I am late writing this to day. It was time to go to the feed store. I usually will write in the Morning and do those kinds of chores in the afternoon. However, this Morning I wanted to mull over the topic for today. The idea came to me this Morning and I realized what a significant subject it is.
Some level of the feeling of unworthiness is universal. The reason is not hard to spot. From the time we left the womb we were carefully taught we are unworthy. Most of us try to break the chain and raise our children without shame or guilt. Some of us are fairly successful. Then we have the larger culture. Imbuing children with a sense of unworthiness and exploiting it, is the major method of control by our social institutions. For most teachers, ministers, priest etc. it is not a conscious process and they may be affronted if it was suggested they did so. We pass on our problem with unworthiness whether we like it or not.
We can divide our feelings of unworthiness in two rather rough categories. Those who are primarily ashamed and those who primarily feel guilty. Those of us who feel guilty think we are unworthy because of certain acts we performed. Those of us who feel ashamed feel our very being is bad.
The guilty can correct their behavior and change the way they act. The ashamed must give up the idea they learned about their being.
I feel it is important to insert at this point that shame and guilt are utter nonsense. They are methods of control and not real. It is important to understand this intellectually, despite their feeling of reality in our illusion.
This subject is difficult to address in a blog. Yet I know the Holiday season is the right time to do it. When everybody is being joyous and we are just pretending, something is wrong. We may not be aware that we feel unworthy. As we grow and discover those are not good feelings to have, instead of growing out of them, we may hide them from ourselves as unacceptable.
This blog is about our attachment to unworthiness. Unworthiness is painful. It is so horrible why would anybody hang on to it? We can list a thousand reasons why we should give up our sense of unworthiness. Can we find the reason why we would hang on to it?
Let us start with a default position. Some of us who raised ourselves from painful beginnings and feel like we have done a pretty good job of growing up and we did; still have that hurt confused child deep inside us. When threatened we can resort to our default position. This confused child has been smoothed out, it is not real obvious to us. We can resort to our default position and only be aware of some defensiveness.
Part of getting use to feeling bad about ourselves, is learning to control others, with the very feelings our adult selves say we would like to grow out of. Some people are afraid of giving up the power they have, to use shame and guilt, to control others.
When we have an inability to stay happy, we are into some version of an unworthiness program. When we find ourselves persistently falling back into the glooms, we must ask ourselves why we are hanging onto our unworthiness. With some of us its familiar. We identify the feeling with who we are. That is how we negotiate the world. If we feel it is part of our connection with others, as guilt can be, it may feel giving up the feeling is giving up connection.
If we have had difficulty in maintaining our happiness. We need to be honest with ourselves. Ask,"What is in it for me to feel unworthy?" Honestly confronting ourselves will facilitate growth.
So what is the answer? Love is the answer. This is not a simplistic solution. It is the only solution. We need to love ourselves. We need to find out how to love ourselves. Loving ourselves means being kind to ourselves. Loving ourselves means not torturing ourselves with thoughts. Loving ourselves means giving up a past we cannot change. Loving ourselves means giving up fear in any form.
We are on a learning planet. We are learning what love is. Love will take us through the learning we need, to give up our sense of unworthiness, once and for all.
It is helpful to suggest to ourselves frequently that we are Love. With intent and focus we can learn to feel the love flowing through us. Meditation is very helpful in finding that place inside us that is vast and quiet; utterly peaceful.
Remember we are one. Learning to love ourselves is learning to love everyone. We can best give up our own sense of unworthiness by seeing the worthiness in everybody else.
Happiness is our natural state. Don't settle for less.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, December 27, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
REJOICE!
Awaken! Rejoice! We are about to awaken from our long sleep. A sleep in which we forgot who we were. A sleep, sometimes a nightmare, where we forgot we were love. Have we not reached the tipping point? Do you notice that more of us yearn to be awake to Love, than wish to continue the slumber?
Rejoice, celebrate, throw yourself into enjoying life. Yes, sometimes, some of us may celebrate excessively. Look beyond the seemingly inappropriate; celebration swells the heart and extends love to all. Christmas is a time of year when peoples of all faiths and nationalities celebrate. Even before the Christian era the return of the Sun was celebrated all across the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere they would celebrate the Summer Solstice. It is a time when the World glows with Love.
Celebration raises the consciousness. All humanity benefits from our celebration. Celebration helps us awaken to the love that surrounds us. The love that is ours as part of source.
I expected to be snowed in today. However, my plowman had an emergency job in the neighborhood so he called and asked if I wanted to get plowed out. When he arrived I was writing this missive. I hit publish, instead of save. Some might have been greeted to a very short blog. Well perhaps they will look again.
For the first time in many years we are not entertaining a group for Christmas. Our situation is somewhat unsettled by the incomplete building project. And for reasons, I don't quite understand, we have been very busy these last few months. It has at times bordered on hectic. We are enjoying a quiet Christmas. We had oyster stew last night, preceded by hors d'ouevres and Tom and Jerrys and accompanied by Christmas music. This Morning has been dominated by the enthusiasm of a six year old finding the bounty Santa left him.
We are having roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding for dinner. I bought a nine pound rolled rump roast. A little big for the four of us. We will have leftovers for a week.
Feel the love that is available. If we are momentarily stressed
all we need to do is sit quietly for a few moments. We are surrounded by love. It is as if the universe has arms that reach down and comfort us. We are part of the everything. We are one with Source. Know that great happiness awaits us. We are on the verge of a great breakthrough in consciousness. Even the cynics among us will acknowledge the light.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Rejoice, celebrate, throw yourself into enjoying life. Yes, sometimes, some of us may celebrate excessively. Look beyond the seemingly inappropriate; celebration swells the heart and extends love to all. Christmas is a time of year when peoples of all faiths and nationalities celebrate. Even before the Christian era the return of the Sun was celebrated all across the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere they would celebrate the Summer Solstice. It is a time when the World glows with Love.
Celebration raises the consciousness. All humanity benefits from our celebration. Celebration helps us awaken to the love that surrounds us. The love that is ours as part of source.
I expected to be snowed in today. However, my plowman had an emergency job in the neighborhood so he called and asked if I wanted to get plowed out. When he arrived I was writing this missive. I hit publish, instead of save. Some might have been greeted to a very short blog. Well perhaps they will look again.
For the first time in many years we are not entertaining a group for Christmas. Our situation is somewhat unsettled by the incomplete building project. And for reasons, I don't quite understand, we have been very busy these last few months. It has at times bordered on hectic. We are enjoying a quiet Christmas. We had oyster stew last night, preceded by hors d'ouevres and Tom and Jerrys and accompanied by Christmas music. This Morning has been dominated by the enthusiasm of a six year old finding the bounty Santa left him.
We are having roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding for dinner. I bought a nine pound rolled rump roast. A little big for the four of us. We will have leftovers for a week.
Feel the love that is available. If we are momentarily stressed
all we need to do is sit quietly for a few moments. We are surrounded by love. It is as if the universe has arms that reach down and comfort us. We are part of the everything. We are one with Source. Know that great happiness awaits us. We are on the verge of a great breakthrough in consciousness. Even the cynics among us will acknowledge the light.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, December 23, 2013
THE PROMISE
I awoke this Morning feeling discouraged. I permitted a veil of negativity to enfold me. Of course in a short time I figured out how to get in a fight with Jamie so I could out-picture my feelings and find resolution. It wasn't a real fight, just a little squabble about how we see the world. She was firmly on the right path, I was burrowing through the brambles. All is well.
We have these minds that are in conflict. Part of us believes in the promise. Another part, the ego is attached to separation and therefore vulnerable to the machinations of the dark.
Celebrating the abundance of the universe during this time of dim light is an ancient tradition. The celebration reinforces the knowledge that the world is one of abundance and our Mother Earth gives us everything with great love.
Celebration, also, acknowledges the the return of the Sun. The Christian tradition celebrates the return of the Son. Scholars and theologians have often related the two events and pointed out that the Jesus story is told in many other traditions using other symbolism. It occurs in Greek, Hindu, Egyptian and Iroquoian mythology.
I don't question the reality of Jesus as a real person. But then I don't think that matters either as what is important is the teaching. The teaching of all these traditions is that man is stuck in duality. His real essence is eclipsed by the belief he is limited and an unworthy being. His real essence is love, as he is part of Source that is Love. It is remarkable that Jesus taught nothing but love. He told us we were all worthy. Yet religion teaches unworthiness. It states you are born sinful and must earn worthiness. The teachings of Jesus were meant to free us. There is no evidence he meant to start a religion. Religion has kept us in bondage. It taught us unworthiness.
Somewhere in deep in our hearts we have known the truth. All religions contain the truth but I know of none that has practiced it or taught it. Some certainly have started with good intentions but they get embroiled in ideas of their survival and concern themselves with controlling how their followers think rather than helping them think correctly.
We are love. We are one. We are all on a path towards this realization. The return of the Sun/Son promises us the victory of light over darkness. The Promise is on both the level of the Individual and the Whole {all of human kind}. The promise is that each individual will be able to cast the scales from his eyes and see through the veil, see paradise and know s/he is part of Source. When enough folks can 'See' it will reach critical mass. The light will become so intense, we will all 'See'
This is a time to focus on the promise. It is a time when Love is very intense. Everybody is lifted up regardless of their beliefs.
Let us celebrate, let us love, let us rejoice.
Love and Peace, Gregg
We have these minds that are in conflict. Part of us believes in the promise. Another part, the ego is attached to separation and therefore vulnerable to the machinations of the dark.
Celebrating the abundance of the universe during this time of dim light is an ancient tradition. The celebration reinforces the knowledge that the world is one of abundance and our Mother Earth gives us everything with great love.
Celebration, also, acknowledges the the return of the Sun. The Christian tradition celebrates the return of the Son. Scholars and theologians have often related the two events and pointed out that the Jesus story is told in many other traditions using other symbolism. It occurs in Greek, Hindu, Egyptian and Iroquoian mythology.
I don't question the reality of Jesus as a real person. But then I don't think that matters either as what is important is the teaching. The teaching of all these traditions is that man is stuck in duality. His real essence is eclipsed by the belief he is limited and an unworthy being. His real essence is love, as he is part of Source that is Love. It is remarkable that Jesus taught nothing but love. He told us we were all worthy. Yet religion teaches unworthiness. It states you are born sinful and must earn worthiness. The teachings of Jesus were meant to free us. There is no evidence he meant to start a religion. Religion has kept us in bondage. It taught us unworthiness.
Somewhere in deep in our hearts we have known the truth. All religions contain the truth but I know of none that has practiced it or taught it. Some certainly have started with good intentions but they get embroiled in ideas of their survival and concern themselves with controlling how their followers think rather than helping them think correctly.
We are love. We are one. We are all on a path towards this realization. The return of the Sun/Son promises us the victory of light over darkness. The Promise is on both the level of the Individual and the Whole {all of human kind}. The promise is that each individual will be able to cast the scales from his eyes and see through the veil, see paradise and know s/he is part of Source. When enough folks can 'See' it will reach critical mass. The light will become so intense, we will all 'See'
This is a time to focus on the promise. It is a time when Love is very intense. Everybody is lifted up regardless of their beliefs.
Let us celebrate, let us love, let us rejoice.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, December 20, 2013
LET LIFE BE LIFE
It is 6.6 degrees F. It snowed last night, an inch and a half or so. Not enough to plow my one-tenth of a mile driveway, but enough to do some path shoveling. I don't clear paths to the barn or chicken coop, I just trod it down and my toboggan, that I use to carry the jugs of water, helps make a decent path. I like to clear the walkway to the garage.
Everyday is different and life keeps coming to us. Let life be. Just be grateful for it. We are here to learn. Life presents us with what we want to learn. Sometimes we resent life's presentations. We say, "why me"? "How come we have to go through this again?" Do we really want to whine at a benevolent universe?
Once we realize that our attitudes create the pain we feel, the obstacles that life brings us, are surmountable. When we get to the position of being grateful for the opportunity to learn love and to grow, we will find our path smooths out.
We are here to learn and the universe, in cooperation with our higher selves, provides the opportunity. Trying to control life just causes stress; it interferes with learning rather than facilitates it.
We have a lot of rough edges. We grew up in a world of power dominance and control and now we are making the wish to fit into a world of unconditional love. We must see that under the best of circumstances we have much to learn. We are teaching ourselves by bringing these events to us. Sure it seems like these things happen out of the blue; in actuality we are calling them to us.
How about worry? How many of us worry needlessly? We learned from a purely psychological viewpoint that worry has no value. Then when we become more spiritually aware, we find that worry is not only useless, it robs us of our peace and causes the light that we otherwise would be shining on the world to attenuate. Then to top it off, we realize that if we create with our thoughts, we are more likely to bring on what we worry about. Holy cow! Isn't that enough to keep us from worrying?
No, apparently not. We find ourselves worrying on occasion. We have something more to learn. We need to accept life as it comes. We need to ask ourselves, without judgement, "why am I worrying?" What do I have to learn? Am I being controlling? Don't I really believe in a benevolent universe? Don't I really believe in Unconditional Love? Many of us will find the root cause of our worry is not loving ourselves enough. We feel at some level that we deserve punishment. We don't need to figure out why. Guilt is imbued by our culture. Guilt is dangerous nonsense. We need to focus on loving ourselves.
When we truly love ourselves, we won't be able to imagine any bad thing happening. Nothing can disturb our peace. We know that the love that surrounds us is something we not only deserve, it is ours and only we can disturb it.
Don't worry. Wrap yourself in a blanket of love. You are entitled to it.
Happy Friday everyone.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Everyday is different and life keeps coming to us. Let life be. Just be grateful for it. We are here to learn. Life presents us with what we want to learn. Sometimes we resent life's presentations. We say, "why me"? "How come we have to go through this again?" Do we really want to whine at a benevolent universe?
Once we realize that our attitudes create the pain we feel, the obstacles that life brings us, are surmountable. When we get to the position of being grateful for the opportunity to learn love and to grow, we will find our path smooths out.
We are here to learn and the universe, in cooperation with our higher selves, provides the opportunity. Trying to control life just causes stress; it interferes with learning rather than facilitates it.
We have a lot of rough edges. We grew up in a world of power dominance and control and now we are making the wish to fit into a world of unconditional love. We must see that under the best of circumstances we have much to learn. We are teaching ourselves by bringing these events to us. Sure it seems like these things happen out of the blue; in actuality we are calling them to us.
How about worry? How many of us worry needlessly? We learned from a purely psychological viewpoint that worry has no value. Then when we become more spiritually aware, we find that worry is not only useless, it robs us of our peace and causes the light that we otherwise would be shining on the world to attenuate. Then to top it off, we realize that if we create with our thoughts, we are more likely to bring on what we worry about. Holy cow! Isn't that enough to keep us from worrying?
No, apparently not. We find ourselves worrying on occasion. We have something more to learn. We need to accept life as it comes. We need to ask ourselves, without judgement, "why am I worrying?" What do I have to learn? Am I being controlling? Don't I really believe in a benevolent universe? Don't I really believe in Unconditional Love? Many of us will find the root cause of our worry is not loving ourselves enough. We feel at some level that we deserve punishment. We don't need to figure out why. Guilt is imbued by our culture. Guilt is dangerous nonsense. We need to focus on loving ourselves.
When we truly love ourselves, we won't be able to imagine any bad thing happening. Nothing can disturb our peace. We know that the love that surrounds us is something we not only deserve, it is ours and only we can disturb it.
Don't worry. Wrap yourself in a blanket of love. You are entitled to it.
Happy Friday everyone.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
THE NEAR FUTURE
We went out to eat last night to celebrate Elijah's sixth birthday. We had great time and Elijah got a free piece of pie. It means I don't have many dishes to do today. I am a little late getting started on this blog. It is not because I had more chores to do. Its probably due to that extra cup of coffee I had before the chores started. I love that early part of the Morning when we sit around preparing for the day. Sometimes I do the crossword puzzle, sometimes we chat. We discovered our phone was out last night and it is still out. Jamie and I don't have a cell phone. Naomi does. Trouble is we are in a dead zone. Rarely can Naomi get enough signal to call out. Today, as luck would have it, she was able to call out. Hopefully, we will have phone service soon.
I wish I were a prophet sometimes. Although, there is little hint of it in the main stream media, there is reason to believe a world wide banking collapse could commence anytime. I don't think we will get through the year 2014 without fundamental change.
If the old world collapses, what then? I have often thought we needed a network of learning centers to help us reorient our thinking. How do we do that when we have no idea what is going to happen? We need a complete psychological, philosophical, medical, technical, nutritional, environmental overhaul. I probably forgot something but I am sure you got the picture. Once were out of the matrix, we will perceive a new world.
We don't know what is going to happen but we do know the world that we see now is insane. Basic to any learning center would be helping people see the world with love. What does that mean and where do we start?
I think we need to start with our bodies. Although, we are learning that we are not bodies but spirit; our bodies are very real to us and they are our point of reference in the world. Our bodies have been terribly neglected. We spend billions and billions on healthcare. Yet we have made little progress towards making a healthy populace. When medicine married capitalism it lost its soul. Medical practitioners deserve a decent living like the rest of us; however, profit cannot be their motive. I know many people in the healing arts and I don't know anybody who is driven by profit. Yet the superstructure made up of insurance companies, drug companies, equipment manufactures, banks, hospital chains, some clinics exist only to make money.
Over the last two thousand years we have lost much in the healing arts. First it was the church that attempted to erase all traditional healing they could not themselves control. Then a miss-application of science occurred that led to an absurd form of reductionism, about processes, we barely were beginning to understand. Then, finally, capitalism paralyzed any real progress. If money can't be made it is not done.
So I would think the first place to focus would be the healing of the body {with awareness that the body and mind are one}. There is a resurgence of knowledge in the healing arts. We are relearning things that were lost and ancient methods of healing are becoming known. An understanding of nutrition, alone, could revolutionize how we see illness. We need to start over and see our bodies as part of nature and truly understand what optimal functioning is. We have to discontinue separating the function of the mind from the body. All healing begins in the mind. At the minimum the mind has to have the intent for the body to heal, if healing is to take place.
I can envision a group of healers [representing many approaches and disciplines] coming together and forming communities to attend to the healing of the populace. I would expect that the attitude would be "we are learning". We are learning to heal bodies and learning to live on the earth in a sane way. I would imagine that the healing centers would be near a place where plentiful organically raised foods of good quality are available.
I would expect these learning centers to expand their focus to all aspects of learning needed to live in a world created by love. We will need help in giving up our old beliefs. We don't realize yet how much our old unfounded beliefs are holding us back. It is a very exciting time. We will soon be stepping out into a new world.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I wish I were a prophet sometimes. Although, there is little hint of it in the main stream media, there is reason to believe a world wide banking collapse could commence anytime. I don't think we will get through the year 2014 without fundamental change.
If the old world collapses, what then? I have often thought we needed a network of learning centers to help us reorient our thinking. How do we do that when we have no idea what is going to happen? We need a complete psychological, philosophical, medical, technical, nutritional, environmental overhaul. I probably forgot something but I am sure you got the picture. Once were out of the matrix, we will perceive a new world.
We don't know what is going to happen but we do know the world that we see now is insane. Basic to any learning center would be helping people see the world with love. What does that mean and where do we start?
I think we need to start with our bodies. Although, we are learning that we are not bodies but spirit; our bodies are very real to us and they are our point of reference in the world. Our bodies have been terribly neglected. We spend billions and billions on healthcare. Yet we have made little progress towards making a healthy populace. When medicine married capitalism it lost its soul. Medical practitioners deserve a decent living like the rest of us; however, profit cannot be their motive. I know many people in the healing arts and I don't know anybody who is driven by profit. Yet the superstructure made up of insurance companies, drug companies, equipment manufactures, banks, hospital chains, some clinics exist only to make money.
Over the last two thousand years we have lost much in the healing arts. First it was the church that attempted to erase all traditional healing they could not themselves control. Then a miss-application of science occurred that led to an absurd form of reductionism, about processes, we barely were beginning to understand. Then, finally, capitalism paralyzed any real progress. If money can't be made it is not done.
So I would think the first place to focus would be the healing of the body {with awareness that the body and mind are one}. There is a resurgence of knowledge in the healing arts. We are relearning things that were lost and ancient methods of healing are becoming known. An understanding of nutrition, alone, could revolutionize how we see illness. We need to start over and see our bodies as part of nature and truly understand what optimal functioning is. We have to discontinue separating the function of the mind from the body. All healing begins in the mind. At the minimum the mind has to have the intent for the body to heal, if healing is to take place.
I can envision a group of healers [representing many approaches and disciplines] coming together and forming communities to attend to the healing of the populace. I would expect that the attitude would be "we are learning". We are learning to heal bodies and learning to live on the earth in a sane way. I would imagine that the healing centers would be near a place where plentiful organically raised foods of good quality are available.
I would expect these learning centers to expand their focus to all aspects of learning needed to live in a world created by love. We will need help in giving up our old beliefs. We don't realize yet how much our old unfounded beliefs are holding us back. It is a very exciting time. We will soon be stepping out into a new world.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, December 16, 2013
A WINTRY MORNING
It is a little warmer this Morning than it has been, 8 degrees F. It is snowing and it is beautiful. Jamie needs to go to her piano lesson and get milk from the Amish; hopefully, driving will be fine.
Weather permitting, we will attend our first Christmas party of the year this evening. We have a wonderful time with this group of people and we are looking forward to it.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to write about. The world is so splendorous outside my window, it is hard to see how there could be pain and strife in the world. The folks in my neighborhood are so loving and friendly it is hard to believe that they could be talked into any violence, including war. Yet history tells us they can be convinced that war can be just. How do folks make that leap in their mind?
How is group A convinced that group B should be annihilated? It seems that people are beginning to see the answer. They are beginning to recognize that fear is induced about the other, then played on until it becomes second nature to believe the other is dangerous or evil.
Waking up to how we have been manipulated into fighting our neighbors around the world is one thing. How else have we been manipulated? Billions and billions of dollars are spent attempting to get us to buy what we probably would be better off without. Fear in some subtle form underlies almost all advertising. With drugs and other medicines it is fear of risking your health. With automobiles, furnishings, appliances it is fear that you will lose status if you don't have the latest.
We are made to be aware of our relative worth to an ego-centered world and advertisers play on that consciousness. Are we attractive enough? Do we have the right job? Are we sexy? Are we too sexy? Do we have enough money? Do our neighbors look down on us? Do we get enough exercise? Are we eating right? Are we getting enough sleep? Are we too fat? Too skinny? Whatever our fear and insecurity is, some advertiser is trying to exploit that aspect of us to make money.
Think about that. Think about how our thoughts and beliefs are inculcated to make somebody money. Then, if corporations do this to make money, what are people in power willing to do to maintain their control? What kind of distortions are governments, religions and other institutions willing to foment in order to keep us under control? How have our ideas and thoughts of the world been altered to maintain people in power?
At the base, we know that the solution is to Love. Love doesn't allow fear. Love undercuts all this manipulation. The old world is waning. The forces that maintained the old world are losing control. How can we hasten the demise of the old world and help the new world of Love emerge?
We have to accept something that may be difficult for some. We can't trust what we believe. The way we look at the world has been manipulated by those who want to make money from our existence and keep us under control. Accept the fact that we know nothing.
Sure we know the basics of bodily survival; if you touch a hot stove you will get burnt etc. But our beliefs about who we are, our purpose, our reason for being have been largely shaped by those in control.
We can use a simple exercise. Look at what we believe. Is it Love. Love will not limit anybodies freedom, ours or theirs. Love contains no judgement. If what we believe is not love, it cannot be true. We must be scrupulous. We have been convinced of much nonsense. Let us start over; look at the world with love. That is all there is.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Weather permitting, we will attend our first Christmas party of the year this evening. We have a wonderful time with this group of people and we are looking forward to it.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to write about. The world is so splendorous outside my window, it is hard to see how there could be pain and strife in the world. The folks in my neighborhood are so loving and friendly it is hard to believe that they could be talked into any violence, including war. Yet history tells us they can be convinced that war can be just. How do folks make that leap in their mind?
How is group A convinced that group B should be annihilated? It seems that people are beginning to see the answer. They are beginning to recognize that fear is induced about the other, then played on until it becomes second nature to believe the other is dangerous or evil.
Waking up to how we have been manipulated into fighting our neighbors around the world is one thing. How else have we been manipulated? Billions and billions of dollars are spent attempting to get us to buy what we probably would be better off without. Fear in some subtle form underlies almost all advertising. With drugs and other medicines it is fear of risking your health. With automobiles, furnishings, appliances it is fear that you will lose status if you don't have the latest.
We are made to be aware of our relative worth to an ego-centered world and advertisers play on that consciousness. Are we attractive enough? Do we have the right job? Are we sexy? Are we too sexy? Do we have enough money? Do our neighbors look down on us? Do we get enough exercise? Are we eating right? Are we getting enough sleep? Are we too fat? Too skinny? Whatever our fear and insecurity is, some advertiser is trying to exploit that aspect of us to make money.
Think about that. Think about how our thoughts and beliefs are inculcated to make somebody money. Then, if corporations do this to make money, what are people in power willing to do to maintain their control? What kind of distortions are governments, religions and other institutions willing to foment in order to keep us under control? How have our ideas and thoughts of the world been altered to maintain people in power?
At the base, we know that the solution is to Love. Love doesn't allow fear. Love undercuts all this manipulation. The old world is waning. The forces that maintained the old world are losing control. How can we hasten the demise of the old world and help the new world of Love emerge?
We have to accept something that may be difficult for some. We can't trust what we believe. The way we look at the world has been manipulated by those who want to make money from our existence and keep us under control. Accept the fact that we know nothing.
Sure we know the basics of bodily survival; if you touch a hot stove you will get burnt etc. But our beliefs about who we are, our purpose, our reason for being have been largely shaped by those in control.
We can use a simple exercise. Look at what we believe. Is it Love. Love will not limit anybodies freedom, ours or theirs. Love contains no judgement. If what we believe is not love, it cannot be true. We must be scrupulous. We have been convinced of much nonsense. Let us start over; look at the world with love. That is all there is.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, December 13, 2013
DISCOVERING WHO WE ARE
I have stated here that we are magnificent beings of light. What does that mean? Who are we? If we are part of source and if source is Unconditional Love, then at a minimum we must be Love. Our teachers down through the ages have taught us that we share the same creative power of Source.
How much of this do we realize? We read inspirational literature. We have moments of clarity. Every once in awhile we feel unconditional love. It becomes clear to us how love works and we become determined to stay in love. Then our wife, husband, girl friend, boy friend, colleague says something that pushes our buttons and its gone. Geeeze, how are we suppose to know love when all around us are jerks?
Just kidding, of course, but it seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? We are all struggling with the veil our egos have made to keep us from seeing who we are. When we feel full of love and we go into a grocery store or among strangers, everyone seems to respond. They shine their love right back. It is very reinforcing. It seems only the most entrenched won't respond.
With our family and friends its different, why? Our family and close friends have a learning contract with us. We selected each other to learn how to love. We learn how to love from each other but we, also, challenge each others egos. We have a history with each other. We have a paradoxical situation. We expect absolute acceptance, but we have our guard up. We don't quite believe it. This may not look like a good situation, but it actually is, because it shortens the learning time. In successful relationships, we see when the other is temporarily insane and we look past it and send love to them. In other relationships [they are also successful in their way], the temporary insanity triggers the partners insanity. They clash, given time, most learn. By temporary insanity, I mean any state that is not loving and peaceful; that is our natural state.
There is only love. Behavior that is not love, is a call for love. When we really understand this, our egos will not be triggered by the others behavior when it is not loving. We will see their invitation to create conflict as evidence they are not loving themselves. We will send love to them rather than engage with their ego.
Understanding this concept intellectually does not immediately free us. Don't be disappointed. Many of us have spent a lifetime defending against presumed insults. We are on autopilot. We react. With intent, we can learn to create a pause and send love rather than respond to the challenge.
The permanent solution is knowing who we are. If we know we are part of Source; part of all that is; pure creative energy. How could we react except with love? We see that everyone else is Love. We see through the masquerade their ego may be presenting at the moment and respond to the love they are.
Pausing at least twice a day to quiet our minds and feel the silence is very helpful. It needn't be a formal meditation. It helps to just sit and relax, with our eyes closed. We can release the content of our minds. Let love and peace flow up from the depth of our beings. Ask gently, who am I. Listen with your heart.
Let us remind ourselves several times a day that we are Love. All other thought and behavior is not us. It is not real. The only reality is Love. All that is not love will pass away. It is not real and can only exist with the energy we give it.
Here on Laughing Water Farm, we are experiencing a heat wave. It is 11 degrees F at this moment. It reached 17 yesterday. That was a big improvement over the preceding days when it didn't get above zero. Normal highs are just below thirty. I don't think normal highs are in the forecast.
The contractor returned to work on our addition this week, after a two week hiatus. They just need to put the flooring in and complete the shower stall and get the plumbing fixtures in. All the plumbing and wiring is roughed in. There shouldn't be much to completing the project.
I need to get at my dishes. Then we are going to school to see their Christmas program. Elijah, our grandson, is participating along with his kindergarten class.
Love and Peace, Gregg
How much of this do we realize? We read inspirational literature. We have moments of clarity. Every once in awhile we feel unconditional love. It becomes clear to us how love works and we become determined to stay in love. Then our wife, husband, girl friend, boy friend, colleague says something that pushes our buttons and its gone. Geeeze, how are we suppose to know love when all around us are jerks?
Just kidding, of course, but it seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? We are all struggling with the veil our egos have made to keep us from seeing who we are. When we feel full of love and we go into a grocery store or among strangers, everyone seems to respond. They shine their love right back. It is very reinforcing. It seems only the most entrenched won't respond.
With our family and friends its different, why? Our family and close friends have a learning contract with us. We selected each other to learn how to love. We learn how to love from each other but we, also, challenge each others egos. We have a history with each other. We have a paradoxical situation. We expect absolute acceptance, but we have our guard up. We don't quite believe it. This may not look like a good situation, but it actually is, because it shortens the learning time. In successful relationships, we see when the other is temporarily insane and we look past it and send love to them. In other relationships [they are also successful in their way], the temporary insanity triggers the partners insanity. They clash, given time, most learn. By temporary insanity, I mean any state that is not loving and peaceful; that is our natural state.
There is only love. Behavior that is not love, is a call for love. When we really understand this, our egos will not be triggered by the others behavior when it is not loving. We will see their invitation to create conflict as evidence they are not loving themselves. We will send love to them rather than engage with their ego.
Understanding this concept intellectually does not immediately free us. Don't be disappointed. Many of us have spent a lifetime defending against presumed insults. We are on autopilot. We react. With intent, we can learn to create a pause and send love rather than respond to the challenge.
The permanent solution is knowing who we are. If we know we are part of Source; part of all that is; pure creative energy. How could we react except with love? We see that everyone else is Love. We see through the masquerade their ego may be presenting at the moment and respond to the love they are.
Pausing at least twice a day to quiet our minds and feel the silence is very helpful. It needn't be a formal meditation. It helps to just sit and relax, with our eyes closed. We can release the content of our minds. Let love and peace flow up from the depth of our beings. Ask gently, who am I. Listen with your heart.
Let us remind ourselves several times a day that we are Love. All other thought and behavior is not us. It is not real. The only reality is Love. All that is not love will pass away. It is not real and can only exist with the energy we give it.
Here on Laughing Water Farm, we are experiencing a heat wave. It is 11 degrees F at this moment. It reached 17 yesterday. That was a big improvement over the preceding days when it didn't get above zero. Normal highs are just below thirty. I don't think normal highs are in the forecast.
The contractor returned to work on our addition this week, after a two week hiatus. They just need to put the flooring in and complete the shower stall and get the plumbing fixtures in. All the plumbing and wiring is roughed in. There shouldn't be much to completing the project.
I need to get at my dishes. Then we are going to school to see their Christmas program. Elijah, our grandson, is participating along with his kindergarten class.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
LET'S NOT BE WAITING
The winter continues its icy grip. It was -15F when I awoke. Now it is a balmy -5. I had to knock the ice out of the chickens water bucket as well as the goats. I usually let the chickens out on sunny days in the Winter, but I haven't seen much point in it this last week. There is too much snow for them to go anywhere and I don't want to let more cold in the coop.
In the onset of a more gradual Winter the sheep keep the snow in the area around the chicken coop packed down and make a nice path to the barn. The chickens have an opportunity to roam around without wading in deep snow, chickens don't like to have snow up to their shanks. They like to go in the barn in the Winter and scratch around. I will probably let the chickens out later in the week when it gets a little warmer.
I have been warm and comfortable doing the chores despite the cold and wind. A while back, seven years ago[?], I bought a knee length goose down coat from Eddie Bauer. It was an off season purchase. I think I paid $90 for a $300 coat. It seemed too nice to wear for work around the farm. I thought I would wear it for good [whatever that means]. And when is that? When we go some place we are in a warm car. I think I wore it once. It has been hanging in my closet gathering dust. I had forgotten about it until Jamie urged me to wear it on the first sub-zero windy day. It is great. There is nothing like a good warm coat when one needs to be outside.
There is a moral here somewhere. Haven't we at times waited for something before we could be happy? Waited for vacation to relax? Waited for the kids to grow before expressing artistic abilities? Waiting for time to read that book? Waiting for a holiday as an excuse to make that sumptuous desert?
Sure we can't do two things at once. When we are busy changing diapers, we can't paint a picture. But do we have to wait until the last diaper is changed? The kid does take a nap, doesn't s/he? Who says we have to wait? Always waiting for a weekend or vacation to relax means we are missing most of our life. Of course it is a state of mind. We can be happy anytime. We have been conditioned to think we can only relax under certain circumstances. Some of us push off into the future a time when we can enjoy ourselves. I can tell you stories of people who did this; the future they were hoping for never came.
One thing we learn by living in the moment is that we can always be peaceful. Happiness is always available. For most of us that is a goal not a reality. Always being in the moment takes learning and mental discipline; we will get there. In the meantime we are involved in expectations of a future reality and not always happy with the present. Let's take a look at ourselves. Are we waiting to be happy this evening? This weekend? After the kids grow up? When we retire?
Chasing a carrot on the end of a stick has been the conditioning of our society. We have been lulled into a tortured complacency chasing what may never come. It is a subtle means of control which has kept the natives[us] from getting too restless.
Let us not do it anymore. Regardless of what we find ourselves doing; there is also being. Our being, our state of mind can be joyful. Why would we want to put off being happy?
Stop! Time is an illusion! Right now it is racing by for many of us. Now is eternity. Most of us may not be ready to see the truth of this. But most of us can clearly see, that finding love in this moment, makes life precious. Being in love every moment is heaven. Seeing every person we meet as long lost friends; friends bearing love and joy is our truth. We don't have to wait for heaven. It has been here all the time. Let us open our eyes, our hearts and minds and welcome this reality. It is ours. It is what we created with Source.
Love and Peace, Gregg
In the onset of a more gradual Winter the sheep keep the snow in the area around the chicken coop packed down and make a nice path to the barn. The chickens have an opportunity to roam around without wading in deep snow, chickens don't like to have snow up to their shanks. They like to go in the barn in the Winter and scratch around. I will probably let the chickens out later in the week when it gets a little warmer.
I have been warm and comfortable doing the chores despite the cold and wind. A while back, seven years ago[?], I bought a knee length goose down coat from Eddie Bauer. It was an off season purchase. I think I paid $90 for a $300 coat. It seemed too nice to wear for work around the farm. I thought I would wear it for good [whatever that means]. And when is that? When we go some place we are in a warm car. I think I wore it once. It has been hanging in my closet gathering dust. I had forgotten about it until Jamie urged me to wear it on the first sub-zero windy day. It is great. There is nothing like a good warm coat when one needs to be outside.
There is a moral here somewhere. Haven't we at times waited for something before we could be happy? Waited for vacation to relax? Waited for the kids to grow before expressing artistic abilities? Waiting for time to read that book? Waiting for a holiday as an excuse to make that sumptuous desert?
Sure we can't do two things at once. When we are busy changing diapers, we can't paint a picture. But do we have to wait until the last diaper is changed? The kid does take a nap, doesn't s/he? Who says we have to wait? Always waiting for a weekend or vacation to relax means we are missing most of our life. Of course it is a state of mind. We can be happy anytime. We have been conditioned to think we can only relax under certain circumstances. Some of us push off into the future a time when we can enjoy ourselves. I can tell you stories of people who did this; the future they were hoping for never came.
One thing we learn by living in the moment is that we can always be peaceful. Happiness is always available. For most of us that is a goal not a reality. Always being in the moment takes learning and mental discipline; we will get there. In the meantime we are involved in expectations of a future reality and not always happy with the present. Let's take a look at ourselves. Are we waiting to be happy this evening? This weekend? After the kids grow up? When we retire?
Chasing a carrot on the end of a stick has been the conditioning of our society. We have been lulled into a tortured complacency chasing what may never come. It is a subtle means of control which has kept the natives[us] from getting too restless.
Let us not do it anymore. Regardless of what we find ourselves doing; there is also being. Our being, our state of mind can be joyful. Why would we want to put off being happy?
Stop! Time is an illusion! Right now it is racing by for many of us. Now is eternity. Most of us may not be ready to see the truth of this. But most of us can clearly see, that finding love in this moment, makes life precious. Being in love every moment is heaven. Seeing every person we meet as long lost friends; friends bearing love and joy is our truth. We don't have to wait for heaven. It has been here all the time. Let us open our eyes, our hearts and minds and welcome this reality. It is ours. It is what we created with Source.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, December 9, 2013
SUDDENNESS OF WINTER
In nearly eight decades on planet Earth, I have not experienced a more sudden onset of Winter. We have had early cold weather several times. In the early eighties it got down to -40F about this time of year. We have had many twenty below days in December. But this is the complete picture, suddenly we are transported to the middle of January.
I am talking about many little things, like the difficulty in open the barn door, the sticking of the gates. I am not sure I can describe it, but I experience little problems that normally don't occur until mid-winter.
Saturday it didn't get above zero and today it might not. We have a geothermal heat pump. It serves us well down to -10 and even -15 if it is not windy. For people who would be satisfied with a 68ish temperature it would be fine. We like it toasty. So when we have these sub-zero conditions we fire up one of the wood stoves. We have two. This is not a criticism of the geothermal system, it is great. The old part of our house is over a hundred years old. It has blown in insulation that would be stopped by any cross pieces between the studs. We didn't notice the problem when we heated with wood [over twenty years]. We kept that old house toasty all the time. When we built on in the early nineties and put in the heat pump we noticed the cold spots. Jamie has gone around figuring out how to insulate the worst of them; a few remain.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to blog about. If we look for the love in the world, we see steady progress towards the new world of love. If we look for strife and violence, it looks like the old world will never end. Regardless of which is 'reality', seeing a world of love is much more pleasant. And if we all saw a world of love, wouldn't it be ours? We must know that this illusion is ours. We can make it what we want. It is a picture we paint or a movie we produce. It is ours, we need to claim it. Regardless of how we see it now, it is ours.
We split off from Source with free will and the ability to create anything. We explored separateness to the max. We made a horrible mess. We forgot Love. We experienced every kind of divisiveness, conflict and violence that separation could bring us. We made a decision that we want no more of that. We decided to search for love.
If we look at our poetry, music, philosophy and literature, we can see that we have always known love was the answer. We were not quite ready. We had more to learn from separation. We are ready now!
Love is now the driving force. The majority of our people want a loving world. The consciousness of humanity is rising swiftly.
We have a choice, moment to moment, to see love or strife [fear]. As we go through our day, let us pay attention to our minds. Are our minds loving or troubled? It only takes a moment to find mental peace. If you are troubled by an influx of troublesome thoughts, say to yourself, "all is well". Continue repeating it to yourself until you feel peaceful. Love will flood in. Each time we find peace in our mind, we bring peace to humanity. We are all together, our reality is Love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I am talking about many little things, like the difficulty in open the barn door, the sticking of the gates. I am not sure I can describe it, but I experience little problems that normally don't occur until mid-winter.
Saturday it didn't get above zero and today it might not. We have a geothermal heat pump. It serves us well down to -10 and even -15 if it is not windy. For people who would be satisfied with a 68ish temperature it would be fine. We like it toasty. So when we have these sub-zero conditions we fire up one of the wood stoves. We have two. This is not a criticism of the geothermal system, it is great. The old part of our house is over a hundred years old. It has blown in insulation that would be stopped by any cross pieces between the studs. We didn't notice the problem when we heated with wood [over twenty years]. We kept that old house toasty all the time. When we built on in the early nineties and put in the heat pump we noticed the cold spots. Jamie has gone around figuring out how to insulate the worst of them; a few remain.
I am sitting here without the slightest idea of what to blog about. If we look for the love in the world, we see steady progress towards the new world of love. If we look for strife and violence, it looks like the old world will never end. Regardless of which is 'reality', seeing a world of love is much more pleasant. And if we all saw a world of love, wouldn't it be ours? We must know that this illusion is ours. We can make it what we want. It is a picture we paint or a movie we produce. It is ours, we need to claim it. Regardless of how we see it now, it is ours.
We split off from Source with free will and the ability to create anything. We explored separateness to the max. We made a horrible mess. We forgot Love. We experienced every kind of divisiveness, conflict and violence that separation could bring us. We made a decision that we want no more of that. We decided to search for love.
If we look at our poetry, music, philosophy and literature, we can see that we have always known love was the answer. We were not quite ready. We had more to learn from separation. We are ready now!
Love is now the driving force. The majority of our people want a loving world. The consciousness of humanity is rising swiftly.
We have a choice, moment to moment, to see love or strife [fear]. As we go through our day, let us pay attention to our minds. Are our minds loving or troubled? It only takes a moment to find mental peace. If you are troubled by an influx of troublesome thoughts, say to yourself, "all is well". Continue repeating it to yourself until you feel peaceful. Love will flood in. Each time we find peace in our mind, we bring peace to humanity. We are all together, our reality is Love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, December 6, 2013
WINTER ADVENTURES
Cold, clear and beautiful this Morning. It was 13 below zero F when Jamie got up at 6:30. I lulled in bed until it got to a balmy 10 below. I had to get out there and take care of the animals early. Sometimes on a Winter day I can wait until mid-morning before I check on them. Generally they have everything they need. However, when it is much below zero the water freezes in the chicken coop and I don't want a flock of thirsty irritated chickens on my hands. About forty chickens give off enough heat to keep the water from freezing until it gets around zero F. Chickens don't seem to get irritated but they will really go for the water if it has been frozen over.
Went it comes to water, sheep and goats are a puzzle. Unless they are lactating, they don't drink on a predictable basis. I water them using rubber tubs that hold about six gallons. If I remember, I empty them at night so they won't freeze. I didn't empty the goat water. This Morning it was frozen to the top, I don't think they drank a drop of water in a couple days. I have to lift up the tub and slam it on a stump or a rock or something to break the ice out. When there is this much snow, it doesn't do any good just to slam it on the ground. It took several tries to break the ice out. Wisely I filled it only half full with warm water, if they don't drink it, it will be easier to get the ice out. I have had sheep that preferred to eat snow in the Winter, but you don't know what you got until you can find that out. I have had other sheep that would never eat snow. I know goats prefer water. Both would probably eat snow in an emergency, but I could not withhold water from them to find out. Any way hauling water is all part of the Winter adventure, it keeps the body functioning.
Every season has its routine. In the Winter I have to haul water and hay out to my animals. I use a toboggan, it is made of heavy black plastic[?] it was designed to be pulled behind a snowmobile. It works very well except it is hard to pull on fresh snow. After you create a path, it glides along pretty well. I have about a hundred yards to travel to the barn and chicken coop.
Back in about 1980, I learned that vulnerability was strength. I understood the principle and believed it, but it didn't penetrate very deeply into my psyche. It has only been recently that I have appreciated how much I have my guard up, especially when it comes to some people. From my perspective, it wasn't obvious that I had my guard up. But when I looked at my reactions to certain things people might say, it was obvious.
What are we protecting, when we are defensive? When others are defensive, we might think they are silly. Do we see that when we are being defensive? I marvel how it can work with Jamie and me sometimes. One of us will say something off hand, perhaps innocently, the other reacts defensively, then the first one reacts to the reaction and away we go. We have had glorious fights over nothing. I use the word glorious, because we are glorious. Human beings are marvelous beings of light. Even when we are nuts, we are amazing.
Being vulnerable is knowing the truth. No one can really hurt us. We can only hurt ourselves. We create far more havoc by reacting defensively and experience more hurt and negativity, than we would if would see the other persons attack as their problem. We attack because we don't feel loved. All attack is a call for love.
So being vulnerable means letting down our guard. It is knowing we are lovable and that knowing cannot be attacked. If someone does attack it is clear it is their problem, they are coming from a place of lack. They are calling for love. A loving look, gesture or comment is all that is needed.
How do we become so confident in our lovableness that we can permit ourselves to be vulnerable? How can we be so peaceful that our boats won't be rocked by an errant remark? I think it is a question of authorship. If we accept that we are part of source and that source is unconditional love, are we not love? Okay, we might understand that intellectually, how do we feel it? How do we make it true for us?
Those of us who have experienced meditation may have discovered the peace and love, the immense quiet, the vastness that seems to be our reality. That realization can help in realizing the unconditional love, that Is. That Is, is Source.
Any of us, accomplished meditators or not, can learn to feel the love of Source. Close your eyes imagine you are like a planet circling a Sun. The Sun is love. Feel the warmth on your body. Feel the love penetrating your being. Spend some time every day just focusing on Love. Feel the Love of Source {God if you prefer} radiating and penetrating your being, making you one with its vastness.
We have nothing to be defensive about. Our vulnerability is our strength.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Went it comes to water, sheep and goats are a puzzle. Unless they are lactating, they don't drink on a predictable basis. I water them using rubber tubs that hold about six gallons. If I remember, I empty them at night so they won't freeze. I didn't empty the goat water. This Morning it was frozen to the top, I don't think they drank a drop of water in a couple days. I have to lift up the tub and slam it on a stump or a rock or something to break the ice out. When there is this much snow, it doesn't do any good just to slam it on the ground. It took several tries to break the ice out. Wisely I filled it only half full with warm water, if they don't drink it, it will be easier to get the ice out. I have had sheep that preferred to eat snow in the Winter, but you don't know what you got until you can find that out. I have had other sheep that would never eat snow. I know goats prefer water. Both would probably eat snow in an emergency, but I could not withhold water from them to find out. Any way hauling water is all part of the Winter adventure, it keeps the body functioning.
Every season has its routine. In the Winter I have to haul water and hay out to my animals. I use a toboggan, it is made of heavy black plastic[?] it was designed to be pulled behind a snowmobile. It works very well except it is hard to pull on fresh snow. After you create a path, it glides along pretty well. I have about a hundred yards to travel to the barn and chicken coop.
Back in about 1980, I learned that vulnerability was strength. I understood the principle and believed it, but it didn't penetrate very deeply into my psyche. It has only been recently that I have appreciated how much I have my guard up, especially when it comes to some people. From my perspective, it wasn't obvious that I had my guard up. But when I looked at my reactions to certain things people might say, it was obvious.
What are we protecting, when we are defensive? When others are defensive, we might think they are silly. Do we see that when we are being defensive? I marvel how it can work with Jamie and me sometimes. One of us will say something off hand, perhaps innocently, the other reacts defensively, then the first one reacts to the reaction and away we go. We have had glorious fights over nothing. I use the word glorious, because we are glorious. Human beings are marvelous beings of light. Even when we are nuts, we are amazing.
Being vulnerable is knowing the truth. No one can really hurt us. We can only hurt ourselves. We create far more havoc by reacting defensively and experience more hurt and negativity, than we would if would see the other persons attack as their problem. We attack because we don't feel loved. All attack is a call for love.
So being vulnerable means letting down our guard. It is knowing we are lovable and that knowing cannot be attacked. If someone does attack it is clear it is their problem, they are coming from a place of lack. They are calling for love. A loving look, gesture or comment is all that is needed.
How do we become so confident in our lovableness that we can permit ourselves to be vulnerable? How can we be so peaceful that our boats won't be rocked by an errant remark? I think it is a question of authorship. If we accept that we are part of source and that source is unconditional love, are we not love? Okay, we might understand that intellectually, how do we feel it? How do we make it true for us?
Those of us who have experienced meditation may have discovered the peace and love, the immense quiet, the vastness that seems to be our reality. That realization can help in realizing the unconditional love, that Is. That Is, is Source.
Any of us, accomplished meditators or not, can learn to feel the love of Source. Close your eyes imagine you are like a planet circling a Sun. The Sun is love. Feel the warmth on your body. Feel the love penetrating your being. Spend some time every day just focusing on Love. Feel the Love of Source {God if you prefer} radiating and penetrating your being, making you one with its vastness.
We have nothing to be defensive about. Our vulnerability is our strength.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
COMPLAINING
I awoke this Morning a complainer. Maybe it was the snow. Maybe it was the below zero forecast. Maybe I had a bad dream. I don't know. I didn't complain a lot and about nothing of importance. It wasn't bad enough to get Jamie riled up. It was enough that I had to look at what I was doing and reverse course.
Many of us recognize what happens when we complain. Have you noticed, we find more things to complain about? Complaining affects your perception. Our minds look for things to complain about. If we don't catch ourselves we will drive ourselves crazy and the people near to us will comment on it. This will help us reorganize our thoughts or it will lead to a fight and eventually we will reorganize our thoughts.
The easy way is to catch ourselves before the interaction with others happens. It is easy to do. We just need to be aware of what is going on in our mind.
Instead of being aware of our thoughts, we often act like they are cherished possessions. They are our thoughts we can do with them as we want to, we have every right to complain! All true, but are we going to defend them even when it makes our life miserable?
How we create with our thoughts is a theme we come back to over and over. We need to. Our happiness depends on it. It is the most important work we have to do. Fortunately the love that is pouring down on us, at this point in our evolution, enables us to turn around our thinking fairly easily. Negative thinking is based on some kind of fear. We often don't recognize the fear. If we look at humanity as a whole, we can conjecture that fear was more attractive to our minds than love until recently. About seventy years ago a huge number of beings were born with a message of love. By the sixties this message of love reached a zenith and a backlash seemed to occur. Actually we didn't go back but the message of love went underground. Love being infinitely more powerful than fear soon turned the balance in favor of love.
People have always taught that the solution was love and many books have been written on the theme of positive thinking. However, when the universal mind was still captured by fear, it was difficult for the individual to keep a clean mind. Of course there has always been a great number of people who were able to maintain a positive view of things, but until recently it was harder to get there.
Now the power of love is dominate. When we find our mind going in a negative direction it is easier to correct. Asking help from Source always helps.
Everyone of us needs to find our own method of alerting ourselves that we are temporarily insane [which is what negative thinking is]. Recently I read an article on the importance of peace. If our mind is free of negativity, we radiate peace. Peace in our mind brings peace to those around us. Peace is our natural state and it exist in all of us. I have found that lack of peace is a good clue that something is wrong with my thinking. When I feel the lack of peace I will ask Source to wrap me in love and imbue me with peace. It works!
I don't want the reader to get the impression that I always turn to Source when I lack peace. If I did I would be teaching in some ashram or sitting on a mountain top. No, I sometimes indulge my craziness [certain people close to me would hint that it is more than sometimes]. However, if we are committed to raise our consciousness, we do get better and better at avoiding negativity and having a peaceful mind.
At this moment I am peaceful and in love with the world.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Many of us recognize what happens when we complain. Have you noticed, we find more things to complain about? Complaining affects your perception. Our minds look for things to complain about. If we don't catch ourselves we will drive ourselves crazy and the people near to us will comment on it. This will help us reorganize our thoughts or it will lead to a fight and eventually we will reorganize our thoughts.
The easy way is to catch ourselves before the interaction with others happens. It is easy to do. We just need to be aware of what is going on in our mind.
Instead of being aware of our thoughts, we often act like they are cherished possessions. They are our thoughts we can do with them as we want to, we have every right to complain! All true, but are we going to defend them even when it makes our life miserable?
How we create with our thoughts is a theme we come back to over and over. We need to. Our happiness depends on it. It is the most important work we have to do. Fortunately the love that is pouring down on us, at this point in our evolution, enables us to turn around our thinking fairly easily. Negative thinking is based on some kind of fear. We often don't recognize the fear. If we look at humanity as a whole, we can conjecture that fear was more attractive to our minds than love until recently. About seventy years ago a huge number of beings were born with a message of love. By the sixties this message of love reached a zenith and a backlash seemed to occur. Actually we didn't go back but the message of love went underground. Love being infinitely more powerful than fear soon turned the balance in favor of love.
People have always taught that the solution was love and many books have been written on the theme of positive thinking. However, when the universal mind was still captured by fear, it was difficult for the individual to keep a clean mind. Of course there has always been a great number of people who were able to maintain a positive view of things, but until recently it was harder to get there.
Now the power of love is dominate. When we find our mind going in a negative direction it is easier to correct. Asking help from Source always helps.
Everyone of us needs to find our own method of alerting ourselves that we are temporarily insane [which is what negative thinking is]. Recently I read an article on the importance of peace. If our mind is free of negativity, we radiate peace. Peace in our mind brings peace to those around us. Peace is our natural state and it exist in all of us. I have found that lack of peace is a good clue that something is wrong with my thinking. When I feel the lack of peace I will ask Source to wrap me in love and imbue me with peace. It works!
I don't want the reader to get the impression that I always turn to Source when I lack peace. If I did I would be teaching in some ashram or sitting on a mountain top. No, I sometimes indulge my craziness [certain people close to me would hint that it is more than sometimes]. However, if we are committed to raise our consciousness, we do get better and better at avoiding negativity and having a peaceful mind.
At this moment I am peaceful and in love with the world.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, December 2, 2013
AH..........MONDAY
Well, I had good intentions when I wrote that I would blog sometime this weekend. You know what they say about good intentions. No actually I don't. There is some quip about good intentions, isn't there? I am talking to myself; but then, this blog is mostly about talking to myself. If I would be more diligent about following my advice, I would see better. Learning for me, sometimes, is like wearing away a stone. I make progress, however, like we all do. Like most of the population, I see more and more love in the world.
Friday I was busy doing the Thanksgiving cleanup. Jamie does all the cooking and I do the dish washing etc. It works well for both of us. We had fifteen for dinner so there was quite a pile of dishes. I slowly plodded my way through them, using three wash waters and more rinse waters. Of course, I had to have pie breaks. There were apple, pumpkin, pecan and key lime pie to sample. Plus there was cake; it was my oldest grandsons 25th birthday.
We had a great Thanksgiving celebration! For me it was a true Thanksgiving. A thank you for all the loving, beautiful people that filled our house, I felt the loving hearts of all. It was a great blessing.
Saturday we had to go to Menards and pick up some items for our new addition. We were shocked at the amount of traffic and the number of shoppers in the store. We have never shopped the day after Thanksgiving. The media shouts about Black Friday, we have never been out in it. I assume this was a continuation of the event. I don't get it. I don't mean to judge those who get a kick out of it. They must enjoy it. I just can't imagine wanting to buy anything that bad.
Sunday we had to return to Menards because they couldn't find the special order shower surround. They looked and looked for it Saturday and finally gave up. When we returned home we discovered they had called as they found it. Sunday things seemed more normal, the shopping craze had attenuated.
It is snowing. I think it may be time to feed my goats and sheep hay. I think December 1st is the latest my animals have been able to graze. We have less than half the animals the pasture would support so they were able to graze long after the grass quit growing. It was easy to see they were getting enough. They spent a good portion of the time laying down chewing their cud. Hungry animals keep roaming and hunting things to eat. We have had a few snowfalls but the snow didn't stay on the ground long enough to worry the sheep. It looks like Winter rules will now be in effect.
This isn't one of my usual blogs is it? I have a powerful feeling we are standing on the edge of the new world. A world where we will experience, love, joy and peace in a way we never have. A world where fear quickly becomes a distant memory. A world where we will know our oneness and the meaning of creation.
I, also, know we are all dealing with the last struggles of our egoic states. It might not be clear to many that the nightmare of separateness is almost over. It is hard to see when a myriad of little fears cloud the vision. Now is the time to affirm your intent to 'see'. The illusion of separateness that we made is very, very convincing. Realize it is but an illusion and let us remind ourselves, often, that reality is there for us to see. On a moment to moment basis we can remind ourselves that source did not create pain, suffering, fear or anxiety. These are all part of the illusion and as such are not real. Only what is created with Source is real.
Time is one of the trickiest of illusions. It is an illusion within the illusion. We have all experienced its variations. For me, right now, time is speeding by, that may or may not be true for the reader. When I say the new world is to arrive soon, one may ask, "When is soon". Good question, I don't know. It is a matter of feeling. It is a knowing of the heart.
We are doing it together by our group effort to raise our consciousness. We have made great progress. We know we no longer want to live in the world of violence, aggression, war, poverty, inequality etc. etc. We have envisioned a world of people living together as one. A world where poverty and inequality cannot exist. A world where our existence is to enhance one another. A world without national boundaries. A world where we recognize Love is the only thing there is. A world where, for the first time, we will understand the meaning of freedom.
Now is the time for all of us to hold a picture of a loving world in our mind. Determine to see through the haze of the illusion and see the reality of Love. Reaffirm your intent, throughout the day, to see a world of love. Just feel it! It is so wonderful to love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday I was busy doing the Thanksgiving cleanup. Jamie does all the cooking and I do the dish washing etc. It works well for both of us. We had fifteen for dinner so there was quite a pile of dishes. I slowly plodded my way through them, using three wash waters and more rinse waters. Of course, I had to have pie breaks. There were apple, pumpkin, pecan and key lime pie to sample. Plus there was cake; it was my oldest grandsons 25th birthday.
We had a great Thanksgiving celebration! For me it was a true Thanksgiving. A thank you for all the loving, beautiful people that filled our house, I felt the loving hearts of all. It was a great blessing.
Saturday we had to go to Menards and pick up some items for our new addition. We were shocked at the amount of traffic and the number of shoppers in the store. We have never shopped the day after Thanksgiving. The media shouts about Black Friday, we have never been out in it. I assume this was a continuation of the event. I don't get it. I don't mean to judge those who get a kick out of it. They must enjoy it. I just can't imagine wanting to buy anything that bad.
Sunday we had to return to Menards because they couldn't find the special order shower surround. They looked and looked for it Saturday and finally gave up. When we returned home we discovered they had called as they found it. Sunday things seemed more normal, the shopping craze had attenuated.
It is snowing. I think it may be time to feed my goats and sheep hay. I think December 1st is the latest my animals have been able to graze. We have less than half the animals the pasture would support so they were able to graze long after the grass quit growing. It was easy to see they were getting enough. They spent a good portion of the time laying down chewing their cud. Hungry animals keep roaming and hunting things to eat. We have had a few snowfalls but the snow didn't stay on the ground long enough to worry the sheep. It looks like Winter rules will now be in effect.
This isn't one of my usual blogs is it? I have a powerful feeling we are standing on the edge of the new world. A world where we will experience, love, joy and peace in a way we never have. A world where fear quickly becomes a distant memory. A world where we will know our oneness and the meaning of creation.
I, also, know we are all dealing with the last struggles of our egoic states. It might not be clear to many that the nightmare of separateness is almost over. It is hard to see when a myriad of little fears cloud the vision. Now is the time to affirm your intent to 'see'. The illusion of separateness that we made is very, very convincing. Realize it is but an illusion and let us remind ourselves, often, that reality is there for us to see. On a moment to moment basis we can remind ourselves that source did not create pain, suffering, fear or anxiety. These are all part of the illusion and as such are not real. Only what is created with Source is real.
Time is one of the trickiest of illusions. It is an illusion within the illusion. We have all experienced its variations. For me, right now, time is speeding by, that may or may not be true for the reader. When I say the new world is to arrive soon, one may ask, "When is soon". Good question, I don't know. It is a matter of feeling. It is a knowing of the heart.
We are doing it together by our group effort to raise our consciousness. We have made great progress. We know we no longer want to live in the world of violence, aggression, war, poverty, inequality etc. etc. We have envisioned a world of people living together as one. A world where poverty and inequality cannot exist. A world where our existence is to enhance one another. A world without national boundaries. A world where we recognize Love is the only thing there is. A world where, for the first time, we will understand the meaning of freedom.
Now is the time for all of us to hold a picture of a loving world in our mind. Determine to see through the haze of the illusion and see the reality of Love. Reaffirm your intent, throughout the day, to see a world of love. Just feel it! It is so wonderful to love.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, November 29, 2013
BLOG DELAYED?
We had a great Thanksgiving? I have a mountain of dishes to do. I might write a blog later today; if not, tomorrow.
I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
THANKFULNESS
The folks here on Laughing Water Farm are getting ready for the great feast. It has been a tradition for our children and their families to meet here for Thanksgiving. Sometimes they all can't make it, but we always have a house full.
We sold our turkeys last year so we bartered with the Amish for beautiful, fat, free range turkey. In recent years Jamie has gallantined the turkey. That is taking it off the bone and rolling it up with the dressing inside. It may not be as picturesque in the center of the table, but those slices of turkey with a center of dressing are fantastic.
The carcass doesn't go to waste. Jamie roast it and then boils it for a few hours extracting all the goodness from the bones. There is always a lot of meat that clings to the bones, this adds to the broth which is canned for future soups.
I had a dream date of Thanksgiving to get our addition complete, but alas, the contractor had other dreams to meet and it won't be complete for awhile. That is fine. We have a great deal to be thankful for.
There is a great deal of attention to thankfulness this time of year, some of it a little too embalmed with treacle for our taste. But extra syrupy or not, thankfulness, like forgiveness, gets amazing results.
How does thankfulness work? Thankfulness helps us focus on what we appreciate about life. That awareness itself is a positive, as it raises our consciousness and makes us more aware of the love that surrounds us. It does more. As we have discussed here, many times before, we create with our thoughts. We increase what we focus on. What we expect to happen has a higher probability of being manifest. When we are thankful for the things in our lives, that we appreciate, we give them energy to expand and continue.
Thankfulness opens up our heart center. It enhances the loving communication between us. It increases our awareness that we are indeed One.
Thankfulness, like forgiveness, works like a tool to help us when we are in a tight spot. When we are down and everything looks bleak, the last thing we might think about is thankfulness. It works. The next time you find yourself in a gloomy pickle. Look for the things that you like about your life and say thank you for them. When we are really down we don't want to hear that. We might be enjoying our tantrum too much or we might just be so numb we don't think we can pivot our mind around to see anything good. If we force ourselves to find something good about our lives our consciousness will rise. Some times we will instantly feel better, other times we need to keep at it for awhile but we will begin to feel better.
Thankfulness is only realizing the truth. We are beings created with love. Love surrounds us. Love is everything. If it isn't love it is part of the illusion and doesn't exist. We have been on a long voyage in an illusion created by fear. We are just emerging from it. In the next few months, we will become more and more aware of the reality that love creates. There will be some chaos but the old world will fade away.
Thankfulness for the love in your life will help the new world emerge. Give thanks for all the wonderful folks around you. See the love in everybody you meet and thank them for bringing their love to you.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Love, Gregg
We sold our turkeys last year so we bartered with the Amish for beautiful, fat, free range turkey. In recent years Jamie has gallantined the turkey. That is taking it off the bone and rolling it up with the dressing inside. It may not be as picturesque in the center of the table, but those slices of turkey with a center of dressing are fantastic.
The carcass doesn't go to waste. Jamie roast it and then boils it for a few hours extracting all the goodness from the bones. There is always a lot of meat that clings to the bones, this adds to the broth which is canned for future soups.
I had a dream date of Thanksgiving to get our addition complete, but alas, the contractor had other dreams to meet and it won't be complete for awhile. That is fine. We have a great deal to be thankful for.
There is a great deal of attention to thankfulness this time of year, some of it a little too embalmed with treacle for our taste. But extra syrupy or not, thankfulness, like forgiveness, gets amazing results.
How does thankfulness work? Thankfulness helps us focus on what we appreciate about life. That awareness itself is a positive, as it raises our consciousness and makes us more aware of the love that surrounds us. It does more. As we have discussed here, many times before, we create with our thoughts. We increase what we focus on. What we expect to happen has a higher probability of being manifest. When we are thankful for the things in our lives, that we appreciate, we give them energy to expand and continue.
Thankfulness opens up our heart center. It enhances the loving communication between us. It increases our awareness that we are indeed One.
Thankfulness, like forgiveness, works like a tool to help us when we are in a tight spot. When we are down and everything looks bleak, the last thing we might think about is thankfulness. It works. The next time you find yourself in a gloomy pickle. Look for the things that you like about your life and say thank you for them. When we are really down we don't want to hear that. We might be enjoying our tantrum too much or we might just be so numb we don't think we can pivot our mind around to see anything good. If we force ourselves to find something good about our lives our consciousness will rise. Some times we will instantly feel better, other times we need to keep at it for awhile but we will begin to feel better.
Thankfulness is only realizing the truth. We are beings created with love. Love surrounds us. Love is everything. If it isn't love it is part of the illusion and doesn't exist. We have been on a long voyage in an illusion created by fear. We are just emerging from it. In the next few months, we will become more and more aware of the reality that love creates. There will be some chaos but the old world will fade away.
Thankfulness for the love in your life will help the new world emerge. Give thanks for all the wonderful folks around you. See the love in everybody you meet and thank them for bringing their love to you.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Love, Gregg
Monday, November 25, 2013
STAYING IN THE LIGHT
Sometimes we are going along, everything is fine we are happy as clams, then somebody does something to hurt our feelings. We don't remember we have forgiveness at our disposal, we hang onto the hurt with righteous indignation. We know we can let it go, but we won't, we want the other to appreciate what they have done. We can waste minutes or hours or even days living in misery. Have you ever done this?
What if the person who hurt your feelings had no intention of doing so? Even if they did, how is your suffering going to help the situation? Sometime we hang onto pain as if it is a special jewel. We weave a bizarre fabric of rationalizations for feeling bad and not dealing with it.
Hurt feelings are machinations of the ego attempting to control the situation and your decisions. Sure, someone else, temporarily ruled by their ego, may hurt our feelings. But to accept the invitation to be angry or feel less of ourselves is a kind of madness we don't need. We invite all kinds of negativity into our life when we justify being angry at someone. We don't need to do that.
We are surrounded by love. The solution to all interactions, painful or otherwise, are provided by spirit, on a moment by moment basis. Hurt feelings are past injuries brought into the present. We need to ask ourselves why this hurt our feelings. What experience from the past did we bring to it? Who do we need to forgive from the past? When the past has been given up and all forgiven; injuries in the present are momentarily bothersome and it is easy to see that is not our problem. The perpetrator is calling for love and needs our understanding and forgiveness.
As we go through life we can imagine being in a beam of light. A light that provides us with all necessary answers. A beam of light that lights the way and keeps our eyes open. Our egos are on the alert for fear. Fear bumps us out of the light. When we feel the light diminishing, we should be calm and ask the spirit for direction. If we listen, the answer will nudge us back into the light. The ego supplies all that noise in our minds. That obsessive chatter, filled with judgement, is to be ignored. There are no answers there, only more questions that lead nowhere. The ego is full of questions; it has no answers.
We are one and as individuals we walk with Spirit that is One. We are always safe. We are always protected. We need only follow the path laid out before us. It takes a leap to trust the Source that created us. We have learned to be skeptical of a benevolent universe. Trust, and thankfulness for that trust, have great rewards. However, we do need to get over the distrust we have of Source.
When we make a commitment to walk in the light, all our little mistrusts will arise. We will need to deal with them as they come up. As we lay our mistrusts and fears aside, our consciousness expands, we begin to see more and before long, we won't remember what we were afraid of.
Let us walk in the light and beam out loving energy for all to appreciate.
Love and Peace, Gregg
What if the person who hurt your feelings had no intention of doing so? Even if they did, how is your suffering going to help the situation? Sometime we hang onto pain as if it is a special jewel. We weave a bizarre fabric of rationalizations for feeling bad and not dealing with it.
Hurt feelings are machinations of the ego attempting to control the situation and your decisions. Sure, someone else, temporarily ruled by their ego, may hurt our feelings. But to accept the invitation to be angry or feel less of ourselves is a kind of madness we don't need. We invite all kinds of negativity into our life when we justify being angry at someone. We don't need to do that.
We are surrounded by love. The solution to all interactions, painful or otherwise, are provided by spirit, on a moment by moment basis. Hurt feelings are past injuries brought into the present. We need to ask ourselves why this hurt our feelings. What experience from the past did we bring to it? Who do we need to forgive from the past? When the past has been given up and all forgiven; injuries in the present are momentarily bothersome and it is easy to see that is not our problem. The perpetrator is calling for love and needs our understanding and forgiveness.
As we go through life we can imagine being in a beam of light. A light that provides us with all necessary answers. A beam of light that lights the way and keeps our eyes open. Our egos are on the alert for fear. Fear bumps us out of the light. When we feel the light diminishing, we should be calm and ask the spirit for direction. If we listen, the answer will nudge us back into the light. The ego supplies all that noise in our minds. That obsessive chatter, filled with judgement, is to be ignored. There are no answers there, only more questions that lead nowhere. The ego is full of questions; it has no answers.
We are one and as individuals we walk with Spirit that is One. We are always safe. We are always protected. We need only follow the path laid out before us. It takes a leap to trust the Source that created us. We have learned to be skeptical of a benevolent universe. Trust, and thankfulness for that trust, have great rewards. However, we do need to get over the distrust we have of Source.
When we make a commitment to walk in the light, all our little mistrusts will arise. We will need to deal with them as they come up. As we lay our mistrusts and fears aside, our consciousness expands, we begin to see more and before long, we won't remember what we were afraid of.
Let us walk in the light and beam out loving energy for all to appreciate.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, November 22, 2013
ARE WE AWAKENING
And what is awakening? First we need to get a glimmer of who we were before we took the adventure into separation. We can't expect to see this very clearly yet, but we can imagine what it would be like to know our connection with each other and the universe.
Then we need to understand how we have been misused, and are continuing to be misused, by folks dedicated to amassing power and money. We will see that this is a condition we all contributed to by our embracement of fear. We will see all as equal victims of the craziness we created. We will remove them from power. We will not judge them and condemn them. However, folks who continue to think in terms of power and domination will need to evolve or reincarnate in a world that suits them.
Waking up will mean seeing where we came from. Did we evolve on this planet? Did we have help evolving from folks from other planets? What influence did/do folks from other worlds have on our life now?
We will understand we have been living in an illusion that we continue to create with our thought. We will experience how we can alter the illusion by having only loving thoughts. A world created without fear is vastly different from the one we experience now.
What is a dimension? We hear people talk about dimensions, what are they? We have been living in the third dimension. It is the dimension of dichotomy, where one is continually able to choose between love and fear. We have been raising our vibratory state; we are lifting ourselves out of the dichotomy and moving into a state where we create with love. It is called the fifth dimension.
When we are awake we will see our true history. We have always known history was decided by those in power. We haven't realized how fictitious it is. Some will be amazed at how facts have been twisted and turned to suit those in power.
Every generation has had people who saw that the Earth could be paradise. That it gave us everything and we didn't need to dig into it, mine it, rape and torture it to survive. Many folks all through history have taught that the Earth was a living being, created by Spirit and it needed to be loved and cherished. The Spirit of the Earth loved us and we were returning the love with violence. As we awaken, we will see those folks were correct and we will dedicate ourselves to correcting the damage we have done. The Earth has a remarkable ability to heal herself and together we will set things right.
Tesla and others showed us that energy exists all around us. We live in a field of energy. The energy that exist naturally in our lifespace can be utilized to power our homes.
Finally, as we awaken we will realize we have never been free. Freedom has always eluded us. We are continually tortured by a past that doesn't exist and a future that hasn't happened. True freedom has been a dream we have not been able to grasp. We have been continually bathed in anxiety about our physical safety, our financial security, our status, and our various positions vis-a-vis each other.
To be truly awake will mean being in the moment, absolutely free to create with love.
Everyday with our loving intent we raise our vibrational status. We are awakening. We will awake.
The power of Love cannot be denied. Feel the love, it is all around us.
Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
Then we need to understand how we have been misused, and are continuing to be misused, by folks dedicated to amassing power and money. We will see that this is a condition we all contributed to by our embracement of fear. We will see all as equal victims of the craziness we created. We will remove them from power. We will not judge them and condemn them. However, folks who continue to think in terms of power and domination will need to evolve or reincarnate in a world that suits them.
Waking up will mean seeing where we came from. Did we evolve on this planet? Did we have help evolving from folks from other planets? What influence did/do folks from other worlds have on our life now?
We will understand we have been living in an illusion that we continue to create with our thought. We will experience how we can alter the illusion by having only loving thoughts. A world created without fear is vastly different from the one we experience now.
What is a dimension? We hear people talk about dimensions, what are they? We have been living in the third dimension. It is the dimension of dichotomy, where one is continually able to choose between love and fear. We have been raising our vibratory state; we are lifting ourselves out of the dichotomy and moving into a state where we create with love. It is called the fifth dimension.
When we are awake we will see our true history. We have always known history was decided by those in power. We haven't realized how fictitious it is. Some will be amazed at how facts have been twisted and turned to suit those in power.
Every generation has had people who saw that the Earth could be paradise. That it gave us everything and we didn't need to dig into it, mine it, rape and torture it to survive. Many folks all through history have taught that the Earth was a living being, created by Spirit and it needed to be loved and cherished. The Spirit of the Earth loved us and we were returning the love with violence. As we awaken, we will see those folks were correct and we will dedicate ourselves to correcting the damage we have done. The Earth has a remarkable ability to heal herself and together we will set things right.
Tesla and others showed us that energy exists all around us. We live in a field of energy. The energy that exist naturally in our lifespace can be utilized to power our homes.
Finally, as we awaken we will realize we have never been free. Freedom has always eluded us. We are continually tortured by a past that doesn't exist and a future that hasn't happened. True freedom has been a dream we have not been able to grasp. We have been continually bathed in anxiety about our physical safety, our financial security, our status, and our various positions vis-a-vis each other.
To be truly awake will mean being in the moment, absolutely free to create with love.
Everyday with our loving intent we raise our vibrational status. We are awakening. We will awake.
The power of Love cannot be denied. Feel the love, it is all around us.
Happy Friday!
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
BE WHAT YOU WANT
We want peace. We want love. We want joy. And we want them all the time. Until we raise out of this particular level of evolution, we won't have them all the time. We can have them most of the time. All the time is in the near future.
What can we do now? We can be love. We can be joy. We can be peace. Some of us will protest, "That's too hard. We can't do that." Okay, you have tried and failed. You have gotten discouraged. It happens to all of us. Get up and try again. We are here to grow. We know the direction we want to go. Keep plugging away.
We won't see the love that surrounds us if we don't realize the love we are. Let us look at it from a different perspective. Know that we are already; love, peace and joy. Over thousands of years we developed this film of negativity around us, which is ruled by our egos. It is only a wisp, an illusion.
We can break through the illusion easily. It doesn't seem easy at times. There is quite a bit of resistance in this shell that surrounds us. Like any thing else that we learn for the first time; driving a car, playing bridge, playing football, dancing etc. Part of learning is natural other parts are difficult. Sometimes it is formidable. We know we can do it! So we keep trying.
Growing spiritually is a new adventure. We have spent so much time in various levels of negativity that it is hard to believe we can be what we want. Let us convince ourselves we are there already. Our vision is only obscured by a veil of ego. As we practice being what we want, the veil becomes thinner. Each time we fail and are disappointed in our behavior, we have made the veil thinner. It doesn't matter how big a jerk we are or how ferocious the argument with our spouse; we have thinned the veil a little more. We can't go backward. We only go forward.
Our intent is important. If we intend to reflect love, we will grow in that direction no matter what many times we fail. We can only fall off that bicycle so many times before we learn to ride. Soon it becomes second nature. Knowing love, is so reinforcing, that once over the hump we learn very quickly. And it will seem as easy as riding a bike.
Let's keep our vision on a world of Love, Joy and Peace. It shall be ours.
In the meantime, back at laughing Water Farm, we have about completed our Fall chores. If we got three foot of snow tomorrow, we would be ready. We got the pullets we bought this spring in with the flock, day before yesterday. It will take them a few days to get acclimated to their new surroundings. It will take at least three days before I can chance letting them out. I don't want to gather roosting chickens from all over the farm every night. We have a bushel plus apples to process. They are great eating apples, but we are not eating them very fast. I don't have a good place to store them. A root cellar has always been on our wish list.
We took a year off from intensive gardening. We are looking forward to next year. We had tomatoes, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cabbages, radishes, lettuce and a few other things. Our beans and peas did not do well and we lost some potatoes to the frost. We have often waited until mid November to harvest potatoes. During late Summer and Fall we dig them as we need them. This year we waited to long. We normally do not have frost that penetrates deep enough to hurt potatoes the first have of November. This year we had a few nights in the single digits. That was enough. We lost about half the crop. Hey, that is okay. That's what life on planet Earth is for, to learn and learn to love. Love everything.
Love and Peace, Gregg
What can we do now? We can be love. We can be joy. We can be peace. Some of us will protest, "That's too hard. We can't do that." Okay, you have tried and failed. You have gotten discouraged. It happens to all of us. Get up and try again. We are here to grow. We know the direction we want to go. Keep plugging away.
We won't see the love that surrounds us if we don't realize the love we are. Let us look at it from a different perspective. Know that we are already; love, peace and joy. Over thousands of years we developed this film of negativity around us, which is ruled by our egos. It is only a wisp, an illusion.
We can break through the illusion easily. It doesn't seem easy at times. There is quite a bit of resistance in this shell that surrounds us. Like any thing else that we learn for the first time; driving a car, playing bridge, playing football, dancing etc. Part of learning is natural other parts are difficult. Sometimes it is formidable. We know we can do it! So we keep trying.
Growing spiritually is a new adventure. We have spent so much time in various levels of negativity that it is hard to believe we can be what we want. Let us convince ourselves we are there already. Our vision is only obscured by a veil of ego. As we practice being what we want, the veil becomes thinner. Each time we fail and are disappointed in our behavior, we have made the veil thinner. It doesn't matter how big a jerk we are or how ferocious the argument with our spouse; we have thinned the veil a little more. We can't go backward. We only go forward.
Our intent is important. If we intend to reflect love, we will grow in that direction no matter what many times we fail. We can only fall off that bicycle so many times before we learn to ride. Soon it becomes second nature. Knowing love, is so reinforcing, that once over the hump we learn very quickly. And it will seem as easy as riding a bike.
Let's keep our vision on a world of Love, Joy and Peace. It shall be ours.
In the meantime, back at laughing Water Farm, we have about completed our Fall chores. If we got three foot of snow tomorrow, we would be ready. We got the pullets we bought this spring in with the flock, day before yesterday. It will take them a few days to get acclimated to their new surroundings. It will take at least three days before I can chance letting them out. I don't want to gather roosting chickens from all over the farm every night. We have a bushel plus apples to process. They are great eating apples, but we are not eating them very fast. I don't have a good place to store them. A root cellar has always been on our wish list.
We took a year off from intensive gardening. We are looking forward to next year. We had tomatoes, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cabbages, radishes, lettuce and a few other things. Our beans and peas did not do well and we lost some potatoes to the frost. We have often waited until mid November to harvest potatoes. During late Summer and Fall we dig them as we need them. This year we waited to long. We normally do not have frost that penetrates deep enough to hurt potatoes the first have of November. This year we had a few nights in the single digits. That was enough. We lost about half the crop. Hey, that is okay. That's what life on planet Earth is for, to learn and learn to love. Love everything.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, November 18, 2013
STAYING IN THE MOMENT
Have you tried staying in the moment? Not easy is it? Our thoughts keep pulling us into the future because of something that happened in the past. Why is it so difficult?
Our past is a minefield of encysted hurts and angry spots. We are not aware of how many there are. We don't think of the issues that caused them any more; but they wait to be resolved. Each one needs forgiveness applied before it will no longer be a generator of negative thought.
Notice how we argue with those closest to us. Someone close to you says something that causes us to seethe. Note that the thing said doesn't warrant the intensity of our feeling. It is the accumulation of things from the past that we're bringing into the present. We may be applying a mountain of past hurts in reaction to what is said. Then the fur may fly.
If it wasn't for the past issues, you may have reacted only with a quizzical look and inquired about the meaning of the remark, in a way that wasn't blaming.
Folks in close relationships were attracted to each other because each saw something in the other that would compliment them. We are teachers for each other. The positive part of that is great. Well the other part { I won't call it negative- it isn't, but it can be painful}, is that they trigger off each others encysted painful places. When those of us in long term relationships get into an argument, we are arguing about things that happened in the past. Painful hurts from childhood can be poured out on an unsuspecting spouse and that spouse can react with energy from their own childhood hurts.
When we learn to stay in the moment, these unhappy moments are much easier to deal with. Without the past we are able to deal creatively with the things of the present.
That begs the question, how do we let go of the past? First we need to recognize the value, letting go, has for us. Peace, love and joy exist only in the present. When we are experiencing one of these states, we are in the present.
Most basic to letting go of the past is forgiveness. Most people find forgiveness of others easier than forgiveness of self. When you re-experience one of these painful episodes it is easier to see what we need to forgive in the other, than what it is we need to forgive in ourselves.
When something keeps coming back over and over again and we are convinced that we have forgiven the other; it is wise to see if we need to forgive ourselves, also.
Some of us are fortunate enough to see the past has no reality and can be given up, as a whole, now. Others of us need to do it incrementally issue by issue.
Right now, in the evolution of humankind, there is a great impetus to grow and discover who we really are. To walk through the portals into the new world we need to leave our past behind. When we have the intent to let go of the past, we will get the help we need.
We need to pay attention to our minds. We can learn to entertain only loving thoughts. When we are tortured by a negative thought that keeps coming back. We can ask for help from our guides. No matter how one defines, it help is available, it doesn't matter where we think help comes from e.g. angels, guides, Source, God, saints, ascended masters, group mind etc. help is available.
Remember always, we are surrounded by love. All is love.
We need to always keep forgiveness at the ready. When we see the world with the innocent eyes of a very young child, we won't see the past. We will look upon a forgiven world. We may see paradise.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Our past is a minefield of encysted hurts and angry spots. We are not aware of how many there are. We don't think of the issues that caused them any more; but they wait to be resolved. Each one needs forgiveness applied before it will no longer be a generator of negative thought.
Notice how we argue with those closest to us. Someone close to you says something that causes us to seethe. Note that the thing said doesn't warrant the intensity of our feeling. It is the accumulation of things from the past that we're bringing into the present. We may be applying a mountain of past hurts in reaction to what is said. Then the fur may fly.
If it wasn't for the past issues, you may have reacted only with a quizzical look and inquired about the meaning of the remark, in a way that wasn't blaming.
Folks in close relationships were attracted to each other because each saw something in the other that would compliment them. We are teachers for each other. The positive part of that is great. Well the other part { I won't call it negative- it isn't, but it can be painful}, is that they trigger off each others encysted painful places. When those of us in long term relationships get into an argument, we are arguing about things that happened in the past. Painful hurts from childhood can be poured out on an unsuspecting spouse and that spouse can react with energy from their own childhood hurts.
When we learn to stay in the moment, these unhappy moments are much easier to deal with. Without the past we are able to deal creatively with the things of the present.
That begs the question, how do we let go of the past? First we need to recognize the value, letting go, has for us. Peace, love and joy exist only in the present. When we are experiencing one of these states, we are in the present.
Most basic to letting go of the past is forgiveness. Most people find forgiveness of others easier than forgiveness of self. When you re-experience one of these painful episodes it is easier to see what we need to forgive in the other, than what it is we need to forgive in ourselves.
When something keeps coming back over and over again and we are convinced that we have forgiven the other; it is wise to see if we need to forgive ourselves, also.
Some of us are fortunate enough to see the past has no reality and can be given up, as a whole, now. Others of us need to do it incrementally issue by issue.
Right now, in the evolution of humankind, there is a great impetus to grow and discover who we really are. To walk through the portals into the new world we need to leave our past behind. When we have the intent to let go of the past, we will get the help we need.
We need to pay attention to our minds. We can learn to entertain only loving thoughts. When we are tortured by a negative thought that keeps coming back. We can ask for help from our guides. No matter how one defines, it help is available, it doesn't matter where we think help comes from e.g. angels, guides, Source, God, saints, ascended masters, group mind etc. help is available.
Remember always, we are surrounded by love. All is love.
We need to always keep forgiveness at the ready. When we see the world with the innocent eyes of a very young child, we won't see the past. We will look upon a forgiven world. We may see paradise.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, November 15, 2013
I KNOW NOTHING
EXCEPT THAT LIFE IS BETTER WHEN I CHOOSE LOVE OVER FEAR. I only surmise. I see a world on the edge of collapse. the folks who know me will say,"Ya, ya, he has said that before." Hey it has been collapsing for a long time. I can't predict when the house of cards will finally crumble. It feels soon. Pope Francis is remaking the Catholic Church. He cancelled the immunity the Vatican officials have had for centuries to civil law. Recently he advised Catholic bishops to avoid ideology in their pronouncements. He advises that church officials lead a simple life and return to the example of Jesus Christ.
Country after country is rejecting GMO foods. The American dollar is on shaky ground in several countries. People are waking up. They don't want to be exploited anymore. There is a growing demand that the big banks be held responsible and their criminal behavior be dealt with. There is news story after news story about the increased production of poppies in Afghanistan. This is in a country we have occupied for several years. We have no trouble blanketing countries with 2-4D when we want to eliminate vegetation. We spray coca fields in South America all the time {the fields that are not supporting our trade-that is another story}. So, these stories don't explain who is really getting rich off this trade. We know every plane that goes and comes from Afghanistan. The farmers are making a pittance. Who is making the big money? Let us connect the dots and see if it leads to the big banks. Of course the CIA and the shadow government must pocket a big chunk. They still need the banks to launder money and finance their ventures.
The banks are bankrupt. If it wasn't for the ongoing bailout from the Fed to the tune of billions a week, they would have long since gone belly up. What is going to happen when folks face up to the fact, that the money they have in their pocket, is backed by a bankrupt government rife with corruption and ruled by a corporate elite?
I am just touching the surface. I could go on and on. The stench of the pollution, of the old world, is overwhelming. I can't begin to touch on the horror that exist. Every thing has been designed to make the rich richer and more powerful.
The folks of darkness have not given up, though I believe they know it is over. Monsanto and their cohorts are still attempting to take over the world food supply with their chemical dependent GMO crops. Pharmaceutical companies continue to come out with dangerous and costly drugs with the pretense of promoting health.
This blog's purpose is not to curse the darkness. I bring a few things up because I want folks to appreciate how precarious the old establishment is. The goal of the dark has always been to enslave the people. They have done it physically, psychologically, socially, and their favorite, economically. For the last seventy years or so the forces of light have been quietly working to open people's eyes. There has been a huge spiritual movement growing like a giant mushroom under the surface. People discovering, "hey- if we just love each other it is going to turn out okay". People have been searching for authenticity through music, art, gardening, organic farming etc. People have been craving for something real, rich and earthy. All of this is the search for Love.
Love is far more powerful than the fear the dark depend on to promulgate their ideas. Since we are all connected, every time someone opened their eyes a little it helped everybody else. The sixties revolution scared the crap out of the dark. They were afraid they were going to lose their power, then. However, they managed to demonize that generation and began programs to destroy the middle class so it couldn't happen again. They didn't see that the seeds of their destruction were planted deeply. Folks started to realize, we don't need war. We can love people of different skin tones and religions just like we love ourselves. We don't need to take orders from the elite, just because they have more money. We can live freely and we can live in Love.
Love doesn't depend on the sanction of the government or the promotion of the media. It grows by leaps and bounds. It has spread through the Peoples of the Earth. A majority of the people see that paradise is not only possible but reachable on this planet.
Because of the up-swelling of love, the old order is crumbling. Those of us who are beginning to see, need to be on the alert to help those who are yet to see. We need to reassure folks that everything is okay. There will be a new banking system available when the old systems collapse. People at all levels of our society have been opening their eyes. There are people in government and banking that are ready for the collapse. Still there will be some chaos and uncertainty. We need to know in our hearts and minds that everything is okay, so we can reach out in peace to our neighbors who are confused.
It looks like big changes will come very rapidly in the next few months. Be at peace. The best thing we can do is keep grounded. Be happy. Love everybody and everything. Let us open our hearts and accept life as it comes. It is all Love.
Myself, I need to do my dishes and then I am going to dig potatoes, I hope they are still okay.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Country after country is rejecting GMO foods. The American dollar is on shaky ground in several countries. People are waking up. They don't want to be exploited anymore. There is a growing demand that the big banks be held responsible and their criminal behavior be dealt with. There is news story after news story about the increased production of poppies in Afghanistan. This is in a country we have occupied for several years. We have no trouble blanketing countries with 2-4D when we want to eliminate vegetation. We spray coca fields in South America all the time {the fields that are not supporting our trade-that is another story}. So, these stories don't explain who is really getting rich off this trade. We know every plane that goes and comes from Afghanistan. The farmers are making a pittance. Who is making the big money? Let us connect the dots and see if it leads to the big banks. Of course the CIA and the shadow government must pocket a big chunk. They still need the banks to launder money and finance their ventures.
The banks are bankrupt. If it wasn't for the ongoing bailout from the Fed to the tune of billions a week, they would have long since gone belly up. What is going to happen when folks face up to the fact, that the money they have in their pocket, is backed by a bankrupt government rife with corruption and ruled by a corporate elite?
I am just touching the surface. I could go on and on. The stench of the pollution, of the old world, is overwhelming. I can't begin to touch on the horror that exist. Every thing has been designed to make the rich richer and more powerful.
The folks of darkness have not given up, though I believe they know it is over. Monsanto and their cohorts are still attempting to take over the world food supply with their chemical dependent GMO crops. Pharmaceutical companies continue to come out with dangerous and costly drugs with the pretense of promoting health.
This blog's purpose is not to curse the darkness. I bring a few things up because I want folks to appreciate how precarious the old establishment is. The goal of the dark has always been to enslave the people. They have done it physically, psychologically, socially, and their favorite, economically. For the last seventy years or so the forces of light have been quietly working to open people's eyes. There has been a huge spiritual movement growing like a giant mushroom under the surface. People discovering, "hey- if we just love each other it is going to turn out okay". People have been searching for authenticity through music, art, gardening, organic farming etc. People have been craving for something real, rich and earthy. All of this is the search for Love.
Love is far more powerful than the fear the dark depend on to promulgate their ideas. Since we are all connected, every time someone opened their eyes a little it helped everybody else. The sixties revolution scared the crap out of the dark. They were afraid they were going to lose their power, then. However, they managed to demonize that generation and began programs to destroy the middle class so it couldn't happen again. They didn't see that the seeds of their destruction were planted deeply. Folks started to realize, we don't need war. We can love people of different skin tones and religions just like we love ourselves. We don't need to take orders from the elite, just because they have more money. We can live freely and we can live in Love.
Love doesn't depend on the sanction of the government or the promotion of the media. It grows by leaps and bounds. It has spread through the Peoples of the Earth. A majority of the people see that paradise is not only possible but reachable on this planet.
Because of the up-swelling of love, the old order is crumbling. Those of us who are beginning to see, need to be on the alert to help those who are yet to see. We need to reassure folks that everything is okay. There will be a new banking system available when the old systems collapse. People at all levels of our society have been opening their eyes. There are people in government and banking that are ready for the collapse. Still there will be some chaos and uncertainty. We need to know in our hearts and minds that everything is okay, so we can reach out in peace to our neighbors who are confused.
It looks like big changes will come very rapidly in the next few months. Be at peace. The best thing we can do is keep grounded. Be happy. Love everybody and everything. Let us open our hearts and accept life as it comes. It is all Love.
Myself, I need to do my dishes and then I am going to dig potatoes, I hope they are still okay.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
I AM DETERMINED TO BE HAPPY
The title is an affirmation of sorts. I didn't originate it. It has been around for a long time. But I have seen the idea as recently as yesterday; and I thought about it this morning, when the timed ticked by and the builders didn't come. And they didn't come yesterday or the day before. The exterior of our addition is complete, except for the painting, which will be done next year. We are eager to have the interior work finished.
Does it really matter? Is it worth fretting about? We humans have a tendency to spend time being unhappy for reasons we have no control over. We have talked about worrying and how fruitless that is. How about all the other reasons we choose to be unhappy? Sometimes the unhappiness last only a few seconds and sometimes hours or days. What are these episodes usually about? Oh, we might think we hurt somebody's feelings. We are not sure how to check it out. We spend some time in misery until we get tired of it or we find out for sure some how. Sure, some of us have the sense to call the person and say, "Did I hurt your feelings by saying such and such? If I did I am sorry. I didn't mean it the way it sounded." Something like that. So often when we hurt somebody's feelings or when our own feelings are hurt, we just suffer with it. Why? Often the whole thing wasn't real anyway. Nothing insulting was intended.
There are so many examples of how we make ourselves unhappy, I couldn't cover them in a huge volume, much less this little blog. So much of the time, like my building situation, it consists of expectations and disappointments. Of course, we are who we are and we are going to have momentary disappointments. The key word is momentary. We don't have to make ourselves miserable for half a day. How do we affect those around us? We are capable of making their day miserable, too.
We don't realize how easy it is to choose to be happy. And it doesn't take much practice. It does mean we must pay attention to our minds. Our thoughts and feelings decide our happiness. Sometimes it may feel like we don't have a choice about what we think. It just feels that way. We always have a choice.
Our state of mind has always been important. A positive state of mind is very welcome now. Humankind is raising its consciousness like never before. We are all contributing to the consciousness of all. When we are happy the love flows from us unimpeded. When we are not happy, not so much. Let us not clog up the channels of love that flow between us by what is unreal.
Unhappiness is unreal. It is a creation of the mind influenced by ego concerns. Our natural state is sublime happiness. Those of us who meditate have seen glimmers of how happy we could be. One doesn't have to practice meditation, though, to experience this. It happens to us all the time. Haven't we looked at a baby and had a huge rush of love come over us? Could we imagine feeling that love all the time? We could. We can.
Happiness or unhappiness is always decided inside ourselves. It is created by our thoughts and feelings. But it would be hard to be happy if someone was poking pins in us. If negativity continues to come into our minds because of the situation we are in. We need to ask ourselves, can I deal with it and be happy. Can I be happy despite the environment I am in? If we are dealing with an onslaught of negativity perhaps we need to realize we can change our situation.
Regardless of the situation we find ourselves in, we need to know, deep down in our hearts, that we deserve to be happy. It is our right. It is our natural state. Let us be determined to be happy. Let us watch our minds and nip unhappiness in the bud. We can always switch our mind to happiness.
We have a new world of love to create. Paradise is our choice. Let us begin today. Be happy.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Does it really matter? Is it worth fretting about? We humans have a tendency to spend time being unhappy for reasons we have no control over. We have talked about worrying and how fruitless that is. How about all the other reasons we choose to be unhappy? Sometimes the unhappiness last only a few seconds and sometimes hours or days. What are these episodes usually about? Oh, we might think we hurt somebody's feelings. We are not sure how to check it out. We spend some time in misery until we get tired of it or we find out for sure some how. Sure, some of us have the sense to call the person and say, "Did I hurt your feelings by saying such and such? If I did I am sorry. I didn't mean it the way it sounded." Something like that. So often when we hurt somebody's feelings or when our own feelings are hurt, we just suffer with it. Why? Often the whole thing wasn't real anyway. Nothing insulting was intended.
There are so many examples of how we make ourselves unhappy, I couldn't cover them in a huge volume, much less this little blog. So much of the time, like my building situation, it consists of expectations and disappointments. Of course, we are who we are and we are going to have momentary disappointments. The key word is momentary. We don't have to make ourselves miserable for half a day. How do we affect those around us? We are capable of making their day miserable, too.
We don't realize how easy it is to choose to be happy. And it doesn't take much practice. It does mean we must pay attention to our minds. Our thoughts and feelings decide our happiness. Sometimes it may feel like we don't have a choice about what we think. It just feels that way. We always have a choice.
Our state of mind has always been important. A positive state of mind is very welcome now. Humankind is raising its consciousness like never before. We are all contributing to the consciousness of all. When we are happy the love flows from us unimpeded. When we are not happy, not so much. Let us not clog up the channels of love that flow between us by what is unreal.
Unhappiness is unreal. It is a creation of the mind influenced by ego concerns. Our natural state is sublime happiness. Those of us who meditate have seen glimmers of how happy we could be. One doesn't have to practice meditation, though, to experience this. It happens to us all the time. Haven't we looked at a baby and had a huge rush of love come over us? Could we imagine feeling that love all the time? We could. We can.
Happiness or unhappiness is always decided inside ourselves. It is created by our thoughts and feelings. But it would be hard to be happy if someone was poking pins in us. If negativity continues to come into our minds because of the situation we are in. We need to ask ourselves, can I deal with it and be happy. Can I be happy despite the environment I am in? If we are dealing with an onslaught of negativity perhaps we need to realize we can change our situation.
Regardless of the situation we find ourselves in, we need to know, deep down in our hearts, that we deserve to be happy. It is our right. It is our natural state. Let us be determined to be happy. Let us watch our minds and nip unhappiness in the bud. We can always switch our mind to happiness.
We have a new world of love to create. Paradise is our choice. Let us begin today. Be happy.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, November 11, 2013
DEATH
Death, along with its macabre companion damnation, are the two colossal lies that have been used to manipulate the innocent and allow the church and state to keep a heavy foot of domination on the populace.
I know this is not a very lighthearted subject, but a discussion of it might lead us to be more lighthearted. All the great ones have told us, there is no death. They have taught that our bodies are only temporary structures. That we are spirit [energy] in our permanent state and death can have no meaning. Yet despite this teaching that has echoed down the centuries, the religions of the world have used death and damnation to control people, rather than free them.
Imprinting the idea, that we will may burn in hell for eternity, on a small child's mind is very heavy indeed. As we grow and can reason we realize that God can not be both loving and evil. We see clearly that the idea of hell can come from only an evil mind. Could god be evil?
We grow up and we resolve or bury this conundrum. Still it haunts us. We don't have much help in overcoming our fear of death. In the meantime, the exploiters make huge amounts of money because of peoples fear of death. Look at the insurance industry. How about the pharmaceutical industry? How many folks are taking unnecessary drugs because they and their doctors are afraid of death? How many people are on ventilators holding on to a life that won't return?
And wow! Look at the churches. How many of the faithful fork over scads of money in order to protect themselves from damnation?
Fear is the vehicle that carries all the negativity that we experience. It was with fear that we created the illusion that now has many of us imprisoned. As we give up fear the illusion dissolves and we see the love that has always surrounded us.
Death and damnation are the two monsters that lie hidden in our unconscious. Even if we grow up in a family that has eschewed religion, we absorb some of this dread from the culture. Each one of us needs to look at ourselves and ask the question, "Do either of these fears motivate me or shape my thoughts or feelings?"
On an intellectual level it is fairly easy to resolve the damnation issue. There is no sane argument for a god that would punish. Why would a sane person look up to one who would threaten to hurt them if they did not behave in a certain way? That would be demonic, not godly. The emotional issue takes attention to ones underlying feelings. We can settle in our minds that the issue of damnation is preposterous, then look at the fear with eyes of love, it will dissolve. It is the small child in us that is afraid. Take the child in your loving arms and cuddle it and reassure it that it is loved unconditionally.
Death is more interesting. It is going to happen. We can't stop it. It comes closer every minute. When I was in my thirties I had an experience where I saw [or experienced] life like a fall from a tall building. The ground that was coming up to me was death. The only difference between life and a fall from a tall building was time. It was a scary experience fraught with a high level of anxiety. It was my first step in getting over the fear of death.
Since then I have looked at the idea of death frequently. When I was introduced to the idea of reincarnation, I imagined all the ways I might have met my demise. In order to feel free to live I needed to feel free of the fear of death. I now have the advantage of being almost 79. When a person lives that long on this planet they generally resolve the issue of death. I know I will leave when I am ready, in the meantime, I hope to live every minute.
If we were convinced we live forever much of the sting of death would be gone. Most of us who are aware of our spiritual journey have become convinced that death is just a transition and nothing to fear. Through meditation, contemplation etc. we have come to the conclusion that death of the body is not the end of life. And all of our great teachers have reassured us that is so.
However, our culture hasn't been much help. We have limited our knowledge to only what we could touch, see, hear and smell. Our science has relegated intuition to superstition. If we can't prove it with our crippled science it doesn't exist. Outside of that limited structure there is amble evidence that life after death exist. Science is on the verge of proving it. Quantum physics has broken new ground. It won't be long before these mysteries will be explored.
Our fear of death has resulted in an unimaginable financial cost. Many people take crippling medications that make their life less enjoyable out of fear of this unknown. We have been horribly manipulated and exploited because of this fear.
We are waking up and throwing off the shackles that come with the fear of death. We can help ourselves and help each other get over the last vestiges of this fear.
The solution, as always is love, there can be no fear in love. We live in a loving universe. We are on a journey through love to Love. It is only the illusion, we created with fear, that says otherwise.
Have confidence the old crazy world is fading away and the new one is emerging. Love is everything. Nothing can stand against it.
Live, love and listen to your heart.
Love and Peace, Gregg
I know this is not a very lighthearted subject, but a discussion of it might lead us to be more lighthearted. All the great ones have told us, there is no death. They have taught that our bodies are only temporary structures. That we are spirit [energy] in our permanent state and death can have no meaning. Yet despite this teaching that has echoed down the centuries, the religions of the world have used death and damnation to control people, rather than free them.
Imprinting the idea, that we will may burn in hell for eternity, on a small child's mind is very heavy indeed. As we grow and can reason we realize that God can not be both loving and evil. We see clearly that the idea of hell can come from only an evil mind. Could god be evil?
We grow up and we resolve or bury this conundrum. Still it haunts us. We don't have much help in overcoming our fear of death. In the meantime, the exploiters make huge amounts of money because of peoples fear of death. Look at the insurance industry. How about the pharmaceutical industry? How many folks are taking unnecessary drugs because they and their doctors are afraid of death? How many people are on ventilators holding on to a life that won't return?
And wow! Look at the churches. How many of the faithful fork over scads of money in order to protect themselves from damnation?
Fear is the vehicle that carries all the negativity that we experience. It was with fear that we created the illusion that now has many of us imprisoned. As we give up fear the illusion dissolves and we see the love that has always surrounded us.
Death and damnation are the two monsters that lie hidden in our unconscious. Even if we grow up in a family that has eschewed religion, we absorb some of this dread from the culture. Each one of us needs to look at ourselves and ask the question, "Do either of these fears motivate me or shape my thoughts or feelings?"
On an intellectual level it is fairly easy to resolve the damnation issue. There is no sane argument for a god that would punish. Why would a sane person look up to one who would threaten to hurt them if they did not behave in a certain way? That would be demonic, not godly. The emotional issue takes attention to ones underlying feelings. We can settle in our minds that the issue of damnation is preposterous, then look at the fear with eyes of love, it will dissolve. It is the small child in us that is afraid. Take the child in your loving arms and cuddle it and reassure it that it is loved unconditionally.
Death is more interesting. It is going to happen. We can't stop it. It comes closer every minute. When I was in my thirties I had an experience where I saw [or experienced] life like a fall from a tall building. The ground that was coming up to me was death. The only difference between life and a fall from a tall building was time. It was a scary experience fraught with a high level of anxiety. It was my first step in getting over the fear of death.
Since then I have looked at the idea of death frequently. When I was introduced to the idea of reincarnation, I imagined all the ways I might have met my demise. In order to feel free to live I needed to feel free of the fear of death. I now have the advantage of being almost 79. When a person lives that long on this planet they generally resolve the issue of death. I know I will leave when I am ready, in the meantime, I hope to live every minute.
If we were convinced we live forever much of the sting of death would be gone. Most of us who are aware of our spiritual journey have become convinced that death is just a transition and nothing to fear. Through meditation, contemplation etc. we have come to the conclusion that death of the body is not the end of life. And all of our great teachers have reassured us that is so.
However, our culture hasn't been much help. We have limited our knowledge to only what we could touch, see, hear and smell. Our science has relegated intuition to superstition. If we can't prove it with our crippled science it doesn't exist. Outside of that limited structure there is amble evidence that life after death exist. Science is on the verge of proving it. Quantum physics has broken new ground. It won't be long before these mysteries will be explored.
Our fear of death has resulted in an unimaginable financial cost. Many people take crippling medications that make their life less enjoyable out of fear of this unknown. We have been horribly manipulated and exploited because of this fear.
We are waking up and throwing off the shackles that come with the fear of death. We can help ourselves and help each other get over the last vestiges of this fear.
The solution, as always is love, there can be no fear in love. We live in a loving universe. We are on a journey through love to Love. It is only the illusion, we created with fear, that says otherwise.
Have confidence the old crazy world is fading away and the new one is emerging. Love is everything. Nothing can stand against it.
Live, love and listen to your heart.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, November 8, 2013
A HIGHER POWER
Years ago, in my role as a Family Therapist, I did a fair amount of chemical dependency counseling. Some of my clients refused to go to AA because they rejected the religious over tones of a higher power. As an agnostic myself, at the time, it was easy for me to understand their dilemma. I appreciated, and I helped them appreciate, the success AA had with this concept. I have always believed that people at their heart were loving and decent. It seemed like I was born with that belief and it didn't matter what my ideas of God were, I 'knew' people at their heart were good. Perhaps it was what led me in into the practice of psychotherapy, because I believed everything negative, about us humans, was an overlay learned from experience. If we could learn it, we could unlearn it with the right guidance.
My recall is not perfect, but I believe I was able to get my clients to see the higher power as their own center; a part of them that remained unchanged by their experience. I don't know if I articulated it at the time, but I thought of that center as love.
I am sure the readers of my blog note that I always use the word Source or perhaps Creator. I don't use the word God. I do that because the word God has been contaminated by years of exploitation by religion. Millions and millions of people have been killed, tortured, and deprived of their property in the name of somebodies god.
Some of the most loving and spiritual people I know still cannot accept the concept of God because they look around them and see the damage religion has wrought. Personally, I have long since gotten over this dilemma. The word god for me does not bring to mind the horror of religion but I fully understand why others still shun the word.
Of course, I have, also, known very spiritual people who were deeply religious. There are many, many folks who have never bought into the negative aspects of their religion. When we know God is Love, the rest doesn't matter.
We don't have to make problem where none need exist. Is it hard to accept that we don't really know much? We create this illusion with our thoughts and feelings. We know the illusion responds to our input. When we love we see love. When we send out love, love returns. Learning how this works is not an intellectual process. It is experiential. We try it; it works. As smiles are reflected, love comes back to us. Isn't it obvious that love creates everything we want and fear creates everything we don't want?
It isn't difficult to be convinced that love is everything and that is all that we need to know.
We can look at it and conclude that everything is energy; our bodies and everything we see. Matter, including our bodies, is only a dense form of energy. It is just slowed down. We continue to shape energy into matter with our minds, because we are creators, part of Source. All energy is Love. Source is Love. When we create with Source, we create only love. As we are part of source, we are free will beings. We wanted to experience what it would be like to create without Source. With the separation, fear entered in. As we went on, our creation became heavily contaminated with fear. Thus, came all the negativity of the old world.
We are now extricating ourselves from the world we made with fear. We may not see much evidence of it yet, but we soon will. It doesn't matter if we are religious, have no religion or reject any idea of religion. The truth stands outside of anything we could believe. We can know by experiencing. Try Love. See everything as Love. See only Love. Let us see how it works for us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
My recall is not perfect, but I believe I was able to get my clients to see the higher power as their own center; a part of them that remained unchanged by their experience. I don't know if I articulated it at the time, but I thought of that center as love.
I am sure the readers of my blog note that I always use the word Source or perhaps Creator. I don't use the word God. I do that because the word God has been contaminated by years of exploitation by religion. Millions and millions of people have been killed, tortured, and deprived of their property in the name of somebodies god.
Some of the most loving and spiritual people I know still cannot accept the concept of God because they look around them and see the damage religion has wrought. Personally, I have long since gotten over this dilemma. The word god for me does not bring to mind the horror of religion but I fully understand why others still shun the word.
Of course, I have, also, known very spiritual people who were deeply religious. There are many, many folks who have never bought into the negative aspects of their religion. When we know God is Love, the rest doesn't matter.
We don't have to make problem where none need exist. Is it hard to accept that we don't really know much? We create this illusion with our thoughts and feelings. We know the illusion responds to our input. When we love we see love. When we send out love, love returns. Learning how this works is not an intellectual process. It is experiential. We try it; it works. As smiles are reflected, love comes back to us. Isn't it obvious that love creates everything we want and fear creates everything we don't want?
It isn't difficult to be convinced that love is everything and that is all that we need to know.
We can look at it and conclude that everything is energy; our bodies and everything we see. Matter, including our bodies, is only a dense form of energy. It is just slowed down. We continue to shape energy into matter with our minds, because we are creators, part of Source. All energy is Love. Source is Love. When we create with Source, we create only love. As we are part of source, we are free will beings. We wanted to experience what it would be like to create without Source. With the separation, fear entered in. As we went on, our creation became heavily contaminated with fear. Thus, came all the negativity of the old world.
We are now extricating ourselves from the world we made with fear. We may not see much evidence of it yet, but we soon will. It doesn't matter if we are religious, have no religion or reject any idea of religion. The truth stands outside of anything we could believe. We can know by experiencing. Try Love. See everything as Love. See only Love. Let us see how it works for us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
SNOW
I was going to write about what one should do when they are having a bad day. But the world is too beautiful and I am having a wonderful day.
It snowed last night. Our forecast was for less than an inch. The storm was supposed to go South of us. The Twin Cities and South were suppose to get the brunt. However, the storm had a mind of its own and we received about five inches.
It is incredibly beautiful. I took several pictures. They turned out nice but not as beautiful as the eye perceives. If it doesn't melt soon I am going to have to haul out some hay for my sheep and that is fine, its time.
There is an air compressor, for the nail gun, operating about six feet away. There is sawing and hammering going on. They are putting up the ceiling on the addition. If the noise gets too much I might have to shorten this blog. Though, I don't know what shorten it would mean as I have no idea what am going to say.
Yesterday I was having a badish day. It wasn't horrible. I wasn't real depressed or anything. I just wasn't very happy. I could look around me and could see that everything was great. There was nothing to create misery. So what was the problem? I was attacking myself. It was subtle. It was a feeling of unworthiness or inadequacy. There were few identifiable thoughts that I could look at. The feelings came to me in waves of cruddiness. It created doubts in my mind about my worthiness.
Eventually, I had enough of it. If Source loves me unconditionally and accepts me as I am; who am I to decide differently? What am I doing wading around in a sewer, when I can be enjoying the Love of the Universe? With a little discipline I was able to bring my mind to the moment and escape the harassment.
What happens to us, anyway, when we are having a bad day? We are listening to our ego. When we first commit ourselves to evolve and start paying attention to our thoughts, it is clear what is making us unhappy. We can identify the thought that is doing the damage and look at it, as much as we need to, and dismiss it. This might involve forgiveness of ourselves or others.
But the ego is tricky. It doesn't give up. It wants to be in control. When you are listening to Spirit and not it, it is terrified of losing control. When we master our minds, to the extent that we dismiss the obvious negative thoughts, it needs to try controlling us in more subtle ways. The ego attempts to co-opt our feelings and create a negative fog so we cannot see the brilliant light that is always around us.
A strong conviction of our worthiness helps in preventing these episodes and helps us realize the ridiculousness of self-judgement. It, also, helps to know that Love always wins out over Ego. Love surpasses everything.
It is an error to see the ego as an enemy {right- it acts that way} but it is our child. We created it as an aid in our separation. Because of the inculcation of fear we began listening to our ego as if it was our savior. The ego, having no life except what we gave it, became a tyrant. Now that we realize we can follow Spirit and not the urging of the ego, the ego feels betrayed. It knows it has only the life we give it. The ego is afraid of the very fear it fostered, it is afraid to die.
We can accept the ego is part of us. We can be reassured that it can aid us, in our separate bodies, to experience the world we create; but it need not rule. We can beam love on our egos as we love everything else. As we love ourselves more and more, all of ourselves, {our egos included} the negative power of our egos will evaporate. The ego cannot stand up against love. To reiterate, if Source loves us, who are we to argue. We will still have struggles and we can have compassion for ourselves, as we have for any loved one, who struggles.
So love yourselves, you marvelous human beings; you perfect beings of light and have a wonderful day.
Love and Peace, Gregg
It snowed last night. Our forecast was for less than an inch. The storm was supposed to go South of us. The Twin Cities and South were suppose to get the brunt. However, the storm had a mind of its own and we received about five inches.
It is incredibly beautiful. I took several pictures. They turned out nice but not as beautiful as the eye perceives. If it doesn't melt soon I am going to have to haul out some hay for my sheep and that is fine, its time.
There is an air compressor, for the nail gun, operating about six feet away. There is sawing and hammering going on. They are putting up the ceiling on the addition. If the noise gets too much I might have to shorten this blog. Though, I don't know what shorten it would mean as I have no idea what am going to say.
Yesterday I was having a badish day. It wasn't horrible. I wasn't real depressed or anything. I just wasn't very happy. I could look around me and could see that everything was great. There was nothing to create misery. So what was the problem? I was attacking myself. It was subtle. It was a feeling of unworthiness or inadequacy. There were few identifiable thoughts that I could look at. The feelings came to me in waves of cruddiness. It created doubts in my mind about my worthiness.
Eventually, I had enough of it. If Source loves me unconditionally and accepts me as I am; who am I to decide differently? What am I doing wading around in a sewer, when I can be enjoying the Love of the Universe? With a little discipline I was able to bring my mind to the moment and escape the harassment.
What happens to us, anyway, when we are having a bad day? We are listening to our ego. When we first commit ourselves to evolve and start paying attention to our thoughts, it is clear what is making us unhappy. We can identify the thought that is doing the damage and look at it, as much as we need to, and dismiss it. This might involve forgiveness of ourselves or others.
But the ego is tricky. It doesn't give up. It wants to be in control. When you are listening to Spirit and not it, it is terrified of losing control. When we master our minds, to the extent that we dismiss the obvious negative thoughts, it needs to try controlling us in more subtle ways. The ego attempts to co-opt our feelings and create a negative fog so we cannot see the brilliant light that is always around us.
A strong conviction of our worthiness helps in preventing these episodes and helps us realize the ridiculousness of self-judgement. It, also, helps to know that Love always wins out over Ego. Love surpasses everything.
It is an error to see the ego as an enemy {right- it acts that way} but it is our child. We created it as an aid in our separation. Because of the inculcation of fear we began listening to our ego as if it was our savior. The ego, having no life except what we gave it, became a tyrant. Now that we realize we can follow Spirit and not the urging of the ego, the ego feels betrayed. It knows it has only the life we give it. The ego is afraid of the very fear it fostered, it is afraid to die.
We can accept the ego is part of us. We can be reassured that it can aid us, in our separate bodies, to experience the world we create; but it need not rule. We can beam love on our egos as we love everything else. As we love ourselves more and more, all of ourselves, {our egos included} the negative power of our egos will evaporate. The ego cannot stand up against love. To reiterate, if Source loves us, who are we to argue. We will still have struggles and we can have compassion for ourselves, as we have for any loved one, who struggles.
So love yourselves, you marvelous human beings; you perfect beings of light and have a wonderful day.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, November 4, 2013
TRUTHSAYERS
Truthsayers come in all sizes and packages. Everyone has had the experience of hearing someone who talks to your inner being. What they say may resonate deeply and you know they speak the truth. I am not speaking of people who say what you believe is true, people speak to your ego, too. It is always nice to have, what you already believe, reinforced. We must check and see if what we believe passes the love test. Does it come from unconditional love? Is it inclusive? Does it support the idea that we are all equally loved and worthy? Is it devoid of fear? We learn to feel what is truth. It resonates in our hearts. It broadens us. It opens our eyes a little wider.
Over our lifetime, we will hear the truth spoken by some very unlikely people. They may be people who don't speak the truth very often, but at the moment, they had a message for us. It may not be a welcome message. The truth has a way of sinking in.
Then there are the folks who have a mission to tell the truth to the people. They may not tell the truth all the time or even most of the time. But they do carry messages for us. They say things in ways we can accept and understand. In a few minutes they can communicate what others have tried to say in volumes.
I know we have had this experience a number of times and in the last fifty years or so, there has been many people who have had a message for us. I ran across such a message the other day on Facebook. A comedian, who died about twenty years ago did a comedy sketch called, "Its Just a Ride". His name was Bill Hicks. It is accessible on YouTube. It says simply what many of us have been saying without belaboring the point. Check it out.
It occurs to me that many comedians have served as truthsayers these last few decades and they continue. George Carlin is a name that pops into my mind. There have been some great ones.
All that is hidden is coming out now. Truthsayers abound as well as those whose mission is to mislead. Be wary of any message that contains fear. There can be truthful messages that can be a mite fearful but the purpose will always be love. Pure messages from source will never contain fear. We are being inundated with information right now, some truth is disturbing. Still it feels right. What opens our eyes, also, increases our capacity to love.
If we remember that our choice is to follow fear or love and we choose love. We will be okay.
Everything is great here at Laughing Water Farm. Jamie is back to her old self. She is always working at something. If it isn't carpentry or cabinet making, it is an art project. Her relaxation consist, mostly, of researching on the internet. Many of our Fall chores have been completed. We still need to dig potatoes and I need to get my pullets joined with the adult chickens. Our construction project is nearing completion.
I need to get at my dishes.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Over our lifetime, we will hear the truth spoken by some very unlikely people. They may be people who don't speak the truth very often, but at the moment, they had a message for us. It may not be a welcome message. The truth has a way of sinking in.
Then there are the folks who have a mission to tell the truth to the people. They may not tell the truth all the time or even most of the time. But they do carry messages for us. They say things in ways we can accept and understand. In a few minutes they can communicate what others have tried to say in volumes.
I know we have had this experience a number of times and in the last fifty years or so, there has been many people who have had a message for us. I ran across such a message the other day on Facebook. A comedian, who died about twenty years ago did a comedy sketch called, "Its Just a Ride". His name was Bill Hicks. It is accessible on YouTube. It says simply what many of us have been saying without belaboring the point. Check it out.
It occurs to me that many comedians have served as truthsayers these last few decades and they continue. George Carlin is a name that pops into my mind. There have been some great ones.
All that is hidden is coming out now. Truthsayers abound as well as those whose mission is to mislead. Be wary of any message that contains fear. There can be truthful messages that can be a mite fearful but the purpose will always be love. Pure messages from source will never contain fear. We are being inundated with information right now, some truth is disturbing. Still it feels right. What opens our eyes, also, increases our capacity to love.
If we remember that our choice is to follow fear or love and we choose love. We will be okay.
Everything is great here at Laughing Water Farm. Jamie is back to her old self. She is always working at something. If it isn't carpentry or cabinet making, it is an art project. Her relaxation consist, mostly, of researching on the internet. Many of our Fall chores have been completed. We still need to dig potatoes and I need to get my pullets joined with the adult chickens. Our construction project is nearing completion.
I need to get at my dishes.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Friday, November 1, 2013
HOW ARE WE DOING?
Halloween is a quiet festival for us. We live in the country, ten miles away from the nearest town. We often have no tricks-and-treaters. Over the years, there has been children in the neighborhood and they grow up or move away. Currently we have one family with children that lives close by and they stopped over. Candy for the children and a libation for the parents. We carve a pumpkin and buy candy just in case. Of course, we buy something we like as we know we will have leftovers.
Many of us are working diligently on our self-improvement projects. I feel I need to reiterate, don't trap yourself in self judgement. Self-judgement can be hidden; you may not be aware that you are doing it. Our ego likes to continue evaluation of ourselves and it especially likes to lure us into thoughts or behavior that we, are trying to modify, and then condemn us for our weakness. What we think of as backsliding, will happen, again and again. Know that that is impossible. We don't really back slide because every time we cycle through one of these supposed back sliding events we learn and we learn and we learn some more. Some things are just very engrained, they have become very familiar and habitual. Don't regret that it takes continual practice to get over it.
We need to be lighthearted about it. Know that Source sees us as perfect already. Your creator knows we are perfect. Source made us perfect. Our separation is an illusion. All those so called blemishes, warts, flaws etc., that we picked up along the way, don't really exist.
There is never, never, never, need for discouragement. You are worthy of paradise period. Any comment on your worthiness is an ego judgement. It is a lie. Intention in this regard is everything. We will enter paradise together. The Earth is rising out of the old duality and we are rising with her. Sure there are a few folks who refuse to give up the old ways, who for whatever reason won't perceive a loving world. They will continue evolving in a world of duality and they will eventually join us.
Despite how the world may look, on a day to day basis, love is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Look for it. You will see it. If you can't quite see it, just wait, there are some eye opening events just on the horizon.
We need to remind ourselves over and over again. Don't judge ourselves. Of course, the key is, as long as we are willing to judge others, we will judge ourselves.
We have heard over and over again that everything is inside. We need to take time to be quiet. When we quiet our minds we will feel the peace and if we look for the love, we will feel it well up. We are love, we are perfect love and we are all connected through our heart centers. We are one,
Love and Peace, Gregg
Many of us are working diligently on our self-improvement projects. I feel I need to reiterate, don't trap yourself in self judgement. Self-judgement can be hidden; you may not be aware that you are doing it. Our ego likes to continue evaluation of ourselves and it especially likes to lure us into thoughts or behavior that we, are trying to modify, and then condemn us for our weakness. What we think of as backsliding, will happen, again and again. Know that that is impossible. We don't really back slide because every time we cycle through one of these supposed back sliding events we learn and we learn and we learn some more. Some things are just very engrained, they have become very familiar and habitual. Don't regret that it takes continual practice to get over it.
We need to be lighthearted about it. Know that Source sees us as perfect already. Your creator knows we are perfect. Source made us perfect. Our separation is an illusion. All those so called blemishes, warts, flaws etc., that we picked up along the way, don't really exist.
There is never, never, never, need for discouragement. You are worthy of paradise period. Any comment on your worthiness is an ego judgement. It is a lie. Intention in this regard is everything. We will enter paradise together. The Earth is rising out of the old duality and we are rising with her. Sure there are a few folks who refuse to give up the old ways, who for whatever reason won't perceive a loving world. They will continue evolving in a world of duality and they will eventually join us.
Despite how the world may look, on a day to day basis, love is increasing at a phenomenal rate. Look for it. You will see it. If you can't quite see it, just wait, there are some eye opening events just on the horizon.
We need to remind ourselves over and over again. Don't judge ourselves. Of course, the key is, as long as we are willing to judge others, we will judge ourselves.
We have heard over and over again that everything is inside. We need to take time to be quiet. When we quiet our minds we will feel the peace and if we look for the love, we will feel it well up. We are love, we are perfect love and we are all connected through our heart centers. We are one,
Love and Peace, Gregg
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
ATTACHMENT-DETACHMENT
I am writing this blog in a construction zone. They cut the doorways in from our existing dining room and the computer room to the new rooms being built. The electrician is here roughing in the outlets etc. The noise of drills, saws and hammers creates an interesting din. It is music to my ears though, as I am eager to see it completed.
Humanity is going through a great change. We are more and more tuned in to the love that encompasses our planet. Most of us can now see that we could be happy, and we are more and more of the time. Happiness is possible all the time. What holds us back? Memories? Things we haven't forgiven? We are more and more aware that fear blocks our happiness and we have become diligent about our thoughts and, at least, when we are aware, we won't allow fear to cloud our consciousness.
Yet we still seem to stay stuck in some of our old ways of feeling and thinking. Why? There is a certain rigidity that develops while living in these bodies. We find ways of perceiving our world that appear to work and we hang on to them. Some of the ideas might be quite limiting yet we don't want to give them up.
It is strange we will hang on to things that hurt us. Some of us hang on to worry because we have developed the superstition that if you worry about it, the bad thing won't happen. We know better, but it is hard to give up on what has been engrained. Another example is forgiveness. Some of us have been afraid to forgive completely, especially when the recipient of the forgiveness doesn't care. We know forgiveness is for us, yet somehow it makes us feel vulnerable.
There are a myriad examples perhaps one will occur to you. It is clear how an attachment to a negative can be hurtful or limiting. How about our attachments to the things we like? It is great to have things and people in our lives that enhance it. But attachment eats away at love. Attachment creates fear of loss. Fear of loss causes the need to control. Of course, control in a relationship smothers love and often leads to a breakup. Attachment to things attenuates the pleasure you would otherwise have by possessing them. Much energy goes into the fear of loss or damage of your property.
The energy of love that surrounds us is asking us to give up our attachments. The whole idea of being like little children is valuable here. Little children have not yet developed ideas about how things should be. They are open to see how things are. If we look through the eyes of small children we will see a world of love, not contaminated by the ideas we have developed. We have heard many times that we should give up the past, not look to the future, but live in the ever present now. That will solve all the problems of attachment. It takes practice. It is doable.
We are living in a world, where the passing old ways of operating, are desperately trying to hang on. Those who are tied to the dark will continue to foment separation and violence where ever they can. They have lost the battle, they can't compete with the love that is in our hearts, but they still own the media, so we are inundated with information about violence and all types of negativity. It would be best if we left our television sets off for the time being, but we like our favorite shows. How do we deal with the horrible things we see?
We need to learn detachment. Know that when we hear of people meeting a violent end, they volunteered for it before they were born. It was their contract to fulfill for us to learn peace and love. Some of us still need to learn the horror of war and armed conflict, of any kind, before we can give up the idea. The great majority of us want love, peace, and joy and we have succeeded in our goal even if it hasn't become completely manifest.
Detachment doesn't mean we don't care. It means we can see the situation with compassion. We can extend our love to the folks involved and thank them for their teaching. We don't need to get our emotions involved in a negative way. It doesn't help anyone to suffer ourselves or be unhappy. We are all connected; our happiness lifts all.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Humanity is going through a great change. We are more and more tuned in to the love that encompasses our planet. Most of us can now see that we could be happy, and we are more and more of the time. Happiness is possible all the time. What holds us back? Memories? Things we haven't forgiven? We are more and more aware that fear blocks our happiness and we have become diligent about our thoughts and, at least, when we are aware, we won't allow fear to cloud our consciousness.
Yet we still seem to stay stuck in some of our old ways of feeling and thinking. Why? There is a certain rigidity that develops while living in these bodies. We find ways of perceiving our world that appear to work and we hang on to them. Some of the ideas might be quite limiting yet we don't want to give them up.
It is strange we will hang on to things that hurt us. Some of us hang on to worry because we have developed the superstition that if you worry about it, the bad thing won't happen. We know better, but it is hard to give up on what has been engrained. Another example is forgiveness. Some of us have been afraid to forgive completely, especially when the recipient of the forgiveness doesn't care. We know forgiveness is for us, yet somehow it makes us feel vulnerable.
There are a myriad examples perhaps one will occur to you. It is clear how an attachment to a negative can be hurtful or limiting. How about our attachments to the things we like? It is great to have things and people in our lives that enhance it. But attachment eats away at love. Attachment creates fear of loss. Fear of loss causes the need to control. Of course, control in a relationship smothers love and often leads to a breakup. Attachment to things attenuates the pleasure you would otherwise have by possessing them. Much energy goes into the fear of loss or damage of your property.
The energy of love that surrounds us is asking us to give up our attachments. The whole idea of being like little children is valuable here. Little children have not yet developed ideas about how things should be. They are open to see how things are. If we look through the eyes of small children we will see a world of love, not contaminated by the ideas we have developed. We have heard many times that we should give up the past, not look to the future, but live in the ever present now. That will solve all the problems of attachment. It takes practice. It is doable.
We are living in a world, where the passing old ways of operating, are desperately trying to hang on. Those who are tied to the dark will continue to foment separation and violence where ever they can. They have lost the battle, they can't compete with the love that is in our hearts, but they still own the media, so we are inundated with information about violence and all types of negativity. It would be best if we left our television sets off for the time being, but we like our favorite shows. How do we deal with the horrible things we see?
We need to learn detachment. Know that when we hear of people meeting a violent end, they volunteered for it before they were born. It was their contract to fulfill for us to learn peace and love. Some of us still need to learn the horror of war and armed conflict, of any kind, before we can give up the idea. The great majority of us want love, peace, and joy and we have succeeded in our goal even if it hasn't become completely manifest.
Detachment doesn't mean we don't care. It means we can see the situation with compassion. We can extend our love to the folks involved and thank them for their teaching. We don't need to get our emotions involved in a negative way. It doesn't help anyone to suffer ourselves or be unhappy. We are all connected; our happiness lifts all.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Monday, October 28, 2013
LIFE GOES ON
We have made progress with our Fall chores. The last of the broilers are in the freezer. I dug up my amaryllis and gladiolas. We have potatoes left to dig and apples to pick. The weather forecast is dreary for the coming week, snow and rain. I may start picking those apples this afternoon. We have a couple bushels of Firesides on the tree. They are a wonderful eating apple and they keep for several weeks in the house. We will need to can most of them. Jamie makes apple-pie-in-a-jar. All the ingredients for an apple pie filling go in the jar and just needs to be put in a crust and baked.
Our building project is going forward after a weeks delay. They are making up for lost time. The roof trusses are already up. I am sitting right next to the construction; only a wall separates me from the carpenters and their hammers.
Do you like your life predictable? Do you take unexpected events in your stride? Is there an advantage to predictability? Sure we create our experience. But we don't know the all of it. We create what we desire to experience and that is on different levels. Before we decided to take this journey on planet Earth, we knew what experiences we needed to have for the learning we felt we needed. Some events are 'group projects'. Many relatives and friends are beings we shared many lifetimes with. We came into this life with learning contracts that involved those others.
So when we say, we create our experience with our thoughts and feelings, that is certainly true; but events may be prearranged. We agreed to them because they carried a valuable lesson, something we wanted to learn.
Some unexpected events are minor; flat tires, clogged drains, cancelled flights etc. Some are major; deaths in the family, serious accidents etc. They all have something in common. They are not the tragedies we think they are. For instance death, our pain comes from our attachment. Love is not attachment. Love is freeing. Love would understand that the loved one chose to leave. Sure as long as we are in bodies, we are going to experience attachment. No one would suggest a death in the family could ever be easy, but we will get to the point where we no longer see it as tragedy. Most families are able to celebrate the death of their aged population. In the near future we will be able to celebrate all changes.
Life is Life! We live! Death isn't real. Nothing we experience in this bodily illusion is real. It is a dream we are having. Let us not make it a nightmare. We are here to learn by experiencing. Therefore, we need to accept it as our temporary reality. But can't we be lighthearted?
Since we can't really predict what will happen from day to day, what should be our outlook? Can we greet every event with alacrity? Can we be lighthearted about everything? Can we see the funny side of the events of our lives? Who said, we had to be serious?
When we practice loving every moment and living every moment, we don't scare ourselves with a future that hasn't arrived. If we get a flat tire, we pull out our cars manual and see if we can fix it or we flag down a passing motorist. We don't scare ourselves with something that might happen. It is just another adventure to regale our friends with at our next meeting.
Life comes to us in an endless stream. Let us love it all. The more we love the lighter will be the lessons. We are here to realize we are unconditional love just like our Source. Let us learn to love now, then we won't call any more lessons to us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
Our building project is going forward after a weeks delay. They are making up for lost time. The roof trusses are already up. I am sitting right next to the construction; only a wall separates me from the carpenters and their hammers.
Do you like your life predictable? Do you take unexpected events in your stride? Is there an advantage to predictability? Sure we create our experience. But we don't know the all of it. We create what we desire to experience and that is on different levels. Before we decided to take this journey on planet Earth, we knew what experiences we needed to have for the learning we felt we needed. Some events are 'group projects'. Many relatives and friends are beings we shared many lifetimes with. We came into this life with learning contracts that involved those others.
So when we say, we create our experience with our thoughts and feelings, that is certainly true; but events may be prearranged. We agreed to them because they carried a valuable lesson, something we wanted to learn.
Some unexpected events are minor; flat tires, clogged drains, cancelled flights etc. Some are major; deaths in the family, serious accidents etc. They all have something in common. They are not the tragedies we think they are. For instance death, our pain comes from our attachment. Love is not attachment. Love is freeing. Love would understand that the loved one chose to leave. Sure as long as we are in bodies, we are going to experience attachment. No one would suggest a death in the family could ever be easy, but we will get to the point where we no longer see it as tragedy. Most families are able to celebrate the death of their aged population. In the near future we will be able to celebrate all changes.
Life is Life! We live! Death isn't real. Nothing we experience in this bodily illusion is real. It is a dream we are having. Let us not make it a nightmare. We are here to learn by experiencing. Therefore, we need to accept it as our temporary reality. But can't we be lighthearted?
Since we can't really predict what will happen from day to day, what should be our outlook? Can we greet every event with alacrity? Can we be lighthearted about everything? Can we see the funny side of the events of our lives? Who said, we had to be serious?
When we practice loving every moment and living every moment, we don't scare ourselves with a future that hasn't arrived. If we get a flat tire, we pull out our cars manual and see if we can fix it or we flag down a passing motorist. We don't scare ourselves with something that might happen. It is just another adventure to regale our friends with at our next meeting.
Life comes to us in an endless stream. Let us love it all. The more we love the lighter will be the lessons. We are here to realize we are unconditional love just like our Source. Let us learn to love now, then we won't call any more lessons to us.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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