Religious Truths (shit happens)

Obviously, none of this is intended to denigrate, deprecate, minimize, demean or insult anyone of any particular religious belief system, or the religious systems themselves. But this is funny nonetheless.

TAOISM: Shit happens

BUDDHISM: If shit happens it isn't really shit.

HINDUISM: This shit has happened before.

ISLAM: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.

CATHOLICISM: Shit happens because you deserve it.

PROTESTANTISM: Work harder or shit will happen.

MATERIALISM: Whoever dies with the most shit wins.

ATHEISM: I can’t believe this shit.

JUDAISM: Why does this shit always happen to us?

RASTAFARIANISM: Let’s smoke this shit.

MORMON: Excrement happens. Because shit is a bad word.

AGNOSTICISM: It’s impossible to tell if this is shit or not.

WICCAN: Any shit you give will come back to you 3 times.

LAW OF ATTRACTION: As you think, so you shit.

TV EVANGELIST: Send the shit in. OR: Send me all your shit.

SHINTO: Shit is a part of nature, so let’s celebrate shit.

CHARISMATIC CHRISTIAN: We can heal shit.

CAPITALISM: Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you eat.

EXISTENTIALISM: We don’t know if shit really happens. We only know our experience of shit happening.

JEHOVAH’S WITNESS: Knock, knock. Shit happens.

QUANTUM PHYSICS: Shit is everywhere and nowhere all at once until observed.

ZEN: This shit is nothing.

SHAMANISM: You haven’t even begun to imagine how deep this shit goes.

ZOROASTRIANISM: This shit is the origin of all other shit.

Is the Matrix Real?

If anyone alive today hasn’t seen the 1999 movie “The Matrix” prepare for a spoiler alert. The basic premise of the film (like a number of films before it ) is that humans create machines that become self aware. The machines then declare global war on all humans, seeing them as greedy, self absorbed, destructive, cruel, wasteful animals. Actually, similar concepts have been played out before. The Terminator movie (1984) is based on a series of events that occurred after humans built a machine that became self aware and waged war on humans. Wargames (1983) depicts a high school student who hacks into the war simulation computer who plays out its strategies with real world consequences. More recently, the movie G-Force (2009) depicts guinea pigs fighting a electronics manufacturer whose machines are programmed to come to life to fight the human race.

The crux of the Matrix plot is that the machines create a huge field where humans are made, not born. The humans are grown in pods that feed them nutrients to keep them alive for one solitary purpose – to use humans as batteries. Humans are an energy field. This energy field can be used to power more machines. To keep the humans alive and functioning, they are plugged into a system, a world, a matrix that simulates lives they lead day after day. They live artificial lives fed to them by the Matrix, while in reality; they are trapped in pods which continually drain their energetic life force. The movie focuses around a group of humans that find a way to unplug from the Matrix and wage a guerilla war against the machines.

Once unplugged from the Matrix, the lead character finds himself in the “real” world. The Earth has become a post war wasteland. He finds that when he is temporarily plugged back into the Matrix for certain missions, his new paradigm allows him to bend certain rules we normally understand as unbreakable. He can alter time, defy gravity, and perform physical feats normally not allowed were he to follow the rules that govern the Matrix. He can do these things because he knows he is not of the Matrix. He knows he is plugged into this framework from the comfort of a chair OUTSIDE this place. His understanding of how this artificial place works allows him to do things that other people living within its confines cannot because they are still plugged into this Matrix from the confines of their pods in the “human fields.” Two different paradigms, two different behaviors. One paradigm originates from the idea that we are not of this temporary, false world. The other is predicated by the notion that this world is all there is and there is nothing more.

The Matrix poses an interesting theory, one born thousands of years ago and revived today in New Age thought.

Is this world real?

This singular question raises a host of other posers. “Is this all there is?” “What am I doing here?” “What is the meaning of life?”  “Why does this world involve so much suffering?”

A predominant thought in New Age is that we have been here before. We have multiple lives. We live, we learn, we die, we come back to learn some more. In classes I teach, I refer to this world as a classroom. It is predicated on the idea that we are NOT human beings searching a spiritual life. We are spiritual beings living a human life.

Remember your Seventh Grade Science class? The book showed a diagram of an atom. It had a nucleus and some electrons orbiting around. It looked similar to the solar system. To scale, the nucleus would be the size of a grain of sand. Fourteen blocks away, the first electrons in the first orbit would the size of a grain of salt. The space in between is …. nothing, only space and energy. This same energy holds atoms and galaxies together. This is because galaxies and atoms share the same construction, shape, make up, even the names of some of their parts is the same. When one discusses quantum physics, atoms and galaxies are on equal terms.

 Now let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole. Every cell in your body, every one of the near 50 billion, that’s a B, billion, cells is made up of millions of atoms. Each cell is made up like a small city. There are factories, sanitation and sewage areas, gates and toll booths that allow certain items to come in and go out, central government and control centers that regulate everything. And just like a small city, each cell requires and produces energy. And each vibrating atom in each one of those cells holds energy. We truly are energetic beings. We are literally made of the same material as stars and galaxies and nebulae and planets.

But we are so much more than that. We are spiritual in nature. We are spirit.

We come to this classroom as spirit inhabiting a body. We drive these physical vehicles around as our lives. When the body grows old and gets sick, it stops working. But the spirit part of us moves on. We go back to source. There, we review what we learned and what we have yet to learn. We then choose the moment of our next incarnation. We select the perfect time, period in history, geographic location, parents, name, skills, talents, etc. that will best allow us to learn our lessons. When these conditions are perfectly met, we are born. Unfortunately, we immediately forget why came here and what we are destined to do with our lives. We can only hope to discover our purpose and live it. Because we often forget why we are here, we have to keep coming back again. We do this so we can learn to let go of attachments. Attachments are things like money, sex, power, greed, love, grief, etc. When we finally learn that there is so much more to this world than going to work for some company to pay for insurance and get a 401K and raise some kids and buy a house or a car or deal with crappy parents or a jerk boss or criminal kids or losing our parents; we can learn to appreciate our lives and our spirituality.

So what if it is real, the Matrix? What if we really ARE star stuff, spirit incarnate into a physical frame? What if we really are spiritual beings simply operating these meat suits? What if this place, this world we live in, is filled with so much suffering because we made it that way? Even in the Matrix movie, a character representing the machines declared that the machines once created a perfect world for us. This world was idyllic in every way. No pain or suffering, no difficulties of any kind. But our human minds rejected the concept and it crumbled. So the machines created this, our current world. A beautiful place filled suffering and despair. We readily accepted it. We CHOSE this for ourselves.

So again, what if it were real? What if this world, like A Course in Miracles says, doesn’t really exist? What if we created this place so we could come here to learn how to be ourselves, but better? To learn to lose the ego?

I don’t pretend to know the answer. I don’t have the corner on the Truth market. I simply know what my experience tells me. I truly believe we are made of cosmic stuff. I truly believe we are spiritual beings living human lives. I believe that after this life, I will come back later and live another one, and then another one. I truly believe this world is a classroom. I believe that our thoughts become things. Our thoughts, emotions and beliefs affect our physical bodies and this world.

I believe these things because of what I have seen in this world. I grew up in a haunted house, I have seen a UFO. As a psychic healer, I see spirit, I see other people’s energy patterns, I pick up on other people’s emotions and pain, and I have seen some of my own past lives and those of others. These are my experiences.

So, how would you live if you knew for certain this world is temporary, but you are eternal? Not just knew it, but truly believed it deep down in your bones. Would you be nicer to others or more concerned with your own needs and wants?  I haven’t even gotten into the discussion of karma yet. I will save that for another day. But think about this for a moment. Give this some thought. What if it were true? How would you behave? How would you treat yourself and others? Would you be nicer or tougher?

Our experiences, our troubles, or failures, our pain and our suffering are meant to teach us something. Does it hurt when someone close to us dies? Yes! Does it hurt when we are sexually abused as children or raped as adults? YES! Does it hurt when we are raised by abusive parents? YES! Does it make life difficult when we are born with a physical or mental impairment? YES! Is it unfair when we are fired from our job and the slacker in the next cubicle gets promoted? YES! Does it hurt when we lose someone we love? YES! But do we let these events define who we are and cripple us emotionally each and every day? You decide.

 I believe each one of us is born into multiple lifetimes where we experience these challenges and more. Each one of has overcome several lifetimes of challenges, difficulties and issues. And we can do it again this time, as well as the next time.

I have given you plenty of questions and have intentionally not given you any direct answers. It is because I don’t have any. I know what I believe. I reserve the right to believe it. As I extend to you the right to believe as you do. We each travel our own individual paths, live our own different lives and develop our own various beliefs as a result of our particular difficulties. I wouldn’t dare tell you yours are wrong; and I hope you won’t tell me mine are wrong. I only hope I can give you a nudge to search for what you honestly believe about yourself and the world around you.

Live as if all you leave behind is how you are remembered.

Namaste

Weeg

The Approaching Planetary Shift

It seems lately the world is collapsing. Now, it may appear this way because we have more immediate access to news events far and near than ever before in the history of this planet. It may have been like this all along, but our technology kept us uninformed thus far. But I am fairly certain that things are “ramping up” in the way of depravity and random acts of “WTF.”

For example, a new drug from Russia called Krokodil is made of cocaine and gasoline and eats your flesh from the inside out. People are lining up to get this, despite warnings that the time period from first use to death is less than three years. Just recently, a gang of motorcycles surrounded a family in their Range Rover, taunting them and finally dragging the father out of the truck to deliver him a vicious beating while his wife and two year old daughter watch helplessly. In my town, young males on scooters are committing drive by shootings. Shooters on scooters.

While I could go on, it is all negative stuff and I am not driven to that. I prefer the positive and uplifting. But how do we explain these random acts of weirdness? Numerous writers have described the raise or upward shift in vibration on this planet. The result is that more and more people are “waking up” for lack of a better phrase. They realize that they are now seeing, hearing or recognizing things that are beyond their previous normal comprehension. More people are becoming aware that the belief systems they have been taught no longer answer the questions they are asking in the light of their new discoveries. People are waking up, and they are searching. And I have made myself available to teach what little I know about this whole “metaphysical” thing. Many people refer to it as “the woo woo.” A teacher and colleague of mine, Lawrence Hyde, wrote a book about it called, Ready for the Woo Woo Stuff? Check it out. It’s available in print and ebooks.  

But why are some people waking up and searching for clarity while some people seem to be slipping further into the moral abyss? Many people in the metaphysical circles agree that our planet, as well as our solar system, is moving into a new quadrant of the universe. Imagine if you will a clock. Our solar system is the hour hand and we are now starting to move from the 6 o’clock position (with a vibration level of, oh, let’s say 5 or something) to the 8 o’clock position (with a vibration level of about 7). This is how our solar system is moving within our galaxy. Now imagine that happening again as our galaxy moves into a new position within the entire universe. Our solar system is lining up with a whole new vibratory field. I’m thinking of the first Star Wars movie where they are watching the monitor and waiting for the death star to come into range of the planet so it can be destroyed. Only in this case, once our solar system is in line with the right place with the Milky Way galaxy, and the Milky Way is in line with the rest of the universe, better things will happen.

Lower vibrations are connected with ego thoughts. Ego thoughts are centered on self-preservation, conquering, survival and the like. Higher vibrations are concerned with more esoteric themes such as love, peace, joy and most of all gratitude. Actually, Dr. Emoto wrote in his book, The Hidden Messages in Water that gratitude is the highest vibration, even higher than joy, as it produced the most beautiful patterns when the frozen water molecules were photographed.

According to most authors, the area of the universe and the area of the galaxy we are moving toward are of a much higher vibratory nature than what we have experienced here on our planet thus far. The prevailing theory is that some people are more capable of assimilating these new vibratory levels than other people. This might explain why some people are waking up and becoming more psychic in nature and some people are seemingly devolving to near bestial behavior.

So how do we attempt to raise our vibrations? While there are some differences in opinion, most agree on moving to a vegetarian lifestyle, meditation, yoga or Tai Chi, spending time in nature, living in gratitude and joy, community service projects, changing your TV habits and avoiding negative people or influences.

Dolores Cannon, a prolific author and past life regression therapist for more than 35 years, has written extensively about our assignments here on Earth and how that relates to the raising of planetary vibrations. Her latest book, The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, she discusses what will happen as our planet lines up with the new vibratory field in the universe. She describes a global shift, where some people will simply vibrate up a notch and some people will remain at the same level. It will be like two different worlds occurring at the same time. Compare it this way. As you sit in whatever room you are in reading this (and I thank you ever so much for taking time out read my feeble musings) there are other beings surrounding you. Ghosts, angels, spirit guides and the like are around us all day long. Most people can’t see or recognize them because they are at a higher vibratory level. Mediums can see them because they are able to raise their vibration high enough to briefly connect with entities beyond our physical sight. Think John Edward, John Holland or James van Praugh (or me). So these beings are living their lives around us all the time, but we don’t see it. If you notice on syfy channel there are numerous ghost hunting and paranormal activity shows on recently. This is further evidence that more people are recognizing things beyond what they have been traditionally taught. There is a whole world beyond ours, living and vibrant.

Dolores suggests that when the coming shift is in full bloom, some will shift up with it and some will stay where they are. It will be like some people are carrying out their lives like they normally would, yet their world will be without the negativity, violence, greed and depravity that imbues our current abode. Yet some people will be living out their lives wondering why everything is horrible, why there is so much evil, greed, meanness and suffering in the world.

Now we go a little further down the rabbit hole. This will really bake your noodle. The rapture describes a similar kind of thing. The word rapture is never written in the Bible, as the term wasn’t part of our lexicon until the early 20^th Century. I never believed in the concept of the rapture, despite the popularity of the Left Behind series. It describes a religious event where Jesus returns bodily to Earth as a living God to “take up” only his followers, while he leaves the rest to suffer here on Earth. Bumper stickers and the like claim that in case of the rapture their car will be unmanned. The prevailing belief is at any time, when you least expect it, it could happen. If you are a good Christian, you will be removed from the misery to come. But if are a bad Christian, or no Christian at all, you will be left behind to suffer “where there be wailing and the gnashing of teeth.”

I have never subscribed to this concept. I won’t go into the reasons why.

But what if, just what if, the events foretold in the book of Revelation are a psychic vision recalled by one whose vibration had been raised enough by meditation and diet and positive thoughts that he could foresee the planetary and galaxy shift capable of causing people to seemingly disappear. Perhaps that disappearance is simply people shifting out of our physical sight. Perhaps they are invisible to us, but live on like ghosts are living among us now. What if that one event described so long ago, that theologians and scientists have debated and discussed and philosophized for so long, really described a cosmic shift in vibration that will change who we are forever? Something to think about. Honestly, I only made this elusive Revelation connection this morning.

Now, this article wasn’t a foreboding prophecy, “Change your ways now or be forever lost.” I would never suggest that. I wouldn’t begin to know who could be capable of “vibrating up” or staying where they are energetically. I am suggesting that while all this is going on, while it seems like our world is crumbling apart, while people appear to be going crazier every day, we can all realize that we are capable of enjoying our lives by changing our attitudes and our vibrations. Put the Law of Attraction to work. Thoughts become things, think the good ones. Change your life, change the world.

Namaste my friends,

Weeg