They have found that observation by human beings can change the outcome of an event based on the beliefs and expectations of the persons observing the event.
Wow! This seems to say to us that we create the events and circumstances in our lives based on our strongly held beliefs and expectations. So, if we want to we can change our lives by changing the thoughts and beliefs we hold in our mind. Unfortunately, we must how to do this and apply it all by ourselves. No one can do it for us. This is a skill we learn by doing. (a distinctive skill). Which means we learn by trial and error until we have mastered the new skill.
Giving people money just creates dependence on the money giver and doesn’t change their underlying beliefs in lack and scarcity so wealth redistribution doesn’t help the poor. Doing things for people doesn’t change their basic beliefs in their own abilities to prosper and succeed so we create a co-dependant class that becomes more dependant as we do things for them. Even education and training don’t work if the people being educated don’t apply the skills they are learning.
As we go back to the teachings of natural law by our master teacher, Jesus the Christ, we are told that : “the Kingdom of Heaven is within” and “these things I do ye shall do..” which, if we believe them mean : our thoughts create the outcomes in our lives. As we embrace these ideas that “as a human thinks in the heart so are they” we must then realize the truth in the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley which says : “I am master of my fate, I am captain of my soul”.
A victim personality creates victim events in their life and a happy and thankful personality creates happy events that they can be thankful for.
So, no one can do it for me. I must learn to be responsible for my attitudes and craft my life into the Divine glorious person that I am. This state of being is available to every human being on earth. I am praying for the Universal understanding of this wonderful truth for all of God’s children including myself.
We are called by ourselves and others ” Human Beings” so what is it that defines this state of operating in the world we find ourselves in?
When we really look at our behaviors, most of us are driven to acts and actions that are simply actions from our past based on emotions that we experience from earlier events in our lives. So we are actually operating like a computer from our data base storage of these past events. Acting from these stored events, emotions, upsets, etc means we are not really human beings, we are human “doings”. Most of the world is then based on what we are doing, not on what we are being.
This means that as human “doings” we are acting like machines that are programmed to carry out a series of computer like actions from earlier in life. So life becomes machines that interact with other machines creating the same interactions over and over again.
This is not necessary. We can take charge of the program and become a “being”. There is nothing to do to be. Nothing to figure out or analyze, it requires no action.
All of the computer commands and programs are based what happened in the past or in the future when we worry about the future again based on what happenned in the past. The only place or time that is real is the present moment. This is when and where creation takes place. The Universal Law says “what I think about I create”. So I can only change the future by staying and thinking in the present moment or right now. We stay in the past mentally rehearsing what happened to us or worrying about the future as we keep recreating our pasts over and over again and wonder why things don’t change.
This simple but confusing idea is the Golden key to setting yourself free in life. The more you practice living in the present moment the free(er) life will become for you.Practice, study and research this idea. There is no “doing” in this step. It requires only a shift in perception. This shift will lead to a life of freedom.
For now you might want to pick up the book ” A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle to begin your search. We will be adding to this search as time unfolds in our future.
For some time now I’ve been struggling with the idea of “just how much should we help a person in difficulties”? What is the Spiritual answer to “how should I be my brother’s keeper”?
I do know that a major natural law is: “any entitity is either growing or decaying ( going backward)”. I do know that the AA community says basically that you cannot change an addicts behavior, they have to do it themselves. We can help if they ask for it and are willing to accept responsibility for their own life changes. However, we can not do it for them.
In a Spiritual light we are told that “the Kingdom of Heaven is within” and ” as a man thinketh in his heart so is he” which shows us that Spiritually we are all capable of leading a happy. prosperous, and meaningful life if we learn to access the “Kingdom within” and master our thoughts of victimhood and bitterness at the system.
Just like learning to ride a bicycle, life requires some mistakes and failures as we learn what works and what doesn’t to get us to the goals we seek. So it appears that failure and frustration are part of the Divine process of learning what works and what doesn’t work in our approach to life. When we were learning to ride the bicycle we would have stayed in the belief that we couldn’t learn to ride it if we didn’t continue on through the rough spots and break through to “I know how to do this”. When we take failure and upset out of life lessons, it appears that we stymie the person’s ability to grow and learn how to produce their own happiness and prosperity.
Maybe “being my brother’s keeper” includes allowing them to fail and then encoraging them to try again until they succeed which is a lessson they will apply for the rest of their life. Are we making people and organizations weak by not allowing failure in our world?
“As a man (human) thinketh in his heart so is he (she)”. This is a quote that most people have heard before and a good Spiritual leader learns to incorpoate in their leadership style. This brings up the conversation of the difference between the autocratic leader’s style and the style of the facilitative/spiritual leader. In my earlier years of leadership I was criticized for not being enough ” hands on ” with people. It took me awhile to understand that I was being told by old style managers that I needed to be checking on people all the time. When you learn to trust people and work with them through coaching, you learn to draw out their best talents by pointing out their good points and dwelling on their strengths. People will then learn to operate at their best and self correct their mistakes. We are now in a transition in our business culture from old style management to new style leadership. The two styles are almost contradictory and it is difficult for the autocratic old style leader to understand. The new style leader creates a vision, clearly defines expectations, and then lets the team execute the plan. Sometimes we just need to ignore the past and move into the wonderful present.
In the book of Numbers in the Old Testament, Moses sends out 12 spies (one from each of the 12 tribes) to sneak into the Promised land and bring back a report on the the prosperity of the land and the type of people that are living there. All 12 spies return with glowing reports of the wonderful abundance in the new land; however ten of the returning spies told Moses that the people inhabiting the land were fearsome and warlike and the tribes of Israel could not defeat them. So these 10 spies advised Moses that the rewards were there but it was too risky to consider taking on the conflicts that they would encounter by moving forward into “The Promised Land”. Only two of the spies returned with reports of the land of milk and honey and also reccommended that the tribes of Israel move forward into this new land of prosperity. They reasoned that they would not have been guided to investigate the new land by Jehovah if the abilities, resources, strategies, and courage were not already available within their people to triumph in this new venture.
This is a wonderful metaphor for our lives. Intuition (Spirit) gives an idea and parts of us immediately assess the risk and take us into fear. Why would Spirit give us an idea if we didn’t have the resources and abilities to accomplish them? There are other parts of us that say: let’s go, you can do this, this is the idea you’ve been looking for, etc. and again the question comes up: who do you listen to? Do you listen to the parts of you that are tuned in to Intuition (Spirit) or do you listen to the fear programming of the world?
Moses listened to Spirit and Israel entered the land of milk and honey. They did have battles to fight and difficulties to overcome and eventually they won and settled into their new land of prosperity. What would have happened if Moses had listened to the fear reports by the spies who saw the possibilities but were afraid to take the risks they saw as insurmountable?
Leadership is seeing correctly where we need to go and holding the vision clearly until we get there.
This is a conversation that you have to be open to and willing to embrace. The conversation begins with the recent discussions that it is really the heart that makes decisions and guides intuition to truly break through ideas and ways of doing things. This is the source of creativity in our world. This is also the key that separates true leaders from the pack.
Research by the Institute of Heart Math in Seattle and others show us that the heart has an energy that affects the world around us (our Universe). To use a modern analogy, it is the heart that is the WIFI connection with the Universal knowledge data base. The heart then uses the information collected and analyzed by the brain (from our environment) and combines it with the downloaded information from Universal knowledge to create heart based action that serves the organization, the individual and the community.
There is a science behind these rather startlingly new ideas that lays out new strategies for practical application of leadership principles in your real world. (This is the world of Quantum Physics).
We will explore the Spiritual ideas that advanced leaders are using: vision, integrity, collaboration, shared leadership, and others. It begins with the basic premise that people are brilliant and endowed with God for huge success. We have allowed others to tell us that we are less than perfect and need help to even survive in life. We then create surviving strategies rather than thriving strategies and do not experience our full capabilities. A great leader knows how to break the chains of dependency and create a complete system of strategies and skills necessary to create organizations that work for the individual and society using the new energies of the 21st century.
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