Tag: Spirituality

  • Life Has to Offer

    “A mind convinced against its will – is of the same opinion still.”

    Is there a grey area where nuance can live in the space between good and evil?

    Can evil be evil while thinking it is doing good?

    Can there be christians who wear the label to shield their evil?

    Do you know you are evil or have you been brainwashed to believe you are good and can’t see what you are doing?

    I used to think that evil knew their actions.

    But what I do know is that I thought a lot of things and didn’t know that those thoughts were actually wrong.

    I was raised to think certain ways were right and other ways were wrong.

    Only to find out – I was raised in a way to see the world from a very limited view. It mostly neglected the rights and freedoms of others.

    The path was narrow and I was on it. Others Be damned – literally.

    What mattered most was my beliefs.

    In a world where there are many folks like me – where they believe their thoughts and childhood beliefs – it feels near impossible to change that mind.

    And it is.

    Let alone have an intellectual conversation – for their mind is in defense of its beliefs.

    What I came to find out – is that there was not a person separate from the beliefs. There was the mind – period.

    It was terrifying when my mind/thoughts/beliefs fell – for there wasn’t a Me standing in the wings.

    I was a body, mindless – and in search of Me – the soul .

    I of course can’t know for sure their experiences – but I am kinda certain when you see someone acting without compassion or empathy – they are lacking the connection to their soul.

    They can’t see themselves- so it is near impossible to see Other.

    “Forgive them, they know not what they do.” was true for me.

    I didn’t.

    I wasn’t aware that my beliefs were excluding so many and so narrow-minded.

    It seems you can’t see how your beliefs feel to others – until you become the other.

    I don’t have answers to the community that is so divided – and how to engage in a mind that is shackled with beliefs and dogma –

    I don’t believe there are words that will penetrate a closed mind.

    The only way forward for me was to do me and to live a life of love, peace and joy.

    If we all get in the mud hole with them – everyone will be dirty.

    I feel that those of us who can live a life of joy and love – need to do that.

    To bring more of that to this community in whatever ways you can.

    It was losing battle for me to engage or try to intellectually challenge their minds. Peace for me was to walk away and live a life with an open mind – or more living from my heart and soul.

    My mind is a tool – but it isn’t in control anymore.

    We can speak up when we see injustice and we certainly can vote for the leadership to be empathetic and less closed minded.

    But more – we don’t want to waste this wild fabulous life batting with a mind that is closed.

    I lived for 46 years under the control of a brainwashed mind – and my intentions now is to finish out this ride doing more of what I love, where peace is found and the wonderful joys life has to offer.

    And Vote.

  • What you see and say.

    I am reading David Hawkins book “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” and here is something I found fascinating…

    “The mind automatically assumes that it is continuously aware of reality, and it is unaware that what it considers to be reality, is actually own presumptive inner processing function that has been termed ‘the experiencer’ (Hawkins, 2000-2006).”

    “Thus the data has already been automatically processed and edited via ego mechanisms within 1/10,000th of a second that have thereby added or subtracted value, meaning, and importance as well as emotional tone and shadings of memory and significance. What the ordinary mind presumes to be “truth” is actually a processed composite of thousands of variables of differing degrees with superimposed editing, selection, distortion, and emotionalized, preferential evaluation. This editing is done unconsciously in 1/10,000th of a second and is not eliminated or bypassed until one reaches Enlightenment (cal. 600 and above.)” David Hawkins

    What I am extremely intrigued by is that our minds are already programmed to see that which we see and it is near impossible to interject a new idea especially in an old image.

    Which explains why most folks will not change their minds about fathers/brothers/uncles etc that become abusive. Even if their bodies carry the emotions and fears, their minds will not allow them to change the words from father to pedophile, to change the truth.

    What I am asking is for folks who don’t have this ironclad confused mind leading the charge, for the ones who can see and can speak to do so.

    To speak up against this criminal behavior of child abuse, to step in front of the unseeing eyes and see the truth of what is going on and to alert someone.

    We somehow sit in the position that someone in the family would speak IF something were going on. I am here to tell you it is near impossible for the abused and confused to stop this from the inside.

    The rumor mill on the outside churns and spews forth lots of data, but rarely offers the details up to the Child Protective Services, we don’t want to ‘ruin’ a family.

    Let me tell you a family that is riddled with sexual abuse is diseased and needs to be rescued. It needs the light of day to shine in and to halt the actions of the abuser; it needs you to say something. You are not ruining a loving family, but stopping the abuse from going on to generations upon generations. An abusive family isn’t a loving one.

    You may not awaken all the folks within the family, but perhaps you can save one person, one child…

    What I know to the dept of my soul, if you on the outside treat the pedophile as normal, then we believe we are nuts.

    If you on the outside would reflect what we know, “that something is wrong” then we are set free…we are looking for another view, one that honors the fear and yuck factor we feel.

    When you continue on as if nothing is wrong, as if this man is okay, if you continue to perform ‘normal treatment’ of him, we are left in a sea of abuse.

    We are counting on your clear eyes and words to set us free…

    Some will be awakened and others will be incapable of finding the space before the mind takes over and eliminates your truth, but speak it anyway, for you never know if there is one there that can and will be saved by what you see and say.