Just like a computer...we can't expect to receive what we ask the Divine for unless we are in a quiet, patient and receptive mode. We have to be actively waiting to receive the form our desire will manifest in so that when the notification- "Do you want to receive this?"- pops up in our life we see it so that we can choose to accept. Otherwise, if we are in the other room cleaning the drapery we are going to miss the opportunity.
Being in a Receptive Mode is not a normal mode for me. Both of my parents were the type of the people who were always active. They were always doing. Even now it's very uncomfortable for me to sit down and watch television because I feel lazy. Yet, receptive doesn't mean lazy. Instead, it means to be in a state of receiving. When we are constantly active we never enter the state of receiving. Instead, we're in the constant state of action or transmitting. Yet, if we don't take time for the opposite end of the spectrum, being receptive, we never reach that point where we can receive. Being On Bed Rest Earlier this year I was on Bed Rest. From March through August I wasn't able to go upstairs to sleep in my bedroom. I wasn't able to do my household chores. Because of an aversion to the smell of cooking meat or warm olive oil I couldn't make meals. I couldn't even do the lifting and bending associated with filling the Dishwasher! I have to say...it was extremely frustrating! I wasn't on a catheter so I was allowed to move around and sit. I changed from the couch that folded out to a bed to a recliner when I could lay on my back, and once my belly became to big to close the leg rest of the recliner, I moved to a normal coach with lots of pillows stacked up so I was sitting up to sleep so I could scoot to the side to get off of it. For the most part, by July I felt like a turtle on it's back most of the time! Yet, it was a good way to practice being in a receptive mode. There isn't much else you can do...and luckily I still was active with making my YouTube videos and writing my blog. I also read a lot of books as you can tell by the book reviews. Thanks to my Tibetan Singing Bowls in the last week I was able to do a active meditation which had been sorely missing my life. Usually I would practice active mediation while in the garden or doing chores. Yet, for the most part I was forced to be in a receptive mode. What Does A Receptive Mode Mean? Moses didn't hear the still small voice of Spirit until he was in a receptive mode. Usually, it is when we are finally able to clear our mind of all of it's useless chatter and really be quiet that we can be receptive. To reach that state of quietude takes quite a bit of discipline. In our modern world from the time we are little and enter grade school we are told to act, act, and act. As the Nike ad says- Just Do It. Yet, when we are in this constant state of action we are not in a mode to receive from the universe or others. Because we are doing for ourselves constantly we often only receive or experience what we have sown when it smacks us over our head. In a receptive mode you allow things to come to you instead of going out to get them. The answers can come in the form of dreams, messages through your favorite people or through random events that crop up throughout your day. While I can meditate all day, to sit and simply be quiet without focusing on my breath or performing my Heavenly Light meditation was a new experience. Sometimes, I would just sit and watch the lovely plants that were across from where I lay in the month of July. I'd watch how the sunlight traveled across their leaves as the day wore on and watch their new leaves grow across the many days. This was, in some ways, a meditation...but to be just be like that with no goal in mind was new. Receptivity and Manifestation When we put restrictions on how we want to manifest reality it can develop slowly. In my experience, the most important part is letting go of the desire to actively *make* something happen. This is really hard for me to do myself because of how I was raised. I was taught, things only happen in this world because you *make* them happen. As though, no matter what you try to do in this world something will try to resist you. Yet, what I have learned in the recent three years is that the opposite is true. To receive our desires we have to let them go and then...wait to receive. If ware not in a receptive mode we might miss opportunities that would have given us what we wanted. Only when we are in a state of observation can we receive our blessings. There were numerous sales that had I been in an active, "Got to get this done now," mode I would have missed out on. Because I took a wait and see approach, putting items in my shopping carts online (since I couldn't go to the store to shop!) that I wanted and waiting to see if a sale or coupon came along...I saved a lot of money. I ended up buying a mattress for our crib for one quarter of the price that it was normally. I was shocked...but the one that I wanted which was a premium and made for our crib came up as on sale randomly one day...when none of the other mattresses were on sale! If I had taken the usual approach of being proactive and just buying it as soon as I decided we needed it...I wouldn't have gotten it at that awesome sales price. Receiving One of my favorite Pledian channeled messages from Wendy Kennedy stated, "When what you wanted to manifest arrives you are no longer there!" This really speaks to the need to go into a receptive mode. When we send out our request to the universe we have to wait and practice patience. If we move onto the next thing we are not going to be in a receptive mode to receive that first request. In a way, that sends a signal to the universe that what we wanted to manifest first is not all that important to us. The trick then, is to put in the order, let it go and then go into a patient receptive mode. Otherwise, we are sending all sorts of requests into the universe and we'll never receive the previous requests. This also brings up the need to be clear and to really want the things that we are requesting. If we really want something we will be patient and wait for it to arrive in our lives. Of course, we may have to put some work into it as the opportunity comes up (for example, with my pregnancy there were steps to getting to the point of being pregnant- surgery, finding the right doctor...but each step appeared in a natural way as I was open to receiving the information). Conclusion We are so active in our day to day lives in the West. I often wake up with a huge to-do list in my mind. I have 'major' to do lists on the refrigerator door. I see them every morning as I reach in to get my milk reminding of what I need to get done. Not being active is not something I was taught as a child. Yet, being on bed rest more or less forced me to be in receptive mode. To recognize the world around me. To listen to the messages that I receive from friends and loved ones. To really connect with the world. Edgar Cacye says that Patience is one of the Fruits of the Spirit which we learn in Physical Matter Reality. Buddhism teaches that cultivating patience is a virtue. I've realized that patience really equates to being receptive. We can learn to receive life on life's terms and things flow naturally with no effort. There are amazing opportunities that the universe hands to us all of the time but because we are being active in the areas where we are not trying to manfiest something...we miss them. There has to be a balance of transmitting and receiving. Most people, when we talk to others, don't fill the entire experience with our own chatter without waiting for replies. What's the point of communicating if we don't practice being silent and listening to the other person? The same applies to working as a co-creator with the Divine.
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I've written about this before but I only mentioned it briefly. I wanted to update and expand on this subject because it's really important. You can find the link to the original blog I labeled as this topic.
This is a strategy that I have employed many times in the past. The words that we use and the stories we tell ourselves...and others about our lives actually creates them. I was once very pessimistic...oh who am I kidding? I was super depressed and had major anxiety. Some days I couldn't motivate myself to get out of bed let alone leave the house! I grew up feeling very lonely and unsupported by the universe. The mantra I had learned as a child was, "Life sucks and then you die," along with, "I am nobody, nothing, no one." If every word, action and deed creates our reality what I was creating was a 'life that sucks' and 'death.' I would tell myself this every time that I hit a set back. Then I would dwell on that set back like crazy. That was the internal story I repeated to myself...my early journals are full of statements such as, "I'll never find someone to love," and, "I'll always be alone." Wow! Talk about creating a reality that I didn't want! Yet, no one told me that my words were powerful and that my attitude about life creates my experiences. I had no other example as the people I attracted into my life were equally negative and had the same attitude that they were a victim...and that life was punishment. That produced a lot of reinforcement for the negative beliefs that I held...worse yet, when I told people how I felt they told me that I was having a pity party and I needed to "knock it off." Being told to "Knock it off," or that, "Tomorrow will be better," or any of the platitudes that people with depression or anxiety receive from those who don't have this frame of mind doesn't work. However, I am here to tell you those states of mind are not permanent and a person can transform themselves. If you find that you have a similar reinforcing negative belief system the best way I learned to deal with it was to, "Fake It Until You Make It." Now, some will sit there and say that is not being authentic. Well, this work does need to be done along with the work I've outlined as we worked through the chakras...healing the inner child, working on giving and receiving affection, reclaiming our will-power, recognizing/integrating our Shadow and learning to communicate. What You Resist Persists Three years ago when I was going through the Darkest Night of My Soul (see a YouTube video on that here: https://youtu.be/aA-OWeBtujQ) my friend Michael did a reading for me. He told me this very potent phrase and it really hit home. At the time I was resisting accepting my daughters death. I was resisting the grieving process. I didn't want to lose her a second time by giving up on her and I felt I needed to grieve to remember her the rest of my life...that I shouldn't be allowed to be happy because I hadn't fought hard enough to protect her. Here is where working with your Shadow is so important. This is a huge phase of self-healing because as long as you resist the Shadow you're going to keep subconsciously reworking the same pattern of behavior expecting a different result. This isn't on a conscious level and you may go through a cycle where you feel better even if you don't deal with your shadow. Eventually you will have something minor go wrong which will send you spiraling down the drain of despair and the shadow will be bigger and stronger then before! Usually, this subconscious program happens as a result of childhood trauma. That's when we originally start constructing our Shadow as a coping mechanism to survive. At that time we are at the mercy of our parents when it comes to constructing our reality. Once we hit 21, however, we can't sit here and continue to blame our parents. At this point, we are adults, and we have the full rights and capacity to start creating our own personal reality. We must face and integrate the Shadow...all that we have resisted, rejected and all that we have repressed for the sake of survival. As long as we resist and repress...it will control our lives on a subconscious level and we will never understand why we make the poor decision that lead us to such despair over and over again. To really get this ship corrected it's going to require an entire overhaul. Simply 'thinking happy thoughts' will not do the trick...we're are going to have to literally reprogram our thinking. Fake It Until You Make It Twice I had the rug pulled out from under me. Spirit and my soul really conspired for me to end up on the Spiritual Path that I walked and to reach this point in my life. I can see how it was my primary goal to do this work and share it. Spirit just wasn't going to let me sleep through this incarnation! This is called the Wounded Healer Archetype. I can't say that was ever my conscious intention prior to the work I've done in the last four years to ever write a blog like this one or make YouTube videos. However, since this was a life lesson it didn't come all that naturally and I really had to put in some mental elbow grease. When I left my ex-husband a broken being and when I became utterly annihilated by the loss of my daughter I didn't think things could become better again. In both cases I thought my life was over. I left my jobs, which in both cases (in my mind at least) had given me value as a person and defined me. I left the people I knew at those jobs and my entire way of life behind which was very hard. In both cases I had to start my life over completely. Going From Toxic To Healthy What I had to learn was the Fake It Until You Make It Strategy. You can't go from being an extremely negative pessimistic being to an enlightened happy peaceful being with the snap of your fingers or a magic pill (and I can say that the psychiatric drugs are absolutely not going to help you when it comes to your thinking...they will turn you into a walking zombie that makes you groggy and feel like your walking in a fog but that's it). Reprogramming your thinking take effort. You're going to have to go through the Hermit Phase of the Awakening experience and that's fine! First, turn off the news and television. Start paying attention to what your filling your mind with...have you been watching conspiracy theories on YouTube? Turn that off! Do you watch a sitcom on television and wish your life was like that...put it to the side for a little while (none of what Hollywood writes is ever grounded in reality). As they say...if you put garbage in you're going to get garbage out! The Fake It Until You Make it strategy means that when I felt absolutely horrible I had to say I was fantastic. Not because that's what other people wanted to hear (I am a rebel, I'd prefer to tell them what they don't want to hear) but because feeling that way was *MY* goal. I applied this strategy for my well being happiness and...I had to do it despite of other people because I had surrounded myself with some pretty negative ones. Again, this is reprogramming your mind. When someone asks you how you are doing and you share all of the personal woes of your life with them...you are placing an order with the universe. You are saying on a subconscious level, "Ooh, this is part of my identity, this gives me something to talk about and makes me interesting...I want more of this!" If you have a buddy at work or that you call to share all of the woes of the world with...where you compare who has it worse and who is suffering more...you're just reinforcing the negative experiences that you share with them. (This is different from venting...venting is just discussing an event that perturbed you and with the right friends they can help you see the bright side or see that you're over reacting or solve the problem- that is healthy...but competing for who has the worse life is definitely not!). By participating in such a conversation you are reinforcing the story of, "I want to win the competition for the worst life ever!" Then the universe goes, "Your wish is my command!" Then it gives you more misery...because that's what you asked for right? Miserable people always try to out do each other on the miserable victim scale...because it gives them an excuse not to put much effort into life or changing their life. Since they have an excuse they can use that to make others feel guilty and get benefits for it...usually more days off of work, their spouse shouldering most of the financial burden or it allows them to say unkind things 'they don't really mean but they're going through a lot.' Eventually you'll discover that this type of person has a label...we call them toxic. If you want a Debbie Downer in your life that's constantly saying they are a loser and they aren't ever going to get what they want...well, you're just looking to be abused. Most of the time these people are narcissists. I will admit I was utterly and completely toxic myself at points in my life. When you first start off on this path you need to cut these toxic people out of your life...especially if that's the majority of the people that you spend your time with because they are reinforcing your negative reality experience (don't worry, after you have a firm grasp on a new reality it's not hard to deal with them, although, they may try to avoid you or change you back because you're no longer on the same mental page which will make them feel very uncomfortable). Fake It Until You Make It At the heart of this strategy is doing exactly what I said...Faking it until you make it your reality. No matter how bad your day has been reply, "I'm fantastic," whenever your asked and, better yet, make it a rule to ask every person you interact with how their day is...and you will create the opportunity to tell them your day is fantastic (plus, if they are a service person such as Starbucks, A Grocery Clerk or Cashier, Bank Teller or a Fast Food worker you'll have the satisfaction of watching them react with shock, their eyes light up and 95% of the time they'll react with gratitude...and ask how your day is giving you the opportunity to tell them that you are Fantastic!) Eventually, you'll start to say this with great enthusiasm, reflexively and before long it will become true. People's reactions to that reply are startling. Some people will go, "Man I wish I could answer that way! I like you!" Some may say, "Oh really?" very sarcastically (maybe because they've never had a fantastic day in their life and they don't have the capacity to believe someone be fantastic). Some may just remain silent and try to get out of your presence as soon as possible. That can be a fun part of the experience...paying attention to who reacts to the statement in what way. Pay attention to the body language of that person because you'll notice it's the people who are either very happy or moderately happy that will respond enthusiastically to that statement. Don't you want to attract more people like that into your life...don't you want your work environment to consist of people who are happy to be there and deep meaningful relationships with happy people? The overwhelmingly positive response helps to reinforce the feeling. People may be curious to see why you can respond that way asking, "What's going on that's so good in your life?" Then you can tell them that you're starting off on an amazing road of transformation! By putting out that positive energy you will get it back ten fold. For some reason, the negative types will just flee into the shadows (however, if you dwell on the negative the boogymen will start coming out of the woodwork making your life severely difficult...and if you don't integrate your shadow it will come back bigger and scarier then ever if you experience a set back...as long as you are in that dualistic state of Shadow/Persona you're going to experience periods of joy and despair but the Fake It Until You Make It strategy can help even those out until you achieve unification). Conclusion Every word we say sends out an intention into the world...people in the spiritual community call this a vibration. The cosmos is created to respond to our desires/needs and wants without bias...it sends back to us the same energetic vibration we send out. If we focus on the negative...we will create more of that experience. Often, it does benefit in some subconscious way...allowing us the time we need to rest that we may not allow ourselves to otherwise or giving us an excuse to not even put forth the effort to try and make our lives better...because why bother if you have a self-sabotaging personality? As our mind set changes and we start to wake up to focusing on the positive...we start celebrating the small victories. Waking up every day at 8am if that's our goal instead of sleeping all day. Eating a small container of Ben & Jerry's ice cream or celebrating the completion of a new project. Celebrate the minor accomplishments and you'll graduate to the bigger ones. Eventually, you'll learn to let go of the small stuff. You learn not to sweat the small stuff or dwell on what goes wrong...wishing that you could go back into the past to change it and constantly being caught off guard when the same event occurs again. One day you'll wake up and realize you do feel fantastic...when someone asks you how you're doing you'll say, "Fantastic!" without hesitation and your life will start reflecting that...work won't be so much of a chore, doing errands won't be a chore and you'll attract extremely positive healthy relationships into your life...and that my friends is Manifestation! Now, this stage only applies early on in your Spiritual Awakening. Although, this stage is a huge accomplishment! There are much bigger and better states of mind on the horizon as we continue! Finally, here is a blog where I celebrated the success of this technique two years ago: https://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/category/fake-it-until-you-make-it. Today, I'm going to start off with a few announcements.
Yes, this is an extra blog for this week...specifically for Friday when I usually intend to post my YouTube videos. I have decided that the amount of pressure I've put on myself to keep up with posting two blogs and a YouTube video every week is a bit much. I knew I wasn't going to be able to keep it up once Baby Michelle is here but as I go into the more serious period of this pregnancy (20-26 weeks) I have decided to cut back. I've experienced a lot of fatigue and even some pain this week. That can make it very difficult to concentrate. The YouTube videos in particular are time consuming. I usually put them together over the course of three days. That is a lot of time. At the moment I am most excited about sharing the YouTube videos so I've decided that is a priority over the blog. I am also working on a very complex Tree of Life drawing that I hope to have done sometime prior to August which is a priority. I am not sure how much time I will have for art once Baby Michelle is here...and this drawing is for her. Every Wednesday I'll post a blog and I will post a YouTube video every weekend. The YouTube video may go up on Saturday or Sunday depending on how the rest of the week goes. This is completely based on my schedule and what I find easiest. For some reason I have no problem posting my Wednesday blog. Monday's are always hard. Friday is usually taken up by my weekly OB appointment...so the YouTube video ends up being posted on the weekend when I'm not competing with my husband for the internet connection. So, to reiterate...you can expect a new blog on Wednesday and a YouTube video to be posted with the background/added information on Saturday or Sunday. By far I am not done here. There is so much more I want to explore and say. I am very excited to share with all of you the newest phase in my life. New State Of Mind Part of this also comes from a new state of mind that I have. First, I have covered a lot of information in this blog over the years. A lot of information. I think that it's easy to see the evolution of my Path in these posts. They start off really confused and searching. Even last year, when I was trying to comprehend the symbolism of the Beast that showed up a lot in the movies I was confused and still fear based. Over the last year I have really blossomed. I have worked through major issues and hurdles. The last four years have been a heck of a learning curve and I've hit that phase where all of it was completely worth it. Each time I reach a new plateau of peace it amazes me. I share this journey with you not out of a desire to be a guru. I don't desire to have followers. There is a reason I don't provide you a way to contact me. I don't want you to look at me to save you or anything special...I want you to do the work for yourself. Read what I have to share and take what resonates with you in this blog and move on with your Path. Yes, it is a form of teaching but most importantly it's a form of *sharing*. I find this incredibly useful when working with people in the various FB groups that I am in...I can send them a link to a well written blog or a video. I don't have to go into a full description *every* time I am responding to a specific question. I still have a lot of information and insights that I want to share but the intent has, for the most part, changed. No Need To Save The World Part of this desire to take it easy and not push myself so hard with sharing content is due to a shift in my perception. This shift has been there for quite some time but I've reached the point where I understand it completely. I have absolute Trust in the Natural Order of Life itself...call it the One Creator...call it All-That-Is....The Force...God...or the Immaterial World. Whatever works for you to connect with an idea of a Higher Power. The need to save the world is an Ego Trap. Yes, we have all been taught and the burden was placed on the Millennial's to make this world a better place. Yet, one person alone cannot make this change and it isn't something that we achieve by 'doing' in the outer world or forcing our will on the outer world...but by transforming our inner state of being. We awaken to our gifts. To the fact that we are an Empath. That we can read others. That we can do energy work. That we can speak to or see the restless Spirits...or that we are healers. Then we feel this need to do something as a result. We feel we have been given this tremendous responsibility and there has to be this huge reason. Well, there is a huge reason but it doesn't have to do with the outer world. Everyone in this world has these gifts to varying degrees. I felt this way too...at my lowest point. I felt as though there was something I needed to be doing and I thought it was other oriented and that it was going to help save the world in some way. I felt as though it was this huge burden and that there was some force of evil holding me back...but I was totally wrong. There was something evil holding me back but it rested within my own mind... The need to make a difference in the world is a huge Ego Trap. The road to hell, as the metaphor goes, is paved with good Intentions. Hitler thought he was going to make the world a better place...so did Stalin and Mussolini. In their minds the best way forward was for them to reshape all of Creation into their own image. How very...Devil like...clearly they thought that their version of Creation was better then the One Creator's who didn't seem to be directly involved and seemed to be letting things go to hell in a hand basket. The Ego, especially as you start out on this Path, tries to distract you with anything that it can. The whole 'life purpose' and 'being here for a reason you must fulfill' nonsense is a huge part of that trap. I don't think it helps that society tries to reinforce that bull pucky. Feeling the need to convince others of the importance of the Path is also an Ego Trap. Free Will is sacred and out of the knowledge of that sacredness we must honor every person and their choices. If someone is meant to come to the Path they will reach places of information such as this Blog or my YouTube Channel...it cannot be forced. They will do a search and they will be lead by Spirit to the information that will serve them at the point of the spiritual path they have reached. Perhaps they enjoy my epiphanies. Maybe I've laid out a path here that others can follow. That is my greatest hope. Yes, in some ways, it is true that you are meant to share information and help people...but too often the need to grow a business from doing energy work taints the work. Once it becomes revenue and your livelihood depends on it...the message can be harder for people to reach when they are most in need. Through these online groups and going to the Learning Light Center I learned something incredibly important. There are hints of it when you study these subjects. The fact Maslow believed the Self-Actualized person being only 1% of this population, for example, and Enlightened people being super rare. This is because a lot of people just aren't interested in this information. A lot of people are not willing to take a long hard look in the mirror at themselves. This is work...and it's not something that someone can give you. They want to fight something outside of them rather then turning to tame the beast within. I can give you all of the information that I have gathered about how I saved myself... how I reached this profound Sense of Peace and Harmony with Creation. Yet, it is up to you to decide and apply this information on your own. I have full and complete trust that this Awakening with so many people has already completely transformed this planet. We are going to watch the pieces shift into place and it will play out...but the change has already been achieved. The results of a good profound change always takes awhile to be seen in the outer world. More people will spontaneously Awaken as a result. There were just some who had to lift themselves up by the boot straps first...to kind of pull humanity upward and it had to reach a critical mass before it would trigger the Awakening in everyone else. The Proof Is In The Pudding I am currently reading Thomas Campbell's, "My Big TOE." (T.O.E. is an acronym for Theory of Everything). One of my favorite parts of his book is how he explains that it's the results...tasting the pudding...of our work that indicates it's value. Has the belief system or the things you have undertaken to further your spiritual path or further develop your consciousness brought to you what the Christians call the fruit of the Spirit or what the Buddhists would call Enlightenment? Have they eased your personal psychological/spiritual burden? Is there a part of you that says that you're a flawed being unable to reach that state of being...so why even bother? These are good questions to ask yourself. Comparing and Contrasting This last week was a trying one for me. I celebrated the anniversary of my daughter Lilith-Ann's death and I dealt with the fear of losing my mother who was fighting for her life in a hospital after a random car accident. I was profoundly shocked at how well I took all of it...these events would have torn me to pieces two years ago...but I was optimistic and hopeful. I was okay with the idea of my mother passing away. I had told her everything I had ever wanted to tell her in my life...that she's an awesome mother, that I am so thankful for her and she is by far my favorite person to reincarnate with! I knew I would see her again and that she is always with me in Spirit...even while alive I know I am not very far from her thoughts. In this contemplative mood sat down with my journals from 2014-2015. I was looking for the Past Life Reading I had written down in detail and the details about some dreams that I had at that time. I will share with you some of the information I found and the profound level of beauty that my Past Life Regression continues to have on me...like a time capsule where I continue to unpack the awesomeness of that experience. What really blew me away, however, had nothing to do with the content. Instead, it was the amazing amount of suffering that those entries contained. The darkness of my words were mind boggling to me...I remember thinking that way but it is so incomprehensible to who I am now I was dumbstruck by how much I have evolved consciously. Sometimes I look back at my entries in this blog from 2015 and I see the same thing...so much pain and confusion. Even in some of the entries from last year amaze me. The Path of the Seeker has not been a straight one...but a convoluted one with many dead ends. For me, the process of my transformation has been a little bit at a time. I find it a lot like the pile of rocks that I have dug out of my garden. One by one I pulled these bits of myself out of my mental garden that was preventing me from growing properly. I examined each (and if you know me...you know I love our mineral brothers and sisters- i.e. rocks!) and decided if they served me or not. When they did not I added them to a big pile but the process was slow. Now, going back and reading the way my mind worked back in 2014 and 2015 I feel extraordinarily grateful. The transformation is so complete and so profound that I don't feel like that person. That person, with that old habitual negativity that was suffering so much has passed away and I have been truly been reborn in Spirit. Like the phoenix I have risen up from that past into something far greater then I thought possible. The profound peace that I tap into every day in meditation...is beyond compare. I have defied the odds. I have seen miracles and the raw power of prayer. I am the person I always wanted to be...and every day is a chance to test this new state of being...to exercise patience, love and understanding with each and every person I meet. Choose Life I went to see my mother this past Monday. She is now home from the hospital after her harrowing brush with death and her miraculous overcoming of the ventilator. She has always been told that if she was put on a ventilator that she would never come off of it because she has emphysema. Yet, she did. I went to say goodbye to her on Friday the 23rd of March. I wanted to tell her that if she chose to go I understood. Her body is tired and she has live a full life. My Dad had lead me to believe that there was little chance of her coming back. While I was there at her bedside, however, she woke up and I knew she was going to be okay. She told me there was a point where the doctor told her the night of March 22nd, "You either go on the ventilator so that you live or you die. The choice is yours." That's one way to face your worst fears. She thought the ventilator meant life support and death. When I gave birth to and lost Lilith-Ann I faced all of my fears but I fell apart. She has handled all of this with so much grace that I am in awe of her. She has lost her ability to drive, my dad literally took away her keys, because her health is just too poor to take the risk. She is willingly giving up all of the things that she has told me for years defined her...her lifestyle and she is doing it with such gusto that I can only be grateful because they are changes I have seen she needed to make for years...but nothing could force her to make these choices. That is the power of Free Will. She told me that she surprised herself by choosing life and then she told me, "Always Choose Life." What a profound statement. I too had come to that point where I chose to Live. For me, that point on the path was far more subtle. I have to admit that it was only within the last few months that I really 'got it' and that shift has been profound. I will have to cover this topic and along with what I think is it's cause more in depth in an upcoming blog. As I explained, I thought once I really owned the experience of Oneness...once I started to see the One Creator in all beings, in all things...I thought that was the end. I really thought, when I started my journey on this Path that you reached Enlightenment and that it was time to bust out of "Prison Earth". These are the stories you get told by so many Spiritual charlatans. Only, I had pledged to be with Ross the rest of our days here. I couldn't imagine leaving my friends and loved ones. So, when I had the dream about Oneness and that something bigger then me acknowledged that I had passed that test I didn't know where I was supposed to go from there? I thought that was the entire point and reason for the experience of life...to realize our Oneness with the One Creator...but life ground on and I was aware I am still here for some reason. I was puzzled, though, what was the purpose of remaining here? Where was the great epiphany for having reached this level of understanding? Did I really need to be incarnate anymore? Where was the benefit....or as we like to say when striking a business deal, "What's in it for me?" I was still seeking to find what my purpose was in all of this...what I could do to help save the world which so many in the Media (whether it's Fox News or the L.A. Times or the Gaia channel) believe is circling the drain...but as I said that was just an Ego Trap I needed to wake up from. The Greatest Service The greatest service that we can do is to choose to live for our friends, family, neighbors and the world. By remaining and serving as an example to others. The profound shift I saw in my mother this past week was merely evidence of what I have talked about before...just by being fully present moment by moment we trigger changes in others. The huge difference between the day before and after I sent out my prayer request for my mother (against my fathers wishes) was amazing. Over fifty of my friends and family prayed for her...and she did the impossible...she came off of that ventilator...and she's a living miracle. I've seen other miracles on this journey. Those stories have been told in previous posts. The most unlikely random things have happened that have transformed people's lives for the better. Being an example of how one person can do this internal work, attain this level of peace and then watch miracles unfold around them...is the greatest service I can do the world. We have a subtle influence on every person we encounter. Our loving actions can transform someones day or their entire life. What may be a small gesture on our part sends out tremendous ripples throughout creation. In business they have a saying. One bad experience breeds 100's of bad impressions. That applies to human beings as well...expressing love and understanding to one person (or that you just give a shit by acknowledging them as a human being that has infinite value) causes them to go out and transfer that love/understanding to everyone they meet. I have to tell you, it doesn't require any work on my part at this point...yes, the transformation itself was work. There was a point that required mental elbow grease...but at this point...it all flows...obstacles that would daunt me before just melt away into nothingness. Each time something is blown up to be a big deal...the issue is resolved effortlessly...I've just learned it just takes faith, trust and patience on my part. Conclusion I recently shared the dreams that I had with you...the one where I meat Jesus in the Garage and the One Creator 'removed the car trailer' from the garage of my house. Little did I realize that he house across the street really belonged to me. I didn't realize it then but it was a new state of mind that had been prepared for me. Now I'm dreaming of living in a new house where things are being installed. I realize now that this is a New State of Mind- a New Mansion as it would be called in the Bible. A deep peacefulness where I just mind my own business, continue to follow through with the motions of the life I have chosen...primarily that of motherhood...and stop worrying about the rest. I let the rest of it go... Trust and patience. Those two words would have irritated the heck out of me four years ago. Of course, I had no one to tell me they were sending me love or that I need to trust and have patience. That everything was okay and that there is a divine order and that miracles are possible. I didn't have anyone to role model the behavior and attitude that I have come to appreciate. Our first reaction to the unknown tends to be to fight...to resist...to take action. Yet, that shows a deep lack of faith...and a tremendous amount of Ego to think what we will to happen is all that is...even if it negatively affects others. That only through our own personal will power and limited vision would be the way to 'fix' things in our life. If I were to sum up my newest state of mind in the most generalized way possible it would be..."To be fully present in the moment so that I can choose to respond in the most loving matter to uncertainty, chaos and attack because I trust in a Higher Power." Jesus had this trick down, and right now I'm learning it...and I'm sure I'll continue to learn it and practice it with my kids....goodness knows what little bit I know about children I will need love and paitence. So, right now, at this part of my Path this is my focus and my current set of life lessons. When Jesus said, "Come to me all of you who are burdened and weary and I will give you rest. Take my burden upon you for my yoke is easy and my burden is light," in Matthew 11:28- 30 he was inviting us to be like him and through becoming like him we experience the fruit of the spirit. Dogma has made it so much less then that...saying only that we need to believe that he is God incarnate to be saved...removing all personal responsibility and the possibility of self-transformation. Such a waste, such shame and such a sin that those pastors and preachers are teaching people helplessness and disempowerment. I with the Grace of the One Creator have reached this point...it's a relationship based on trust that gives rise to a deep unshakable knowingness...I know this body is just a temporary physical vessel that my soul took up for the purpose of learning to Know Myself...and that even when this vessel dies and this life as Bridget is over...I will go on into eternity playing my part in this beautiful well orchestrated Creation. The proof is in the pudding...I've done so much work on myself, I have tended my mental garden to the point where I can now choose how I respond to each situation I encounter. I'm not perfect. I still need practice but I get it now...and I see a much large picture then I ever imagined in wondering the Path of the Seeker. There is so much space, time and love that I have no need for knee-jerk reactions. If an opportunity is missed I realize that it has happened for a reason and I'm still learning. Yet, I can see how far I have come and I can marvel at that...while looking at humanity with the hope and knowledge that I am not the only one...that there are others out there moving and evolving in this direction that will transform the perspective of the world. Do you choose life and love? Or... Do you choose death and a war against the world that consists of your brothers and sisters? Which path do you really think will bring you the most inner peace? As always you have Free Will and it is your choice. As I conveyed in last weeks blogs about the Law of Attraction and Synchronicity I have had a lot of indications that I needed to let go. In one day, there were a bunch of items that talked about letting go...a card from one of the sites I follow, a video by Victor Oddo, and even today there was a weekly tarot card reading by Doreen Virtue that talked about...yup transformation.
I have discovered some of the things that I have been carrying with me when it comes to old grudges from the past. Not only did I not need to bring up those old issues when examining future choices and situations...I realized I needed to completely let go of the person that I have been for the past two years. Transformation I know all of us can look to the past and see how we have transformed. The person we were five, teen or fifteen years ago almost seems foreign to us. We definitely transform from one era of our life to another and usually in a subtle progression that we are not even aware of during the transformation. There is a concept, however, that is better suited for rapid growth. I know, personally, I'm desiring some rapid growth. I have , for two years, been captive to a situation that I faced for a very short period of time, about one month of upheaval, and I've been stuck in that past holding onto all of the emotional fall out that occurred because of what happened. What I realized last night is that I don't need to be that person anymore. In fact, I don't even recognize the person I was in January of this year I have changed and grown so much. What I've Been Creating I realized that in my closest relationship, the one with my husband, I've been creating a sense of being unsupported. This started two years ago when my daughter was born prematurely and died because her lungs were not developed enough for her to live normally. I pushed everyone away when she died...the pain was just so great that just to function I couldn't focus on it. I couldn't say my daughters name for over a year without falling into a crying fit and having a panic attack. My biggest issue is that I felt the Creator had turned it's back on me by allowing my daughter to die. Not only did I feel unsupported by my family, friends, and even my spouse...but I felt unsupported by the universe itself. I projected that feeling, on a subconscious level, onto my husband. Part of it was that I simply wasn't communicating with him as I had when we first met. When we first met I was very bold and blunt. I was very much a take me as I am or not at all person who stood my ground. I know that I've been creating this sense of being unsupported by him, that he supports his friends and family more than he does me, through my actions. However, I also realize that I stopped looking to him for support in a lot of ways. Our path diverged as I went through my healing process because I turned back to my spirituality to find some meaning in it all. He has no desire for finding meaning in anything. I lean more on my friends than I do him when I want advice or I need to vent. Our communication level went down a lot in the last two years. I simply stopped talking about a lot of things with him. He is not spiritual like I am so I can't talk to him about new avenues of interest I've come across in that area. I have plenty of friends that are interested, however, and so I find communion with them. I have other areas of support for all of the areas that my husband can't relate to me. That has given me a sense of not having much support from him. Yet, it's not that he doesn't support me and my decisions...he does, it's just there haven't been a lot of decisions that involved him in the past two years. The past two years have been intensely personal for me and the process of extracting myself from the grief I experienced was difficult. A Little Taste As I said before I have known about the Law of Attraction for almost a decade. Hardly anyone knew about it back then. Bashar, for the most part, and his description is what fundamentally began to help me understand how it works in the last two years. This has helped me a lot to recover and make the necessary changes to get back to being self-confident. Then I had a little taste of it working recently. This little taste is giving me the hope and the inspiration to reach out further...to grown in new ways and restored my faith little by little. A New Me The concept I've latched onto in the last twenty four hours and really embraced is that I am a new person. In this moment, right now, I have the memories of all of the events in my life...but I also have a choice. That choice is to see myself as a completely new person and that those experiences no longer belong to me. I don't have to operate the rest of my life based on those past experiences. I don't have to carry them forward with me. I don't have to own them. In a sense, I can look back at them as though they were a past life. Maybe, that's why I don't feel very old, although when I was in my teens I thought thirty was old (and I'm thirty four). I almost feel as though I've gone through multiple life times in this life. I was a different person in every city that I moved to...sometimes I was the popular kid and sometimes I was the outcast. I was the video gaming twenty year old who played MMORPG (only role playing games) into the wee hours of the night. I was the woman who's ex-husband nearly killed her and then claimed he had no memory of the event. I was the angsty writer who actually got published. I was the powerful business woman who was going to work her way into corporate and change companies for the better of everyone. Then I was the grieving mother locked into being stuck between depression about a past I could not change filled with regret and extreme anxiety about the future. There have been many other versions of me too. Even more amazing is that I realized I am not that person anymore, they were roles I played for a short period of time. That's all they were, just roles, that I played for a short duration. I do not need to carry their burdens forward. Almost like past lives, I can leave their stories, their psychological burdens, their short comings and their tragedies in the past. I can carry forward the major lessons I learned about myself and the behaviors that did not benefit me...but I don't have to continue their story. A Fresh Start Starting today, I'm not going to look to the past to define my future. This is a new book, and this is the very first page in a very new chapter with a very different character than I have ever played. I have learned a lot of valuable lessons that I can apply to the future. Yet, I have the ability to write my future, starting from today, with every act I take and every word I say. That can define who I am today in a way that is not influenced by the past. In a way, it's kind of like a birthday, a new beginning. The past is the past, the way I used to react to things, that script that has played out so often is also of the past. I can't change that at all. I can change how I approach interactions today. Instead of reacting to situations on a completely emotional level, I am able to step away and decide what to do. Not only for myself, but for the other person. Sometimes, what we think is the easiest best way to do something doesn't really benefit others. I have been very blunt in the past, a say it how it is sort of person, and that at my core essence is who I am. I know myself far better than anyone else and I will not let other people attempt to define or project on me their issues. I do choose to be uplifting to other people, to reach out, to say I care. To try, even if there is no return, to do good unto others. That's where my passion lies and it doesn't take a certain job or anything in particular to do that...just mindfulness in the moment. Conclusion Sometimes, letting go isn't just about letting go of certain burdens or behaviors that we have carried over from the past. Sometimes, we have to let go of who we were in past situations and how we responded to things. Often, we carry the emotional and psychological scars from the past into our Now. I've learned when I do that I'm on the offensive, I'm very constricted energetically and I have tunnel vision. In that state I'm very reactionary, trying to react and prevent things from happening again and thanks to the self-fulfilling prophecy I create more of what I don't want. While it's hard to leave an old identity in the past it's a bit like shedding ones skin. I realize that feeling of being unsupported that I experienced when my entire world was falling apart and my daughter was suffering in her incubator...is not the image I have to be frozen into for the rest of my life. I can choose to change it and I have changed it. That isn't me anymore. I'm not coming from that place of being unsupported. I have friends and family that are not involved in my daily drama who can look at me and tell me, "That's not right." Just having people like my friend Jennifer there to sympathize with me through my ups and downs has really helped. She validates my emotions and she gives me a new perspective when I really need one. I know that I can call on others when I need help as well, such as my friend Vica, and dozens of others. I am more supported than I have ever been. Sure, it's not all coming from my husband but he can only do what he can. He works a lot and he needs to focus on staying mentally steady within his own daily schedule. Nor should the burden have ever completely fallen on him for all of my needs. Having a diverse network of friends who can offer advice and support is important. I embrace this new version of myself, that is different and separate from that person in the past. I let go of all of that which has defined me in the last two years. I don't feel the need to tell people about the loss of my daughter, the terrible events that lead up to that and how it destroyed my world. I am a whole, complete and confident person again. I have no interest in changing the world or corporations anymore...just my little corner of the world. If everyone worked on just changing and improving the little corner they are given maybe we could have peace on Earth. Further, I believe that this new stance will take my relationship with my husband to a new more authentic level. Now that the communication channels have been opened we both have the opportunity to adjust and change. He's been very receptive of everything and willing to hear everything I have to say.
For some people that have followed my blog in the past year (wow it's been a year of having this blog!) this is just going to go over some familiar ground.
Prophecy I wrote how, a year ago we started the Jewish Shemitah year of 5776. This Shemitah year is to end in 5776. While September of last year was looked at, by a lot of people, as a convergence. To some it was a convergence of coincidences that seemed to point to some sort of Universal Order that was trying to get a message to us. Others said it was the convergence of time lines that were about to separate. One thing the Shemitah years seem to involve is war. I want to point out that this current Jewish year has been nothing less than remarkable. We have had three presidential cannidates that depending on your perspective might be the end of the United States as we know it. In fact, I think no matter who gets elected our country will never be the same. With the draft being talked about in the Senate this week and with the rumors of a looming war with Russia it is very possible we will find ourselves mired in a war. I pray and hope to do everything in my power to prevent that from happening. Also, with the powder keg of the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates (at last) and ObamaCare kicking into raise insurance premiums 30-50% some people might think war is the only way to salvage our economy. An Atmosphere of Fear The overwhelming feeling among the people in the United States this week is fear and anger. In the news, this has largely been this way for the last year. Looking back on my previous posts there does seem to be a theme to this Jewish year of 5776. That theme is groups violently acting out to get their way whether it is the rioters at the Trump rallies or the rioters of the Black Lives Matters movement in Ferguson. Small groups of violent extremists (that means people who act out violently) are spreading fear throughout our communities. I will admit that this has been happening in the world for a while now. I'm not sure if the 'War on Terror' template of the Muslim Jihadists and the Arab Spring has been the motivation for the recent groups but it seems the fear for our personal liberty has been ramping up lately. A large part of this has to do with a political race between two people for whom many people don't want to vote. Like any cornered animal people are ready to fight. Last year, surprisingly, about this time it wasn't much different. Due to groups protesting in a riot like fashion in Ferguson people were just as uncertain. This was before a Donald Trump showed up on the scene to be the scapegoat for racism in the United States. Racism has been a theme for the last year. On weeks such as this one I tend to want to be at home. The emotional fall out that I can pick up just through Facebook is almost too much to handle. Since I work in the service industry I feel the direct affect of people who are angered and cornered. They feel that it's okay to take it out on the person helping them. So, when someone comes up and seems irrational, I know that it will take two to three times even if I do everything exactly the same, before they are happy because they are simply seeking empowerment at my expense. Such times are very psychologically draining. I do not subscribe to the ideas that we are a slave species, that the Illuminati exists or that an elite group of people are up to the nefarious evil of provoking pain among the rest of the population. These ideas are too simple and magical in nature. I'm not saying that some people are truly sick and do think that they are part of this elite or some sort of cult that does control stuff. I've had a couple of people (who had no reason to lie} tell me about some outrageous groups who really believe that they are performing some sort of magic to control the world. To give these truly psychologically sick people that sort of power. as though they can, is just wrong. True, far too many conspiracy theories from Operation Paper Clip (German scientists were brought over here to complete their experiments) and MK Ultra (a mind control experiment that the government controlled using hallucinatory drugs) were real. However, that doesn't make all conspiracy theories real. (I'll include a video at the end of this with conspiracy theories that turned out to be real). You Are What You Think There is an Edgar Cacye quote that always pops up into my mind when we are in a negative cycle like this, "Thoughts are as real as a poke in the eye." He wasn't the first to put forward this idea. There is a lot of material out there in the world that seems to convey this very idea. In psychology there is the concept of the Self Fulfilling prophecy. Once we get a thought into our head our subconscious mind will do anything to make sure our sense of reality reflects that idea. This is why for the people who want to believe in the Illuminati controlling everything, they encounter a lot of information that seems to prove it, because their mind is obeying the master. For those who want to see evil, they will find it everywhere in symbolism. For those who want to believe in the power of love and peace...we can find it everywhere. Mike Rowe saying, "Look for the Helpers," after the Orlando Shooting for example. We find what we seek and if we search for certain things we will inevitably find proof. In Sakyong Mipham's book, Turning the Mind Into the Ally, he describes the mind as a horse. That horse can easily be distracted and go on a tangent. That tangent doesn't always have to be positive...it can be a nightmare. A positive experiment that I performed with this idea is that I tell everyone I meet that I am fantastic and I have no complaints. Even when, at the moment, I don't necessarily feel this way. Amazingly, my whole life changed and began to reflect what I was saying. Even just saying that I was fantastic and had no complaints brings a smile to my face. Manifestation I have come across another idea similar to this one. This pertains to our subject because one of the things that seems to be happening is a much larger deeply felt division among people. The hate seems to be growing really deep with some people as though seeking to squash out the positive unified people. I don't know anyone who is truly feeling positive regarding this election. One of the ideas I've come across is that manifestation of our thoughts and ideas is going to happen faster. Before, it would take years and years before something would happen. We would, it appears, get a lot of time to change our mind before experiencing a particular reality. Now, let us say this is true. Just for a moment suspend your arguments and ponder that this is what is happening. Now think of a lot of people thinking that this world is a prison planet or that they want the end of the world to happen so that someone will come and save them from everyone else. That people believe that they aren't in control of their lives. That there is a big bad boogy man that's out to get them whether it's the Illuminati or Ancient Aliens or Satan Worshipers or whatever or in some parts of the world the United States and the United Nations. If thoughts are manifesting reality a lot faster than before these people are creating that reality. That is the reality they are going to see, feel, touch and hear. Not in the distant future but now! YIKES! Talk about McCathyisam on steroids. Conspiracy Theories Now Accepted As Truth Right now, the people being pegged as the bad guys by everyone is the elite 1% of income holders. True, it is sad that they own so much of the wealth of the world, but to me that just begs that we reconsider our monetary system and invent something new not form a lynch mob and go after the heads of people like the creator of Facebook. To me that makes absolutely no sense (again I will note some conspiracy theories have proven true but to just convict people as evil because they are wealthy is un-American because we have a system of innocent until proven guilty). I first heard the idea of the 1%, the Federal Reserve being private and how they were evil around 2005. Back then it was a way whacked out belief and most people had never even heard of it. Now, it seems that there has been a majority of people who believe that the 1% is evil and need to be destroyed. By taxes or whatever means possible they need to be separated from the wealth because they have too much while others have to little. Heck, there was a girl who organized the Million Student March based on this hatred of the 1%. Here is a link of the girl who organized the Million Student March who basically thinks that the 1% should have all of their money taken away from them and put towards erasing student loans and free college for everyone.
​Bernie Sanders success is a manifestation of this belief in the never ending wealth of the 1% that can heal all of the inequality in the world if we take it away from them. He will end the elite 1% by taking away their money.
One of the candidates for the Senate seat in California honestly believed in mind control from a secret government project that's being beamed down from space. Today, I saw on Watters World one guy flat out said that the Illuminati were in control of the Presidential Race. Ideas that I read about in 2005 that were on the lunatic fringe are now mainstream. Even the idea of Ancient Aliens was something that was not normal but now everyone has heard the theories. Some of these ideas have been around since the 1970's but really didn't take hold in society until recently. The very existence of I.S.I.S. and the fact that they believe they will initiate the end of the world as prophesied by Muhammad is another example of this extreme focus on fulfilling prophecy and bringing about the end of the current world. (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/18/expert-says-islamic-state-is-an-apocalyptic-cult-bent-on-hastening-the-end-times-as-terror-group-releases-english-language-magazine-calling-islam-religion-of-the-sword/). There are Christian groups who are actively seeking Armageddon as well because they believe Jesus will scoop them up from this world and take them to another. The concerns about CERN and the "Great Conjunction" from last year was an absolutely fascinating example of this group of people. I find it really sad but there is a huge segment of the population that is absolutely in love with the idea of this planet being controlled by some dark force and that the only way to end it is the End of the World. They go to the movies and they love watching land marks explode and the destruction of the world. Just check out the trailer for the new Independence Day sequel. Time Loop In many ways, even with the movies that are out we are back to the way things were in the mid-nineties....from the movies (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) , Ghostbusters (1989), Independence Day (1996) to the Clinton's potentially being back in the white house (original tenure being 1993-2001). To me it's almost creepy. I had a belief, that I can't say was caused by anything in particular that something had the potential of happening in the late nineties but it was delayed. Then there was that potential again in 2007....and I think that the shift is happening now. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that people were starting to realize that the middle class was shrinking and that they couldn't have the American Dream of owning a home and raising a family back in the nineties (which is why Clinton ordered that people who didn't quality for loans to get them). Maybe it was the decision to enter Desert Storm which would start to destabilize the Middle East and eventually lead to 9/11. All of which occurred when Bill Clinton was our President and in which he played a deciding role. Are We An Empire Without Realizing It? I believe that shift is in the way we think as a country and the way the world thinks. For a long time there has been a focus on the New World Order type of deal. F.D.R. really thought he could change the world with the United Nations. He wanted to have the power of the entire world focused in one group of people who would then chart the course of world history and supposedly prevent wars from happening. They have failed miserably. Recently, I've been trying to think out of the box that the media has given us. Just google, "How Many Military Bases Does the United States have around the world?" Yow will get some interesting results. I had to dig up a source that actually reports a number that is mainstream (The Washington Post) and so, thanks to Ron Paul, we have an outdated number from 2012 (and we have probably increased the amount of bases we have since then) provided by a 'fact checker' writer that is astronomical: "As of Sept. 30, 2010, the DOD list shows a list of 611 military facilities around the world (not counting war zones), though only 20 are listed as "large sites," which means a replacement value of more than 1.74 billion." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ron-pauls-strange-claim-about-bases-and-troops-overseas/2012/02/08/gIQApZpqzQ_blog.html) Note, here is Ron Pauls quote about how many bases we have around the world, "We don't need to pay all this money to keep troops all over the country, 130 countries, 900 bases....bring all of the troops home rather rapidly...they would be spending their money here at home and not in Germany and Japan and South Korea...." Wait, so the U.S. has how many bases around the world?! Then you have Obama explaining why the role of the President is so somber a position because it has such a prominent role int he world. Among those reasons is that there are "20 other countries that are falling apart and that will be looking to us to do something..."
Add to this the Undercover CIA agent that explains to the rest of the world we are the Empire. We are the aliens in Independence Day. That's when you start to understand how countries outside of the U.N. and the United States really feel about us and with so many bases in 130 countries...it's easy to understand why they feel that way.
Plus, we are the poster child of U.N. force if countries don't play nice. So, it's easy to see that from any country that is not a part of the U.N. that it is an imperialistic entity that rivals Rome! Further when you look at how we might have been involved in the destabilization of countries that were not part of the U.N. and pressured them to join in some way or sign treaties with our country... We are the Emperor with no clothes on because we are an Empire without realizing it in the eyes of people who are not a part of the U.N. and don't want to be a part of the U.N. What is even worse is that this type of "empire" is what the citizens of the United States are totally and completely against. Also, if you look at history and you include all the wars that are left out of the history classes we have in school- the War with Mexico (1846-1848) and the Spanish American War where we freed Cuba from Spanish rule (1898), you realize that we have been at War in this country more often than not. Isn't it time we beat our sword into plows? If we tried I'm sure we could find a way to feed the world but we are so busy creating and supporting this huge military in the name of the U.N...it's just ridiculous. Just think about all of the trillions of money that goes into supporting such a large military. Social Security would totally be solvent without those bases. The Presidential Primary Even worse, if the people of the U.S. realize the far reach of our military and how the U.N. operates and realizes that we've been using it as a vehicle to promote our form of democracy... Well, embarrassingly the democracy that we were taught in school doesn't happen in our own country. Firstly, because we are a Republic. Second, because it was discovered somewhere along the way that the majority of the people could be subverted. There were brilliant past presidents of the, including Teddy Roosevelt, that felt the idea of a "mob rule" was repugnant. If the government did what the majority of people wanted it would lead to disaster. Further, in the past, the type of government we were told that we have was not possible. Information didn't pass so quickly and citizens were less isolated from their representatives. The electorate and the delegates/super delegates made sense. They knew their people and could go to vote in a setting much more easy to count then counting each individual vote in an area. Now, with the internet and technology votes can be entered and tallied instantaneously. There is no longer a need for the middle man. The presidential election between Bernie and Hilary have pinpointed this weakness and made it clear that what the majority of the will of the people can be subverted. The Super Delegates votes mean more than the average person's vote and so despite Bernie being the overwhelming winner....Hilary won the Democratic Nomination. If people connect the dots, if the race between Trump and Hilary is tight with Trump making landslide victories at the polling places....the Electorate might choose to vote differently then the population and it will be the entire situation that we faced with the Super Delegates again. Then the entire system will be shown to be rigged. If that happens, the people of the United States will really feel betrayed by the government and you better believe that there will be a huge impact on our society. For the first time we will realize that our country is no more a Democracy than the sham in Mexico. Then we will have to question why we went to war in so many places so that they can have 'Democracy.' Two Paths For anyone who's really read my blog I'm revisiting a topic I've already hit upon. The Hopi have a Prophecy Rock that suggests humanity will hit a point where there will be two paths. There are those who will retain the old teachings and will go on to grow again. There is another path that is just a dead end and, "Doesn't end well." One of the things with the Hopi Prophecies is that the Native American people had to go to the House of Micah (U.N.) and share their beliefs and stories. If they did not get seats as a part of the group it would be bad for the United States. Well, the U.N. doesn't have Native Americans among them. Perhaps, that is why their council is so poor. If we suspend judgement and bias once more and just consider this...maybe that's why we see such a division between people right now. People are choosing which story line they want to experience. Do they want to experience the war that will end all wars in a great earth shattering experience (which might happen if we go to war with Russia)? Or do they want to experience something new? Trump, at least, doesn't want to make Putin an enemy and he has been vilified. Meanwhile, rumor is that Putin has said that if Hilary wins it's war. Voting for Hilary, it seems, is voting for an escalation with Russia. There are accusations that Russia violated the INF treaty of 1987 in January when it fired a missile and that the United States violated the treaty when they built a base in Romania. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-w-kearn/russia-ballistic-missiles_b_4760121.html) (http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45425&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7#.V2IitvkrLIU) Conclusion I want something new. Obama said something that really hit home for me not long ago. That the United States is struggling to redefine itself and I agree. Although, I don't think that people waving Mexican Flags and burning the United States flag is the best way to go about things. However, Bernie Sanders supporters openly declared that they are all for a revolution...and a revolution would definitely redefine this country. While their revolution seems to be violent based on their behavior thus far (we will see what mayhem they sow at the Democratic Convention "Occupy Sit In") I hope that we have more of a heart revolution when realize what the United States is and how it's dominating the world. I'm not interested in the current paradigm we have been peddled by the news. I do not believe that we have to be a military presence in most of the world to keep everyone from blowing each other apart. The surprise is that after this election, even if Hilary wins, I doubt she will get a second term. I really doubt that people will let the political system remain the way that it currently stands. Too many people are waking up to what our government really is and it's not what they think or want! Oh, and I am so over seeing the stupid landmarks of the world being destroyed. That's why X-Men Apocalypse was so disappointing. I want a new story line. No more the end of the world stuff. Stop thinking about blowing yourself up United States. Let's create a new story line for the future without landmarks being destroyed in some big battle or zombies, ok United States? Now that you are waking up and no longer zombies in a system you don't realize you support...start acting like the super hero's we can be and start fixing things. The citizens of the United States are some of the most brilliant, brave and good people in this world. We can find a solution that works. What is with this love of self-loathing and our lust for self-destruction? Here's the trailer for Independence Day Insurgence and X-Men Apocalypse that, as I said, completely and utterly shows that, as a nation at least, we are in love with the idea of the destruction of the world- just not by our hands...
Oh as a bonus here is a montage from the movie The Wolverine of all of the wars the United States have been in...keep in mind that there are at least two missing and this only goes up to Word War II. This doesn't include Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, the Iraqi War or any of the smaller skirmishes.
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