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The Fragrance of the Osmanthus

A commoner ask a Zen master, “What is the profound mystery of Zen?”
The Zen master answered, ” The Analects of Confucius say: ‘I have concealed nothing from you’. In Zen, nothing is also hidden from you.”
“I still do not understand”, replied the commoner with his confused face.
“Come with me for a walk at the back of the mountain….”, invited the master.
After few minutes walk, the master ask, “Did you smell the fragrance of the osmanthus?”
“No”, the commoner answered plainly.
“In that case, i have not hidden anything from you”, explained the master.

Live in the now and insight is there before you. Be aware of each and every moment of your life. Every night is then like the joy of springtime and everyday is good day.

It is not to learn but to remember, not to search but to realize

Harum Bunga Osmanthus

Seorang awam bertanya kepada seorang guru Zen, “Guru, apakah misteri terdalam dari Zen?”
Sang guru menjawab, “Analects dari Konfusius berkata: ‘Saya tidak menyembunyikan apapun dari kamu.’ Dalam Zen juga demikian, tidak ada yang disembunyikan dari kamu.”
“Saya masih belum mengerti”, balas sang orang awam dengan muka bingung.
“Mari berjalan dengan saya dibelakang gunung…”, ajak sang guru.
Setelah beberapa menit berjalan, sang guru bertanya, “Apakah kamu mencium bau wangi bunga osmanthus?”
“Tidak”, jawab sang orang awam dengan polos.
“Bila demikian, saya pun tidak menyembunyikan apapun dari kamu”, kata sang guru.

Bukan untuk belajar, tapi untuk mengingat kembali, bukan untuk menggapai tetapi untuk menemukan kembali.

Sister and Brotherly Love

Source: Real Story, Anonymous

I was born in a far village by the side of the mountains. Day by day, my parents plow the dry yellow soil with their backs facing the sky. I have a brother, three years younger than me. At one time, just to buy a hanker chief, in which at those times all the girls around me have one of their own, i stole 50 cents from my dad’s locker. Dad eventually realized it very soon. He made me and my brother kneel down facing the wall, with a thick bamboo stick in his hand. “Who stole the money?” he asked. I froze dead with fear, too afraid even to move a muscle. Dad didn’t hear anybody confessing, so he said, “Fine, if that is so, both of you shall be punished!” He raised the bamboo stick highly from above getting ready to strike us. Suddenly, my brother grabbed his hand and said, “Dad, i was the one who did it!”

That long thick stick then stuck his body countless times. Dad was so furious that he kept on whipping it on him until dad ran out of breath.
Afterwards, he sat on our red bed of bricks and scolded, “You have learnt committing theft in this very house now, what other disgracing deeds would you commit later in the future? You deserved to be hit to death! You shameless thief!
That night, mom and me embraced brother in our hugs. In that middle of the night, i suddenly started crying. My brother shut my mouth with his small hand and whispered softly, “Sis, don’t cry anymore. It all had passed.”

I still always hate myself for not having enough courage to step forward confessing my crime. Many years had passed, but that incident still felt to me like yesterday. I would never forget that look on my brother when he protected me. At that time, my little brother was 8 at age, and me 11.

When my brother was in his last year of the junior high school, he graduated well to proceed to prefectural senior high school. At that same night, i was accepted to enter a provincial university. That night, my dad sitting on the backyard, taking his tobacco pack, one by one. I heard him grunted, “Our two children had very good results…such good results…” Mom wiped her tears and drew his breath, “What is it use for? How could we afford to support them both at the same time?” Right at that time, my brother walked out towards dad and mom, and said, “Dad, i don’t want to continue my school anymore, i have read enough books.” Dad swinged his heavy arm and hit my brother straight at the face. “Where did you get such a damn shit weak spirit from? Even if it requires me to beg money at the streets, i shall school you both until the end!” And so he knocked every house in the village to borrow some money. I drew my hand as gently as i could towards my brother’s swollen cheek, “A boy must continue his schooling; or else he would never leave this valley of poverty.”

Me, on the other hand, had decided not to continue to university. Who could expect at the next day, before dawn, my brother had left home with some of his old clothes and few dry nuts. He slipped to my bed and left me a note:”Sis, to enter a university is not easy. I will go find work and send you money.” I hold that paper on my bed, and cried endless tears till i almost lost my voice. At that year, my brother aged 17, and i was 20. With all the money that my father had borrowed from the whole village, and the hard earned money that my brother earned from moving bags of cement here and there at a construction site, i finally reached my third year at the university.

One day, i was studying at my room, when my roommate entered and told me, “There is a villager waiting for you outside there!” Why would a villager look for me? I walked out and saw my brother from afar, his whole body was dirty covered with cement ashes and dust. I asked him, “Why didn’t you tell my roommate that you are my brother?” He replied, smiling, “Look how bad i looked. What would they think of you if they find out that i am your brother? Wouldn’t they laugh at you?” I felt so touched and my eyes started to get wet of tears. I wiped off the dust and dirts from my brother’s clothings and said, “I don’t care what others say! You are my brother no matter what! You are my brother no matter how you look…” From his pocket, he drew out a hair clip shaped of butterfly. He wore it to me, then explained, “I saw all city’s girls wearing it. So i think you should also have one.” I couldn’t hold myself much longer. I pulled him to my hug and cried on him. At that year, he was 20 years old, i was 23.

At the very first time i brought home my boyfriend, the broken shattered window was replaced, and everywhere in the house seemed cleaned by then. After my boyfriend went home, i danced like a little girl in front of my mom, “Mom, we don’t need to spend so much time like this to clean our house!”

But she said, smiling, “It was your brother who went home earlier to clean the whole house. Didn’t you see the scar on his hand? He was injured fixing the new window glass…” I went in to my brother’s little room. Seeing his skinny thin face, i felt like a thousand needles stroke through me. I put on some healing oil on his injury and bandaged his wound. “Did it hurt?” I asked him. “No, no, its not. You know, when i worked at the construction site, stones would roll and fall to my feet at every time. Even it didn’t stop me from working and…” At that middle of the sentence, he stopped. I turned back my face and body away from him, shedding unstoppable tears from my heart. At that time, my brother was 23, i was 26.

When i got married, i lived at the city. Many times my husband and i invited my parents to come and live with us, but they never want to. They said, once they leave the village, they don’t know what else to do. My brother disagreed as well, saying, “Sis, just take care of your parents-in-law. I will take care of dad and mom here.” My husband became the director of his factory. We wanted my brother to get job as the manager at the factory in maintainance section, but my brother refused the offer.

He stubbornly started his work as repairman. One day, my brother was on a ladder to fix a cable, when he got an electric shock, and was hospitalized. My husband and i went visiting him. Seeing the white bandages all over his his feet, i complained, “Why did you refused to be a manager? Manager doesn’t have to do such dangerous things like this. Look at you now, such a serious injury. Why didn’t you listened to us before?”

With a serious look on his face, he justified himself, “Think about my brother-in-law, he just became a new director at that time, and i am almost uneducated. If i was hired as manager like that, what kind of bad impact he would have on his reputation?” My husband’s eyes was also filled with tears, then i said in my cry, “But you were uneducated was also because of me!” “Why talk about the past?” My brother grabbed my hand. That year, he was 26 and i was 29. My brother was then 30 years old when he married the daughter of a farmer of the village. In his wedding, the mc asked him, “Who do you respect most and you love most?” Without even thinking, he answered, “My sister.”

He continued telling back of a story that even i could hardly recall. “When i was in primary school, the school was at different village. Every day my sister and i would walk for two hours to get to school and to return home from school. One day, i lost one of my glove. My sister gave one of hers to me. She just wore one and walked that far. When we reached home, her hand shivered so much of the very cold winter that she could not hold her chopsticks properly. Since that day, i swore, for as long as i live, i shall take care of my sister and be good to her.”

Applauses flooded the hall. Every guest then drew their attention to me. Very difficult words i said out of my mouth, ” In my life, the person i am most grateful of is my brother.” And in this most happy moment, tears flooded from my eyes like river.

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Kasih Sayang Kakak dan Adik

Sumber: Kisah Nyata

Aku dilahirkan di sebuah dusun pegunungan yang sangat terpencil. Hari demi hari, orang tuaku membajak tanah kering kuning, dan punggung mereka menghadap ke langit. Aku mempunyai seorang adik, tiga tahun lebih muda dariku. Suatu ketika, untuk membeli sebuah sapu tangan yang mana semua gadis di sekelilingku kelihatannya membawanya, aku mencuri lima puluh sen dari laci ayahku. Ayah segera menyadarinya. Beliau membuat adikku dan aku berlutut di depan tembok, dengan sebuah tongkat bambu di tangannya. “Siapa yang mencuri uang itu?” Beliau bertanya. Aku terpaku, terlalu takut untuk berbicara. Ayah tidak mendengar siapa pun mengaku, jadi Beliau mengatakan, “Baiklah, kalau begitu, kalian berdua layak dipukul!” Dia mengangkat tongkat bambu itu tinggi-tinggi. Tiba-tiba, adikku mencengkeram tangannya dan berkata, “Ayah, aku yang melakukannya!”

Tongkat panjang itu menghantam punggung adikku bertubi-tubi. Ayah begitu marahnya sehingga ia terus-menerus mencambukinya sampai Beliau kehabisan nafas.

Sesudahnya, Beliau duduk di atas ranjang batu bata kami dan memarahi, “Kamu sudah belajar mencuri dari rumah sekarang, hal memalukan apa lagi yang akan kamu lakukan di masa mendatang? Kamu layak dipukul sampai mati! Kamu pencuri tidak tahu malu!” Malam itu, ibu dan aku memeluk adikku dalam pelukan kami. Tubuhnya penuh dengan luka, tetapi ia tidak menitikkan air mata setetes pun. Di pertengahan malam itu, saya tiba-tiba mulai menangis meraung-raung. Adikku menutup mulutku dengan tangan kecilnya dan berkata, “Kak, jangan menangis lagi sekarang. Semuanya sudah terjadi.”

Aku masih selalu membenci diriku karena tidak memiliki cukup keberanian untuk maju mengaku. Bertahun-tahun telah lewat, tapi insiden tersebut masih kelihatan seperti baru kemarin. Aku tidak pernah akan lupa tampang adikku ketika ia melindungiku. Waktu itu, adikku berusia 8 tahun. Aku berusia 11.

Ketika adikku berada pada tahun terakhirnya di SMP, ia lulus untuk masuk ke SMA di pusat kabupaten. Pada saat yang sama, saya diterima untuk masuk ke sebuah universitas propinsi. Malam itu, ayah berjongkok di halaman, menghisap rokok tembakaunya, bungkus demi bungkus. Saya mendengarnya memberengut, “Kedua anak kita memberikan hasil yang begitu baik… hasil yang begitu baik…” Ibu mengusap air matanya yang mengalir dan menghela nafas, “Apa gunanya? Bagaimana mungkin kita bisa membiayai keduanya sekaligus?” Saat itu juga, adikku berjalan keluar ke hadapan ayah dan berkata, “Ayah, saya tidak mau melanjutkan sekolah lagi, telah cukup membaca banyak buku. ” Ayah mengayunkan tangannya dan memukul adikku pada wajahnya. “Mengapa kau mempunyai jiwa yang begitu keparat lemahnya? Bahkan jika berarti saya mesti mengemis di jalanan saya akan menyekolahkan kamu berdua sampai selesai!” Dan begitu kemudian ia mengetuk setiap rumah di dusun itu untuk meminjam uang. Aku menjulurkan tanganku selembut yang aku bisa ke muka adikku yang membengkak, dan berkata, “Seorang anak laki-laki harus meneruskan sekolahnya; kalau tidak ia tidak akan pernah meninggalkan jurang kemiskinan ini.”

Aku, sebaliknya, telah memutuskan untuk tidak lagi meneruskan ke universitas.Siapa sangka keesokan harinya, sebelum subuh datang, adikku meninggalkan rumah dengan beberapa helai pakaian lusuh dan sedikit kacang yang sudah mengering. Dia menyelinap ke samping ranjangku dan meninggalkan secarik kertas di atas bantalku: “Kak, masuk ke universitas tidaklah mudah. Saya akan pergi mencari kerja dan mengirimimu uang.” Aku memegang kertas tersebut di atas tempat tidurku, dan menangis dengan air mata bercucuran sampai suaraku hilang. Tahun itu, adikku berusia 17 tahun. Aku 20. Dengan uang yang ayahku pinjam dari seluruh dusun, dan uang yang adikku hasilkan dari mengangkut semen pada punggungnya di lokasi konstruksi, aku akhirnya sampai ke tahun ketiga (di universitas).

Suatu hari, aku sedang belajar di kamarku, ketika teman sekamarku masuk dan memberitahukan, “Ada seorang penduduk dusun menunggumu di luar sana! “Mengapa ada seorang penduduk dusun mencariku? Aku berjalan keluar, dan melihat adikku dari jauh, seluruh badannya kotor tertutup debu semen dan pasir. Aku menanyakannya, “Mengapa kamu tidak bilang pada teman sekamarku kamu adalah adikku?” Dia menjawab, tersenyum, “Lihat bagaimana penampilanku. Apa yang akan mereka pikir jika mereka tahu saya adalah adikmu? Apa mereka tidak akan menertawakanmu?” Aku merasa terenyuh, dan air mata memenuhi mataku. Aku menyapu debu-debu dari adikku semuanya, dan tersekat-sekat dalam kata-kataku, “Aku tidak perduli omongan siapa pun! Kamu adalah adikku apa pun juga!

Kamu adalah adikku bagaimana pun penampilanmu…” Dari sakunya, ia mengeluarkan sebuah jepit rambut berbentuk kupu-kupu. Ia memakaikannya kepadaku, dan terus menjelaskan, “Saya melihat semua gadis kota memakainya. Jadi saya pikir kamu juga harus memiliki satu.” Aku tidak dapat menahan diri lebih lama lagi. Aku menarik adikku ke dalam pelukanku dan menangis dan menangis. Tahun itu, ia berusia 20. Aku 23.

Kali pertama aku membawa pacarku ke rumah, kaca jendela yang pecah telah diganti, dan kelihatan bersih di mana-mana. Setelah pacarku pulang, aku menari seperti gadis kecil di depan ibuku. “Bu, ibu tidak perlu menghabiskan begitu banyak waktu untuk membersihkan rumah kita!”

Tetapi katanya, sambil tersenyum, “Itu adalah adikmu yang pulang awal untuk
membersihkan rumah ini. Tidakkah kamu melihat luka pada tangannya? Ia terluka ketika memasang kaca jendela baru itu..” Aku masuk ke dalam ruangan kecil adikku. Melihat mukanya yang kurus, seratus jarum terasa menusukku. Aku mengoleskan sedikit saleb pada lukanya dan mebalut lukanya. “Apakah itu sakit?” Aku menanyakannya. “Tidak, tidak sakit. Kamu tahu, ketika saya bekerja di lokasi konstruksi, batu-batu berjatuhan pada kakiku setiap waktu. Bahkan itu tidak menghentikanku bekerja dan…” Ditengah kalimat itu ia berhenti. Aku membalikkan tubuhku memunggunginya, dan air mata mengalir deras turun ke wajahku.

Tahun itu, adikku 23. Aku berusia 26.

Ketika aku menikah, aku tinggal di kota. Banyak kali suamiku dan aku mengundang orang tuaku untuk datang dan tinggal bersama kami, tetapi mereka tidak pernah mau. Mereka mengatakan, sekali meninggalkan dusun, mereka tidak akan tahu harus mengerjakan apa. Adikku tidak setuju juga, mengatakan, “Kak, jagalah mertuamu aja. Saya akan menjaga ibu dan ayah di sini.” Suamiku menjadi direktur pabriknya. Kami menginginkan adikku mendapatkan pekerjaan sebagai manajer pada departemen pemeliharaan. Tetapi adikku menolak tawaran tersebut.

Ia bersikeras memulai bekerja sebagai pekerja reparasi. Suatu hari, adikku di atas sebuah tangga untuk memperbaiki sebuah kabel, ketika ia mendapat sengatan listrik, dan masuk rumah sakit. Suamiku dan aku pergi menjenguknya. Melihat gips putih pada kakinya, saya menggerutu, “Mengapa kamu menolak menjadi manajer? Manajer tidak akan pernah harus melakukan sesuatu yang berbahaya seperti ini. Lihat kamu sekarang, luka yang begitu serius. Mengapa kamu tidak mau mendengar kami sebelumnya?”

Dengan tampang yang serius pada wajahnya, ia membela keputusannya. “Pikirkan kakak ipar–ia baru saja jadi direktur, dan saya hampir tidak berpendidikan. Jika saya menjadi manajer seperti itu, berita seperti apa yang akan dikirimkan?” Mata suamiku dipenuhi air mata, dan kemudian keluar kata-kataku yang sepatah-sepatah, “Tapi kamu kurang pendidikan juga karena aku!” “Mengapa membicarakan masa lalu?” Adikku menggenggam tanganku. Tahun itu, ia berusia 26 dan aku 29. Adikku kemudian berusia 30 ketika ia menikahi seorang gadis petani dari dusun itu. Dalam acara pernikahannya, pembawa acara perayaan itu bertanya kepadanya, “Siapa yang paling kamu hormati dan kasihi?” Tanpa bahkan berpikir ia menjawab, “Kakakku.”

Ia melanjutkan dengan menceritakan kembali sebuah kisah yang bahkan tidak dapat kuingat. “Ketika saya pergi sekolah SD, ia berada pada dusun yang berbeda. Setiap hari kakakku dan saya berjalan selama dua jam untuk pergi ke sekolah dan pulang ke rumah. Suatu hari, saya kehilangan satu dari sarung tanganku. Kakakku memberikan satu dari kepunyaannya. Ia hanya memakai satu saja dan berjalan sejauh itu. Ketika kami tiba di rumah, tangannya begitu gemetaran karena cuaca yang begitu dingin sampai ia tidak dapat memegang sumpitnya. Sejak hari itu, saya bersumpah, selama saya masih hidup, saya akan menjaga kakakku dan baik kepadanya.”

Tepuk tangan membanjiri ruangan itu. Semua tamu memalingkan perhatiannya kepadaku. Kata-kata begitu susah kuucapkan keluar bibirku, “Dalam hidupku, orang yang paling aku berterima kasih adalah adikku.” Dan dalam kesempatan yang paling berbahagia ini, di depan kerumunan perayaan ini, air mata bercucuran turun dari wajahku seperti sungai.

Sourced from: iloveulove

 

An Invitation to Change the World
Spiritual arrogance is killing us, according to this latest conversation with God.

By Neale Donald Walsch
Excerpt from “The New Revelations”

God, please be here. We need help.

I am here.

We need help.

I know.

Right now.

I understand.

The world is on the brink of disaster. And I’m not talking about natural disaster; I’m talking about man-made calamity.

I know. And you’re right.

I mean, humans have had disagreements before, and serious ones, but now our divisions and disagreements can lead not simply to wars — which are bad enough — but to the end of civilization as we know it.

That is correct. You have assessed the situation correctly.

You understand the severity of the problem; you simply do not understand the nature of the problem. You do not know what is causing it. So you keep trying to solve it at every level except the level at which it exists.

Which is?

The level of belief.

The problem facing the world today is a spiritual problem.

Your ideas about spirituality are killing you.

You keep trying to solve the world’s problem as if it were a political problem, or an economic problem, or even a military problem, and it is none of these. It is a spiritual problem. And that is the one problem human beings don’t seem to know how to solve.

Then help us.

I am.

How?

In many ways.

Name one.

This book.

This book will help us?

It can.

What do we have to do?

Read it.

And then what?

Heed it.

That’s what they all say. “It’s in The Book,” they say. “Read it and heed it. That’s all you have to do.” The problem is, they all hold up a different book.

I know.

And every book says something else.

I know.

So now we should “read and heed” this book?

It’s not a question of what you should do. It’s a question of what you may do if you choose to. It is an invitation, not a requirement.

Why would I want to read this book when I’ve already been told by True Believers that all the answers are in the other books — they books that they are telling me to heed?

Because you have not heeded them.

Yes, we have. We believe that we have.

That’s why you now need help. You believe that you have, but you have not.

You keep saying that your Holy Book (your cultures have many different ones) is what has given you the authority to treat each other the way you are treating each other, to do what you are doing.

You are able to say that only because you have not really listened to the deeper message of these books. You have read them, but you have not really listened to them.

But we have. We are doing what they say we should be doing!

No. You are doing what YOU say that they say you should be doing.

What does that mean?

It means that the basic message of all the sacred scriptures is the same. What is different is how human beings have been interpreting them.

There is nothing “wrong” with having different interpretations. What may not benefit you, however, is separating yourself over these differences, making each other wrong because of these differences, and killing each other as a result of these differences.

This is what you are now doing.

It is what you have been doing for quite some time. You cannot agree even within a particular group of you, much less between groups, about what a particular book says and what it means, and you use these disagreements as justifications for slaughter.

You argue among yourselves about what the Qur’an says, and about what its words mean. You argue among yourselves about what the Bible says, and about what its words mean. You argue among yourselves about what the Veda says, what the Bhagavad-Gita says, what the Lun-yü says, what the Pali Canon says, whawt the Tao-te Ching says, what the Talmud says, what the Hadith says, what the Book of Mormon says…

And what of the Upanishad, the I Ching, the Adi Granth, the Mahabharata, the Yoga-sutras, the Mathnawi? The Kojiki?

Okay, we get the point.

No, actually, you don’t. And that’s the point. The point is, there, there are many holy writings and sacred scriptures, and you act as if there is only one.

It is your sacred scripture that is really sacred. All the rest are poor substitutes at best, and blasphemies at worst.

Not only is there only one Sacred Scripture, there is only one way to interpret that Scripture: your way.

This spiritual arrogance is what has caused you your greatest sorrow as a species. You have suffered more — and caused other people to suffer more — over your ideas about God than over your ideas about anything else in the human experience.

You have turned the source of the greatest joy into the source of your greatest pain.

That’s crazy. Why is that? Why have we done that?

Because there is one thing for which human beings seem willing to give up everything.

They will give up love, they will give up peace, they will give up health, harmony, and happiness, they will give up safety, security, and even their sanity, for this one thing.

What?

Being right.

You are willing to give up everything you’ve ever worked for, everything you’ve ever wanted, everything you’ve ever created, in order to be “right.”

Indeed, for this you are willing to give up Life itself.

But isn’t that how it should be? I mean, you have to stand up for something in life. And the Word of God IS what’s right!

Which God?

Which God?

Yes, which God?

Adonai? Allah? Elohim? God? Hari? Jehovah? Krishna? Lord? Rama? Vishnu? Yahwey?

The God whose words were brought to us clearly by the Master and the Prophets.

Which Master and which Prophets?

Which Master? Which Prophets?

Adam? Noah? Abraham? Moses? Confucius? Siddhartha Gautama? Jesus? Patanjali? Muhammad? Baha’u'llah? Jalal al-Din Rumi? Martin Luther? Joseph Smith? Paramahansa Yogananda?

You’re not equating all of those with each other, are you?

Why not? Is one greater than the other?

Certainly!

Which one?

The one in whom I believe!

Exactly. Now you get the point.

So what do you want me to do, give up my beliefs?

I don’t “want” you to do anything. The question is, what do you want to do?

I want to find a way to get past all of these mixed-up beliefs that humans have.

There is a way….

‘The New Revelations’ © 2002 by Neale Donald Walsch

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Hidup ini diwarnai dengan pilihan - pilihan.

 

Pikirkan & pertimbangkan baik - baik lalu putuskan apa pilihan kamu..

 

Di setiap kondisi, situasi, keadaan, waktu, tempat selalu ada pilihan - pilihan untuk kamu pilih. Semuanya terletak di tangan kamu sendiri..

 

Semua pilihan untuk kamu sendiri..

 

Pikirkan apa yang terbaik untuk dirimu sendiri sebelum kamu memikirkan yang terbaik untuk orang lain..

 

Orang lain gak berhak menentukan yang terbaik untuk dirimu & kamu juga gak berhak menentukan yang terbaik untuk orang lain.. Hidup ini adil bukan?

 

Ketika kamu menghadapi masalah, kamu sendiri yang memilih cara pelarian dan cara pelampiasannya.

 

Lingkungan mempengaruhi pilihanmu, benar..

 

Tapi kamu harus lebih dewasa dan berpikir panjang..

 

Teman - temanmu mempengaruhi pilihanmu, sangat benar..

 

Tapi mereka gak mengatakan bahwa mereka akan membunuhmu jika kamu tidak mengikuti mereka. Kalo kamu mengikuti mereka meski kamu tau itu gak benar, berarti kamu sendiri yang bodoh..

 

Pikirkan baik - baik…

 

JANGAN lakukan sesuatu yang MAU kamu lakukan.. LAKUKAN sesuatu yang SEHARUSNYA kamu lakukan…

 

Ada begitu banyak pilihan yang mungkin saja lebih baik daripada pilihan yang kamu ambil sekarang, mengapa kamu mau dibutakan oleh EMOSI sesaatmu? Mana LOGIKAmu?

 

Semua pilihanmu bergantung pada pikiran dan persepsimu sendiri.

 

Coba pikir, mungkin ada orang lain yang mungkin saja menghadapi masalah dan situasi sepertimu atau bahkan lebih parah. Mengapa mereka bisa mengambil pilihan yang lebih positif? Mengapa kamu tidak bisa?

 

Mengapa kamu tidak memikirkan sesuatu yang lebih baik & menguntungkan dirimu sendiri? Mengapa harus mengorbankan dirimu sendiri?

 

Semoga ini membantu kamu pada saat akan menentukan pilihanmu untuk semua kondisi di masa yang akan datang.

 

Semoga ini juga membantu kamu untuk menilai pilihanmu sekarang untuk sebuah pilihan yang lebih baik.

The process of listening to your Inner Guidance, is simply about remembering to relax and wait for your answers. Watch this movie as many times as you need. All you ever need do is ask, be quiet and the answer will be provided

Book by: Sylvia Browne
Excerpt by: Johnny Lone

Part I: Mysterious Places

Stonehenge

(no excerpt from me)

Easter Island

(no excerpt from me)

Shangri - La

…Francine says that there is a lotus-shaped city in the center of the Himalayas that is inhabited by beigns from outer space. Might these be the Dropa of the stone discs and crystal skulls that were found in the mountains of China?) This mysterious place is also called Shamballa by the local Tibetian inhabitants. According to an article in The People’s Almanac #3 by David Wallechinsky, it is known as the “Hidden Kingdom”, where perfect and semiperfect human beings exist who are guiding the evolution of humankind (i dont want to be harsh, but they arent doing too good a job as far as i can tell; then again, maybe we would be a lot worse off if they werent there)

Shangri-La is supposedly protected from the outside world by psychic barriers and what the Tibetians call “snow guardians.”…

…Shamballa or Shangri-La is also supposed to be the source of the Kalacakra, the highest form of Tibetian mysticism…

…The People’s Almanac reports that “the prophecy of Shamballa states that each of its kings will rule for 100 years and that there will be 32 in all.” As each reign passes, “conditions in the outside world will deteriorate” until the last king saves the world by leading a mighty host against evil….

The Bermuda Triangle

…Francine says that from Mexico to Egypt and from Peru to China Sea, there are vortex points on each side of the equator that interconnect to form a grid of highly electromagnetic areas (there are approximately 12 in all) that cause strange phenomena to occur -not only in these 12 areas but also the interconnecting lines that tie them together. She states that the lines made travel easier for early alien visitors and were also a sort of radio or transmission grid to get information from one place to another quickly on the planet’s surface, almost like the satellite system we use today…

…My doctor friend reported seeing a pyramid with a crystal on top under the water. He tried to get closer to it, but was repelled by what seemed to be an electrical force that went through his body

This I believe wasn’t just because of the pyramid (or pyramids - reports indicate that there may be more than one); the crystals also send out an electromagnetic force. I am sure that in the next ten years or so, we will find the remains of a pyramid with a crystal sphere as my friend saw, probably near Bimini, which is off the coast of Florida. Divers have found what looks like steps near Bimini, but for some reason, there has been no further investigation….

…Francine said that the Bermuda Triangle was and is an intergalactic highway in which people could transport themselves from one planet to another - a kind of “Beam me up, Scotty” experience from Star Trek…

…She said that the only problem is that we don’t have the technology to understand its concepts, or do we know how to get in touch with the planet we are trying to reach so that they can employ the mechanism to utilize it. Imagine getting on an elevator without knowing how to push the buttons - you would just be stuck standing there, not knowing what to do or how to get anywhere…

…Also, many people don’t know that the Bermuda Triangle isn’t the only place where there have been a lot of missing ships, planes, and the like. There is also an area in the China Sea known as “the Devil’s Sea”, which has experienced much of the same phenomena as the Bermuda Triangle…

…An old book by the English explorer Percy Fawcett tells of isolated South American Indians who described great crystals atop ruined and buried temples in the jungles of Brazil. They spoke of glowing columns and shafts of glass and crystal, just like Edgar Cayce, the great “sleeping prophet”, and Francine have…

The Lost Continent of Atlantis

…The eastern part of Atlantis of Atlantis was off the coast of Spain and Africa, and Francine says that the western part extended into the Caribbean and the Yucatan Peninsula, also encompassing the Bermuda Triangle and the Sargasso Sea.

…The continent of Atlantis seems to have first appeared approximately 500,000 years ago, and reached its prime about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago as a very artistic, scholarly, and science-oriented continent - unlike Lemuria, which had a strong spiritual base rooted in its culture (I will talk more about Lemuria in the next chapter). And whereas Lemuria got destroyed because of a natural progression of events by Mother Nature, the highly competitive Atlanteans actually destroyed themselves as a result of their knowledge of atomic energy and nuclear physics.

…what was discovered was that the crystal amplified energy that passed through it.

…Francine said many years ago that Atlantis had three great cataclysms in its history: the first about 50,000 years ago; the second about 25,000 years ago; and the third, which destroyed their civilization, about 12,000 years ago…

…Many think that what happened to Atlantis was much like what I have often said on TV: a polar tilt puts a strain on some land masses along with a planetary shift, causes a crack in the continents. Lemuria and Atlantis both went under due to a polar tilt, and the result was that much of the earth was covered with water.

Atlanteans were experimenting with electromagnetic energy and gravity, which Francine says was a major cause of so much devastation. Normally a polar tilt will only precipitate volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and some land masses to move or crack slightly, but this one was the largest In Earth’s history. (and without stretching it, this could explain why we have the story of Noah and his ark). Most of this “covering of the earth with water” can also be found in ancient Sumerian texts.

Life on Atlantis

There are many theories about what Atlanteans were like. We do not know that their hierarchy basically consisted of two classes: wealthy citizens and slaves. Of course they had their rulers and various councils of elders and advisors, but these were included in the class of “citizens”, most of whom were fairly wealthy, probably in large part due to the fact that there was also a slave class. Interestingly enough, slaves were treated well and respected for their talents - in fact, by today’s standards, they would be called “middle class” - and some even attained wealth in large degrees. Atlantis was a very indulgent civilization, and almost everyone shared its bounty.

People on the lost continents had life spans of 800 years (sounds like Methuselah in the bible) and were 8 to 12 feet tall (the Bible also speaks of giants, in Chapter 6 of Genesis). We might think that these “giants” were only fantasy, but archaeologist were shocked when more than a dozen skeletons measuring 8 to 12 feet tall were found in various locations throughout the world. The diaries of Spanish conquistadors also describe blond-haired giants 8-12 feet tall running around in the Andes during the conquest of the Incas.

Atlanteans’ love for the arts and culture was paramount in their lives, but so was technology - the pursuit of which led to their downfall when it got out of control. The lost continent’s civilians started out pursuing creative endeavors such as philosophy, writing, sculpting, and painting, but they gradually become more technocratic and very commercialized. (on this planet right now, I see a similar situation in that we have both the spiritual faction, which goes along with aesthetics, and highly commercial money-making technocrats)…

…Many theorists (including Granma Ada and myself) believe that Atlantis was a colony of extraterrestrials - some believe they came from the Lyrian star system, while Francine says that it was Andromeda. This possibly explains why Atlanteans could levitate. And perhaps because they were from another planet, that is how they knew how to use Earth’s gravitational fields. They had sky cars, nuclear-powered vehicles, and machines that cooled or warmed entire cities. They knew so much bout the atmosphere that they were able to control it with powerful ionized machines, and they were the ones who constructed the portal in the Bermuda Triangle.

They also had some control over weather, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, although at the time of their existence, our planet was even more violent in nature than it is today. This control over weather contributed greatly to the Atlantean economy by helping to produce bumper crops that would put our puny vegetables to shame. In addition, their preservation of food was stunning: While under hypnotic regression, one of my clients said that they “saw” the Atlanteans used a type of alum that would preserve food for years and never destroy its taste.

Atlanteans have breathtaking gardens and waterways, almost like a canal system, which went through and around many of their cities. Their homes and public buildings were spectacular in their beauty: Many lived in pyramid-type structures; in fact, the Atlanteans made pyramids the focal point of their civilization. My grandmother and I both intuited that some of their pyramids were holistic center, as well as communication hubs that were used as relay or phone stations form which people could send and receive messages instantly. These structures could be built speedily, using a type of anti gravitational rod, and the technology was carried over to ancient Egypt and other cultures and then lost. Most Atlantean architecture contained many columns and aches, designs that were also embraced by the Greeks and Romans.

People on the lost continent didn’t bury their dead; instead they cremated them, using a type of laser energy focused through crystals. They built large pyramids for healing, again using crystals. Their healing centers had what we might call a massage table today, on which the ill person would lie down, and multiple crystals would be focused on him or her to employ light and color therapy, laser surgery, and magnetic energy. Healing technicians (doctors) would come in with different types of ointment and balms or drugs, depending upon the treatment needed, and use the crystals in the healing process.

Atlanteans also had a type of machine for the rejuvenation of the body that employed electromagnetic energy through crystals, which helped in life extension…and, as I stated, life spans in Atlantis were usually very long. In addition, they used this machine for the diagnosis of maladies, because the person would go into a type of chamber and the machine would “read” the person’s aura, almost doing a magnetic X-ray (but more sophisticated than an MRI) that provided comprehensive pictures of the body.

Artificial organs were used for transplants when needed, but toward the end, when their civilization became more corrupt, Atlanteans began to experiment with animals and humans in bizarre and dangerous ways, even to the point of trying to make man-beast combinations. Francine says that many of our mythological creatures, such as the Satyr or the Minotaur, derived from stories of these experiments. It started with just trying to make different creatures out of two distinct species, but deteriorated from there.

As time progressed, it seems that the Atlanteans used their technology to attain more power, and not just for healing and staying young. As in all things great and small, greed became its own master - so they began to use crystals to enhance their technology and barter more for bigger and better things. It seems that the power of the crystal was then used for destructive purposes such as wiping out groups of people who didn’t please the ruling classes. (Maybe these are the flying machines described in Sanskrit texts, with death rays that wreaked havoc and destroyed thousands of people)….

Lemuria

Lemuria, a continent that existed in the Pacific Ocean around the same time as Atlantis, seems to have become forgotten, even thought it was Atlantis’s spiritual opposite. Lemurians believed that materialism was not an end in itself; instead, they placed more emphasis on healing, art, music, and spirituality.

… Lemurian homes were shaped like pyramids, just like Atlantean domiciles. (You will notice that pyramids show up a lot in this book - after all, look at the tepee of the American Indian: Isn’t it pyramid shaped? This shape seems to be efficient, as it can keep the warmth in and the cold out.)

… Francine says that every 12,000 to 15,000 years, the polar tilt causes continents to rise and fall, so Lemuria and Atlantis will rise again around the years 2020 to 2030.

Part II: Strange Creatures

Tulpas

…A Tulpa, according to traditional Tibetan doctrines, is an entity created by an act of imagination, rather like the fictional character of a novelist, except that tulpas are not written down. [Alexandra] David Neel became so interested in the concept that she decided to try to create one.

The method involved was essentially intense concentration and visualization. David-Neel’s tulpa began its existence as a plump, benign little monk, similar to Friar Tuck. It was at first entirely subjective, but gradually, with practice, she was able to visualize the tulpa out there, like an imaginary ghost flitting about the real world.

In time the vision grew in clarity and substance until it was indistinguishable from physical reality - a sort of self-induced hallucination. But the day came when the hallucination slipped from her conscious control. She discovered that the monk would appear from time to time when she had not willed it. Furthermore, her friendly little figure was slimming down and taking on a distinctly sinister aspect.

Eventually her companions, who were unaware of the mental disciplines she was practicing, began to ask about the “stranger” who had turned up in their camp - a clear indication that a creature which was no more than solidified imagination had definite objective reality.

At this point, David-Neel decided things had gone too far and applied different lamaist techniques to reabsorb the creature into her own mind. The tulpa proved very unwilling to face destruction in this way so that the process took several weeks and left its creator exhausted.

…Through my research, I ran across a group of six people in England who were also able to create a tulpa some years ago. Every night, Marian Hallsley gathered her friends together in order to try to contact the dead. These people weren’t uneducated or frivolous - among them were a journalist, a scientist, a dentist, a doctor and a businessman. After numerous attempts to connect with the deceased, they still had no success. Mediums were even called in, yet on one could manage to contact anyone on the Other Side.

One night Marian had an idea: The group would make up their own spirit! So night after night, this gathering took painstaking details to bring an entity into being. They gave him a birth date, a birthplace (Liverpool), and a name (Edward Howard). His height was noted; as was his exact weight, hair color and mustache. They gave him a wife and two children, and an occupation as a banker; they even determined that he wore a bowler hat and a tweed suit, smoked a pipe, and carried a walking stick. The group began to create a childhood for Edward and imagine his thoughts. As one of the six participants remarked, “WE know more about Edwards than we do about each other.”

One night, after almost a year and a half of constructing the full scope of Edward’s life, the table at which the gathering sate began to move so violently that they all jumped away form it. Sure enough, there was Edward Howard in all his glory! The group, with their unbelievable concentration, had created a tulpa. This story has been well documented - I even talked to Minnie Bridges, who was a student at the Spiritualist college that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle frequented and she corroborated that she had also seen Edward; in fact, many of the area mediums were called upon to get rid of him.

Now, I don’t mean to give you any fear of creating a tulpa, and I should mention that this process only seems to work for those who have too much time on their hands; in addition, the atmosphere and conditions have to be just right. Tibet would be and ideal place because of its mysticism and meditative practices, as would England, for its fog helps conduct electrical energy (in this case, mental energy). So again, the idea that thoughts are things takes on a new meaning!

The Loch Ness Monster

…However no matter how often science debunks Nessie, believers keep popping up and more sightings keep occurring. What is the explanation for this? Well, clearly there is a type of monster - possibly even one with a dinosaur-shaped body and head - but I believe with all my heart that Nessie is a tulpa that has been created by a belief, many books and supposed sightings. She is real, in a manner of speaking, because thousands of thought forms have helped create her.

Sasquatch

(no excerpt from me)

The Leviathan

(no excerpt from me)

The Fairy World

…Francine says that there is a subphylum of creatures that helps Mother God keep the world in balance as much as She can: fairies.

Demons

Lilith

(no excerpt from me)

Banshee and Sirens

Francine told me that when someone is going to die, his or her psyche or soul will know that its passing time is imminent. The soul lets out a psychic scream, even before the person passes, and because of the dense air and dew in the British Isles, the “silent” scream is often heard - which has been attributed to the banshee.

The Incubus and Succubus

(no excerpt from me)

Gargoyles

(no excerpt from me)

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…As Francine says, “If you can think of the question, the answer will become available to you.” So read and explore, and you will find enlightenment and the answers to all your questions.

Witches and Werewolves

Witches

…Wiccans do employ spells, but true practitioners use them for positive ends, such as bringing rain where there is a drought, healing cattle or livestock, or dealing in herbs and folk medicines to create wellness. People don’t realize that affirmations are actually part of a type of Wiccan ritual - these white witches believe that what we repeat comes to us, and we are programmed for good…

Werewolves

(no excerpt from me)

Vampires and Chupacabras

Vampires

(no excerpt from me)

Chupacabras

I believe that the chupacabra is quite different from the vampire bat - it is actually a creature from another planet that was put there for research purposes and sometimes runs amok.

Children’s Invisible Friends

…Children’s eye are so unclouded by the world that they see the dimension from which the guides come. Yet their invisible friends seem to fade from their reality - I am convinced that life crowds in and pushes them away, or well-meaning parents tell them that they have an overactive imagination. To encourage our children, we should get them to talk about their friends. In fact, our kids can even give us very psychic messages from their guides.

For example, a little boy named David recently told his mother that Marty (his imaginary friend) said that her dad (David’s grandfather) was going home to God’s house. David’s mother did not pay much attention until the next day, when she got word that her father had died suddenly of a heart attack. Likewise, Francine told me when I was staying with my grandmother that my grandpa, whom I loved dearly, had gone to heaven - she even gave me the exact time he made the transition.

You don’t have to probe, but in a conversational or matter-of-fact way, question your child and act interested. I bet you will be amazed at the information that comes through. Don’t be afraid - if we listen to our children, we will enhance their communion with their guides and with God and their angels. Then we will have a group of people who will grow up not feeling so alone, and who realize that God sends emissaries to guide us along the way.

Extraterrestrials

…As Grandma Ada said later, if aliens looked so grotesquely different, they wouldn’t be able to visit our planet undetected. (Here my guide Francine interjects to say that whatever you want to believe is great, but she and all her fellow guides have only seen what are humanlike creatures: Some are tall and some are short; some are dark and some are light; some look Caucasian and some look Asian; and so on. Doesn’t it make sense that this is how they blend in with us? After all, they are walking among us, even in politics.)…

…”Why did you come to us?”I queried. “Maybe someday you will write that we are not here to hurt your planet, but rather to observe and help,” he responded …[excerptor's note: from the conversation the author had during an encounter with an alien (the alien also turned out to be from those well-intentioned ones, not mentioning the fact that some other alien races are bad -mentioned, such as the Greys and the Reptilians)]

Part III: Unexplained Objects

The Crystal Skulls

…Francine says that, as with the stones of Egypt`s pyramids, we don’t yet possess the technology to tap in to the knowledge that was put in the crystal skulls. Since crystal has always been a conductor) after all, the first radios were old crystal sets), much ancient information was put into the skulls. Francine also says that these artifacts were made by her ancestors - who were very adept at carving and polishing with a white, powdery sand - and they were apparently religious symbols that dated back thousands of years before her birth. These symbols showed Francine’s people two things: (1) Life is fleeting; and (2) we should always honor and remember the dead we will someday join. …

I was also reminded that Francine told me that all the world’s pyramids carried crystals on their apexes because they brought knowledge from the ancients. Even today, we wear crystals because they absorb negativity. And an old Native American tradition that’s been passed down through the ages claims that when we lose our negativity and our shortsighted minds, crystals can be used as instruments for seeing evil things and warding them off, as well as for healing the sick. Are they trying to tell us that crystals can heal? Yes. Are the artifacts telepathic? Yes.

The Ica Stones

…After studying the Ica stones for years and consulting with various geologists and scientists, Dr.Cabrera had his theories. He postulated that a very ancient civilization, which was originally from a star system in the Pleiades, landed on Earth and attempted to colonize it. He also claimed that at that time, this planet was entirely different from the one we live on today. It was comprised of an 80 percent land mass with very little water, and because of the planetary conditions, the atmosphere had heated up considerably. Therefore, he theorized, this ancient civilization tried to manipulate the biological cycles of nature to correct the situation, but the attempted corrections caused massive tectonic shifts, great floods, and the movement of continents (in other words, cataclysmic events that changed the planet’s land masses). With Earth’s stability in question, this ancient civilization prepared to depart for their home planet in the Pleiades. (A large stone in Cabrera’s library shows the hemispheres of that planet having intelligent life and space-traveling capability.) …

…It was also rumored for many years that he had a secret chamber of stones in his museum that he never let the public see. These special rocks held a “message for humankind” that Dr.Cabrera insisted would be let out someday when we were ready…

…Francine goes on to state that the stones were indeed a record left behind by extraterrestrials who inhabited the area millions of years ago and whose effect also extended to Pampa Colorada and the surrounding areas. They also had an impact on very early cultures in not only Peru, but in Atlantis and LEmuria as well, which influenced other highly advanced later civilizations such as the Egyptians. Francine also told me that in about 15 years, humans will be able to tap in to these stones for the information contained therein, which she said functions like computer databases. …

Otherworldly Maps and Instruments

The Piri Reis Map

…Francine, as well as my own psychic abilities, tells me that the map was actually drawn about 12,000 years ago by extraterrestrials from the Andromeda galaxy, who ten gave it to the Atlanteans. From there, it ended up in the library at Alexandria, and copies were transferred before it was burned down. …

The Antikythera Mechanism

(No excerpt)

The Pyramids and the Sphinx

… He immediately came back with, “We used antigravity rods from the large spaceships, which would then leave - and in seconds we’d have a stone that was instantly placed on top of another.” He also kept saying that the stones contained imprints of knowledge, much like a library. … [Excerptor's note: ‘He' refers to one patient of the author during a hypnosis session that "flipped" during the session.]

The Great Pyramid

… Scientists have tried to x-ray (for lack of a better word) the Great Pyramid with sound, and each time they get a different reading. Francine says that knowledge put there by an intelligence greater than ours is trapped inside the stones, and it will be revealed in the not-too distant future. …

…Oh my God, I thought, this isn’t really a tomb - it’s a symbol of man’s ascent through his lifetime! This logically explains why they never found any mummies buried in the King’s or Queen’s Chamber. It also reminded me of the ancient riddle of the Sphinx: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night? The answer, of course is the human. A baby crawls on all fours, a young person walks on two legs, and an elderly person uses a crane. …

… As the group I was with ascended higher, we came to a place where the ceiling was so low that it was like a crawl space. After bending down and getting through, we emerged in the King’s Chamber, where only an open sarcophagus stared at us. Rebirth, I realized. The open sarcophagus symbolizes rebirth. We climb through life, through good times and bad; keep on going, no matter how difficult it gets; and then are reborn until our final death here on Earth - at which point, we are released to go to the Other Side. This is a real temple of worship and knowledge, I thought, and Francine said, “Very good! Now you are getting it.”…

…I descended, suddenly feeling so vibrant and energized - especially after I stayed in the King’s Chamber with the sarcophagus, which greatly reverberated with positive psychic energy, thoughts, songs, rituals and prayers. …

… Regardless of what you believe, the Great Pyramid is a mystical place, and no one ever comes out feeling the same. After all the trips I’ve made there, I have a file cabinet full of hundreds of people’s accounts of the life-changing experiences they had. Some folks I have taken with me have even been physically healed in the King’s Chamber. The first time I went to Egypt, as I mentioned before, I took about 80 people, but on my next trip I took 275, many of whom experienced great cures. Take Nan, for instance: “I had migraines for 20 years, but after coming down from the King’s Chamber, I haven’t had a headache since.”…

The Sphinx

… Francine dropped a bombshell when she told me that the Ark of the Covenant is buried beneath what is left of the Sphinx. (After all, what better place to hide the Ark than beneath the Sphinx, where no one would think to look for it?) Since the Ark was made of wood and gold, it conducted some kind of electrical current because it housed so many secrets about life and how it should be lived. It even contained plans on how the Sphinx and Egyptian pyramids were built - it was almost like a small reference library…

…Dr.Zahi Hawass told Abass and me that some Egyptologists were beginning to look beneath the Sphinx and had found a hidden room, but there was some problem or diplomatic confusion that was holding up the excavation.

Abass said, “Sylvia, the fact that you knew there was a room beneath the Sphinx is remarkable, especially when no one heretofore believed that anything was there.”

Someday I know they will find the Ark there. Maybe the tables are in it, but even if they aren’t, I am convinced that there is enough evidence to prove its authenticity - and this theory. …

Other Pyramids and Tombs

… Francine says that if you look at a map, you will see that pyramids form a triangle form the jungles of the Yucatan in Mexico to Peru to Giza; they were also used as a sort of telegraph station. She said that in the beginning, all the pyramids had crystals on top (which have eroded over time), and that is how the ancient people communicated with each other. …

… It seems that those who have questioned popular theories have either been blackballed or called downright frauds. Such was the case with Michael Cremo, who put together a controversial documentary challenging the building of the Egyptian pyramids. When his film was aired, NBC was deluged with calls by scientists who called him a completely unscientific sham.

Dr.Virginia Steen - McIntyre was another maverick who offered controversial data what wasn’t unlike that of Hart and Cremo. She was asked to retract her information, and when she refused, she lost her job at an American university. Scientists today are much like doctors - that is, their organizations hold a lot of power to suppress new information and truths, … [Excerptor's note: Bold is special emphasis particularly made by me, the excerptor. Also take into consideration rumors that cures to great diseases such as AIDS, cancers was found by some sincere scientific individuals but was greatly suppressed by the medical community, so as to make profit from ever-growing sick population, what the heck INSANITY!!!]

… Aliens interacted with ancient humans because primitive people already believed that God came from the sky, so it wasn’t unusual for them to accept extraterrestrial visits. However, after the advent of the One God, an alien might have appeared to Moses in a burning bush, but that was about the end of it, except for Elijah, who “went up to heaven” in a “chariot of fire.” (2 Kings 2:11). Many scientists have tried to duplicate the way Elijah’s journey was described in the Bible, and they came up with a machine that looked like a space vehicle, but they didn’t know how to make it go. …

… Francine says that extraterrestrials colonized us - … Later on, I was floored to discover that Edgar Cayce had said the same thing as Francine…

…Francine did say that anyone who comes to this planet is the bravest of the brave and learns faster than anywhere else because this is the insane asylum of the universe…

Crop Circles

…Do not believe all that you hear from televisions, newspapers, magazines, and the like. If you do, you will often miss the truth. Being under constant media scrutiny myself, I know firsthand how many mistakes the press in general makes by jumping quickly without proper investigation. I have many friends who are celebrities and many who are scientific researchers, and the horror stories they have related to me about misrepresentation, misreporting of facts and downright lies are mind-boggling.

This entire journalism profession has one big problem that they try to push under the rug, but cant - and that is that they are in their business for profit. This results in stories being released quickly in order to “scoop” the competition, which then leads to falsehoods and poor research. It also culminates in stories being fabricated, pictures being falsified, quotes being misrepresented or made up, and a general unprincipled attitude. …

… Crop circles have been discovered mostly in barley and wheat crops, but they have appeared in corn, oats, canola, grass, rice fields, trees, sand, and even snow. They have been found in more than 70 countries around the globe - many near ancient or sacred sites. Inexplicably, many farmers have reported greater yields (a 30 to 40 percent increase in their crops in the years following the appearance of formations in their fields. …

…Francine says that not only are they (the extraterrestrials) trying to communicate by symbols, but they are also trying to show where they are from in the galaxy…

Part IV: Mystic Phenomena

Spontaneous Human Combustion

…She (Francine) said that SHC is caused by a buildup of phosphorous, which is highly flammable - that is what causes the body to implode upon itself and start burning from the inside out. …

…It is interesting to note that phosphorous burns with high heat and intensity, as do most metals, such as sodium (just expose some to the air and see what happens and magnesium. This would explain why, if the body did start to incinerate inside, the power of the fire would literally burn up the body, but not necessarily any of the surrounding area, as the intensity would immediately cease once the phosphorous in the body was gone. …

Kinetic Energy and Auras

(No excerpt from me)

Voodoo, Astrology, and Shamans

Voodoo

…Devlin began to explain that voodoo was a religious practice that was very old and had existed in Africa for longer than recorded history. Followers believe that anything in nature carries energy (somewhat like the Wiccan belief), and the religion deals with spirits of the dead. …

… belief is a powerful thing, and if people feel as if they have been cursed, then they begin to almost fulfill their own prophecy. …

…Voodoo is practiced extensively in Brazil, Haiti, and a lot of South American countries. One of their primary aims is to get rid of the devil (or evil) and align oneself with God or spirit gods for protection. …

… “What doesn’t kill me just makes me stronger.”… (Excerptor note: refers to the ridicule, criticism, and scorn the author had gone through)

…Like all faiths, voodoo has its beautiful and wonderful side, as well as its dark aspects, which are grossly overexaggerated.

Astrology

…The different birth configurations in the sky then began to take on the component parts of what the stars represented. For instance, if born under the sign of Taurus, a person was said to be stubborn like a bull; a Libra was seen to be balanced like the scales of justice; Virgo was pure like a virgin; Sagittarius was a fearless and outgoing as an archer; Leo was as proud and regal as a lion; Capricorn was as steadfast and steady as a goat; Aquarius was fluidly moving and artistic; Cancer was as tenacious and home-loving as a crab; Gemini had a dual nature, like twins; Aries was as fiery and headstrong as a ram; Scorpio was as intense as a scorpion - with as deadly a sting; and Pisces was a deep, psychic, and submerged in self as a fish.

Shamans

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Universal Enigmas

Black Holes

Francine said that first and foremost, a black hole is like the universe’s vacuum cleaner: A star explodes (or implodes) and creates a type of crater in the atmosphere, piercing the veil of the universe and bringing everything around it into a funnel-like aperture, which then shows up in a parallel universe. In other words, there are universes backed up to this one, which is possibly the reason why we discover new stars of planets.

The Polar Tilt

Approximately every 15,000 years or so, Earth goes into what I call a polar tilt, in which the axis of the planet shifts to a point at which the magnetic polarities change and move. At this time, great upheaval in the world’s ocean and land masses can and do occur. The last polar tilt was in the time of th destruction of Atlantis and was also the cause of the “great flood” described in the Bible and other religious and historical facts.

A polar tilt also affects the planet’s animal population as well as its weather. For example, as geologists know, the Sahara was once a very abundant part of Earth, yet today it is one of the driest place we know. And creatures that have followed migratory paths for hundreds of years are becoming confused; we now see, for instance, that the swallows are intermittently failing to come back to Mission San Juan Capistrano, in Southern California, where they used to show up every March 19 without fail.

We are also going to see more and more sea life beached - just like all those whales in California that, for no apparent reason, seemed to lose their way and died not long ago, regardless of how many marine biologists tried to save them. Even when they got some of the whales out to sea with the help of volunteers, the creatures turned around and beached themselves again. Did they want to die together, or were they convinced that they were going in the right direction because somehow their perception of topography had changed?

The polar tilt is also the reason for our strange climate change. Right now, some areas of the world are enjoying very mild weather, while others endure harsh conditions -almost the opposite of what they normally get for different periods of the year. Aside from the greenhouse effect, people will be most affected by weather changes and more intensive natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the rise and fall of land masses. Californians will be greatly affected, with massive land upheavals in about 20 or 30 years (although the polar tilt itself will take longer), and land will rise in the Atlantic. Although loss of life and extensive damage will be enormous, as always, humankind will survive.

The Hollow Earth Theory

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Alien Abductions

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Part V: Christian Controversies

Stigmata

…Stigmata can be termed a “miracle” or it can be a type of deep conviction or state of devotion that brings about a type of self-hypnosis. It is a known fact, as simplistic as it may sound, that you can hypnotize someone and tell them that you are putting a hot poker on their arm but instead apply an ice cube, and a high, angry blister will appear. …

The Shroud of Turin

…In any case, Granma Ada looked to the left and said, ” Well, it is not Jesus. For one thing, the height is all wrong on the Shroud. Also he wasn’t the only one crucified back then - countless people received that punishment.” …

…I always remember what Granma Ada used to say: The only thing we seem to remember about Jesus Christ is that he died on agonizing death. I have to agree -after all, what about the happy Christ, the teaching Christ and the healing Christ? We only seem to recall the terrible sadness. (Many years after my grandmother passed, Francine told me that Jesus felt that his teachings fell short and all people remembered was his suffering and death). …

The Holy Grail and The Holy Spirit

The Holy Grail

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Historians and writers have hinted that a group of high-profile writers, scientists, and artists - including WaIt Whitman, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Newton, Sandro Botticelli, and the great Leonardo da Vinci - were not only reincarnationists, but also members of secret societies such as the sacred Priory of Sion, the Knights Templar, or the Masons.

In fact, not many people realize that along with being a great painter, Leonardo da Vinci was a prophet of sorts - not so much in written matter but in his sketches. I recommend that you check out his wondrous knowledge of technology and the structure of the human body. Long before science and medicine caught up to him, he’d made sketches of flying machines, helicopters, rockets, war machines, and cars; as well as finely detailed sketches of muscles, tendons, organs, and other body parts. He was way ahead of his time, and it wouldn’t be until centuries later that much of what he drew would come to pass.

Leonardo also had knowledge of the Holy Grail, including where and what it was. The books Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln scratch the surface of this topic, but Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code breaks it wide open. Most Gnostics (which my church is dedicated to) have known this “secret” information all along, but the Rosicrucians guarded it with a vengeance because the known world of Christianity would have branded this the worst of heresies.

So now with information about the Holy Grail coming out all over, we Gnostics feel a certain amount of exhilaration over a real truth of Christianity being brought forth. That’s why long before The Da Vlnci Code came out, I told my publisher that I wanted to write about Mother God and uncover Her once and for all-no matter how controversial it might be.

You see, the Crusaders knew that there wasn’t really a grail (or cup as such) at all; instead, there was a holder of the sacred knowl­edge, which was the womb of mankind. Early Christians even went underground with this knowledge to avoid persecution by the Catholic Church. Some French libraries have much information on this subject, but after Holy Blood, Holy Grail was published, they shut their doors to more research. (It’s also interesting to note that The Da Vlnci Code takes place in France for the most part.)

So concerned was the paternal side of Christianity that they feigned ignorance on what da Vinci knew about the Grail, and many people were mysteriously killed because they possessed this knowledge. As God will have it, though, we can only keep truth buried for so long before Mother God will rise up and re establish a kinder, gentler Christianity. It’s now becoming quite apparent that there must be two sides.

If you’ve read my book Mother God, then you probably have a better handle on this long-buried, supposedly mysterious infor­mation that’s been known since long before Christ’s birth, but was suppressed by men who felt it tool away from Christianity. How it would is beyond me-unless it just points to patriarchal control and the fact that these men would have had a hard time explaining what they’ve covered up for all these years.

Dan Brown also has another powerful book that addresses this topic, called Angels & Demons. And if you read the Dead Sea Scrolls in depth, you’ll discover that Mary was known to chan­nel information, another fact that seems to be hidden and only held by the Essenes (the forerunners of the Gnostics) . . . it’s only a matter of time before the truth about the Mother Goddess­es well as the “Holy Grail”-becomes common knowledge.

The Holy Spirit

When I was in Catholic school and we made the sign of the cross, it was for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Then, many people began to change Ghost to Spirit (I guess they felt that the words Holy Ghost smacked of being too esoteric).

Anyway, there has always been a controversy regarding the idea of three persons in one God. St. Patrick was supposed to have taken a shamrock (which we still see in Irish dishes, rings, and so on) to try to explain the Trinity, saying that it was three sep­arate entities on one stem. It still seemed so confusing to me, until I came to understand that the third person in the Trinity was actu­ally Mother God.

Some people believe that the Holy Spirit was the love between the Father and Mother that made the Son. Logically, this takes more sense when you see that the Church tried to obliterate the feminine principle. We have the Father, the Mother, and the Son, who came horn the divinity of male God and female God. So the early Church decided to just name Mother God the “Holy Ghost.”

The Holy Spirit’s symbol of the dove came about because such a bird was seen over the head of Jesus. So horn then on, the dove was used as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, which of course means peace, but doesn’t have anything to do with Mother God.

I don’t by any means think that you have to change your sign of” the cross-I’m just giving you an insight into history and what your logical mind and heart will tell you.

The Lost Years of Jesus

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The Devil

…The greatest tulpa ever perpetuated is good ol’Lucifer, or Beelzebub, or whatever name the culture deems to give to this “fallen angel.”…

The Mythology of Popular Holidays

Halloween

…It just goes to show that some organized religions - and ultimately, some of humankind - seem to need to focus on fear, demons, and devils, instead of love, peace and goodwill …

Other Holidays

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Afterword

…”Take with you what you want and leave the rest” …

…”Life is a banquet!”…

… Never quit searching and exploring because therein lies our heritage - and, at the bottom of it all, we discover humankind’s search for ourselves and especially our search for God. …

You can never tell what type of impact you may have on another’s life by your actions… or lack of actions. Please consider this fact in your venture through life and just try to…make a difference.

Make A Difference Movie- The Teddy Stallard Story