WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is now available to all holistic counselors and counselors and behavioral therapists for their offices, as well as for everyone looking to be free of unwanted stress, anxiety and fear. Living a peaceful co-existence is necessary for all of us.
This specialty version is useful for mediative and thought-provoking purposes. It is 590-pages purposefully organized in a way that individual clients, patients, and you can absorb its WISDOM at your and their own pace. The uncluttered paragraphs, pages, and chapters are laid out in a way that allows for more peaceful consideration for improving many of life’s puzzling situations.
You were not born with an instruction manual on how to meet daily challenges in relationships, employment navigation, and self-esteem building. Life sometimes has a harsh way to learn these lessons. This book can be a tremendous resource both for therapists, counselors and the general public who may be looking for more healing tools to use.
In the middle of personal turmoil, it can be difficult to think things through objectively without the guilt, self-criticism and self-inflicted trauma that often accompanies broken relationships. It is hard enough just to get through the day in those moments. This book can be a solace for the heart, allowing for self-esteem to blossom and joy to return to each moment.
This gives you the grace to go at your own pace and allowing you time for consideration to see how these pearls of WISDOM may help you on your journey to a more wholesome person you were meant to be before life’s cataclysms happened to you and those you treat.
The yellow-framed WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is 350 pages of jam-packed pearls of wisdom to help you navigate life’s unexpected and sometimes expected quicksand traps.
“A comforting companion for anyone seeking healing, clarity. and a more peaceful and empowered life.” ~ Barnes & Noble
Wisdom: For A Hurting World offers daily reflections of hope, peace, and inspiration for navigating life’s challenges. Through practical insights and spiritual wisdom, I guide you to release fear, reclaim your personal power, and live with greater authenticity and balance.
I dedicated this book to my dear friend and pen pal, Hazel Moskal of Scotland. She is a precious friend for over fifty years. She is the author of Chapter 66.
This book is a compilation of 70 chapters that have previously been published in this blog. Chapters include topics:
*healing emotional blackmail
*fear
*obligation
*guilt
*bullying
*relationships
*anxiety
*your immune system and stress
*mental health
*human slavery
*steps to spiritual health
*wolves in sheep’s clothing
*covert narcissists
*Thomas Jefferson’s wall of separation of church and state
*reclaiming self-esteem
*personal power
*theory of everything
*meanings of the 12 Days of Christmas
*President Abraham Lincoln’s “Malice Toward None” speech
*George Washington’s 3 Prophecies and Visions
*meditations
*Diabetes Natural Food Healing
*Be a Point of Light
I created this blog, Universal Wisdom Enlightenment Mastery when I first retired from my business, The Massage Clinic in Stratford, Milford, Orange, and West Haven, CT. I personally held over 5,000 of the 8,000 appointments for holistic health counseling and massage therapy appointments.
Most of us feel that we are in control of our lives, that is, until some major and/or minor life situation trips us up. That is when you can lose your sure footing in life affecting your mental health.
As part of my holistic health counseling and massage therapy school curriculum at the Dove Star Institute, I became a Reiki Master Teacher. I continued my education in holistic health as a board certified, international holistic health counselor/practitioner graduating from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness which is fully certified and accredited by The American Association of Drugless Practitioners Certification and Accreditation Board.
I am a life-long-learner and teacher/practitioner with the School of Esoteric Sciences, ™ an international school whose name and curriculum is both copyrighted and trademarked, teaching the curriculum of New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™). I am a certified Crystal, Qigong, and Flower Essence Therapy teacher/practitioner, and member of the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA) which is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA).
I graduated from Dove Star Institute in 2001, and the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness in New York on July 23, 2003. I was personally trained by the late Dr. Dolores Seymour, author of the book, WHO CARES WHY?
Now it is time to share these holistic pearls of wisdom with the world.
My blog began in February 2012. I have posted in my blog nearly every day for 14 years. This book only contains some of the most popular posts. It is amazing that some of these posts are just as pertinent today. History has an interesting way of repeating itself when humanity does not pay close enough attention, as you will read. I hope you like it and find it useful.
The lie that might is right is what will kill every person and living thing including every country on this planet if it keeps attracting and going along with the strong man lies.
This is not the first time that the lie that might is right, when it is not, has failed in its thrust for unabashed control freak agendas.
Regardless of the country or political party:
*It is not the person with the biggest bank account that wins in the end.
*It is not the best political or religious indoctrination that survives in the end.
*Money is not the bottom line of everything.
*AI is not the bottom line of everything.
*Greed is not the bottom line.
*Selfish leadership is not the bottom line.
*People matter.
*You matter.
*Now is not forever.
*Time will tell on itself.
*Continuing knowledge in all areas of life matter.
*Youth and inexperience in humanity often believe that the wealthiest, most athletic, best looking, most popular person wins.
This is not the case.
History will prove ignorance, human vanity and unrestrained, self-serving ego wrong.
Don’t believe the lies.
The lying words that Empathy and Compassion are bad and will hurt the world ONLY come from the influence of the evil one who promotes ignorance, greed and lust at all costs.
Those who claim to be Christian, as well as those in all other religions promoting peace and love worldwide, need to wake up to the sinister impulses from those who are blinded by greed, lust, and ignorant selfish pursuit.
It is time to shine the Light of Empathy, Compassion and Love for all of our brothers and sisters in every country all over the world.
Might is not right when it hurts the very people under their care.
Now is the time for empathy, compassion, and Love as Jesus and all the prophets of old have told all of humanity.
If your religion or political party says you can hate and hurt your neighbor, family member, or anyone else, and give all your hard-earned cash to add to their coffers, you are following a false god.
The following is a preview taken from the soon-to-be-released book, Not Demons, Not Gods, by John Hourihan:
“Who are gods and who are subjects after all is only semantics. The United States Army Air Corp in the mid-1940s were gods to the islanders of Vanuatu.
“And the Elohim were gods to Homo sapiens in 3000 BC. I am telling people it doesn’t matter which god you follow.
“Follow them all, or follow one, or follow none of them. They are not demons, not gods. Our purpose is not to worship them. Our purpose is, as so many of them tried to teach us, to have empathy for each other, for our entire species.
“Extinctions have long been a natural part of Earth’s evolutionary history. More than ninety-nine percent of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth have already gone extinct. Help preserve the species. Foster empathy, or we could be another in that number.
“If we don’t take care of each other, we won’t make it.
“If you must follow one God follow the father of Jesus and Sophia, the one that always was, always will be.
“Do unto others…..” ~ taken from the soon-to-be-released book, Not Demons, Not Gods, by John Hourihan
Let’s create a better tomorrow with empathy and compassion, which is the only thing that can save a greedy and selfish world that cares nothing for the other person or country.
… as they understand it … but there is more to know …
According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, among others.
What I notice is that as different as they all are, they say the same thing, “There is only one God, mine.”
I can’t help but remember the old Kennel Ration dog food commercial from when I was growing up as a kid. It went like this:
“My dog’s better than your dog.
“My dog’s better than yours,
“My dog’s better ‘coz he eats Kennel Ration,
“My dog’s better than yours.”
Remember? It came out in the 1950’s and 60’s.
We humans tend to do the same thing with God. We say there is only one God. Most people agree. Then they say, “Yes, my God.”
There are wars over this very point worldwide. When you really understand human history, what actually happened instead of the childish versions of any religion, you will see the dawning of history, science, and religions finally arriving at the truth of humanity, and what actually took place.
Is humanity’s pride and ego so big that humanity cannot learn anything other than what it was originally indoctrinated into believing?
I hope not.
I believe now is the time, with various churches closing and other churches honestly seeking truth of human origins beyond the fairy tales you have all been told, which are just allegories about the truth of the matter, that it is time to advance, much like our medicine culture has advanced beyond using remedies from the dark ages.
When I allowed myself to keep learning past the indoctrination I received as a child and young adult into my older years by zealous adults speaking with certainty, I stopped getting drawn into thinking and joining a wide variety of religious and/or spiritual groups, as if that is what I “should” do.
I believe what I “should” do is to keep learning. Unless I studied all religions, and especially what had been kept from me for unholy purposes, I finally realized I was still in the infant stage of religious and spiritual development regardless of chronical age.
My heart goes out to all of you because, if you are anything like me, I remained at this very state until I finally allowed myself to learn what had been kept away from my religious education until I was in my 60’s. I am shocked it took me that long.
It wasn’t that I wasn’t trying to get to the bottom of all my questions. I was very much motivated by the guilt; guilt that I could not leave my church (in many different states life took me to) which I had been baptized in for most of my life.
I had received weekly spiritual direction from my local priest for year, and even after when he became a bishop. How could I possibly leave my faith which I believed in with all my heart?
But how could I continue to have deep-seated questions that simply would not go away?
When I retired, I finally had the time to research for myself. I dug deep into everything I could find, including those books I had previously been told not to read because they were “apocryphal.”
Keep in mind, the word apocryphal only means hidden knowledge, not anti-Christ, nor anti-Jesus, nor anti-God.
I discovered when I allow myself to read and know what had been kept away from me, a more complete picture of accurate history unfolded. How could I not see this before?
What did I learn that had to be kept under wraps to such a degree that wars are being fought over which “God/god” is the “right “God/god?”
Sadly, this all has to do with semantics and human pride.
When you unravel the pages of human history, you finally come to the point where there really were giants walking among us, creating those huge megalith temples, pyramids found all over the globe. Mere human beings did not create these structures.
These huge beings, regardless of what you call them, giants, 200 fallen gods of the bible, Nephilim, were all over the Earth. They fought over territories and the people in them, and mating with the women, as Genesis 6 says.
They all fought to be the One True God, while each of these beings settled on particular areas of Earth, claiming the people as their own.
There is a reason why there are many religions all over the world. They all have their particular founding leader. All of these leaders, while they claimed to be the One True God, were for the people they watched over, but not all were the One True God for all of them.
This is why Jesus came to correct misinformation. He said, “My Father is not your father, but my father has become a father to you.” from The Second Revelation of James, page 336 in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, the Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts, edited by Marvin Meyer.
Jesus taught that his Father was not your father. He taught this in both the Nag Hammadi Scriptures as well as in today’s bibles. You can find his words in John 8:37-38; John 8:42-47; and John 8:19 in today’s bibles, which are also included in my latest book, WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD.
John 8: 37-38 says, “I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
John 8:42-47, Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
John 8:19, Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Notice the upper case “F” and the lower case “f” in the words Father and father. This is not a typo. The first thing the Church Fathers indoctrinated the masses with was the notion and promotion that there is one God in the Nicaean Creed, from the First Ecumenical Council in 325 A.D. This council was called by Emperor Constantine to define the basic tenants of Christianity. The Nicaean Creed was also later expanded at the Second Ecumenical Council at Constantinople in 381 A.D. Since that time, the Nicaean Creed has greatly been changed as time went by and new challenges and theological questions arose from both inside and outside of Church thinking.
It is good to question how this pillar of belief could be pontificated when much of what Jesus said and taught was purposefully hidden. Who would not want you to know what other important information Jesus, the Savior, came to tell you?
The only time when dark energies, which personify as hate-filled agendas, crime, and evil take place, is when enough good people do nothing.
There is much that you can do in your everyday life to help this world and where you live to lower the temperature of ego-filled and hostile attitudes. Be the first to find the missing empathy, compassion, Love and Light it takes to create a new healing path forward.
You can do this.
It is not about being right or wrong. It is about the gentle touch of your perspective about what all sides of the situation is going through, especially in complicated situations. No amount of retribution, threats, and negative options quells the insanity of perpetual violence. That only creates more, because what you focus on GROWS.
Now in the time to join to find more peaceful solutions to everyday family, work and social life. It is time to lower the hostile temperature that is increasingly spilling out into the world.
It all begins with you.
The wars of the world are only a side effect of the attitudes that each of us fuel every time we chose thought, words, and actions of the lower vibrational frequencies, such as fighting and not repairing all kinds of relationships when humanly possible.
It is so much easier to blame the other guy, but that solves nothing. Every person has the responsibility to create a better world in which to live.
All energy from moods, feelings, thoughts, words, and actions result from the fuel you ignite them with. They can change in the blink of an eye, but first you must be willing to try, or try again, or try again for the hundredth time.
I challenge every human being who reads this post, regardless of where you live in the world, to join me in purposefully choosing to make more empathetic, sympathetic, understanding, and compassionate thoughts words and actions from now on in every decision we make.
This is one way to stop the hate that appears to be running like the wild stallions across the plains. Be the impetus for change, change for a better tomorrow for everyone in the entire world.
It does not matter what political, religious or social group you align yourself with. Empathy and compassion are the traits to include in every decision you make.
It is all about building up, not tearing down.
It is time to focus on healing each other individually, like the whales assist one seal at a time in reaching safety.
What you focus on grows.
It is time to build a more empathetic and compassionate society for all people of every country.
No person or country can ever kill enough people to even the score or teach a lesson.
That only creates more terrorists on all sides.
We will all reap the seeds we sow.
I suggest using relationship building techniques based on genuine Love and Peace for a more Loving and Peaceful path forward.
Humanity will pay the price of every decision we individually make.
“A comforting companion for anyone seeking healing, clarity, and a more peaceful, empowered life.” ~ Barnes & Noble
Wisdom: For A Hurting World offers daily reflections of hope, peace, and inspiration for navigating life’s challenges. Through practical insights and spiritual wisdom, I guide you to release fear, reclaim your personal power, and live with greater authenticity and balance.
I dedicated this book to my dear friend and pen pal, Hazel Moskal of Scotland. She is a precious friend for over fifty years. She is the author of Chapter 66.
This book is a compilation of 70 chapters that have previously been published in this blog. Chapters include topics:
*relationships *anxiety *your immune system and stress
*mental health *human slavery *steps to spiritual health
*wolves in sheep’s clothing *covert narcissists
*Thomas Jefferson’s wall of separation of church and state
*reclaiming self-esteem *personal power *theory of everything
*meanings of the 12 Days of Christmas*
*President Abraham Lincoln’s “Malice Toward None” speech
*George Washington’s 3 Prophecies and Visions *meditations
*Diabetes Natural Food Healing *Be a Point of Light
I created this blog, Universal Wisdom Enlightenment Mastery when I first retired from my business, The Massage Clinic in Stratford, Milford, Orange, and West Haven, CT. I personally held over 5,000 of the 8,000 appointments for holistic health counseling and massage therapy appointments.
As part of my holistic health counseling and massage therapy school curriculum at the Dove Star Institute, I became a Reiki Master Teacher. I continued my education in holistic health as a board certified, international holistic health counselor/practitioner graduating from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness which is fully certified and accredited by The American Association of Drugless Practitioners Certification and Accreditation Board.
I am a life-long-learner and teacher/practitioner with the School of Esoteric Sciences, ™ an international school whose name and curriculum is both copyrighted and trademarked, teaching the curriculum of New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™). I am a certified Crystal, Qigong, and Flower Essence Therapy teacher/practitioner, and member of the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA) which is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA).
I graduated from Dove Star Institute in 2001, and the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness in New York on July 23, 2003. I was personally trained by the late Dr. Dolores Seymour, author of the book, WHO CARES WHY?
Now it is time to share these holistic pearls of wisdom with the world.
My blog began in February 2012. I have posted in my blog nearly every day for 14 years. This book only contains some of the most popular posts. It is amazing that some of these posts are just as pertinent today. History has an interesting way of repeating itself when humanity does not pay close enough attention, as you will read. I hope you like it and find it useful.
The energy in today’s world, including in your own life as it is reflected back to you in your own home and in your own skin, can easily get upset by ordinary life, in addition to what is going on in your work, civic, social, and where you live.
The spinning of life may appear to be revolving so fast you might have a hard time prioritizing what to do next. One thing affects another. How do you get back in control of your body, mind, and spirit when the daily distractions are screaming so loud with dysfunctional energy that you feel out of balance?
That is when you know it is time to take a time-out. We give our children a time-out when they need it. You also need time to slow down and take good care of your energy system.
You matter.
Take an inventory of your energy centers. In this audio meditation you have the chance to focus on 9 of your chakras and aura. There are obviously more but focus on your present realities only for this moment.
Release what holds you bound, mental, physical and/or spiritual traps. Do you feel energy bottle-necked or depleted?
This audio meditation includes:
* your Divine Blueprint
*Spiritual DNA
*water for cleansing
*mental cleansing
*strengthening your energy field
*expanding your Limitless Living Light and Love vibration and energy field
*focusing on your 8th Chakra the Seat of your Soul, which is your personal Aspect of I Am that I Am Presence
*recognizing your Earth Star chakra one foot below your feet – interacting with the Limitless Living Light Aspect of Earth Energy
*grounding
*releasing what no longer serves your highest good including fears, concerns, and releasing worries in each Chakra.
Absolutely never make any decision based on fear.
Rather make your decisions based on the most Light and Love possible. Love cords are much stronger than fear cords.
Breath in forgiveness for yourself and others. Have compassion, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness for yourself and others.
These are timeless meditations designed to assist you. STRESS MANAGEMENT was created following my graduation from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness which is accredited and certified by The National Accreditation and Certification Board.
1. STRESS MANAGEMENT MEDITATION– 17 minutes
This meditation is perfect for your break time before your workday begins, during your break time, as well as after work when it is time to let go of the stress of the day. It’s time to relax as never before, melt away stress from every cell and fiber of your being, and find that place deep inside you allowing your Soul to bask in Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This meditation was recorded after I graduated from the American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness.
***
Audio Meditations 2-6 were professionally recorded at the 3-day Celestial Retreat which I lead in 2010 at The Guest House, a retreat house in Connecticut. It was attended by many people who participated in the exercises to activate their lymphatic systems in active movement sessions, Yoga sessions, and meditations, and included the movie, The Secret, and audios by the late “Abraham” Hicks, Jerry and Ester Hicks.
*
2. AWAKENING THE MIND MEDITATION – 34 minutes
Activate your Mind, Body, Spirit Tripod. Soften the sharp blades of opinions. You are a creation of Divine Breath. Be the observer of yourself. What are your self-messages? Use I Am statements to advance in your personal power. Get off the mundane dysfunctional treadmill of life in a healthy and robust way to eliminate what is not serving your highest good by transmuting the lower energies of negativity into Limitless Loving Loving Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
*
3. RECLAIMING YOUR POWER – 30 minutes
Heart centered and compassionate counsel with Linda, mind-body-spirit integration, assessing your paradigms, belief systems, belief in yourself, working with solar plexus, inner power and decision-making process. Use all your senses, breathwork, looking at habits, I Am statements, be the observer of yourself. What triggers or buttons do others push? Flags to pay attention to. Drop self-judgment. Living your truth. Listening to your inner voice. How to make positive changes in your life. How to stop allowing others to push your buttons. How to live in the present moment. It all begins with conscious decisions. Who are you really?
*
4. CHAKRA & AURA BALANCING – 45 minutes
Take an inventory of your energy centers, 9 chakras and aura. Release what holds you bound, mental, physical and/or spiritual traps. Do you feel energy bottle-necked or depleted? This meditation includes your Divine Blueprint, Spiritual DNA, water for cleansing, mental cleansing, strengthening your energy field, expand your Limitless Living Light and Love vibration and energy field, 8th Chakra the Seat of your Soul, your Aspect of I Am that I Am Presence, your Earth Star chakra one foot below your feet – interacting with the Limitless Living Light Aspect of Earth Energy, grounding, releasing what no longer serves your highest good including fears, concerns, and releasing worries in each Chakra. Absolutely never make any decision based on fear. Rather make your decisions based on the most Light and Love possible. Love cords are much stronger than fear cords. Breath in forgiveness for Self and others. Have compassion, empathy, understanding, and forgiveness for yourself and others. Remember who you are.
*
5. LOST YEARS OF JESUS – 30 minutes
How do you like being handled? Discover what else Jesus taught and why humanity hid his empowering words that can now empower you. As Jesus told us all, “Keep seeking!” Join with Jesus in the Buddhist Temples during the so-called missing years of Jesus when he was between the ages of 12 to 30 years old. Jesus taught all about freedom, but how free are you in your own thoughts? Allow new information to shift the reality of what you know. Jesus said to keep seeking, not settle for his first 12 years of his childhood, and then only his years from his ages 30-33. Discover what has been hidden from you. The words of Jesus written at this time of his life are stronger than what the writers of the New Testament accounts written many years after the crucifixion of Jesus say. There’s one race of people, the human race. Travel with Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea, his uncle, and a trader of tin to the East, through India and to the monasteries of Tibet. Jesus there was also known as Issa. Jesus referred to himself as a prophet. Jesus edified women in Ladaka. Jesus’ Spirit, the Christ Light, is in your and my Spirit. Discover the journey of Jesus through the Far East during his missing years from 12-30 where he studied the knowledge of the Buddhas. You are part of this divine adventure. You are co-creating with divine Source.
This Ascension OM Meditation comes from THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME, by the late Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. “This is an extraordinarily complete and comprehensive meditation. It is guaranteed to invoke the ascension energies. It is a meditation and treatment I would recommend working with every day, either once or twice a day, on a consistent and ongoing basis. I will guarantee you that this meditation and treatment will completely transform your consciousness, your four-body system, and your reality,” said Joshua David Stone, Ph.D. at the beginning of Chapter 27 of THE COMPLETE ASCENSION MANUAL, HOW TO ACHIEVE ASCENSION IN THIS LIFETIME.
*
FREE VIRTUAL AL TALK in PORTO, PORTUGAL SETEMBER 25-26, 2025!
Recovering the mental health of a country can only take place when truth, honesty and integrity manifest as helpful tools for seemingly complicated situations.
I am a holistic health counselor/practitioner now retired. This blog is my outreach to a hurting world in need of the best humanity has to offer. It is read in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates in the world.
It is possible to heal, to recover the personal power of each citizen, restore the fame and good reputation of the land, and the fortune of healing every country by mitigating climate change, improving air and water quality, and caring for all people everywhere regardless of land of origin, race, color, creed, gender, age, any other label of human limitation, and healing the hurting history of all involved.
When the fertile seeds of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership combine with common sense, healing humanity and the world at large naturally occurs. If this is not occurring in your area in this one world we all live on, this is an opportunity to begin to refocus on building up rather than tearing down. Whatever we focus on grows.
It is not possible to kill enough people to even the death score, make an egotistical point of supposed righteousness, or annihilate every person on the planet with whom you disagree, and still have a planet to live on.
It takes the cooling down of the insanity of dueling prideful egos. We see this when children act out as if fighting back is the only answer.
There is another way.
The other way to problem solving involves something every religion throughout all of history has stated in one form or another. Jesus also taught this. It is known as the Golden Rule.
Most religions all over the world have this rule in their belief systems. If we treated other people in the way we want to be treated, we would treat people with more dignity, empathy and compassion.
Healing begins when two or more people, or two or more countries decide that they want to advance humanity and build better tomorrows for all involved.
Notice the countries that work together on the International Space Station, ISS:
United States
Russia
Japan
Canada
European Space Agency, including 11 member countries:
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Another example of the countries of the world rising their sights above the worst that humanity has to offer to each other is the Boston Marathon. Citizens from over 100 countries participate in this yearly event.
Can you imagine the benefit to every person on the planet if greed in all its mind-altering addictions could be tamed?
Picture by Bible Study Resources – Christianbook.com
Luke 22:50-51 says, “And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.” New International Version (NIV)
If any flavor of Christian claims to follow Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the answer to violence, even if it is deemed justified, is not the path forward. Peter learned this the hard way. Jesus healed the severed ear of the High Priest immediately after Peter had cut it off.
How do you, your congregation, your state, and your country handle conflict?
If you are a Christian, the path forward is to promote peace, empathy, and compassion, based on the teachings of the Golden Rule taught in Matthew 7 and Luke 6:31.
Saving the most life matters. You matter. All human life matters.
It depends on which god, or God you follow. Jesus taught his apostles, disciples, and all humanity about the Energy of his Father. There is a difference between the loving God, Father of Jesus Christ, and the father of the evil spawn whose energy is also an option for some people.
How are you to know which “god/God” is which?
Anything that does not originate with Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control, comes from an unholy source, according to Galatians 5:22-23, and not the Father of Jesus Christ. Going against these virtues is not what Jesus Christ taught. All humanity has a choice.
Within your human DNA, you have the seeds to water the good, or the not good, what some people call evil. You have a conscience with the free will to choose good over evil or evil over good. The choice is yours every minute of every day.
Placing the blame game is the height of immaturity. Now is a good time to take stock of who you are, what is important to you, and how you wish to make decisions for the rest of your life.
You were born with free will, to live in freedom to be a human being, by virtue of your birth. Jesus Christ came to Earth to help us all with this, just as Buddha and Krishna did.
Post crucifixion, Jesus the Christ, went back to India, Tibet, and ended up in Kashmir. Luke, the physician, knew all about the healing foods and wound treatment that helped him heal. Jesus continued working with Thomas in India when he was back with the people he loved, and who loved him. Jesus had often traveled to India with Joseph of Arimathea, his uncle, a trader of tin.
It was said that people had a hard time telling Jesus and Thomas apart because they looked so similar. Remember, the name Thomas means twin. It is critical that you allow yourself to keep learning. Who is it that tells you that you are “not allowed” to learn more than the words and life of Jesus between the ages 12 and 30, and again from his ages 33 to 120?
How you think about things is crucial. You control your thoughts. They do not control you. Nor does anyone control you or your thoughts and belief system.
If you do not like how you are feeling, change how you are thinking. Notice your relationship, employment, or self-sabotage patterns. Do they repeat?
You are not at the mercy of negative or harmful thoughts, nor habits, like a wolf destroying its prey. Rather, “BE THE DUCK.” I came up with this concept myself. I never read or was taught that anywhere. But after a lifetime of teaching, I am now beginning to hear “BE THE DUCK,” as holistic counseling guidance for many mental roadblocks. I kept a painted porcelain duck in each of my four offices as a gentle reminder.
A duck on the pond goes into the muck at the bottom, eating the tender plants, then bounces back on top of the water without the slime of the bottom sticking to it. When it is done, it simply flies off to where it wants to go. The duck does not smash its wings on the water in fits of anger and despair. You are in charge of you. What you think about, you bring about. It is a decision you make. You can decide to physically get up, stretch, take some deep breaths, taking fifteen of them lowers your blood pressure, for example. Change your thoughts to something more pleasant, like, what might you like to do next for a mini vacation, or something new you might like to try out, like music, art, or anything else.
Allow yourself to explore what you have been told, especially things that have been told to you repeatedly. Indoctrination usually happens slowly to all people who buy into the systems of thinking and belief without proper and adequate free will on your part. Don’t swallow everything you hear, hook, line, and sinker, like a mindless bass at the mercy of the attractive spinner bait on someone else’s fishing line.
These indoctrinations apply to political, religious, and social groups, most of whom want to claim your personal power, your fame which is your reputation, and the keys to your cash for their own. You will know when things feel “off’ because of that uneasy feeling you get inside when you finally recognize the truth, but do not know how to deal with it. Often indoctrination is so deeply ingrained.
This happens in politics, especially when you grow up in a house with parents agreeing with their boss’ way of thinking. I’ve seen poor laborers and veterans buy into the lies told them by their wealthy bosses and politicians, who vote in ways that take away their benefits, because it takes less taxes out of the rich man’s pockets, something that only benefits the wealthy.
It takes a lot of “spin” to spin the dysfunctional lie of the trickle-down theory, that those at the top of the wealth game will definitely share those resources with the “lesser riff raff” below them. History proves that most of the wealthiest at the top hoard, not share, otherwise there would be no poor, hungry, or destitute in the world. Money is not the bottom line in every scenario of life.
Religions do the same thing, saying they are Pro-Life, while simultaneously voting for the likes of people who have no problem ripping nursing babies away from their mothers who are fleeing situations of rape, murder, and drug cartel futures for themselves and their children, and putting them in cages. Conspiracy theories, which are nothing more than creative lies, spread like wildfire, like gossip does. These are the marks of the fallen angels and the Nephilim.
Pro-life means all life, not only human life within the womb, and not only for white-skinned, blue-eyed people with blond hair. It also means the homeless and hungry veteran on the street. Statements like, “Go get a job, you bum,” have no place in a civil society that pretends it is Pro-Life. You can be Pro-Life for all people, without classification and judgment. You can make a better life for all people and the planet.
Pro-Life also means protecting the life of the mother who is going to die if the fetus grows within her fallopian tubes, that is also going to die in this scenario. This would be murder, not Pro-Life. Saving the most life matters.
Bring your awareness to include the invisible forces of nature that are all around you. Humanity has made astounding advances in technology, medicine, and the sciences, while simultaneously dumbing down intelligence, goodwill, and social graces. The arrogant and proudful boasts of who can be the most vulgar, crass, and chaotic among us spill out into social media, television, radio, out of the mouths of babes in schools, on the bus, at sporting events, and onto the world’s stage. This evolution of the human species has gravitated to the lowest common denominator in many cases, such as the world’s latest archaic battlefields. This is human regression, not advancement.
What is it that is missing in many of the minds and mouths of humanity?
Common dignity, respect, and knowledge of who and what we truly are makes all the difference in the world and throughout the cosmos, literally. Notice there has never been a time in planetary and personal history that has not included war among people. However, empathy and compassion are healthy tools to use in problem solving and conflict resolution.
Jesus told us in Matthew 24:12 that in these last days that lawlessness will increase, making hearts grow cold as ice. We do see this happening. The key is to remain human rather than join the ranks of inhuman fallen angel and Nephilim Spirit induced behavior. We try to teach this to our children at very young ages, as in the movie Pinocchio, with Jiminy Cricket singing, “Let your conscience be your guide.” Each of us can only take care of this within ourselves, and within the laws promoting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all humanity; not only for the rich and powerful special interests that reap huge profits in the drug, gun, and human trafficking industries.
Reclaiming your personal power is no one else’s business but your own. You know this. But how many times do you find yourself caving to someone else’s whims, demands, temper tantrums, bosses’ unrealistic protocol, and unethical practices just to get to the end of your day by saying “Yes” when you mean “No?”
There are ways to achieve what you need to do without self-sabotaging yourself. This can be a bit of a tightrope walk between your goals and aspirations and those of others, while maintaining a good conscience and intact energy system. There is more to you than you know, more depth of understanding, more integrity, magnanimous spirit, joy in each moment, inspirational thoughts, and more life-affirming, regenerative behaviors you can manifest.
Re-member who you are.
The loss of empathy and compassion in the world today is astounding.
In your corner of the world, it does not have to be like that. Your problems and life situations are no different than the next person. Every human being wants enough food to eat, decent clothes to wear, and a place to lay their head at the end of the day, preferably staying warm and dry in the process, without war, bloodshed, and violence. These are human necessities. Humanity has traded empathy and compassion for extreme judgment in the present moment in history in many cases. Money is not the bottom line and will most likely not save your Soul unless you use it as a tool, not as a god.
While we do need to judge safe surroundings and safe relationships, judging can be harmful when we judge others by different rules than when we judge ourselves. People of color are no different from white people. People of different races are no different from Anglo-Saxon genealogies. People of different languages are no different from those who speak your native tongue.
Realize you are no better than anyone else in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous, asexual, (LGBTQQIPSAA) and ally community. The term two-spirit is used by some indigenous North Americans to describe those who fulfil a traditional third-gender ceremonial role. People are people. Stop with the incessant and harmful judging as Jesus told us in Matthew 7:1.
The separations within our hearts, minds, and voices are not those of human inventions. This is part of the influence of the fallen angel and Nephilim spiritual DNA within each person since the beginning of humanity. The global flood is said to have wiped out all the physical manifestations of the fallen angels and their children, the Nephilim, but not their unholy Spirits/Souls.
Remember also that the Original Sin placed upon Adam and Eve is that of the fallen angels, not humanity. Once this reality seeps into the crack of our questions, the freedom to be who we truly are allows for more breath of vision and comprehension. This knowledge opens the door to finally being able to answer the age-old question of why cruelty and oppression of people and manipulation of material goods and selfish greed happen.
Our home, the Earth, will be a better place if we can learn to go beyond what old-fashioned people traditionally call normal, which is using the “norm” as a type of measuring stick. This word, normal, has become a taboo in today’s vocabulary. Yet there are standards and principles in which all people can benefit, such as generosity, kindness, and forgiveness, for yourself and others that can make the world a better place in which to live. The word “normal” has been hijacked in modern language. It is not a bad word.
Just because something is different does not make it bad. Without a sense of what good has been built upon in the past, we unconsciously strip the guardrails of life and toss out what has been working for generations, much like using phonics to teach the English language is probably better than leaning how to read using only picture books in elementary schools. For example, does the picture refer to a horse or a pony? You can be generous, kind, and forgiving to everyone, including yourself.
Expect miracles, those fragrant flowers appearing in your wildest dreams, hopes, and aspirations. Miracles still happen today even in the most difficult of circumstances. Expect the unexpected. There is more to you than you realize. Be the open door, allowing healing, recovery, and next positive steps to take place. Be the change you want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi said. Be the beauty. Be the wonder. Be the inspiration for yourself and others. Miracles happen every day, but if you are not looking for them you will never see them.
It is good to have boundaries. A lake without a boundary is a swamp.
But having boundaries of what you will and will not allow in your life is different from expecting miracles, and/or making harsh judgments. Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is waiting for your blueprint to be put into action. What are your desires for your future, relationships, employment, life? Meditate on the exact qualities you want to attract in your life.
The emotional, mental, physical, and Light (Spiritual) bodies tell on you, even when you may not be consciously aware of why things are happening the way they are. Your emotional thought process emanates out from you. Your aura, as part of your Lightbody, is your report card, your real-time review of your life moment to moment. The reality of your life includes all parts of you, not just the physical body.
You can mature in body, mind, and spirit. It is your Soul’s mission to experience all levels of you, including Soul awareness, the Light of Divine Essence within you. This is your I AM Presence. Realizing this is also part of the Ascension process, being able to release what no longer serves you. Recognize when you are in the mode of fear, obligation, guilt (FOG), and/or manipulation. You might be the aggressor, or you might be the temporary victim, either way is not good for you. No one owns the right to your personal happiness. You do.
Do you believe you can change?
No situation, nor does any other person own the rights to your Soul. Jesus taught that you are the Temple and a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, otherwise known as the Holy Spirit aspect of “God.” Re-member this, as in re-connecting to the Larger Whole Eternal Life Force Energy. Re-member to breathe. Your breath is life to you. Where does your breath come from? You first received oxygen from your mother’s blood flow through the umbilical cord and into your body. At birth, you drew in your first breaths, which seemed revolutionary to you. But you did it. The hardest thing for any human being is to be born.
Fear is the void waiting for you to step up and live fully, with no guilt or ligation. You own the rights to your own thoughts, words, and actions. Release fear and never be manipulated again.
You were created “in their image and likeness.”
Namaste means the God in me recognizes the God in you.
Look for new things to learn every day. I have a habit of saying out loud when I discover something new, “That’s the new thing I learned today.” I am on the lookout for something new each day. When you are on the lookout for something you have not seen, heard, or felt before, it jumps out at you, if you are aware and alert.
Jesus spent time in India, the Himalayas, and Tibet. His famous Sermon on the Mount comes straight out of The Upanishads of India. Jesus would have had to travel to India prior to his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 to have had his words carry the same meaning so closely stated.
The book, Living In Freedom & Love Without Conditions by Phyllis M. Brooks, mentions that Joseph of Arimathea was a trader of tin and was the uncle of Jesus. He took Jesus on several merchant trips by boat and by land to India during those eighteen missing years of Jesus life, from ages twelve to thirty, but you have never heard about in today’s bible. When you read about his travels to India, and learn what Jesus learned, you discover that the sages of India over two thousand years ago embarked on an experiment that is worth repeating today. This is the reason The Upanishads rolled off the tongue of Jesus so easily at his famous Sermon on the Mount. There are enormous amounts of Wisdom in The Upanishads.
Rather than focusing on the outside of life, Hindu and Buddhist sages focused on what is inside humanity, consciousness, and the Energy that lies within each one of us. They discovered the changeless reality of what this book (IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS) is about, what Aldous Huxley called Perennial Philosophy, the Eternal Well-Spring of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
Can you discover this deepest part of you, the God-realization that dwells within you, as Jesus taught?
You and I deal with the Four Forces every day. Think of your own energy system. There are days when your mind is bright, and your body is filled with energy. These days you can move mountains. After you have completed your tasks, you feel the need for rest and recouperation, or at least a cup of tea. If you allow yourself to go deeper, you can contemplate, meditate, and pray, earning you the rewards only the angels experience, bringing your Soul to new heights of spiritual awakening.
But it is not spiritual escapism you seek. It is integration that is important. Only then might you feel the necessity for grounding your body, mind, and spirit. This is not only for the monks in monasteries, nor only for Jesus in union with the Father. You can ground this mountain top experience by being firmly planted right where you are, in the middle of your life. You cannot ascend until you are fully grounded here on Earth. Bloom where you are planted.
Most people go to holistic counseling for a drugless therapy that places them more in control of their runaway life, like a merry-go-round, spinning in circles with no end in sight.
What is the one thing that helps more than any other?
Knowing that what you focus on grows until it becomes its own animal that can either help or hurt you. It’s the “animal” within you fed by your thoughts that grows. Will you feed the negative or positive thought?
After examining religions very carefully, I believe the Cathars were murdered for their belief in two “Gods.” Catholic Christians, aligned with Constantine and the Roman government at that time, claimed the murderous “god” of the Old Testament was the same “God” as the Father of Jesus. However, Jesus pointed out in the New Testament that these two “Gods” are vastly different.
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, and the Books of Enoch, agree with what the Cathars believed. By reading the Dead Sea Scrolls, if you can stomach the blood and the gore, it is easy to see the influence of the living Spirits of the fallen angels taking over the Jewish belief system.
The cults of the Jewish and Catholic faiths, all myriad Christian religions, and other denominations that claim there is only one “God,” have toed the man-made line, drawn in the sand by the fallen angels through their DNA, and instruments of war, using swords and clubs throughout the ages, to today’s guns, war machines, and cyber warfare. Their tactics have not changed historically.
My struggle with every religion I have studied, is the insistence that the “God” of the Old Testament is a loving God. If you do what you are told to do, this “God” won’t kill you. I asked every bishop, priest, minister, and elder I came across how a good God could wipe out every innocent child, animal, and vegetable, treating them one and the same thing as the evildoers in the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah, told in Genesis 19.
What good “God” would do that?
The same type of thing happened when the “Lord” sent an angel to kill 185,000 men, women, and children at the Assyrian camp to deliver Jerusalem back to the Jewish people in Isaiah 37:36. Killing, murder, rape, and war are the tools of the trade of the fallen angels, whose Spirits/Souls never die since they were not allowed back into heaven, and were assigned to the vicinity of the Earth.
The Spirits of the fallen angels have turned into today’s demons. They hide in plain sight. These dark and negative energetic entities are still among us. It is easy to see this dark influence in every country on Earth throughout history down to modern times. Humanity’s saving grace is the fact that we have free will. We do not have to choose dark and sinister ways in life.
The good news is that it is not only the dark energy that has survived. There is also the Light within the life force of every single human being. The Light is the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which Jesus told us in Luke 17:20-21 that is within every human being, animating each person on Earth. We have the choice to learn about this Light and use it, or not, depending on how we use our free will.
You are not a victim, no matter what conditions in which you find yourself. Know that prior to this life, you chose the situations from which you thought that you could benefit and grow. This is all about the ascension process. Life’s dilemmas will continue to pop up “unexpectedly” until you learn how to stand up for yourself peacefully and lovingly. You have contracted with others in your circle, agreeing to work together for this process, sometimes emotionally, mentally, physically, or spiritually painful as you mature in your life. This can take hundreds if not thousands of lifetimes, or you and I can buckle down and get right to it, resulting to ascending after this lifetime.
Have you found yourself in a cult, or a group of people who operate within the paradigm of a cult?
Ask yourself if your voice has been taken over by another political or religious loudspeaker. Everyone wants to believe that they are in control of their own thoughts and beliefs. It is easy to be duped. If this has happened to you, know that you are not alone.
Coming to realize that you have handed over your personal power to a strong group that lied to you is shockingly embarrassing and painful. Reclaim your free will and use your personal freedom to let your voice be heard, even if it does not agree with the other voices around you. Know that you can break free of the dominance of others, their mind-control, and their bullying attitudes.
Notice if your politics, religion or social group promises peace, lower prices and better working systems, but produces the opposite.
Are you a victim of a crime, domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, drug and/or alcohol abuse, gossip, and slander by others? Report it. Get counseling. Know it is possible to live with dignity and integrity, past painful moments. Life is what you make it. Make your life beautiful.
WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is a timely peace and hope offering to all people worldwide. It is filled with 70 chapters from this blog which has been around since January 2012. Since history has a habit of repeating itself, it is just as timely promoting peace, healing, and joy as the day each chapter was written.
I serve humanity in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates regardless of division, politics, religion, and social ideologies which often divide individuals based on race, skin color, gender, age, and/or belief system, or any other humanly contrived concoction.
I am a human being helping other human beings who also strive to live in peace, harmony, and for the unity and dignity of life for all people everywhere.
I am not political. I do not promote one religion over another. I am common sense.
I am an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church, ULC, which honors and respects all life-affirming people. Regardless of any belief system, all human beings are animated by our Spirits/Souls, all of which are Sparks of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates all of us, with or without any belief system. Even atheists and agnostics are alive in this way. It is not a belief system. This is a learning curve for all of us.
WISDOM hopes to inspire you with positive solutions to difficult situations in your own life. Healing the world begins with healing the individual, the family, our neighborhoods, our states, our countries, which then can spread out to the world.
Peace is possible.
Notice whatever you as an individual, each individual country, and the entire world focuses on GROWS.
If we focus on war, we get war from the seeds we intentionally planted.
If we focus on peace and reconciliation, we will foster more human responses.
This is the reason we have a conscience, because we are so powerful, we can choose evil over good, just as easy as we can choose good over evil any minute of any day. The choice is ours.
This book features chapters on personal healing for your mind, body, and spirit. There is more to you than you most likely realize. You affect so many people.
You are worthy.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of life.
We all make mistakes. There is not one human being on the face of this planet that has not made mistakes. Join the club.
The solution to all ills within yourself and in the entire world begins with you. You are that important. No matter what your life has brought you thus far, know that you are amazing. You have the ability to right your own ship.
You can also contribute to making this one world we all live on a better place to live.
I am very glad you are here with me on this one planet we all call home. Let’s do our part to heal ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods extending out to the world.
We can do this because WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
WISDOM, subtitled, FOR A HURTING WORLD, is a timely peace and hope offering to all people worldwide. It is filled with 70 chapters from this blog which has been around since January 2012. Since history has a habit of repeating itself, it is just as timely promoting peace, healing, and joy as the day each chapter was written.
I serve humanity in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates regardless of division, politics, religion, and social ideologies which often divide individuals based on race, skin color, gender, age, and/or belief system, or any other humanly contrived concoction.
I am a human being helping other human beings who also strive to live in peace, harmony, and for the unity and dignity of life for all people everywhere.
I am not political. I do not promote one religion over another. I am common sense.
I am an interfaith minister of the Universal Life Church, ULC, which honors and respects all life-affirming people. Regardless of any belief system, all human beings are animated by our Spirits/Souls, all of which are Sparks of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates all of us, with or without any belief system. Even atheists and agnostics are alive in this way. It is not a belief system. This is a learning curve for all of us.
WISDOM hopes to inspire you with positive solutions to difficult situations in your own life. Healing the world begins with healing the individual, the family, our neighborhoods, our states, our countries, which then can spread out to the world.
Peace is possible.
Notice whatever you as an individual, each individual country, and the entire world focuses on GROWS.
If we focus on war, we get war from the seeds we intentionally planted.
If we focus on peace and reconciliation, we will foster more human responses.
This is the reason we have a conscience, because we are so powerful, we can choose evil over good, just as easy as we can choose good over evil any minute of any day. The choice is ours.
This book features chapters on personal healing for your mind, body, and spirit. There is more to you than you most likely realize. You affect so many people. You are worthy.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of life.
We all make mistakes. There is not one human being on the face of this planet that has not made mistakes. Join the club.
The solution to all ills within yourself and in the entire world begins with you. You are that important. No matter what your life has brought you thus far, know that you are amazing. You have the ability to right your own ship.
You can also contribute to making this one world we all live on a better place to live.
I am very glad you are here with me on this one planet we all call home. Let’s do our part to heal ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods extending out to the world.
We can do this because WHATEVER YOU FOCUS ON GROWS.
The names of the three Wise Men are Melchoir, Gaspar (Caspar), and Balthazar.
Consider the following for a meditation. It is taken from my book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM, winner of the 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS in the Social Change category:
The first chapter of Jesus in India, by Mirza Ghulam Admad mirrors the in-depth work of Nicolas Notovitch in 1894, a Crimean Jewish adventurer who claimed to be a Russian aristocrat, spy, and journalist. Notovitch also tracked Jesus into India, Tibet, and Kashmir, uncovering history of Jesus which reports that he dies of natural old age. These are not the only accounts of Jesus surviving the crucifixion. There is more to this story that warrants further investigation. …
Admad points out the well-known history, that seven hundred, twenty-one years before Jesus was born, the ten tribes of Israel were taken prisoner from Samaria by Shalmaneser, King of Assur, to Media. Jesus tracked the lineage of his family tree through this region and India, like we track our ancestry using genealogical searches to discover our own family tree roots. This was the same time frame of the Jewish capture and exile into Babylon, east of Israel, historically known as the Babylonian exile. While the Temple was reconstructed in Jerusalem, not all the members of the ten tribes of Israel returned at that time.
Admad adds that it was the mission of Jesus to find the ten lost tribes, since many of them had adopted Buddhism, and gradually relapsed into idolatry. …
Consider Luke 24:39 and Luke 24:42, 43. Here Jesus is showing his wounds from the nails in his hands, and how they recognize him as he eats broiled fish and a piece of honeycomb with them after the crucifixion. He is with them physically, literally, not as a spiritual illusion or other manifestation.
Admad asks such good questions, “If he had been resurrected after death, how was it that this body of spirit could still have borne the wounds inflicted upon him on the Cross? What need had he to eat? And if he required food then, he must be in need of food even now.”
Notice what Jesus ate after the crucifixion, “When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, he said to them, “Have you any food here?” So, they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. And he took it and ate in their presence.” Luke 24:40-43
Spirits do not eat food.
I do not believe this was a mistake, nor matter of chance that the food Jesus was given held immense healing benefits for his recovery from crucifixion. Other people previously survived crucifixion.
I have always used food as medicine, just as I, my mother, and grandmother did throughout our lives. First, I investigated the medicinal benefits of honey.
Honey has high levels of monosaccharides, fructose, and glucose. It has antiseptic and antibacterial properties often used in chronic wound management and combatting infection. Honey promotes wound healing, heart health, and healthy blood sugar levels. All of these would benefit Jesus’ wounds after the crucifixion.
There are many references to the history of honey dating back to 2100 BCE and several are mentioned in the Old Testament and New Testament:
Proverbs 16:24, “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
1 Samuel 14:24-30, “Now the Israelites were in distress that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath, saying, “Cursed be anyone who eats food before evening comes, before I have avenged myself on my enemies!” So none of the troops tasted food. The entire army entered the woods, and there was honey on the ground. When they went into the woods, they saw the honey oozing out; yet no one put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath. But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the army under a strict oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food today!’ That is why the men are faint.” Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the country. See how my eyes brightened when I tasted a little of this honey. How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”
Deuteronomy 32:13, “He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;”
2 Samuel 17:27-29, “When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Makir son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows’ milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become exhausted and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.”
Psalm 81:16, “But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Ezekiel 16:13, “So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.”
Matthew 3:4; and Mark 1:6, “John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.”
There are eleven evidence-based health benefit of eating fish:
High in important nutrients
May lower your risk of heart attacks and strokes due to Omega fatty 3 acids
Contain nutrients that are crucial during development
May boost brain health
May help prevent and treat depression
A good dietary sources of vitamin D – functions like a steroid
May reduce your risk of autoimmune diseases
May help prevent asthma in children
May protect your vision in old age
May improve sleep quality
Delicious and easy to prepare
Fish also has Vitamin B12, crucial for the growth of healthy red blood cells which Jesus needed to recover from his near-death experience.
It is also important to note that the gifts of Frankincense, Myrrh, and Gold presented to Jesus by the Magi, was a foreshadowing of his path. Frankincense is an antiseptic aiding digestion, coughs, and cold. Myrrh is an antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, helping to repair the immune system and reduce fevers. Both Frankincense and Myrrh would be beneficial for healing after a crucifixion. Gold has always been a treasured mineral which would have been necessary for the purchase of travel and goods on his travels to the east post-crucifixion.
The Hyssop stalk soaked in wine was what Jesus had put to his lips when he said, “I am thirsty,” recorded in John 18:9:28. Hyssop is a holy herb that was used to be sprinkled on lepers. It is commonly used in tea for coughs, decongestant, shortness of breath. It is also used to treat bruises, cuts, and wounds.
Might it have been for purposes of compassion rather than merely mockingly giving Jesus a bitter drink at such a distressful time on the cross? …
Jesus spent time in India, the Himalayas, and Tibet. His famous Sermon on the Mount comes straight out of The Upanishads of India. Jesus would have had to travel to India prior to his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 to have had his words carry the same meaning so closely stated.
The book, Living In Freedom & Love Without Conditions by Phyllis M. Brooks, mentions that Joseph of Arimathea was a trader of tin and was the uncle of Jesus. He took Jesus on several merchant trips by boat and by land to India during those eighteen missing years of Jesus life, from ages twelve to thirty, but you have never heard about in today’s bible. When you read about his travels to India, and learn what Jesus learned, you discover that the sages of India over two thousand years ago embarked on an experiment that is worth repeating today. This is the reason The Upanishads rolled off the tongue of Jesus so easily at his famous Sermon on the Mount. There are enormous amounts of Wisdom in The Upanishads.
Rather than focusing on the outside of life, Hindu and Buddhist sages focused on what is inside humanity, consciousness, and the Energy that lies within each one of us. They discovered the changeless reality of what this book is about, what Aldous Huxley called Perennial Philosophy, the Eternal Well-Spring of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
Can you discover this deepest part of you, the God-realization that dwells within you, as Jesus taught?
Yes, this is apocryphal knowledge. Apocryphal means HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE, not anti-Christ. It is time to get out from under cult-like indoctrinations, which prefer to teach their own human understanding rather than to teach all the words of Jesus Christ. I stand on the words of Jesus Christ.
“Wisdom For A Hurting World offers daily reflections of hope, peace, and inspiration for navigating life’s challenges. Through practical insights and spiritual wisdom, Linda Hourihan guides you to release fear, reclaim your personal power, and live with greater authenticity and balance.
This book is also now offered as a paperback and shortly in hardcover!
I wrote this book to help you focus how to heal your mind, heart, speech, and actions in a world that has a habit of only focusing on the opposite. Whatever you focus on grows.
There are 70 chapters, 334 pages and 75,202 words, all of which come from the holistic health counseling posts that first appeared in this blog since 2012. It is astounding how many posts written back then could just as easily been written today.
Evidently, we human beings are creatures of habit, with repeating history until we become aware of how to heal ourselves AND our nations.
You shall not steal your neighbor’s integrity or twist truth into lies.
Integrity matters.
Here is an excerpt from THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT, The Slow Death of Local Journalism – By John T Hourihan Jr.
“The day before the trial was to start, Kevin went to the lake that he had always found comforting.
The lake was in the woods where he had fished when he was a boy. He sat on an old and rotted log at the water’s edge. A translucent green firefly hovered in the sunshine, barely gripping the tip of a stock of grass, and looked at Kevin from a few feet away. The iridescent bug was one of the oldest beings on the planet. It flitted from flower to grass stalk in the sun-filled afternoon, and the high-pitched whine of the cicadas was a welcomed backdrop to his thoughts.
“Why the hell am I doing this?” Kevin thought.
“My family doesn’t want me to. People in the town don’t want the complications? I’m being threatened from everywhere; my church probably even stopped me from telling the truth about them; and the people I work for won’t back me up. Why is it so damn difficult to tell the truth? Why is the truth so important when no one wants to hear it?
“They don’t want to be informed,” the dragon fly seemed to tell him. It left the grass shoot and flew closer to his face.
“They just want to be entertained.”
Kevin thought about this past handful of years. It was a distinct possibility that he had helped build a memorial for a group of dead soldiers no one wanted to remember. He had brought to light seeming corruption and lawlessness by those who were supposed to be enforcing the laws and then helped save a policeman’s job because it was the right thing to do.
He made people aware of the innocence of a kid who had been arrested for nothing, had pointed out cancer-causing chemicals leaking into the river, had illuminated a scheme to pay fewer taxes by a rich man, helped prevent a town wide conflagration, helped put an end to traffic taxing in a small town, helped house a burned-out family, and explained the use of the daily police log.
“Damn,” he told the dragonfly, who was now hovering around his head. “I have shown them the fraud, corruption, double-dealing, brutality, lawlessness, pollution, and lack of safety that exists right in the middle of their lives. I pointed out that some young people are doing good for their communities and helped add money to worthwhile fundraisers. And what do I get for it? I get threatened by lawyers and thugs. And the only thing they really like is the jokes, the sex, the outrageous.
The story that people liked the most was the one about the black man who was looking for a job in Faithville, and when he was inevitably told no, he had headed for the center of town to use the phone booth, and within an eighth of a mile he was arrested for being “a suspicious looking person.”
In other words, he was arrested for being black in a white town. Kevin had said it was pure racism, the same racism that hid behind the red lines in the real estate corners of even a small Unitarian, New England hamlet.
He pointed out that the racial hatred that had lain dormant, under rocks and behind trees in the “land of the free,” was beginning to come out into the light again, but that isn’t what readers had seen. What he heard most from the folks in coffee shops that week was that they thought it was funny. That a man was arrested for the color of his skin made them laugh.
“This journalism thing isn’t heading in a good direction as far as I can see,” Kevin said out loud, and watched as the dragon fly flew into the woods and landed on an ancient, rusted yellow steamroller.
“ANTIFA” is a philosophy, not a group of people. It means “Anti Fascist.”
What does it mean to be a Fascist?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Fascism means:
a form of extreme-right authoritarianism
ultra nationalism
characterized by dictatorial power
forceable suppression of opposition
strong regimentation of society and the economy
ANTIFA started in the early 1900s, around the time of World War I. People of every ethnicity, race, color, creed, gender, age, ability and/or disability are born with God-given free will. People do not wish to be dominated, nor treated unfairly or be suppressed by a political power, nor by elitist political, financial greed, and/or religious suppression. WWI was supposed to put an end to worldwide domination by military force.
The ideals of Freedom and Democrary are so ingrained in American politics that the Founders of the United States of America wrote in the Preamble to the Constitution of the US:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The ratification of the Convention held on Monday, September 17, 1787 promoted the rights and privileges of those in government, including the rights of its citizens. Our government is based upon life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all citizens, not just those at the top of political power, nor at the top of wealth earners, nor the strongest arm of might pretending to be right.
The rights and privileges are not for the suppression of:
human rights including the immigration of persecuted asylum seekers
stealing and selling of babies and children also considered to be part of human trafficking
voting rights
women’s rights
global warming and climate change
rainforest destruction
fracking for profit at the expense of earthquakes and care of the earth
truth in lending practices including the wealthiest among us
truth in reporting and news coverage
truth in all areas
We have not seen Fascism in the United States of America until now.
Why is that?
The opposite of Fascism is ANTIFA. It means Anti-Fascism. To a nation based on freedom and liberty for all,ANTIFA is a GOOD thing as a peaceful stand, unless you happen to be a Fascist.
The opposite of Fascism is DEMOCRACY, and LIBERALISM.
To BE AGAINST Antifa is to be a FASCIST.
Are you a Fascist?
Do you promote a Fascist agenda?
If you discover you are a Fascist, you need to find another country to be part of.
Back in time when the truth of human history on Earth came to Light, much of it was buried to hide the truth from humanity. Only some of it survived and was altered to fit the many different understandings of faith. Not everything was hidden, but what was left began the indoctrination of the birth of the nations of the Earth, with life and death penalties if their flocks of followers did not go along with them. The Canaanite and Jewish holocausts and other ethnic cleansings come to mind.
Hiding knowledge to promote an incorrect agenda to be used as a money and power grab for power, fame and fortune is an unfortunate repeating theme in human history, as explained in my three-book 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARD winning series: 1) IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM; 2) MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled SURVIVAL WISDOM; and 3) NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS.
Jesus was not silent during his famously “lost” eighteen years from his ages twelve to thirty, nor was he silent after the crucifixion, as explained in detail in IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM. Jesus taught what no person wanted to hear so much that this knowledge was hidden away in desert caves in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Jesus was crucified for his teaching, as if that would keep him quiet. Humanity is still talking about it now, even in this blogpost and in this book, TRANSITIONING THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY.
Faith is not some invisible mindless nothing. Faith is that gut instinct for survival that knows no bounds. You may have been disillusioned from time to time, but those moments of self-doubt do not reflect the real you. Continue growing in faith until ALL your questions are answered, not only some of them.
Having faith in political systems wreak just as much havoc as religious and social systems of belief do. Even they, as well-meaning as they might appear to be, still seek your personal power. They also seek your fame, which is your reputation, as in which “organization” do you align your beliefs. This can be like joining a club.
It is time to reclaim your God-given personal power. No political, religious, or social group gave you your personal power. They usually seek to usurp your own power to add to theirs.
It is also time to reclaim the keys to your cash. How much to you “donate” to political and religious causes, as if they owned the keys to your mind, body and Spirit/Soul?
Are you guilted into how much of your hard-earned money you should give to political, religious, and social causes, according to them?
You are alive by the very Life Force Energy that animates your Spirit/Soul, without which you would not be alive.
These others do not own your Spirit/Soul. You are alive by the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating your Spirit/Soul. At the end of your Life, while you drop the cloth of your physical body, your Spirit remains very much alive in the life beyond this one.
It is also time to reclaim your fame, which is your imprint in this life. What you make of your life is up to you, not up to any political, religious, or social group. You own the rights to your life, no one else, regardless of what other people, groups, or institutions say, or with which they often threaten you.
Sometimes there can be tangents of feeling a misguided sense of superiority others in these groups who do not believe as you do usually have. Often mind control groups turn sinister, introducing hate, lies and conspiracy to tickle your fancy. Notice also if they seek your fortune, which is the key to your cash. This happens when the leaders do not want to tap into their own resources.
Attractive tempting lies are the bait political and religious pundits use to catch you by the hook of half-truths, the lines of dysfunctional thinking, and the sinker of your heart, mind, and Spirit/Soul.
It is time to research all sides of the issue. There is more than one way to look at everything. It is time for truth, all truth to be told.
It is time for your character development, maturity and integrity to shine. It is time to think for yourself, not align to any group who does not exhibit genuine LOVE for all people, not only those in a particular group.
The Age of Aquarius, which is dawning at this time in history, will help you to trust your instincts to better humanity by having more faith in yourself, continuing education in political, religious and social structures, in fostering justice and equality for all, not for only the select few of like-minded people. Have faith in yourself because you are a Spark of Limitless Living Light of Creation.
Have you ever found yourself taking on more than you planned or want to take on? Are you stressed???
There are many things you can do in these stress-filled times that are self-help antidotes. They are things you already know. But in the snap decision moment, you can find yourself doing the exact opposite of what you want to do, like staying calm, cool and collected.
How many times have you been in the middle of a project, or a meal, and the telephone rings, or your latest technology gadget alerts you that some new bit of information is coming in?
What do you do?
Are you in the habit of constantly jumping at everyone else’s beck and call?
Are you a slave to modern technology, or are you a free-ranging human?
Depending on what you have going on in your life, there are times when you absolutely have to take this call. It could be the doctor, or an urgent call from your boss. There are many valid reasons you, from time to time, should drop what you are doing, and answer that call. It would be irresponsible not to.
But is this the normal routine for you every day, in every situation?
Do you let everything, everybody’s wants, come before your peace of mind, your plan for your day, or your priorities?
You need to become aware and take stock of your triggers, from time to time, because nothing stays stagnant. Things always change. It is a matter of staying in balance no matter how chaotic life gets.
Becoming aware of how you are feeling is the first step in the right direction to correcting what is off with this self-sabotaging habit. Feelings are not right or wrong, they just are. Good feelings are affirming and are a sign you are doing OK. Feelings of discordant energy are a sign that you need to make a correction somewhere to bring you back into alignment with your true purpose, goals, and get back on track.
Where is your Bliss?
This is something you take with you no matter how busy you let yourself get. One self-help tool is to remember to take three, count three, deep, cleansing breaths each time a challenge comes your way. Seldom is it the case when you need to react so fast, as if you are running from a burning building. Yet that is exactly how you may tend to dash through your life, putting out everyone’s fires.
An amazing thing to remember is, just because someone throws you the ball, you don’t have to catch it. What a relief it is to remember this. Yes, you already know this, but somehow someone throwing the ball to you plays to your ego. You might find yourself rising to the occasion when you don’t really want to. If this happens to you occasionally, then you are doing a good and noble thing. However, if this happens to you every time, then you are doing yourselves a disservice.
When and how do you start your day?
Do you wake up and immediately jump on the treadmill of life?
It is no wonder you get so exhausted. This tends to be one of the best places to introduce change if you are not happy with your situation.
What part of the day is your best work production, alert time?
What part of the day is best for you to exercise?
What part of the day is best for you to meditate, pray or recollect in peace and quiet?
The answer to these questions is different for different people. There is not one best answer here. What is important is to take a moment to reassess your life.
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or evening person?
Does the life you are living match your most optimum workload times?
What do you want to do about that?
You don’t have to catch the ball. Isn’t that awesome to remember?
If you are a people pleaser, this concept may be somewhat startling. What is it about false pride that makes you think you have to come last in everything?
Did you know that people pleasing all the time is often a sign of past abuse of your personal power?
Are you addicted to technology, social media, work, play, or anything that has taken over your life making you feel that your life is running you, rather than you living your life?
Jesus of Nazareth gives words of hope as to where to find your bliss in Matthew 6:24-34: “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate one and like the other; or he will honor one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth, technology, social media, et cetera).
“For this reason, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat and what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will wear. Behold, is not life much more important than food, and the body more than clothing?
“Observe the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, neither do they harvest nor gather into barns, and yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
“Who among you who by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“Why do you worry about clothing? Observe the wildflowers, how they grow; they do not get tired out, nor do they spin.
“But I say to you that Solomon with all of his glory was not arrayed like one of them.
“Now if God clothes in such fashion the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow falls into the fireplace, is he not much more mindful of you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore, do not worry or say, what will we eat, or what will we drink, or with what will we be clothed?
“For worldly people seek after these things. Your Father in heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you.
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will look after itself. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.”
An interesting point to make here is this concept of the Kingdom of God. The Pharisees ask Jesus when and where is this Kingdom of God will come in Luke 17:20-21. What should they look for?
The answer that Jesus gives is that the kingdom will not come by observable signs of wonders, but that the wonder of it all is that the Kingdom of God is WITHIN you. It is the very Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates your Spirit/Soul, my Spirit/Soul, and every other Spirit/Soul of every living person on Earth. Jesus did not say only people of his religion had it, or that any person of any other religion had it. It is the Limitless Living Light, otherwise known as chi, the prana, the qi that animates all living people no matter who they are, where they live, or what they do for a living, including agnostics and atheists. It is not something you earn by being in the right “club.”
When you remember all the words of Jesus, not only some of them, you will also relax and breathe in peace that knows no bounds. It helps you to put your daily life in perspective. Then your bliss will shine forth.
God is closer to you than your next breath because God, as Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, is the Source of that breath.
How do you find balance in a world that is out of balance, or at least with its attention placed on less than loving energies?
There always was and always will be chaos in the world, at least that has been since time as we know it began. Still, it is encouraging to know that there are things that can settle your Spirit and relax you to the very core of you.
You matter. Don’t forget to breathe. Take in several deep breaths.
Find your special spot, for just a quiet moment. It might be on the beach …
in the mountains …
or catching a beautiful sunset.
It is important to take some time away from the busy, the rush, and the routine.
It is necessary for you to find some time for yourself to recover from the stresses of everyday life, horrific news, and over-loaded schedules.
It is important for you to take time for you to maintain your health in mind, body, and spirit.
Rule #1: MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAFE. National Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-7233
Rule #2: MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAFE. National Domestic Violence TTY Hotline 800-787-3224
Rule #3: MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAFE. Abuse Victim Hotline by state www.avhotline.org
Do you feel safe?
Do you feel safe in all your relationships?
Do feel safe in your home?
Do you feel safe at your employment?
Do you feel safe in your social circles, friendships, affiliations, clubs, including social media?
Do you feel safe when you are alone?
Do you feel unsafe in some situations?
Do you feel unsafe around certain people?
Do you feel threatened or intimidated by anyone legally, physically, financially, morally, or even spiritually?
It is most important to feel safe in your own skin, safe in your own mind, and safe in your own soul.
Much has been written about promoting tolerance, getting along, defusing situations, and compromising for the greater good that can be experienced in this beautiful and amazing life. But those of us who have more tender mental constitutions, and weaker willed individuals can be bullied beyond belief by strong personalities, louder and more demonstrative characters, bowling over any and all attempts that might possibly arrive at a healed and more whole relationship.
These are lessons school children learn, how to get along. But sometimes we carry this attempt at being “normal” too far, trying to apply tolerance and compromise to abusive and dysfunctional relationships, when we really should be running for the hills.
Your feelings and emotions are your accurate, internal measure of what you should do next. Emotional abuse feels bad, makes you nauseous, gives you anxiety attacks, with a generalized feeling of malaise, depression and low energy. The intensity of your feelings and emotions is a signal that things need to change if you are going to re-gain your mental, physical and spiritual health.
There is never any reason to tolerate physical, mental/emotional abuse, or bullying as a normal behavior. This seems like it is common sense, but it is not that easy to the person who is being physically abused, emotionally blackmailed, and threatened by law suits or any other kind of manipulation. The longer bullies bully their victim, the more debilitating fear cripples the victim.
On a personal level, freedom comes when you gather your courage and STAND UP. Stand up for yourself, speak out to someone you can trust. Do not remain silent. Silence is not golden. Silence is deadly, literally. Bullies do not go away. Bullies get stronger the longer they stay at it. The longer a bully stays a bully, the more brazen they get, and the more their bullying tactics escalate.
An important point to make here is to realize that people with destructive personality disorders most often look just the same as you and me. Mass murderers do not look like mass murdereers. They look like regular people, for the most part. Abusive partners also dress in expensive clothing, can be financially successful, and have no tell-tale marks that make them stand out from no-abusive partners. They might even appear to have wide circles of “friends” around them, but the truth is, these are usually superficial trophies. Do not be intimated by any of this. This presentation of how bullies portray themselves is a facade. However, the vengeance the bully feels is very real, and must be dealt with, not ignored.
The question is how to stand up and deal with bullies, emotional blackmail, and threats of mental, emotional and physical abuse. Again, go by how you feel. You need to get to a safe place on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually. If you feel unsafe addressing these problems yourself, seek immediate help from a counselor, police, fire or shelter. Do not wait. Your health and well-being depend on getting help not only for yourself, but also for the abuser.
Manipulating behaviors tend to show up ever so subtly in the earlier days of the relationship, but can also manifest later in the relationship if stressors change. Pay attention. Pay attention to how you feel when certain things happen. You might even keep a journal of your feelings, if you feel safe to do so.
The important thing to know is there is no tolerance for abusive behaviors. Verbal abuse can be even more detrimental to the health and well-being of children, spouses, and everyone living or working under the same roof.
Sometimes abusive behaviors manifest over time, after the relationship is well-established. The person being abused knows that even the abusing person has a good side from time to time, and at the good times, has earned their love. The person being abused wonders if they have done or said something to trigger the abuse. Most often the person receiving the abuse is told it is their fault that the abuser is abusing. Know this is not true.
Everyone is in charge of their own feelings, emotions and actions. There is no way you are ever in charge of the abuser’s feelings, emotions or actions no matter what has happened.
You count.
You matter.
You are a gift from God.
You are beautiful, and I am so very glad you are here.
This most likely will strike a chord within you because you already know this. This is a reminder to let you know that personal safety is important and something for you to protect.
If you ever find you have recurrent obsessions, like persistent ideas, thoughts, or impulses which are intrusive to your life and cause you marked anxiety and distress, you might have obsessions.
If you find yourself habitually expressing repetitive behaviors, like checking your doors or under the bed repeatedly without being able to stop without experiencing heightened stress and anxiety, you might have compulsions.
Can you stop them without mental distress?
If your thoughts and actions take over your life with a life of their own, then you might have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Do you bear a wearying consciousness of yourself and your stresses everywhere you go?
There are two points to share here. One is to know that there are some self-help tools you can all do that are extremely effective.
The other point to remember is that while you can do many things to help yourself, there are times when you cannot simply “decide” not to have a chemical imbalance or other physical and/or mental condition which requires a medical physician or psychiatrist.
While your insane ego might like not to require you to take prescription drugs, it is sometimes exactly what is needed.
A human body or mind is no less a body or mind if it is in need of assistance in balancing you in mind, body and/or Spirit/Soul.
First, take a look at self-help tools that work. Be honest with yourself. No one can lie to yourself like you can when you do not want to address an issue you do not want to deal with.
Rule number one is to drop the negative self judgement. Realizing who you are and what makes you tick is truly a wonder-filled thing. When you stop denying things about you that are there, you can make great strides in any direction you choose.
That’s right. You get to choose.
Rationally you may understand that your obsessions and compulsions are not necessary, while at the same time, you may not be able to stop them. Telling yourself that you do have a choice is huge, because up until now, you may have understood yourself to be at the mercy of the situation.
Rule number two is to reprogram your mind. You need to reprogram the victim mentality, to a self-empowering mentality.
You may not like to think of yourself as “programmed.” But that is what has happened to you if you find yourself with dysfunctional habits. You have been “programmed” by your family, your environment and life situations, and by what you take in, like television shows, commercials, movies, not to mention fear-based religious institutions.
How free are you, really?
To get in control of yourself and become self-empowered, you need to choose a mantra, such as an I AM statement as if you are already recovered from this problem. For example, if you want to stop the addictive compulsion to always check under the bed, you can think, “I am relaxed and confident and no longer need to look under the bed,” or whatever the compulsion is.
Does this work the first time you think it?
No, it does not.
It is in repeating this new mantra, even if it is the opposite of how you are feeling at this moment and repeating this new behavior that re-trains the mind to think and the body to do something differently.
It takes 21 days to change a habit, any habit. New statements you think, and new behaviors you do will feel like you have two left feet at first. Expect that. It is part of the healing to step outside of your comfort zone. You need to remind yourself that this new, odd feeling is OK. You will get past it.
Mantras work by changing the vibrational message in the mind. Mantras need to be repreated often, like at least 3-10 times each hour, or as often as you remember to say them. Sticky notes everywhere you look are also a help, like on mirrors, walls, doors, tables, our cars, everywhere.
You need to go easy with yourself. Any progress you make is good progress to build upon. No beating yourself up. Be very loving and gentle.
You can stop fear and anxiety, worry and uneasiness from lurking around every corner. You are not alone. Know that everyone has something, some issue to work on. No one is perfect, so join the club.
What you think about, you bring about. Every time a dark or negative thought comes in, like, “This is stupid,” or “This won’t work,” tell yourself, “Yes, this DOES work,” which it absolutely does.
All of these self-help suggestions also work in tandem with your doctor’s helps as well. You can make your life anything you want, so make it beautiful.
“Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware of those who claim to know the mind of God, and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.” Barbara Brown Taylor, an influential American Episcopal priest, author, and educator known for her writings on spirituality and faith.
Have you ever spoken with someone who tells you that he or she knows what God thinks, what God wants you to do, or what God will do to those who don’t obey what they think God wants?
These words are the spawn of FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. Political and religious fear mongers continue beating the drum of FEAR to motivate their followers to do their will, which they cannot do without their fear-filled followers. These leaders themselves are not filled with fear. Fear, obligation, and guilt, known as FOG, is the acronym used to refer to their arsenal of weapons, along with manipulation as a reinforcement.
These are loaded questions which require a deeper look at the intentions of people. Often the intentions of people with goodwill, who are following the dark and negative drumbeat of suspicion and conspiracy theories, are misguided. Their political and religious leaders seem to be coming from a place for the common good based on what they claim to be fact, that they know the mind of God.
BEWARE OF THESE PEOPLE.
If anarchy, destruction, chaos, and murder is their MO, Motis Operandi, their god is not the good God. You will know these people by the fruits they bear.
Political leaders who claim they are standing on the principles of God would better serve the world as religious leaders, if that is their calling. Otherwise, political leaders ought to be serving the cause of the betterment of humanity whom they say they care for, by positive solutions that build up. The USA has the separation of church and state for a very good reason.
What are good-hearted and good-willed people to do once they recognize that they have been deluded by the very ones they trusted, gave money to, and for whom they followed their direction only to discover their fearless leaders turned out to be corrupt and incorrect?
Do not hand over your personal power to anyone.
There are unscrupulous people in the world, some of whom pretend to be your friends, or claim to know what is better for you than yourselves. They want your money. They want your time. They want you to do their bidding, because on their own they cannot succeed. Do not follow the fox into the chicken coop.
Take a moment to reassess. Work for peace. Work for the common good of all people. Notice if the people you give money to are eating better than you. How many people of middle and lower economic status continue bailing out rich corporations, politicians, and religious entities?
It is good to change your mind when you discover you have been railroaded by corrupt minds. Recognize the delusion others may have pulled the wool over your eyes for a few years. But now that truth is uncovered, let the light shine on your peaceful, loving intentions, clear the cobwebs of your mind, and focus on unity and harmony.
Insults and biting sarcasm are the lowest form of communication. Even children know and do this.
It takes strength of character to uncover the truth of the reality of what is taking place in the USA. You may have been on the wrong side of the issue. Now you may have a clearer understanding that the truth is not what you were told. Everyone makes mistakes. Your mature character development can admit when lies were told to you as if these lies were the truth. Truth matters.
You are also free to be an atheist, agnostic, or any religion with life-affirming beliefs. You are not free to be a lawless citizen who hides under the guise of law and order, and/or any lawless religion who operates as if laws and rules do not apply to them. You will know them by their fruits.
You are also free to believe in the Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Bahaism, Jainism, Islam, Native American, Rastafarianism, Quaker, Shinto, Sikh, Wicca, Zoroastrianism, or any other belief system which is rooted in peace and LOVE, also known as the Golden Rule.
What you are not free to be in the United States of America is a terrorist of any kind, religious, political, nor social. Again, you will know them by their fruits.
It’s not important to stay in the lies of the day in politics, religion, or social circles to save face, money, or friends. Now is the time to find out for yourself what the truth is. This is what can build a better tomorrow.
Being like an ostrich with its head in the sand does not make the problem go away.
Becoming a people pleaser happens when you give away your personal power. It is a coping mechanism. Giving away your personal power, saying yes when you really mean no, is an outward sign of an inner conflict within yourself.
It may begin simply as a way to keep your job, join a new group of people, or a host of any other valid reasons you wish to promote yourself in other groups. The question is, how much of yourself do you choose to give away?
You might have fostered this self-sabotage trap in your youth depending on the motivational techniques used by your parents, teachers, and others in your world. Or perhaps your parents were absent, worked a lot, or for other reasons were not there to support you. When this happens, you may have had the tendency to look to others for the affirmation, rather than draw from our own self-esteem.
This may be a habit you do not even know you have until you feel used by people. Are you the one everyone else always comes to when extra chores need to be done in the social settings you belong to, at work or with friends?
It is one thing to offer our help from time to time. Doing service for the greater good of humanity is good for the soul. For a short time, if your work needs your extra attention on a project, or your friend needs help, you may choose to volunteer. The key words here are “for a short time.”
But how many friendships have been lost because one person is always the giver, and the other person is always the taker?
Are you always the giver?
Are you always the taker?
This may happen without your being fully conscious of it. Your patterns of thinking, speaking and acting may be on a pre-programmed habitual loop.
When an unfair situation does occur to you, how do you handle it?
It is wonderful the moment when these situations present themselves to your consciousness, because up until that point, you can go years without realizing others are taking unfair advantage of you by your own lack of standing up for yourself.
Once you recognize your patterns of behavior, you have a choice, and your head gets more in the game alerting you to make more conscious, and possibly different decisions.
Depending on your previous conditioning, or your misguided need to be needed, you may choose to continue giving your personal power away and volunteer your life away, in the hopes that your efforts will gain you acceptance, status, recognition, friendship, or to be better liked.
Again, the key phrase is, “for a short time.” For a short time, you can burn the candle at both ends, carry an extra heavy workload, help someone through a health crisis. The trouble begins when you do not stand up for yourself, when the short time turns into what is expected of you over the long haul.
It is interesting to watch yourself when you begin to find your voice. Often what happen is, you may get fed up. You’ve had enough. You get angry with the situation, or the other person because you feel that they are abusing you; when in reality, you have allowed this to happen to you.
Being like an ostrich with its head in the sand does not make the problem go away.
You are not a victim unless you choose to be. No one wants to hear that, especially if you feel you have been wronged or been taken advantage of by others.
Who is really at fault here, you not standing up for yourself, or the other guy who knows your patterns of behavior and goes along with your permissions?
You are not in charge of other people’s actions, but you are in charge of yours.
What tends to happen next, is that you can over-react. You may find yourself angrily lashing out that you need to stop being friends, or you quit the club, or set clear boundaries with others.
However, it is enough to simply stop, to simply say no to extra activities, even with a smile.
When did you have to explain your every thought, word or deed to everyone?
You can say “no” lovingly, state your mind with integrity, drop the fear and the anger.
This is a learning process. You may already have this down pat. Or perhaps, no matter what age you are, you are still learning how to stand up for yourself. This is especially true if you are in the midst of changing addictive patterns in your life. You need to give yourself time to change whatever habits you want to change.
You can do anything you set your mind to think, say and do, holistically for the good of all, of course.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
Are you tired of being influenced and motivated by fear?
HAVE COURAGE.
There is a constant drumbeat of fear that echoes as an undercurrent in modern-day conspiracy theories and civic and social agendas. It is a way subtle and not so subtle leaders of groups have devised to get you to do what they want you to do.
Pay close attention. They want your mind, your time, and your money.
If you join their club, you will be absolved of your God-given free will, trading it instead for humanly contrived manipulations of your mind solely for their benefit. This happens in many groups such as those in religion, politics, and cults.
It is a gang mentality.
It starts out as a catchy ideology, a contagious new thought promising freedom, wealth, and liberty, while simultaneously enslaving your free will should you care to go further. Promising one thing while handing you another is a re-run by-product of George Orwell’s 1984, called double think.
HAVE COURAGE.
Roars of fear are plainly being played out on the world’s stage today. It is insidiously being indoctrinated into the minds of bible-belt children, and youth of the supposedly religious right-wing thinkers, with the repetitive negative drumbeat of fear, fear, fear with each striking of the drumstick.
Fear of others who are not exactly like themselves strikes at the heart of those with this hijacked mindset.
Fear that there won’t be enough food is shown on social media as if that is the truth.
Fear of water depletion, good, clean drinking water, and water to safely swim in is highlighted, as if there is no possible way to correct human error and waste.
Fear of lack of housing, goods, and clothing all get shined in the spotlight as if there is no way humanity can solve this issue.
HAVE COURAGE.
The reality is that there are numerous wholesome groups already at work in the world, helping the less fortunate, feeding and clothing the poor, and educating children and adults. You have the knowledge and ability to solve the global climate crisis when all the information is allowed to be reported. You also have seen one side of politics attempt to hide facts, such as global warming and climate change. Pretending that this is not happening is not helpful to you or the world. This is also at work in your world today.
Another reality is that all human beings are born with the Light and Life of our Spirits/Souls regardless of your gender, age, race, creed, or any other observation that notices the unique differences between individuals.
This is because all human beings are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which is God-given, not humanly derived. All Life is “God-given” in the religious comprehension, yet Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is not religious, but science based.
HAVE COURAGE.
The mentality of lack and agendas of fear are insidiously being indoctrinated into some home-schooling curriculums promising critical thinking while delivering fear to elementary school youth. I saw these curriculums online promoting that children in the USA need to be cautious against Socialism, Communism, and Marxism in the United States of America.
What they did not promote was the fact that the United States is a constitutional republic with social programs, like Social Security. The US Constitution protects the republic of the United States of America, meaning each one of us.
Let’s not go back to the 1950’s with ignorance at the helm of education, thinking white people with blue eyes are better than better than any other type of human being.
HAVE COURAGE.
Now is the time for you to call out racism, sexism, and all other hate crimes which are based in FEAR, because this is the UNITED Sates of America, the land of the FREE, not the oppressed.
By addressing the unbridled FEAR within you, and your children, you can continue to make the path of Liberty clear. This is something you need to stand up for, not becoming saddled by the FEARS of others manipulated agendas.
It’s Bloom ran an article written by Marie Calapano with photo by NASA online 10 hours ago.
“For most people, space is something we only see in photos or documentaries. It feels distant and almost impossible to imagine experiencing firsthand. Yet for astronauts like Ron Garan who actually leave Earth, the view from orbit can be life changing. Many describe the moment they look down at our planet as one of the most powerful experiences of their lives.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
“Life on the International Space Station
“Living in space for months is very different from any experience on Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station float through narrow modules, conduct scientific experiments, and circle the planet every 90 minutes. During long missions, they see sunrises and sunsets multiple times each day while watching continents drift beneath them.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
“178 Days in Orbit
“Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent about six months in space during his career, traveling more than 71 million miles while orbiting Earth. During that time, he performed research, worked alongside international crews, and looked down at the planet from a perspective that very few humans have ever experienced. What he saw during those months eventually changed how he thought about the world.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
“A View Few Humans Ever Witness
“Astronauts often talk about the beauty of Earth from space. They see lightning storms flashing across continents and glowing curtains of auroras dancing above the atmosphere. From orbit, oceans appear deep blue, deserts glow in warm colors, and clouds swirl across entire regions. But beyond the beauty, astronauts also notice something else that many people on Earth rarely think about.
Photo by Wikimedia Commons
“The Thin Layer That Protects Everything
“From space, Earth’s atmosphere appears shockingly thin. Instead of a thick protective shell, it looks like a fragile film wrapped around the planet. Astronauts often say this delicate layer is what keeps every living thing on Earth alive. Seeing it from orbit can make the planet feel both incredibly beautiful and surprisingly vulnerable.
Photo by NASA
“The Moment That Changed His Perspective
“It was during these quiet moments looking out the window that Garan experienced what scientists call the “overview effect.” This is a shift in perspective many astronauts describe after seeing the entire planet from space. The experience can create a strong sense that Earth is one interconnected system rather than a collection of separate countries and conflicts.
Photo by Unsplash
“The “Lie” He Says Humanity Is Living
“After spending 178 days observing Earth from orbit, Garan came to a striking conclusion. In an interview with Big Think, he said humanity is “living a lie.” From space, he explained, you can see the entire biosphere filled with life, but you cannot see the things that dominate human priorities such as economies, borders, or political divisions. In his words, the systems we focus on often ignore the natural systems that actually sustain life on the planet.
Photo by Pexels
“Rethinking What Really Matters
“Garan believes humanity often organizes its priorities in the wrong order. Instead of placing the health of the planet first, modern societies often treat environmental systems as secondary to economic activity. From the perspective of space, he argues the order should be reversed. The planet must come first, followed by society, and only then the economy that supports it.
Photo by Wikipedia Commons
“Why Many Astronauts Share Similar Feelings
“Garan is not alone in this experience. Many astronauts describe returning to Earth with a stronger sense that humanity is deeply connected. The overview effect often creates feelings of unity and responsibility for the planet. Researchers who study astronauts say this shift can inspire people to work on environmental issues, humanitarian projects, or global cooperation after returning from space.
Photo by Pexels
“A Different Way to See Our Planet
“Most people will never travel to space, but the message from astronauts like Ron Garan still resonates. Seeing Earth from orbit reminds them that borders are human inventions while the planet itself is shared by everyone. In the end, the lesson from 178 days in space may be simple but powerful: when viewed from far enough away, humanity begins to look less divided and far more connected than we often believe.
Professor Nobis addresses the questions about why some of the most important Bible verses and themes that contemporary “MAGA” and “Christian Nationalist” Christians in America honestly reject by their words and deeds:
What are some of the most important Bible verses and themes that contemporary MAGA and Christian Nationalist Christians in America honestly reject by their words and deeds?
This is a serious and sensitive question that deserves a fair but clear answer. Many MAGA-aligned and/or Christian nationalist figures in the U.S. publicly identify as Christian and appeal to biblical authority. However, critics—both religious and secular—have pointed out that many of their words, policies, and actions seem to conflict with central biblical teachings, particularly those emphasized in the New Testament.
Here are some biblical themes and versesthat many contemporary MAGA/Christian nationalist figures arguably reject or ignore, based on their rhetoric and conduct:
_______________________________________________
1. Loving Enemies and Nonviolence
Matthew 5:44 – “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
Romans 12:17–21 – “Do not repay anyone evil for evil… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Conflict: Many Christian nationalists adopt hostile rhetoric against political opponents, immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, and others they view as cultural threats. They often encourage confrontation, not reconciliation, and sometimes downplay or excuse political violence (e.g. Jan. 6).
_______________________________________________
2. Humility and Repentance
Luke 18:14 – “For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Matthew 23:12 – “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled…”
Conflict: The movement often glorifies power, dominance, and self-righteousness, with little public focus on humility, repentance, or confessing wrongdoing—qualities that Jesus strongly emphasized.
_______________________________________________
3. Care for the Poor, Immigrants, and Marginalized
Matthew 25:35–40 – “For I was hungry and you gave me food… I was a stranger and you welcomed me…”
Leviticus 19:33–34 – “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born… Love them as yourself…”
James 2:5–7 – “Has not God chosen those who are poor…? But you have dishonored the poor.”
Conflict: MAGA-aligned platforms often support policies that exclude immigrants, reduce social welfare, and stigmatize marginalized groups. This stands in tension with biblical commands to welcome strangers and care for the needy.
_______________________________________________
4. Truthfulness
Exodus 20:16 – “You shall not bear false witness…”
Proverbs 6:16–19 – “There are six things the Lord hates… a lying tongue… a false witness who breathes out lies…”
Conflict: The MAGA movement has frequently been associated with disinformation, conspiracy theories, and repeated false claims (e.g., about election fraud), often spread knowingly or recklessly by Christian nationalist figures.
_______________________________________________
5. Rejecting Idolatry and Nationalism
Exodus 20:3 – “You shall have no other gods before me.”
Philippians 3:20 – “Our citizenship is in heaven…”
John 18:36 – “My kingdom is not of this world…”
Conflict: Christian nationalism often elevates the U.S. (or a certain vision of it) to near-religious status, blending patriotism with faith in a way that many theologians call idolatrous. It sometimes treats political power, the Constitution, or Trump himself with a reverence that appears to compete with devotion to God.
_______________________________________________
6. Rejecting Racism and Ethnic Superiority
Galatians 3:28 – “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Acts 10:34 – “God shows no partiality.”
Conflict: Christian nationalism often promotes a white-centered cultural and political identity, marginalizing people of color and supporting systems that perpetuate inequality. Some MAGA-aligned Christians oppose multiracial democracy or speak nostalgically about eras marked by racial exclusion.
Matthew 5:9 – “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
Titus 3:9–11 – “Avoid foolish controversies… and divisions…”
Conflict: Many Christian nationalist leaders fuel division, encourage fear and anger, and attack other Christians who disagree politically. They often prioritize cultural war over unity, which undermines Jesus’s teaching that peacemakers are blessed.
_______________________________________________
8. Servant Leadership and the Rejection of Power Politics
Mark 10:42–45 – “Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant…”
Conflict: MAGA-aligned Christian rhetoric often praises strength, dominance, and authority—both political and military—while downplaying Christ’s model of humble, sacrificial service.
_______________________________________________
9. Concern for Character
1 Timothy 3:2–7 (re: leadership) – “An overseer must be above reproach… self-controlled, respectable… not violent but gentle…”
Conflict: Many MAGA Christian leaders excuse or minimize gross moral failures, dishonesty, or abusive behavior in political figures, especially Donald Trump, often invoking flawed biblical comparisons (e.g., “God used King David or Cyrus”).
_______________________________________________
✅ Conclusion:
The contrast between core biblical values—especially those taught by Jesus—and the priorities and conduct of Christian nationalism is widely recognized by theologians, ethicists, and pastors across the political spectrum.
This isn’t to say that all MAGA-aligned Christians are intentionally rejecting Scripture. But the practical effects of their rhetoric and political alignment often undermine or contradict the ethical teachings that are central to Christian life—particularly those about humility, compassion, truth, peace, and love for all.
UNIVERSAL WISDOM ENLIGHTENMENT MASTERY 