Death is not the ending

"The journey to the Spirit World is a long one, my friend. But when you die, that doesn't mean that this is the end."
-- —Buddy Red Bow, LAKOTA 

Everyone is afraid of death. Everyone has heard jokes about dying and phrases such "May you be dead for a week before the devil finds out you are gone." that is Irish. A friends comment there is only one way out of life and everyone dies. I have quit breathing myself and had to be brought back to life when I was a child and drowned in the ocean. I traumatized my cousin who said that he would never take me to the ocean again unless my father taught me to swim. I have had my moments recently where I caught a deadly disease MRSA and submitted myself to the will of God and felt he saved me.

I have been a psychic since I was a child. Everyone tries to make you fit into what they perceive as normal. You are told in many ways that you are not seeing things because no one else is sensing them. It is easier on people who are psychic now in some ways as they say they are special. I did not have that benefit when I grew up. It is always a tight rope to walk as you perceive people and things differently. You have to analyze that and make up your own dictionary of explanations. It is like being a trail blazer as there are no rule books or dictionaries telling you what your symbolism and perceptions really mean. You can only read what other people experienced, analyzed and found explanations for their symbols and it does not mean you are the same.

I have been a searcher for years trying to perfect myself and be closer to the divine. I see angels, and demons. I see people as beautiful colors, tunes and melodies and have done so since I was a child. It either means that I have opened up psychic talents which changes my perceptions or I am psychotic as that is what hearing voices is all about in this world. Everyone who has ever been a Saint or spiritual leader would have a good time if they put them all in the same place. I do not include myself in that category but I believe the key word here is functional. Do you have talents and are able to function in life, and rational. Do you function in this world. Are those talents from God because they will bring you good, save you, and make it so you can live in truth. If they are through ego and personal power and not the divine they will only bring you grief even if you get life going perfect. Nothing defies the divine.

Yet the same themes run through out every religion. You die and there is a reward and you get to be with the divine or reborn. In Christianity and Judiasm it is not so much reborn as you have a chance to set your mistakes right. Purgatory is probably the same as the bardo and other places where the dead go to in different religions. It is just shaped differently. Yet death is not the ending and I feel that people need to understand the wonder of it all.

Everyone gets a second chance to correct what they have done wrong in every religion. You get to look at and perfect yourself with an eternal immortal soul that has a choice to live again or come back in spirit. You have a kind loving energy you are in with none of the worries of the world. You are seeing the eternal souls of others you have known and it is beautiful. People are terrified of it as if they will be tortured and punished. Yet in every religion you can turn to the divine and be restored and forgiven where nothing bad will happen to you. You may need to do a great deal of work to perfect yourself but you still are not tortured. You judge yourself and your hell is what your mind puts you through for your own judgements.

So why are people hurt, killed, murdered and harmed every day because of being a nationality, sex, race, or because of greed and jealousy. I do not know as I am not God but I believe it is because of how we make choices in our lives. Each choice puts us in a different vibration, pattern of energy, and level of energy. Bad choices mean that we learn whether those energies are right for us or not. Evil people who love those energies have the challenge of doing something good for others.

The mind of the divine is incomprehensible and no one can understand it. Yet it forms patterns in our lives, matrix's of energies. So once all these patterns and energies come together in a flow it makes it so evil can counterbalance the good flows since this world has dual natures. Evil wins when good people act against their nature and our bigots, hateful and do bad things to others. It mean that humanities choice is what brings us the things we draw to us. I hope to see the Messiah born because we make this place a home for him. Buddha coming back, and all the things that bring spirituality alive.

Yet I am just one of those people with different perceptions and you have to decide what you are and if you want to bring all of this into your life.

Standing Before God

I am not doing a quote this time but more about myself. I have ups and downs in life like everyone else and the question I always ask myself is if I stand before God would I want to tell him what I did. I do this for almost every thing that is a major decision. I know that to many people that makes me seem like a doormat or a fluff bunny which is silly. Yet I have had a few people find that point of view amazing and thought how is it different.

Standing before God is important because spirit makes everything change in your life. I want to be sure that I follow what choices I believe are right. It is harder to do and would be easier on me if I followed the crowd so to speak and acted like everyone else. The reason for this is people would accept me even if what I did was spiritually wrong because all of them did the same action.

It does not make it so I judge others or try to make them follow my path. It does make it so I am more comfortable even if things do not go easy at first. I feel it is living my belief's and have found other literature on different religious belief's say the same thing. Following your spirit, your own drummer or what ever phrase you use to describe it is important.

We are all individuals and have a different set of choices. We decide what we want to do in our lives and how we want to live. A good tool to judge if we are on the right path and making the right choices is by saying would I want to tell this to God. Try doing this in your life as a test and see how much better things can get for you.

Liking yourself

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi

I have always believed that the person to compete with was yourself. I have spent a lifetime watching other people competing with each other. They are not happy because when you compete with someone else you have to act like them and not be yourself. You try to do the things someone else does better or look better.

I have been competing with myself for years and the truimphs are a great benefit. I have lost more weight than I have ever lost before now. So I am happy with the fact that I did something good for myself. I have been persistent when I have been exercising. I am now hoping to see more results because you never notice them when you look at yourself all the time.

I have seen wonderful people trying to be someone else because they are popular or stylish. They are wonderful and being wonderful is always stylish. Yet it is not easy to be yourself and not follow what society is doing where you fit into society. It is more rewarding and interesting than acting like everyone else.

Happiness and joy in life comes from liking yourself and that is not always easy to do. Yet once you do it and enjoy your life you never want to go back to being someone else.

Believe in Your Dreams

".because if you believe in something, and believe in it long enough, it will come into being."  -- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

I know this is a very true statement for my life. It is a good example of the Law Of Attraction but it is tied into faith. The belief that there is a loving Divine force that listens to us and the energies of divine creation and love occur every time we have a belief that we want to bring into our lives. Our thoughts are three dimensional pictures that bring our lives alive to follow the divine will.

God wants what is best for us no matter what form we worship in and that always brings alive our life choices. We create our own vision of what we want our life to be. We then bring our vision alive through making choices to accomplish that vision. It is called following our dreams.

People are all different in how well they manifest these visions. If we think where am I going to get the money, and have worries and doubts it slows down what is meant to be. Sometimes visions happen which show something that just does not seem to be true. The secret is to never give up on your visions believe in them and trust them. 

We may accomplish part of our goals and think where is the rest of the vision. Many times we are out of sync with our vision and it has to be brought into being. If it involves others they have to be moved in a progression of choices into our vision. Our thanking God for something before it happens will bring it about if we have the belief and faith to know that it will happen. Endurance is something people have to have for a complex life wish. Endurance to trust in God no matter what happens as it is all a progression of choices that moves you into the place you need to be.

Believe in your dreams and follow them. Have faith in your visions and you will be happy in your life as we bring alive God's will by following our visions and dreams.