In 1858 Senator James Henry Hammond of South Carolina replied to Senator William H. Seward
of New York:
"Without the firing of a gun, without drawing a sword, should they [Northerners] make war upon
us [Southerners], we could bring the whole world to our feet. What would happen if no cotton
was furnished for three years? . . England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized
world with her. No, you dare not make war on cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon
it. Cotton is King."
Hammond, like most white Southerners, believed that cotton ruled not just in the South
but in the United States and the world. Many economists agreed. In 1855, David Christy entitled
his influential hook Cotton Is King. Cotton indeed drove the economy of the South, affected its
social structure, and, during the Civil War, dominated international relations of the Confederacy
through "cotton diplomacy."
Cotton in the Antebellum Period In the early eighteenth century, long-staple cotton was grown in Georgia and on the Sea
Islands of South Carolina, but it depleted the soil and proved unprofitable to market. The
intensive and laborious hand method of picking out cotton seeds severely restricted the amount of
cotton that could be prepared for making into cloth. Cotton could not compete with rice and
indigo for commercialization, and Southern colonialists experimented with the crop primarily for
domestic use. Despite some increased cotton production during a tobacco depression between
1702 and 1706, few attempted to produce cotton commercially before the Revolutionary War.
Extensive production of cotton awaited the advent of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in the
spring of 1793. To separate the seed from the cotton, gins first used spikes placed on rollers and
then saws. The influence of the gin was instantaneous; soon Southern mechanics set up gins as far
west as Mississippi. By 1804 the cotton crop was eight times greater than it had been the previous
decade. The cotton gin made practical the use of the heavily seeded short-staple cotton, which
could he grown in upland areas more readily than long-staple cotton. An increase in market
demand growing out of England's textile industry ensured favorable prices and spurred the
ascension of the short-staple cotton industry.
Cultivation of cotton, on both small and large farms, utilized relatively simple methods.
Hoe ridge cultivation was developed after 1800 with ridges set apart about three to six feet,
depending on the fertility of the land. After 1830 farmers used V-shaped harrows, which were
converted into cultivators, side harrows, and double shovels. (Harrows raked soil with metal teeth
to remove debris and smoothed out and leveled the soil once it was broken; cultivators turned the
soil under; shovels were used as more traditional plows and also turned the soil over while
digging deep furrows.) Cultivation procedures changed little throughout the nineteenth century. A
bed for the cotton had to be prepared by clearing out the old stalks from the previous crop.
Sometimes these stalks were beaten down with clubs, but if they were large (four to five feet),
they had to be pulled by hand. Manure or commercial fertilizer was placed as deeply as possible in
the furrow. Usually the cotton bed was built up in February and March. The actual planting of the
cotton seed in most areas was in April: early planters risked frost; late planters risked dry spells.
Planting was done by hand. In about a month, the plants were thinned. The crop was cultivated
with a sweep plowed between the rows four or five times and hoed by hand three or four times. In
the middle of June, when they were anywhere from six inches to a foot high, the cotton plants
bloomed. Around the last of July or first of August, forty-two to forty-five days after they had
blossomed, the cotton bolls opened. Picking usually began about August 20. Most of the crop
was ginned immediately after picking.
Cotton prices fluctuated wildly over the years. Prices were high until 1819, then down, up,
and down again. In 1837 they hit a crisis low and remained rather low until 1848. Prices rose
sharply in 1849 and 1850 but dropped in 1851, though not as low as previously. Throughout the
remainder of the 1850s prices rose.
The average amount of seed cotton used to make a 400-pound bale
of lint ranged from
about 1,200 to 1,400 pounds. The bales had to be transported from the
gins to a local market and
then on to larger markets. Cotton was shipped to market continually from
September through
January. Wagons loaded with bales of cotton often lined roads. The
moving of cotton demanded
better roadbeds, sometimes even plank roads, near market towns. River
transportation to seaports
was common from market towns located on rivers or canals. Major cities
grew up at railroad stations as rail lines began to link the hinterland
to ports and then to the Northeast and Midwest.
Improvements in the production and transportation of cotton and the new demand for the
fiber led to a scramble for greater profits. To reap the most profits and to provide the labor
needed for cotton picking, a large number of slaves were imported into South Carolina and
Georgia, and slave labor became a valuable market throughout the South. The way into the
Southern aristocracy was through the ownership of land and slaves, and the way to get land and
slaves was to grow cotton: the crop provided the cash and credit to buy both. At this time, too,
the cotton kingdom pushed ever westward with planters searching for new and richer soils to
grow more white cotton with the labor of more black slaves. Ironically, just as abolition-1st
sentiment was increasing in the United States, the invention of the cotton gin instigated a deeper
entrenchment of slavery into the Southern economy and society.
The Southern aristocracy, which slavery created, dominated Southern society and
inhibited the development of efficient methods for soil use. In the face of soil exhaustion,
Southern planters needed to extend control into the fresh lands of the western territories. Hence,
territorial expansion became a sectional issue as both North and South realized that western lands
were essential for the survival of the Southern slave culture.
Most discussions of cotton dwell on the short period when cotton did rule as king. This
"mature" period of cotton and slavery was not necessarily typical of or relevant to the earlier
periods of plantation agriculture that accompanied the emergence of the cotton mono-culture.
Discussions also tend to treat the South as one unit rather than the large and varied region it was.
The cotton kingdom extended west through Texas and north about six hundred miles up the
Mississippi River valley.
Antebellum history often seems dominated by scenes of plantations worked by slaves.
Although thousands of large plantations employed slave labor and produced most of the South's
cotton, numerically there were more small farmers, mostly whites, who cultivated the upland
areas. Many of these yeomen were subsistence farmers and produced only a surplus of cotton for
market. Southern farmers who did not grow cotton sold some of their foodstuff to the planters.
Cotton could bring prosperity or depression, according to changes in the market, and these
fluctuations meant very differing experiences for whites, slaves, and antebellum free blacks of
each different region of the South.
When at its peak, the demanding cultivation and transportation
of cotton required the
labor of the majority of men, women, and children in the rural South.
Most Southern life was
regulated by the agricultural economy, and more and more over time, this
came to mean the
cotton economy. Although free workers and slaves pursued a diversity of
agricultural and
industrial occupations in the antebellum South, by 1850 the routine of
taking care of the white-blossomed, white-bolled, short-staple cotton
plants increasingly typified rural Southern existence.
By 1860, cotton ruled the South, which annually exported two-thirds of the world supply
of the "white gold." Cotton ruled the West and Midwest because each year these sections sold
$30 million worth of food supplies to Southern cotton producers. Cotton ruled the Northeast
because the domestic textile industry there produced $100 million worth of cloth each year. In
addition, the North sold to the cotton-growing South more than $150 million worth of
manufactured goods every year, and Northern ships transported cotton and cotton products
worldwide.
Cotton in the Confederacy
As the U.S. cotton industry developed, other countries
became more dependent on cotton
produced in the American South. The power of cotton allowed the
Confederacy to employ cotton
diplomacy as its foundation for foreign relations during the Civil War;
Southerners attempted to
use cotton to pressure countries such as England and France into the war
on behalf of the
Confederacy. Southern leaders were convinced that the key to their
success lay in gaining international recognition and help from European
powers in breaking the blockade that the Union had
thrown up around coastal areas and ports and that was increasingly
effective as the war went on.
(Although the Union blockade never thoroughly sealed the Confederate
coastline, it was
successful in causing Southern imports and exports to drop drastically
at a time when the
Confederacy needed to fund its huge war efforts.)
Southerners saw cotton as the great leverage in this effort, and at the time this made sense.
More than three-fourths of the cotton used in the textile industries of England and France came
from the American South. Between a fourth and a fifth of the English population depended in
some way on the textile industry, and half of the export trade of England was in cotton textiles.
About a tenth of the nations wealth was also invested in the cotton business. The English Board
of Trade said in 1859 that India was completely inadequate as a source of raw cotton; England
apparently was dependent on the American South for cotton. This concept of King Cotton led
many Southerners to believe that England and France would have to intervene in the Civil War in
order to save their own economies. The Confederacy began applying pressure on the neutral
powers through a voluntary embargo of cotton. Although Congress never formally established the
embargo, local "committees of public safety" prevented the shipping of cotton from Southern
ports.
To exploit their leverage, the Confederate States sent William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre A.
Rost, and A. Dudley Mann to England in the spring of 1861 to confer with Lord Russell, the
British foreign secretary. As a result, the British and French granted the Confederacy belligerency
status. It was a small victory, probably not very effective in helping the Confederacy. The cotton
diplomats failed to arrange with England a denunciation of the blockade or the negotiation of a
commercial agreement, let alone diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy.
Regardless of wishful beliefs and England's real economic dependence on cotton, at the
time of the outbreak of the Civil War an overabundance of cotton existed in Europe. Furthermore,
British hostility to slavery decreased the likelihood of intervention. Moreover, it was not in the
vested interests of the neutral powers, particularly Great Britain, to denounce the blockade. The
Confederate government attempted to convince the Europeans that the Federal blockade was
ineffective and thus illegal under the terms of the 1856 Treaty of Paris. The Confederacy failed to
acknowledge that Great Britain, as the worlds foremost naval power, would desire to let stand
any blockade, regardless of its legality or actual effectiveness. And to make matters even worse,
the South's voluntary embargo undercut its own argument that the Federal blockade was porous.
Although the South never succeeded in convincing foreign powers to intervene against the
North, cotton diplomacy was successful in obtaining financial help from abroad. This came in the
form of loans and bonds, which Confederate Treasurer Christopher G. Memminger guaranteed
with cotton. The Confederate Treasury Department issued $1.5 million in cotton certificates
during the war for acquisitions abroad. One such loan backed by cotton was the Erlanger loan,
signed on October 28, 1862, and modified on January 3, 1863. This loan, amounting to $15
million, was secured by cotton. At the time cotton was worth twenty-four pence a pound, and the
Erlanger loan made cotton available to holders at six pence per pound.
This reliance on cotton for the security of loans, bonds, and certificates placed a great deal
of responsibility on the Produce Loan Office, whose agents had to ensure that planters would
fulfill government subscriptions of cotton at a time when many planters were unwilling to sell to
the government. Ultimately, however, cotton enabled the Confederacy to realize $7,678,591.25 in
foreign exchange.
The Confederacy also hoped to raise tax revenue on the sale of cotton abroad. On
February 28, 1861, Congress passed an act levying an export duty of 1/8 cent per pound on all
cotton shipped after August 1 of that year. The government hoped to raise $20 million through
the export tax in order to pay a $15 million loan funded by an issue of 8 percent bonds. But
because of the tightening blockade and the South's own voluntary cotton embargo, the measure
raised only $30,000. When the secretary of the treasury lobbied to have this minuscule tax raised,
opposition from the planter class kept Congress from increasing it, even when the Confederacy's
finances were desperate.
To a degree, planter opposition also undercut Southern efforts
to shift from cotton
production to the planting of foodstuffs. The Confederacy was convinced
it could become self-sufficient. It would produce all the food and
cotton it needed, and revenue from cotton could buy
weapons, blankets, and other manufactured goods until the Confederacy
started manufacturing its
own. Planters believed that the yeomen and pout would fight in the army
and that slaves would
continue to produce food and the South's greatest weapon, cotton.
By the spring of 1862, however, there was already an abundance
of cotton and a shortage
of foodstuffs. In April 1862 yeomen soldiers could not go home to plant
spring crops, and their
families would again have no food. To encourage the growth of
foodstuffs, every Southern
cotton-producing state attempted to limit the amount of cotton that
could be grown. State governors issued proclamations urging planters to
reduce their cotton acreage by as much as four-fifths
and encouraging them to plant enough wheat, corn, and beans to feed
themselves, their slaves,
and the armies in the field. The planters responded, cutting their usual
acreage of cotton to about
half and devoting the rest to food crops. Many planters even had enough
surplus foodstuffs to sell
to the families of the yeoman poor whose husbands and sons were away in
the wan Still, the
planters did not reduce their cotton production as much as the state and
Confederate governments
wanted. Some scholars argue that this is an example of how the
Confederacy contributed to its
own defeat by refusing to disturb the interests of the planter class.
But even with resistance by the planters, the shift to the production of foodstuffs
combined with the drain in manpower and the eventual Union occupation created a drastic drop in
Cotton production as the war dragged on: 4.5 million bales were grown in 1861; 1.5 million in
1862; 500,000 in 1863; and only 300,000 in 1864. As production dropped, the price of cotton
skyrocketed on the world market, and blockade runners decided the risks were worth raking;
cotton-exporting corporations formed throughout the cotton kingdom. In addition, Mexico traded
cotton directly across the Texas border.
In an attempt to control the flow of cotton to Europe and rectify the declining economy,
Southern politicians in late 1863 introduced an approach called the "New Plan." Through this
series of administrative actions and congressional laws, the Confederate government became
directly involved in blockade running. Rather than making contracts for supplies payable in
cotton, the government itself began selling the cotton abroad and buying supplies with the
proceeds, thereby cutting out the middlemen. The plans supervisor, Colin J. McRae, gained
direct control over cargo space on blockade runners. Those who refused to accept a fair rate to
transport cotton for sale by the government would have their vessels confiscated. The War
Department increasingly turned to the sale of cotton to purchase needed supplies, and by the end
of 1863 it bad reserved fully one-third of all cargo space on blockade runners.
As a result of these measures and other financial consolidations under the plan,
Confederate foreign financing was greatly improved and 27,229 bales of cotton were exported for
$5.3 million in sales. But because of the Confederacy's early confidence in the diplomatic leverage
of King Cotton, it did not institute measures such as the New Plan soon enough to make a
considerable impact on the war effort. The South could nor keep its vital ports open or continue
to endure Northern attacks on the battlefield.
Some scholars have written with hindsight that the Confederacy might have been more
successful, had it pursued a different strategy with its cotton. If Confederate leaders had
confiscated all the cotton in the South and stored it, they could have used it as a basis to obtain
credit from European nations. With credit, some scholars believe, the Confederacy could have
bought a navy strong enough to break the Union blockade. Others argue that the Confederate
government would have been better served if it had made cotton, nor gold, the basis of its
currency.
Although the Civil War ended the slave plantation system, it did not end the South's
legacy of cotton. Cultivation of the crop had worn out much of the land. Many planted up and
down on slopes, which then eroded. The concentration on cotton production meant complete
reliance on a one-crop system; crop rotation was uncommon, and farmers did nor plow under
clover or peas to restore humus to the soil. Diminishing fertility of cotton lands was a major
problem farmers continued to face after the Civil War.
UNION COTTON TRADE
Selling to the Enemy
If the Confederate government was able, albeit partially and belatedly, to gain control over the
cotton trade with Europe, it had much less success in curtailing the cotton trade with the Union.
On May 21, 1861, the Confederate Congress prohibited the sale of cotton to the North. Yet an
illicit trade across military lines flourished between Southern cotton farmers and Northern traders.
President Abraham Lincoln gave licenses to traders, who followed the Union army into the South.
On March 17, 1862, the Confederacy gave state governments the right to destroy any cotton that
might fall into the hands of the Union army. Some devoted Confederates burned their own cotton to keep
it out of enemy hands. Other Southerners, however, discovered that Union agents were willing to
pay the highest prices in over half a century for cotton or offered badly
needed supplies as barter. Ironically, valuable currency for cotton from the North saved some
small Southern farmers from starvation. But this selling of cotton to the North undermined
Confederate Nationalism, as did the official Confederate trading of cotton with the North
conducted in the last years of the war.
As the price of foodstuffs reached astronomical heights and Confederate currency became
worthless with inflation, the smuggling of cotton out of the South to the North increased.
Women whose husbands had been killed or were away at the battlefield or in prison were heavily
involved in forming these caravans. Rich planters and factors also made large deals with Federal
officials. The situation became totally absurd when cotton was sold to Federal troops to get
supplies for the Confederate army. Even President Lincoln approved an arrangement to send
food for Robert E. Lee's Troop at Petersburg in exchange for cotton for New York. Ulysses S.
Grant stopped this exchange because he was attempting to cut off Lee's supplies, but other such
exchanges occurred through the Civil War. Source: "The Confederacy" A Macmillan Information
Now Encyclopedia, article by Orville Vernon Burton and Patricia Dora Bonnin. This Page last updated 02/16/02
POST 11/12/2018 Today I posted on Twitter the following: I hope that some understand, around 1997 I took a new formation of my
Christianity/Faith becoming an undercover christian- that which has been
damaged/broken in society of mans creation: Serves GOD best as they
heal De Mon Faire! https://mikeratliff.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/all-in-christ-are-actually-damaged-goods/…
Those years 1997 and pre 1990. I remember dealing with my faith and trying my hardest to understand where I was going considering what I was feeling. I asked my family members (some Masons) as to my path in life regarding my decisions to put God to the side while I focus on my academics in Sociology and Social Service...He responded..."well you'll end up taking the long way to end up in the same place as us. That's how God/Jesus works." Well he couldn't be more correct uhm....There are a lot of Christians I have met on the way, that do the same. I remember me and one friend explaining to a younger Christian in Boulder City, the fact that he had started using meth, doesn't mean that he has to surrender his faith and christian life. In fact the opposite is true, he should embrace it even more and especially dive into routine fellowships that keep him occupied! Our mistakes are not taken for granted in any way! Especially when the opposition utilizes the "Satan" (an Angel himself) to break or shatter a places faith!
Once Again THANK YOU FAMILY for keeping me strong in will and spirit, in presences and without presences...your love is FELT!
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners
will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you
were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
(NKJV)
There is a push in the United States to make it illegal to preach the
truth from God’s Word where it pertains to the sin of homosexuality. Of
course the emphasis of those laws or initiatives is to protect the
rights of certain people based on their sexual preference, which is also
called gay rights. They say that to preach what the Bible says about
homosexuality is to foment hate; therefore, the laws are placed under
the umbrella of hate crimes. On the other hand, some who preach against
certain sins are also guilty of trying to force morality upon the
unregenerate. How can an unregenerate person stop sinning? When
Christians focus on sins that are abhorrent to God that should be just
as abhorrent to believers, the focus should be on cleansing those sins
from the Church itself. At the same time, we must never stop reaching
out to the lost, no matter what sins are consuming them. God saves
sinners.
Carefully read the passage above from 1 Corinthians 6. No one who is
unrighteous will inherit the kingdom of God. Who is that? It is those
who are fornicators (sexually immoral), idolaters, adulterers,
homosexuals, thieves, the greedy (covetous), drunkards, revilers, and
swindlers (extortioners). There are more, such as liars, etc., however,
what I want to focus on here is the statement by Paul in which he states
that the Corinthians were guilty of all those sins, but they had been
washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and by the Spirit of our God. It didn’t matter what they used to be, now
they were new creations, behold all things were new.
We were all damaged goods. All of us were sinners whom God saved by
His grace through faith as His gift to us. We did not earn nor deserve
it and it was not by any work we did. It was all of God by His grace.
(Ephesians 2:8,9) Therefore, no matter what sins consumed us before our
salvation, God is able to quicken what was dead in trespasses and sins,
putting life where death reigned and light where darkness ruled.
Prior to our salvation, all of us were guilty of viewing God and His
ways as less valuable than whatever we really worshiped in our hearts in
our idolatry. In fact, our view of our idols was that they were far
superior to God.
21 because, although they knew God, they did not
glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their
thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be
wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible
God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed
animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of
their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who
exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their
women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and
receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not
fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of
God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,
unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those
who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same
but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:21-32 (NKJV)
Please carefully read this passage from Romans 1. What is the
emphasis here? Why do men reject God and pursue their own way? Of
course, when we do this, God does give us over to our reprobate minds,
but why is it that we do this in the first place? What is it that we are
really doing? Let’s look at one verse here.
28 Καὶ καθὼς οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν τὸν θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει,
παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς εἰς ἀδόκιμον νοῦν, ποιεῖν τὰ μὴ
καθήκοντα, Romans 1:28 (NA28) 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things
which are not fitting; Romans 1:28 (NKJV)
The phrase “did not like” is one Greek word (ἐδοκίμασαν). It means to
try, prove, discern, distinguish, or approve. It has the notion of
proving a thing whether it is worthy to be received or not. In other
words, what men, women, and children actually do is make a preference to
worship or idolize someone or something other than God. In fact, if you
go back and reread Romans 1:21-32 it should be plain that the one who
is being worshiped is self. We worship self over God. We do not hold Him
in our thoughts and concerns and focus. Instead, we put ourselves on
the throne and all we do revolves around the god “self.” Prior to
salvation, we are all just like this. However, after salvation things
are different.
Prior to salvation we really had no choice. We are all created to
worship someone or something and we are desperate for fulfillment. We
seek those things that we believe will feed that hunger. However,
nothing works. After salvation, things are different. We now have the
ability to be fulfilled in Christ, to have joy and peace that lasts and
satisfies like no fleshly pursuit ever could. You may be asking yourself
what is wrong with you because that really doesn’t describe your walk.
Please read and mediate on the following passage.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect
will of God. Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)
If this is missing from your walk then you are not where you need to
be. Let’s unpack this wonderful passage. Paul tells us that everything
he has shared from Romans 1-11 should be taken and considered and in
light of all of those wonderful truths, we need to present our bodies as
living sacrifices, by God’s mercy and grace, to Him. This means that
our lives should be walked before the face of God as living sacrifices.
We are to die to self and live for Him. This is our spiritual worship.
This is not just on Sunday mornings. This is all the time. All that we
do, all day long, everyday must be lived out like this. How do we do
this?
We cannot do this in our own abilities. In v1 Paul told us that we
must do this by God’s mercy. It is through His grace that we can do good
things. Jesus said that we cannot do anything good without Him. (John
15) How do we place ourselves in position to live this way? In v2 we
have the answer. We must not be conformed to this world. Instead, we
must be transformed by the renewal of our minds. The Greek grammar of
the words “conformed” and “transformed” is Present, Imperative, Active.
This means that these are commands that involve continuous, repeated
action. This is something we do as we live and it never stops until we
go home to be with the Lord.
The word “transformed” is the Greek word from which we get our word
metamorphosis. It describes a process by which a tadpole becomes a frog
or a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. For a believer it describes
maturing from a flesh bound person to one who is spirit-filled. How does
this take place? It takes place in continual mind renewal. What is
this? This is what we do when we pursue God and stop pursuing what our
flesh wants. We worship God with our lives. We read and study the Bible
instead of feeding our flesh. Instead of watching TV or movies, we
devote that time to prayer and reading godly books. Instead of listening
to secular music, we listen to music that edifies us and glorifies God.
What happens to us when we do this? Remember that Greek word we
looked at in Romans 1:28, ἐδοκίμασαν? Here it is again in Romans 12:2.
In the NKJV it is the word “prove.” If we become transformed by
continual mind renewal then our minds are changed. God opens them up so
that we now hold Him in there as our most valuable treasure. We possess
this treasure, our God, in our Hearts and know that there is nothing
higher or more wonderful, or more desirable than knowing and loving Him
as well as being His child whom He loves.
We were all once damaged goods. We were lost in our trespasses and
sins and were guilty of some of the most heinous sins imaginable.
However, none of that is a barrier to God’s saving grace. When God
washes us clean through our regeneration, we are no longer damaged
goods, but are new creations that are spiritually complete in Him. We
will always have sins to deal with because our flesh is still with us,
but we now have the ability to say no to what it wants and draw closer
to God. When we fail, and we will all fail, we must come boldly to the
throne of grace for cleansing and forgiveness (1 John 1:9). Then we must
get back into the race with our eyes firmly fixed on our Saviour, as we
once again become living sacrifices whom God transforms from damaged
goods to the fulfillment of who we are in Him.
We are complete in Christ, but we are all relatively immature. When
we are saved, we are spiritual babies. We are complete in that we are
completely saved and will always be so, but we must grow and become
mature believers by learning to be living sacrifices. When we do this we
grow into the mature believers who live up to their completeness. In
light of all of this we must ask ourselves if we are still damaged goods
or, if not, if we are becoming living sacrifices who are growing into
those who possess God as their most valuable treasure.
Soli Deo Gloria!
POST 10/26/2018
The Method of Christian Meditation
Fr. Tom Ryan, CSP
Contemplative
awareness is regarded as a gift of the Holy Spirit. When we speak of
“Christian meditation,” we are referring to a way of opening ourselves
to receive this gift which we believe God most wants to give. Meditation
is a preparation for contemplation. It is a way of reducing the
hyperactivity of our lives and bringing us to a state of quiet, open
receptivity wherein we are ready to receive the grace of contemplation.
Today, Christian meditation represents a recovery and renewal of the
fifth century teachings of John Cassian, the Eastern Christian practice
of the “Jesus prayer,” the fourteenth century classic The Cloud of
Unknowing, and other sources. In the 1970s, leading monastics such as
John Main, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating put order in the
scattered elements of the tradition with an eye toward our contemporary
inclination for simple, clear, “how-to” instructions.
Get started by meditating each morning and evening for twenty to thirty minutes.
THE ESSENTIAL TEACHING
Seek a quiet place
Sit in a comfortable, upright position, relaxed but alert with your eyes lightly closed. Remain as still as possible.
Silently,
interiorly, begin to say a single word or short phrase, e.g. Jesus,
Abba, or Maranatha. Say it with faith and love. Some people find it
helpful to say the word in equally stressed syllables in conjunction
with their calm and regular breathing, e.g. Je-sus, Ab-ba,
or Ma-ra-na-tha.
Do not think or imagine anything, spiritual or
otherwise. When thoughts and images come and your attention strays,
gently return to your word.
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SEEK A QUIET PLACE
Choose
a quiet corner of your room. A space which you use only for meditation
and which is free from other associations is ideal. Decorate it with an
icon, a candle, or an open Bible. If there is no quiet place in your
home, look for one along the way of your daily route, e.g. a church.
Sit in a comfortable, upright position
Find
a posture in which you can be settled, still, and alert. Be comfortable
so that for the duration of the meditation period the mind will not
need to tend to the body. A quiet body inclines a quiet mind. An erect
but not rigid spine facilitates easeful breathing and alert wakefulness.
Examples: sitting in a straight-backed chair; sitting with one’s seat
on a prayer bench and one’s knees on the floor; sitting cross-legged on
the floor with the buttocks slightly elevated by a cushion.
silently repeat your prayer word
Take
a word from the context of faith; it will serve as a “pointer” for the
mind. For example, “Maranatha” is Aramaic (Jesus’ own language) and
means “Come Lord!” It is probably the most ancient Christian prayer. St.
Paul ends his first letter to the Corinthians with it, and St. John
ends the Book of Revelation with it. Because it is a foreign word,
people generally do not have a lot of thoughts and images attached to
it, which is an advantage since meditation is a way of prayer that goes
beyond thoughts and images.
Another
four-syllable mantra that easily accords with the breath is “Jesus,
Abba.” Praying the holy name of Jesus has a long and rich tradition, and
“Abba” evokes his own intimate communication with God. The breath on
which the mantra rides is the Spirit, the bond of love uniting “Jesus”
and “Abba.” Other prayer words or phrases are possible, and the
tradition has many of them. Whatever your sacred word, by saying it with
faith and with love, you generate the flow of faith and love in your
own heart. Prayer’s first effect is in us. Once you have chosen your
prayer word, stay with it and do not change it so that it becomes rooted
in your consciousness.
Faithful
repetition of the word is significant both in terms of attention and
intention. The nature of the mind is to produce thoughts. One cannot
expect the mind to all of a sudden come to a screeching halt just
because it’s time to meditate. So the mind is given something to occupy
it: a single word, which “thins out” the flow of thoughts in the mind
and holds one’s attention on the Presence within. The word also carries
one’s intention, one’s consent, to the work of God in us.
Dealing with Thoughts, Images, Feelings and Memories
All
of these are a normal experience in meditation. Expect a constant flow
of them. To try to suppress all thoughts and feelings is both impossible
and unhealthy. It is a question of not entering into dialogue with
them, of not investing any energy by reacting, resisting, or retaining
them. Just let them go. Their surfacing and passing up and out is part
of the healing process of emptying, purification, and liberation that
makes meditation a divine therapy. Each time you become aware that you
have been “hooked” into dialogue with thought, gently return to your
word, allowing it to repeatedly express your intention to be before the
One Who Is, in full, loving attention.
Time and Frequency.
The
traditional times of meditation in all the world religions are early
morning and late afternoon/early evening, before meals if at all
possible. The recommendation of twenty to thirty minutes is made with an
eye to two things: one, the minimal amount of time generally considered
necessary to establish inner silence; and two, the maximum amount of
time most contemporary people can realistically afford. The end of the
prayer period can be indicated by a timer provided it does not have a
loud tick or make a startling sound when it goes off. At the end of
meditation, some make a gradual transition back into cognitive activity
by slowly, interiorly reciting a prayer which expresses the attitude of
openness and surrender which they have embodied during their time of
prayer.
FINDING SUPPORT FOR YOUR PRACTICE
The “how-to” of
meditation is simple. What is difficult is faithfulness to the
discipline, holding that priority in place, interrupting what you are
doing in order to pray. A support group praying and sharing together
once a week helps maintain one’s commitment to the prayer and provides
an opportunity for further input on a regular basis through talks, tapes
and discussion.
The Christian Meditation School offersfurther explanation and resources for Christian Meditation. Contemplative Outreach offers excellent resources for Getting Started with Centering Prayer.
It's amazing that we can increase the joy in our lives, by understanding our spirit has an unlimited capability within this physical world. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's expressed, "We are spiritual beings, having a human experience."
His desire for harmonious relationships and surroundings is so strong that he avoids personal confrontation or any expression of intense, unpleasant emotions. Pierre Cardin is an idealist who would like to paint the world in pastel colors, and live in peace and harmony with others at all times. He is able to see points of similarity and unity with people who are vastly different from him, and befriend many different types of people. He is a considerate and thoughtful friend, and has a real flair for making others feel accepted and appreciated. Inwardly, Pierre Cardin is often torn with indecision and is much more at odds with himself than others would ever guess based on his flawless disposition.
His own feelings and emotions are something of an enigma to Pierre, and it is often difficult for him to share with others what he is feeling. Pierre Cardin frequently withdraws from contact with the world, and needs a healing, peaceful environment in order to blossom and come out of his.
Cardin identifies with the oppressed, disenfranchised or underdog in any situation and he wants to help them or care for them in some way. Pierre Cardin genuinely appreciates and understands women, and is likely to have many female friends, a network of women who love and support him. It is relatively easy for Pierre Cardin to attract companionship and affection, and there will never be a lack of such relationships in his life. Children are very important to Cardin also.
Pierre Cardin tends to surround himself with people who are gentle, sensitive, peace-loving, and artistically or spiritually inclined, and there is a strong element of mutual compassion and sympathy in his personal relationships. It is easy for Pierre to tune in psychically to other people's feelings and emotional worlds. Pierre Cardin may share this type of telepathic link with his mother, sisters, or female friends in particular.
Pierre Cardin seems to be happy in his environment and is likely to be the center of attraction in his surroundings. Pierre Cardin has a kind, warm-hearted and cordial nature and he treats others with sympathetic and compassionate understanding. Warmhearted and generous in love relationships, Pierre Cardin cannot tolerate pettiness or stinginess in his partner. Pierre wants a hero to idolize and adore, someone to wholeheartedly admire and be proud of. Pierre Cardin is tremendously loyal and devoted once he gives his heart to someone.
Pierre Cardin craves love, appreciation and attention from others and hates to be ignored. He is rather susceptible to flattery and loves to feel special. Cardin enjoys a touch of drama and color in his love relationships and he is impressed by grand romantic gestures or extravagant expressions of generosity. Promoting beauty, the arts, or entertainment can make Pierre Cardin very happy. Pierre wants to contribute something positive and loving to the world at large and he wants to be recognized for his beauty, artistic gifts, or loving generosity. Pierre Cardin may "marry" his work - that is, being more involved in his career than in his private life. Cardin is a natural host or diplomat.
Pierre Cardin is warmly romantic and he openly expresses his appreciation and love of the opposite sex, though rarely in a crude or insensitive manner. He enjoys playing matchmaker and bringing people together romantically. Cardin is likely to find fulfillment and harmony in love relationships because he knows what he wants and needs in a romantic sense and expresses his desires honestly.
While he may seek loving relationships and an "everlasting" love, this is not easy for Pierre Cardin to find - or more precisely, to sustain. When Pierre becomes romantically involved with someone, either he or the other person will create rifts once a certain level of comfort and predictability has been achieved. Even if there is no outward break in the relationship, a certain emotional aloofness or dissatisfaction is apt to develop. This is because Pierre Cardin really wants both closeness and absolute freedom - a combination that is difficult to attain. However, if he does not at least attempt to honestly fulfill both of these urges, events seemingly out of the blue will wreak havoc in Pierre's closest relationships.
He is very romantic, idealistic and imaginative about love relationships. Pierre Cardin yearns for his "true love" or "soul mate" and may become disappointed in those who never quite live up to his dream image of the perfect lover. Cardin frequently fantasizes about love and often falls in love with someone he can only love from afar. He may avoid making a definite personal commitment. Gentle and sensitive, Pierre Cardin does not like to be approached in a very direct or aggressive manner. He is attracted to those with artistic or mystical inclinations.
Pierre Cardin has a merry disposition and a strong desire for pleasure and amusement. Interested in art, he has a sense of beauty, but also could be somewhat extravagant. His outgoing personality puts others at ease and Cardin tends to discuss love and beauty with them.
Poem of the One world
This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.
Poem By: Mary Oliver Picture By: Cartoon White Egret Post 4/1/2018
INTUITION
Intuition is the process of gathering data from the environment, via an accumulation of sources. Besides the 5 primary sensory receptor sources (EYE-EARS-SMELL-TASTE-TOUCH). There are infinite ways by which the data/stimulus exist. Webster, defines INTUITION as : Quick and ready insight. Immediate apprehension or cognition. Knowledge or conviction grained by intuition. The power of faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inferences.
The ability to cognate data/stimulus is one instance of intellect. Intellect again, only pertains to the ability to gather data, by which one is able to accomplish an objective. Daily we all utilize intellect to maneuver ourselves through-out the environment. When we use data that is without evident rational as defined by Webster. It becomes an issue as I posted on earlier blogs, regarding Michael Shermer and data by which a person utilizes non-rational decision by which they make decision. To rationalize these decision making variables, might seems ridiculous to the individual with the objective. It is by any means accessible that data can be obtain. Thus why limit ones self to a range of possible absolute terms. http://paulgoree.blogspot.com/2018/03/why-i-never-believed-in.html
Intuition is often explained in actions. Action by which a person seems to be or suggest that they are guided by feelings, emotions, unclear visions, all representing data that involves cognition, to be explained. I have often wondered, that in Shamanism, when a Shaman returns from the other realm (Non Conscious Reality) the data that they return with, is cognated or is it simple energy that then must be cognated to be understood. This is the difference between the information that Websters states as being, 'without evident rational'--WHY, because it can not be explained in terms of the human physical realm. In general some articles which explain this subject, bring into existence subjects such as Coded DNA and intuition and the process by which data is in some non-mass form (light, energy, smoke) and cognition along with patterns of Phonetics. The patterns in indigenous cultures have rhythmic beats that directly affect the individuals emotions and mood. https://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/12/scientist-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed-by-words-frequencies/ and https://www.youwillchangetheworld.com/articles/brent-phillips-ignite-your-intuition-12-layers-of-the-dna .
In religion intuition is the connection one may be able to obtain by synching with the environment by which one lives. The term and conditions by which CHI is obtain, is the syncing advantage that empowers an individual. Some are more apt to render the data that is provided from God and the word (Bible) and in turn present that into something that is more advantage to others. It's a collective learning experience. When it takes on a faith basis, the factor of collective become even more rational. Seeming some will intentionally go through great lengths to prevent data from being obtained. I always think of earlier times in history when Christians may not have been able to fully developed full interest Sir John Polkinghorne and thoughts of what would come to be quantum physics and faith. When I learned about Samuel Longhorn Clemens, regretting the fact that he left GOD out of the equation of life, that had been good to him. He stated the fact that 'God channeled those Great American Literary works through him. Using him to bring them into development until they where PERFECT!'
Post 03/21/2018
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Wednesday's Google Doodle Celebrates Astronomer Guillermo Haro
K.N. Smith
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates Guillermo Haro's 105th birthday.
Today's Google Doodle celebrates the
105th birthday of astronomer Guillermo Haro, who discovered a new class
of nebula and helped promote astronomical research in Mexico.
Haro, born on March 21, 1913, discovered a type of nebula now known
as Herbig-Haro objects. These bright clouds form when jets of ionized
gas from young stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust.
Herbig-Haro objects are short-lived by astronomical standards; they last
just a few thousand years, and they change dramatically over just a few
years. Haro was one of the first to realize that these objects were the
result of the cosmically violent process of star formation; astronomer
George Herbig, working independently, came to the same conclusion at
around the same time, so the two astronomers share the honor of the
name.
NASA, ESA, and P. Hartigan (Rice University)
If you look closely at these Herbig-Haro objects, you can see bow shocks from waves of heated gas and dust.
And Haro also discovered a type of star, now called flare stars,
which flares bightly across the whole electromagnetic spectrum for a few
minutes at a time, on apparently random intervals. Today, astronomers
believe that most flare stars are dim red dwarf stars, although there
are some more massive exceptions, and their flares are high-intensity
versions of solar flares, caused by changes in the stars' magnetic
fields. Our two nearest neighbors, Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star,
are flare stars.
In addition to new classes of astronomical objects, Haro also
discovered several planetary nebulae, a number of young variable stars
called T Tauri stars, a supernova and ten novae, and a comet. He also
spent much of his career composing a catalog of blue stars toward the
north galactic pole and a list of blue galaxies.
When he wasn't looking skyward, Haro advocated for astronomical
research in Mexico, and in 1959 he became the first person from Mexico
to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society. He died on April 26,
1988.
Why the Game…Is It Any Wonder (Part 1-5: Sectional Chapters from No Mass: Cosmic Games) by: Paul Goree 2011-2014
Why The Game…Is It Any Wonder (No Mass: Cosmic Games) by: Paul Goree 2011-2014
WHY THE GAME…IS IT ANY WONDER (1 of 5 Why the Game-Sectional Chapters of No Mass:Cosmic Games) (by: Paul Goree 2011-2014)
Lot seemed perturb, only to be further frustrated; as he attempted to
cognate some feelings of discontent. If it was nothing to be felt, then
why would a settled suggestion exist. A suggestion, from the No Mass,
stating as usual, what they would like to implant into Lots mind. As
long as he fought the thoughts, which were not internal: he had the
upper hand on this very exhausting communication.
LOT to ST. P
I dont’ get it? What is the feeling, of which nothing is felt, yet something is thought, ought to be felt!
ST.P to LOT
It’s just the game. The Game insist on having total control. Thus No
Mass, pound upon a mind, like a constant jack hammer. It’s intent is to
cement, seeds of conformity. By creating confusing within the internal
mind, No Mass knows that sooner or later, the subject will break! It’s a
cruel tactic, but no different than the one used on earth for brain
washing.
I remember when I first came into contact with No Mass. They seemed
like the most rudest creatures on earth. They had a way of sizing up
entire events, without any regards to the universal error they had made.
The error was because they lacked to include within their total, 80% of
the totals variables. Their equation, left out unknown values, which
are the core of 3rd dimensional social dynamics. It is termed, Simple Social Interaction. It hypothesizes that:
Wij = aj + B jE ( Wj) + yj Xij + uij
(This equation is altered, using individuals as the expressions,
instead of countries, as stated in Daniel Felsenstein work.) The
equation supposes that two individuals are identical except for the fact
that A had more space than B. If the populations are the same where
both resided, the inhabitant of B would have more opportunity to
interact, considering proximity. This equation would have to take into
account other variables, such as the earning levels of each,
characteristics, education, sex, health, etc. The entire scope of
defining an individual, is much more than it’s 20% sum. Yet No Mass, in
their attempt to re-condition a mind. Selectively removed all variables
that accounted for individualism. This way, they could have more control of the collective.
No Mass attempts to prevent Kiais-Spiritual Kiais,
the soul shouting out to the universe. Unfortunately in the 3rd
dimension, the majority are unaware of this fact. They may pray, but
their prays are not complete in proportion to the essence to their
faith. Many over come this, through empowerment and human discipline.
When such great events occur, the critic of such triumphs are shadowed.
To make matters worst, the triumphs are often diffused early in their
stages, by professional, who out of their own jealous worth;
intentionally attend and not attend to create failure.
They didn’t want self pride to become a characteristic of the
collective. They instead wanted the collective to be the pride of their
individual defective souls. Each soul was ugly, damaged, sinful,
manipulative, evil, and could not be trusted. However as a collective,
the individual souls, formed a new identity for themselves. And this is
where their pride should encompass.
They hated individualism. The ideal of an individual seeking internal
peace, through reflective dialog within the self, was not tolerated.
Negativity streamed the air, to interrupt such people, as they sought to
meditate. There was noUNCONDITIONAL RESPECT for any
person, seeking peace first for the internal, then the external. Such
people were considered dangerous, because they socially isolated
themselves from the external. It was considered offensive to be alone,
think alone, dream alone. It isn’t a wonder-it is incidental and it
conditions, preventing the TAO humble tolerance. I was
hated for my silence. While in my silence, I was reflecting my entire
life. I was laughing inside to my silly antics. I was crying inside for
my non-compassion. I was redeeming myself for the many times I wasn’t
loving. And by doing this in silence, in my mind, alone, I was hated.
People like to learn from one another-yes this is true. But before one
can learn from another, shouldn’t they let that other learn of
themselves first. Thus preventing chaos!
The feeling of frustration that you may feel, Lot. I
understand-seeming the soul is captured within the physical elements of
the 3rd dimension. Now that you are quasi physical in the 4th dimension,
you have a clearer understand of energy. Your soul energy here is the
same as it was in the 3rd dimension. One exception, you had less control
of it. Seeming it was restricted by the physical body. The physical
body prevented the soul from existing as a total. In-fact the conditions
by which the soul existed, were quit cramped, and created an invisible
pressure, equating to stress. Many awakening thoughts and practices in
the 3rd dimension, sought to clarify the soul energy. They expressed
such thoughts of the internal self seeking peace. Well that is in direct
contradiction of 3rd dimensional reasoning.
The awakening thoughts suggest that the conflict of the internal soul
seeking peace, creates external fixations. These fixations become
psychosis to the peace seeker. When the peace seeker is in meditation,
they are able to move the fixations into bubble like containers. These
bubble containers rise above the peace seekers head, and become separate
from the peace seeker, reliving prior stress. The more advance the
peace seeker get, the bubbles start to burst. The objective is to burst
all of the bubbles, thus removing the soul from the manifestations of
the external world, that have occupied the mind/wit/soul/sub-conscious.
Once this free empty state of mind is obtained. The soul can attempt to
do what it does best. Transmute it’s self into the spectrum of the
universe. Very few in the 3rd dimension get the opportunity to enjoy
this wonder.
Lot you speak of feeling something, with nothing to feel, but ought
to be felt! Well considering your quasi 3rd dimensional state, that is
what it is-confusion. Yet imagine 4th dimensional existences, feeling
the same as you, but towards a 5th dimensional lacking. In which they
soulfully seek. Is it any wonder?
In the 3rd dimension, we have physically and mental existences. This
is pointed out in Genesis 2:7 (the spirit, soul and physical). The
spirit is the energy/animated essences of life, which was created by God
and is returned to God. The soul is the free energy essences, which
develops over a life time. The soul is the valuable unit sought after in
the underworld or 4th dimension. This is where the spirit returns to
the divine: as the soul is left to fend for its self. While in the 4th
dimension, the soul is used by demonic entities through contract soul
slavery. This demoic entity is named, No Mass (seeming it has no
physical mass). No mass appear as invisible entities. There seems to be
an electric silver strand that outlines the parameter of a figure,
similar to a human. The silver strand is pure electricity. The No Mass
float in a rapid order and there entire structure transmit waves of
total thought. They can stand beside you and receive your entire life
history in an instance. Knowing your weakest points and your total
universal effort.
There is an area within the 4th dimension, in the underworld, that
resembles Hollywood. This area is called Teusia. Teusia is the largest
purchaser of contracted souls. And uses the souls for workers in an
industry portrait of life as perceived in the 3rd dimension. Teusia is
the soul receipting area of the underworld. It is where all souls arrive
from the 3rd dimension. The population of Teusia exist of newly arrived
souls, children of the stream (Ilts), Angels Zareasar , Saints of
divine discourse and No Mass entities. The new souls that arrived
every hour of every day, represented about 60% of Teusia’s population.
These souls were in transitioned into the 5th dimension. 30% of Teusia
remained in the underworld: while 10% die somewhere in the process, and
their souls descended to hell.
No Mass’s goal is to drive a person insane, in an effort to obtain
ownership of their soul. Once ownership is obtain, No Mass take the
packaged souls, onto the 4th dimension world, where they are sold at
auctions. The usual purchaser of these packaged souls, are the
underworlds malicious leaders. It’s an odd arrangement in Teusia,
although all is under the umbrella of the divine law of nature. A
settled evilness exist. This existence is partly due to the need for
evil to have some victory. On earth in the 3rd dimension, good prevails.
However in Teusia, bad prevails: but only under certain circumstance.
For example Falcon Benign, a vindictive monster who enjoys his job
producing the enactments of 3rd dimension humans into 4th dimension
movies. Falcon owns Falcon Productions. Falcon is a top member of the No
Mass clan. It is his job to assist in the visual production of a
human’s life. On earth the 3rd dimension is divided into 50 life spans.
Upon the 50th life span, the soul of that human usually moves forward
with in the cosmic order of divinity. That is it moves into the 5th
dimension. But if the soul is plagued with menacing ways for a majority
of its 50 year total life existence. It is adjudicated by cosmic order
and avoids descending into hell, by adult rebirth into the 4th
dimension. However if No Mass is successful at contracting the soul,
before 50th life ends, then the soul avoids the natural acesnsion into
the 4th dimension, and becomes a contracted soul. 80% of human souls
ascend naturally. That is, reach their 50th life, and during the 3/4
quarter mark, No Mass enters with Falcon Productions.
It is during the ¾ quarter of the 50th life, when No Mass enters the
human’s life. They enter as an internal voice of deceit and decree. They
utilize V2K (Voice to Skull communication) technology. V2K is a tool
which sends frequency voice sound waves to the brain. The waves are
received and cogitated. The voices reflect the logistical advantage
audio/vocal radio frequencies. These are the vocal tones by which each
individual is most familiar with, thus most easily influencing tool.
Thus at first the voices in one’s head, might be a loving family member
or a dear friend. Later the true identity of the voice master is
revealed as one becomes more comfortable with what’s going on. Their
intent is to prepare the human for their final ¼ of life, before death.
Falcon’s job is to record highlights of that final ¼ of life: then
produce it into a motion picture. These life movies are the rage in
Teusia and are used to introduce the coming of new souls. The shows are
released daily, and thus each souls enjoy one hour of fame in Teusia
before they actually arrive.
Regardless if a soul enters Teusia as a contracted slave or
naturally. Their purpose is the same. They must resolve all the issues
which brought them to the 4th dimension in the first place. These issues
are detailed in the life biography produced by Falcon Productions and
No Mass, but are irrelevant to the No Mass community of Teusia. Teusians
find the life portrayals humorous in nature. All aspects of life on
earth are opposite in underworld. Thus murder and violence are
considered artistic endeavors, highly desired and admired. Mal sexual
morality is considered top comedy, and tragedy is considered top rate
comedy. A person who lived a destructive, un-moral life on earth is
bound to be a hero in Teusia. But it is these very characteristic by
which they person must blindly resolve.
Post 03/20/2018
The topic is the universe and it's cosmic alignment. The affect of this alignment upon us on earth is something that is enriching and should be taken into thought and action. EQUILIBRIUM is the body as it balances to ultimate phase of functioning and relaxation. It is during the moment of total equilibrium that an individual is able to full utilize their body (physical), their mind (spiritual) and interact within the environment with ease. This even includes syncing frequencies with others forms of life upon earth as detailed by Daniel Fels. The total concept of energy that is balance is the healthier assumption, by which growth and expansion can occur. Also included with the thought of equilibrium is the ability to defy physics as in quantum physical realities. Such realities as diffusion by which an exchange of matter enables a person to walk on water.
“It takes a while to show yourself- because, words don´t teach – of the leverage of the power of the Universe, from ALIGNMENT. It takes a little while. It takes a little while, to stop trying. Because all of you can apply action, and you can apply words, and you can gather together in force, and you can cause
construction or destruction – In other words, you can make a lot happen
with action. But compared to the creation that happens, when you get in sync
with this energy that creates worlds – those are paltry and not usually
very satisfying or longlasting creations.” Abraham Hicks
...and today, as with yesterday, I LAUGHED with myself in the delight of God's beautiful nature CREATION!...Knowing that at any time, ALL of US are only 7 Seconds away...and not until that 7 seconds, nothing of our human creation (besides LOVE) matters! We Are Not Maneuvering (De Nous ne Faire pas )! Me, De Mon Faire, until I realized, I'm not Maneuvering (De Mon ne faire pas)! It's time to think about UNIVERSAL LOVE (Love that God from the creation of the Universe, has rooted in all of his creation)! Also considering this is the Age of Aquarius we can't tolerate not to consider the opposite side of negative emotions: We can not continue to blame the victim of sorts, when it takes all of us, in every single day to day interaction! No one is acting alone or doing anything alone. Thus all are just as guilty or not guilty!
The following song is by Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry and was released in 1994. It is Chi-Espirt, as it seeks to remove the differences of what it is that we don't do-regarding LOVE. And point out that which we lack to consider in our own "Des Faires" the future, each and every child that's born!
Don't see me from a distance, don't look at my smile
And think that I don't know what's under and behind me
I don't want you to look at me and think
What's in you is in me, what's in me is to help them
LOVE....
Roughneck and rudeness,
We should be using, on the ones who practice wicked charms
For the sword and the stone
Bad to the bone
Battle is not over
Even when it's won!
And when a child is born into this world
It has no concept
Of the tone the skin is living in
(CHORUS)
It's not a second, seven seconds away
Just as long as I stay, I'll be waiting
It's not a second, seven seconds away
Just as long as stay, I'll be waiting
I'll be waiting,
I'll be waiting
I assume the reasons that push us to change
I would like that they forget about their color,
so that they can have hope
Too many views on race that make them desperate
I like the doors wide open
So that friends can talk about their pain and their joy
Then we can give them information, that will bring us all together
(CHORUS)
It's not a second, seven seconds away
Just as long as I stay, I'll be waiting
It's not a second, seven seconds away
Just as long as I stay, I'll be waiting
I'll be waiting,
I'll be waiting
And when a child is born into this world
It has no concept
Of the tone of the skin he's living in
And there's a million voices!
And there's a million voices!
To tell you what she should be thinking!
So you better sober up for just a second!
Seven seconds away
Just as long as I stay, I'll be waiting
It's not a second, seven seconds away
Just as long as I stay, I'll be waiting
Post: 01/22/2018
THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
The Age of Aquarius refers to, every 2,150 years, the sun's
position at the time of the March, or vernal, equinox moves in front of a
new Zodiac constellation. The Age of Aquarius begins when the March equinox point moves out of the constellation Pisces and into the constellation Aquarius. The beginning of the Age of Aquarius is based upon IAU constellation
boundaries, which astrologers or New Age practitioners might or might
not choose to use in their computations. Nevertheless, the world computations are based upon, The International Astronomical Union (IAU) which began it's duty of defining all things astronomical in 1930.
For the purpose of Chiespirt, I will assume like most Astrologist that the Age of Aquarius actually began in 2012. That’s
because they believe the star Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion, marked the ancient border between the constellations Leo and Cancer. This star moved to within 30o
of the September equinox point in 2012, meaning that Regulus left the
sign Leo to enter the sign Virgo in that year. Presuming equal-sized
constellations in antiquity, that places the border of the
constellations Pisces and Aquarius at 150o west of Regulus, or at the March equinox point. By this reckoning, the Age of Aquarius started in 2012.
From 0 A.D. to the present we have been in the Age of Pisces. Pisces values are being wiped out, causing unprecedented change and
upheaval in our lifetime. And we're not done yet. The Piscean values of money, power and control are being replaced. Today with the growth of BITCOINS and a shift to a Service Economy, the change from a materialistic collective people to innovative co-assisting people is occurring. This change is also seen in Abraham Maslow's work, which details the accomplishment of the physiological level of existence in the United States. We have accomplished all but one of Maslow's variables and that is housing. It is no surprise that across the nation, housing and homeless is becoming a huger issue of social non-equality and improvised standard of living. Read: #4 Maslow Theorem, which details Maslow's Coping Mechanism Society of today as we shift to a Expressive Mechanism Society, marked by societal co-assisting each other to a higher quality of physical living and spiritual living. http://paulgoree.blogspot.com/2015/08/maslow-theorem-great-society-poverty-in.html
The Aquarian Age will be dominated by networks, and information. The key
phrase for this age is “Be to be.” The key to the astrological sign
Aquarius is “I know.” This is the age of information. Nothing is secret
anymore. All information is available at your fingertips. Where the
Piscean age was organized in a vertical, up and down structure of
hierarchies, the Aquarian Age is organized in a horizontal network,
opening the world up to true equality. Chiespirt represents the conscious awareness of the universe creator (GOD) and his creation of all things on earth and within the universe. The more people become consciously aware of CHIESPIRT, the more we will embrace the Aquarian shift,
the easier this transformation will go for humanity. It is a spiritual
truth that a small percentage of people who have shifted their
consciousness can influence the rest of humanity. If you are reading
this, then you are most likely one of these pioneers. Find a way to
spread your light: teach, heal, create community networks, serve,
sacrifice, love. Welcome to the Aquarian Age!
In Sarah Davidson's work, 'It's Happening: The Global Shift in Consciousness Is Underway and Right on (Mayan) Time', she details events that have changed us as individuals and as a society.
It’s undeniable, impossible to describe and whatever it is, it’s
manifesting into an intense and palpable energy, crossing all boundaries
and all sectors and affecting everyone on every level. It’s the uncertainty. It’s the cliffs. It’s the freaking apocalypse.
It’s the shootings — my GOD, the shootings. It’s the desire for
something different, the fundamental recognition that things need to
change, and it’s the nervous excitement suddenly present because we know
they just might. The world is “at a critical juncture in human
history,” according to the recently released National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends Report,
and tomorrow — Friday, December 21st, 2012 — just so happens to be the
day the Mayans predicted would be the end of the world as we know it; a
global shift in consciousness.
Today we are facing unprecedented tragedies and challenges both in
the United States and around the world. These are coupled with the past
year of “century” weather patterns, and topped off by the sluggish
global recovery from the most interconnected economic downturn our
planet has ever known.
All of these are indicators that things are not alright. At the very least, things are shifting. According to geologists and
economists alike, we’ve entered the Anthropocene — the age of man —
which follows the relatively stable Holocene period. According to a report released by the Smithsonian in October, 2012:
A consensus has been reached that the tremendous scope of
transformations now occurring on the Earth, with profound effects on
plants, animals, and natural habitats, is primarily the result of human
activities.... On a geological scale the planet has entered a new era.
Natural processes that control the functioning of the planet have been
interrupted, refashioned, or accelerated over the last thousand years by
human civilization. No longer can nature be studied or understood in
isolation from the human world.
This is the first time that human beings have lived in a world that
we have created through human activity. Our growing population and
subsequent demand for natural resources has caused us to extract to the
extreme and to unintentionally impact the world around us to such a
severe degree that we have formed our own climate, one that produces
less snow and more Sandys, one that exposes our vulnerabilities in the
face of extreme weather, and one that calls us to question whether or
not we are safe in our current surroundings. It’s not just the weather,
either. We’ve also created a world where we are seemingly more
interconnected than we have ever been, yet we have lost our ability to
really connect; we’re terrified of each other.
So here we are, today, facing these global challenges as a divided
species. But these challenges are not insurmountable and now, the day
before the alleged end it all, it is time for us to charter a new course
and recognize that we can take these challenges on as one unified
group...
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Books To Read, regarding Chiespirt and the Aquarian Age:
Elevate Your Spirit and Soar!
The greatest gift we can give or
receive is recognition by others. We all want to feel happy, but in
order to experience happiness at the deepest level, we need to feel
acknowledged. It is, indeed, an art that transforms internal beliefs and
feeds the soul with love and acceptance. In The Art of acknowledgement,
author Margo Majdi reveals the power and process of acknowledgments in
all aspects of our lives. This life-changing book will change your
relationship with others and yourself, as well as the way you
communicate with the people and world around you, as you learn to:
n Messages from Beyond the Veil: Spiritual Guidance for Our Human Experience,
you will read recorded messages from spirits who lived on Earth. You
will learn who and what God is, how He creates, why He created us, and
that our souls are immortal. You will learn what life is like in the
spiritual realms; about life in a world without time, where past,
present, and future exist simultaneously.
An understanding will
come to you, no matter what religion you practice, or what beliefs have
been instilled in you-an understanding that dispels your fears and
creates a deep calm and a sense of purpose in your life.
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Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself -- insights each
human being is predicted to grasp sequentially; one insight, then
another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth.
Drawing on ancient wisdom, it tells you how to make connections among
the events happening in your life right now and lets you see what is
going to happen to you in the years to come. The story it tells is a
gripping one of adventure and discovery, but it is also a guidebook that
has the power to crystallize your perceptions of why you are where you
are in life and to direct your steps with a new energy and optimism as
you head into tomorrow.
Age Of Aquarius: Let The Sunshine: The 5th Dimension: 1969
Post: 01/21/2018
EMOTIONS:
Emotions are the feelings we express as we interact with ourselves (reflective thoughts), others and the environment. They are derived from the state of mind, by which circumstances, mood, temperament, personality and relationship toggle associated stimuli and natural hormones. There is also an instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge that comprises our emotions. Cognition provides the basis by which emotions in some aspect are mentally processed. For example: One may have the realization that makes them believe, they are in a dangerous situation and
the subsequent arousal of their body's nervous system responds by -rapid heartbeat and
breathing, sweating, muscle tension-. All of this is integral to the experience of
our feeling afraid.
Emotions are complex. According to some theories, they are states of
feeling that result in physical and psychological changes that influence
our behavior.The physiological of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating to emotions. Emotion is also linked to behavioral tendency. Extroverted people are
more likely to be social and express their emotions, while introverted
people are more likely to be more socially withdrawn and conceal their
emotions. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative. Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psycho-physiological changes, and instrumental behavior. Overall, emotions can be defined as a positive or negative experience that is
associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity.
Emotions produce different physiological, behavioral and cognitive
changes. The original role of emotions was to motivate adaptive
behaviors that in the past would have contributed to the survival of
humans. Emotions are responses to significant internal and external
events.
The following work is by Aristole, and beings a Chi-Espirt focus on emotions.
Aristotle's preferred term for the emotions was pathos
[pl. pathe], which makes the emotions largely passive states,
located within a general metaphysical landscape contrasting active and
passive, form and matter, and actuality and potentiality. The
pathe are first and foremost responses found in the embodied
animal to the outside world, very much like perceptions. They can thus
be associated broadly with matter insofar as they represent capacities
or potentialities that need to be actualized by external causes, which
also explains how they are directed at objects. Of course, the
pathe are not pure potentialities. They are actualized in the
experience of an occurrent emotion, and even the mere capacity to
experience pathe requires a determinate form, a
soul. Moreover, the pathe have close connections to action,
and Aristotle treated them as movements of a sort. For all these
reasons, the pathe can be attributed to the soul insofar as
the soul informs a body. Yet since their causes lie outside of the
animal who experiences them, the question arises whether and to what
extent we can control them.
That is a question addressed in several different ways by the most
important Aristotelean texts on the pathe available to later
ancient and medieval authors: the Nicomachean Ethics and
Rhetoric. Each work presents lists of emotions, although
where the Nichomachean Ethics serves up 11, the
Rhetoric dishes out a full 14. They differ too in their aims
and tenor: the Nichomachean Ethics is concerned with the
place of the pathe within the economy of acting according to
our habits and desires as moderated by reason, whereas the
Rhetoric concerns the arousal and management of
pathe in the context of producing persuasion. In both cases,
however, the pathe are treated as susceptible to rational
influence and voluntary action, although not directly subject to
choice.
The Nichomachean Ethics characterizes pathe as the
“feelings accompanied by pleasure or pain,” listing
appetite, anger, fear, confidence, envy, joy, love, hatred, longing,
emulation, and pity as examples (1105b21). Nonetheless, it will be
easiest, as well as consistent with the bulk of Aristotle's analyses,
to treat pathos as more or less equivalent to desire, or
appetite in the broad sense. (The Rhetoric makes the
identification explicit, e.g., at 1378a31. But just to keep things
interesting, De Anima, treats the pathe, along with
“desire” and “wish,” as a species of appetite
at 414b3). The pathe form one of the three main categories
found in the soul, distinguished from faculties, on the one hand, and
states [hexeis], on the other. They are, however, very
closely associated with the latter. States constitute the virtues
[arete] or vices of the non-rational part of the soul, which
can, however, either conform to or violate right reason. They do so
through their connections with actions. The pathe, along with
the appetites, motivate action (even to the point of provoking bodily
changes such as internal temperature, color and expression). The
dispositions to feel them in certain ways are, in turn, shaped by our
habits of action, and states may be understood as the dispositions to
feel particular kinds of pathe on certain occasions. States
are, in fact, “the things in virtue of which we stand well or
badly with reference to the passions [pathe]”
(1105b26).
The pathe are not themselves virtues or vices. But states
are, and that means that the pathe are morally
significant. More generally, because emotional experience is intrinsic
to any life, any account of the good life must give them their
due. Now, certain pathe (spite, envy) are always bad. But
despite characterizing the human good as a life exercising
“activity of the soul in conformity with excellence [or
virtue]” (1098a16), and despite counting reason (but not feeling
pathe) as a distinctively human activity, Aristotle took the
excellence of the excellent human to consist partly in experiencing
pathe in the right way, to the right extent, and on the right
occasions. Indeed, the cultivation of character is largely a matter of
cultivating the disposition for appropriate experience of the
pathe, which is as important as developing our abilities for
deliberative reason. The appropriate emotional dispositions may, in
fact, be even more crucial to the good life, since our capacity to
feel the passions seems intrinsic, while our ability to reason
develops with maturity and can be crucially affected by our emotional
dispositions. In any case, the truly excellent person will not only
reason well about what to do in particular situations, but will feel
the appropriate desires and pathe in those situations. For
this reason, the intellectual virtue for deliberating about what to
do, phronesis, is distinguished from the other practical
intellectual virtues of techne in part by its involvement
with pathe.
This comfortable relation between the emotions and reason, however,
hits some snags when Aristotle turned to the distinctive ways in which
we can fail to act well. For example, the akratic, or
weak-willed person, recognizes what should be done without actually
doing it. Aristotle's solution to this puzzling, if common,
phenomenon, was to lay the blame at the feet of some pathos,
particularly the pathe of either anger or pleasure. Here
these pathe might seem to oppose reason. Aristotle, however,
appears to have thought of them more as exercising a cognitive
interference that disrupts our completion of the practical syllogism
than as an external force overturning our otherwise smoothly operating
reason. (For this reason, the pathe seem to have cognitive
aspects themselves; see Kraut 2005). In contrast, the
enkratic person feels the same disruptive pathos,
but does not give way to them in action. The enkratic is thus
superior to the akratic, but still not as admirable as the
person who feels the pathe as the virtuous person would, that
is, in accord with the dictates of right reason. So Aristotle's
ethical works treat the pathe both as susceptible to reason
and as integral to the good life, even as they allow that the emotions
can impair our reason.
The risk of emotional disruption of our reason and the management of
the emotions are topics explored much further in the
Rhetoric. That Aristotle would even consider the topic is
noteworthy, for it suggests that techniques for producing belief,
among which appeals to emotion are prominent, need not be relegated to
sophistry, but make a proper subject for philosophy. Things seem a bit
less rosy, however, when we turn to the three distinct sources of
persuasion Aristotle admitted: trust in the character of the speaker,
the passions of the audience, and the “proof, or apparent proof,
provided by the words of the speech [logos] itself”
(1356a4). The first and last seem sources that are themselves reasons
– either reasons for holding it probable that the speaker's
conclusions are true, or reasons for the conclusion itself. But
arousing the audience's passions seems another matter
altogether. Indeed, Aristotle here characterized the pathe as
“all those feelings that so change men as to affect their
judgments, and that are also attended by pain and pleasure”
(1378a21), for which he produces the example of anger, exactly the
interfering pathos held responsible for any cases of
akrasia. But despite the acknowledged risk that the
pathe can be used for sophistic ends, warping our beliefs and
decisions and producing commitments on indefensible grounds, Aristotle
did not hold that all emotional appeals must do so. The problem with
sophistic rhetoric is that it makes its emotional pitch in ways
independent of the subject under discussion, perhaps even distracting
from the subject at hand (e.g., by invoking anger at Al Qaeda, while
considering the merits of invading Iraq).
Presumably, however, a
particular subject may have characteristics that themselves provoke
certain emotions, indeed that should provoke certain
emotions, and appropriate rhetoric will highlight those features
without ever leaving the subject at hand. In this respect, the
arousing of emotions might even count as a kind of salience argument
for the beliefs so produced (e.g., anger at particular outrageous
events can serve as a reason for believing that a politician should be
impeached).
More generally, the pathe pervade our lives; our judgments
are always affected by our emotions and moods, not just in perverse
and pernicious cases. In this respect, any rhetorician attempting to
produce belief must take account of the emotional state of her
audience. This is true whatever her motives might be. Aristotle
considered the true to be inherently, but not overridingly persuasive,
and so even the rhetorician most sincerely devoted to the truth will
need to consider how to manage the emotions of her audience so that it
will be amenable to belief in truth. Doing so will require not only
some assessment of the character of the audience, but also a great
deal of insight into the nature and causes of the pathe, and
Aristotle devoted a great deal of Book II of the Rhetoric to
a kind of taxonomy and physiognomy of the emotions (thereby
inaugurating what was to become a popular sport). Aristotle's list is
copious, listing some 14 passions. Each receives an analysis of its
causes (qualities) and objects (persons) – which together
provide a complex intentional content for the emotion. Aristotle also
described the mental conditions under which a pathos is felt,
that is the relations between the person feeling it and that which
provides its content. But it is an odd list, comprising anger, calm,
friendship, enmity, fear, confidence, shame, shamelessness, kindness,
unkindness, pity, indignation, envy, and emulation.
Presumably,
Aristotle thought that these were the pathe most likely to be
of use to the rhetorician (even if he ought not raise envy or
shamelessness in his audience), but there seems little other rhyme or
reason to the selection, and no reason to think that it is
comprehensive (especially since it excludes pathe enumerated
in the Nicomachean Ethics). One notable organizing feature is
Aristotle's assumption that the pathe fall into contrasting
pairs, although it may be a bit of a stretch to see the contrast
between, e.g., envy and emulation, or to take certain candidates,
e.g., calm, as a full-fledged pathe. Also interesting is
Aristotle's discussion of how the general psychology of the emotions
will map onto different types of character, ages, and fortunes, again
a topic he might have considered particularly useful for the
rhetorician.
So Aristotle's assessment of the pathe is mixed: they can be
cultivated by reason and figure in the good life; they can also
disrupt our reason and action, and be used for nefarious ends. Indeed,
by rendering our judgments unstable and prone to conflict, the
emotions may pose a basic threat to human social life. But whether
happy or dangerous, Aristotle certainly thought that the emotions are
a fixture of human life that cannot be ignored. Ethics cultivates them
in developing character; rhetoric manages them to produce belief. To
these techniques, we might also add the psychological discipline
accomplished by poetry, particularly tragedy. The notion of
katharsis, or “discharge” of the unpleasant
emotions of pity and fear may be the most famous part of Aristotle's
Poetics, although the text mentions it only in passing. It
did not, in fact, have much influence on literature and aesthetic
theory through the seventeenth century (although the Poetics
was an important model in other respects, especially for considering
how emotional responses could be directed at different kinds of
characters). However, starting in the eighteenth century, the notion
of katharsis gained ground, particularly since it addressed a
question of enormous importance to 18th century aesthetics,
namely how something like tragedy, which would seem to revolve around
situations invoking unpleasant emotions, can nonetheless be
enjoyable. The notion of katharsis at least hints at the
complex and multivalent emotional states that would be further
analyzed by later theorists such as Hume.
Today 01/18/2018
Build the bridge that links us to our future, heaven on earth. This is something we can achieve and will be something that each of us make pivotal to our conscious lives. The Chi by which God has created the earth is the starting point. In this series Spirit Science provide step by step guide, by which we will rise our collective energy.
ENERGY COMMUNICATION AND INFLUENCE by: Paul Goree ASU Social Welfare 1/19/2013
ENERGY COMMUNICATION AND INFLUENCE
Paul Goree ASU SOCIAL WELFARE, PHOENIX AZ 1/19/2013
(This was written as a factor of manipulation by Stephen Price to
demean me and create a thought of a writing contest. In the contest you
must detail you knowledge of a subject and it must be in it's entirety.
The subject must represent something you are concerned about. You can
not use the internet or notes to develop the essay. You must reference
all data correctly and can not use the internet or note to find
references. You must complete the essay first and you can not save it on
your device, internet or external device (usb, sd card). I wrote this
essay, following all of his rules and posted on the ASU Blackboard,
which is where student post their homework and assigned essays. The next
week at ASU, if one student informed the instructor that she could not
post her assignment early. The instructor informed us, that the Black
Board has been locked down. Someone posted something on it and now for
the rest of the semester, the Social Welfare Department will be doing
things manually. But that's o.k. seeming that class is the APA Writing
assignment requirement, thus we get a benefit by doing the APA paper
manually-like they use to do in the past.).
Daniel Fels caught my
attention, when I read in Scientific American’s June 2009 issue. What
was so interesting was his research on the communication that occurs
between cells PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM. Placed individual test tubes, the
cells were able to exchange some energy by which they altered the
“feeding behavior and growth.” This is interesting because it suggest
that behavior can be influenced by factors other than sensory stimuli.
When I first read this, I immediately thought of Carl Jung and
sub-conscious mind. Jung sub-conscious mind was a parasympathetic system
by which some body functions are automate, and others are related to
memory, intuition and mystic occurrences.
The conscious mind is a
cognitive system, by which stimuli is received through the sensory
receptors. These stimuli with cognition determine our ability to
identify the environment we live in, thus constructing our social
reality (Berkeley University 2010). How we perceive the world by which
we live in, is determined by our ability to full inter-grate societal
behavior. This cognitive system is fueled by potential action, creating a
synaptic response. A synaptic response is instruction from the brain
and nervous system on how to maneuver. Action potential is the
accumulated energy needed to start a connection, resulting in movement
(Gorman JM, Kent JM, Sullivan GM, Coplan JD,2000). Thus behavior is a
result of individual and collective perception.
The sub-conscious
mind operates on similar but different foundation. The sub-conscious
mind is in continuous operation. Whereas the conscious mind has sleep to
refresh and rest. The conscious mind is 24/7 (Soren R. Ekstrom,
Watertown, MA 2000). The sub-conscious mind is the source of intution.
Such things as hunches, deja vu, GUMPTIONS are a factor of a process
which may not be fully cognitive (Gorman JM, Kent JM, Sullivan GM,
Coplan JD,2000). Jung believed that the sub-conscious mind in its
defense, against the cognitive actions of the conscious mind, creates a
entity, he termed “SHADOW” (Soren R. Ekstrom,Watertown, MA 2000). I
believe that Jungs “Shadow” is similar in communicating, like Daniel
Fels, electro-magnetic energy. “Returning to the research which was
the basis for his earlier book, The Emotional Brain (1998), LeDoux
describes how emotional states monopolize brain… The brain has a number
of emotional systems—detecting and defending against threat…” (Gorman
JM, Kent JM, Sullivan GM, Coplan JD,2000).
For Jung, that
“monopolized emotional state, defending against threat”, is the
“Shadow”. The “Shadow” protects the sub-conscious mind, yet is not a
fully cognitive, thus able to stream stimuli without the social
constructed reality filter: otherwise termed “norm” in behavior. Have
you ever had a hunch that the telephone was going to ring, and at the
same time recall a sudden thought of your mother. Well that hunch is the
sub-conscious mind at work (Gorman JM, Kent JM, Sullivan GM, Coplan
JD,2000). Considering Jungs “Shadow”, Fels “Electro-magnetic
communication, I think that this “energy” source is a means of
communicating that exist without cognitive processing. This energy is
fluid in nature in that it is not block, and thus can spark intution and
mystical thoughts, which if processed by the cognitive mind, would be
denied as possible or not confirmed consciousness. I am think about
individual operating in the sub-conscious mind thus influence behavior,
through a similar mechanism founded by Fels.
When I am in a good
mood, simply by standing by another individual I can transfer that
energy. That energy is a frequency (Doc Childre ). That frequency is
able to operate outside the realm of the brain. I look to Dr. Hank
Wesselman, who explains the journey of a Shaman, by which the “spirit”
takes Shamanistic journey into the non-conscious reality (Wesselman,
2000). The energy by which the a shaman harvest is similar in action of
Fels electro-magnetic energy. Wesselman suggests that the shaman
spirit, while in the non-conscious reality is able to receive
resourceful energy by which when returned to the conscious reality, is
able to assist in healing, empowering and altering states of minds of
individuals. This energy is also capable of forserting energy of loved
ones that may have passed on.
Sandra Engleman who worked with
Wessleman, stated She points to the Azuni tribes of new Mexico that
vanished suddenly all at once (rapture). She believes that they didn’t
vanish, they evolved to a higher state of existence and presently still
live where they did in the past, just in a different dimension than we
do, so we are unable to feel them, but their energy can be felt alive.
She this is what will happen to us: some of us will evolve out of out
physical existence into a new dimension..” (2012).
With this I
believe that we are able to utilize our sub-conscious mind in a more
influential matter. By which social ills can be resolved. It is stated
by many, that you get the life that you perceive. Your perception is
energy, resulting into behavior. If you think happy, you will be happy.
If you think sad, you will be sad. This is also found in the work of Dr.
Albert Ellis. Ellis, determined that some psychosis are self created.
(Ellis). I think that if some self created psychosis individuals are
able to influence other, in a peer-pressure manner.
That
negative behavior is the SHADOW in action. The shadow unable to deal
with the conscious cognitive processing, reaches out into the reality
affecting those near. Just like the cells of Fels individual test tubes.
Another factor to consider is Dr. Weilheim Reich. Reich was the creator
of “orgone” energy, which was able to fully remove negative energy from
the environment, thus healing various elements of an illness or mental
state of mind.(Reich, 1932). Reich developed the “Orgone Box” where he
placed individual to remove the negative energy. It is believe that this
energy is able to influence others by changing the energy level within
the environment. Acting similar to Fels electro-magnetic energy.
I
believe and am interested in exploring the possible benefits of energy
communication,by mean so electro-magnetic energy and sub-conscious
energy, within the social service field. Developing means by which
negative factors of social development can be altered resulting in
empowered individuals, who exchange energy, instead of WORDS to
communicate. Wayne Dyer states that, ‘every time you see someone do an
act of kindness, your seratonin level increase and so does that person,
also those who witness it.” That is electro-magnetic energy exchange
influence, as detailed by Fels.). Other theorist that suggest this
energy exchange is Dr. Emoto, Joe Rogan, Sandra Eckelman, Rollin
McCarthy, Carl Jung (sychronicity).
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Today Posted: 12/29/2017
Rituals are specific courses of actions, done by social collectives. The rituals extend from the root of the society and represent the terms of the constructed reality as lived. The principles, moral, beliefs, virtues and expectations placed upon each individual within the collective. Rituals include collective behavior that is utilized in religious worship, rites of passages, community development/witch doctor, and sacraments. As with Christian Sacraments, rituals involve a physical activity within the environment, which is observable. Sacraments signify God's grace in a way that is outwardly observable to the participant. That grace of God is defined differently in different cultures around the world. The grace of God, being the blessing by which we are in existence-becomes more interesting as we observe it from different cultural lenses. All of the variation have basic core elements. One being the need for humans to interact with the spiritual realm of the divine/universe. The way this is done in all cultures is through rituals, where by repetitive drums beats, creating waves of sound cause a hypnotic state of consciousness, by which the spiritual realm can be contacted. There is always some type of olfactory natural to the earth. Many indigenous cultures use sage, lavender, or cedar to create a olfactory pleasant offering to the energies of the universe. There is usually a verbal hum, that is accompanied by a physical dance/body movement, that corresponds to the drum beats. All of these practices provide a way for the human to interact with the spiritual realm.
Also included as rituals are prays, in psychology it is the used in a technical sense for a repetitive behavior systematically used by a person to neutralize or prevent anxiety; it is a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder. There are praise rituals for the human living experience such as the Swahili 'matunda ya kwanza' - first fruit of the harvest. Which evolved into African Americans celebration of Kwanzaa. Another harvest ritual is the Native Americans description of a "Strawberry Moon" which becomes a Farmer’s Almanac to agriculture.
The following is a ritual of the Kiowa Indians, and explains the metaphysical powers of various animals on the planet as they interact with humans and the environment. It details how the powers of these animals can be utilized by humans and like wise for them. This is another great way of detailing the dynamics of CHI as it is the order by which God has created the world. And all living things upon it can share the energy for growth.
KIOWA BELIEF AND RITUALS
By: Benjamin R. Kracht
Published by the University of Nebraska Press 2017
ISBN: 9781496200532
(page: 79-80)
Kiowa country is home to venomous rattlesnakes, water moccasins, copperheads, spiders, and scorpions. Snakes allegedly have power because they are without friends. Those possessing snake or spider power typically doctored snake, spider, and scorpion bites. Hunting Horse, Haumpy, Lone Bear and Mary Buffalo remembered that in earlier times three women and three men practiced Snake medicine, including Kiowa Charley’s father, Tonsatoma (Heating Tallow), who used the sucking method to remove venom and sometimes snake fangs from snake-bitten victims.
Bagyanoi told the story of how Heating Tallow once treated Red Otter, who had stepped on a rattlesnake skeleton while barefooted during a fast on Hunting Horse Hill, east Mt. Sheridan. Within a day, Red Otter could not walk due to paralysis in his legs, so he was taken to Heating Tallow, who recommended fasting in the Wichita Mountains because his condition was incurable.
Taken back into the mountains by horseback, Red Otter lay on a bed of sage for four days and nights, smoking and praying to the spirit world. Snakes appeared in a vision during the second night, informing him that the “sickness you have is very hard to cure, because the snake which harmed you was dead.” On the third day, an enormous thunder cloud passed through the area, pelting Red Otter with rain and hail and pipping at his bison robe. Weak and dehydrated by the fourth day, Red Otter was surrounded by snakes and lizards that scurried away when a large, two headed snake –like bird twenty times larger than any bird he had ever seen swooped down and grabbed his legs with its talons.
Red Otter felt something icy cold withdrawing from his legs and a voice saying –“now you’re already cured.” Horned toads and lizards are associated with certain powers that Jim Ahtone and Haumpy could not specify, though Sankadota claimed that in his youth he once sat under a tree when a “green lizard with black stripes” said to him “You are a poor boy. I will take on you. “ This spirit represented by the lizard became his special proctector.
Today Posted 12/26/2017 Originally Posted 12/17/2017
Titled “Thoughts”, this video explores the way in which we create our
reality together, and how our thoughts are the first step into
manifesting our experiences. While it might be difficult to come to
terms with, you create your reality, you are in the driver’s seat,
responsible for your actions and reactions to everything you experience,
even when it doesn’t seem like it. When we can step into our power and
step outside of blame, then we become truly free. To take this
idea further, Patchman explains how we co-create a collective Earth
experience together, and how we can use this creation to bring harmony
back to Earth. It is a choice to allow negative energies to bring you
down and stay in that state, instead of understanding it as a lesson to
learn from. Our thoughts are perspectives of our experiences, by
creating positive thoughts within ourselves for everyone around us, our
past, and ourselves we begin to create more positive experiences in
everything around us!
This video is perfect to start with if you
are just beginning your spiritual journey. It’s important to understand
these fundamental concepts before jumping into topics of something like
lucid dreaming or how energy works – because this video is about you and
your personal experience.
Towards the end, the video covers the
incredible research of Dr. Masaru Emoto, who has shown how thoughts
affect water on a molecular scale. Check out the different forms and
fractals of the water particles in relation to the thoughts that were
projected onto them. If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what
thoughts can do to us. Practicing kindness is so much more valuable than
we know.
At the end of the day, we believe that you can have, do,
or be ANYTHING you want! Why not make life amazing, and live in a way
that uplifts those around you? Global change starts when each and every
one of us recognize our own inherent creative potential, and step into
it fully!
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For GT Dave, unconventional foods have always been a mainstay in the
family kitchen. Raised a vegetarian and instilled with Eastern
philosophy, GT adopted a spiritual view of the world from a very young
age. He recognized, early on, the importance of honoring and respecting
all living things.
GT’s parents, Laraine and Michael, had an affinity for “funky” foods,
always curious to explore and uncover the many unique offerings brought
forth by Mother Earth. That was how, quite organically, Kombucha made
its way into their home.
In early 1993, a Himalayan Mother SCOBY, handed off by a Buddhist
nun, was gifted to Michael from a family friend. Intrigued by Kombucha’s
ancient healing properties, the Daves used this living probiotic
culture to brew their own homemade batches of the fizzy, fermented tea.
In late 1994, Laraine was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of
breast cancer. Doctors estimated the tumor had been in her body for
about four years, and that it had likely already metastasized and spread
to other parts of the body – specifically her bones – giving her less
than a year to live. When the results of her lumpectomy came back,
everyone was joyfully surprised to learn that the tumor was
precancerous, and the cancer itself was dormant. With curiosity, doctors asked Laraine if she had been doing anything
differently in the last four years. She explained that she was a
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Inspired by his mom’s story, GT wanted to share Kombucha in its
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members unsuccessfully tried to craft their own Kombucha, it became GT’s
mission to bottle his brew, making it easily accessible for all people
in a ready-to-drink form.
So, in 1995, at the tender age of 15, GT Dave began bottling his
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At GT’s Living Foods, we believe that food can be your medicine or
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Titled “Thoughts”, this video explores the way in which we create our
reality together, and how our thoughts are the first step into
manifesting our experiences. While it might be difficult to come to
terms with, you create your reality, you are in the driver’s seat,
responsible for your actions and reactions to everything you experience,
even when it doesn’t seem like it. When we can step into our power and
step outside of blame, then we become truly free. To take this
idea further, Patchman explains how we co-create a collective Earth
experience together, and how we can use this creation to bring harmony
back to Earth. It is a choice to allow negative energies to bring you
down and stay in that state, instead of understanding it as a lesson to
learn from. Our thoughts are perspectives of our experiences, by
creating positive thoughts within ourselves for everyone around us, our
past, and ourselves we begin to create more positive experiences in
everything around us!
This video is perfect to start with if you
are just beginning your spiritual journey. It’s important to understand
these fundamental concepts before jumping into topics of something like
lucid dreaming or how energy works – because this video is about you and
your personal experience.
Towards the end, the video covers the
incredible research of Dr. Masaru Emoto, who has shown how thoughts
affect water on a molecular scale. Check out the different forms and
fractals of the water particles in relation to the thoughts that were
projected onto them. If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what
thoughts can do to us. Practicing kindness is so much more valuable than
we know.
At the end of the day, we believe that you can have, do,
or be ANYTHING you want! Why not make life amazing, and live in a way
that uplifts those around you? Global change starts when each and every
one of us recognize our own inherent creative potential, and step into
it fully!
POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money.
PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient POWER to translate
them into ACTION. This chapter will describe the method by which an
individual may attain and apply POWER.
POWER may be defined as "organized and intelligently directed
KNOWLEDGE." Power, as the term is here used, refers to ORGANIZED effort,
sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE into its
monetary equivalent. ORGANIZED effort is produced through the
coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a DEFINITE
end, in a spirit of harmony.
POWER IS REQUIRED FOR THE ACCUMULATION OF MONEY! POWER IS NECESSARY FOR THE RETENTION OF MONEY AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED!
Let us ascertain how power may be acquired. If power is "organized knowledge," let us examine the sources of knowledge:
a.
INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. This source of knowledge may be contacted
through the procedure described in another chapter, with the aid of
Creative Imagination.
ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE. The accumulated experience of man, (or that
portion of it which has been organized and recorded), may be found in
any well-equipped public library. An important part of this
accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges, where
it has been classified and organized.
c.
EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH. In the field of science, and in
practically every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying,
and organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which one must
turn when knowledge is not available through "accumulated experience."
Here, too, the Creative Imagination must often be used.
Knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may
be converted into POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by
expressing those plans in terms of ACTION.
Examination of the three major sources of knowledge will readily
disclose the difficulty an individual would have, if he depended upon
his efforts alone, in assembling knowledge and expressing it through
definite plans in terms of ACTION. If his plans are comprehensive, and
if they contemplate large proportions, he must, generally, induce others
to cooperate with him, before he can inject into them the necessary
element of POWER.
GAINING POWER THROUGH THE "MASTER MIND"
The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose."
No individual may have great power without availing himself of the
"Master Mind." In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the
creation of PLANS for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its
monetary equivalent. If you carry out these instructions with
PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination in the selection of
your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been half-way
reached, even before you begin to recognize it.
So you may better understand the "intangible" potentialities of power
available to you, through a properly chosen "Master Mind" group, we
will here explain the two characteristics of the Master Mind principle,
one of which is economic in nature, and the other psychic. The economic
feature is obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any person who
surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of
a group of men who are willing to lend him wholehearted aid, in a
spirit of PERFECT HARMONY. This form of cooperative alliance has been
the basis of nearly every great fortune. Your understanding of this
great truth may definitely determine your financial status.
The psychic phase of the Master Mind principle is much more abstract,
much more difficult to comprehend, because it has reference to the
spiritual forces with which the human race, as a whole, is not well
acquainted. You may catch a significant suggestion from this statement:
"No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third,
invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."
Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the
whole universe, energy and matter. It is a well known fact that matter
may be broken down into units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. There
are units of matter which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed.
Likewise, there are units of energy.
The human mind is a form of energy, a part of it being spiritual in
nature. When the minds of two people are coordinated in a SPIRIT OF
HARMONY, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity,
which constitutes the "psychic" phase of the Master Mind.
The Master Mind principle, or rather the economic feature of it, was
first called to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, over twenty-five years
ago. Discovery of this principle was responsible for the choice of my
life's work.
Mr. Carnegie's Master Mind group consisted of a staff of
approximately fifty men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the
DEFINITE PURPOSE of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his
entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this "Master Mind."
Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune,
and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will
find that they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the
"Master Mind" principle.
GREAT POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO OTHER PRINCIPLE! ENERGY is Nature's universal set of building blocks, out of which she
constructs every material thing in the universe, including man, and
every form of animal and vegetable life. Through a process which only
Nature completely understands, she translates energy into matter.
Nature's building blocks are available to man, in the energy involved
in THINKING! Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery. It
absorbs energy from the ether, which permeates every atom of matter, and
fills the entire universe.
It is a well known fact that a group of electric batteries will
provide more energy than a single battery. It is also a well known fact
that an individual battery will provide energy in proportion to the
number and capacity of the cells it contains.
The brain functions in a similar fashion. This accounts for the fact
that some brains are more efficient than others, and leads to this
significant statement--a group of brains coordinated (or connected) in a
spirit of harmony, will provide more thought-energy than a single
brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy
than a single battery.
Through this metaphor it becomes immediately obvious that the Master
Mind principle holds the secret of the POWER wielded by men who surround
themselves with other men of brains.
There follows, now, another statement which will lead still nearer to
an understanding of the psychic phase of the Master Mind principle:
When a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in
Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every individual brain in the group.
It is a well known fact that Henry Ford began his business career
under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an
equally well known fact that, within the inconceivably short period of
ten years, Mr. Ford mastered these three handicaps, and that within
twenty-five years he made himself one of the richest men in America.
Connect with this fact, the additional knowledge that Mr. Ford's most
rapid strides became noticeable, from the time he became a personal
friend of Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what the
influence of one mind upon another can accomplish. Go a step farther,
and consider the fact that Mr. Ford's most outstanding achievements
began from the time that he formed the acquaintances of Harvey
Firestone, John Burroughs, and Luther Burbank, (each a man of great
brain capacity), and you will have further evidence that POWER may be
produced through friendly alliance of minds.
There is little if any doubt that Henry Ford is one of the best
informed men in the business and industrial world. The question of his
wealth needs no discussion. Analyze Mr. Ford's intimate personal
friends, some of whom have already been mentioned, and you will be
prepared to understand the following statement:
"Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of
those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony."
Henry Ford whipped poverty, illiteracy, and
ignorance by allying himself with great minds, whose vibrations of
thought he absorbed into his own mind. Through his association with
Edison, Burbank, Burroughs, and Firestone, Mr. Ford added to his own
brain power, the sum and substance of the intelligence, experience,
knowledge, and spiritual forces of these four men. Moreover, he
appropriated, and made use of the Master Mind principle through the
methods of procedure described in this book. This principle is available to you!
We have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of
those who have heard of Gandhi, look upon him as merely an eccentric
little man, who goes around without formal wearing apparel, and makes
trouble for the British Government.
In reality, Gandhi is not eccentric, but HE IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN
NOW LIVING. (Estimated by the number of his followers and their faith in
their leader.) Moreover, he is probably the most powerful man who has
ever lived. His power is passive, but it is real.
Let us study the method by which he attained his stupendous POWER. It
may be explained in a few words. He came by POWER through inducing over
two hundred million people to coordinate, with mind and body, in a
spirit of HARMONY, for a DEFINITE PURPOSE.
In brief, Gandhi has accomplished a MIRACLE, for it is a miracle when
two hundred million people can be induced--not forced--to cooperate in a
spirit of HARMONY, for a limitless time. If you doubt p. 256
that this is a miracle, try to induce ANY TWO PEOPLE to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for any length of time.
Every man who manages a business knows what a difficult matter it is
to get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely resembling
HARMONY.
The list of the chief sources from which POWER may be attained is, as
you have seen, headed by INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. When two or more people
coordinate in a spirit of HARMONY, and work toward a definite
objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to
absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite
Intelligence. This is the greatest of all sources of POWER. It is the
source to which the genius turns. It is the source to which every great
leader turns, (whether he may be conscious of the fact or not).
The other two major sources from which the knowledge, necessary for
the accumulation of POWER, may be obtained are no more reliable than the
five senses of man. The senses are not always reliable. Infinite
Intelligence DOES NOT ERR.
In subsequent chapters, the methods by which Infinite Intelligence may be most readily contacted will be adequately described.
This is not a course on religion. No fundamental principle described
in this book should be interpreted as being intended to interfere either
directly, or indirectly, with any man's religious habits. This book has
been confined, exclusively, to instructing the reader how to transmute
the DEFINITE PURPOSE OF DESIRE FOR MONEY, into its monetary equivalent.
Read, THINK, and meditate as you read. Soon, the entire
subject will unfold, and you will see it in perspective. You are now
seeing the detail of the individual chapters.
Money is as shy and elusive as the "old time" maiden. It must be
wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in
pursuit of the girl of his choice. And, coincidental as it is, the
POWER used in the "wooing" of money is not greatly different from that
used in wooing a maiden. That power, when successfully used in the
pursuit of money must be mixed with FAITH. It must be mixed with DESIRE.
It must be mixed with PERSISTENCE. It must be applied through a plan,
and that plan must be set into ACTION.
When money comes in quantities known as "the big money," it flows to
the one who accumulates it, as easily as water flows down hill. There
exists a great unseen stream of POWER, which may be compared to a river;
except that one side flows in one direction, carrying all who get into
that side of the stream, onward and upward to WEALTH--and the other side
flows in the opposite direction, carrying all who are unfortunate
enough to get into it (and not able to extricate themselves from it),
downward to misery and POVERTY.
Every man who has accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the
existence of this stream of life. It consists of one's THINKING PROCESS.
The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which
carries one to fortune. The negativemotions form the side which carries one down to poverty. This carries a thought of stupendous importance to the person who is
following this book with the object of accumulating a fortune.
If you are in the side of the stream of POWER which leads to poverty,
this may serve as an oar, by which you may propel yourself over into
the other side of the stream. It can serve you ONLY through application
and use. Merely reading, and passing judgment on it, either one way or
another, will in no way benefit you.
Some people undergo the experience of alternating between the
positive and negative sides of the stream, being at times on the
positive side, and at times on the negative side. The Wall Street crash
of ’29 swept millions of people from the positive to the negative side
of the stream. These millions are struggling, some of them in
desperation and fear, to get back to the positive side of the stream.
This book was written especially for those millions.
Poverty and riches often change places. The Crash taught the world
this truth, although the world will not long remember the lesson.
Poverty may, and generally does, voluntarily take the place of riches.
When riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought
about through well-conceived and carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs
no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless.
Riches are shy and timid. They have to be "attracted."
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How stress affects your health By Paul Goree 12/11/2017 San Francisco
It is so critical that we understand and acknowledge
the stress we cause upon each other as we interact. This stress minimizes us as
it is a silent killing medical factor: that leads to strokes, heart attacks, and
anxiety, paranoia and self-esteem issues. As we interact, we have the
capability to consciously consider how our actions, words and thoughts might affect
another individual, creating stress on them. By which they go throughout the
day passing that stress and anxiety on to others. If it is know that proximity
to someone who is happy with a positive perspective, can increase our attitude,
cause us to be more positive. This is a great STRESS REDUCTION and collectively
inspires positive growth and empowerment. As American our individualism is
attacked daily, with negative comments. These comments may not be directed at
us, but the reception of that negative comment towards someone else, has the
same affect, considering we are a collective of individuals with individuals
liberties. This enhances our liberties of what it is we want and can accomplish
in this nation. Why would those who are directly linked to us, want to bring
the collective down with negative comments.
Negative comments are intentional expression that aim
to attack an individual’s liberty! They also linger in the conscious mind
and causes passive stress. This passive stress grows and grows, leading to the
worst paranoia. Why do we do this? My liberties and freedoms are vested in your
liberties and freedoms and at this era of human history-we can consciously
acknowledge this and decrease negative energy, thoughts, expression and passion
verbal assault. We then can learn and grow from that by which we are linked.
The individualism/difference is where we all have an advantage, to increase and
cement our liberty.
The following is report is from the American
Psychological Association, detailing the importance of recognizing the health
dangers of stress. This is something that is very Chiespirit as it --makes us
consciously consider our creation from God and how we are all linked as one. So
let's start consciously doing some things that are extreme POSITIVE. Knowing
that negative energy will still and always be presence (Ying-Yang). But we can
serve God by loving one another and helping one another come to higher
understanding of our existence on this beautiful planet.
Stress:
We've all felt it. Sometimes stress can be a positive force, motivating
you to perform well at your piano recital or job interview. But often —
like when you're stuck in traffic — it's a negative force. If you
experience stress over a prolonged period of time, it could become
chronic — unless you take action.
A natural reaction
Have you ever found yourself with sweaty hands on a first date
or felt your heart pound during a scary movie? Then you know you can
feel stress in both your mind and body.
This automatic response developed in our ancient ancestors as a
way to protect them from predators and other threats. Faced with
danger, the body kicks into gear, flooding the body with hormones that
elevate your heart rate, increase your blood pressure, boost your energy
and prepare you to deal with the problem.
These days, you're not likely to face the threat of being
eaten. But you probably do confront multiple challenges every day, such
as meeting deadlines, paying bills and juggling childcare that make your
body react the same way. As a result, your body's natural alarm system —
the “fight or flight” response — may be stuck in the on position. And
that can have serious consequences for your health.
Pressure points
Even short-lived, minor stress can have an impact. You might
get a stomach-ache before you have to give a presentation, for example.
More major acute stress, whether caused by a fight with your spouse or
an event like an earthquake or terrorist attack, can have an even bigger impact.
Multiple studies have shown that these sudden emotional stresses — especially anger — can trigger heart attacks, arrhythmias and even sudden death.1
Although this happens mostly in people who already have heart disease,
some people don't know they have a problem until acute stress causes a
heart attack or something worse.
Chronic stress
When stress starts interfering with your ability to live a
normal life for an extended period, it becomes even more dangerous. The
longer the stress lasts, the worse it is for both your mind and body.
You might feel fatigued, unable to concentrate or irritable for no good
reason, for example. But chronic stress causes wear and tear on your body, too.
Stress can make existing problems worse.2 In one
study, for example, about half the participants saw improvements in
chronic headaches after learning how to stop the stress-producing habit
of “catastrophizing,” or constantly thinking negative thoughts about
their pain.3 Chronic stress may also cause disease, either
because of changes in your body or the overeating, smoking and other bad
habits people use to cope with stress. Job strain — high demands
coupled with low decision-making latitude — is associated with increased
risk of coronary disease, for example.4 Other forms of chronic stress, such as depression
and low levels of social support, have also been implicated in
increased cardiovascular risk. And once you're sick, stress can also
make it harder to recover. One analysis of past studies, for instance,
suggests that cardiac patients with so-called “Type D” personalities —
characterized by chronic distress — face higher risks of bad outcomes.5
What you can do
Reducing your stress levels can not only make you feel better right now, but may also protect your health long-term.
In one study, researchers examined the association between
“positive affect” — feelings like happiness, joy, contentment and
enthusiasm — and the development of coronary heart disease over a
decade.6 They found that for every one-point increase in
positive affect on a five-point scale, the rate of heart disease dropped
by 22 percent.
While the study doesn't prove that increasing positive affect
decreases cardiovascular risks, the researchers recommend boosting your
positive affect by making a little time for enjoyable activities every
day.
Other strategies for reducing stress include:
Identify what's causing stress. Monitor your
state of mind throughout the day. If you feel stressed, write down the
cause, your thoughts and your mood. Once you know what's bothering you,
develop a plan for addressing it. That might mean setting more
reasonable expectations for yourself and others or asking for help with
household responsibilities, job assignments or other tasks. List all
your commitments, assess your priorities and then eliminate any tasks
that are not absolutely essential.
Build strong relationships. Relationships
can be a source of stress. Research has found that negative, hostile
reactions with your spouse cause immediate changes in stress-sensitive
hormones, for example.7 But relationships can also serve as
stress buffers. Reach out to family members or close friends and let
them know you're having a tough time. They may be able to offer
practical assistance and support, useful ideas or just a fresh
perspective as you begin to tackle whatever's causing your stress.
Walk away when you're angry. Before you
react, take time to regroup by counting to 10. Then reconsider. Walking
or other physical activities can also help you work off steam. Plus,
exercise increases the production of endorphins, your body's natural
mood-booster. Commit to a daily walk or other form of exercise — a small
step that can make a big difference in reducing stress levels.
Rest your mind. According to APA's 2012 Stress in America survey,
stress keeps more than 40 percent of adults lying awake at night. To
help ensure you get the recommended seven or eight hours of shut-eye,
cut back on caffeine, remove distractions such as television or
computers from your bedroom and go to bed at the same time each night.
Research shows that activities like yoga and relaxation exercises not
only help reduce stress, but also boost immune functioning.8
Get help. If you continue to feel overwhelmed, consult with a psychologist
or other licensed mental health professional who can help you learn how
to manage stress effectively. He or she can help you identify
situations or behaviors that contribute to your chronic stress and then
develop an action plan for changing them.
The American Psychological Association's Practice Directorate
gratefully acknowledges the assistance of David S. Krantz, PhD, Beverly
Thorn, PhD, and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD, in developing this fact
sheet.
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========================================================================= CHI-ESPIRIT Posted By Paul Goree 12/10/2017 Consciously acknowledging all that is in existence upon the earth-as created by God (the creator of the universe). Through Chi-Espirit we can develope a natural appreciation and respect for one another: by which we enable ourselves to LOVE God (by severing him) and Love one another!
14th DALAI LAMA The 14th Dalai Lama: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama . Dalai Lamas are important monk of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism which is formally headed by the Ganden Tripas . From the time of the 5th Dalai Tripas to 1959, the central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang , invested the position of Dalai Lama with temporal duties. The 14th Dalai Lama was born in Taktser village, Amdo, Tiber and was selected as the tulku of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937 and formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama at a public declaration near the town of Bumchen in 1939. His enthronement ceremony as the Dalai Lama was held in Lhasa on 22
February 1940, and he eventually assumed full temporal (political)
duties on 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, after the People Republic of China's incorporation of Tibet. The Gelug school's government administered an area roughly corresponding to the Tibet Autonomous Region just as the nascent PRC wished to assert control over it.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. 14th Dalai Lama
Krishna is a name of the Supreme (God). It means "all- attractive."
Anything that might attract you has its source in the Supreme.
Therefore the Supreme is also known as Rama (rhymes with "drama").
"Rama" means "the highest eternal pleasure." All of us are pleasure-seeking creatures. So you can say that
directly or indirectly we are all seeking Krishna. Chanting Hare
Krishna is a way of seeking Krishna directly. As for the word "Hare" (pronounced huh-ray), it's a call to
Krishna's divine energy. Just as the sun shines forth to us through
its energies like heat and light, the Supreme reveals Himself through
His multitude of energies. If the Supreme is the source of
everything, then whatever we see--and even what we don't see--
belongs to the energy of the Supreme.
Now we're trying to exploit that energy, but the more we try the
more entangled we get and the more complex our life becomes. But when
we place ourselves in harmony with Krishna and Krishna's energy, we
return to our natural, pure state of consciousness. This is what we
call "Krishna consciousness." Krishna consciousness is not something imposed on the mind. On the
contrary, it's already inside of each of us, waiting to come out,
like fire in a match. Chanting Hare Krishna brings out that natural,
pure state of mind.The chant is called a mantra, a vibration of sound that cleanses
the mind, freeing it from anxiety and illusion. And this is a mantra
anyone can chant. It's for people of all religions, all nations, all
colors, and both sexes. No need to pay any fees, join any group, or
turn your life upside down. Whoever you are, whatever you do, you can
try the chanting for yourself and experience its result. Krishna and His energy are fully present in the sound of the
mantra, so even if we don't know the language or intellectually
understand how it works, by coming in touch with Krishna we'll become
happy, and our life will become sublime.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
In a helicopter above the city on Friday, Stephen Wiltshire of
London looked down at the streets and sprawl of New York. He flew for 20
minutes. Since then, working only from the memory of that sight, he has
been sketching and drawing a mighty panorama of the city, rendering the
city’s 305 square miles along an arc of paper that is 19 feet long. He
is working publicly in a gallery at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
“I always memorize by helicopter,” he said on Tuesday, pausing from
detailing the corners of a street on the Brooklyn side of the
Williamsburg Bridge.
Mr. Wiltshire sees and draws. It is how he connects. Until age 5, he had never uttered a word. One day, his kindergarten class at a school for autistic children in London went on a field trip.
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Our Universe is so beautiful!!!
