15 Meditation Tips to Get More From Your Spiritual Discipline

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Meditation is one of the most important spiritual disciplines. The benefits of regular meditation are numerous, too many to list, yet peace of mind is one of the greatest.

Here are some of the meditation tips we recommend in our Psychic/Meditative State Script.

*Try meditating on an empty stomach or at a different time of day.

*Try it after a hot bath or shower.

*Try it after exercise.

*Try it after sex or instead of sex when in the mood.

*Try relaxing music. Experiment with different kinds to test which works best for you.

*Try no music.

*Try listening to our Let Go recording which utilizes brain-mind technology to effortlessly guide you into a meditative state.

*Try aromatherapy. Open a window when burning incense or candles indoors to vent any toxic fumes. Try rubbing a dab of pure scented oil on the back of your hands or on your neck. The scent will relax you and help you focus.

*Avoid all drugs. Even “just” marijuana “only once in a while” hinders intuition and clouds your mind for weeks afterwards.

*Try meditating with someone you love or with a group of friends. The combined energy will help you go deeper.

*You may be sensitive to something you’re eating or drinking. Pick a day and eat lightly, perhaps about half of what you usually do. Consume what you know will be easy to digest, such as lightly steamed vegetables. You should be able to focus more easily provided you feel lighter and more alert.

*Avoid sugar, including fruit sugar if you have sugar sensitivities.

*Watch the caffeine. Don’t go without it if you know you’ll have withdrawal symptoms, but don’t overdo it either.

*Certain supplements, herbs, and medications, especially if they affect your mood, may be disagreeing with your system and causing you to be scattered. Ask your doctor or health professional for alternative recommendations or if you can do without them for a while.

*Try deep breathing rapidly in and out through your mouth or nose for at least five minutes. Ten is better.

*Roll your closed eyes up to your third eye area, between and just above your eyes. Keep them focused there at a comfortable position without straining them. This position can automatically induce an altered state.

*Alternatively, with your eyes closed, try focusing your attention on your chest plate. If your attention starts to wander, begin counting at 1 and imagine each number appearing on your chest plate, as if you are painting them with an invisible paint brush.

*Close your eyes, breathe gently, and fantasize about your dreams and goals. What would your life be like if your dreams came true? These fantasies will help you become relaxed and may allow you to focus more. Patience and practice are important. Sooner or later something will click.

*Ask for help. If you keep asking God or your guides or angels of the Light how you can be more successful with meditation, you’ll eventually become aware of effective ways to go deeper and focus better. You’ll be a pro in no time.

*If you’re still having trouble perceiving anything, jump start the process by using your imagination. Tell yourself you’ll perceive the first image, thought, or feeling, in response to any of the questions or instructions in the script, on the count of three. Then count one, two, three and provide a picture or thought from your imagination or memory. Continue this process until other images that feel more related to the issue you are exploring start filtering into your mind.

*If you have tried everything and you still can’t seem gain any insight, there may be two other reasons: First, your expectations may be interfering. You may be expecting to see something when you might be more successful perceiving in a different way, such as sound or feeling. Try not to think during the process. Stay open and try visualizing white Light around you. Second, you may be blocked emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. Keep asking for help, continue practicing while utilizing the white light, and stay open for clues.

*It will also help you to realize that meditation is best approached as a long-term discipline, one that offers invaluable benefits for those willing to commit to it.

Psychic Prediction, Karma & Fate – You Can’t Rewrite the Karmic Play of Life After Incarnating

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You can react to your karma and fate, but you can’t delete it.

Also, fate and destiny are the same thing. Some creative, modern astrologers suggest otherwise, but fate and destined events and circumstances in people’s lives have always existed.

The good news is that you have free will to deal with it all and also to create as you see fit, as long as your desire is within your karmic blueprint.

How do you know what your fate is? As humans, we naturally set goals and take action in accordance with whatever feels the most “right.” For example, if you’re 5’3” tall, can’t jump, and you don’t like team sports, you are not going to try to become an NBA basketball player. Therefore, it’s most likely not your destiny.

There are no windows of opportunity that we are aware of, while incarnated, in regards to altering your destiny and karma. You can’t skip or add scenes and re-write the play of life while on “stage” acting it out. You (your soul) determines your karmic path – the “good” and the “bad”- before birth, and you (your personality) plays out that role after birth.

Why? Because your soul wants to grow and learn from specific lessons while incarnated. Just because your personality doesn’t like something that’s destined for you doesn’t mean you can pass over it.

We have witnessed, however, psychic guidance playing a role in helping to avoid danger, especially if a person is not meant to experience the event. For example, a psychic consultant tells a client to avoid a flying on a particular day, the client consequently changes her flight and therefore avoids a plane crash. From our perspective she was fated to take the psychic’s advice and avoid the flight, thus continue living.

Another example is how, in a spring 2001 predictive consultation, we recommended that a Manhattan entrepreneur client avoid opening a tentatively planned new NYC restaurant in September 2001. Since he followed our advice and didn’t open the new place in September 2001, it appears as if, despite being fated for challenges in autumn 2001, he wasn’t destined for business failure involving significant financial loss.

We just happened to be part of the process by which he avoided disaster (9-11).

Also, no psychic is 100% accurate. Over the years, we’ve had a lot of readings with many different psychics, and a good number were very talented and accurate, but the majority were less than 65% accurate in predicting future events and indicating the precise timing of those circumstances. If you want a higher degree of accuracy, we suggest numerology and pre-modern astrology in conjunction with psychic insight.

Love Life Affirmations to Assist With Being Unhappily Single or Suffering in a Marriage

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Although you can’t cheat fate, affirmations are helpful in dealing with life’s challenges.

Single and hating it? Say the following until you feel and mean it, and then say it some more: “I’m single for a reason, so I’ll accept and be grateful for things as they are and make the most of my situation.”

The saying “a watched pot doesn’t boil” is relative to the idea of waiting for a good relationship partner. Sometimes it seems like you’ll never find someone, yet that’s the time to do other things in your life such as prepare for when you have a partner. Once you get to the point of enjoying being single, attracting someone doesn’t seem like such an impossibility.

However, We’ve found a strong link between how a person feels about finding a partner and their love life timing as seen through comprehensive numerology and astrology. For example, during the times that are most challenging as a single person, the times that a person most feels alone, for instance, patterns reflect the least likely time that he or she will attract a good partner. It appears that fate dictates much of life no matter what approach is taken, but you can make the most of your life within those boundaries.

Suffering in a marriage but don’t know if you should end it or not because you are afraid of hurting your spouse? You may be hurting your spouse (and yourself) more by staying in the marriage and preventing him or her from being with someone who is more compatible

In conjunction with the below affirmation, meditation will help you to be more centered and allow you to act for the highest good of everyone involved.

“I communicate openly, honestly, and with love and compassion.”

New Age Spirituality: Idealism vs. Realism

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We certainly appreciate the value of inspirational messages that are rooted in truth. However, at the present time, an over-abundance of spiritual misinformation is flooding the metaphysical market by those whom we call the New Age Cheerleaders.

They’re usually well-meaning, but denying the reality that adversity is an unavoidable part of everyone’s life, that it has a divine purpose, and instead promoting false promises is a disservice to consumers. Ultimately, a lot of the excitement and hype only serves to increase book sales and seminar profits and can do more damage than good.

Throughout the past 20 plus years of being involved in the self-help, New Age, and metaphysical industry, we’ve seen it time and time again: participants of inspirational seminars and devotees of rosy passages in best-selling “spiritual” books grab hold of the false claims that the “experts” offer (“the perfect relationship and infinite abundance are right around the corner for you—it’s your birthright!”) and end up being disappointed after all the hype has faded. Too many “experts” claim, “…you can ‘create’ whatever you want and be whatever you want.” Based on our extensive research, we’ve found this to be false.

Further popular myths in the New Age movement include the following: “The era we are in is more ‘potent’ than ever. Therefore, we are more able, than ever before, to create what we want–we can have it all;” “We are moving from a time of ‘cause and effect’ to a time of ‘resonant causation,’ which means that we can now create whatever we want through the power of intent;” “It’s possible to dodge the karma you don’t feel like dealing with through the power of forgiveness;” “Astrology and numerology aren’t applicable to those who have increased their vibration through love and wisdom.”

Many of the Cheerleaders claim that fate doesn’t exist or that it is only applicable for select parts of life. In our opinion, they lack the right to deny the theory of destined life conditions until they first disprove the predictive sciences of numerology and astrology.

Hypothesis or theory can’t be proven, it can only be invalidated. Numerology and astrology have yet to be shown scientifically invalid. In order to accomplish this, two things are necessary: long-term, objective observation of the circumstances in the lives of many people and extensive personality and predictive work involving these ancient sciences.

Until then, the Cheerleaders are denying a more than 2000 year esoteric tradition (which has been wrongfully dishonored by the world’s organized religions–one of the greatest spiritual injustices in recorded history–and greatly distorted by the 17th/18th century Age of Reason/Rationalism) involving the prediction of life circumstances through numerology and astrology. In doing so and promoting their baseless promises of the power to “create” anything anyone wants and erase life challenges, they lead astray those seeking wisdom.

However trendy it is these days to reject the idea of predestination (events that are unavoidable), our research shows that fated circumstances (rewarding and challenging) are part of everyone’s life. Since 1992 we’ve scrutinized the numerology and astrology charts, and observed the representative circumstances (past and present) of thousands of people. Furthermore, whether a person believes in karma and fate or not, they are still bound by it, as we constantly witness.

Once you see, as we have, the constant repetition of numerological and astrological patterns entirely corresponding to circumstances in peoples’ lives, it is easy to stop rejecting the concept of fate.

Furthermore, though we are grateful for our guides and angels in spirit form and regularly work with Archangels, just because certain information feels good, is quoted by someone famous, or is “channeled” doesn’t mean it’s true for this dimension.

Additionally, the so-called divine messages of many popular metaphysical teachings too often get distorted through the human filters called the ego-self and conscious mind. The “I made millions/cured my disease/met the perfect mate; you can do it too!” messages beg for provisions such as, “…however, it may not be your karma and fate to accomplish what I did, so I can’t guarantee the same success I’ve had…”

We respectfully and compassionately would like to remind New Age inspirational authors and speakers that fate, dharma, and karma must be included in New Age communications (even if they are just indirectly alluded to). Otherwise, as we’ve seen, fictional inspirational communications can unfortunately send people down the primrose path of illusion and leave them utterly disappointed, not to mention further discredit the New Age movement.

Instead of misleading people into thinking they can erase their tough karma and create anything they want, we feel more emphasis should be placed on the following philosophy: much of life is karmic and fated, the “good” and the “bad,” there’s no avoiding what is meant to be, but there’s good news: you have free will to react the way you choose to your life’s predestined events and make the most of your time here on earth.

What exactly is the benefit of working with predictive numerology, astrology, and past life regression aside from constantly seeing fate in action? The benefits include self-knowledge, spiritual growth through awareness, wisdom, the ability to plan for the future, the understanding that order exists in the universe and that there are no victims, that life is void of randomness, and that there is meaning to everyone’s life.

In doing so, you’ll also find that the ancient mystics and Gnostics were right: Fate cannot be cheated, but it can be viewed in a way that makes life a heck of a lot easier.

Why do we repeat what we do about destiny and free will over and over? We feel these ideas are very valuable and that it’s our duty to share this sacred information and to expose New Age myths and misleading practices.

We want to share what we and multitudes of mystics throughout history have found as truth because with awareness comes clarity, and with clarity comes a more rewarding life.

Numerology and Addresses

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The science of numerology supports the notion that address numbers of buildings have great symbolic meaning.

First, you must consider that the address and unit numbers of residences or offices don’t make things happen, nor do they hold direct power over anything.

The application of numerology to figure out, for example, if a possible home will enhance your life is predestined, in our view. You’re just carrying out your destiny, despite it possibly appearing as manipulation of your life circumstances (previewing the energy associated with possible residences) through number symbolism.

A soul selects a specific time to incarnate. That point of origin (birth) as indicated by a date and time reflects its qualities and its past, present, and future through the science of numerology. Numerology can be used in virtually every area of life and some people are fated to capitalize on the wisdom found through it and some aren’t.

Although calendars appear to start at arbitrary times, everything in this universe is interrelated, including systems used to track time. We say this to emphasize our conviction that little in this universe occurs by chance.

Even though unit numbers may seem to be randomly assigned, they too, like everything else in the world, are part of the cosmic universal cohesiveness.

The numbers of any residence, no matter which one you decide to inhabit, always reflect what is and what is to be.

You can’t just select a “good” unit number and then “create your reality” to satisfy all your ego-self desires, but you can use numerology to help intensify your awareness.

Key life opportunities and probabilities are hidden within the qualities of numbers. Note that numbers reflect quantity, such as party of five, and quality, as in he’s number one.

It’s good to consider the building number, but the unit number carries more importance in the case of an apartment, condominium, office, or other separate unit within a building.

Most people want stability in a home. The root numbers 4 and 6 are most fitting toward that desire, and there are other numbers that are more appropriate for other conditions.

There aren’t bad or good numbers, but there are rewarding and challenging energies associated with every number. The Number Symbolism list below can assist you in your understanding of the distinct energies behind the root numbers 1 through 9. The Number Symbolism list can also be applied toward any person, place, or thing and is best used in conjunction with our numerology software.

Use fadic addition to reduce all building, house, and unit numbers to a single digit. For example, 7736 = 7+7+3+6 = 23 = 2+3 = 5.

At this time, don’t concern yourself with translating the street name, city, or any other part of the address to numbers. Just focus on the numbers directly connected to the building, house, and unit.

The remaining parts of the address including the individual numbers of the original multiple-digit number also have relative representation, but those are topics for advanced study. Master Numbers (11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, and 99) and Karmic Debt Numbers (13, 14, 16, and 19) are also more involved subjects, as is viewing the building or unit number in conjunction with the individual’s comprehensive numerology charts.

With no numerology background, it’s easy to miss the importance of number symbolism. But once you begin to pay attention to and correctly interpret the energy behind numbers, you begin to realize the incredible insight available to anyone willing to take a closer look.

Number Symbolism

1: The number 1 is connected with new starts, independence, new opportunity, inspiration, originality, standing alone, concentration, leadership, determination, self-employment, courage and isolation.

Balanced 1 energy: initiative, energetic, persistent, creative, confident, ambitious, self-reliant, dynamic, bold, forward looking, assertive.

Over-balanced 1 energy: selfish, impatient, elitist, intolerant, addicted, aggressive, self-important, unyielding, headstrong, defiant, dictatorial, self-at-all-cost attitude, arrogant, domineering, possessive, greedy.

Under-balanced 1 energy: passive, weak will, cowardly, dependent, insecure, subservient, helpless, lack of self-respect, changeable, weary.

2: The number 2 is linked to sensitivity, teamwork, partnerships, marriage, love, divorce, friendships, details, public recognition, tolerance, modesty, receptivity, behind the scenes work, cooperation, rhythm, harmony, and slow growth.

Balanced 2 energy: tactful, sensitive, harmonizing, flexible, diplomatic, helpful, patient, sincere, modest, cautious, courteous, receptive.

Over-balanced 2 energy: scheming, deceitful, manipulative, faultfinding, resentfully resisting, devious, condescending, disapproving, interfering.

Under-balanced 2 energy: unresponsive, cowardly, self-depreciating, dependent, inactive, self-depreciating, indecisive, vacillating, overly sensitive, uncaring.

3: The number 3 is related to laughter, amusement, pleasure, making new friends, self-improvement, attracting love, sexual expression, artistic creativity, writing, good times, quick recoveries, dramatic emotional ups and downs, easy money and instability.

Balanced 3 energy: honest emotional expression, optimistic, literary talent, vivacious, cultivated, amusing, imaginative, well liked, magnetic.

Over-balanced 3 energy: lacks concentration, scatters energy, overconfident, emotionally volatile, irresponsible, gossipy, exaggerating, superficial.

Under-balanced 3 energy: insincere emotional expression, temperamental, petty, depressed, jealous, unsociable, self-doubting, bored, inarticulate, unthinking, indecisive, unenthusiastic, apprehensive.

4: The number 4 is associated with material interests, structure, managing finances, creating foundations that last, work, business success, stable finances, routine, organization, putting ideas into form, efficiency, physical activity, health matters, limitation and lack of fun and excitement.

Balanced 4 energy: productive, reliable, thrifty, cautious, disciplined, integrity, methodical, analysis, serious, balanced, loyal, sensible, persevering.

Over-balanced 4 energy: rigid, narrow-minded, inflexible, rough, dreary, numb emotions, uncompromising, provincial, too frank, lost in detail.

Under-balanced 4 energy: apathetic, disorganized, lack of integrity, impractical, plodding, careless, inefficient, distracted, idle, neglectful.

5: The number 5 is related to advertising, promotion, sales, sensuality, sex, freedom, travel, communication, changes, fluctuation, flexibility, excitement, adventure, transmutation.

Balanced 5 energy: multifaceted, broadminded, healthy limits, appropriately dissolving career or personal relationships at the right time, forward-thinking, charming, curious, adaptable, independent, clever, resourceful, liberated.

Over-balanced 5 energy: over-indulgent, mercurial, over-sexed, reckless, ending relationships too soon, impatient, thrill-seeking, erratic, extreme independence, insatiable, restless.

Under-balanced 5 energy: fear of change, stagnant, dependent, hanging on to associations that have expired, conforming, fear of freedom, dull, ineffective, expressionless.

6: The number 6 is linked to domestic issues, home and family, relationships, marriage, divorce, romance, responsibility, friendships, karma, emotions, slow moving energy, harmony, teaching, healthy balanced living.

Balanced 6 energy: domestic, advising, friendly, tolerant, supportive, appreciative, peace-making, protective, humanitarian, responsible, devoted, loving, stable, sensible.

Over-balanced 6 energy: distorted idealism, critical, interfering, opinionated, possessive, stubborn, sacrificing, unreasonable obstinate, unforgiving, disheartened.

Under-balanced 6 energy: uncaring, uncooperative, biased, unconcerned, indulgent, lethargic, unwelcoming, non-committal, disconsolate.

7: The number 7 is connected to mysticism, intuition, inner growth, examination, study, analysis, reflection, lowered physical vitality, increased mental activity, conserving assets, planning, attracting unsolicited help, specialization, solitude, health issues, travel.

Balanced 7 energy: metaphysical interests, different wavelength, intellectual, clairvoyant, analytical, perceptive, scientific, exact, meditative, mystical, expert, bookish, poised, telepathic, visionary, deep, dreamer, instinctive, reflective, truth-seeker, studious, wise.

Over-balanced 7 energy: fearful, nervous, critical, paranoid, indecisive, secretive, repressed emotions, distrustful, guarded, intimidating, fussy, evasive, fanatic, self-conscious, secretive, perfectionist, impersonal, pessimistic.

Under-balanced 7 energy: lack of depth, naïve, ignorant, too trusting, empty-headed, mystified, superficial, lack of faith, undeveloped, uninformed, unsure.

8: The number 8 is tied to influence, money, karma, action, business success, business failure, control, material objects, status, loss, gain, administration, management, ego, leadership, power.

Balanced 8 energy: prosperous, high-powered, commanding, stamina, self-confident, persuasive, financial awareness, effective, ambitious, businesslike, clear-headed, disciplined, material freedom, honorable, enterprising.

Over-balanced 8 energy: abuses power, cold-blooded, egotistical, overreaction to money, scheming, aggressive, materialistic, corrupt, demanding, domineering, preoccupied with power and money, unsympathetic, over-ambitious, confrontational, rebellious, coarse.

Under-balanced 8 energy: passive, vulnerable, fearful, insecure, avoids power and money, poor judgment, gives personal power away, shortsighted.

9: The number 9 is associated with unconditional love, reward, leadership by example, dramatic endings, emotional love, emotional crisis, the finest life has to offer, conclusions, deep love, compassion, magnetism, travel, idealism, charity, artistic and creative matters, developing spirituality, romance, forgiveness.

Balanced 9 energy: artistic, philanthropic, affectionate, creative, forgiving, passionate, benevolent, warm, tolerant, sentimental, loving, liberal, generous, enthusiastic, trustworthy, hospitable, humane.

Over-balanced 9 energy: deceiving, self-centered, hedonistic, lacking integrity, over-emotional, prejudiced, resentful, bad example, irresolute, dejected, vindictive, hateful, hostile. Under-balanced 9 energy: ultraconservative, impersonal, distant, unemotional, elusive, submissive, drifting, faint-hearted, victimized, disloyal, hazy.

Numbers Behind Letters: A J S = 1, B K T = 2, C L U = 3, D M V = 4, E N W = 5, F O X = 6, G P Y = 7, H Q Z = 8, I R = 9

How to Know What is Fated in Your Life

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Meditation is one of the best ways to escape an over-active mind, become centered, and connect with one’s spiritual self. When you are centered you are better able to intuitively know when something is for your highest good.

Other ways to become more aligned with your higher-self, thus more aware of the next best step in all areas of life include the following: spend more time alone; avoid TV; avoid excessive alcohol; avoid drugs (even occasional use clouds perception); avoid junk food/emotional eating; avoid sugar and caffeine (promotes mind-scattering and the numbing of feelings); exercise regularly; read more; get more sleep; and spend time in nature. All of these ideas will help you to detach from your ego-self.

Various forms of meditation exist, yet the commonly acknowledged purist and most efficient way involves simple intense focus. Sitting comfortably in a chair or on the floor with your back straight, eyes closed, breathing relaxed, and your focus intently on your chest plate for twenty minutes or longer will help you detach from the conscious mind and be more in touch with your subconscious mind and higher-self.

This meditative process also helps to release a natural feel-good opiate from the brain. These endorphins have been clinically proven to aid in healing.

Don’t be discouraged if it takes you weeks or even months to become proficient in meditation. With practice, you’ll get the hang of it and benefit greatly. You’ll also instinctively know what to do and when to do it. You’ll eventually stop wasting time on things that are not relevant to your highest path because they’ll seem insignificant.

Alternative forms of meditation include running, walking, swimming, reading, knitting, drawing, painting, writing, and other activities that allow you to get into a “zone.”

It’s also important to consider when you first desire something. Timing really is everything, and comprehensive predictive numerology and astrology provide invaluable insight into all areas of life.

Numerology and astrology are two ancient, empirical sciences that provide self-knowledge and peace of mind. They can also help you be aware of and prepare for challenging and rewarding times in your life, help you to further understand why you are here on earth, and to know what type of action is best taken at what time. It’s best to consult with an expert since there are many aspects to consider, but one of the more important timing indicators can be tracked easily by anyone. It’s called Moon Void of Course.

There are specific times every few days when the Moon is in between signs, or Void of Course. New ideas originated, plans made, or people met during this time usually turn out differently, if at all. Following the information in our Moon Void of Course article will help save you time and money and be much smarter about your decisions. Please keep in mind that there are many, many important astrological and numerological considerations, but the above-mentioned one is a good starting point.

“If you do not make the mistake of many and set up your will in opposition to Divine law, you will fulfill that high destiny for which you were chosen.” –George Washington

No matter how mundane or ordinary one’s life appears, every person’s path is an extraordinarily unique, and necessary part of collective universal destiny.

While those who act in opposition to “Divine” law, in our opinion, are fated to do so as part of chosen paths by their spiritual selves, and as symbolized by the patterns in their numerology and astrology charts, those who strive for more in life are also fulfilling what is to be.

Why Reincarnation and Karma are Valid Theories

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Modern science knows of only a fraction of this planet’s complete history.

Modern, Western religions’ biblical historians tell us that “creation” occurred about 13,000 years ago and that the first human (“Adam”) appeared around 11,000 years ago.

In contrast, conventional science says the Earth is around 4 billion years old and that humans (Homo sapiens) first appeared around 60,000 to 200,000 years ago.

True, there are more people hence, souls, here on the planet than ever since the start of recorded history (less than 10,000 years ago).

However, Earth has undergone many major changes over its billions of years of history. Pole shifts, floods, massive earthquakes, glaciers, and devastating impacts from cosmic debris; most visible traces of past civilizations on planet Earth have been repeatedly destroyed, pulverized, and buried out of sight.

New archaeological finds often suggest that modern science knows of only a fraction of this planet’s complete history.

50 miles south of Florida, in 1200 feet of water, the top of an eighteen-story high pyramid (sonar was used to measure it) rises up through the ocean floor.

Miners were startled to discover silver pots and dishes along with a lengthy man-made wall a mile beneath the Earth’s surface in Europe while excavating for natural resources. These items are untraceable to any known civilization in the planet’s past.

International researchers, including archaeological experts from the University of Poitiers in France, unearthed evidence of the oldest human ancestor (to date) in Chad, Africa in 2001. An approximately 6.5 million-year-old hominid skull having both old and modern qualities was discovered, blowing apart traditional theories on the history of the human race.

Considering that hypothesis or theory cannot be proven, only invalidated, it’s still possible that at some point in Earth’s history the population of intelligent beings has been as high as or even higher than it is today.

Furthermore, Earth is not the only place where souls incarnate. Astronomers tell us that there are over 100 billion galaxies throughout the universe. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy with our Sun and neighboring planets. Given that that there are billions of stars like our Sun, it’s likely there are millions, if not billions, of inhabitable planets throughout the universe.

There are also other dimensions and possibly other universes as well.

There is no shortage of souls throughout the universe and no shortage of places to incarnate.

We especially like the tenants of reincarnation because they disallow the concepts of blame and victimization and nobody “gets away” with anything. You don’t have to believe in reincarnation, but if we all acted as if it was true our world would be a better place.

“Since the beginning of recorded time, history has been written by the ‘winners’ (those societies and belief systems that conquered and survived). Despite an obvious bias in this accounting method, we still measure the ‘historical accuracy’ of a given concept by examining how well it concurs with our existing historical record. Many historians now believe (as I do) that in gauging the historical accuracy of a given concept, we should first ask ourselves a far deeper question: How historically accurate is history itself?” –Dan Brown

Fate and Free Will: Wisdom Only Deletes Some Karma

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A book’s messages don’t have to be metaphysically valid for the book to be on best-seller lists. Some modern best-selling metaphysical books are filled
with spiritual truth and some are virtually void of it.

Today’s popular New Age communications commonly contain heaps of pure inspiration with very low doses of ancient wisdom, perhaps due to our society’s penchant for seeking quick-fixes.

Let’s face it, “consciously create what you want, the life of your dreams, now!” inspires a lot more book sales than, “you can only consciously create that which is aligned with your higher-self’s earthly plan.”

Many New Age authors and publishers realize that including the cold, hard realities of life on Earth (karma, dharma, challenging fate, etc.) will hinder book sales.

Therefore, the current trend is to market books full of motivational messages such as “you can do it!” “abundance is your birthright,” and “rid yourself of your disease easily!” while excluding the spiritual facts of life.

Yes, wisdom can allow you to avoid some karma, but to say that you can erase any type of karma your heart desires is like saying you can turn winter into spring. Spring will arrive whether you “consciously create” it or not.

However, if an undesirable circumstance or event is part of fate, no amount of wisdom will blank it out. You can’t change the dead of winter into summer no matter how much you pay your guru.

Nonetheless, if you’re in a position to avoid exercising your free will in a particular way, wisdom can erase limited amounts of karma.

For instance, a parent exerts her free will to hug her children instead of mentally abusing them, which feels more natural for that parent to do. In this case, that parent has just taken the high road and told the universe that she desires to avoid that particular karmic arrangement (that her kids have most likely
agreed to before incarnating).

A mystic may say that even the effort by the parent to be more loving instead of abusive is the karma of all involved in the situation. Dharma is played out, karma is balanced, and everyone benefits (spiritually speaking).

More importantly, souls who choose (before incarnating) to be on the receiving end of abuse are going to experience it whether a parent dishes it out or not. A relative, sibling, friend of the family, neighborhood bully, classmate, or some other person will do his part to help fulfill fate.

Again, all the wisdom in the world won’t negate the major karmic dates with destiny that our souls choose before incarnating. A key objective of incarnating is spiritual growth and in order to do that, there must be challenge. Challenge is also necessary so that the more enjoyable life circumstances can be recognized and appreciated.

We like the phrase “wisdom deletes karma,” but we think it’s more accurately said this way: “Wisdom deletes some karma and direct life experience wipes out and balances the majority of karma.”

Fate is fate and you can’t dodge it just because you find select circumstances distasteful.

On the brighter side, you have free will to react to karma and make the most of your life within the bounds of your fate.

Movie Review – What the Bleep – Enlightening But Short on Spiritual Truths

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Overall, we enjoyed the movie “What the Bleep….” Some parts of it we responded with, “Well said!” Other parts, “You forgot some ideas!” And still others, “What the #%*$!”

Some of the movie’s key points that we appreciated the most are as follows: blame and victimization are of no use; self-understanding and taking full responsibility for personal circumstances and behavior is integral to self-actualization; everyone has the power to influence his/her physical, emotional, and mental health through thoughts and feelings; it’s been clinically proven that stress, for example, contributes to illness (not that clinical proof is necessary to acknowledge the effects of stress or positive thinking/feeling); self-actualization relies on the ability to detach from and leave behind addictions, expectations, dramas, and desires of all kinds (all part of the ego-self) so that one can more closely align oneself with the spiritual self.

We especially enjoyed Ramtha’s commentary about romance and the pursuit of romance being a personal addiction for many people.

However, it’s interesting that the financier of “What the Bleep…” is a Buddhist and that there was no mention of reincarnation in this spiritually oriented film. Reincarnation is one of the most important spiritual concepts (in Buddhism especially) and it is intimately tied to free will, karma (what goes around comes around), dharma (what one must do in this life), and fate (predetermined circumstances and events).

One of the experts featured in the movie is Dr Joe Dispenza (a chiropractor), who has authored several scientific articles on the close relationship between brain chemistry, neurophysiology and biology, and their roles in physical health. He has a Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr Dispenza says “I wake up in the morning, and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen…When I create my day, and out of nowhere, little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process and the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net, in my brain, that I accept that that’s possible. So if we’re consciously designing our destiny, if we’re consciously, from a spiritual standpoint, throwing in what the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life, because reality equals life.”

While we admire many of the movie’s messages and agree with the idea that “Human beings have the potential to shape their own experience for better or worse…” we strongly question the message that “…unlimited possibilities are truly within our grasp (in this lifetime).” This implies that a person can erase karmic circumstances in his/her life and live in a never-ending utopia, fulfilling all ego-self desires and skipping the important, tough lessons in life. To be perfectly candid, our cosmic fu-fu detectors are sounding on high while digesting that last bit.

Jeffery B. Satinover M.D. (a former practicing psychiatrist) is also featured in the movie. He has completed a master’s degree as a member of the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics group and Yale’s newly-established W. H. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics.

In his book “Reflections of the Nature of God,” he says “The worldview that modern science has depended on, for the most part, is that if you have 100 percent knowledge of an initial condition, then all subsequent conditions are known as well. If this were true, there would be no such thing as free will, whether human or divine. God himself would be a merely passive observer who not only doesn’t but couldn’t have an effect on the world. And human beings couldn’t have an effect either, because if all physical events are in effect, laid out ahead of time, like a complex play in billiards, then nothing one does can alter the outcome. It’s all completely determined.”

Its great how he suggests that we free will exists, but our position is that he’s too haphazardly blending physical science and spirituality; they are two distinct, separate domains.

We feel Dr Satinover also misunderstands the role of free will while incarnated and how much we have before we incarnate. He also seems to reject the philosophy that fated events are necessary in order to learn specific lessons.

For instance, a person can’t “create” a wonderfully harmonious relationship with his/her father if one of that person’s karmic lessons (that they chose while in spirit form) is to endure an abusive relationship with that parent.

He goes on to say, “This is the fundamental premise of the modern worldview. However, it turns out and what modern physics has now demonstrated is, that’s not true. That actually, at the most fundamental level, all the most important physical processes are, in part, determined by ‘factors’ that have no detectable presence in the physical world. A range of possible outcomes are determined mechanically, but untold numbers of decisions are being made by ‘something’ that from among these possibilities selects every actual outcome…”

He’s alluding to the idea of a higher power, or God and the importance of its influence and we applaud this, but he again carelessly mixes physical science with spirituality. Doing so is like saying that because a circumstance is so in a dream state, that we should expect it to be the same way in waking hours.

Different dimensions have different sets of laws, just as we have mostly probabilities while incarnated on earth and more possibilities while in spirit form planning our next physical existence.

We shape and contribute to those same possibilities every day. We believe that we design our next lifetimes by every thought, intent, and action in this life (and previous ones), yet we also feel that it’s impossible to manifest what one wants (on a personality level) now, in this life, if those desires don’t match one’s current life blueprint.

Both Dr Dispenza and Dr Satinover in “What the Bleep…” imply that the universe is a huge quantum sea of possibilities and that since this is the case that we should be able to create that which we want and leave the rest behind.

This is akin to a drunk believing s/he can manifest absolute sobriety for the night an hour after s/he downs five stiff drinks; it’s too late to “create” something (instant sobriety) after an alternative is set in motion/secured (intoxication).

Most well-respected quantum physicists today (those with PhD’s in quantum physics) along with the founding fathers of quantum physics,who also believed themselves to be mystics (including Erwin Schrodinger, Max Planck, and Niels Bohr), firmly held that it’s erroneous to group physics and mysticism in the same dimension. Planck said that trying to merge physics and mysticism “makes no sense at all,” since spirituality is associated with the source of everything on a soul level and quantum physics relates to the most infinitesimal level of the physical world of matter and energy.

Good spiritual teachers acknowledge that there’s a difference between the ego-self and the spiritual self. The ego-self wants to satisfy all of its earthly desires. The spiritual self is here to learn and grow. Meanwhile, most everyone wants “more” out of life on a personality level. Often, ego-self demands (“perfect love,” “better family relations,” “more money,” etc.) clash with “what is.” Said differently, you can’t always get what you want.

Please understand, we agree that it’s possible to influence our realities and even create as we wish to a certain extent while incarnated (if it’s within the boundaries of personal destiny), but we feel it’s impossible to skip difficult karma. In other words, you can’t cheat fate and you can’t just erase personal challenges because you don’t like them.

On the one hand, the experts in the movie “What the Bleep…” emphasize the idea that everybody is fully able to create their own realities to match the desires of their personalities.

At the same time, one of the more important (and we feel more truthful) messages of the film is about the idea that the ultimate spiritual goal is to leave behind/detach from personal addictions of all kinds, expectations, dramas and desires (the ego-self) so that one’s personality can more closely meld with the spiritual self.

That’s quite a contrast in philosophies! It appears as if the film is promoting the message, “dump the tough lessons and karma and create what you want now in this life, it’s yours!” while saying simultaneously, “free yourself from your desires!” The former is the antithesis of spirituality and the latter is a sacred ancient spiritual concept.

In brief, the movie “What the Bleep…” addresses some key aspects of quantum physics (while ignoring opposing quantum theories such as“hidden variables”) and some important spiritual ideas (while ignoring the concepts of karma, dharma, reincarnation,and fate), and blends them together in a feel-good mixture of cosmic truth and New Age fu-fu. The connection between the provided metaphysical concepts and select laws of quantum physics is questionable at best.

Aside from a few spiritual fallacies and mixed messages in “What the Bleep…,” we really liked it. In striving for spiritual awareness, we must think far outside conventional earthly thinking in order to begin to grasp universal truths. This film is a big step in the right direction.

Numerology and the Number 13

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The number 13 has little to do with “bad luck,” despite the U.S. Navy, supposedly, avoiding launching ships on Friday the 13th and many Americans viewing the 13th and anything related to the number 13 as negative.

The association may be due to Jacques de Molay, the first Grand Master of the Knights Templar, being burned at the stake in 1314 on a Friday the 13th after a trial overseen by the King of France and Pope Clement V.

The number 13 has a bad rap largely due to its unusual qualities. In particular, 13 represents “all or nothing” through transformation pertaining to degeneration or regeneration.

Symbolic death and rebirth is strongly associated to 13. An example of the representative power of the number 13 is transitioning from modest means to vast wealth.

13 is considered a “Karmic Debt Number,” as are the numbers 14, 16, and 19. These numbers involve more challenging karma than other numbers.

The number 13 in key positions in a person’s numerology charts frequently symbolizes, depending upon the rest of the charts’ contents, the following energies: an irresponsible, lazy, immature, idle, trivial, extravagant disposition; lack of seriousness, or the opposite (one extreme or the other); rigidity; inefficiency; restriction; low vitality, etc.

There is also the high side of 13, so keep in mind that the above qualities are only part of the picture.

Otherwise, in matters of love, the number 13 involving time cycles is solid and very often exceedingly fruitful.

In short, the number 13 isn’t any more unlucky than any other number. There exist negative and positive, and balanced, over-balanced, and under-balanced qualities for every number. Bad luck associated with Friday the 13th is just a misconception, fueled by fear and subjective viewpoints.

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