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Renegade Child Bullies Grow Into Adult Bullies When They Are Never Held Accountable ~ How To Deal With A Bully Unless You Want A Generation of Bullies And People Who Cower To Bullies


People are not born bullies. They are usually first bullied by others, ingraining them with the perversion to bully to get their own way, as a means of payback, strong arming others into doing their bidding, to avoid getting into trouble themselves, or to push their dark sinister plots. Their tell-tale mantra is, “Might is right.” Unless you stand up to a bully in your personal, professional, or public life, they will continue to bully. If no one has the integrity and moral fortitude to stand up for that which is right, a generation of cowards is born from inaction.

Silence is agreement.

This is the way of the lawless who bark out that they want law and order to prevail, but only for others, not themselves. The habit for this kind of thought process and renegade behavior traditionally begins at young and impressionable ages of children.

Children of all ages will try and/or undergo the most outrageous things as they attempt to learn to stand up for themselves.

This happens to the most innocent among us. Once when I was in first grade, I bit a friend. Oh my God, I actually bit a friend in the classroom. To this day I do not remember why I did that. My mother was called in and I had to go out and stand in the hall, the punishment of my day. My mother was called into the school to speak with the teacher then and there. I found this to be humiliating. I’m sure the friend who I bit was not impressed by my out-of-control reaction also. The point here is that I received an immediate and just-deserved punishment.

There was no waiting, the innocent friend who I bit did not also have to be punished in the hall, nor have her parent also called in. We both did not receive the same punishment. My mother did not sue the school, nor the teacher. I was the one who had wronged another. This was not the teacher’s fault, nor the school’s fault. It was my own fault. There was instant cause and effect, instant Karma.

Years later, as a mother, I called the elementary school teacher after school one day because in her classroom and under her watchful eye, some of her students were picking up one of my daughters, spinning her around against her will. She was the smallest one in the class and was humiliated by this. They all thought this was so funny. My daughter did not and was coming home crying day after day. I tried to empower her with my words, but when that failed, I called this teacher to say that my daughter was being bullied in her classroom, right under her nose.

To my surprise, the teacher told me that there was nothing she could do, that my daughter herself had to set her own boundaries. Notice the difference in teacher authority of the behavior that would be tolerated in the classroom of the first teacher as opposed to the second teacher. Obviously, my daughter’s “friends” were not listening to her when she told them her boundaries. The bullying continued until I called the parents of the girls.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all people being bullied could tell people to stop, and they would. This teacher allowed the bullying to continue. I made it stop. But without my intervention, this daughter’s self-esteem would have taken a major hit at an impressionable time in her life.

That is how it is with bullies. They continue until someone makes them stop. It is not right to punish the offender and the person who was already wronged, which would victimize them twice. That is cruel punishment in my book.

This is how we have home-grown bullies now at the helm of powerful positions, thinking they can do what they want, whenever they want, without penalty. This is also why we now have a generation of people who cower to bullies, most of whom get away with lying, cheating and worse depending on who they have connections with, or how much money they can pay off.

Recent extreme actions are taking place in full view of the public by those who think they can get away with anything because until now, they always have.

George Floyd died at the knee of police and by police agreement with the crime.

How do you counteract the undercurrent of systemic racism and bully mentality that is permeating the country and the world, such as the shocking thoughts of, “I don’t agree with your politics so I can break into your house, shoot you while you sleep, beat you up, or kneel on your neck for nine minutes until you die?”

Right after the death of George Floyd, I was in the local gym and overheard one guy tell another guy that people ought to keep their politics out of sports, since Colin Kaepernick had just taken a knee during the National Anthem at the previous football game, using his freedom of speech to quietly and honorably take a stand against racism. It was impossible for me not to tell my personal trainer within the earshot of these two men, that the next time I heard the National Anthem that I was going to take a knee. The two men became silent.

We see renegade Republicans thinking that they are above the law, twisting laws as if they were pretzels made just for them, stoking lies and conspiracies, because the bully traits never change. These bullies never learned to be fully human, only fully animals, blinded by greed, materialism, sexism, among other distracting things. All humans are part of the animal kingdom, but it is our humanity, complete with empathy and compassion that is the difference between a bully animal and a mature person with a fully developed character. Most recently these bullies did not agree with lawfully obtained search warrants and committed the crime of breaking and entering as if wrong is the same thing as right.

What are people to do when faced with evil, dark and sinister evil gone out of control?

PRAYER is the only answer for most of us not with legal, political, or financial means to do anything else.

Archangel Michael uses his fiery Christ-blue sword of lightening to transform the darkness of the world into Light, Love, and the Abundance of All Good Things. The world will be a better place in which to live if we all choose PRAYER, TRUTH, WISDOM, PEACEFUL POWER, INTEGRITY, and PERSONAL STRENGTH OF CHARACTER, not bully power.

The earth has lived through other ice ages, political corruption, and religious wars before. Once the fires of greed, materialism, consumerism, egoism, get billowed by the unabated windstorm of pride, the scales tip in the direction of the wind. Presently, we do have choices.

All is not lost, yet. We can peacefully, and legally stand up to the bullies of today by PRAYER, just as Archangel Michael did in the course of right. He stood up to the bully Souls of the Fallen Angels and their Nephilim Sons. He still stands up to these same bully dark Souls who never stopped influencing and, in some cases, inhabiting the weak minds of humanity, since these Souls could not return to heaven, remaining here to this day. We see their results. So, when those of us who are not in the positions of political, religious, nor financial authority to help in those ways, we can PRAY for the Divine Assistance of Archangel Michael and Divine Love and Light, which is the only known help against the darkness and evil in this world.

Namaste

Chaos ~ Unenlightened Humanity Turning Into Zombies ~ This Is The Dawning of Aquarius Pre-Birth Labor Pains ~ How To Adjust And Recover


picture courtesy of AumAprana

While the slow dawning of the Age of Aquarius happens as naturally as a woman painstakingly giving birth to her child, we learned in the past 12/12/12 experience of the 26,000-cycle of the beginning of progression of the planets shifting from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, that as this progression happens just as naturally and without human interference. This life-altering awareness and upheaval brings chaotic change. We can see it is occurring in governments, religions, and our individual lives today.

Whether we are ready for it or not, through all the chaos of ignorance, enlightenment will dawn. There is a huge debate as to the exact moment the Age of Aquarius begins. Some say it has already begun, others say it has not quite reached its full arrival. We stand with one big toe in the attributes and effects of Pisces and the other big toe in Aquarius consciousness. The transition from one Cosmic Age to another is not an easy one.

We are beginning to feel its effects even now. We can see the political, religious, and financial strife between what used to be and what is going to be. The two ideologies are diametrically opposed opposites between old and new. Paradigms are shifting. Now is the time to make the necessary changes that will ultimately arrive. Becoming aware of what is happening is the only way to transform the worn-out old ways into bright new ways of being, thinking, and understanding one another with the nurturing of a loving mother, raising the next generation with peace, love, tenderness, kindness, commitment, integrity, joy, a magnanimous spirit, and a tremendous sense of humor.

While transitioning from the end of one Cosmic Age to the beginning of the next is an extremely slow, yet constantly moving process, becoming consciously aware of what is going on and why can answer a lot of questions, making the entire process a bit easier. You are not a victim in this chaos. You are the master at the helm of your life. There is power in waking up, becoming aware of what is actually taking place, and making decisions that benefit you, your family, your country, the earth, as well as including the universe and the cosmos. It is not necessary to pollute any of this in the dynamic changes we are undergoing. It is also not necessary to make change in revolutionary nor violent ways. That is the path of the ignorant, unenlightened humanity who operate as cave men, grunting and clubbing their way to dinner.

Notice what is going on in the churches and governments today across the world. They are in the throes of labor pains of transition and transformation. Congregations and political puppets are tired of swallowing negative conditioning and propaganda hook, line, and sinker, like a bottom dweller submerged under weighty restrictions of their control systems. Walk away from these.

However, without enlightenment of what is taking place, we remain at the mercy of self-delusion (some of it is conscious willful self-delusion) and ego-driven policies and procedures of others. It is as if we are at a sports arena cheering on our own team. This also makes us prime targets for those who wish to manipulate our minds to do their bidding, often at our own personal, financial, political, and religious expense. Since free will is involved, we need to make sure we are in charge of our own free will, and not allow it to be usurped by the strong arm will of others. No one wants to be used as a chess game pawn. This is no game.

We need to wake up and increase our vibrational frequency to keep up with the increase of Aquarius energy. New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™) can assist you to do that.

All is ONE. Most all religions contain only a small portion of the greater Truth of which they try to share with others. The bigger reality is far greater than any one religion, politics, education, science, technology, medicine, or any other understanding of the inner and outer workings of humanity understand. ~ photo by Rena Wells

“In the New Age we break free from false doctrines, destructive doctrines, absurd ideas, and children’s stories about God, education, medicine, and love. The corrupt foundations of a false society crumble. This time of crisis is not the signal of end of the world. What comes is not the end but the beginning. The dream humanity has lived for centuries ends, and we awaken to a bright new day, a bright new way.

“Now in the Age of Aquarius, everything becomes unified. All our dualities, all our differences mix like the fragrances in a flower shop, with all the different flowers adding their bouquet to the overall mix until they are inseparable.

“Each individual flower remains distinct and individual, each one’s fragrance is unique and discernable when you come up close to it yet joined together in unity with the others in the wonderful mixture that is the smell of the shop.

“Our individual worth comes from inside, from what we have inside, through our development, our evolution, and what we give to society. Now our drastic differences dissolve and we integrate into the whole.

“We integrate and unify with the energy of the universe, with the Great Cosmic Spirit.” ~ courtesy of AumAparna

This can sound like all “pie in the sky” if you have no frame of reference. There is still more to know that can help you progress by knowing what to do now and in the near future to make the expected changes that are bound to come easier to deal with.

You are an important part of the much bigger picture of Universal Life Energy. You are a microcosm of the macrocosm, all connected.

Remember what Jesus Christ, Germain, and your I AM Presence tell you about and how to use the Violet Flame of Transmutation. This is an energy for you to use. When you call to mind the tools that they gave us, miracles happen. Peace happens. Healings and transformations happen. Joy happens. Miracles happen, naturally.

You can peacefully be at the front line of change, with integrity, transforming dysfunction into function, disunity into unity, unbalance into balance, and disharmony into harmony. You are the advanced guard of the incoming civilization of the Age of Aquarius, the fulcrum advancing powerful knowledge into the next steps of peace, love, and joy for humanity’s future.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi says that without introspection, we cannot transform.

According to Armaity Bhabha, “Shri Mataji has said many a times that after realization, many yogis begin to see what is wrong with their religion, with their country, with their government. They start to question the wrongs in the society that becomes visible to them. Of course, there are a few non-yogis too, who can see all this too, some clearly and others not that much so.

“But what surprises me is that many who are supposed to be self-realized still get affected by their conditionings without realizing this, due to lack of honest introspection on their part. Thus, they continue to be easy targets of those who have vested interests and crafty agendas of their own, who want to manipulate them by following two simple principles of “divide and rule” and “divert and rule”.

“By creating confusion and fear by repeated lies, false harmful propaganda, they manage to exert complete control over the masses, turning them into zombies.”

“The introspection after the awakening of our dormant “Kundalinis” which gives us our self-realization is different from the one we have before this breakthrough. Psychology too talks of “Introspection” as one of the tools to look within. No doubt it is very useful but the one after one’s self-realization, is far more superior as one can actually see things “as they are” due to the enlightenment within.”

Sahaja Yogini, says, “Power and Money are what these people seek... be they religious teachers, politicians, people in media, writers or those who come in any other such form. Their only aim is to use the masses to their advantage to push their so-called convoluted ideology by bringing about destruction in the society by appealing to their religious and nationalistic conditionings.

“The problem is that most people CONFUSE their conditionings about religion, nation, patriotism with the way these are practiced. When I see something wrong with my religion, it is not about its teachings, but the way it is being practiced with wrong interpretations and superficial understanding.

“When I see something wrong with my country, it is the way it is being projected by those in power, for their own agenda. When I see something wrong in Politics, it is not that I am against it but with the Political Parties who are using it to ruin the country it is supposed to govern.

“The day we all become alert…. yogis and non-yogis alike… about how we are letting ourselves get manipulated… in the name of Religion and Nationalism … will be the day when all these powerful, harmful and demonic forces will be defeated forever in exerting power over us, taking us astray by dividing and diverting us from what should really matter.“

Check out the interesting article on http://www.aumaparna.com about religious conditioning, to which this post refers.

There are things you can do right here, right now. Work with your greater Self, not yourself as you know yourself to be, but rather, your Self, your Divine Spark of Spirit, which is a slice of the Universal Life Spirit that animates you. You access this deep inner part of you by meditation and contemplation.

There is a Sacred Fire of Love, a Universal Divine and Spiritual Life Force known as your I AM Presence. It is WITHIN every human being. There is also a way to use this force that works with the order and dynamic action of Universal Chi, through your Brow Chakra, connecting with the Seven Mighty Elohim of Creation, which can help you to manifest peace, love, and joy for all humanity. Awakening to this reality, walking out of the fear that has held you bound for so long, is like a breath of fresh air for your entire being, allowing space for beautiful things to happen.

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The cost for this NPMDT™ 4-day 13D MDT™ Workshop is $482. To register, email linhourihan@yahoo.com, or call 413-245-0129. Deadline to register and pay for this workshop by August 27, 2022, in order that registration in the International School of Esoteric Sciences™ can take place, and the certificate, and manual (which is both copyrighted and trademarked), will be published and received in time for this workshop. Cost includes a donation to benefit the girls’ schools in Cambodia, Senegal, and Madagascar to alleviate sex slave and human servitude trafficking. See: https://www.new-paradigm-mdt.org/category/projects/.

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Namaste

Gender Equality Requires Equity


Bantering labels, discussing differences, and pointing out divisions, plus what has not worked in the past, is not the way to build bridges, nor get things done. Equity is finding solutions that begin right where you are, finding common ground, and working for the benefit of all of humanity regardless of race, color, creed, age, gender, and every other unique human trait that makes each one of us unique.

Ancient and antediluvian histories say there used to be a Matriarchy before there was a Patriarchy. There were female goddesses, women warriors, including Diana, Isis, Artemis, Athena, Helen of Troy, Boudica and Joan of Arc.

Over time Matriarchy was taken over by Patriarchy, down to this day. Today humanity is awakening to the realization that it is not by fighting or militantly taking a stand opposing the current system of rulers that moves mountains. Arguing with, labeling, and insulting those different from ourselves solves nothing.

What is making positive progress forward in raising women in today’s world?

EQUITY. EQUITY EQUALIZES MARGINALIZED CONDITIONS THAT TIP THE SCALES TOWARD INJUSTICE AND INHUMANITY.

Equity is the balm that soothes all injustices, oppression, removing the insidious “glass ceiling” in business, finance, technology, medicine, law, politics, and all other boundaries aimed at women and other compromised segments of humanity seemingly under the thumb of others.

Oppressed people can remedy the suppression of their voice and silence the oppressors and unfair treatment in society by voting. No, the election was not stolen in the last election, but oppressors would have you think so. We need to stand up for human rights. Women’s rights are human rights.

Working together for unity, harmony, and equity opens more doors of opportunity than voicing opposition ever can. Promote problem solving over problem creating. It works. Lamenting the past does not heal the future, no matter what the issue.

If you ever get the chance to work with any of the local Conferences For Women in your area, that is an affirming, community building, positive project worth your consideration.

Namaste

Recovering Integrity ~ Self-Esteem ~ Character ~ Harmony ~ Balance After Making Bad Choices In All Areas ~Every Person Is Responsible


Every person in every country on this precious Earth is responsible for the conditions in which they are living, personally, socially, economically, politically, educationally, and in every other possible division in which we find ourselves.

The blame game is the irresponsible and lazy way out of any dysfunctional life, system of operation, and/or apparent hierarchy. Usurping the rights of others has been used since the dawn of humanity by those seeking to rule over others. If humanity allows this dominance, it reaps the conditions it finds itself in. If humanity seeks out more positive solutions and alternatives, humanity can rise to the occasion, changing the course of history for the better as opposed to the worse.

By blaming others for the way things are, no one has to do anything about it, because placing onus on the other guy stops all possibility of healing anything. Situations stalemate in the blame game because there is more than enough blame to go around. Finger pointing, obstruction to solutions that are not your own, solves nothing. Discovering the plausible opposite that is wrong will never solve any problem. Every situation has a plausible opposite. Since what you focus on grows, focusing on the plausible opposite shuts down any and all solutions.

If finding out whose fault something is does not solve the problem, what does? Who care why? It is what happens next that matters.

Every person is responsible for their own thoughts, words, and actions, in every country in the world, regardless where you live, regardless which religion is professed, regardless which political party, or social group or club people belong to.

Do you live in a Democracy? Then you are responsible to keep it. Shine a light on the actual truth as opposed to half-truths spun for self-serving agendas. The half-truth is the worse kind of lie, since forethought and deception are at the base of all half-truths meant to confuse the opposition, as if life was simply a sport to win or lose. It is possible to get to the bottom of truth. It requires looking at all the information, not only one side of the situation, and not only one viewpoint from like-minded individuals.

Do you live under tyrannical rule? Then you are responsible for your own thoughts, words, and actions that allow it, or change it for the betterment of the human condition. Not working to inspire, uplift, and encourage freedom of thoughts, words, and actions in any country can keep humanity captured by the self-delusion that their thoughts, words, and actions are powerless. Every person in every country on Earth is born with free will, the freedom to live a human life and freedom to think their own thoughts. Life is not a popularity contest, a club of like-thinkers, nor a bandwagon to jump on. It matters more than that.

You matter. Every person matters. Your thoughts matter. Your words matter. Your actions matter.

All humanity matters AND ARE EQUAL, black, white, and every other color of human being. All nationalities of human beings matter AND ARE EQUAL in the value of human life. All humanity matters, all genders, all ages, and in every other division thought that could make people different from one another.

The success of humanity as living beings on Earth is not what makes us all different, but what we all share as the common experience; we are all alive. We all have Universal Life Force, which some call a soul, animating our flesh. This life force, human chi, otherwise called soul, is animating the human flesh with Universal Life Force Energy. There is also the soul of every country.

No country, political group, educational nor financial institution claims any rights to Universal Life Energy. Keep in mind, the first law of thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created not destroyed, only changed.

We are all responsible for how we use, channel, and operate with Universal Life Force Energy. When we work together for the common good of all, we will turn the corner for balancing and harmonizing humanity for our future common human race. All is One.

Let There Be Peace On Earth, and let it begin with me.

Namaste

America


Memorial Day is the day America has set aside to honor our fallen heroes. It is a day of respect. Let us never forget.

Memorial Day is the day when all who treasure the noble and honorable service to the United States of America are remembered, elevating freedom and liberty over tyranny and bondage, in order that our precious and long-hard fought for human rights remain preserved.

This is a life and death matter, as those whose lives were ended all too soon and their families and friends can attest. The land of the free and the home of the brave was not lightly handed over so those who have never fought in wars could forget the privilege they now have, or confuse Memorial Day with Veteran’s Day.

Memorial Day celebrates the men and women who have died as they valiantly served the United States of America. Veteran’s Day honors our military heroes still living testaments to the ideals of helping to promote better lives in this world. This clarification needs to be made in these days of confusion by some who have never served.

Even today’s weather is crying for our fallen heroes with each raindrop soaking the Earth in remembrance of their allegiance to our country’s ideals of freedom, liberty and justice for all, in their total gifts of their lives in trying to make the lives of everyone on Earth more fully human.

Until we finally arrive in a world where war becomes unnecessary, where problems can be solved with empathy and compassion rather than with tools of destruction, we pause today to honor those who stood up for us when we could not stand up for ourselves.

It is through the active show and proof of love, love of country, love of truth, love of integrity, love of honor, love of mutual respect, love of all humanity today that we shine the Light of Freedom, Light of Liberty, and Light of Justice as a beacon of equality worldwide.

Yes, like every other country in the world comprised of imperfect human beings who make mistakes all the time, America today still stands for Freedom, Liberty, and Justice, correcting its faults along the way of life as they surface to the top. It is the constant effort of raising our sights to valiant and noble goals we achieve, even with our embarrassing moments in full view of the whole world to see.

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice are God-given qualities. They are not granted by any government, nor any person, no matter who they are or what role they have in this life. Every human being born upon Earth naturally has the Freedom to be who they are regardless of gender – age – race – color – creed – or ethnicity; what they are in their work and accomplishments- since there is no caste system in America – including a faux financial caste system which God could not care less about in any country; where they are regardless of where on this precious Earth they travel; why they are here on Earth at this very moment with their individual dharma and mission in their life; when they are born at any moment in past, present, or future history; and how each person perceives the best way to live the life in which they find themselves.

Today we pause, acknowledge what has been done for us by others who valiantly served our country so we could all have better, more humane lives in a world that tempts all by greed, power, and all those qualities our fallen heroes have fought hard against, expending the last drop of blood to serve and protect the Freedom, Liberty, and Justice we all have today.

God Bless Everyone Everywhere

Nothing Can Enter Your World Unless You Invite It In ~ No One Is A Victim Of Life


If you remove all the Jews, Arabs, and immigrants from this picture, there would be no people.

Whether it is harmony or disharmony, nothing can enter your or my world unless we invite it in. What we focus on grows. We have a choice. We are not single-subject vehicles of life. Rather we are multifaceted individuals radiating the energy of our feelings spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, physically, politically, socially, financially and in many other ways into our world. We are whole. We are One.

There will always be chaos, dysfunction, and lack of peace in this world. This has been the case since its first inception eons ago, echoing out into the ethers and astral realm. Volcanoes belched out destructive lava. Cataclysmic floods ripped apart the earth until its new land masses were unrecognizable, continuing to this day reshaping coastlines everywhere.

Even in when Jesus was born, Herod sought to kill him. As a result Joseph and Mary had to flee to Egypt with Jesus, making them immigrants in an unfamiliar land so he would not be slaughtered along with the rest of the infant boys, age two and under. They were not put in cages. They were met with hospitality for years in their home away from home before it was safe to return. Still, they decided to settle in Nazareth so as not to bring too much attention to Jesus as he grew.

All of us are no different. People of every race, ethnicity, culture, color, creed, gender, and age are all part of the human race. We are all part of nature. We can be volatile. We can be peaceful. It is what we focus our attention on that makes the difference. I can choose to be part of the problem or the solution.

Somehow we expect perfection in our lives and in our countries as if we just think, speak, and do the right things, we could railroad things through. Nothing could be further from the truth. We cannot manhandle, manipulate, guilt or force others into our sense of perfection with the crack of a whip. That’s not how energy works.

What drum are You beating?

We look at the political scene and try to manipulate outcomes by concentrating on what is wrong in order to make it right. What we focus on grows. Concentrating on what is wrong is the wrong basis to build what is right, useful, and sustaining.

We look at spirituality and religions and see what is wrong in the hopes of making them right. Again we miss the mark we so desperately seek to achieve. We erroneously think, “If only people would think, say, and do the same as me then it would all work out.” This also is not so.

Why?

Notice nothing happens when any thought crosses our mind. It is only when the feeling behind the thought grows that it motivates us into action. It is the feeling that is the impetus to change.

What?

Isn’t it my brain, common sense, my thoughts that generate my world, experiences, beliefs into action?

No.

Nothing happens with any thought until the feeling of any subject inspires us into action. Without feeling, we ponder and ponder possibilities. Our thoughts will go round and round the merry-go-rounds of our minds until we decide, inspired by our feelings, to do something about the matter.

Guard your feelings with the shield of awakened consciousness. Feelings ignite all your thoughts into actions. Take the care of a gymnast training for the Olympics, or the runner training for a marathon the same as you prepare your future actions by the life-giving spark of your feelings. How many of us have regrets over our actions when we fuel the renegade feelings we choose not to control?

By the use of our free will, we decide which feelings to follow up on and which would be better not responded to. Decide never again to respond to anything. Instead, consciously decide how you will act, with empathy and compassion or not, with judgment or non-judgment, etc. It is in this conscious decision that we build up or tear down. Nothing can enter your world unless you invite it in.

Feelings are not right or wrong, they just are. However, if you do not like how you are feeling, change how you are thinking. They go hand in hand. Just realize that the power to do anything comes from the feeling, not the thinking. Just like feelings, you can change your thoughts. You are in the driver’s seat of you.

You are not the victim of neither your thoughts nor your feelings. You are in control of them. They are not in control of you. People who play the role of the victim of their lives simply have not yet learned this healing and life-generating principle.

The solution is so simple, yet our misguided feelings distract us to the point of bringing on our own dysfunction, personally, spiritually, politically, financially, socially, as well as nationwide and worldwide. It is when we lack self-control over our feelings that we decide to focus on where we do not want to go rather than the choice to foster and fertilize the ground where we do want to walk.

If only we would use our free will to focus on the good we see as opposed to the bad that captures our attention. Pour your feelings into positive thoughts, energizing them with the personal power to do good.

Pouring your feelings into negative thoughts that harm others physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, politically, or financially is the biggest recipe for failure. It is self-sabotage in the highest degree. It is a recipe for disaster. It is only a matter of time before the misdirected energy is met by its equal and opposite force.

Try this instead; transform your world, your personal space, your belief system, your neighborhood, your church, your work environment, your social circles, your political and financial aspirations with life-affirming, soul-inspiring goals.

Change your focus from countering the negativity and failure of broken systems to promoting healthy equality, fairness, kindness, loving and peaceful actions. In this way, you begin taking steps forward, healing your own lives and the lives of all around you. From now on, pay no attention to what you do not want to grow.

This works in all areas of life, especially at this time of the COVID-19, Sars Co2 epidemic blanketing the world. The energy of closing your eyes and focusing your feelings on denying the reality of the death and destruction of life at this moment in history will only grow more of the same if that is your focus.

Once your feelings motivate you to whole and healthy aspirations and problem-solving remedies, you will find a quicker advancement into solutions to COVID-19 and every other problem that benefits you personally, as well as in your family, neighborhood, country and world.

Yes, others with dark, self-serving and greedy agendas will continue. It has been this way since the beginning of time on this planet. Tsunamis and worldwide cataclysms will continue to manifest as they always have. Still focus on solutions over problems.

Using your free will to fuel feelings of rage and discord will ultimately sabotage every endeavor. It is only a matter of time before that house of cards crumbles. It always has and always will.

As a counselor, I never advised punching that pillow to get all the anger out, because fueling those negative feelings only fuels more hate. Yes, you will be exhausted afterwards, but you will have wasted a great amount of time not moving forward. That is only a diversionary tactic.

You cannot move forward by looking backwards. If you have been in counseling for years, you are with the wrong counselor. When you are finally ready to heal, (sometimes we are not ready, willing, nor able to heal), then and only then will you see the truth to what I am stating here.

We need to be in balance with every aspect of our human being, not only spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, physically, politically, socially, financially and in many other ways in our world. As a fully formed human, we all need to be in balance and foster good over evil. We reap the seeds we sow in this world.

If we do not like what we are seeing and hearing around us, it is up to you and me to plant everlasting seeds of love, light, peace, joy, happiness, health, faith, equality, forgiveness, empathy and understanding just as Jesus did when he walked this earth beginning so many Christmases ago.

God Bless Everyone Everywhere

LOVE Is The Only Answer ~ LOVE Is ENERGY


Maha Cohan

LOVE is the only answer to the cords of self-hatred that are manifesting upon the world today in the insideous forms of greed, selfishness, bigotry, and superstition, which are deforming the minds of many. It is one thing to reign in the renegade, insane ego. It is quite another thing to diminish our selves into little balls of hate.

Love, in a world ignorant of Love, is the only answer. Be the LOVE. This is not a LOVE that reaches out to grasp something or someone; no, it is a LOVE that reaches out as the angelic hand of Charity, both giving and receiving, according to the heavenly polarities, that we have become identified with the nature of the Holy Spirit of God.

LOVE is the answer to the COVID-19 response.
LOVE is the answer to climate change.
LOVE is the answer to global warming.
LOVE is the answer to sustaining the rainforests, the lungs of the planet.
LOVE is the answer to feeding the hungry.
LOVE is the answer to humanitarian efforts.
LOVE is the answer to immigration.
LOVE is the answer to caring for the poor.
LOVE is the answer to homelessness.
LOVE is the answer to social justice.
LOVE is the answer to racial injustice.
LOVE is the answer to gender equality.
LOVE is the answer to social unrest.
LOVE is the answer to political guidance.
LOVE is the answer to political gaming.
LOVE is the answer to religious intolerance.
LOVE is the answer to every problem in every country.

What is the nature of LOVE?
God is LOVE. God is Spirit, not an entity.

The nature of the eternally, living God is Spirit, Holy Spirit, as John says in John 4:24, “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

There is no difference in the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, nor the human comprehension of the Maha Cohen. God cannot be dissected. God is ENERGY. Energy cannot be created not destroyed. Energy can only change its form. God is spiritual. God IS LOVE. Holy Spirit is LOVE. Since God’s LOVE is spiritual, it blankets humanity with the fulfillment of the essential needs of soul and body. You and I are made by and with the Holy Spirit infused in the “Spirit” of each of us. It is our God Particle, our I AM Presence, that keeps us alive.

We have work to do. The loveless world is in need of your self-sacrifice to LOVE when all seems lost.

We have free will to acknowledge, use and share the Loving Energy, the Spirit of God in our lives. We also have free will to not acknowledge, use and share the Loving Energy, the Spirit of God in out lives. How we use our free will in this life determines how many times we will reincarnate in order to manifest the glory and perfection of God, which Jesus taught us about in Luke 17:21, when he specifically told us “nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ for the kingdom of God is within you.” The Hebrew-Greek-English Interlinear Bible says the original words say “WITHIN YOU,” not “among you,” as some bibles say today, although most bibles are changing this back to the original words, instead of only mentioning this fact in the footnotes.

Notice Jesus does not call the world, with its warped sense of free-thought, nor liberty (for some and not for others), nor human-inspired justice, a peaceful and LOVING world. Jesus tells us to “be no part of the world.”

We are to transform the world, We have work to do.

We are told in Matthew 5:48, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” New Intertional Version (NIV) These are the words of Jesus. He would not have told us this if it were not possible.

Where does the nature of God reside?

The nature of God resides in all of nature, including WITHIN you and me. The nature of God is the flame and breath of the very life WITHIN you and me. It is ever-expanding, LOVE.

Who and/or what is Maha Cohan?

Maha Cohen can be thought of as the Holy Spirit of God; also known as the Ascended Master of the Power of LOVE. Picture LOVE coming into your heart on the Ruby Ray, direct from God into your heart. Meditate on this Ruby Ray as it melts away all that is not made of LOVE in your life.

How do you manifest into physical form something that is spiritual in nature?
How can you manifest LOVE in your life?
How can you touch LOVE?
What does LOVE look like?
What does LOVE feel like?
How can you manifest Holy Spirit, the Loving Presence of Maha Cohan in your life?

Today we see huge voids of LOVE in the world, in our countries, in our families and inside our personal selves. These pulsating voids of LOVE make their presence known in personal relationships, political arenas, financial institutions, business models and the thinking that fuels them.

Lack of LOVE is a dark energy which is self-serving, without regard for people, places and things that it adversely affects. Lack of LOVE is self-hatred. It is an example of the Law of Karma, where previous seeds sown of misqualified greed, selfishness and power manifest in realities that mirror the seeds. This should come as no surprise to anyone.

LOVE is mutable, changing and transforming along with our focus and intention. When we do not pay enough attention to LOVE within ourselves, our families, or our countries, we and they fall apart.

There is only one way to correct the lack of LOVE in our perception and our reality, and that is to begin to LOVE again. LOVE more. Rather than tear down, build up. In place of destroying the reputations of others, build up the good that you see in those people who you use your free will to help support.

Stop destructive thoughts, words and actions. We can all do this. We make mistakes. The more we recognize our failings, even in the midst of them, we can stop. Take a breath, and begin again with LOVE as the driving force to create a better life for ourselves and everyone around us. It all begins with you and me. It is an easy cop-out to point fingers at the other guy. Deflection and diversion never solve the problem. Deflection and diversion only make the problem worse. Problem solving is what solves problems.

It is not necessary to spend precious time ripping apart the character of a person or a country that is lacking in LOVE. This is simply a complete waste of energy. Positive energy, LOVE, is life affirming and energy building. Lack of LOVE is depleting. When we see greed, selfishness, power hungry individuals, the answer is to invite the Energy of LOVE (Maha Cohen), which is the Invincible Holy Spirit into the equation. Greed, selfishness and unrestrained power wreak havoc over every situation where LOVE is not present.

“Those who have not penetrated the spiritual realms sparkling just beyond their enjoyment of this earthly existence with its everyday montages of life and death – these have not truly lived.” taken from Lost Teachings on Keys to Spiritual Progress

There is more to life than earthly mansions, exotic vacations, physical wealth, pleasures, hoarding food and goods, and every other form of dominance over others.

“Jesus warned us of covetousness in the human spirit, as if we can duplicate the abundant life, fair and free and God-given by oneself unto oneself. And this, too, is karma.” taken from Lost Teachings on Keys to Spiritual Progress

I encourage us all to LOVE more, beginning with ourselves. YOU ARE WORTHY. YOU ARE LOVED, even if you think you are not. Know that you are LOVED! You are LOVED by Maha Cohan, the LOVE of Holy Spirit, mirrored WITHIN YOU since you have the Spirit of Life keeping you alive at this very moment. You are not only LOVED, YOU ARE LOVE. Realize this truth.

If your thoughts, words and actions have not reflected that you are LOVE, you can change this in the blink of an eye. Your free will is all powerful. You are in control of your free will. The will of others is not in control of you. It is not the will of others that determines what you choose to do in your life. Even if you are presently limited by a situation where you are not free to roam about as you please, you still have the God-given freedom of your mind to think your own thoughts, and pray your own prayers, that are always heard by the author of LOVE.

Life situations change all the time. The only constant in life is change. Not all change is pleasant or helpful to us. What is in our control is how we deal with change. We need to learn how to act rather than react. That helps us move forward, regardless of our situation. Plan positive solutions begin right where you are.

What is the next positive thing you can do?

You have the God-given gift of free will, given to you as part of your humanity. You can choose to use free will in any way. I suggest you use your free will for good, for the abundance of all good things, and for LOVE. Use your LOVE as the answer to any and every problem that faces you, personally as well as for socially, politically and in every other situation that requires your input.

LOVE is the only answer.

Namaste

Nationalism is the Resurrection of Medieval Feudalism


Nationalism always produces war, hatred, bigotry; and class, wealth, and racist divisions. The

Humans all the same. Picture courtesy of J. Krishnamurti.
Humans all the same. Picture courtesy of J. Krishnamurti.

illusion that has duped nationalists in all countries, is that whoever the chosen few are in their corner of the world, whoever and wherever that is, they think they are better, more powerful and more worthy than the rest. They are not.

It is out of fear, lack and anger that spawns lies of scarcity, insane ego and hate. There is also a bottomless greed that sets in, mistakenly thinking all the riches of money, land, and anything else they deem to be of value belongs to them, or should belong to them. It does not.

When it comes to the riches of the earth, as my grandson Chris says, “Doesn’t it all belong to Mother Earth?”

Nationalists do not deserve life, nor a better quality of life, more than any other classification of human being who is different from them, no matter what country they hail from.

The right to life is God given, not manmade. While we have the ability to reproduce our bodies, our souls are Divinely inspired, and immortal. The truth is, we are all the same, despite what the insane egos of nationalists proclaim. We are all the same, each and every one of us, not better, not worse, in having the right to life.

Nationalism is not to be solved by bringing about further nationalism, which is only an avoidance of the fact that despite its pigeon-holed, limited view of life, Nationalists are not better than anyone else. Their supposed solution solves nothing.

It is not within our human “rights” to go around and kill and/or go to war with everyone who is not exactly like us, has a different opinion than us, nor create faux caste systems that place us on the top of other people, or entire countries. Planting these kinds of self-destructive seeds is what brings about human and global cataclysms when these self-sown seeds mature. It not only kills the populations of people, animals and plants, it also kills this one planet on which we all live.

Nationalism is a poison to a country.

It is possible to solve problems peacefully with intelligent diplomacy, not a goal to be attained through greed, manipulation, lies and war. Nationalism is what divides people, not unifies them.

The ignorant, separate spirit of nationalism is spreading like fire all over the world. Nationalism, under the guise of patriotism and oligarchy, is cultivated and cleverly exploited by those who are seeking further expansion, wider powers, greater enrichment. On one hand each one of us takes part in this process, for we desire these things on a much smaller scale, in our families, jobs and social circles. Conquering other lands and other people provides new markets for goods as well as for political, financial, and spiritual/religious ideologies, as if that is a good idea.

Has it ever occurred to us that it is possible to improve new markets for goods, as well as promoting political and/or spiritual/religious ideologies with peaceful intelligence? It is possible to have peaceful resolution here all over the world, even now.

Nationalism, the hardened patriotic spirit, class and race consciousness, and oligarchy, are all ways of the self, and therefore separate. After all, what is a nation but a group of individuals living together for economic and self-protective reasons? Out of fear and acquisitive self-defense arises the idea of “my country”, with its boundaries and tariff walls, and various walls of separation, rendering brotherhood and the unity of humankind impossible.

It is because of nationalism, ready to defend our sovereign States, our beliefs and acquisitions, that we must be perpetually armed. Property and ideas have become more important to us than human life, so there is constant antagonism and violence between ourselves and others. By maintaining the sovereignty of our country, we are destroying our sons; by worshiping the State, which is but a projection of ourselves, we are sacrificing our children to our own gratification. Nationalism and sovereign governments are the causes and instruments of war.

The solution to nationalism is character education and development, including history lessons showing how empire after empire manifests by greed and dies by greed. Nationalism is not sustainable. Nationalism arises amid blind and willful ignorance. Let us not forget our human past, in every country, in every generation.

The solution to nationalism is to come to a greater awareness and understanding of who we are and why we are here on this single planet at this moment in time. The human race is not here on planet Earth to become subjugated to one person, nor one country, nor one world leader. We are born free people with free will, not to be usurped by anyone with such an unholy agenda.

We are here on this planet at this time to grow in awareness and appreciate our greater diversity, all of which are pure gifts. What makes us all unique creates a beautiful tapestry of life as a whole including differences in race, color, creed, gender, age, ability and disability, among any other difference we profess. None of our unique differences may at any time supercede the rights of others. They are our gifts to be treasured and shared.

History proves that continued selfishness, greed, and nationalism generates cataclysmic results within all societies as well as global earth changes, of which past worldwide floods and ice ages prove.

There is ONE RACE on this planet. It is the HUMAN RACE.

Portions by _______J KRISHNAMURTY
Additions by Linda Hourihan

Nameste

There Is Only One Race On This Beautiful Planet ~ The Human Race


The human race on Earth is the only race there is.

Whether we are discussing the differences in race, color, ethnicity, creed, financial status, gender, or age, we must realize that on this planet, there is only one race, the human race.

Sometimes we try to hide our prejudices behind other reasons, to justify the positions we take politically, socially, environmentally, religiously, or any other way we human beings use to suppress the voice of others.

We are more alike than any difference we profess.

The root cause of prejudice is fear, not hatred. While certain groups may be extremely angry about an issue, the underlying cause of anger is fear. Why are we so afraid of other people, their color, their belief system, their culture, their gender? Think of how we respond to someone expressing a different viewpoint, or addressing uncomfortable issues such as immigration, homelessness and hungry children in our country and the world.

Fear promotes radical groups in any of the human categories mentioned. If we are truly serious about fixing our world, before we can build any bridges to repair the damage we have caused, we must eradicate the root cause of fear.

War, murder and killing are not communication skills.

While war, murder and killing are not communication skills, when communication stops, pretending in the myth of fantasy that things are perfectly fine now, when they are not, we create the reaction no one wants. We cannot blame the fault on the reactions taking place in our cities and nation when we are at fault for not listening and communicating in the first place. Being willfully ignorant is a fascade that does not stand up against the truth in any matter. It is just a matter of time before lives of fantasy denying reality inevitably crumble.

Just when it seems we have made great progress in this country and in the world, submerged voices rise from the depths of class and color suppression. The deeper the supression, the equal and opposite reaction occurs. No human being, regardless of color, wants to be suppressed. White people do not want to be suppressed. Neither do black or any other division of humanity want to be suppressed.

We are all the same in the eyes of God. We are all, each and every one of us, whether we are aware if it or not, are all created with that spark of God within us, our god flame if you will. Each of us is an aspect of God.

We should celebrate the strides we have made. But there is more to do, more to share, more to learn, more to understand, more to forgive, more to let go. It is not about being right, or wrong, or making others right or wrong. There is no way to make up for the loss of life through war, violence, bloodshed, or retaliation. Two wrongs do not make a right. We need to build bridges to and for all people everywhere.

We all have free will. You and I are free beings. How do you and I choose to be the solution based on love without conditions?

Despite all our unique differences, we all share this one beautiful planet. We are all born in the same way, we all breathe air while we are here, and we all die. We are all having a shared human experience. Our life is in our blood, without which we would cease to be. No one soul is better than any other soul on this planet, no matter what our pride (insane ego) might be telling us.

There is only one race on this planet.

It’s the human race.

Let us begin again to fix what is broken. We are better than denying the oppression and racism that is running rampant in our country and in the world. It is possible to fix this problem, but first we must address the issues before us, and not submerge them again, or beat down the voices we do not want to hear.

It is time as a country to mature, to grow up, face the systemic racism, to create real law and order with rules that everyone follows. We cannot not have one set of rules for white people, and another set of rules for black people. The same thing goes for English Americans, Spanish Americans, Irish Americans, French Americans, Mexican Americans, or any other DNA which makes us the greatest melting pot in the world. Nor should we have a different set of laws for the wealthy and the politically and lawfully powerful. The United States needs ONE Constitution and ONE Bill of Rights that EVERYONE can follow, not just a chosen few.

Because You Deserve To Feel Better

So How Is Your Inner Child Doing? Updated 5/21/20


It’s as if we are all having flash backs to the 1970s. It would be helpful to re-read M. Scott Peck’s “The Road Less Traveled” from 1978. It very well could be the antidote to our grown up issues with our temper tantrum inner child. I can hear the echo of The Eagles’ hit song, “Get Over It,” as the remedy to “kick its little ass.”

How IS your inner child doing?

The Road Less Traveled is a timeless book on the benefits of delayed gratification as a means to living a more fulfilling adult life. It may also be the only remedy to living life at all these days.

Has your inner child been catching your attention lately?

Is your inner child running your life much to the chaos that only a two-year-old running the house can bring?

How are you with delayed gratification of anything?

I ask this question given the times we are living in right now. We are in the midst of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic, which has no known cure, is highly contagious, is transferable from person to person 14 to 21 days prior to any symptoms, and is not gone in many parts of the world. Two days ago when this article was first posted, the country with the worst batting record of winning the global pandemic is the United States of America, with over 1,490,022 cases, which is an increase of 18,937. These numbers continue to increase minute by minute. As I update this post 2 days later, currently the confirmed coronavirus cases in the USA total 1,551,680, which is an increase of 23,285 cases over yesterday, and an increase in deaths totaling 93,434, an increase of 1,518.

In Massachusetts, for example, three days ago confirmed COVID-19 cases were 80,497, an increase of 1,165 from the previous day. Today, confirmed cases total 88,970, an increase of 1,045 over yesterday. Deaths from COVID-19 today are 93,434, an increase of 1,518 over yesterday.

I’ve heard so many people say, “Stop telling the confirmed case numbers and the deaths. That is so depressing. Let’s start talking about only positive things. I’m am depressed, you know. I must concentrate on other things.”

As a holistic counselor, I have taught about the power of positive thinking in every session I ever held, for years. But there is a difference between denying reality by focusing on something that does not solve the problem and doing something positive about it to arrive at a solution. You and I cannot arrive at the solution if we do not look at the huge, extremely contagious problem with no known cure. Wishing it would go away will not make it go away. It will make it stay around forever. Saying, “It is not happening,” does not make it not happen.

Many states are in the same boat on the river of “denial.” That used to be a funny joke. Now it is a sad state of reality.

As a nation, we seem to be unable to do the adult discipline of dealing with the problem head on. If only pointing fingers, blaming, ignoring, and spinning tales could get us out of this one. Even though it was three months late in the game, we did manage to begin social distancing, and wearing masks and gloves, at least some of us did that, and some of us only after a penalty of $300 was assessed for those of us who stamped our feet and still said, “No I won’t.”

But that did not stop 315,822 humans from dying. Some will say that number is too high because some people who died in the hospital, who had COVID-19 really died from having heart attacks and respiratory and other failures. Even some of the people that denied that this coronavirus was nothing more than a bad flu and was a hoax also died from COVID-19.

However, the reality is that COVID-19 weakens hearts and lungs, and those heart attacks and deaths from lung issues were most likely from COVID-19. Also, we only know about confirmed cases. Only one percent of the population in the United States has been tested. The reality is that the number of people walking around with COVID-19 is far greater.

What’s a person to do?

We have spent two whole months social distancing, and wearing masks, and some of us wearing gloves too. Some of us are looking at the same numbers and saying, “Enough is enough. We cannot go on like this. The businesses are hurting. People need paychecks.”

The answer in some states is to rush to open up businesses before the curve has really flattened. As long as any state is having increased confirmed cases, the situation is getting worse, not better. Some states have better track records of how they limited this killer virus in the first place.

Common sense is needed at the helm. If your particular state or country determines it is ready to open up to business, consider not allowing your inner child to make decisions for you that could seriously shorten your life, or shorten the lives of those around you. Do check out the statistics for your country, state, county and city or town. Determine for yourself what guidelines you want to live by.

You only get one life. Protect your inner child.

Because You Deserve To Feel Better

Addressing Fear Amid COVID-19 Pandemic ~ Virtues Are The Solution


The human race on Earth is the only race there is on Earth

COVID-19 knows no bounds when it comes to differences in race, color, ethnicity, creed, financial status or gender. We must realize that on this planet, regardless of where you come from, on Earth, there is only one race, the human race.

Sometimes we try to hide our prejudices behind other reasons, to justify the positions we take politically, socially, financially, environmentally, religiously, or any other way we human beings use to suppress the voice of others. We are more alike than any difference we profess.

The root cause of prejudice is fear, not hatred. While certain groups may be extremely angry about an issue, the underlying cause of anger is fear. Why are we so afraid of other people, their belief system, their culture, their gender? We can promote what we what we believe, if we choose to do that with our free will, without tearing each other down. Think of how we respond to someone expressing a different viewpoint, or addressing uncomfortable issues such as COVID-19, immigration, homelessness and hungry children in our country and the world.

Fear knows no borders. When it comes to financial fears, for example, many fear that by sending the 20,000 ventilators currently in government storage to the 20,000 most sick from the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, there won’t be enough left for themselves. It is a money problem to some minds. This is a two-fold problem.

First, when we divide states and countries in the world into “us” and “them” categories; the rich and the poor; our side and their side, we have already lost the battle, not only with slowing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in our own back yard, but also with the loss of our humanity in society.

This is the second problem, when fear descends upon the minds of our rulers. Bidding wars between states and the government for sending life-saving medical equipment, demonstrates perfectly how we can begin to lose our sense of our humanity. Once we make money, finances and the economy the bottom line, which it is not, we lose our humanity in the decision making process. Yes, money, finances and the economy are important, but it is not as important as the people. At the end of all of our lives, no matter which continent you live on, you will not be able to take your money with you.

Fear promotes radical groups in any of the human categories mentioned. If we are truly serious about fixing our world, before we can build any bridges to repair the damage we have caused, and tear down the cages and the walls which we built due to fear of other human beings, we need to take immediate measures to join together, not tear apart, and eradicate the root cause of fear. It is not just fear of other human beings that is the current social problem; it is the fear that they will take all our money, our reservoirs of wealth, our political power, our land, our titles, etc.

The Theological Virtues of faith, hope and love are the remedy for those of us experiencing fear. The Cardinal Virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the solution to fear by politicians, those in finance, and by everyone else globally. The virtue of generosity is the solution for those blinded by greed. Practice the Golden Rule that Jesus taught, “Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.”

Greed has become the new addiction in society all over the world. In the ordinary effort to get ahead in this life, to make sure there is enough food for our families, and places to rest our weary heads at the end of the day, and household products to get us through the days and weeks of social distancing, some of us are making the quick slide into greed, fueled by fear. It can happen so quickly that we do not even realize it has happened. In those moments we have lost sight of our humanity.

We have made great progress in this country and in the world. We should celebrate the strides we have made. But there is more to do with integrity, more to pray for, more to resolve, more to share, more to learn, more to understand, more to forgive, more to let go. It is not about being right, or wrong, or making others right or wrong. There is no way to make up for the loss of life through war, violence, bloodshed, or retaliation. Two wrongs do not make a right. We need to build bridges and tear down walls and cages for all people everywhere.

Despite all our unique differences, we all share this one beautiful planet. We are all born in the same way, we all breathe air while we are here, and we all die. We are all having a shared human experience. Our life is in our blood, without which we would cease to be. No one soul is better than any other soul on this planet, no matter what our pride (insane ego) might be telling us.

Let us recognize this place and time that we are all in. We can repair all of this, unless we have totally lost our humanity. Some of us are over the edge and need our assistance to get back to the real time work of caring for and protecting the most vulnerable among us. They need our prayers. Prayer is an extremely powerful tool at our disposal.

There is only one race on this planet.

It’s the human race.

We need to work together, across the globe, to do what is best for the everyone in every country. This effort begins with you and me, in our homes, families, neighborhoods, states, countries on this one planet that we call home. We need to be better people. It is contagious. It matters.

God Bless