Death

Throughout recorded history and from every corner of the earth, we have made death the ultimate human tragedy using it as a central theme in an endless stream of real life headlines, operas, movies, television, and books. Because it is a painful experience to say good-bye to those we love, we have created ceremony upon ceremony in the hope it will ease if not erase our pain.

Eventually, though, the natural grieving process gives way to letting us move on; while death caused by accidents, massacres, murders and deviate acts leaves life-altering chasms in our hearts. Sometimes our hearts heal and sometimes they don’t. Not even the passing of eons seems to erase the pain caused by acts of cruelty and terror.

We are still reminded of the Christians who were eaten alive by Lions and of those who have been bludgeoned, buried alive or burned at the stake over thousands of years. There are still many among us who were imprisoned in Hitler’s camps of terror and still awaken each day to the memory of a human sea of living death.

And who was more terrified on that day of horror September 11, 2001? Was it the four pilots who could see what was happening, the passengers who were gripped with fear, or the thousands of people who blinked on one side of reality and awakened on the other? Where did these people go? For those of us who are left behind, how do we stop crying? Does not this give voice to yet another reason why it is important to put a new face on death altogether?

Old Is Not On My Wish List

James Poniewozik, Time Magazine, January 17, 2000 wrote “…remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.”

Old is not on my wish list, of course, but dead isn’t either! Happiness though, like Poniewozik points out, is accepting the inevitable outcome of life is death. Once we do this, an emotional shift of sorts takes place. “Have to” shackles seem less important and many simply disappear.

Day by Day

The Power is in the decision.

Foregoing Individuality

I’ve watched my beloved country grow from 160 million to over 300 million people in just my lifetime. Where once we were proud and strong individualists, we have succumbed to brainwashing. Most recently, my suspicions were bore out when attending a large vendors’ tradeshow. Upon entering the convention center, I was astonished to see a snake-like line of people obediently weaving from one long row onto the next for nearly 20 rows.

Having an interest in 10 or so vendors among the several hundred, I asked two suits standing near the information both, “Why do we have to stand in line?” “You don’t,” they replied. “The first time we sponsored this tradeshow, the people automatically formed a line like the one you see,” they said.

Thousands of people attended that day but only a handful questioned the line. “We have been brainwashed at a deep level," I thought. "It is sad to see my countrymen surrender their freedom of choice and individuality.”

"Want" - What Do You Want?

“Want shall be your master.” When I think deeply on this, I instantly internalize a deeper meaning—a meaning that demands investigation. Want is a word that implies lack and places want-satisfaction in the future if I allow it to own me. There is nothing wrong in wanting anything; want is a necessary part of life, an emotional mixture of enthusiasm and motivation. It is when I allow want to become my master, I make everything beholden to it. If everything in my life is beholden to it, want remains in the future. Since the future does not exist except within my idea about it, what I want becomes a vaporous prison.

Thoughts are Collaborative Singularities

Thoughts are energy living forever and transforming into a collaborative singularity. They never die. And since they don’t, our thoughts attract their thought-counterparts. For example, simple self-doubt resides in the third band, deception of the senses. We secretly don’t think we are good enough. If unchecked, self-doubt will attract its thought-counterparts from the deception of senses. It will gnaw and irritate our sense of well being, sometimes for years.

Self-doubt, therefore, lives through us growing more powerful as we entertain its feelings or dissipates when we accept with knowing, “For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are.” I Cor 3:16. When alcohol, drug, sex, and food addicts fight their addictions with their wills, they do battle bound and gagged. Ask a genuine intuit anywhere on the planet, and they will tell you disincarnate addicts attach themselves to the nap of the neck and influence their host—like in, “Why not, go ahead and do it; it feel good; I want to.”

Evil Is Black And Thick

If only for a second, everyone on earth has experienced the force from one of the seven vibrational pulses. Sadness begets sadness form the third band as does self-depreciation and judgment. It’s so simple to understand but so difficult to explain. I must admit though, even with a flash of spiritual insight, I was never convinced until I lived in the former Soviet Bloc countries about the same time The Wall fell.

The moment I stepped off the plane, I could feel the despair, pain, and evil as I walked. It was that unwanted thick, heavy feeling from the ground up to my knees, thinning out as it reached my knees. Over many decades, deep human anguish had filled the vortex, as did unthinkable torture and hate from the Holocaust, the death and destruction from World War II, and Communists rule. It blanketed the earth with invisible sludge.