Falsehoods can become truth. Fact, reality, legitimacy, whatever you want to call it, can be manipulated through visual and auditory means. Manipulation occurs to sway opinion or thought to hide the truth or sway people away from truths that may actually be empowering. Yes, manipulation occurs to disempower, to gain control. Exploiting the truth to gain power and control…that must be what happened to the daemons.
Daemons are supernatural, good, benevolent beings that operate between mortals and God. I consider them the messengers, protectors and guides. The term can also refer to animals, totems, angels, and nature spirits. They are links to the ultimate Divine and here with us at all times. Carl Jung stated that daemons "express a determining power which comes upon man from outside, like providence or fate, though the ethical decision is left to man." For Plato and Socrates, the daemon was not a determining power, but rather a divine guardian and guiding power.
Somewhere along the way, though, the term daemon turned ugly for the general populace. The term seems to have been Latinized and morphed or manipulated and is now known more commonly by the Judeo-Christian exploitative term demon. I don't have to go into what a demon is. Plenty of scary books and movies have filled our minds full of the dirty deeds of demons.
Why the switch from good daemon to bad demon? My guess is power and control. It took the power from the individual to know God, or Divine Wisdom, from within and gave the control to a select few. We have been taught that only a select few have the power of God and that only a select few have access to the Divine Wisdom and that we must rely on that select few to have access to God. But that is not true.
God is within you. The Divine Wisdom is within you. That's it. It's that simple. And knowing that gives you all the happiness, truth, energy, love…you don't need to look at an outside person to tell you where God is.
And, there is no point in attaching blame to anyone, anything, any religion or even the practice of psychology for the exploitation. Blaming doesn't change a thing. It is a distraction that keeps you from your soul's purpose.
I keep having visions of The Golden Compass…again, a movie that I have seen and a book that I begin reading today…I keep seeing the scene in the movie where the child is being separated from his daemon, which is represented as an animal. I keep seeing the child and his daemon imprisoned with only the cage type wall separating them. They are right next to each other, watching each other, screaming and crying as the laser severs the magical bond between them. The child is left lost, confused, lifeless and without will.
In reality, there is no machine that physically separates us from our divine source and our guides, but many on this planet suffer. It is power, control, greed, jealousy and anger of others (and yourself) that attempt to mentally sever you from God and your guides.
The fabric may be torn but is still intact.
The great news is that we all have equal access to God, to the Divine Source, Inspiration and Guidance. You have a guide who has been with you every step of the way and only wants to help you on your life plan and with your soul's purpose. You only have to open to believe, and continue to believe. Your guide is here, now, to help you. Your guide is like candlelight in a dark room. Once you recognize the light, it grows only brighter.
I can imagine that when people heard voices or saw visions that they were categorized as crazy or possessed by demons instead of being seen as gifted or having communion with their Divine Guardians. Daemons are not demons.
What we do now is recognize and honor the truth. Ask your guide for assistance and direction. It only takes a small shift in perception. Like a trickle of pure water caught behind a dam of muck. The crack already exists, let it open wider.
P.S. If you hear voices that tell you to hurt others in any way, that is NOT your daemon or guide. If you are hearing voices that instruct you to hurt, you need to ask for help. If you think that no one will listen, start by shouting to God. Yell, "God, I need help." Then say, "God, I need help. We are One. I need help." Then say mentally all the time, "God, we are One. We are One." Ask your true guides to help you on this life's journey, to help you with good, to show your soul's purpose, which is good.
06 March 2009
04 March 2009
The Hellwinckels in Knox News
Yeah! We did it again! Another small step for gardening education!
Friend, neighbor and author Terry Shaw wrote about us in his weekly News Sentinel column...Winter Doesn't Stop This Gardener
Enjoy.
Friend, neighbor and author Terry Shaw wrote about us in his weekly News Sentinel column...Winter Doesn't Stop This Gardener
Enjoy.
27 February 2009
Unintentional Criticism
Our world is so rushed. It seems that rush means success. As determined and sinister minds focused on financial success, our natural world suffered an unraveling. As the natural world gave way from the beauty of nature and crumbled under industrialism, acting with heart and soul gave away to actions of the mind. People look(ed) toward material items to fill the gape caused by their soul's severance from the natural world.
God speaks to us through intuition. Division from our intuition separates us from God. I think of the movie (I haven't read the book.) The Golden Compass, and the scene where the child is separated from his daemon. The severance immediately cuts the child off from his intuition or wisdom (Sophia) which is the source/path to God. I think the destruction of the world's natural places is exactly like this. It is like someone taking a laser and shearing humans from their consciousness, wisdom and intuition. Many humans are severed from their core, from God.
We have been cut off not only physically by the cementing and paving of the planet, but also spiritually as many religions focus on written word and human actions. No amount of visits to church can fix this, either. People say to know God, but do they really? Are they just going through the motions of the mind and body? Or are they just mimicking what they see others doing and thinking, "Oh this is it!" The mind is a powerful place and has the capabilities of performing all kinds of tricks on us. I'm guessing that anyone who truly knows Jesus, it is because they truly know them self. And this ain't something they learned in a church. It's something that happens because their intuition is still intact. Have you noticed that when one speaks of God being inside in regards to the soul that they point to the heart, right between the breasts at the heart Chakra, not at the head. Try it. Try to say that God is in you and point to the head. It doesn’t feel right. Yet, many of us live in our minds, not hearts, and claim to "know" God.
As a society, we are misguided by our religious leaders, by what we read and see on TV, by what we are taught in school…it's all shallow. Even the Gnostic Society, which has some great stuff, has it wrong. Their prayers and rituals are nothing more than mirrors of the prayers and rituals of the Catholic Church.
The Gnostic Societies webpage has daily mediations. It quotes the Gospel of Thomas quoting Jesus: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female…"
Instead of focusing prayer and within ourselves on a gender neutral Divine Power, which Jesus flat out tells us to do, the Gnostic Society separates the male from the female in prayers. They revere Sophia and the Divine Feminine, yet prayers and language are laden with dominant usage of God as a male. The Gnostic Society has A LOT of meaningful teachings and great information. Along with the Bahá'í, they come the closest to actually hitting on something of merit, yet they still seem to miss the mark. Neither faith seems to have any female leaders, either. Both sit unbalanced.
I didn't mean to have a diatribe on religion, how inadequate it is or to criticize people's faiths. What I am actually doing is research on is the new moon. I am thinking about January 1st again, and how it marks the "New Year". I'm still thinking how ridiculous it is to try and begin the New Year and resolutions in the dead of winter. I am still thinking of the true meaning of Epiphany and about New Moon celebrations in Sami, Kefalonia, Greece. I am finding out how in ancient Babylon, their New Year began with the first New Moon/first visible Crescent Moon after the Vernal Equinox. And trying to tie it all together with how human beings are severed from their natural beings, Mother Nature and ancient traditions.
But somehow, all the above emerged instead. Sometimes, it's a straight shot, but other times intuition saunters us on our path.
As always, thanks for reading.
God speaks to us through intuition. Division from our intuition separates us from God. I think of the movie (I haven't read the book.) The Golden Compass, and the scene where the child is separated from his daemon. The severance immediately cuts the child off from his intuition or wisdom (Sophia) which is the source/path to God. I think the destruction of the world's natural places is exactly like this. It is like someone taking a laser and shearing humans from their consciousness, wisdom and intuition. Many humans are severed from their core, from God.
We have been cut off not only physically by the cementing and paving of the planet, but also spiritually as many religions focus on written word and human actions. No amount of visits to church can fix this, either. People say to know God, but do they really? Are they just going through the motions of the mind and body? Or are they just mimicking what they see others doing and thinking, "Oh this is it!" The mind is a powerful place and has the capabilities of performing all kinds of tricks on us. I'm guessing that anyone who truly knows Jesus, it is because they truly know them self. And this ain't something they learned in a church. It's something that happens because their intuition is still intact. Have you noticed that when one speaks of God being inside in regards to the soul that they point to the heart, right between the breasts at the heart Chakra, not at the head. Try it. Try to say that God is in you and point to the head. It doesn’t feel right. Yet, many of us live in our minds, not hearts, and claim to "know" God.
As a society, we are misguided by our religious leaders, by what we read and see on TV, by what we are taught in school…it's all shallow. Even the Gnostic Society, which has some great stuff, has it wrong. Their prayers and rituals are nothing more than mirrors of the prayers and rituals of the Catholic Church.
The Gnostic Societies webpage has daily mediations. It quotes the Gospel of Thomas quoting Jesus: "When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female…"
Instead of focusing prayer and within ourselves on a gender neutral Divine Power, which Jesus flat out tells us to do, the Gnostic Society separates the male from the female in prayers. They revere Sophia and the Divine Feminine, yet prayers and language are laden with dominant usage of God as a male. The Gnostic Society has A LOT of meaningful teachings and great information. Along with the Bahá'í, they come the closest to actually hitting on something of merit, yet they still seem to miss the mark. Neither faith seems to have any female leaders, either. Both sit unbalanced.
I didn't mean to have a diatribe on religion, how inadequate it is or to criticize people's faiths. What I am actually doing is research on is the new moon. I am thinking about January 1st again, and how it marks the "New Year". I'm still thinking how ridiculous it is to try and begin the New Year and resolutions in the dead of winter. I am still thinking of the true meaning of Epiphany and about New Moon celebrations in Sami, Kefalonia, Greece. I am finding out how in ancient Babylon, their New Year began with the first New Moon/first visible Crescent Moon after the Vernal Equinox. And trying to tie it all together with how human beings are severed from their natural beings, Mother Nature and ancient traditions.
But somehow, all the above emerged instead. Sometimes, it's a straight shot, but other times intuition saunters us on our path.
As always, thanks for reading.
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