“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,” Ephesians 6:12
The following comes from Chapter 5 of my a2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS-winning book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM:
Numerous Old Testament and New Testament sources cite scriptures that confirm this is still possible.[1] The choice is yours. But before you have a free will choice, you need to be aware that other negative influences of others that might not be as innocent as you might first think.
It is prudent to take an extra moment to assess if something seems off to you. Bring the matter to mind in a conscious way, enabling you to think more deeply about the choices before you, and their ramifications. Are they filled with Wisdom and Love, or the opposite?
Look at what happened in 325 CE when the Council of Nicaea[2] took place, soon after the war between the Roman Empire against the Persian Empire, waged by Roman Emperor Julian. He wanted to revert to paganism yet needed to solidify the people. The Council of Laodicea declared Christian beliefs in the Creed, with only 30 like-minded bishops from six of the Latin-speaking regions of the Western world. There were 1,800 bishops at that time.
Who decided not to include the once Sacred Scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt from the scriptures that would become our current bible?
Most of the exclusion came at the hands of certain bishops, popes, anti-popes, and the Roman Emperors Julian and Jovian in the fourth century CE as the Christian religion was in the throes of becoming, or remaining, the official religion of the not so holy Roman Empire.
It is said that, before a pivotal battle, Emperor Constantine saw a cross in the sky and took it to mean if he converted to Christianity, he would win the battle. So, he did. (Such a wonderful reason for turning to the peaceful teachings of Christ). In 324 CE, he named the Christian religion, which had up until then, to one degree or another, been a reason for persecution by the government, to be the official religion of Rome. His successor, Julian, didn’t feel the same way. He wanted to return to the old order of pagan gods and Christian persecution.
At the Council of Laodicea, Julian and the bishops who were invited decided that, among other things, any stories of women being of prominence in the religion would be squashed, as would stories of fallen angels taking on human qualities and walking the earth. Other things discarded were the stories of the multiple “gods” who ruled the earth in early times, or their several re-incarnations. Most of what was found in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures and some of what was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls was left out.
What was going on in the Christian religion at that time?
Let’s see, there was Pope Liberius who was exiled by the emperor who then installed Felix II in 355 CE. Felix II was one of the anti-popes. The Council of Laodicea was held in 363 CE and 364 CE to establish what stories would be told in the Christian religion. The emperor Julian died in 363 CE. Then the leadership of the Roman Empire suffered some very quick successions, and between 363 CE and 366 CE there were four different Roman emperors, some ruling simultaneously.
When Felix II died in 366 CE, the Christian people elected Ursinus to be pope. At the time, however, the people’s choice also had to be run by the emperor for his ratification, and Damasus, who also wanted to be pope, and who had supported the high-born followers of Felix II the anti-pope, hired a bunch of thugs to massacre the followers of Ursinus.
Ursinus was exiled and Damasus became pope. Strangely, Ursinus (the people’s choice) was called the anti-pope. Damasus, (obviously the emperor’s choice,) was now the pope. He decided to solidify the findings of the Council of Laodicea that had been held during the Papacy of Felix II the anti-pope while Liberius (the real pope) was in exile. Those findings decided which books would be entered as the official bible of the Christian religion. Human error became the “word of God.”
Suffice it to say that at that time the scriptures were massaged to closely mirror the patriarchal society of Rome keeping in line with the inequality of gender judgments of the Christian, orthodox, and political religions.
It was the Catholic bishops attending the Council of Laodicea who unified theology, agreeing to ban the writings of the words of Jesus held within the bosom of books termed Apocryphal today. I would like to point out that it is no accident that politics and religion combined in that effort to spread the Roman Empire all over the world.
Have you ever noticed the Roman Catholic Church in just about every city in the world?
Jesus AND science follow the Eternal Universal Law of Nature within the accepted Laws of Thermodynamics, which I repeat here for emphasis since most religions trip on this part. Most religions teach that God always was, always will be, and always remains the same.
Religion’s understanding can only hold true IF religion’s comprehension allows for the fact that Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiences and learns in and through you and me in the vast experiment of the Creation within eternity, thereby becoming part and parcel with all of it, animate and seemingly inanimate. This changes with each lived experience.
If religion’s “God” already knew the experience of Love and Wisdom, along with the effects of lack of Love and Wisdom within all the angels, fallen angels, humanity, and every other creation of which we are barely cognizant, there would be no reason for this ghastly experiment of life.
The reason we are here is not merely for some cosmic game of win or lose. It’s as if we need to be shaken by our shoulders, metaphysically speaking, to shake off the cobwebs of indoctrination of the eons of time, to finally understand that the Light that animates your life and my life, is Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiencing Itself. This knowledge matters. If we do not come to grips with this reality now, we commit ourselves to other lifetimes until we do. Re-member, infinity is infinite. Yes, I spelled remember as re-member.
Why?
To re-member is to re-connect us to the bigger whole of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
The problems that have tripped up societies in history throughout the world when politics and religion are combined, are the same problems occurring globally today. It would be wise to pay attention, so we do not invite cataclysms into our lives and the planet, as if we did not know better.
Turning a blind eye to Truth because of underlying religious and political undertones masking and giving permission to violent behaviors as justification for religious beliefs, wreak havoc on a civil society seeking the betterment of humanity, on one hand, while simultaneously causing the chaos they blame on others, on the other hand. Here is another example of doublethink of George Orwell’s 1984, holding two opposite ideas in your mind and believing both.
We see this playing out on the world’s stage today. We are smarter than this, but only if we allow ourselves to see what the problem is, not play the blame game with payback ramifications. It is time to mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually mature into the Life of the Eternal Universal Life Force Spirit/Soul Energy which we truly are.
The 2024 International Impact Book Awards trophy that I won in the category for Social Change is sitting in customs due to tariffs.
I am an international holistic health counselor practitioner, writer, blogger, and international Universal Life Church minister. I live on the same planet as all other interesting human beings. The human race is all One animated by the exact Eternal Universal Life Force Energy as all other living manifestations of beings within the angel, mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms.
It is time to rejoice in our common bonds of life.
I am grateful to have won this beautiful trophy of recognition for IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM. This is the first book in this trilogy focusing on the innate wisdom within you and this same Limitless Living Light that exists within all manifested creation.
Humanity is more alike than the differences that divide us.
I share the Limitless Living Light, my personal Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy from the exact same Source as the intimate and unique Energy that enlivens your Spirit/Soul. I hope you enjoy this book, MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled SURVIVAL WISDOM. It is currently being turned into an audio book! I will let you know as soon as it is available as an audio book. Presently it is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover. Check out https://lindahourihanhhcp.com.
Whatever we focus on grows. It is this same Source of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that ignites the Limitless Living Light within the Angel, Mineral, Plant, and Animal Kingdoms. You and I are made of various combinations from all these kingdoms. This is the third book in this award-winning-series. I hope you enjoy it.
My travels include a lifetime of writing in journalism for newspapers, feature articles in magazines, and especially as my work as an author of six books.
Now I patiently wait for my hard-earned trophy. I could choose to be upset over tariffs. Instead, I choose to not wase my thoughts, words, and actions on the dysfunctional reality that presently is affecting the entire world. Everyone will reap the seeds they have sown. This is the Law of Attraction.
I will manifest by the Laws of Attraction that all the winners of the 2024 International Impact Book Awards will peacefully receive their trophies for all their hard work.
Writing my books and blog is my way of staying in touch with readers across the globe. I love my multicultural friends. It is our common bond of humanity, finding goodness and kindness in the least expected places, and in magnificent celebrations of all life. It is in this way that I choose to spend my retirement.
Who am I and why might people want to hear what I have to say?
I am an international, ordained, interfaith Universal Life Church minister, metaphysician, author ~ blogger ~ internationally board-certified holistic health counselor, New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™) Teacher of the School of Esoteric Science™, certified Reiki Master Teacher and Qigong Teacher. I no longer practice nor teach Reiki since New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ has graced the planet.
As an interfaith, ordained Universal Life Church minister, I have helped humanity with weddings, renewal of marriage vows and funerals. Now in my retirement, this blog is my worldwide ministry. I deal with personal growth and development, maturity, and relationships encompassing many areas including religions and politics.
People who do not want to continue to learn what is going on around them stay stunted in ignorance and buried in cult-like indoctrinations. Learning anything will not make you angry, unless you grow to realize that you have been indoctrinated into a religious or political cult. Then it may be both infuriating and embarrassing.
I have met with priests, bishops, deacons, ministers and many others of other faiths to share important matters to humanity.
Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan and me in 1973 at the first Pro-Life Meeting of the Worcester Diocese.
I also hold a Master Catechist certification (1982) specializing in Youth Ministry from the Diocese of Worcester. I taught CCD for over 20 years for every grade level including First Holy Communion, Sacrament of Reconciliation, Confirmation, and adult Bible Studies in my home.
In my quest to better understand all faiths including the Catholic faith, I have participated in the once-in-a-lifetime Cursillo, a Catholic faith inspiration, joined the Cursillo Leaders School and gave the Study Talk on the Women’s Retreats; Life In The Spirit Retreats, and God help me, yes, I even tried out Opus Dei, meaning “Work of God.” To me, this translates to, “Give me all your personal power. Believe whatever I tell you to believe, by all means, agree to censorship and do not read anything I tell you not to read.” They even confiscated my book, Sidetracked Home Executives, because one of the women in it got divorced. I never got it back, so I bought it again.
I studied with Bible-belt Baptists, and yes, I spent 6 years studying with Jehovah’s Witnesses. And no, I do not need to hate you, shun you, or anything worse simply because you believe something different than I believe.
Freedom and Free Will is God-given, not humanly ordained.
Now I am an international, ordained, interfaith Universal Life Church (ULC) minister, with a compassionate understanding of all faiths. I know what they know, and what was left out of their education. I continue taking extra courses in the ULC Seminary to better understand humanity in my worldwide ministry.
I earned a Masters in Chaplaincy certification visiting the sick and those both pre- and post-treatment at Harrington Hospital for the required hours to earn my certification.
I also earned the Doctor of Spiritual Awareness and Doctor of Universal Order certifications in the Universal Life Church Seminary where my education is on-going.
I do not believe in religious censorship, burying or burning books. I do believe in sharing the truth hidden in the scrolls of sacred scriptures found and preserved in the caves at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, as well as in a cave in Qumran. Please know there is much more than you have been told unless you know everything that Jesus said during those buried (some say missing years) of His life. They were not missing. They were hidden from you to make you more controllable. I will share what I have discovered here with you. Ignorance is not bliss.
I share my research on the scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, the Books of Enoch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In this blog, I also discuss the Sacred Scriptures found that Jesus spent his missing years, from ages 13-30 in India and the Himalaya Mountain region. The Books of Enoch predate Genesis. Jesus not only studied the Books of Enoch and respected them enough to refer to them over 100 times in the New Testament.
Humanity has only been allowed to know the first 12 years of the life of Jesus, and his years from 30-33, for a total of 15 years. Are you aware that Jesus said many profound things between his ages 12-30, for a total of 18 years? There is so much more of what Jesus said, which any Christian proclaiming to know what Jesus said might like to consider.
How dare any religious leader call the words of Jesus Christ apocryphal because the words of Jesus during his ages 12-30, those 18 years, do not agree with any particular religious denomination?
The words of Jesus can also be found in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. I do not think it is right to condemn the adult words of Jesus as apocryphal simply because they do not agree with the human interpretation of many denominations.
Every person has the freedom to use their God-given free will to learn all that Jesus taught, which does not need anyone else’s human permission nor interpretation coating the words of Jesus. Do not give your personal power away to anyone, no matter who they are ever again.
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Thank you for visiting my blog, which is read worldwide in 203 countries, territories and protectorates since 2012. Today shows 123,701 views since its inception.
A very dear friend of mine, who is also a former student and co-worker wrote this gracious testimonial:
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. You will always be one of my great mentors. I have four mentors, women in my life and you are the number one. I look forward to seeing you somehow even if I have to just come up for one night to visit. I would love to be in your energy.~ Donna C.
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I am a member of the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA), which is recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA). The BCMA recognizes holistic health counseling and wellness, as well as energy work as valid therapies. I am a member of the BCMA because the School of Esoteric Sciences™ is a member, accepting the school’s teachers to also be recognized as BCMA members.
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Among the many books, newspapers, and magazines that I am published in, I have five prayers and meditations included in the book: More Weddings, Funerals and Rites of Passage, More Sample Ceremonies for Celebrants, Officiants and Ministers.
The following are the five prayers I wrote for your benefit:
House Blessing
Angels of Light and Love, fill this house with the radiant warmth of our Divine Creator.
Touch every nook and cranny with peace, harmony and compassion of our Divine Inspiration.
Allow all family, friends and guests to bask in the tender and loving embrace of the I Am Presence in all of us who live here.
Ground our house with understanding and forgiveness.
And forever be the pillar of strength that supports our hearts and our minds.
Meal Blessing
Bless this food, Oh God, with Your Heavenly Vibration.
Raise the level of my awareness to realize the wholesome goodness in what You have grown for me.
Nourish me in body, mind, and soul and transform this food into loving service of You.
Yard Blessing
Thank You God, Author of all life, for this yard, this part of the earth You have allowed me to care for.
I ask Your blessing on all living, growing things, that they flourish under Your ever-watchful eye.
Allow my hands to be Your hands as I work the soil, plant the seed, feed the birds and care for the animals You send my way.
Let those who walk by enjoy the beauty of Your creation and breathe in the tranquility of Your Spirit.
Night Blessing
Oh Divine Mother Spirit, care, protect and nurture us this night.
Show us our Divine Helpers, our Guardian Angels, Our Solar Angels, the Archangels.
Remind us we are not alone.
Surround us with our spiritual guides, our animals guides, our healing devas.
Help us remember our dreams, that place where you speak to us and unfold our lives.
Embrace our footsteps of the day as we journey on our way to You.
Receive our love for You as we love one another, loving You in them.
Driver’s Blessing
Help me to remember, Oh God, that I am not Mario Andretti.
Send me gentle reminders that this road that I am on is not the Indy 500.
Let me see the person in front of me as my friend, as You.
Please don’t look back in the rearview mirror Lord, I’ll try to be better, safer, more tolerant.
And I’ll try not to drive faster than my angels can fly.
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One of the most transcendent courses I took was from the Supreme Science Qigong Foundation taught by Jeff Primack, March 5-8, 2011, for a total of 32 hours, at the Connecticut Conference Center in Hartford. This covered Qigong healing using breathwork techniques in Levels 1, 2, and 3. I also took the additional 8-hour class the next day to learn how to use food as medicine. In all it was a 40-hour course that turned out to be one of the most transformative educational classes in my holistic health career.
I am so glad that I stayed for the extra day, for the optional food as medicine component, extending time away from my business, The Massage Clinic, in Stratford, CT and satellite offices in Milford, Orange, and West Haven. I came home with DVDs showing Primack going through all the moves he taught the hundreds of us all at once. The energy in that auditorium was palpable and phenomenal.
This was a poignant reminder that with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, there is no time, nor space, between the hundreds of students of all ages attending and practicing every move and thought he taught us. For me, it was like the powerfully moving charismatic meetings I had gone to, not with the indoctrination, but similar by elevating the energy in the room to an extremely healing place. All was One. You too can heal.
When medical doctors had done all that they could for their patients, some who were on their way out of this life, were sent to Jeff Primack to see if using food as a treatment could possibly save their life. Primack said in that class that he saw people heal from their maladies, which is why medical doctors today back his research of using food as medicine.
Who would have thought that food could heal a body better than chemical medicines could?
In more cases than one, by using Qigong and Primack’s smoothie recipes, the person sent to him by the doctors, was healed by the innate life generating and healing properties found in organic and high phytochemical foods.
Over 100,000 hardcover copies of his books have been sold, according to Amazon.com which said, “Conquering Any Disease is endorsed by top surgeons and doctors who have recommend these food protocols to help reverse disease naturally. This book engages all types of people to eat God s most healing foods. At the back of the book is an extensive glossary of food phytochemicals and fatty Acids that will elevate your understanding of nutrients to the next level.
“This is the 15-Year Anniversary Scientific Edition with the most compelling studies. It is the first book of its kind to Quantify Key Pigments/Phytochemicals (and show sources of data that doctors require) in ALL the most healing foods. It’s 300 pages of life saving wisdom fully illustrated to help you learn all you ever needed to know about food. Conquering Any Disease book covers the following conditions: Allergies, Alzheimer s, Memory, Anti-Viral, HIV, Hepatitis, Anemia, Arthritis, Inflammation, Asthma, Lung Disease, Autism, Cancer, Tumor, Immune Weakness Colds, Flu Virus, MRSA, Digestive, Constipation, IBS, Ulcers, Depression, PTSD, Diabetes, Eye, Vision, Diseases, Heart Disease, Stroke, Cholesterol Crystallization, Infertility, Insomnia, Kidney Stones, Liver Disease, Cirrhosis, MRSA, Infection, Menopause, Muscle Building, MS, Jing, Hair, Osteoporosis, Parkinson s, Seizures, Sexual Power, Thyroid, Weight Loss.”
Qigong, Prana Healing, Reiki, New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™, Tai Chi, and meditation, among other forms of energy work, are natural remedies without negative side effects. Mother Nature knows best.
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New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ class schedules are listed ahead of time for the convenience of students’ planning.
New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ classes are approved certified curriculums of the School of Esoteric Sciences™.There are teachers all over the world.
All words are trademarked, and all course curriculums are copyrighted.
2024 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™: April 6 & 7. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master ™ workshop is $295 due by March 23, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT ™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on 2 consecutive weekends, June 1 & 2, AND June 8 & 9, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this class, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com
BASIC MASTER TEACHER ™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, October 12-14, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT ™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences ™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher ™ is $395 due by September 28, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
2025 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™: APRIL 5-6. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master™ workshop is $295 due by March 22, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on 2 consecutive weekends, June 21 & 22, AND June 28 & 29, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by June 7, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com
BASIC MASTER TEACHER™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, OCTOBER 11-13, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences ™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher™ is $395 due by September 27, 2025, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
2026 SCHEDULE:
BASIC MASTER™:APRIL 4-5. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master™ workshop is $295 due by March 21, 2026, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT™: This 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place June 6-7 AND June 13-14, from 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 23, 2026, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
BASIC MASTER TEACHER™: This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, OCTOBER 10-12, 10 am – 6 p.m. All Basic Master™ and 13D MDT™ students with approved numbered prerequisite certificates from the School of Esoteric Sciences™ may take this course. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher™ is $395 due by September 26, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
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“Get ready to take a deep drive. Metaphysician Lin Hourihan offers a multifaceted perspective on who we are at the core of our being. Challenging preconceptions and lending insight on how to maximize our experience here on planet earth,”commented Tracey Lockwood, The Medium’s Medium, on the back cover of my latest book.
“Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear. …” quote from this book.
Amazon says, “With an impressive background in religious studies, Linda offers encouragement and guidance to the seekers who know there is more and choose to bring light into their lives. Told with wisdom, humility and love, this book is a timeless guide to living in the Light with God, free of the manmade shackles of corruption.”
If you go on the Amazon website, put my name, Linda Hourihan, in the search bar you will see my three books. IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM, is my new book. This book is available anywhere books are sold.
Do you like time travel books? MYSTERY OF THE STURBRIDGE KEYS, subtitled, CHRISTMAS UNLOCKED is just that. People keep wanting this book to be made into a movie. I say, then do it already. This book goes back in time to the days of Old Sturbridge Village (1830’s), starting at the Christmas by Candlelight celebration in real time, back to the days of the Underground Railroad, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, and back further to the days of Noah and the Nephilim, and to the days of the birth of Jesus.
Parents asked me to write this next book, which is the first book I wrote, THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUES. It was first published in 1999 and republished in 2020.
It is a seven-lesson morality curriculum, teaching children in grades five through eight how to deal with social situations that call for them to practice faith, hope, and love in their decision-making process. This book is appropriate for all children and Bible reading parents.
At that time, I was voted in by the town as one of two parents allowed to be on the new board as part of the landmark Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 (MERA). The concept was for this board to push the academic content and high standards over the Bush I and Clinton administrations’ agenda of K-12 education as merely workforce development training.[1]
I was voted in as co-chairman of the local school MERA board. The other co-chairman was principal of the elementary school. I hoped to address the education curriculum including the sex education curriculum, but the board opted to rewrite the elementary school’s handbook instead.
After I stated that we might consider teaching ethics, the other co-chairman asked whose ethics ought to be taught. I knew then that I needed to write this book. They did not want anything smacking of anyone’s personal religion to be taught in secular schools at that time. It seems today’s agenda seems to be welcoming only the Christian Right Maga views of wanting to put the Ten Commandments into all public schools, ignoring the separation between Church and State.
I modeled each lesson in The Virtue of Virtues with what was familiar to me, the same reporter questions that are the basis for every good news article I ever wrote, including sections in each chapter covering the questions of WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, WHERE, and HOW.
This is how students can navigate difficult situations in which they often find themselves. This has been taught in CCD programs once a month for the first seven months of the school year, and in other years, for the first seven weeks of the CCD school year once a week from October through December.
It is also a wonderful addition to homeschooling children in their own homes. This can be done in one lesson a night for one week, spread out once a week for seven weeks, or once a month for seven months, as the family or as groups of neighborhoods, friends, and families see fit.
I am a Metaphysician, a Reiki Master Teacher, 13th in line to Dr. Mikao Usui, who only re-discovered the Usui Reiki System of healing, and is not the founder of it. I only mention this because Reiki is so well known. However, what he discovered in the 1800s is only the tip of the iceberg, originally given to us by Germain, currently working with the NPMDT™ system of healing. There are myriad other energy systems of holistic healing that currently exist. Now is the time for energy workers everywhere to share their knowledge and gifts with humanity, Earth, and cosmos however you can.
As a life-long-learner, I continued to uncover some of what I had not yet learned in the metaphysical world beyond Reiki, which I later discovered is merely the beginning.
Curiosity sparked my interest. I asked my I Am Presence, what you may know as your Higher Power, or your Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy (God), when I saw an ad for an expansion of healing energy, if this class was for me. I sensed it was and took a series of these classes until I learned that New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ is the graduate curriculum of the next stages of hands-on healing which Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna practiced, to my comprehension.
I am a 2005 graduate of the American Institute of Holistic Health & Wellness, studying under the late Dr. Dolores Seymour.
All of these courses melded for me. There are not many different Earths for the many different belief systems and experiences. I think of it as semantics, using different words to express similar energies and occurrences.
I took classes from the late Dr. Dolores Seymour and went to her classroom space in New York. She was a very impressive and dynamic teacher. If you get the chance, you can find her book, Who Cares Why? from used bookstores. I found it to be extremely liberating from the usually life-long counseling traps. Her methods worked 100% of the time in my experience.
The American Institute of Holistic Health & Wellness is no longer in existence since her passing on but was accredited by the American Association of Drugless Professionals, and the National Accreditation and Certification Board. This is a lifetime and international certification. I have studied extensively in the fields of holistic health in mind, body and spirit which naturally includes counseling on all life issues, and bodywork.
There are drugless therapies that work very well most of the time when applied, and have no chemical side effects, obviously, except when they are not followed.
I am trained in Mind Inspired New Dynamics System, also known as M.I.N.D.S. Holistic Alternative Psychology has an emphasis on methods, individualized plans of action, fostering the ability of the individual to reach his or her highest potential physically, emotionally and spiritually; with advanced perspectives of positive personal growth, changing attitudes from negative to positive; enhancing intuition and self-discovery through creative endeavors, and improving health as impacted by psychological states.
I work with M.I.N.D.S. Wellness & Body/Mind Consciousness, which features positive self-analysis/awareness, self-control development programs, conditioning the healing mind, controlling mood swings, anxiety, avoiding depression and raising self-esteem to its highest level.
M.I.N.D.S. Meta-Psychology is person centered rather than technically oriented, and focuses on psychological health, consciousness, human possibilities, and challenges of body, mind and spiritual development. A person cannot heal in any program void of attention to their own spiritual development. As a matter of fact, many mental and physical ailments can be discovered when spiritual sickness is at the root of the problem.
This blog addresses mental health, physical health and spiritual health. Spirituality touches all aspects of life including but not limited to religious, spiritual, educational, social, political, financial, etc. This blog addresses all aspects of life. What we believe touches it all.
I am a former member of the Branford Hall Career Institute Advisory Board; and former owner of The Massage Clinic, LLC which had four offices in Connecticut, and more than 8,000 appointments helping everyone to achieve balance and health in mind, body and spirit. I personally held 5,000 of these appointments, making lifelong friends in the process.
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Here is an amazing synergy occurrence. Around 2008, I was asked to be a speaker at the Northampton Expo when the venders were to be taking their breaks between the more well-known Expo speakers. When I was finished, I toured the vendor’s booths. I came across a fascinating booth of flower essences, like those of the famous Dr. Bach and his Rescue Remedy which I liked when I felt stressed. I soon discovered that this booth was being overseen by Phyllis Brooks, who taught my New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ teacher. It truly is such a small world.
This amazes me still to this day. Here was Phyllis Brooks, the founder of Taliloquay School of Energy Remedies and https://www.taliloquay.com. Phyllis took lessons from John Armitage who comes from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and works directly with Germain. It turns out that Germain is the founder of the Reiki system in all its variations. Germain in this generation of humanity is co-founder with John Armitage in teaching New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ to the world. This is the world I hail from too.
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This blog is my legacy, a healing gift to the world in need of hope, kindness, empathy, compassion, encouragement, truth, forgiveness, faith, and love.
All human beings were born with the manifestation of the LIGHT of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating each one of us, regardless of creed, gender, nationality, race, color, age, eye color, opinion, indoctrination or any other difference humanity can contrive. Over the eons of time our DNA got messed with. It is that process and the result of their manipulation, that humanity was “dumbed down” so to speak and said to have “sinned.” That was not humanity’s fault.
How many times have you heard that you were born a sinner, requiring you to make a lifetime of amends, or join the “right” religion, or be “born again” to save your Soul?
This is what they have missed.
Every religion has their version. Sci-fi has their aliens. Books and movies have their villains. But they all look back upon that which was hidden from humanity until it was unearthed in the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Books of Enoch, and the once well-known knowledge of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures in 1945.
Ancient occult knowledge knew what I am talking about. Modern science knows all about the Laws of Thermodynamics which state that energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, only changed. What is that but Eternal Universal Life Force Energy from which every human being in every stage of existence comes from?
Then the gauntlet was laid down by fear mongers at the top of religion combined with politics in 364-367 AD, in the unholy union of church and state with the Roman Empire in cahoots with the not so holy Roman Catholic Church.
Like in other belief systems in human pre-history that decried, “Believe like me or die,” fear was the tool used then, just as it was used in the Crusades, paving the thought process down to current times with various religions spreading fear and destruction as their operating system.
Yet, humanity is filled with the attributes, resilience and a thirst for truth. We are to keep searching for wisdom until we find. Our questions will persist until we do. We are not meant to be put under anyone’s finite thumb of miniscule, regurgitated knowledge. There is more for you to know.
This is only the tip of the iceberg I discovered when I searched for the answers not found in “approved” literature, especially Old and New Testament writings. They are all based upon adulterated information, while calling the reality of what happened to humanity “apocryphal,” which means secret knowledge, not anti-Christ, nor anti-Jesus.
The New Testament boasts of the first 12 childhood years of the life of Jesus, and his last 3 adult years, for a total of 15 years. However, there is another 18 adult years of Jesus where he preached and taught. Wouldn’t you like to know what the adult Jesus said? These words of the Savior of the world are not apocryphal.
All of this is explained in my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM.
There is a 10% discount from the distributor of my book on the link above, although it is available anywhere books are sold.
Even Jesus himself expounds on this in Luke 17:20-21, if you allow yourself to read today’s bible where is tells humanity that the “Kingdom of God,” which is this LIGHT of God, is WITHIN us, at the time when those usurping people’s personal power, fame and fortune for themselves, altered bibles to say what they wanted it to say.
Even the Hebrew, Greek, English Interlinear Bible is putting the word “within” back in bibles which had changed the original word “within” to “among” changing the meaning. Jesus actually meant what he said when the Pharisees asked when the “Kingdom of God” would come. This “Kingdom” is the LIGHT of God that animates your Soul. Look at the footnote in any bible after the word “among,” if that is what your bible says, and you will see that the footnote says the original word was “within.”
You are a priceless treasure, because the Spirit of God lives in you, as 1 Corinthians 3:16 says. This is not based on any belief system.
“The leader of the authorities is blind. [Because of his] power, ignorance, and arrogance he said, with [power], “I am God; there is no other [but me.]” The Nature of the Rulers, The Blind Demiurge, Nag Hammadi Codex II, 4 (86,27-87,23)[1]
“No mind has the ability to think freely until it is unbound from the restraints of cults. … All cults I have studied say they are not a cult.” These are the first few lines in my new book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, Universal Wisdom.
Aren’t all choices in the matter of faith up to the individual?
What if from the beginning of human history, humanity was deceived into thinking that which claimed to be “God” wasn’t?
There is a logical reason for this paradox in the Sacred Scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt that were buried in the desert caves.
The worldwide flood and cataclysmic re-shifting of the continents did rid the world of the physical bodies of the fallen angels who had taken on human bodies, as well as the bodies of their Nephilim children. However, their eternal spirits were cast out in that famous battle in heaven noted in Revelation 12:9, when Archangel Michael and his legions of angels cast these ungodly hordes out of heaven and sent them to the Earth.
Why do you think what is going on in every country in the world is taking place?
There are numerous sinister agendas taking place. It is only when we deny their initial causes that we continue their fear-mongering and hateful agendas which are the earmarks of the remanent of the fallen angels and Nephilim.
Sometimes humanity gets caught up in apparent causes, thinking they are choosing sides as if that is all that is involved. There is more to watch out for. But how can you become more aware of the reality behind that which you are being told?
“Here are 14 Cult Markers to watch out for [2]:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar, or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
The group is preoccupied with making money.
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
“Stand up for your God-given gift of free will.
“Use your free will to get out of the cult. Use your free will to vote. No one owns the rights to your mind, your voice, or your life. Your life, body, mind, and Eternal Soul belong to you. Call someone you can trust.
“Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, God, loves you because God is Love, as 1 John 4:8 says. God forgives you because Love forgives. Most mistakes are not sins. They are simply a learning curve for you. You are a child of God here on earth. Only you can live your life. Only you can vote your conscience. If you have given over the rights to your mind, body, or Spirit/Soul to other religious or political groups, or any other group claiming rights over you, use your free will to walk away. Those are not your friends. Neither your political affiliation, your religious congregation, nor your friends can usurp your God-given rights unless you let them.
“CultAntidote: Never hand over your personal power or relinquish your free will to any person, place, or thing at any time for any reason, ever.
“This is a dead giveaway as to how cults operate. This is the basis of their operating manual.
“The Nature of the Rulers,especially the section titled The Blind Demiurge, describes how this Spark of a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experienced itself and all The Creation that was around the Earth. Seeing none other like itself, this blind demiurge, which is a Platonic school of philosophy thought, claims to be the “God.” The problem is watching this would-be “God” throughout the Old Testament in his bloodthirsty thrusts for power, fame, and fortune.
“The Nature of the Rulers is more plausible about how material things and humanity came to be on Earth than the childish pablum version in today’s modern bibles. The Nature of the Rulers, The Blind Demiurge, was also considered Sacred Scriptures until the mid-fourth century. Jesus was aware of this Sacred Scripture. He never preached against it in recorded accounts in the bible. If it were important to mention, Jesus would have corrected this information. He did not.
“The Nature of the Rulers begins with the real nature of the authority spirits. It tells how the leader of these authorities is blind, and acknowledges none other than himself, sinning against the realm of the All. When this blasphemy boast reached Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, he gets corrected by the Incorruptibility of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, God.
“If you look at your best friend, you will see more than one aspect of this person, yet your friend is still one person, not two or three persons within one person just because you also equate this friend with power, wisdom, and love. The same is true for God who exhibits these same qualities. To explain how power, wisdom, and love operate as one cohesive whole, bible scribes and writers have personified them as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the feminine aspect of God, and the son aspect of God.
“The blind demiurge is not the Almighty Father he thinks he is. He is the beginning of cult worship. This is explained further in Chapter 5 on the fallen angels.”
There is so much more for you to know. The word apocryphal means hidden or secret knowledge, not anti-Jesus, nor anti-Christ.
“Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
This is the Light within you Jesus speaks of in Luke 17:20-21. You are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, of which my latest book is all about.
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, Universal Wisdom, is the first book in this trilogy. You can get it at:
I Am That I AM, Lin. You are the I AM That I AM deep within your heart, mind, and Soul because without this Universal Living Force, you would cease to be. Universal Life is Universal Love without conditions. It just IS. Life connects all brothers and sisters of Earth to that which the Silver Cord of LifeEcclesiastes 12:6-7 speaks. It is in every living thing experiencing in our precious animal, plant and mineral kingdoms.
What is the animating Universal Life Force of Jesus as he refers to himself in the Gospel of Thomasin the Nag Hammadi Scriptures?
The Gospel of Thomas does not depict Jesus as the Savior nor the Messiah, but rather as the Child of Humanity, and a perfect example of peace, purity, and protection for you, me, and everything else in our realm.
What is this Universal Life that animates all living things? It seems it is here today and gone tomorrow. We all know this because we all experience it. During our sojourn here on this beautiful planet, Earth, we slowly wake up to who and what we truly are, and to the fact that there is more to this Universal Life we live, much more.
We are not just mind and body. We have Spirit/Soul which transports our reality to beyond what we can see with human eyes. Our Spirit/Soul is our I AM Presence, which is our constant protection of the core of our life, all our lives.
Notice in the above picture that the belief system, or value system, is what each individual places upon the self. While we may be born into a particular way of thinking or believing, as we mature and think for ourselves, that is, if we allow ourselves to think for ourselves without fear, obligation, guilt, threats, and manipulation; it is our own agreement that ultimately decides what we understand to be true.
This animating force is Universal Life Energy, not unique to any particular religion, belief system, nor human invention. It is common to all, including agnostics and atheists.
Some claim their course in Energy Work, Chi, Qi, Prana, and many other “original” names describing the same exact thing is the way to go. Others say to come to their religion or change religions because one is better than another. These are all judgments. Jesus says in Matthew 7:1, “Stop Judging!”
Each of us has our own set of circumstances that shape our thoughts, feelings, emotions, words, and actions. We only know what we know, obviously, until we dare to challenge the paradigms with which we grew and matured, that is, if we allowed ourselves to mature. This sometimes means we give ourselves permission to investigate other books, writings, and systems of belief to see which might better agree with our own thought processes.
We learn through our experience. Some of us are teachers, others learn through different experiences. Others of us delve deep into various studies for our life’s work and curiosities. As our life unfolds, we learn from it. Sometimes we do not learn a life lesson until it keeps repeating, catching our attention. Sometimes this takes a lifetime or many lifetimes to conquer.
We also know when we study everything there is to know about a subject, and still there appears to be a thin veil that some information remains hidden, requiring concerted effort on our part to unearth the missing information. That is what happened with the Nag Hammadi Scriptures.
Why did Jesus die?
Jesus, the Child of Humanity, died because he tried to teach the people of his day, somewhere around 30-33 AD, about this I AM Presence within himself. He also tried to teach humanity that this same I AM THAT I AM Presence is within each one of us, as Luke 17:20-21 clearly states. As mentioned in previous posts, all modern bibles are reverting back to the original writings stating that the Kingdom of God is WITHIN us, not AMONG us, as past scribes changed the wording to say to match the doctrine they wished to portray. Check your bible and also check the footnote at the bottom. If your bible still says “among” you, the footnote still says, “WITHIN YOU.” Modern scholars of the Hebrew-Greek-English Interlinear Bible say this also.
Again, I ask why did Jesus die?
Jesus was put to death because he taught us all that the Light of God, this I AM Presence, this Kingdom of God, is not only within him, but also WITHIN each one of us.
Religious controllers of the time, both political and spiritual, wanted to make their subjects subjugated, fearful, obedient, compliant, and victims for sins they did not commit. It was put upon women, forbidden fruit, and a snake.
They hid the truth that the Original Sin was that of the fallen angels who mated with the beautiful women of Genesis 6:1-5 fame, remember?
But this twisted story has been swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the fishers of men (and women) who are distracted by the atrocities of our time, fearing for their very souls should they dare to step outside the threats and manmade doctrines, and fearing the beaters of the drums of modern-day dirges.
Walk out of fear. Promise yourself never to go into fear again. Fear immobilizes, cripples, and deforms your God-given Spirit/Soul, your spiritual identity, your I AM Presence. This is your Inner Child who is crying to be heard and understood. This is the very reason Jesus died, so he could teach us this very important lesson.
There is a reason for the darkness in the world. It is the exact reason why Herod called for the slaughter of all two-year old boys and under, why past human justice systems could impale criminals to die on the stake, and why wars have occurred in every land since the beginning of time.
There is a reason for the multiple holocausts and ethnic cleansings across this one Earth we all share. Among the first of many is the Canaanite Holocaust and the more widely known Jewish Holocaust. Then there is the equally insidious holocaust known as the pan-African Holocaust. The word “Maafa” is also known as the African Holocaust. It seems many people are unaware of other holocausts unless it happens to them.
There is a reason why murders occur in every city in the world, and why every sinister thought, word, and action crosses the mind of all human beings when things do not go our way, especially if money is to be made, or power is to be lost.
The human mind always wants to blame the other guy, as if you and I are not responsible for the bad things that happen to us, our families, our countries, and the Earth itself. Isn’t it easier to point the finger at someone else rather than own our own stuff, man-up, if you will excuse the term (but you know what I mean), and make more mature and sounder, life-giving decisions?
When did each of us let ourselves off the hook when it comes to honesty, integrity, and being magnanimous of spirit?
We are all culpable. If we were not, we would not lie, cheat and steal so easily. It is not such a big slide to go from lesser offence to greater and greater ones. We can just take a look at police logs in our areas or do a personal and honest examination of our own consciences. Notice there are offenses on both sides of the register. Each one of us is guilty from time to time.
WHY?
Jiminy Cricket tells our children in the Walt Disney movie Pinocchio, to let their conscious be their guide. Even at a young age youth struggle with right and wrong, good and bad, a conscious decision is to be made that involves free will. This means each one of us has a choice.
Where does this inkling to darkness come from?
Take a moment to consider John 8:44 in the English Standard Version. What if Jesus actually meant what he said? “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Jesus also says this in the Second Revelation of James (brother of Jesus), “I tell you, listen and understand. For many when they hear, will be fainthearted, but you, understand in the way I can tell you. Your father is not my Father, but my Father has become a father to you.”
The Father of Jesus loved each one of us so much that Jesus was sent to us to show us the way, the way of Light and Love. In Luke 17:20-21, Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God won’t be ushered in with visible signs. You won’t be able to say, ‘It has begun here in this place or there in that part of the country.’ For the Kingdom of God is within you.”
This is mentioned in numerous times in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, as well as in today’s modern Bibles. There is no conflict with the Light of the Soul which is inside all human beings.
However, whatever grows within us is that which we focus on. This is where free will comes in. We can choose to go to war, or we can choose to focus on peaceful solution, greed or generosity, lack or abundance.
When enough people focus on war, greed, and lack, we get the reality of the seeds we have sown.
The good news is, we also have the Light of the Father of Jesus Christ within us when we awaken to our own Christed selves as Jesus taught us, that the Kingdom of God is within us. Let us never forget that.
How balanced is your life? Are you balanced between home, work, school, relationships and everything else? What are the signs to watch out for that you are out of balance? How do we get back into balance in our minds, bodies and spirits?
Picture a seesaw with one side up, the other side down and the fulcrum, that balance point between the two in the
Lever with globe of Earth and small ball. simple machines by Archimedes. lever is a machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge or fulcrum.
middle. Jesus Christ is the fulcrum of all of our lives. We choose whether to live with Him in our lives, or without Him; or with or without God His Father in our lives. The same goes for the Holy Spirit, the love of the Father and Son. We choose each day whether or not to include this Love on our lives. Without God in our lives, we are out of balance. We can remedy this situation.
We go out of balance each and every time God the Father, Jesus His Son, and Love of the Holy Spirit is not at the center of our lives. If we say we do not believe in God, or think there is no God, or God did not send Jesus to be our Lord and Savior, or think of Jesus as just another ascended master, we are ignorant of the reality that God in fact did just that.
Jesus Christ, Son of God Almighty, is the balance point in all of our lives, our true fulcrum. Each of us decides when enough is enough in our day-to-day living by the use of our God-given free will. The determining factor of who we are, what we believe, and what we will allow into our lives is all up to us in this life. But there is an unnecessary problem we create for ourselves when we exclude Jesus Christ, who came to earth to show us how to live in this world, presently ruined and ruled by Satan.
Think of this for a moment. After His baptism, Jesus was led out into the desert wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted there by Satan. For forty days and nights Jesus fasted. Then Satan tempted Him to get food by changing stones into loaves of bread.
Jesus answers, “No! For the Scriptures tell us that bread won’t feed men’s souls; obedience to the word of God is what we need.”
Then Satan took Jesus to Jerusalem to the roof of the Temple, and said, “Jump off and prove you are the Son of God …”
Jesus responds, “It also says not to put God to a foolish test.”
Lastly, Satan took Jesus to the peak of a very high mountain, and showed Him all the nations of the world and all their glory, and said to Him, “I’ll give it all to you, if you will only kneel and worship me.”
How could this last test of Jesus been a real temptation if Satan were not the real ruler of this world?
Would the temptation of Jesus in the desert after His baptism really have been a temptation if Satan were not the present ruler of this world? (Remember Satan and one-third of the angels in heaven were cast out of heaven and sent to earth. These are the fallen angels of old still with us today.) Jesus goes into the desert where Satan tempts Him that if Jesus would bow down before him, Satan would give him all the kingdoms of the earth.
Ironically, God the Father gifted Jesus His Son , to be king of the kingdom to come, after the demise and judgment of this world. The Father promises us a new heaven and a new earth in the Book of Revelation, with Jesus Christ as judge and king. Jesus is already sitting at the right hand of God. Every day we can choose to be included in this new kingdom to come by how we live each day of our lives right now. Presently we still have time to use our God-given free will to choose virtue over sin, or good over bad.
Jesus Christ, Son of God, remained faithful amid great temptations. How hungry are you and I after only missing a meal or a day or two of no food? Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights. He was most certainly at the point of starving, and still chose to do God’s will, not his own.
We get that same choice to make each and every day. Who’s will do we follow?
Sometimes we act as though we are not in charge of ourselves, or our government or situations like global warming or world peace. But everything we think, do and say show us if we are in, or out of balance, and what principles are important to us.
All of us in every country in the world, are at a tipping point of more people choosing bad over good, evil over good, or sin over virtue, not only in our own lives, but in the world at large. We can change this if we want to, but nothing will change unless we consciously decide to choose more good over bad, good over evil, or virtue over sin.
If money is the bottom line, as most people say these days as to what they determine to be the most important reason for decisions made, then humanity is doomed to fail, cities and states are doomed to fail, and the ecological health of the world will fail. In all cases, we can have all the money in the world and die of a disease; Flint, Michigan can have the biggest bank account to save money but unless money is spent to fix drinkable water there, the drinking water will remain toxic; and the world’s economy matters little when global warming is completed and the earth is no more.
There are many factors that affect our decisions, like greed, envy, sloth (laziness), lust, wrath (anger), gluttony and pride. We know these seven pitfalls as the seven deadly sins because they hurt us individually as well as collectively. Each of these negative, bad traits, which are sin, has a positive or good remedy, which is virtue.
Rather than be motivated by greed, we can think, speak and act generously. Perhaps money is not the bottom line after all.
Instead of envy we can practice genuine love.
To improve on sloth (laziness) we can take vitamins and invigorate our dreams, renew our goals, and begin yet again.
To combat the addiction to lust we can welcome purity and modesty in our thoughts, words and actions.
Addressing wrath and uncontrolled anger, a bad habit and often an addiction, requires taking a few deep breaths and allowing understanding, listening to others, improving communication and peaceful solutions to be possible. We may feel justified in our wrathful, renegade emotions, but unless we deal with them with integrity we may have regrets as time goes by.
The solution to gluttony is moderation in food and drink, or any other addiction we are over-indulging in.
Finally, the answer for pride is humility. Being proud of our accomplishments at a job well done is not a bad thing. The problem with pride arises when we go overboard, becoming vain, arrogant and haughty. We do not even like ourselves when we don this puffed up attitude, if we are being perfectly honest.
As strong as the negative traits, more accurately known as sins are, the positive virtues can become just as strong or stronger. It is simply a matter of focusing on good over bad, choosing good over evil, which means choosing virtue over sin. Practicing these seven virtues is one way we can make good shine in our lives.
Modern day thinkers would like us all to believe that there is no sin any more, that negative traits are merely mental, emotional and/or psychological shortcomings when in fact they are sins; calling sins “negative traits’ keeps us from addressing sins head on, complete with admission of fault, followed by forgiveness and mental, emotional and psychological relief.
What is wrong with the world starts with you and me, and the priorities we live by. You and I are each responsible for the conditions in our lives, our neighborhoods, cities and states, and in all countries in the world. Each day you and I get to decide for good, or for bad; for virtue or for sin. We each decide on this very day whether we will choose good over evil, evil over good or virtue over sin, or sin over virtue. We can build ourselves up or we can tear ourselves down. Likewise, we can tear our neighbors down or build them up; like tearing down or building up policies and actions that benefit the entire world.
Why does this matter?
It matters to you as an individual person to mature in integrity and honesty. It matters in order to create the neighborhoods we want to live in. It matters to stand up for the scientific facts that tell of how to fix broken systems in the world. Integrity and truth matter. It is not necessary to kill each other to make this happen. God the Father is Creator of it all.
Thinking of our failings only as bad habits or negative traits keeps us is a downward cycle of “that is just how I am.” But acknowledging our failures as sins, something we can repent and be forgiven for, gives us hope. We can make amends and repair the broken bridges we have broken in our relationships. Try as we might, we will sin before the night is through in our thoughts, words and actions today. We are not perfect. But we keep trying. God the Father will always forgive us, through the Love of Jesus our Savior, and the Love of the Holy Spirit. These are the gifts promised to us by Jesus. Each day we have this hope. There is always hope.
Isn’t it our own business how we live our lives?
Yes, it matters. Yes, it is our own business. The point is that we look at the world, then point fingers at what is wrong with it, when you and I are the snowball that started it all. There are things we can do to fix the problems of personal and global greed, envy, sloth (laziness), lust, wrath (anger), gluttony and pride, as mentioned above. We must start with ourselves if we want our countries to be better, for the sake of the world.
We have to start with the beginning of the problem, not just the middle or end of the problem.
Things never stay the same. Change is the only constant in life. Choosing good over bad, good over evil, or virtue over sin, however you look at it, will create a healthier, kinder, more humane world in which we all can live and thrive. This also creates a new beginning in our relationship with God, which might need our attention at this very moment.
Start right where you are.
Are you in government? Then make the most honest, best decisions you can for the life of all the people under your jurisdiction, and for the life of the planet, not just self interest. Otherwise, you can be the fulcrum that tips towards destruction not only of you personally, but the entire earth. We are very near tipping towards the point of no return. Presently this is possible to fix. Try to be part of the solution, not exacerbating the problem. Things never stay the same. You can be the instrument to save the world as opposed to demolishing it. Ask for God’s help, through the intercession of Jesus Christ, with all the Love the Holy Spirit has to give.
The same goes for the financial crisis erupting in all countries across the globe, and all other matters of importance. Remember this when things get so complicated we cannot see the forest for the trees, think PEOPLE BEFORE THINGS. To have balance, prioritize people by helping where and when you can over taking care of things. Financial matters are things. Things matter, but people matter more. Money is not always the answer for problems people have. Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.
Yes, it all matters. You matter.
Do not forget to include God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Love of the Holy Spirit in all your decisions for the best results possible.
All people matter, not only the rich, the top one percent of the wealthiest among us; not only the milky white people, but all people represented by the 203 countries including territories and protectorates of the United States of America, most of which are not milky white. God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, created Jesus His Son as His first Creation before any and everything else, in which Jesus helped to Create every other Creation known to us. We were all Created in Love, and with free will.
We live in a global society. Our friends and families live all over the world. The planes we fly land in most all countries in this one world we share.
We are one race, the human race, here on this planet.
Education matters. Are you in education? Encourage your students/children with critical thinking skills in order that they include compassion and common sense as a problem solving process they can work with, including not mindlessly following the mistakes of some of the prejudiced generations before them. Show them by example how we all can be better people. Pray again. Pray through Jesus Christ, in the Love of the Holy Spirit, to the Father of All Creation, for the minds of all of humanity to continue to grow and learn as we were intended to grow and learn.
Educators, how do you handle bullying, hungry students, students at risk, students compromised in a wide variety of situations, and students standing up for themselves? Education is a priority in every person, family, neighborhood, state and country for the success of the world. Teachers are the shining light, the good that can help so many students in need of empathy, compassion, and understanding to be better citizens of the world. Never stop praying, through the intercession of Jesus Christ, who Himself endured numerous injustices and bullying in this world.
However we think of it, and whatever we think about, we bring about. Let’s make the world a beautiful place to live, within ourselves, with our families and friends, neighborhoods, states, countries and the entire world. Let us include God our heavenly Father, Jesus Christ His Son and our brother, and the Love of the Holy Spirit in our greater families since that is truly what we are, one global family.
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