4/6/13

            I think Jesus is taking a few of us to the next stage in human learning by teaching us to see with our minds. It is a small step towards a new order in the world, and to take that step, a person doesn’t need to be holy or special but the person should first become friends with Jesus and God. Jesus will then continue the teaching that can eventually include travel to other planets. What comes later is beyond even my imagination…except…Jesus did show me the future once or twice where people had already become skillful at moving their bodies and objects with their minds. 

            Everything Jesus does is meant to be a benefit for us. When Jesus shows the group of us other planets, it usually isn’t for just enjoyment, but has a deeper meaning.

We still have so much to learn. The beauty of it is that God gave us the type of mind that keeps us curious and able to learn forever. Every time you think you have found the truth, you learn there is a deep one just around the next corner. 

            I suspect that what Jesus is beginning to teach us today resembles a new stage or type of seeing which includes the understanding that everything is interconnected, that our minds are supple and able to do amazing things.  Think of it as living inside of God’s dream world where you can wonder about to various places within its vast sphere. One day we will learn to do amazing things with our minds. Maybe this is why he loves us in spite of our current imperfections.

 

4/8/13

            I was pleased by Mark Shields words on the PBS News Hour the other day. He said that in a democracy, everyone who wants a job should have one. It is a statement I have repeated often. It seems so obvious to me that I can’t understand why anyone would think otherwise.  Why not encourage work for everyone according to their education and ability. Why not encourage companies to hire extra workers for the benefit of the nation, even if they must invent a few jobs. Some small companies will do this for summer kids; so why not expand such a program to include everyone capable of work. Major corporations began and grew their profit in this great nation of ours. Don’t they have a moral duty to give back? The excess drive for profit is killing America and the devil is laughing all the way to the bank.

 

 St Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, by Juepe de Ribera

4/10/13

            As I walked with Jesus this morning I remembered something I’d read about St. Francis of Assai, a saint who has been much on our minds lately because of our new pope, Francis I. I remember reading that St. Francis used to talk to the birds because the people wouldn’t listen. This simple act captured our imagination and made everyone love him. So it came down through the years that he preached to the animals and was friends with them which may be truer than we realize. But what I suddenly realized was that St. Francis, during his poverty was as if living on a paradise world. This sounds contrary but it isn’t. On a paradise world ownership is unheard of and everything is shared because people’s minds are so filled with God their needs are few.  I believe that a person like St. Francis has such great love for God he existed inside an envelope of joy and paradise. Jesus nodded at my thoughts. I have stepped on these special worlds with Jesus. He wanted me to understand and feel the love and peace that fills the air on these worlds. So, I picture St. Francis as walking in a bubble of love, like on a paradise world filled with God mind, surrounded by pain and woe. How hard it must have been for him and how he must have wanted to share that bubble of love.

            Most of us can only grasp this feeling of God mind during meditation. Yet, once the soul feels the sublime love given to us by God, it never forgets. This may be what Jesus means by saving souls, every soul needs to feel this God love and crave to become ever going part of it and when we become a part of such great love we can’t help but feel the urge to share it.

            The practice of this love is empathy, a deep feeling for other people that is unbounded. In other words, just as St. Paul wrote:  Love is everything. And we acquire this empathic love by becoming friends with Jesus. Everyone needs to sit down or kneel in a quiet place and talk to Jesus. He is waiting to befriend everyone.

            Some people have said that priests of the Catholic Church hinder such friendship with Jesus. This is definitely not true. Many monks and priests on television programs speak that we should befriend Jesus. Often, during his sermons, Father Thomas has suggested that it is vital that we become friends with Jesus.

            And, during these troubling times, Jesus is talking to many thousands of his friends.  I noticed a nun sitting in the back of the church with the homeless last Sunday. I don’t know what order she belongs to but I am pretty sure that Jesus spoke to her and suggested she visit them. Jesus sees a need and sends his many friends to fill that need. We number in the thousands if not millions and we are not limited to Christianity. Jesus befriends people of every religion who truly love God. We are all learning empathy at God’s feet.

 

4/13/13

            Just suppose that God’s Armanda of Worlds was coming back round to earth for the first time in 2,000 years (my guess) and it travels at light speed. Then Jesus would not have aged but a few years since he left long ago. So now that he us physically back here on earth in, he might have aged more on his trip coming from the Armanda far in space than in all the years he had been gone. So Jesus would be in his early 40’s today.

            This perception certainly makes for a long lived life compared to the people sitting back here on earth, in slow time, like snail mail. Was Mary’s appearance above a church while holding a baby for three days in Zeten Egypt in 1968 meant as a symbolic action to remind us of Jesus birth? Like a horn trumpeting his close arrival. Imagine also, thousands of angels coming to earth as scouts before Jesus arrival.

            These ideas define Jesus as the Son of God as well as the Son of Man, because he was born in both places. Reading this, some might think that Jesus is a mere astronaut. Jesus is not an astronaut just as he is not a scientist. Both terms of earth and do not apply to heaven. A true definition of Jesus is beyond our understanding in the present time; because, in one sense, Jesus also never left; his spirit has been with us all along. This boggles the mind, but also reinforces our idea that Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection are unique. 

            Jesus is here today, moving here and there, out and about. Will he stay for a while? How long? Will he take a few people with him when he leaves again? I suspect that when he lifts up the 144,000 from the earth, as stated in Revelation, the rest of the people on earth will smile and wave them off to their new adventure because most everyone will be happily engaged in a hope for adventure of their own. At this time, Jesus and his angels are working hard to change our hates into loves, and our woes into hope and promise.

 

        Looks like God is watching.

4/17/13

            Jesus never discredits the basic teaching of the church, but only expands on those teachings. He may have left physically 2,000 years ago, but his mind and spirit stayed with us to influence and aid the church. What I have suggested about Jesus leaving and coming has a basis in the bible if you read it right. The whole bible leads to teachings that help us grow as a people. Change and growth is what the universe is about, it is what God is about and he gave us minds aptly able to do just that.

            I can see this easily in my own life. At one time, I didn’t know how to love, but the angels have taught me to be kind and loving. My former tendency was to be frank and lash out in impatience. Now, I am more mild and tolerant. Some of this comes with age but much of it comes from advice and the love the angels have for me.

            Thinking of God’s Armanda of Worlds reminds me of a world Jesus took me to that was filled with golden grass and fauna. It had a blue sky and earth atmosphere with purple mountains in the distance but the fields were predominantly gold color, set off by different colored bright birds and flowers. Taken together, it looked like tiny gems set in gold. This is why people called it God’s World. It was wondrous and a small sample of what is out there in this huge, grand universe. People don’t live on God’s world because the whole planet is set aside as a park, just as earth will become a treasured park in the very far future.

 The blue marble of Earth.

4/20/13

            This morning I went to Australia and stood on a beautiful striped red rock that I’d seen on Nova. The others joined me there and I knew they felt just as wondrous about our great world.

            “Suddenly, Jesus spoke saying, “It has everything.”

            If anyone should know, he does. I don’t think there is any place on earth that isn’t interesting or majestic. So today, we stood on the red rock and held hands just before we began a march around the world pushing God energy in front of our giant invisible bodies. We called out to anyone who choose to listen that they should come and join our march. Many did.

            Interesting to note that each of us sees a small, self-chosen part of the landscape and its people as we walk, but with so many of us marching around the earth, we manage cover a lot of ground (and water) as we encourage people with God love. As I walked through the Middle East, I was reminded of Europe’s dark, war like history. They came out of it eventually, and so will the people in this trauma eventually.

            When I got back home I tried to spread waves of pure love all across the land, starting in NY where big money circulates and ended up in California where more big money circulates. I often feel guilty that I find it hard to pray for people who have everything, so sometimes I make a special effort to do so. I pray that they come to understand they don’t need as much one day. Then I realize that the real wrong is in the system we live by, a system that is so entrenched, it will take more than my simple prayers to change. I tried to spread God’s light everywhere but felt like I was pushing against a stubborn, unmovable wall.

            Jesus stepped to my side and told me that I was thinking wrong. He said that spreading God’s light around the world truly does make a difference, even if I can’t see it.

            I felt corrected. It is just that recently we have had so many tragedies, Boston and West City in Texas that I felt us wounded. My heart goes out to those people in places like Iraq and parts of Africa who face this kind of tragic events every day. How can they keep walking through so many traumas? Can our prayers help their psyche recover? It takes a long time to overcome such deep hurts. We must all pray for the people who are deeply hurt on our world.

           

4/26/13

            The more God gives me to hand out, the more I receive back. The concept is almost unfathomable because it is so different from what we think of as normal. I compare God’s light energy to oxygen for a struggling patient and planet; oxygen from a never ending fount. A fount of energy that magnifies back into me the more I use it.

            As soon as I met with the others upon the mountain, I felt vitalized, as did they. Then each of us moved across the earth and even dipped below its surface with invisible bodies. As I moved I felt as if each breath could move a cloud if I wished or turn the course of a flock of birds. I felt the fronds of trees whisper against my skin as I walked past, all the while pushing a huge wave of God energy and life spirit in front.

            As the wave moved forward it seemed to momentarily lift up everything in its path, a symbol of God’s spirit at work. Nothing was neglected, clouds, birds bugs trees grass, flowers, people—all became an intimate part of myself and the others as we marched pushing the wave forward. I thought perhaps a smile grew wide enough to envelope the oceans, land and air. And I suddenly wished Disney were alive so he could illustrate it.

            All this took but a few minutes, but Jesus assured me once again that it is good for the earth and all the thriving life upon it. I see this as true as I walk, but more than that, I feel it inside my body that seems to grow larger the more I share. I think how it would be if everyone knew this same relationship with God and earth or if I could stay within God’s envelope after meditation. Earth would be a Paradise World. Perhaps one day. The core group that meets upon the mountain grows larger. As we walk, monks and prayerful people everywhere join the love that grows upon the earth. I now see how a few places have become holy by their love for God, monasteries and other places of great peace. I watch into the future as Jesus orchestras the intention that these small spots grow larger until they cover more of the population and land. More and more kindness and love spreading like a flower garden that has been neglected but now reworked and come back to life.

 

4/27/13

            A wave from God filled me with purity inside and out like a wash of cool refreshing water. Suddenly I swam within it and all the life surrounding me moved in the same current. At that moment I knew there was nothing I could do wrong or right, it was all up to God. For that moment I was alive and living on a small bit of paradise. I saw God’s view of earth as a rose bud that gradually opens to reveal new petals of knowledge until one day earth and its people will become a rose in full bloom rising beneath the sun.

            We should not be afraid of new ideas. When I put on the web about Jesus traveling from God’s Armada of Worlds to Earth, it was because Jesus requested that I do so. It does not detract from who Jesus is. Instead, it expands on our knowledge as it gives us a new mystery. We will never have every question answered. Part of our drive in life is a search for those answers.  Jesus coming from the Armanda of Worlds seems so reasonable that no one will be able to ignore it one day. It feels true, even though we don’t know the particulars. It also feels true that Jesus can step into any place or time he chooses. The thing about truth is that your inner guts know it is the truth no matter how much your rational mind tries to say otherwise. Some truths are hard to take right away, but eventually they win out. You can only argue so long against them before the truth prevails. Jesus is a truth who prevails.     

 

4/30/13

            I watched the movie, Lincoln, last night and felt enthralled by it, even though it consisted of a lot of politics, which I dislike. I think it should have gotten more academy awards and wonder why it did not. I would guess the awards are wrapped in as much politics as the movie, but with less wholesome results.

            Later, because the movie stayed hauntingly with me, I got to thinking. As tragic as slavery was, and needed to end, but would its absence have prevented Blues music. We humans seem to be able to take horror and turn it into something worthwhile and grand. Think of the many movies and entertaining stories that have come from the Holocaust. I wonder—is it like laughing so we don’t cry?

            Thinking about another horror story, I am ashamed that people died in Bangladesh so people in the west can buy expensive clothing. As I edit this—more than a 1,000 have died in the collapsed building.  I buy few cloths but I intend to boycott a few specific stores. I keep waiting for someone to print out a complete list of the 45 companies who manufacture clothing in Bangladesh. No one has yet. Those companies are exploiting the workers wages, health and safety.  I don’t want to hear their pithy excuses and how they pass the buck. They should pay proper wages and also send their own inspectors to check every factory and also make sure the exits stay open in case of fire. I intend to buy American made from now on.