Waiting to Be Saved

July 5th, 2010

Wanting to be saved is one of the most disempowering mindsets I have ever seen.  You see it in religion.  You see it in people who are waiting for someone to come in and have somebody or something else solve all their problems for them.  You see it in people who think winning the lottery will solve everything overnight.  Wanting to be saved is just stupid.  I’m sorry.  Putting your faith in anyone or anything other than yourself to be saved is just dumb.  For those of you who truly believe The Rapture is coming, I would advise you to stop reading now because no offense, but the Rapture is just your naive attempt to think that everything is going to be okay just because you take the Bible word for word.  If Christ was really coming back, wouldn’t he have come by now to save all the believers?  He said something like, “This generation shall not pass and I will be back.”  Stop waiting for that bus and start walking people.

If you want to be saved, you’re going to have to save yourself.  You can ask for help, but the majority of the legwork is going to have to be done by you.  That is just a fact.  You have to make the moves to get where it is you want to be, not fate or chance.  People who want to be rescued are purposely and exclusively playing the victim role.  Why would anyone ever do that to themselves?  Because it’s easy.  It requires almost no effort to play the victim, but it requires a ton of effort to play the rescuer.  And you are your own rescuer.  Like I said, you can accept help, but don’t expect someone to reassemble your life for you.  They have their own lives to work on.  They can’t sit there and baby step you all the way to your better life.  This isn’t kindergarten anymore.

Take authority over your own life.  You are in charge here.  It is your life to live and your consequences to bear, so why not make it a better life?  Don’t spend your time sitting around waiting for salvation when you could be creating what it is you desire right now if you would only get off your ass and get moving.  What is it that is holding you back?  Your job?  Your spouse?  Just because those around you wish to play the victim  role does not mean you have to do so as well.  You are better off dropping those people out of your life anyway because they will do nothing but hold you back.  The people you spend the most time with reinforce your belief system.  If you are spending a lot of time with victims who never quite make anything meaningful happen in their lives, you will start to pick up on their bad habits.  What you need to find are empowering people to surround yourself with.  People who encourage you, not discourage you.  People who aren’t afraid of the new you, a different you.

Playing the victim, waiting to be saved is just a naive fantasy.  You can keep doing this and living the results of that mindset, or you can move up to taking control of your life.  I’m so sick of people complaining about situations in their lives that they created and perpetuate.  It is whiny, it is repetitive, it is bordering on insanity.  If you create something, you should not be complaining about it.  By complaining, you are only perpetuating the situation you don’t want in the first place.  Why not work towards a new situation?  Why not take steps to better yourself to get yourself into a better place?  A place where you don’t need to be saved.  You can wait at that bus stop all day, but if you don’t take the first step towards saving yourself, good luck finding someone who is willing to save you.

The very mindset creates victimization.  You are throwing away your personal responsibility and placing it on something external that is supposed to come into your life and take your victim role away.  I would say you have to pick yourself up by your bootstraps, but that would make me sound like a Republican.  Which I am not.  But the sentiment is true.  You are responsible for your life, not anybody else.  People can help you through your life, but the brunt of the work is yours to bear if you want a life that you can feel good about and can take authorship of.  Stop whining and start taking action.  I’m sure what happened in the past was horrible and you don’t think you’ll ever gain closure, but you live here in the present, people.  You can change your recent past towards a new life in the next 90 days to shed this whole victim mentality and move towards a more empowered state, where you are the dictator of your life, the author.  You decide what you do, what you don’t do.  You have the power.  You just have to realize it.  And for God’s sake, stop waiting to be saved and start saving yourself.

If you found this post insightful, helpful, or thought-provoking, feel free to donate to my site.

Posted in Inspiration, Theories | No Comments »

Impossibility

July 1st, 2010

I’ve been writing on here a lot lately and honestly, I still have a lot of questions about everything.  I guess I’m only beginning to scratch the surface of reality and it will take a long time to truly get to the other side.  I am not going to say that anything is impossible because I don’t know that for sure.  There are millions of things we don’t know about the world, possibly orders of magnitude more.  But if we don’t know that we don’t know them, then we are completely unaware of them.  In 1491, we knew the Earth was flat.  In the early 1600s, we knew that Earth was the center of the universe. In the early 1900s, we knew that it was impossible to put a man on the moon  But we were wrong about those things, so just imagine what we’ll know tomorrow.  Anything that is quoted as a scientific fact is suspect to the creative nature of our being.  Just because someone or something says something is impossible, that does not make it so, unless you also believe that it is impossible.

Whenever someone tells you something you don’t quite believe, do not shun them as wackos because most of the time their beliefs come from something that they’ve experienced.  If someone tells you that they’ve had astral projections or out of body experiences, who are you to tell them that they are wrong?  If someone says they talked to God or some other spiritual being, how do you know they are telling the truth?  The answer is you don’t.  You can’t prove them wrong.  Even if they are lying, how could you possibly know, except if you could read minds.  But even then, how could you know your readings are accurate?  What we believe, we create.  The stronger the belief, the stronger the creation.

I’m not saying that your creation will happen immediately because you actually have to believe it as true.  You can’t half-believe something and expect it to show up in your life.  For example, let’s say you want to believe you will win the lottery or have won the lottery.  You do visualizations and imagine yourself winning, what it would feel like to win, and what you would do with all that money.  But you don’t win, because you also happen to believe in the laws of probability.  And not only that, you have a belief that says, “What if everyone did this?  The world would be a mess.  If everyone has this power, it will make everything chaotic.”  All these conflicting beliefs muddle up your intention to win the lottery.  Sure, it could happen, but if you do not clean up these contradictory beliefs, beliefs that are instilled in us from an early age, the vast majority of us will not win the lottery.

It is possible to do anything we please, but the whole notion that it is easy and fast is not the truth.  At least for the most part.  It takes a committed, disciplined individual to accomplish any big goal or act of creation.  You have to live, eat, and breathe your goal, whatever it may be.  You have to be so committed that some people think you should be committed.  You have to take the steps to become what it is you want to be or do.  Otherwise, you’re living in Fantasyland.  You also have to prepare for the likely consequences of accomplishing your goal(s).  If you do not prepare for what will happen after you win the lottery, you’ll end up broke like the majority of lottery winners.  You have to be a vibrational match for what you want to receive, otherwise you will lose it or never get it.

You have to feel what it is like to have whatever it is that you are wanting.  It has to feel real to you, almost normal.  If you imagine yourself looking at a bank statement with $40,000,000.00 in it and just see it matter-of-factly and believe it to be true, you are well on your way.  You have to feel it like it is real, but not go bananas because it will throw off the way you will actually feel when you have all this money and are just living your life.  You have to act like a millionaire would act.  You need to feel wealth and abundance inside you.  And you have to follow your opportunities towards your goal.  If it feels right, do it.

If you truly believe that nothing is impossible, then that makes everything a possibility.  If you believe, truly, that you can fly and teleport, then you can make it so.  But you have to deprogram all the contradicting beliefs that disallow these manifestations to take place.  That is a job in itself.  I’m sure there are plenty of contradicting beliefs about those two abilities in your mind, such as, let’s say, the laws of physics.  Gravity.  Newton’s Third Law of Motion.  And so on and so forth.  So there is a lot of work to be done here.

These are just examples.  With every intention comes some limiting beliefs to work through.  For starters, I wouldn’t recommend trying to fly, but perhaps manifesting some money, a small amount to start, a comfortable amount.  It is something you can easily measure as manifested or not manifested, so give it a shot.  Even if you don’t manifest the money at first, be patient and believe it is coming.  Don’t try to control how it gets to you, but just believe and accept the inevitability of it.  And when opportunity knocks, take it.  It will be well worth it.

Just open yourself  up to the possibilities that are out there.  Don’t shun other schools of thought just because you don’t think they are useful.  Allow yourself to consider them because they can teach you new ways of living and thriving that you may have never considered in your little box of thoughts.  It’s better to be open than closed.  It’s always better to consider a possibility than an impossibility.  Think of all the things that were once thought impossible that we have today.  That should be proof enough that our minds and bodies are capable of much better than we believe ourselves to be.  We just need to believe.

If you found this post insightful, helpful, or thought-provoking, feel free to donate to my site.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

What is Bliss?

June 26th, 2010

What is bliss?

Living a life of bliss is something many people strive for, but very few ever get there. I know this because I see it. Even the people who claim they live a life of bliss may not completely experience bliss all the time. Many people attempt to sell bliss in the form of drugs, sex, or spiritual teachings. What most people do not understand is that bliss is free, and we all have the capability to experience it. We just have to 1) know what it is, and 2) know how to attain it and sustain it. It is a wonderful feeling, a feeling of oneness and euphoria, without the use of sex, drugs, or seminar. Many people spend their whole lives chasing bliss when it is an internal function, it comes from inside, not from the external world. Our brains are juicy pleasure organs, but most people never tap into using much of that part of their brain. Joy and bliss are pretty much synonymous, except bliss just sounds better when I think of it.

I can only describe bliss as a background WOW! No matter what happens to you, even in seemingly negative situations, you can still have that background feeling of euphoria. It is a feeling of love pouring out into the world. You can’t help but be happy all the time. People are drawn to your “intoxicating” vibration. You may even encounter jealousy towards you from those who are not on the path towards bliss. But you don’t worry about that because you’re having such a good time here that nothing can bring you down. It is the ultimate high that lasts forever and you never build up a tolerance to. It is what everyone seems to be chasing, but most people turn up short, but that’s no reason to give up the pursuit.

This is also referred to in the US Constitution as the “pursuit of happiness.” But it is so much more than just happiness. It is fulfillment, joy, enthusiasm, motivation, passion, creativity, and many other states all rolled up into one. You’ve heard the line, “Seek and you shall find.” Ask and it is given. Become aligned with bliss and you will be open to receiving bliss. Become a vibrational match for bliss. Don’t worry, be happy. And so on and so forth. These are all worded descriptions, but you can’t really describe bliss in words, but you can get a general idea from content. You’ll have to fill in the energy part yourself.

I’m not going to lie and tell you I live a life of eternal bliss. I’ve had my moments of bliss, and have had bad times as well. But as far as I can tell, I’m well on the road to attaining bliss in the future because I feel that if I’m going to live this life, I might as well be fulfilled, happy, motivated, etc. It will enhance my normal existence to one of extraordinary, where even the worst-case scenario is fine because I’m enjoying all of existence so much. There is nothing to fear and we all just live a wonderful existence with rich, fun experiences that shake us to our very core.

Opening yourself up to receiving bliss is the first step. The problem with most people is that they do not think that they deserve bliss. They feel, “I am unworthy of such a wonderful thing.” And that’s the first mistake that from the very start will stop you from ever achieving bliss. Your body was created to be happy. When someone is unhappy or depressed, there is something not working right in the body. Working correctly, our bodies and minds are made for blissful experience. But most people don’t believe they deserve this wonderful bliss. Why? Because they are conditioned through all social channels that bliss must be bought, must be achieved, is elusive. Advertisements tell you that you won’t be happy unless you buy the next new car or cell phone. We are told by media and even people we know that we are incomplete and are not whole. We need to go beyond the haze of social conditioning to feel bliss because we’ll never get there otherwise.

So, in just believing that you deserve bliss, you are on the road to attaining it. Ask the universe for bliss. Ask whatever God you believe in. Demand bliss from the highest mountain. Look deep inside yourself for the inner bliss that’s there and always has been there, just waiting to express itself. This may take time, but sooner or later, you’ll start to feel better and better about your life, the lives of others, and seem to attract those who have a similar enthusiasm about life, rather than the pity party crew and gossip queens. Those types of people will repulse you at first, but you’ll accept them for who they are and send out an intention for them to become more blissful.

It’s all about wanting it. Truly wanting it. It’s not about thinking you want it because everyone else seems to want it. It’s all about truly working towards getting to the place you call bliss. Many spiritual leaders have gotten there and lived to talk about it. Those people often strike a chord within us whenever we see them. Think Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Buddha, and possibly Jesus Christ, if he really existed.

Once you have bliss, life flows effortlessly and is a joy to behold. I’ve read many stories of people said to have achieved enlightenment among other states and they just live lives of ease, grace, and lightness. Everyone wants to learn from these people. Some of them are even worshipped. I find it fascinating how far people will travel to talk to a so-called “enlightened” person. It is because you will receive wisdom from someone who has a much more holistic perspective. These people are models of who we are supposed to be and who we were before some tens of thousands of years ago when we became “civilized.”

In such a negative world, where there is always no shortage of bad news, dwelling on the negatives is an exercise in futility. Why not embrace your power as a joyful, happy, blissful human being and be part of a change in consciousness towards love and bliss, rather than feeding fear and negativity? It is a noble pursuit towards serving the highest good of all (or at least that I can perceive). Wouldn’t we get a lot more done if we were so damn happy and fulfilled all the time? We would all be extraordinary in our own unique ways, creating positive ripples out into the world and the universe to ultimately create a better and happier world.

If you found this post insightful, helpful, or thought-provoking, feel free to donate to my site.

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Act of Creation

June 23rd, 2010

We all have the power to create things.  We can create what we want.  We really can.  Seriously.  But we have to truly want it.  We have to accept the consequences of our creations.  We have to acknowledge that everything we experience was created by us.  We need to take responsibility for what we have created and if we do not like what we have created, we need to move in a different direction of creation.  We are naturally creative beings, us humans.  I say this as I create something right now, this blog entry.  We can create power or weakness.  We can create certainty or doubt.  We can create confidence or low self-esteem.  The choices are up to us in this very moment.  We have the power.  But most people never use it.  Why?

Because it takes a lot of work to harness this power.  If you start thinking about what you do not want, it shall come to you.  The more thought and time you put into something, the more prominent it is in your reality.  I know this because I see it all the time.  People who complain tend to attract negative things into their lives.  People who stay positive tend to have much better lives all-around.  If thoughts are creative, then wouldn’t it make sense to only think about what you want and not think about what you don’t want?  Even if thoughts are not creative, why bother thinking about what you don’t want in the first place?  What would that ever do for you?  It would only create a state of fear, worry, and depression, which is hardly optimal for conscious living.  We all are much better off thinking more positively because then we create positive ripples out into our reality.

No matter what you are experiencing, you have created it.  Do  not deny your creation.  That only puts you further away from being conscious.  If you don’t acknowledge your reality for what it is, how can you move forward to a better one?  You simply cannot.  You must accept your reality for what it is, and intend for it to be what you want it to be.  You must work for what you want it to be.  You must capitalize on opportunities that are swung your way to create the reality you want.  It’s all you anyway, so you might as well make something of it.  Consciousness is ever-present and to shift your consciousness to a more empowered state is good for everything and everyone.  That is, as long as you are conscious enough to not use that power for less than desirable gains.

We are immensely powerful creatures that have the ability to perform great acts and create real change in the world.  We just need to learn about tools to help us get to where we want to be.  This is no easy task.  To become true conscious creators, we must train our minds and our souls.  We must become beings capable of not only changing our realities, but making the right changes to impact the world towards the greater good, whatever we envision that to be.   Through the subjective reality paradigm, what is good for consciousness is good for everything.  Because in reality consciousness is all there is, and we are experiencing it subjectively.  It’s just a ride, folks.  Why not make it fun and exhilarating?

It’s Just A Ride is from Bill Hick’s stand-up act.  Very enlightening piece of material if I do say so myself.  I really encourage you to listen to that if you’ve never heard it.  He was one of the most thoughtful comedians ever to grace this world and sadly, he died way too young of pancreatic cancer.  There have been countless documentaries made about him and how much of a great human being he was.  He truly cared about humanity, even if he didn’t always show it in his act.  A truly conscious human being, someone far beyond the haze of social conditioning.  He created a legend from himself that still lives to this day.  He may not be as well known as George Carlin or Seinfeld, but he sure has touched a lot of lives, or at least the intelligent ones.

Just think about what you could do with your life if you truly did something that actually mattered on a deep, conscious level.  Just think if you changed the global consciousness for the better.  There have been many who have done it before and there will be many who will do it again.  We all have this power within us.  But not all of us has the skills or courage to pursue this dream, to open people’s eyes and change their ways of thinking to create a better world.  It is very challenging and will be met with much resistance.  But the resistance is only there to scare away the timid adventurers.  I’ll give you a quote that truly sums up what I am talking about:

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a great quote about fear and how when you face your fears, they turn out to be much less than you imagined them to be.  The quote “the only thing to fear is fear itself” also rings true here.  The only thing that holds us back from creating the world of our dreams is fear itself.  Once we transcend fear in the global consciousness, we will live in a world of love and compassion.  It will be a dream world.  But it’s always about getting there that’s the hard part.  But the time is going to pass anyway, isn’t it?  And we owe it to humanity and all-life-on-Earth to get to a place where fear is gone and we can consciously create a world far better than the one we have today.  I believe it is worth a try, to use our creative powers to create heaven on Earth, don’t you?  Or would you rather just keep creating what you are getting?

A simple choice, but not a simple one to make.  A great ideal, with a lot of work to accomplish.  But I have faith in humanity to get where we need to be, eventually.  We all just need to wake up and have the courage to live consciously.

Thanks for stopping by.

If you found this post insightful, helpful, or thought-provoking, feel free to donate to my site.

Posted in Inspiration, Intentions, Nature, Theories | 1 Comment »

Who Cares Who We Are?

June 17th, 2010

This is a question I’m asking honestly.  We can go on and on about who we are, what we are, but who among us cares to delve into these subjects?  I know I certainly do.  But who among us really wants to know?  Who wants the truth?  From an objective lens, we are the rapists of the Earth, destroying our planet ever more rapidly, just to extend our power and control over the environment in which we live.  From a subjective lens, we are whatever we think we are, or believe we are.  The subjective lens is a more empowering view of humans, but is that really what we need as a species?  Because it seems like, from an objective lens, that all we’ve done with this expanded power is cause more death, destruction, and control.  Sure, life is great for a select few in this world, but it is at the expense of others, humans and nonhumans.  From what I have seen, most of the world lives in poverty, which is not right, but that’s how it is.  We are not living with the great spirit within us as a whole.  But that can’t stop you from doing so.

We can tap into another reality at any time we want to.  We just have to know how.  We have to have the consciousness for it.  But what is the true nature of reality?  What is the real truth?  Which lens is most accurate?  The question is unanswerable, because for one there are too many lenses to look through.  Another problem is that different lens are more accurate for different people.  It’s hard to really know which lens is the most accurate, but we can explore different lenses to see which one works better than the one we are using.  Or we can use the multi-lens approach, tailoring each situation to the best lens for the job.  But I’m sure this takes years of practice to calibrate which lens is best for each individual situation.  I believe that subjective reality is one of the primary steps to getting your reality in better order, simply because it allows for what you believe to be true.

It is a creative belief system, with potentially unlimited possibilities, but the major limit being our own minds.  We can explore our inner space indefinitely, and this is a way to truly flourish, independent of the objective universe, although the objective universe is contained within the subjective framework.  But the objective universe is only there because we believe in it to be so.  But our belief is truly rooted there as of now because that is where our consciousness is wrapped up.  Sure, it has led to unbelievable understanding and advances in technology, so it is useful in the framework in which it works, so it cannot be completely dumped.  But relying solely on the objective lens creates fear and uncertainty.  It creates a feeling of lack of control.  But when the subjective lens is placed before the objective one, it can make the objective world a creation of consciousness, and therefore more flexible and less pronounced.  The subjective lens accounts for much more than just the objective world.  It brings that all experiences are possible and that if we wish to create them, we can by intending it to be created.

It reminds me of the mantra, “If you believe it, it is so.”  Very true.  But not always.  You’ve seen cult suicides, and other indoctrinated people who believed what they believed only because their consciousness was controlled.  You can believe whatever you want to believe, but it has to actually work for you.  It has to encourage growth, not stagnation.  It has to empower you, not disempower you.  It has to open your mind, not close it.  A closed mind is one of rigidity and clinginess.  People cling to their beliefs, even in the most contradictory experiences.  When you see something that contradicts your beliefs, you need to open your mind and find something that will explain it,  otherwise you are perceiving reality inaccurately.  And that would be a damn shame because it would hinder your ability to function in the real world.  The more removed from reality your beliefs are, the worse off you are.

A few years ago, I tried out the subjective lens, and intended money to come into my life.  I had absolute strangers giving me $5 where I worked.  At the time, I was a bagger at a grocery store and when I went outside to retrieve the shopping carts, I was finding money everywhere.  I was getting large tips from people I helped out, and this one incident threw me over the edge.  A man called for my attention when i was in the parking lot and said, “Come over here for a moment.”  So I did.  ”I just wanted to thank you for what you did yesterday.  You helped my mother bring her groceries to her car and I just wanted you to have this.”  He gave me a $10 bill.  I had never even imagined something like this would happen unless it had to do with my intention for it to happen.  I thought to myself, “Wow!  This is really true!  It made my life better in every way possible!”  Of course, we forget and go back to old habits, so I did, and lost parts of that belief system.

I’m going from personal experience when I say that intention-manifestation does work, but it only works to the extent you believe in it.  If you have doubts, those doubts will appear in your manifestations.  If you don’t actually believe you can manifest $50,000 dollars just by intending it, you won’t.  If you think these things are impossible, stop reading now.  Your beliefs will stop you from experiencing anything beyond your realm of possibility.  In a subjective framework, anything is possible.  Your only limitation is if you don’t truly believe this.  I’m not quite there yet, but using reference experiences and other people’s supposed experiences, I figure that it can only enhance reality, not degrade it, so it is empowering by its very nature, to say that you (consciousness) are the very creator of this reality and are everything you experience, not just your physical body.  It is the dream scenario in my previous post.  You are all that exists, all that you are aware of, all your thoughts and the thoughts that you perceive to the in the global consciousness.  It’s all you.  Other people are you.  The planet is you.  The universe is you.  Everyone and everything is connected.  There is no you and I.  It is all I.  Or we.  We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.  Life is nothing but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.  Einstein proved that, so why haven’t we taken it seriously yet?  Because we (I) am not ready yet.  But I’m getting there.

And when we believe that we are all one, all part of the same whole, in this together, we start to have compassion.  Compassion for all that is.  We realize that to hurt another is to hurt oneself.  To hate someone is truly to hate a part of yourself.  Non-duality.  A belief in this can create quite an interesting life I bet.  It is a very empowering way to view reality and no matter what happens, you know you are safe, even beyond the death of your physical avatar.  If you die in a dream, you don’t die for real.  Your physical body is but a manifestation of consciousness and is just another one of your creations.

I’ll expand on this later when I have more time.  I just manifested a lunch with my grandparents.  But I hope I have convinced you that you should care about who we are and that we should get to the roots of reality to perceive it accurately.  Remember, an accurate belief enhances your life and the lives of those around you, while an inaccurate belief causes problems, especially if it closes your mind to other schools of thought.  This is why subjective reality is the most empowering belief I’ve found so far.  It encompasses everything and anything, as long as you are open to it.  A jack of all trades.  It is how we all live our lives, but with many belief systems tacked onto it, some that even negate the subjective paradigm.  A God making himself powerless.  Anyway, happy existence to you!

If you found this post insightful, helpful, or thought-provoking, feel free to donate to my site.

Posted in Anti-establishment, Inspiration, Intentions, Nature, Religion | 2 Comments »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »