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 neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.
Originally developed by the Nazis for chemical warfare, these neurotoxic pesticides are now used on our food.
“More than half of all apples in the U.S. were sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for use in homes. After a short-lived food ban, chlorpyrifos is again allowed to be sprayed on apples, asparagus, citrus, and other major crops,” said Lance Cheung/USDA.
But in a series of lawsuits, Earthjustice, alongside other groups, succeeded in 2021 to getting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos from food. This ban lasted less than two years, however, due to a chemical manufacturer and agrobusinesses’ legal pushback.
Indeed, shortly after the ban, Gharda Chemical International, along with over a dozen agricultural trade groups, challenged the EPA’s ban, leading to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturning the ban in 2023. As a result, chlorpyrifos can be sprayed once more on our fruits and vegetables, as the EPA works in addressing the court’s decision.
Rather than committing to reinstating the full ban, the EPA said it plans to maintain food uses for roughly half of the historically submitted applications, which include apples, asparagus, cherries, citrus, cotton, peaches, soybeans, sugar beets, wheat, and alfalfa. This official decision is anticipated later in 2024.
What is chlorpyrifos?
Chlorpyrifos (pronounced: klawr-pir-uh-fos) is a neurotoxic pesticide in the organophosphates class of chemicals. Organophosphates were developed by the Nazis for chemical warfare and later adapted for commercial pesticide use after the break-up of the Nazi chemical apparatus.
Before the ban, chlorpyrifos was widely used in U.S. agriculture to kill a variety of agricultural pests.
Chlorpyrifos is acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children. Prenatal exposures to chlorpyrifos are associated with lower birth weight, reduced IQ, loss of working memory, attention disorders, and delayed motor development.
Acute poisoning suppresses the enzyme that regulates nerve impulses in the body and can cause convulsions, respiratory paralysis, and, in extreme cases, death. Chlorpyrifos was one of the pesticides most often linked to pesticide poisonings. (Read an in-depth report on chlorpyrifos.)
How are people exposed to chlorpyrifos?
Through residues on food and in drinking water, and by toxic spray drift from pesticide applications
Children often experience greater exposure to chlorpyrifos because they eat more fruit for their weight relative to adults. (Annette Dubois / CC BY-NC 2.0)
People are exposed to chlorpyrifos through residues on food, drinking water, and by toxic spray drift from pesticide applications.
Farmworkers are exposed to it from mixing, handling, and applying the pesticide, as well as from entering fields where chlorpyrifos was recently sprayed.
Residential uses of chlorpyrifos for insect control ended in 2000, after EPA found unacceptable risks to kids. Communities continue to be exposed to chlorpyrifos through drift from spraying and farmworkers unknowingly carrying this poison home, as pesticides can cling to workers’ clothing. What is more, as chlorpyrifos uses start up again, so will exposure overall, particularly in rural areas.
Meanwhile, children experience greater exposure to chlorpyrifos and other pesticides, because they frequently put their hands in their mouths, and relative to adults, they eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water and juice for their weight.
Estimated agricultural use of chlorpyrifos by county for 2017. Smallest circles represent 1 – 1,000 lbs. of use. Largest circles are more than 100,000 lbs. USGS EPest-low estimates for chlorpyrifos use in pounds across U.S. harvested croplands (Crop Reporting Districts). The USGS EPest-low model more accurately reflects state use as it assumes no chlorpyrifos on crops for which data is not reported in a Crop Reporting District. The EPest-high estimates (not shown) account for chlorpyrifos use that may happen but may not be reported and cannot be verified. The map reflects only agricultural crop usage in 2017 and does not reflect other uses such as golf courses or plant nurseries. Chlorpyrifos use data pertaining to non-contiguous states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories were not made available by the USGS and are not reflected on this map. (Hetty Chin / Earthjustice. Data: Pesticide National Synthesis Project / USGS)
Why do we need to ban chlorpyrifos?
There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos
Agricultural workers pull leaves from a bin of freshly picked cherries. Cherries are among the food uses of chlorpyrifos that EPA said it plans to maintain, following the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 2023. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
A growing body of evidence shows that prenatal exposure to very low levels of chlorpyrifos — levels far lower than what EPA was previously using to establish safety standards — harms babies permanently.
Peer-reviewed studies that have tracked real-world exposures of mothers and their children to chlorpyrifos have associated the pesticide these types of harm.
*All food exposures exceed safe levels, with children ages 1–2 exposed to levels of chlorpyrifos that are 140 times what EPA deems safe.
*There is no safe level of chlorpyrifos in drinking water.
*Pesticide drift reaches unsafe levels at 300 feet from the field’s edge.
*Chlorpyrifos is found at unsafe levels in the air at schools, homes, and communities in agricultural areas.
*All workers who mix and apply chlorpyrifos are exposed to unsafe levels of the pesticide, even with maximum personal protective equipment and engineering controls.
*Farmworkers are allowed to re-enter fields within 1–5 days after pesticide spraying, but unsafe exposures continue on average 18 days after applications.
Farmworkers and their families, particularly children, are most affected by this toxic pesticide. In addition to food exposures, they are more likely to have contaminated drinking water, and they are, quite literally, getting hit from all sides by drift exposures at schools, daycares, on the playground, at work, and in their homes. Because farmworkers tend to be Latino and low-income, the impacts of chlorpyrifos disproportionately impact communities of color.
In this video, agricultural worker Claudia Angulo describes how her son Isaac suffered brain damage after she was exposed to chlorpyrifos during pregnancy. Since Isaac’s diagnosis with ADHD, she has worked to raise awareness among farmworkers, the public, and politicians about the chemical’s health effects.
Which crops have chlorpyrifos on them? Apples, oranges, wheat, citrus, and more
Rather than committing to reinstating the full ban of chlorpyrifos, the EPA said it plans to maintain food uses for roughly half of the historically submitted applications, including peaches. (Larry Rana / USDA)
Chlorpyrifos is used on a wide variety of crops including apples, oranges, wheat, citrus, and other foods children eat daily.
Chlorpyrifos is also used on feed crops that lead to residues in milk, eggs, and meat.
USDA’s Pesticide Data Program found chlorpyrifos residue on citrus even after being washed and peeled. By volume, chlorpyrifos was most used on soybeans and alfalfa crops with one million pounds or more applied annually to each crop.
What does the law require?
To protect children from unsafe exposures to pesticides
A father and son walk through a cotton field in El Campo, Texas. (Lance Cheung / USDA)
The 1996 Food Quality Protect Act — passed unanimously in Congress — requires EPA to protect children from unsafe exposures to pesticides. The FQPA requires EPA to ensure with reasonable certainty that “no harm will result to infants and children from aggregate exposure” to pesticides. EPA cannot take industry costs into consideration when protecting children from harmful pesticides, because FQPA is a health-based standard.
If EPA cannot ensure that a pesticide won’t harm children, the law requires EPA to ban uses of the pesticide.
Congress strengthened protections for children from pesticides following the release of a pivotal 1993 report by the National Academy of Sciences. The NAS report criticized the EPA for treating children like “little adults” by failing to address the unique susceptibility of children to pesticide exposures based on the foods they eat, their play, and sensitive stages of development.
Jim Cochran, a strawberry farmer, was poisoned by pesticides. People told him no one cared about healthy food and healthy workers. He decided to prove them wrong. More on Jim’s story.
What legal actions have been taken? Many. Earthjustice and our clients, alongside many other groups, have worked for more than a decade to build the case to push the EPA to ban chlorpyrifos.
In 2007, Pesticide Action Network and Natural Resources Defense Council filed a petition with EPA, seeking a chlorpyrifos ban based on the growing evidence of how it harms children.
Seven years later, following several lawsuits and delays, EPA had still not acted on the petition. In September 2014, on behalf of PAN and NRDC, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to compel EPA to act on the petition.
The following year, the court called EPA’s delays “egregious” and ordered EPA to act on the petition by Oct. 31, 2015. By that deadline, EPA proposed to ban chlorpyrifos on food. The court gave EPA until Mar. 31, 2017, to take final action. However, despite the overwhelming evidence that the pesticide harms children, workers and the environment, the EPA issued a decision refusing to ban the pesticide, because the agency wanted to continue studying the science.
On Aug. 9, 2018, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case, finding that EPA must finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos within 60 days, based on undisputed findings that the pesticide is unsafe for public health, and particularly harmful to children and farmworkers. EPA obtained a re-hearing before an 11-judge 9th Circuit panel, which ordered EPA to rule on the administrative appeal seeking a chlorpyrifos ban by Jul. 18, 2019. By that deadline, EPA announced, again, that it would continue to allow this harmful pesticide to stay in our fruits and vegetables.
Earthjustice brought the EPA back to court, challenging that decision and seeking a ban on chlorpyrifos. In April 2021, the 9th Circuit held that EPA had violated the law by allowing chlorpyrifos to be used on food without finding it safe for children. The court doubted whether EPA could find chlorpyrifos safe given its extensive findings that chlorpyrifos is associated with learning disabilities in children from low-level exposures.
In its decision, the court noted:
“EPA has had nearly 14 years to publish a legally sufficient response to the 2007 Petition (to ban chlorpyrifos). During that time, the EPA’s egregious delay exposed a generation of American children to unsafe levels of chlorpyrifos. By remanding back to the EPA one last time, rather than compelling the immediate revocation of all chlorpyrifos tolerances, the Court is itself being more than tolerant. But the EPA’s time is now up.”
The court gave the agency 60 days from the end of the case to act. In August 2021, EPA revoked all chlorpyrifos tolerances, which prohibited its use on food. The ban went into effect on Feb. 28, 2022. For the first time since 1965, children and farmworkers across the country were finally spared needless poisonings and lifelong learning disabilities from chlorpyrifos. The ban remained in place through the 2022 and 2023 growing seasons.
What’s happening now?
While Dow Agrosciences (now Corteva) and other U.S. companies stopped selling chlorpyrifos, Gharda Chemicals International challenged the ban, along with agribusiness groups.
On Nov. 2, 2023, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the EPA’s 2021 rule that banned the use and presence of chlorpyrifos on the foods we eat. The 8th Circuit held that the EPA had to consider whether it could find 11 uses safe, based on a 2020 EPA risk assessment that had abandoned the agency’s efforts to protect children from learning disabilities. Scientists, public health groups, farmworkers, and others had submitted comments criticizing the 2020 assessment for failing to protect children, but EPA has never addressed those comments.
“We are profoundly saddened by the 8th Circuit’s decision to send the chlorpyrifos ban back to the EPA to review, which will subject farmworkers and children to this extremely harmful pesticide yet again,” said Patti Goldman, attorney at Earthjustice.
“Food crops have been successfully grown in the two years since chlorpyrifos has been banned.”
In December 2023, the EPA announced that it would not seek further review in the courts of the 8th Circuit decision, because it believed it could put protections in place faster than would occur through the courts. The EPA stated that it would “expeditiously propose a new rule to revoke the tolerances associated with all but the 11 uses referenced by the court.”
The EPA has not yet done so, and recently projected that it would release the proposal in the summer of 2024 and finalize it by the end of 2024.
In the meantime, chlorpyrifos can be used on all the food crops that had been subject to the ban.
As for the 11 uses that EPA’s weakened 2020 risk assessment indicated might be safe, EPA does not plan to respond to the public comments and release an amended proposal until 2025, with final action delayed until later that year.
but only in certain areas of the country and subject to limitations on application rates and methods. The EPA has put none of those limitations into place nor has it instituted measures to protect farmworkers from the harmful exposures the EPA has consistently documented beginning in 2014.
Earthjustice, our clients, and partners are outraged and saddened that it is taking the EPA so long to protect children from neurodevelopmental harm caused by exposure to chlorpyrifos.
Several states have already banned chlorpyrifos, namely Hawaiʻi, Maryland, New York, Oregon, and California. Farmworkers and children will be protected from exposures in those states, but they — like everyone else — will be exposed to chlorpyrifos residues on food until the EPA re-institutes national food safety rules.
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.
“Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Surrendered people understand that they can’t always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don’t try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles.” Dr. Judith Orloff
You know when you are being manipulated by others using the all-familiar tactics of fear, obligation and guilt. But at other times, you can be entangled in the web of other people’s preconceived control-freak game before you are consciously aware it is taking place. This is when others will set up or spin situations to their benefit, much to the infringement of your own free will and immediate knowledge. This is bullying. This is abuse.
1. What is the telltale sign this is happening to you?
2. How do you make it stop?
3. How do you get control of your life back without threats by others?
If you are being bullied, tell someone. Seek counseling.
If you are being abused, tell someone. Seek counseling.
Has anyone ever said to you, “You need to do this, that or the other thing, or else I won’t speak to you anymore,’ or, ‘If you speak to that person, I will never talk to you again,’ or, ‘Stop it, or else I won’t love you, speak to you, or have you in my life anymore.’?”
If so, and you go along with it, you have been or are being manipulated.
Sadly, this is even used as a weapon in divorces. If you go along with the manipulator’s whims, you will only be able to speak with or associate with only the people manipulator says can be in your life, or any other conditions they wish to control. Sometimes the abuser of manipulation uses other threats, but there is always a threat involving the relationship you and the abuser share. It’s a control-freak game.
Manipulation and guilt are forms of psychological and emotional abuse.
Once it is recognized by the victim, health only returns to the person who has been bullied by manipulation tactics when the situation is addressed. It requires a one-on-one communication with the manipulator, no middleman or referee. Once anyone has stepped between the manipulator and the person being manipulated, no healing can take place until or if the manipulator and the person being manipulated address the situation personally.
Once the manipulation abuser becomes aware that they themselves were often first manipulated by this bullying technique, their mental state can only become healthy when they recognize how manipulation first restricted them and fully acknowledge that fact. It is quite an eye-opener.
At first it is a hard pill to swallow because manipulation abusers want to justify their past actions. It hurts when the manipulator first comes to the realization that they themselves were first victims of bullying, manipulating games by those they loved, or included in their lives through work, social and all other human interaction circles.
Families, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and other family relations, work relations, and all other human interactions have been split up by these hurtful words lasting a lifetime. Sometimes it is over a one-way situation, leaving one person in the two-step manipulation dance of avoidance totally in the dark. For non-family manipulation and bullying situations, you can simply walk away. But when it comes to family, it is good to know that these situations can heal if both sides care to work on it.
Manipulating to get your way is a childish act, something two-year old children discover to be very effective. In the maturing process, sometimes we all forget to be better people.
Once someone has been the victim earlier in their life in the manipulation game, they have also learned how to be manipulators themselves, continuing the control-freak downward spiral. If they are smart, and many are, and recognize that they do not want to pass on the terrible bullying and manipulation tendencies to continue the victimization cycle, they stop, seek restitution to the relationship, opening the door to forgiveness. This takes inner fortitude. It is difficult, not impossible.
The victimization cycle can be broken. You can emotionally and psychologically grow up. But it requires brutal honesty with yourself. It also requires a forgiving heart, not just for those you may have victimized, but also for yourself. You can be the world’s worst critic of yourself if this happens to be you. You need to learn how to forgive yourself so you can then forgive those you have hurt by your own thoughts, words and actions.Healing is possible.
Sometimes it is harder for those of you who were or still are victims to forgive your emotional and psychological manipulation and bully transgressors. But this also can happen, even if the manipulation bully-abuser has deceased. It is the forgiving intention and action that heals the heart.
Most often these situations brew over time. It is less rare that bully abusers pop up overnight. It happens in families. It happens in work, social, religious, educational, financial, governments and all human interaction circles. Manipulation caused by intentional fear is at the root of the guilt and obligation you feel in these cases.
Sometimes the manipulator succeeds in twisting the truth so much that you are led to assume that you are the one who is at fault and need to get the blame for the broken relationship. At other times innocent characters get slandered when truth twisting gets neatly spun into a web of convenient lies, as if manipulating and bullying aren’t devious enough.
This is part of the intended victimization process. But once light dawns and you see things clearly for what is actually taking place, you can take a deep breath and begin to do what you can to heal the situation when such opportunities arise.
If the possibility of healing does not present itself, YOU DO NOT STAY IN THE VICTIM ROLE. You do what you can and move on and live your life peacefully with faith, hope and love. Those are the only answers.
If emotional and psychological healing is what you want for both sides, then you might first lean on prayer. Prayer cannot be underrated and may be the only thing that can work when all else fails. What you focus on grows. I suggest you focus on healing the relationship whenever possible.
Healing involves a decision. To move past unbelievable hurt in broken relationships, you need to be ready for reconciliation when it becomes possible and desired, if ever it happens, even when you think this opportunity might never present itself.
This post addresses emotional abuse, not physical abuse, which includes other guidelines and counsel.
It is never too late to mend a broken relationship while people are still alive.
Preston Ni, a professor, presenter, private coach and author of Communication Success With Four Personality Types and How To Communicate Effectively And Handle Difficult People, authored the article in Psychology Today entitled, 14 Signs Of Psychological And Emotional Manipulation. His 14 signs of psychological and emotional manipulation are listed below.
Relationships can be confusing. To help clarify what you are going through and to decide the best way to proceed to a healthier state, it is good to look at the 14 Signs Of Psychological And Emotional Manipulation. It will help to recognize manipulative signs to put a stop to them, either by you being the manipulator or by you being the abused victim of the manipulator.
Here are the 14 Signs Of Psychological And Emotional Manipulation:
“Psychological manipulation can be defined as the exercise of undue influence through mental distortion and emotional exploitation, with the intention to seize power, control, benefits and/or privileges at the victim’s expense.
“It is important to distinguish healthy social influence from psychological manipulation. Healthy social influence occurs between most people and is part of the give and take of constructive relationships. In psychological manipulation, one person is used for the benefit of another. The manipulator deliberately creates an imbalance of power, and exploits the victim to serve his or her agenda,” Ni says.
Ni lists 14 tell-tail signs to watch out for:
1. A manipulative individual may insist on you meeting and interacting in a physical space where he or she can exercise more dominance and control. This can be the manipulator’s office, home, car, or other spaces where he feels ownership and familiarity (and where you lack them).
2. Many salespeople do this when they prospect you. By asking you general and probing questions, they establish a baseline about your thinking and behavior, from which they can then evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. This type of questioning with hidden agenda can also occur at the workplace or in personal relationships.
3. Manipulation of facts is another sign to watch out for. Examples of this include lying, excuse making, being two faced, blaming the victim for causing their own victimization, deformation of the truth, strategic disclosure or withholding of key information, exaggeration, understatement, and have a one-sided bias of issue.
4. Some individuals enjoy “intellectual bullying” by presuming to be the expert and most knowledgeable in certain areas. They take advantage of you by imposing alleged facts, statistics, and other data you may know little about. This can happen in sales and financial situations, in professional discussions and negotiations, as well as in social and relational arguments. By presuming expert power over you, the manipulator hopes to push through her or his agenda more convincingly. Some people use this technique for no other reason than to feel a sense of intellectual superiority.
5. Certain people use bureaucracy – paperwork, procedures, laws and by-laws, committees, and other roadblocks to maintain their position and power, while making your life more difficult. This technique can also be used to delay fact finding and truth seeking, hide flaws and weaknesses, and evade scrutiny.
6. Some individuals raise their voice during discussions as a form of aggressive manipulation. The assumption may be that if they project their voice loudly enough, or display negative emotions, you’ll submit to their coercion and give them what they want. The aggressive voice is frequently combined with strong body language such as standing or excited gestures to increase impact.
7. Some people use negative surprises to put you off balance and gain a psychological advantage. This can range from low balling in a negotiation situation, to a sudden profession that she or he will not be able to come through and deliver in some way. Typically, the unexpected negative information comes without warning, so you have little time to prepare and counter their move. The manipulator may ask for additional concessions from you in order to continue working with you.
8. This is a common sales and negotiation tactic, where the manipulator puts pressure on you to make a decision before you’re ready. By applying tension and control onto you, it is hoped that you will “crack” and give in to the aggressor’s demands.
9. Some manipulators like to make critical remarks, often disguised as humor or sarcasm, to make you seem inferior and less secure. Examples can include any variety of comments ranging from your appearance, to your older model smart phone, to your background and credentials, to the fact that you walked in two minutes late and out of breath. By making you look bad, and getting you to feel bad, the aggressor hopes to impose psychological superiority over you.
10. Distinct from the previous behavior where negative humor is used as a cover, here the manipulator outright picks on you. By constantly marginalizing, ridiculing, and dismissing you, she or he keeps you off-balance and maintains her superiority. The aggressor deliberately fosters the impression that there’s always something wrong with you, and that no matter how hard you try, you are inadequate and will never be good enough. Significantly, the manipulator focuses on the negative without providing genuine and constructive solutions or offering meaningful ways to help.
11. By deliberately not responding to your reasonable calls, text messages, emails, or other inquiries, the manipulator presumes power by making you wait, and intends to place doubt and uncertainty in your mind. The silent treatment is a head game where silence is used as a form of leverage.
12. Pretending ignorance is the classic “playing dumb” tactic. By pretending, she or he doesn’t understand what you want, or what you want her to do. The manipulation/passive aggressive person makes you take on what is her responsibility and gets you to break a sweat. Some children use this tactic in order to delay, stall, and manipulate adults into doing for them what they don’t want to do. Some grownups use this tactic as well when they have something to hide, or obligation they wish to avoid.
13. Guilt baiting and unreasonable blaming is used, targeting the recipient’s soft spot, holding another responsible for the manipulator’s happiness and success, or unhappiness and failure.
14. Examples of victimhood include exaggerated or imagined personal issues, exaggerated or imagined health issues, dependency, co-dependency, deliberate frailty to elicit sympathy and favor, playing weak, powerless or pretending to be a martyr. The purpose of manipulative victimhood is often to exploit the recipient’s good will, guilty conscience, sense of duty, obligation, or protective and nurturing instinct, in order to extract unreasonable benefits and concessions.
We may all see ourselves in one role or another as we look back on our lives. Growth in character and psychological and emotional development is always possible. We can always choose to be better people.
YHWH was not the only Elohim written about in the Old Testament. Elohim is the plural of the word El, which means only one of the Elohim. Biblical interpreters and writers often changed the word “Elohim” and “El” to the word “God,” or “Lord.” It is time to take off the cloak of indoctrination and study the words of the bible exactly as they are written, without the spin of particular belief systems.
Mauro Biglino in his book, GODS OF THE BIBLE, goes into a detailed account of bible history. If anyone can interpret the bible into accurate understanding into today’s world, it is Biglino. He is an Italian biblical scholar translator, popularizer, and best-selling author for Mondadari, one of the major publishing houses in Italy.
During his career, Biglino has directed and supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo, Italy’s main Catholic publisher, whose Vatican-approved texts are used in theological, ancient Hebrew, and biblical studies schools and universities.
Notice that his discoveries in interpreting the Old Testament do not agree with Catholic teaching in his book, GODS OF THE BIBLE.
Don’t you want to know what he discovered?
The ancient historical book, Wars of YHWH, has been “lost.” Old Testament wars killed all the men, women who had slept with men, and the children. The only people they kept were the virgin women in the war between the Israelites and the Midianites.
Numbers 31:32-40 tells the plunder of war when YHWH gets 32 women who had never that had never slept with a man. In this war, the tribute to the “Lord” also included 675 sheep, 72 cattle, 61 donkeys. He also got 420 pounds of gold, which in today’s market would be about 270 million dollars..
Now why would a spiritual “God” need to have 32 virgins and 420 pounds of gold?
The more you allow yourself to read and comprehend what actually happened, which is most likely different from what you have heard from pulpits, the more you will begin to understand what literally took place in Old Testament days. You don’t have to put “spin” on it and turn it into something other than what the words say.
Also notice that Jesus taught the same thing when he said, “My Father is not your father, but my Father has become a father to you. Notice the capital F and lower-case f in this statement, found in the writings of Thomas and James in the Nag Hammadi writings, which has been kept from your eyes until now.
Accurate history is important.
History matters.
You matter.
Have you ever wondered who built the pyramids, or why the Ishtar Gate, is so huge?
Ishtar is also known in history as Isis and Astarte. Throughout the annals of time, the stories throughout history have been told and re-told by various cultures who used the same personalities called by different names to tell their versions.
Those “Fallen Angels,” “Elohim, otherwise known as, “Gods of the Bible,” as Biglino puts it, were the beings that lorded it over the humans in many ways at that time.
YHWH was just one of the many, also known as those 200 “Fallen Angels” of Revelation 12:9 who descended to Earth at that time. Moses had to question which of them he was speaking with when he asked YHWH in Exodus 3:13 where he addresses God (Elohim) and asks, “Suppose I go to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The Elohim of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I tell them?”
The Hebrews called YHWH, “Ish Milchamah.” The Hebrew translation of YHWH means “Man of War,” according to Biglino. Notice how he threatens all people not to follow any of the other Elohim or he will kill them and everyone else who does not “choose” to follow him.
In Exodus 18, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro (Reuel), comments on Moses’ success in leading the Israelites out of Egypt. He expresses his joy and admiration by exclaiming: “Now I realize that Yahweh is greater than all the Elohim.” Exodus 18:11
Biglino asks:
If the term “Elohim” indicates Yahweh-God in the singular, how can “God” be greater than all the Elohim?
Why is “Elohim” accompanied in Hebrew by an adjective meaning “all, everyone, each?” What is the point of using this adjective if “only one” exists?
Why does an article precede the term “Elohim?”
What did Jethro mean? Did he mean that Yahweh is greater than all the “judges” (one of the terms used by commentators to justify the plural ending of the term “Elohim”)? Can one imagine a more blatant banality than this?
Biglino continues:
Suppose, instead the term “Elohim” denotes both a plurality of individuals and their actions as a group, the above questions become irrelevant, and the passage becomes understandable without needing explanation or interpretation.
Look at Exodus 20. In enumerating the Ten Commandments, the alleged “God” begins with an assertion that leaves no room for interpretation:
“I am Yahweh your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other Elohim before me.”
“Do what I say or die,” is the mantra of YHWH, according to all ancient texts including the Bible.
While the “Elohim” lived long lives, they did die, but their Spirits, being flickers of the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, did not die. The same is true of your and my Spirits/Souls which return from where they originally came.
You and I have the glorious choice to live in freedom with empathy, compassion, and Limitless Living Love of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, or live with the vengeance promised by YHWH.
YHWH claims to be the one and only “God,” which further research suggests he is not.
Jesus spoke so many more words than the bibles of today include. The Gospel of Thomas is a great place to start if you are interested in more than the few quotes in the four popular gospels in today’s bibles.
It is time to discover what has been hidden from you, especially if you call yourself a Christian of any denomination.
Jesus said, “Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not be made manifest.”
It is also a matter of common sense.
It is time to recognize this Light within you, as Jesus also said in Luke 17: 20-21 when the Pharisees asked when the Kingdom of God would come. Jesus was quite clear.
He responded that the kingdom of God is not something observable or detectable by outward signs. People will not point to a specific location saying, “Here it is” or “There it is,” because the kingdom is already in their midst or “within you” (NIV, NKJV)
Jesus teaches that the kingdom of God is not a visible, earthly event but a spiritual reality present among and within people. It is only in RECOGNIZING it that you are able to use it. Otherwise, it remains asleep within you until you free yourself from all social, religious and political cult-like indoctrinations, that you will be able to understand, see, feel, and use this Limitless Living Light WITHIN You.
This is how your everyday miracles can occur.
It is not something that anyone of any religious group gives to you, nor is it anything that anyone in any other political or social group gives you. This is something which you were born with. It is the fuel of your Spirit/Soul keeping you alive, otherwise, you would be dead.
We need to wake up to this fact. Everything in your earthly life depends on you coming to grips with just how important you are, here and now.
There is more for you to know. Check out the Gospel of Thomas.
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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.
MSN ran this article which can be helpful to many of us who do not realize just how intelligent we all are. So many people have no clue how intelligent they are:
“Being Sarcastic
“Remember when someone in your family had a sharp, quick wit that always kept everyone on their toes? Turns out, that biting humor was doing more than just getting laughs at the dinner table. Psychologists have found that sarcasm actually requires a sophisticated level of mental processing — your brain has to simultaneously understand the literal meaning of words while recognizing the intended opposite meaning. That kind of mental juggling is no small feat. People who use sarcasm well tend to be sharper critical thinkers and more creative problem-solvers. So if you were always the one in the room who could deliver a perfectly timed dry remark, science is finally giving you the credit you deserved.
“Remember when you were the kid in class who always had to know *why*? Why does the sky change color at sunset? Why did the country go to war? Why does bread rise in the oven? Teachers sometimes found it exhausting, but psychologists now recognize that constant questioning as a hallmark of a sharp mind. Intelligent people rarely accept things at face value — they probe, push back, and dig for the real answer beneath the obvious one. This isn’t stubbornness or being difficult. It’s intellectual curiosity doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. If you’ve spent your life asking questions that made others uncomfortable or impatient, that instinct was working in your favor the whole time.
“A cluttered desk might have driven your spouse crazy, but it turns out there was a method to the madness all along. Research from the University of Minnesota found that people who work in messier environments tend to produce more creative and unconventional ideas than those in tidy spaces. Think about the brilliant minds throughout history — Einstein, for one, was famously surrounded by towering stacks of papers. If you were the kid whose bedroom looked like a tornado hit it, or the adult whose kitchen counter was always covered in projects, that scattered environment may have actually been your brain’s way of keeping possibilities open and connections flowing.
“Remember those teachers who scolded kids for drawing little sketches in the margins of their notebooks? Turns out, those doodling students may have had the last laugh. Psychologists have found that doodling actually helps the brain stay engaged during long or repetitive tasks — it’s not a sign of boredom or laziness, but rather the mind working to maintain focus. People who doodle while listening tend to retain more information than those who sit completely still. If you were the kid who filled notebook margins with stars, houses, and swirling patterns, your brain was quietly doing something smart — keeping itself just active enough to absorb what was being said around you.
“If you were always the last one awake in your household, you might have heard plenty of comments about it over the years. But research suggests that night owls tend to score higher on certain measures of cognitive ability. The quiet hours after midnight offer something the busy daytime rarely does — uninterrupted thinking time. Without phones ringing or neighbors stopping by, your mind can wander, problem-solve, and make connections it couldn’t earlier in the day. Many creative thinkers, inventors, and writers throughout history kept late hours by habit, not accident. So if staying up past everyone else felt natural to you, that preference may have said something real about how your brain was wired all along.
“Back in the day, the most organized person in the neighborhood always seemed to have it together in a way others couldn’t quite explain. Turns out, there’s real science behind that. Psychologists have found that people who plan their time carefully tend to score higher on measures of working memory and executive function — the same mental tools tied to problem-solving and decision-making. If you were the type who kept a day planner, mapped out your week on Sunday evenings, or wrote down appointments the moment you made them, that wasn’t just tidiness. Your brain was actively managing complexity, prioritizing what mattered, and reducing mental clutter so you could think more clearly when it counted.
“Think back to someone you knew growing up — a teacher, a neighbor, maybe a relative — who could take something complicated and make it click in about thirty seconds. That ability to break down a tricky idea into plain, simple language is something psychologists now recognize as a genuine marker of intelligence. It takes real mental work to translate what you know into words someone else can grasp. If you were always the person your coworkers turned to when a new policy came down from management, or the one your grandkids called when they needed something explained, that wasn’t just patience on your part. It meant your brain had processed the information deeply enough to reshape it for someone else — and that kind of thinking runs far deeper than memorizing facts ever could.
“You were probably told at some point to stop being so hard on yourself. But there’s a real difference between destructive self-doubt and the kind of honest self-assessment that actually makes you better at things. Psychologists have found that people who regularly examine their own mistakes and question their own thinking tend to perform at higher levels over time. Think about the person who replays a conversation later and wonders if they could have handled it differently — that’s not weakness, that’s a sharp mind at work. This habit, sometimes called metacognition, means your brain is actively monitoring itself. Not everyone does that. Many people simply move on without a second thought, which is exactly why self-critical thinkers so often end up being the ones others turn to for honest, grounded advice.
“Remember when you’d spend a whole Saturday afternoon lost in a novel, completely forgetting about everything else around you? That habit your family might have called “daydreaming with a book” turns out to be a genuine marker of a sharp mind. Psychologists have found that people who read fiction regularly show stronger empathy, better problem-solving skills, and improved ability to understand complex situations. It makes sense when you think about it — every time you follow a character through unfamiliar circumstances, your brain is quietly building new mental pathways. Whether your preference ran toward Louis L’Amour westerns, Agatha Christie mysteries, or thick historical novels, that quiet hour in your favorite chair was doing more for your mind than anyone realized at the time.
“Back in the day, the neighbor who jogged every morning before sunrise might have seemed a little obsessive. Turns out, that early riser was onto something. Psychologists and brain researchers have found strong links between regular physical activity and sharper thinking, better memory, and improved problem-solving. Exercise increases blood flow to the brain and supports the growth of new neural connections — the same connections that help you learn and adapt. If you were the kind of person who made time for a daily walk, a swim, or even a regular round of tennis, your brain was quietly benefiting in ways science is only now fully measuring.
“If you were the one cracking jokes at the dinner table, your family may have thought you were just being a goofball. Turns out, humor is one of the more telling signs of a sharp mind. Coming up with a well-timed joke requires your brain to make fast, unexpected connections between ideas — the same kind of flexible thinking that drives problem-solving and creativity. Psychologists have found that people with a strong sense of humor tend to score higher on measures of both verbal and abstract reasoning. Think about the wittiest person you knew growing up. Chances are, they were also quick on their feet in other ways too.
“Smart people rarely felt the need to announce how smart they were. Back in the day, you probably knew someone like that — the quiet neighbor who could fix anything, explain anything, and never once made you feel small for not knowing something. Psychologists now point to this as a genuine marker of high intelligence: the less someone brags about their mental abilities, the more confident they tend to be in them. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect in reverse — truly knowledgeable people are aware of how much they don’t know, which keeps them humble. The loudest person in the room isn’t always the sharpest. Quiet confidence, the kind that shows up in actions rather than announcements, turns out to be something worth recognizing in yourself and the people you’ve always admired most. …”
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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 Secret Book of John, part of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, emphasizes the importance of your spiritual awakening and the discovery of hidden truths and connections between the divine nature and your human soul. This emphasis on knowledge and self-discovery is a key characteristic of Gnostic theology. Who would not want you to know this?” Linda Hourihan, HHCP
Why was The Secret Book of Johndeemed apocryphal by the Roman Emperor who had to approve the Councils of the Church Father’s decrees on what you are to believe?
All apocryphal literature has many words of Jesus that fly in the face of past and current religious indoctrination.
Why would that be so?
The Secret Book of John opens with the teaching of the Savior, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, the things he taught to his disciple John. You have not heard, nor read what is written about this unless you have allowed yourself to read The Secret Book of John within the sacred pages of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures.
Have you handed over your free will to some other institution that tells you what to think, how to vote, and how to oblate yourself to their teaching?
Never do that.
It is time the world, and especially those who claim to be Christian, read all the words Jesus taught, not only his first childhood years from his birth to age 12, and only those 3 years from his ages 30-33. He taught his apostles, disciples, and of course his beloved Mary Magdalene much more.
It is time to grow in spiritual maturity.
While some ministers and authors try to find ways to justify the violent verses of the bible, regardless of denomination including Hebrew, Christian, and all other belief systems, most have never reconciled with the truth.
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.
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?
While some ministers and authors try to find ways to justify the violent verses of the bible, regardless of denomination including Hebrew, Christian, and all other belief systems, most have never reconciled with the truth.
Jesus taught that there are two different gods that are involved with Creation, as mentioned above, which is the same thing that the Cathars taught. Creation is also known as the Big Bang, the implosion and explosion of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy birthing the cosmos and everything in it, including you.
This is also explained in The Secret Book of John, which explains this in greater detail. But first, you must decide who is in charge of your thinking, reasoning, and personal power; you or the church who you have placed over your own authority. Please know they are not telling you everything you need to know. Perhaps they do not know what has been kept from them either, for unholy purposes.
Step 1 is to give yourself permission to get out from under the overburden of guilt and oppression that has been placed upon you, AND TO WHICH YOU MAY HAVE AGREED TO BE UNDER.
Step 2 is to cancel that agreement that you have made with yourself, to be under someone else’s religious thumb. This will be a step you most likely will need to take more than once, since more than once you agreed to go along with things that made no logical sense to you. You assumed they were right. They were not.
Step 3 is to recognize and connect and/or re-connect with your Spirit/Soul aspect of yourself, which is much more than your emotional, mental, and physical Self. You are a Spark of Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This is what Jesus taught in those years that have been kept from you.
This Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Energy, which you call “God” of any personification, is ONE Majestic, Immeasurable Purity, is the Father of Jesus, the Christ Energy. It is the Spark of the life of your Life Force Energy, also known as your Spirit/Soul, your generation of human life.
But and this is a big BUT, your fleshly father, the father of human beings, is not the same Father of Jesus which Jesus came to teach you about. The Father of Jesus IS the SPARK of Limitless Living Light of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating your Spirit/Soul, BUT not your physical body.
This is the reason he was crucified, because once you know this, it removes the blinders with which faith addicts blind you, AND TO WITH WHICH YOU MAY HAVE AGREED.
The baptism Jesus taught, was for you to come into the truth of who and what you truly are, a Spark, or Breath of Wisdom and Love without conditions, animating your Spirit/Soul. It is a rebirth from the understanding with which you were indoctrinated, just like he tried so hard to teach the Hebrew people of his day. Some people could not allow themselves to hear and believe what Jesus taught. The same thing goes on today.
The baptism of Jesus is a reawakening to the Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that you consciously take on as your own. It involves your free will decision to be open to the radical and innovative knowledge that the Limitless Living Light is also ignited within you by your decision to listen to all that Jesus taught, not just what has been spoon-fed to you by preachers and teachers who continued to manipulate or hide the words of Jesus from his ages 12 to 30 simply because the words of Jesus did not agree with their words. Again, I ask, who would not want you to know what other important information Jesus, the Savior, came to tell you?
Jesus also taught that there are two different gods that are involved with Creation, which is the same thing that the Cathars taught. Creation is also known as the Big Bang, the implosion and explosion of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy birthing the cosmos and everything in it, including you.
Baptism has been hijacked by religious controllers who then place upon you, even as an infant in some cases, the indoctrination of many belief systems that teach what Jesus himself did not teach.
You were not born with Original Sin, which was the sin of Sophia spoken of in The Secret Book of John. Again, you need to give yourself permission to read something other than the cult mentality you may have been indoctrinated into. You do not need to ask the modern-day cult leader if you should read such things, obviously.
The SOPHIA OF JESUS, also known as the WISDOM OF JESUS CHRIST, is part of the Gnostic Library. The word Sophia means Wisdom. It explains in greater detail about what Jesus Christ taught. It is so powerful that political and religious rulers later hid this information from your eyes. It explains how and why his Father is not your father and what took place to make that happen.
Original translation of the SOPHIA OF JESUS (WISDOM OF JESUS CHRIST), was prepared by members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School.
The bottom line is that the Father of Jesus Christ has willingly offered to be a father to you, without the burden of false belief systems and false gods claiming to be the “One True God.” Jesus said you will know who is doing the work of his Father, which stems from genuine empathy, compassion, and Love.
Anything less than that comes from the one lacking in empathy, compassion and Love. This is how to know if you and everyone else on Earth is following the Father of Jesus or is following the wolf in sheep’s clothing, claiming to be your heavenly “f”ather, when he is clearly not. Notice who it is that is stirring the pot of racism, greed at all costs, and hatred for others unlike themselves.
Know that anything that is not LOVE WITHOUT CONDITIONS comes from an unholy source.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.” King James Version
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 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?
This book is a guide transforming a world of chaos into peaceful civil societies.
It is possible to change the contagious tide of aggression, hostility, and blinded egocentric indoctrination where the thinking that might is right when it is not.
Cults and their ensuing indoctrinations come in many forms, not only in religious circles, although the Maga supposed “Christians” do fall into this category. This is a perfect example of claiming to follow their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ while doing the exact opposite of what he preached.
Jesus told Peter to put the sword down, remember?
Anyone boasting of hate-filled aggression, anger-filled hostility, and haughty ego-filled attitudes and agendas against anyone who does not think like them, speak like them, and act like them, tell on themselves as they follow the “god” of destruction, not the Almighty God, Father of Jesus Christ.
Farmers know that you cannot plant tomato seeds and reap corn. Architects know they cannot follow the blueprints to build a house and end up with a car engine. While these examples are common sense, indoctrinated Christians conveniently forget that Jesus never said to pick up that sword and fight, nor horde wealth, nor take unfair advantage of others not like themselves.
How does any society, and especially Christians who claim to follow Jesus Christ, get back to what Jesus Christ taught to humanity?
Continuing the drumbeat of hate and justification for war only serve to keep the steady dirge of dark energies alive.
Inconvenient truths irritate indoctrinated Christians. Christians who follow the laws of LOVE without conditions for every human being as Jesus taught have no problem with loving all humanity.
In not doing so, hate-filled indoctrinated Christians demonstrate by their thoughts, words, and actions that they are not following the teachings of Jesus Christ. They tell on and convict themselves of un-Christian thoughts, words, and actions. This is how to know if you might be following the wrong leader.
No one wants to face the music that they have been following the wrong leader, but recognizing the truth of this situation is necessary to heal a hurting humanity.
TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY, is the book that is shining a brilliant LIGHT in an ever-darkening world. The solution to what every person can do to create a better future is painfully easy. It is the personal ego that needs to be tamed. The human ego boarders on addiction.
Virtues are the key to walking across the bridge from chaos to any civil society. This book paves the path that every human being can take. All it takes is a desire to heal your mind, body, and spirit as well as the world. Whatever you focus on grows. TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY shows how this is possible.
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.
We still have freedom of speech in the United States of America. The eagle stands for freedom, integrity and truth, and stands against lies, slander, and injustice.
It seems like it’s feast or famine. We say we want freedom of speech, until someone speaks. We say we want tolerance, until we have to stand up. We say we can’t legislate morality, until someone does or says something that offends us. Oh, the outrage.
Isn’t it odd, in this day and age, in the United States of America, that the public outcry on any given opinion columnist who dares to speak out the opinion for which he or she was hired, has to defend himself or herself, because of the most vocal opinionated voice taking over the airwaves.
The public voice is often outrageously irresponsible, narcissistic, and weighed down by vested interests.
One tactic narcissists use is to bend their voice from moment to moment, regardless of the truth in the matter, to their personal benefit. This does not help a family, state nor any country.
Narcissists forget that in these days of social media and public and recorded television and news stories, complete with sound, video and pictures, the public can see and repeatedly see the truth of what was said at the moment in time in which any statement was made. History reveals who knew what, when.
We seem to want freedom only when it is convenient, or popular, or when we get to wave our outrage flag. It would almost be comical if it did not destroy the livelihood of opinion columnists, opinion talk show hosts, television news show hosts, and government officials who speak the unpopular truth in the face of opposition based on lies.
Freedom of speech is not meant to be only the current, popular group think tank concensus, spoken by popular personalities.
Freedom of speech is not meant for only particular religious groups, lobbyists, banks, millionaires, CEOs of companies, presidents of anything, or heavy-hitting advertisers who use their dollars to buy the opinions they believe in and wish to promote at any and all costs.
Money is not the bottom line. People are.
Speech and policies that promote or tolerate human death as an acceptable means of getting what they want is unconscionable. People are resilient. We can bounce back, but not if we are dead. Money matters, but not if we are dead. Then it is just a pile of money. What we say matters. What we say has consequences.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. We all need to use our voice to state our opinion, or voice our stand on a political issue that matters to us. Others have a United States constitutional right to say any and all opinions they may have. We also have freedom of speech, and are able to voice our opinion on any and all subjects.
What neither side of any issue has no right to do, is to attack the person, go after that person’s job, in attack smear campaigns, or break laws. This is childish. In some cases it is slanderous and/or criminal. Name calling and attacks on a person’s character is something parents deal with when their children go off to first grade. And it does nothing to address the subject at hand.
We all must stand up and be socially responsible. Often, rather than stand up for what we feel is right, or use our freedom of speech to make valid and important points vocally, we turn into cowards and verbally attack the person who has the opinion we don’t like. This is a warped and childish sense of power.
Boo hoo.
Someone has hurt my feelings.
When did “someone has hurt my feelings,” turn into, “They have no right to say that” (whatever it is we do not agree with). What are we, children? We are acting like it.
This may not be a popular article.
It is easier to jump on a bandwagon, any bandwagon that has momentum, rather than tackle a sensitive issue ourselves.
What will our friends think?
Will we lose any public standing if we say what we really believe?
Will we lose our jobs?
There is so much penalty to voice an opinion contrary to the popular public opinion. It is so much easier to character assinate the individual or group stating something we do not agree with.
We need to activate our freedom, our voice and social responsibility actions. We need to grow up. We need to step into our personal power, and stop giving it away in the tornado of destruction caused by our attacks on others, no matter how insane we believe them to be. Words and actions matter. Not speaking and acting when we need to, these omissions, also matter. Lives are at stake.
People’s words and actions give them away. They do not need us to make them look foolish. They do a good enough job of that themselves.
I am using my God-given freedom of speech, acting with social responsibility, to suggest everyone what I see as a solution to a growing problem sweeping this great nation of ours. It is imperative we regain our freedom of speech. We are on the brink of losing it.
History has a habit of repeating itself. It is wiser to acknowledge what is happening before our eyes so we do not repeat the cataclysms of the past.
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