9/1/06
I just met
a women who was very eager to sign the petition when I told her that one of the
next “important people” on the recall list was Joyce Hayes Giles elected to the
school board, but who combined the light and gas bills from DTE Energy. She was
probably elected because she is perceived to have money and power. Now many
families in
The lady I spoke to owes $1,500 on her combined gas and light bill. DTE Energy will not allow people to pay only the electric part of the bill. She has been to the welfare office, but they can’t help her.
“I don’t know what I will do when it get cold.” She said.
“I am so sorry.” I told her.
“I get some electric with an extension cord run to my neighbor’s house, but it will blow a fuse if we plug in an electric heater.”
“What about a kerosene heater?” I asked her.
“It makes my throat and lungs sick It would send me back to the hospital.”
“What about a hurricane lamp? I think they are cheap.” I said.
We talked for a while longer, then I told her “I will pray for you and I will put your story on my web site. I think God sent me to you so I could.”
“Yes. Maybe God did. He will find a way.”
I left with a heavy heart wondering where I could buy a hurricane lamp, and if I could even afford one. I have one I paid twenty-five cents for at a garage sale. I have used it many times and may need it again; so, before I can give it to her, I will need to replace it. It uses kerosene too, but only a small amount. I will look into it as soon as I get paid.
9/2/06
A lecture I listened to in The Learning Company CD by Professor Ronald B. Herzman about Christopher Marlowe was so good I need to put one of its lines here. In the play, Dr. Faustus conjured up the devil and then asked him how, if he is the devil, he could be here on earth.
The devil answered, “Why, this is hell. Nor am I out of it.”
I laughed out loud when I heard this. How true. In exchange for his soul, the devil gives Dr. Faustus the ability to satisfy all his desires. He does so throughout the play. Dr. Faustus runs through many delights, but never finds, lasting happiness.
A thousand years before, as reported in the same lecture, Aristotle spoke about how people crave the wrong things falsely believing they will make them happy. People crave money, pleasure, or honor (celebrity). Aristotle gave the reasons why these cravings could not give people lasting happiness. .
According to Aristotle, happiness must well up from within the inner person to be truly lasting and worthy.
I thought it interesting that wisdom from so long ago could apply so aptly to us today. But why should that surprise me? Jesus’ wisdom speaks directly to us today as easily as it did in his own day. Maybe more so because Jesus has told me to read the bible as if it were meant for our world today. Reading it as a model for today can give us new insights and understanding of what Jesus asks of us.
9/3/06
Father Thomas said a phrase in church that hit me as very apt and necessary. After talking about the minimum wage, he said, “We have a minimum wage. We should have a maximum wage too.”
He said that the CEO’s in
As Father Thomas said, “It seems as if there is a war going on against the working people.”
I love the phrase, “maximum wage” and believe we should go for it. As I have written before, the top wage earners and leaders should be limited to a certain percentage of what the average person earns, plus perks, of course. This wouldn’t hurt our economy because a company could make as much as it dared, but use up the excess in benevolent gifts to the city or nation.
Ah, isn’t that one of the reasons our country is supposed to tax the rich a higher percentage than the poor. How did that get changed? And why? Working people are getting the shaft because so much of our earnings go to necessities that are forever rising in price. Truly, we need wages to have a minimum and maximum level if we care to follow the path Jesus set down for us, the path of compassion.
9/6/06
I understand that some people, although they are good Christians, don’t believe that Jesus’ mother, Mary, is the Queen of Heaven. A queen can have many names. When the magnificent lady speaks to me, this is how I think of her, but I also think of her as the female aspect of God and I feel great awe in her presence. Although, I call her Mary, other people are welcomed to call her other honored names. Just as the male God we believe in has many attributes, so does the female Goddess.
We humans find it hard to understand the nature of God and because of our cultural history we find it hard to think that a God can be female. I have been told and I know personally that the Queen of Heaven is the overseer for earth and that she holds great concern for the people of earth. (Perhaps while other powerful beings give up on us).
The Queen of Heaven abounds in motherly love. We need her concern, we need her unbounded love, we need her voice to speak for us in heaven. We need to revere her as a loving mother and listen when she gives advise. So whether you believe in Mary, the mother of God or not, at least, believe in the Queen of Heaven.
9/10/06
My grass was about three inches tall and I hated the idea of going out there and cutting the field. My son came over and made the lawnmower work better, and that helped get me out side. I needed to get that grass cut before the city came over and cut it for me. I hear that they do that all the time and then charge the homeowner. My grass wasn’t that high, but who would believe me if I said so? I imagined the angry mayor telling the crew boss to make sure they checked my yard then cut the grass. This isn’t all imagination, a few years ago; the city did cut a circle of tall wild flowers I had growing in the middle of the lot. I admit that it looked like tall grass in a circle but the driver should not have cut it down. That time I complained, and an inspector came. Since then, I haven’t had any trouble.
The reason I am writing about this imaginary incident is because I thought of the grass cutting crew and their souls. Imagine if your boss came up to you and told you to get down and dirty with a certain person or group. What to do? Maybe your job is on the line. I suspect it happens more often than we like to thing. That was the excuse the workers used in Nazi Germany. They said they had no choice.
“Evil is banal” a famous Jewish writer said. I forgot who, at the moment, but I will never forget that phrase. The first time I read it, I cried because it is so true. The little things are what can grab at us to pull us down. A bit of gossip, a need for money, a boss who demands wrong action, a tendency to follow the leader, even if that leader is wrong.
We all fall into these holes, but if we have trained ourselves to see where good is, we can climb out again. If we take note, one of these shameful mistakes can force us into a new direction for good. I thank God for those chances at renewal.
. As far as my little grass incident, it never had a chance to happen. It is funny, but the last time I looked at the Goggle world map, the lots still had that big circle of grass. I often think about what would happen if the homeowners who keep up the city’s lots would try to charge the city for cutting the grass. Imagine getting paid a few hundred dollars to cut the city’s empty lots. Of course, the city would refuse to pay us, but we can’t refuse to pay the city because it is a big powerful machine with force behind it.
We are supposed to have force behind us as well if the demand is vital and great because we live in a democracy. That is one of the definitions of a democracy. I have been reading a library book titled Whose Freedom? The battle over America’s Most Important Idea by George Lakoff. The book is easy to read; yet, at the same time, it gives excellent definitions of the major themes of the different political parties and different types of freedoms we believe in and why. Lakoff is a progressive thinker who believes that many people have lost the true meaning of freedom. When I am done reading it, I might buy the book and keep it to use for reference.
9/11/06
Had to
break from meditation to write this point before I forget. This whole battle
mess, It is all about souls. Horrible to think it, but it is true. If
If we read the Revelation letters, it actually implies that there is a war going on and that the victor will gain coveted things, long life, no 2nd death, hidden manna (mental speech and wisdom) , authority and the morning star (rule and fusion power), white gown and name in heaven’s book (we wear a white gown when we speak with Jesus and travel in the sky tunnel), a pillar in God’s home and new Jerusalem to come down from heaven (this means God will enter our minds and live amid our thoughts), and the right to sit on Jesus throne as he won the right from his father. The good side must win this war.
Our job is to make sure the right side wins this war. Which side is good? That is the question. Which side should win? The side that considers all people is the good side because that is what God did when he gave us birth and created the world. This spaceship earth we live on gives us everything we require, or would if we shared more of it.
One of
those gifts from God is a mind that is ubiquitous as to space and time,
although few of us have realized it yet. This is how we can meet on the
mountain. God has given us minds that can grow to unbounded heights, if only we
choose to learn how to use all those talents. If
An observer from off planet would see us much differently as we see ourselves. They would see how we humans have neglected to enlighten or nourish most of earth’s people. How the western peoples are so heavy with goods that it unbalances the whole earth, how some people kill wantonly in the name of a God, how ownership is central to our system, how most of us are caught up in those systems and don’t know how to lift out. Imagine Jesus sitting above the earth watching our actions. Watching our hearts pour out hate, negligence, anger, hopelessness, bravery, sharing, and love. What do we see? What do we want to see?
Note-9/11/06- I can’t understand how so many signatures were bad on the Stop OverSpending Ballot Proposal petition. If someone would have asked me, I certainly would have signed it. Most of us would. An article in the Free Press said that out of 500,000 signatures, 120,000 of them were invalid. I don’t believe it was an accident. If it was a set up, then the system we use for democracy has been undermined and rendered worthless. We need a new way to get proposals on the ballot. I want a chance to vote on that Over Spending proposal and I’ll bet millions of us do.
9/15/06
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I can’t sleep. I woke up worried about this country and what we are doing to ourselves. I thought about the article in Time Magazine about people who believe prosperity is the goal that God wants for us, as if riches would step us up to heaven.
Like medicine, we seem to think that if some
is good, more is better, but we forget that too much can be a disaster, money
fits this category. The people who believe that riches will get them into
heaven are forgetting about the
In order for God to settle upon earth and include earth in his kingdom, a dream that should be our goal, we will need to meet those criteria and not just religious people but the whole population of earth. Take a look around and take note of what still to be done. How can wealth for a few accomplish such a huge fix?
Well, I got up to write this because it makes me feel better to let it out. Then I remembered what Jesus said to me as I was waking up.
He said, “You will win.”
I felt very relieved for a while, but then, thinking of his words, I realized that I don’t know what he meant because I worried about a number of things this morning. Did he mean myself personally will win or did he mean the side of the moral spectrum I stand on?
I am still not sure but I have been reading a book about freedom and realize that many of us are not free. Most of us with little income are not free because we are constricted by speed limits ( If we get a ticket we will pay a thousand dollars more in insurance for the next five years), by high insurance rates because of where we live, by the inability to put away money to save money for necessities, by paying fees we can’t afford, etc. Also, the poorest people in the nation, those who live on the street are not free, people pushed out of the work force are not free, people who without real opportunity are not free, people who lack proper health care are not free. I read that these categories are growing at an alarming rate. I guess this means that worship in a church that preaches prosperity can be tempting. Tempting, but it may not get you to heaven.
Prosperity comes in all sizes and could range in meaning from a comfortable life to life with billions in the bank. The true test is what we do with the prosperity. Imagine a jug of water and a walk in the desert by ten people. Everyone needs to take a drink of the water or they won’t make it out of the desert alive. If you drink ten gulps instead of one, someone isn’t going live. It is the same with everything on earth. The more you use, the less someone else has to use.
So, for those of you who want to wallow in prosperity, I say fine, as long as you fit heaven’s criteria, the criteria being that you share your blessings to the extent you can afford: You feed people, give people homes, give people get work, give people get an education, give people the means towards health, and help other people save their souls so you can save yours.
The reason you need to help with this list of items is because it is necessary for life, and the more water you deliberately take from that jug, the more people you kill. Do murders go to heaven?
I know all this because Jesus has taken me to God’s kingdom in heaven. At this specific time, we followed the route that good people everywhere follow. First he took me to a world I call Angel World. I think it surrounds earth but on another plane or in a higher dimension. Then he told me to walk through a strange, moving building, I have learned since that this was a Mandala. There I was weighted and measured, my purpose, ability, goodness, and morals, and then sent to a world according to my worth. I was sent to Shamballa as a young child.
This is the route all of us will follow at death. What about people who have not been good, people who are truly evil? Will they also take this route? Will they go to Angel World first?
I asked Jesus. His answer was, “Yes.”
The universe if filled with so many diverse worlds of every category we can’t imagine them all. Many don’t have life, you might argue. True, but a soul can exist on a world without life too, such as Venus. That is where a true hell enters the picture, but I don’t want to dwell on that. I would rather think about the good places to go.
One of those good places is New Earth. It is a world that has been terra-formed to resemble earth with similar mountain ranges and continents, clean air, and earth cultures. The people of New Earth have chosen to keep those cultures active even though their talents make that kind of life superfluous.
Only good, wise people are sent there. It is one of God’s kingdoms, just as Shamballa is one of God’s kingdoms. There are many where people are kind, giving, thoughtful, and talented. No one on any of those worlds would ever allow a single person to go without food or love. Naturally, there are other worlds not in God’s kingdom. Earth is one of them. There are also worse worlds than earth, if you can imagine it.
Note-speaking of worlds and talents, I have noticed that even in the Science Fiction channel, most of the programs depend on hard science to do things that are natural with Jesus. This is because we don’t understand the nature of the true universe. If we take a look at some of the talents Jesus showed us while he was on earth, we will have some idea of what we might do one day, without hard science.
Jesus died and came back to life, he healed other people, he teleported away from danger when he choose, he banished demons from infected people, he gave some people life, he walked on water, he calmed a storm, he spoke to prophets, he taught morals, and he used the power of light. If we had the faith of a mustard seed, we too could do these things.
PS I just put a new short story on my Short Story Page. Like all my stories, it includes a frightening element of truth.
9/22/06
It is too easy to get angry at the many serious causes that confront us all the time. I was angry about the direction our country is going in and was going to write about it. I decided not to. Everyone knows that something is wrong, we just don’t know what to do about it. We all go off on different tangents with our complaints when the truth is that the only thing that might lift us out of this morass is pulling together. By pulling together I mean using empathy in every decision, stressing empathy for fellow Americans and other people around the globe. The more we act as if we are worthy of paradise, the more we will become a people already living in paradise. Selfishness abounds, but so does selflessness and caring. These are the only traits that will save us from the fate the angels told me about.
If you think about it, empathy for other people would fix just about every world wide problem we have. It would clean up the air and solve global warming because we would fee empathy for people caught up in the weather disasters going around the world and chose to prevent them; we would put all our resources towards the goal of clean autos. This in turn, would solve the oil problem, we would not need the oil, nor the countries that sell it. As for the divide in fanaticism, it may be that a showing an empathic love and sharing for every one would solve that one too. Empathy, if we could achieve it, would allow the Palestinians and Israelites to live intermixed in peace. Empathy would even move us to share jobs, and wealth. Great empathy would lighten the world so much that less sickness, less crime, less pain, and less hate would fall as dark rain upon people.
9/22/06
I was home this morning because I am sick with a cold. It helped me get back in stride with sending the light. I always feel guilty when I don’t do so, but Jesus tells me that I send out the light whether I know it or not. I assume this means that I have grown in spirituality so am able to do this. It is hard to understand this light because we can’t see it or feel its effects except within ourselves.
The only way to imagine how the light can work in the world is to visualize a paradise world without pain, sickness, or hate. A world such as this would be swimming in the psychic light of God. I have been to such a world, Shamballa. I want to see earth to grow towards such a paradise, and I believe we will do it someday. It says so in Revelation, but what woes must we face first? Maybe none if we turn ourselves far enough around.
I falter too, but Jesus assured me again this morning. He said, “The light is working.”
Ok, that is enough for me. Also I read hints that it might be working better than I know. The president is stressing a different diplomacy, more people seem to be giving to the world, and kindness abounds. This heartens me and I will continue to join with other people and send out the light. We still meet on Saturday morning as a group. I think this helps us intensify the light within and around us. We send God’s light out in huge waves around the world.
I joined with a group this morning too. There are always people and angels ready to help send out the light. All you need to do is visualize it. When I do, I often see the light swirl around the people who need it, not just the hungry and sick people, but the people who have wealth too.
I haven’t mentioned a new inhabitant of the Cathedral of Light yet. I was surprised myself to see it among the rocks and sea grass in the ocean wing. I call it the Ocean Wing because that is where the whales and dolphins choose to visit. The new visitor was an octopus. The first time I saw it was when I took a young girl with me through the sky tunnel and brought her to the ocean wing. It curled around her hand and she smiled. I was amazed, but shouldn’t have been. All it takes to visit the Cathedral is spiritual intelligence. I guess that a few octopuses have enough to get there.
After knowing this, I asked Jesus about other animals. We hardly think of animals as having soul or religious spirit, but we might be wrong.
Jesus answered, “Look over to the thick section of trees.”
I walked with Jesus over to a section that was a rock strewn grass surrounded by thick trees. There, on a rock, sat a chimpanzee looking back at us. Then it disappeared, perhaps in shock.
Jesus explained, “It takes great mental effort to find the Cathedral. The chimpanzee never stays but a few seconds. It hasn’t fully realized where it is going yet.”
The Cathedral of Light is becoming a microcosm of our world. A large area connected to Angel world that has the potential to include any environment that comforts a living being as they search out spiritual prayer.
I can’t help wondering what it would take for an animal like a chimp to find the central alters. I doubt if they ever could, but maybe I am wrong in that too. I don’t know how many people have found the central alters, but I suspect a lot have. Certainly, many people walk in the Cathedral all the time. I see them as ghost like people walking past. It is our souls that walk the Cathedral, not our bodies.
It is our soul that visits Mary’s shrine within the Cathedral, and it is our soul that she tries to heal. Sometimes I have seen a statue of Jesus in the Cathedral, but most often not because a statue is not needed except for children. The alter is evidence enough of Jesus presence though some people haven’t found it yet. It is enough to find the Cathedral of Light and visit it for a few minutes a day. If you find something necessary for your religion is lacking, then you are welcome to supply it. Mental energy built this Cathedral with the help of the angels and the spirit of God keeps it going. If you can find the Cathedral, you will never be rejected. Only spiritual people can find it.
My friend Y has told me that he will have two more of these interactive nodes built upon the earth. These are places where the earth is in contact with the angel world. I don’t think he knows exactly where yet. They will probably not be in the shape of Cathedrals but some other religious type. It all belongs to heaven and is about our love for God or the universe. These connections can broaden our minds and help us realize this love better.
9/25/06
President
Karzai of
Most of us living in
But…how dare we complain when we
used some of those resources to help save
We need to realize that it is all part of the drive to destroy us. I see a push to divide the rich from the poor, Christians from Moslems, gays from straights, and most important, east from west. Our enemy's ideal is to divide the world in half and force one side to fight the other in Armageddon.
You might argue that the rich have
always been divided from the poor. Yes, but never at such levels in
I ask them, "What good will that bank account do you if the terrorists win?
Unfortunately, we need to continue to fight in this war to prevent it exploding into the one written about in Revelation. When Jesus took me to the dark well, I didn't understand what it symbolized. Now I do. I saw souls climbing out of that dark well, in a continuous stream. He warned me not to go too close because I could be pulled in.
Those
extremely dark souls have been coming to earth. You won't see them, you will
only see their hate and anger, their disregard for most of God's people. Think
of those souls as dark vibes that can infect minds. That is what we are up
against in
So what can we do? Try fixing a few of the major problems that plague the world. Turn the world right-side up until it is better than before. Then invite God to come down for a visit. I am not joking with that last statement. God's visit is predicted in our future too.
We could solve a few problems by
asking those holding the largest profits and most excessive earnings to
volunteer to roll that excess back into charities and world infrastructure. A
few are doing so even now. Thoughtfulness such as this would build up
The changing environment is causing increased disasters that cost great sums. We could begin to fix this problem by learning a trick from the cowboys of the old west. They drove a horse until it got tired then exchanged it for a new one ready to run. We could do the same with the batteries on our electric cars (or hybrids of electric and gas until we perfect the hydrogen cars). Every gas station could keep charged batteries for transfer.
We shouldn't yell at the price to change the gas stations over to electric; we gave the oil companies 10 billion last year in excessive profits. Surly we could give as much to save the world from heating up too fast. They would fight the loss of such grand profits, but we could win. A public rush to the electric auto would prevent many wars and save the environment. What more could anyone ask for only a few billion?
Energy would still be needed to make the batteries, but the world would profit instead of the oil companies. We would need to drive slower, perhaps convert a freeway lane to electric cars, but isn’t a slow down worth the reward? Maybe someone will come up with a better way to heat homes soon too. Jesus tells me that a few people are working on the idea that he told me to put on the web.
I began this by saying we need to fix the problems, but the biggest problem the world faces is a lack of togetherness. This morning in church, I felt God very close to all of us at one point in the service. I understood it was because our minds were together in unity. All of us were sending out good thoughts to heaven and each other at the same time. Togetherness makes the presence of God more potential and palpable.
The togetherness that occurred during the mass is the real solution to our world problems, togetherness of mind would sweep the cobwebs away from those bent on evil. Many of us are working to band together and spread the light throughout the world. Join us on Saturday mornings as we send our inner God light to every nation and people.
You already have the light. Jesus tells us in the NT that it is in your belly, meaning your center. God gave this light to you as a gift, but the gift can tarnish or get overlaid by anger and hate. Instead, fight the divisions in the world and come join us in world-wide meditative prayer, come stand in the light with us.
Even though I live a life of struggle, I am more fortunate than most people because I know where I came from and where I am going. Not many people can say the same. I also know that I will come back to earth one day. Have I been a writer before? I am not sure because we loose the details of any other life at birth, but I see hints. I am noticing recurring themes written throughout history by some people who I suspect keep coming back again and again. I imagine that they too lived on an angel world once and have come back to earth. If so, I am in good company.
This prior history of lives does not necessarily apply to everyone, but once a soul lives, it must continue to exist. This truth makes any really bad world frightening, and then there are always worse ones when that one's done. It is better to never start down that downward spiral.
I also know that I will first come back as a spiritual guide to people. I know this because I will be going to Shamballa to live after I die and this is what many of the people do there. They send their minds or bodies to other worlds. The people of Shamballa can live other lives even while they live their own. I suspect that all people on the worlds ablaze in God's light do the same. These people understand the real depth and worth of love. Jesus was ( is) a king on one of these worlds. He told us so while he was here, but we seem to skim over that part of the bible for some reason. The ultimate goal of heaven is to invite more souls to one of the paradise worlds. Working to save our own would go a long way towards getting some people there.
Note- Did you know that you can influence the way congress votes from the web? At Congress.org you can send a message to your represenitive by clicking on one of the issues that concern you. I only learned this recently and feel ashamed for my prior neglect, though I have voted in many alert issues. We must keep pushing for good. I hear that the League of Women Voters has a good web site that can help us decide who to vote for if we're undecided. We could probably print out a list and take it to the voting booth.