Monday, April 29, 2019

There are No Limits

I wrote this years ago....

"Emotion and hope are as essential to life as the air we breathe.  Without mental, emotional and spiritual growth as individuals or as the human race we are suicidal.  I believe God has blessed us with love and therefore, the ability to grow.  The discipline over choosing positive paths despite evil is necessary to our survival and because of the love instilled within us, we chose our path of growth.

Our paradox is - innocence or pure love must be with complete knowledge and to know is infinite.  Our evolution is limited by what we think we know.  Our limited knowledge is reflected in our behavior.  Therefore, studying our behavior or systems based on current knowledge imposes limits.  How can we evolve when God's limits are infinite and we are confined by our mental and emotional limits?

There are no limits.

There is love."

Elizabeth Winchester

The Time is Now - An Expansion of the Mind and Spirit

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
     Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

"Great spirits meet violent opposition from mediocre minds."  
      Albert Einstein


Based upon my experience I know the following to be true  I do not have a mental illness.    I have a gift that needs to be released, not a spirit to be broken.  My experiences are an expansion of my mind and spirit.
  • I am aware of other realities in the deeper order of things.
  • I can intuit the intent of others by the presence of positive or negative energy.
  • I experience shared thoughts and energy which I call knowing.
  • My brain is capable of rapid analysis of pathways and outcomes.
  • I am a conduit of energy both positive and negative.  
  • I have the ability to absorb and process negative energy into positive energy which drains my ability to emit positive energy. 
  • When I feel deeply loved, I can radiate immense positive energy into the Noosphere.
  • I am extraordinarily creative.
  • I have experienced spiritual singularity.
Realty can be transformed by not only our thoughts resulting in actions, but also solely by our thoughts and emotions.  Einstein said the reality (thoughts) we focus on, is the reality we create.   When we view mental experiences outside a set of prescribed norms as pathological, we fail to see that these experiences are actually breakthroughs of the mind and spirit.   My dream is to open doors for those  spirits who are locked within their minds.  We are in an inflection point in humanity.  We must go universal in spirit or humanity will not survive this century.  The time is NOW.   

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

The Four Movements of the Eucharist - To Be Broken

Definition of broken The Free Dictionary

1. Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured: a broken arm; broken glass.
2. Sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion of a parent or parents: children from broken homes; a broken marriage.
3. Having been violated: a broken promise.
4. Subdued totally; humbled: a broken spirit.
5. Weakened and infirm: broken health.
6. Crushed by grief: died of a broken heart.

Dr. Hsin hsin Huang, a spiritual advisor and counselor, gave a wonderful presentation of the four movements of the Eucharist. Her symbolism and analogies were beautiful especially in her descriptions of the process of becoming bread and wine.   I had never heard of communion described this way.  Her website can be found at www.Hsinhsinhuang.com. 

She said the four movements of the Eucharist are:

  1. The taking of the bread (hospitality and sharing with others).
  2. The blessing of the bread (receiving the bread as a gift).
  3. Breaking the bread (to become open out of brokenness).
  4. To eat and drink (the process of taking it in).
In our small group discussion during Magis, we discussed brokenness.  To be truly open to God, we must experience brokenness.  Why?  Because we owe our life to God.  This life on Earth as humans is a gift to feel, hear, see and experience the wonders of creation.  Until we recognize our vulnerability and our dependence on God for our life, we will never experience the full joy of the gift he has given us.  In the process of breaking, we are emptying ourselves out so that God can enter in and we can become whole.

However, sometimes others are completely broken because they have been so evilly violated, the process of fully healing that can restore joy and hope cannot occur.  The best we can do is to walk with that individual in love as they pass through into the next life to be fully healed by God and work to see it never happens to another. 






The Six Levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs


In a wonderful presentation by Dr. Hsin Hsin Huang at the Ignatian Magis Program on Saturday, she discussed Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  Maslow's theory taught in psychology is that humans have five levels of needs starting with physiological needs.
1. Physiological needs
2. Safety needs
3. Social belonging
4. Self-esteem
5. Self-actualization

In later years, Maslow added a sixth level - transcendence which is the need for surrender to God.  "Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos" (Farther Reaches of Human Nature, New York 1971, p. 269).

I believe we are both human and spirit possessing not only our human gifts from God, but a soul which resides within us in this temporal space and time, but is eternal.  To be eternal is to be neither in past or future, but always with God in the present.   When we reach the sixth level, we recognize we are spirits first and humans second.  We transcend our humanity to become one with each other and God in spirit.

Ignatian Prayer

"Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God."  Billy Graham

I participate in a small group called Raise the Bar that meets twice a month to discuss topics related to spirituality and community.  It was started by a group of parishioners at Trinity UCC in Belleville.  At each meeting, a group member leads us through a discussion of prepared questions.   Last night's topic was prayer.   The questions posed included what is prayer, how to pray, and what to pray.   As the discussion evolved, the group defined prayer as any conversation with God and that if we consider God, who is love, in our actions, our actions become a prayer.   The group also felt that even if we are not praying, God is listening to our hearts.

In my prayer journal I no longer ask for specific outcomes.  Instead I ask for strength, wisdom, love, and peace for myself and others.  The Ignatian prayer life has taught me that each one of us has been granted unique gifts (talents) by God and that within us is placed a dream.  When we work hard to strengthen our skills consistent with our gifts, make choices out of love for God and others, be open to other paths, work towards our dream, and then release the outcome to God, we can reveal the Kingdom of God on Earth. In this way we find peace knowing God is at work in this life and the life to come.   This is what Jesus meant when he said the Kingdom of Earth is near.  




Sunday, February 17, 2019

A Symbol Changes Meaning (Revelation) - A Pathway to Spiritual Singularity

1. A symbol changes meaning based on the creator, the viewer, and a point in time.
2. Symbols allow us to process multiple pathways (meanings) simultaneously.
3. Symbols have ancient meanings.  The symbol itself does not hold the energy, but rather the pathways created while focusing on the symbol.  Therefore, some ancient symbols such as the circle and the cross create powerful energy pathways.
4. Changing symbols can disrupt the energy pathways positively or negatively.
5. Everything is both energy and matter.
6. When matter changes, energy changes. When energy changes, matter changes.
7. God is in matter but is not matter.  Matter is in God but is not God.
8. God is the loving movement which remains unseen except by faith.
9. When a human is physically, emotionally or mentally violated (assaulted), their field of energy is diminished.
10. When a human is loved physically and emotionally their field of energy expands.
11. A field of energy is not isolated to our physical body.  Our energy is integrated with our surroundings.
12. Energy is made known through consciousness.
13. As in physics, our consciousness is aware of changes in the energy field caused by another’s consciousness, even if there is no direct cause (way) of knowing.
14. Attacks or acts of love can manifest physically (creation of symbols and synchronicity) even if there is no visible connection.
15. Our shared consciousness is what Einstein believed is the collective reality we focus on.
16. Using symbols, multiple realities can be created (storylines or themes) that we are connected while staying rooted to a sensory based reality based on reason (scientific method) to align our consciousness to our environment consciously and unconsciously.
17. The “Unus Mundus” is the deeper order of things that resides in the unconscious that we become conscious of by the hand of God.
18. Spiritual warfare is the battle for a shared reality – one based on love of God and others and the other based on fear and power over others.
19. By aligning our thoughts, symbols and actions based on love we take our movement from God.
20. Ignatius of Loyola taught the Spiritual Exercises, so we would know how to take direction from God while detecting false direction from the enemy.
21. What we focus our energy or our consciousness towards becomes our reality.
22. As we move toward higher consciousness, we will be able to consciously share each other’s energy and thoughts.  Many empaths already have the ability although the scientific community does not recognize it because it is experiential not observable.   We know how an atom behaves, but we don’t know what an atom can experience.
23. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin theorized that a growing consciousness of human energy consisting of our conscious thoughts and emotions called the Noosphere is enveloping Earth.  As humans reach a higher consciousness based on love, spiritual singularity will be reached.
24. When spiritual singularity is reached (transcendence of the mind), all that is not of God (love) or is sin will be wiped from consciousness shared by the body of Christ.
25. This will result in the ability to transform matter into energy and back again escaping the reality of our mortal existence in this temporal plain.




Monday, January 28, 2019

The Divine Milieu and The Noosphere

"The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold"  Psalm 18:12

"The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing."  Proverbs 10:28

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."  Genesis 31

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote both of the Divine Milieu and the Noosphere.  The Divine Milieu is an energy field that encompasses all intangible (thoughts and emotions) and tangible (matter) in the Cosmos.  The Noosphere is a growing field of consciousness that is enveloping the Earth that Louis Savary refers to the "collective mind and spirit" of Earth.   The Noosphere contains all information, thought and emotions generated by humans. The noosphere is also the supernatural body of Christ as our hands are physical body of Christ.  Teilhard envisioned this consciousness as evolving to a loving energy shared by all humans.

What Louis Savary does not write about in the New Spiritual Exercises is that the consciousness known as the Noosphere we are forming has both negative energy and positive energy generated from our thoughts, information, and emotions.  Love and fear not only manifest in physical acts, but contribute to the Noosphere.  Both the positive and negative energy in the Noosphere can affect an individual consciousness as well as the collective.  As in the energy focused in prayer can heal others, negative energy can also be consciously directed at others.  Positive energy generated through love and joy expands the Noosphere.  Hate and fear contract the Noosphere and target those who generate love.

However, what the enemy that generates hate and fear does not want you to know, is that the love of God and each other cannot be overcome and there is nothing to fear because Jesus' love is your joy and protection.  As Teilhard wrote we are on an upward path that sometimes cycles downward before resuming upward. The truth is that the Divine Milieu, consists mostly of the unconscious which is God filled with love and positive energy.  The enemy seeks to dominate our conscious thoughts in an attempt to convince us creation is not good and that we will fail.  But this is not reflective of the true nature of creation.  Jesus with his death on the cross unleashed a powerful force of love into the Noosphere symbolized by the tearing of the curtain in the temple   Jesus is the way (love), the truth (knowing), and the life (eternal).