Sharing Love and Life

 FIRST SHARING

This comes from Tom.

“One night during the two weeks of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, an all-night vigil was held in an outdoor amphitheater, during which the representatives of dozens of different religions came up on stage one-at-a-time and gave a prayer or a short song or chant of their choice, in their language and tradition.  I was sitting with a friend I traveled with to the Earth Summit.  As soon as the first representative of a religion came on stage, I saw violet light in my vision, eyes open and looking at the person on stage.  Then I was filled with what I would call a “love vibration” that caused me to break out into tears for the person on stage.  I could feel a vibration throughout my body, and I could hear words in my heart that said something like this:  ‘Thank you for everything you have done with your religion.  You have nothing to be ashamed of or regret.  You did the very best you could have done with what you knew over these many years, but now your time as a religion will be coming to an end.  This is not a negative end, but one of thankfulness and new awareness.  I was quietly sobbing by this time, and then the next representative of a religion came on stage and I went through basically the same process again, for hours for each of the dozens of religions.  My friend just sat quietly and supported me, since she wasn’t sure what was happening or why I was crying.

“It was the most emotional and vibrational and light-filled experience I have had, and I try to remember it so that I forgive what has been done in the wake of any of the religions, knowing that they did their best and that sometime in the future they may not exist as religions in the same way, or at all.  Well, that is my little story.  I don’t mean to imply that it has importance for the whole world, but it is simply what I experience.”...Tom 

SECOND SHARING

This one is from Julia.

“I did!  I got goosebumps when I read your question about seeing things before birth.  I saw the umbilical cord.  I had told my family this, but they said it was impossible, so for years I had chalked this up to a dream.  But it looked similar to when your eyes are closed and you are faced towards the sun.  It was that color red.  There was a long dark red shape floating in front of me.  I remember wanting to grab it, but I couldn’t.  I think maybe I didn’t know how to work my body yet, because after I tried again, it shifted and another piece of it floated in my view.  It looked like two but I think I just didn’t see where they were connected.

“Also, when I was three I remember telling my family I was never a baby.  I knew I had been younger, but I was trying to explain I had never been helpless, unable to understand the world around me.  I had always been me and so I argued with them about it.  The problem was, if I had been a baby, that meant I had been born, or ‘started’ life and that didn’t make sense to me because I instinctively knew I WAS life.  When they showed me my baby pictures, I gained a fear of death, but it took years of philosophy, research, and in-depth introspection to overcome this.

“One last thing, my mother also had premonitions.  She believed a lot of what I had to say, and was especially interested in my dreams.  She typed some out, but they are since gone.  She knew she wouldn’t live to 40 years old (she often told my older sister) and she passed three months before her 30th birthday.  She was one we both had predicted.

“Let me tell you, you are a light in a dark world.  I can’t wait to read and chat on your blog.  Thank you so much.”....Julia

Is There an Escape Clause in Karmic Destiny?

Question 

“I have an interesting question for you but first some info. Someone I know has gotten into trying to get enlightened in the past year or so, and I have come to realize that it is because she has some really negative stuff she has been dealing with all her life. Her husband was shot to death in front of her when she was still pregnant with her only son. She was young.

“What she has come to completely believe is that IF she can (at 67 years of age) become enlightened, then she won’t have to ever reincarnate on Earth again! Many people are getting into this, I feel. In other words, did the creator of all that is put in an escape clause in your karmic destiny which we call enlightenment?

“One supposed master I have read said that, once you become enlightened, you must come back seven more lifetimes as a teacher. Michael Newton’s two books, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, says that we decide on every main event in our lives BEFORE we incarnate! Michael is a clinical hypnotist and has taken 100s of people ‘between’ lives to see what they say and they ALL say pretty much the same things.

“Also, from thinking about all of this, what if it’s true? She’s right! We don’t have to come back. BUT what if your incarnations on Earth - are like grammar school and then you move on to some much more challenging experiences? Given all that, I’m wondering if you have any feedback about any of this from your experiences and from interviewing over 4,000 NDErs?

“Thank you for your work and your time!”....Rick

ANSWER 

No one can give final exacts, because there are always glitches, exceptions, surprises, and unexpected turn-arounds.

Certainly, we can learn a great deal from adepts, avatars, and enlightened ones from throughout the ages. Their wisdom aids in our growth and comforts us when life turns in directions not expected. A wellspring of wisdom has built up overtime from this. We sense it, we know it, we connect with it… whenever we open up our hearts and quiet our minds. That’s what meditation and prayer are for, enabling us to obtain that quiet place where the “all” resides. We can also reach a quiet place of such knowledge whenever we walk in a forest, splash on a seashore, enjoy ourselves in that font of living truth nature provides. It’s there - all knowledge, all truth - all around us, everywhere. The key to opening its “door” runs exactly counter to our present-day life. We’re noisy, rushing, competing, trying, pushing, doing everything we can to avoid “wasting time.” Did you know that the number one fear of the majority of people born since round 1982. . . is silence? Oft-said, “It is in silence that you save your soul.” Think about that.

Because we skirt silence, because we seem no longer willing to read, learn, experience for ourselves - - - we fall victim to the latest “expert” on what life is for and what happens to us after death, and how we can alter the program. A desperate person will listen to anything. Truth to them is what everyone else says is truth.

Don’t get me wrong here, there are indeed Universal Laws that work, no matter who you are or what you think. But it’s how those Laws are bent to satisfy a moment’s needs is where we get in trouble. I am very familiar with Michael Newton’s work. It’s good but it’s not gospel, and it’s not bias free. You could pretty much say that of any epic “channeling” or psychic-based discourse. They are all good, we can learn from them. . . still, keep the door to your mind open. The teaching’s of the world’s great religions are fantastic - yet each one has “holes” in it a mile long.

Is there a source without error? Yes. What you learn from unselfishly, openly, fully, giving of self to serve others. What you learn from wholly and without reservation, loving another who is open to your love and willing with you to be “born again.”

You see the power of this again and again with the near-death phenomenon and with those who have undergone an intense spiritual transformation. . . YET, IT IS THE PATTERN OF AFTEREFFECTS THAT VALIDATE THE EXPERIENCE, not the other way around!!!

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Shortcuts lead one back to the starting line. What you thought was a quick fix, actually doubled the terrain you needed to cover.

Commendations, rewards, transformations. . .come to us, not from us. If there was ever proof of this it is in the hundreds of thousands, millions of cases of near-death experiences from adults and children across the world. What we often think is true, we find out wasn’t.

I live my life according to the Russian proverb that says: “Trust, but verify.” I would add to that, “then pray.” Answers to questions are always at the next highest level. This means quite simply: answers to questions can never be found at the level the question was asked.

Be careful of what others say is true. Test it out. Verify. Then test again. (This is the central theme of A Manual for Developing Humans.)

Hope this helps, PMH