Entry 1,781 - Entry 1,801
Entry 1,781 - December 19th 2019
Everything is interconnected
If you don't see it then you haven't explored enough
A true explorers sign is one who sees the unity between all things
And appreciates the connectedness shared between
You can see within but not be overcome by any
You can journey through but know that one tradition does not fully overtake you
A pilgrim of pilgrims just traveling along
Finding the gems to take while leaving the crumbs
Your eyes see the world in a different light
You appreciate that which by those who are closed off by spite
You're humbled by the complexity this world has and recognize the Creator's hand in every nation and tongue
You truly believe God does not show favoritism
You can spot the truth in each nation and also the differences in each oblation
You notice even the differences line up within each religion
True Christianity is the worship and recognition of one God
Just as it is in Islam, Sikhism, Sufism, Hinduism and so on
The true branch recognizes the Brahman, the All, the Creator, the I Am, while the lesser parts take their eyes off of Him and redirect them to lesser things
In Christianity it is prayer directed to the saints
In Hinduism it is prayer directed to lesser gods
In other branches it's even prayer directed to thyself
Every branch has components that denies the proper worship to the proper King
But also every major branch has worship directed to the True King
If one does not see that, then they have not looked outside of their own tradition enough to see it.
Entry 1,782 - July 22nd, 2021
How much of my overall self can I put within this incarnate body?
How much can I truly handle of my fullest self inside this incarnated body?
Entry 1,783 - July 22nd, 2021
“I have mentioned that any action has an electromagnetic reality. In telepathic and clairvoyant experiences, the electromagnetic pattern is transmitted. It must then be transformed into a pattern that can be distinguished by the ego, if the individual is to be consciously aware of the data.
Often the information is picked up translated by the subconscious and acted upon without conscious approval or recognition. In almost all cases, however, there must be an emotional attraction, for this is what allows for the initial transmission, and makes it possible.
The ego chooses channels of reception with great discrimination, and again, it censors anything which it feels is a threat to its dominance. In sleep, however, many dreams are of a telepathic nature, with strong clairvoyant overtones. [It is the ego’s persistent discrimination in choosing the stimuli to which it will react that determines the nature of physical time as it appears to the personality.] The ego, because of its function and characteristics, cannot make swift decisions as can the intuitive self. Therefore, it perceives events almost in slow motion”
Excerpt From
Seth, Dreams and Projections of Consciousness
Jane Roberts
https://books.apple.com/us/book/seth-dreams-and-projections-of-consciousness/id542197657
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Entry 1,784 - August 15th, 2021
I believe in complete free will. What that means is, I don’t think God forces someone to be born below the poverty line in Africa just to die of AIDS, and I don’t believe that God allows Satan to interfere with someone’s free will, causing them to be born into suffering and die after the age of two.
I believe everyone has the ability to have complete free will and chooses every aspect of their life. Otherwise, people do not truly have free will and are simply tossed around by either God or Satan. I do not believe in partial free will.
Entry 1,785
Put another time on. Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. Done playfully, such exercises will allow you a good subjective feel for your own inner existence as it is apart from the time context.
To encourage creativity, exert your imagination through breaking up your usual space-time focus. As you fall to sleep, imagine that you are in the same place, exactly in the same spot, but at some point in the distant past or future. What do you see, or hear? What is there?
For another exercise, imagine that you are in another part of the world entirely, but in present time, and ask yourself the same questions. For variety, in your mind’s eye follow your own activities of the previous day. Place yourself a week ahead in time. Conduct your own variations of these exercises. What they will teach you cannot be explained, for they will provide a dimension of experience, a feeling about yourself that may make sense only to you.
You will understand situations better in daily life, because you will have activated inner abilities that allow you to subjectively perceive the reality of other people in a way that children do. There is an inner knack, allowing for greater sensitivity to the feelings of others than you presently acknowledge. That knack will be activated. Again, the powers of the brain come from the mind, so while you learn to center your consciousness in your body — and necessarily so — nevertheless your inner perceptions roam a far greater range.
Before sleep, then, imagine your consciousness traveling down a road, or across the world — whatever you want. Forget your body. Do not try to leave it for this exercise. Tell yourself that you are imaginatively traveling. If you have chosen a familiar destination, then imagine the houses you might pass. It is sometimes easier to choose an unfamiliar location, however, for then you are not tempted to test yourself as you go along by wondering whether or not the imagined scenes conform to your memory.
To one extent or another your consciousness will indeed be traveling. Again, a playful attitude is best. If you retain it and remember children’s games, then the affair will be entirely enjoyable; and even if you experience events that seem frightening, you will recognize them as belonging to the same category as the frightening events of a child’s game. Children often scare themselves. A variety of reasons exist for such behavior. People often choose to watch horror films for the same reason. Usually the body and mind are bored, and actually seek out dramatic stress.
Under usual conditions the body is restored — flushed out, so to speak — through the release of hormones that have been withheld, often through repressive habits. The body will seek its release, and so will the mind. Dreams, or even daydreams of a frightening nature, can fulfill that purpose. The mind’s creative play often serves up symbolic events that result in therapeutic physical reactions, and also function as postdream suggestions that offer hints as to remedial action.
Entry 1,786
Theoretically, certain dreams can give you a lifetime’s experience to draw upon, though the dream itself can take less than an hour in your time. In a way, dreams are the invisible thickness of your normal consciousness. They involve both portions of the brain. Many dreams do activate the brain in a ghostly fashion, sparking responses that are not practically pertinent in ordinary terms. That is, they do not require direct action but serve as anticipators of action, reminders to the brain to initiate certain actions in its future.
Take a very simple event like the eating of an orange. Playfully imagine how that event is interpreted by the cells of your body. How is the orange perceived? It might be directly felt by the tip of your finger, but are the cells in your feet aware of it? Do the cells in your knee know you are eating an orange? Take all the time you want to with this. Then explore your own conscious sense perceptions of the orange. Dwell on its taste, texture, odor, shape. Again, do this playfully, and take your time. Then let your own associations flow in your mind. What does the orange remind you of? When did you first see or taste one? Have you ever seen oranges grow, or orange blossoms? What does the color remind you of? Then pretend you are having a dream that begins with the image of an orange. Follow the dream in your mind. Next, pretend that you are waking from the dream to realize that another dream was simultaneously occurring, and ask yourself quickly what that dream was. Followed in the same sequence given, the exercise will allow you to make loops with your own consciousness, so to speak, to catch it “coming and going.” And the last question — what else were you dreaming of? — should bring an entirely new sequence of images and thoughts into your mind that were indeed happening at the same time as your daydream about the orange.
Those who imagine they look upon nature with the most objective of eyes are those whose subjective beliefs blind them most of all, for they cannot see through their own misinterpretations. It has been said that statistics can be made to say two things at once, both contradictory; so the facts of nature can be read in completely different fashions as they are put together with the organizational abilities of the mind operating through the brain’s beliefs. The exterior core of dreams is also blemished to that degree, but the inner core of dreams provides a constant new influx of material, feedback, and insight from the psyche, so that the personality is not at the mercy of its exterior experience only — not confined to environmental feedback only, but ever provided with fresh intuitive data and direction.
Entry 1,787 - September 13th, 2021
Woahhhh, what if this is what happens to people who think they are speaking in tongues by the Holy Ghost??? Like they split themselves and believe that the part speaking in tongues is the Holy Ghost, but it’s really an exaggerated superior self, and they make the knowledge impossible to act upon?! :o
This is why the Christian doctrine that we are inherently evil is so detrimental and damaging to people.
Christianity causes people to divide themselves inwardly into good and bad, good nature and sinful nature, and then the only way they believe they can overcome themselves is through divide and conquer. This encourages more division, more confusion, and more schizophrenic action.
This results in the sinful nature becoming the "bad self" and being repressed until it eventually fractures and chips away through dissociation.
Entry 1,788
Anaïs Nin: "we don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are."
Realizing this requires deep self reflection. That's a problem for many people.
Entry 1,789
Again, impulses are inherently good, both spiritually and biologically. They emerge from Framework 2, from the inner self, and they are based on the great inner webwork of communication that exists among all species on your planet. (Pause.) Impulses also provide the natural impetus toward those patterns of behavior that serve you best, so that while certain impulses may bunch up toward physical activity, say, others, seemingly contradictory, will lead toward quiet contemplation, so that overall certain balances are maintained.
- Seth Speaks
Entry 1,790 - December 6th, 2021
There are energetic exchanges that need to be consensual; otherwise, it's an invasion of one's privacy. An example of this would be if someone is having naughty dreams about you. Hypothetically, they are sending a telepathic signal with intent, and you can either accept or reject it.
Accepting it would place your energy on the same frequency, allowing you to connect to that telepathic sequence. However, if you reject it, you remain on a different frequency, and it won’t enter your mind or become something you focus on.
When someone tries to read your energy without your permission, that is a non-consensual energetic transfer.
Entry 1,791
"The Bible became practically useless in the liberal camps while in the conservative
camps, it basically become God Himself. The fact of the matter is, the
Scriptures were never meant to be God’s final word on anything, it was
meant to be a tool – a tool which has been greatly misused in Christian
circles — a tool to find and relate to the Living God of all humanity."
- New Testament Greek Scriptures. Dr. John Wesley
Hanson
“100 Scriptural Proofs That Jesus Christ Is The Savior Of All Mankind,” by
Thomas Whittemore first published in 1840.
"The Hebrew Old Testament, some three hundred years before the
Christian era, was translated into Greek, but of the sixty-four instances
where Sheol occurs in the Hebrew, it is rendered Hadees in the Greek sixty
times, so that either word is the equivalent of the other. But neither of these
words is ever used in the Bible to signify punishment after death, nor should
the word Hell ever be used as the rendering of Sheol or Hadees for neither
word denotes post-mortem torment."
"Sheol, primarily, literally, the grave, or death, secondarily and figura-
tively the political, social, moral or spiritual consequences of wickedness
in the present world, is the precise force of the term, wherever found.
Sheol occurs exactly sixty-four times and is translated hell thirty-two
times, pit three times, and grave twenty-nine times
This is evident when we remember that it was uttered to a people who, according to all
authorities, believed in no punishment after death.
To the same important fact testify Prof. Wines, Bush, Arnauld, and other distinguished
theologians and scholars. “All learned Hebrew scholars know that the
Hebrews have no word proper for hell, as we take hell.”
[Footnote: Encyc. Britan., vol. 1. Dis. 3 Whateley’]
Entry 1,792 - December 21st, 2021
Was it not Hitler’s dream that the “unrighteous” would burn in this world in his own cremation services? Not only was it his dream, but it became a sick reality where millions of innocent Jews were murdered for merely existing. And yet, many fundamental Christians are trying to make the Creator appear like Hitler—but even worse—by claiming that, instead of having people burn only in this life, God would have a majority of His creation burn forever for their unrighteousness forever. Do they not see the parallels between this belief and the ideology of one of the most sadistic men to ever walk the earth, Hitler himself?
And that’s the God they profess to believe in? Some may argue, “But God is righteous,” and “Hitler was not.” Yet, did Jesus not say, “You will know them by their fruits”? And what are the fruits of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Nowhere in those fruits is eternal damnation found, nor is eternal damnation explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament or New Testament in their original languages. The Catholic Church, and later the Protestant denominations that adopted this belief, translated it in line with their doctrine, but not all Christians subscribe to such a bleak interpretation.
Some Christians defend the idea of eternal torment by saying, “God is a just God and will give people what they deserve.” While God’s justice is indeed acknowledged, the version of justice they propose is imbalanced, unfair, and deeply pessimistic. Many Jews, Eastern Orthodox Christians, progressive Christians, and other denominations that do not adopt the doctrine of original sin believe in a justice system that aligns with a merciful and loving God, one that reflects true fairness and balance.
Believers in a merciful God hold that He is perfectly just, and for that reason, it makes no sense to condemn someone to eternal punishment for finite mistakes in belief or action. Such an interpretation would tip the scales too far toward doom and gloom, overshadowing any hope of redemption and union with God. The Gospels consistently portray Jesus as offering radical grace and compassion, much to the dismay of the highly religious people of His time. When religious leaders sought to stone a woman for committing a sexual sin, Jesus intervened and saved her. When a criminal on the cross asked for salvation, Jesus promised him paradise.
If God were truly as Catholics and fundamental Christians claim—a deity who gives up on His sheep and allows those blinded by falsehoods to remain lost forever—how would He be any better than Hitler? Would a God who abandons His creation to eternal suffering and refuses to save them beyond this life truly be fair or just? Would a loving God not continue to offer redemption, even if that process extends beyond this earthly existence?
Such a pessimistic view of God portrays Him as weak, especially in contrast to the billions of people who may not believe in God but hold a more optimistic view of the universe and existence itself. If this is the God they follow—a God who delights in eternal suffering, who enforces an imbalanced justice system that punishes infinitely for finite lives—then it raises the question: Is that truly God? A God who gives up on the majority of His creation, who does not go after the 99 lost sheep, seems far removed from the loving Creator described in the Gospels.
A more accurate understanding of God reflects love, peace, joy, kindness, and unfailing forgiveness. God’s mercy knows no bounds, and He does not abandon His creation to eternal flames. Why would Jesus command His followers to forgive “seventy times seven” yet be depicted as a God who limits His own forgiveness? Why would God’s mercy cease after death, when Scripture offers no such limitation? Did Jesus not descend to the underworld to share the good news? Did not people follow Him after death? Are there not countless references in the Old Testament to God offering salvation long after someone’s earthly life had ended?
This pessimistic doctrine reflects a lack of faith in the true nature of God. To assume that God gives up on His creation is not only incorrect but also deeply disheartening. People often project their own limitations onto God. Those who are narrow-minded will find Scriptures to support a narrow-minded God. Those who give up on others will find Scriptures to support the idea that God gives up on His creation. This distorted image of God reflects their own struggles with self-worth, righteousness, and understanding.
Beware of those who see no good within themselves, for the God they project will be one of fear, punishment, and limitation. In that relationship, people are viewed as inherently deserving of eternal suffering. In that relationship, God becomes a tyrant with a finite capacity for grace. This bleak portrayal is rooted in fear-based theology, which claims that many are already burning in eternal torment, with no end to their suffering and no beginning to their salvation.
Entry 1,793 - December 25th, 2021
Jonathan Edwards (A Calvinist of the "Great Awakening" fame.
Newspapers reported people leaving his sermons and committing suicide from
the fear he instilled in them.)
"The world will probably be converted into a great lake or liquid globe of fire, in
which the wicked shall be overwhelmed, which will always be in tempest, in
which they shall be tossed to and fro, having no rest day and night, vast waves
and billows of fire continually rolling over their heads, of which they shall forever
be full of a quick sense within and without; their heads, their eyes, their tongues,
their hands, their feet, their loins and their vitals, shall forever be full of a flowing,
melting fire, fierce enough to melt the very rocks and elements; and also, they
shall eternally be full of the most quick and lively sense to feel the torments; not
for one minute, not for one day, not for one age, not for two ages, not for a
hundred ages, nor for ten thousand millions of ages, one after another, but
forever and ever, without any end at all, and never to be delivered."
John Calvin (Who had some of his theological enemies burned to death in green
slow-burning wood.):
Calvin describes hell as: "Forever harrassed with a dreadful tempest, they shall
feel themselves torn asunder by an angry God, and transfixed and penetrated
by mortal stings, terrified by the thunderbolts of God, and broken by the weight
of his hand, so that to sink into any gulf would be more tolerable than to stand
for a moment in these terrors."
Reverend J. Furniss, C.S.S.R in his book The Sight of Hell (A Catholic book for
children)
"Little child, if you go to hell there will be a devil at your side to strike you. He will
go on striking you every minute for ever and ever without stopping. The first stroke
will make your body as bad as the body of Job, covered, from head to foot, with
sores and ulcers. The second stroke will make your body twice as bad as the
body of job. The third stroke will make your body three times as bad as the body
of Job. The fourth stroke will make your body four times as bad as the body of
Job. How, then, will your body be after the devil has been striking it every
moment for a hundred million of years without stopping?
Perhaps at this
moment, seven o'clock in he evening, a child is just going into hell. To-morrow
evening, at seven o'clock, go and knock at the gates of hell and ask what the
child is doing. The devils will go and look. They will come back again and say, the
child is burning. Go in week and ask what the child is doing; you will get
the same answer, it is burning; Go in a year and asks the same answer comes--it
is burning. Go in a million of years and ask the same question, the answer is just
the same--it is burning. So, if you go for ever and ever, you will always get the
same answer--it is burning in the fire.) -- (Quoted from Christ Triumphant by
Thomas Allin)
https://www.tentmaker.org/books/Prevailing.html
An examination of the earliest Christian creeds and declarations of Christian opinion discloses the fact that no formulary of Christian belief for several centuries after Christ contained anything incompatible with the broad faith of the Gospel--the universal redemption of mankind from sin. The earliest of all the documents pertaining to this subject is the "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles." 1 This work was discovered in manuscript in the library of the Holy Sepulchre, in Constantinopole, by Philotheos Bryennios, and published in 1875.
It was bound with Chrysostom's "Synopsis of the Works of the Old Testament," the "Epistle of Barnabas," A.D. 70-120--two epistles of Clement, and less important works. The "Teaching" was quoted by Clement of Alexandria, by Eusebius and by Athanasius, so that it must have been recognized as early as A.D. 200. It was undoubtedly composed between A.D. 120 and 160. An American edition of the Greek text and an English translation were published in New York in 1884, with notes by Roswell D. Hitchcock and Francis Brown, professors in Union Theological Seminary, New York, from which we quote.
It is entirely silent on the duration of punishment. It describes the two ways of life and death, in its sixteen chapters, and indicates the rewards and the penalties of the good way and of the evil way as any Universalist would do--as Origen and Basil did. God is thanked for giving spiritual food and drink and "aeonian life." The last chapter exhorts Christians to watch against the terrors and judgments that shall come "when the earth shall be given unto his (the world's deceiver's) hands. Then all created men shall come into the fire of trial, and many shall be made to stumble and perish. But they that endure in their faith shall be saved from this curse. And then shall appear the signs of the truth; first, the sign of an opening in heaven; then the sign of the trumpet's sound; and, thirdly the resurrection from the dead, yet not of all, but as it hath been said: 'The Lord will come and all his saints with him.
Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.'" This resurrection must be regarded as a moral one, as it is not "of all the dead," but of the saints only. There is not a whisper in this ancient document of endless punishment, and its testimony, therefore, is that that dogma was not in the second century regarded as a part of "the teaching of the apostles." When describing the endlessness of being it uses the word athanasias, but describes the glory of Christ, as do the Scriptures, as for ages (cis tous aionas).
In Chapter XI occurs this language: "Every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven" (the sin of an apostle asking money for his services); but that form of expression is clearly in accordance with the Scriptural method of adding force to an affirmative by a negative, and vice versa, as in the word (Matt. xviii: 22): "Not until seven times, but until seventy times seven." In fine, the "Teaching" shows throughout that the most ancient doctrine of the church, after the apostles, was in perfect harmony with universal salvation. Cyprian, A.D. 250, in a letter to his son Magnus, tells us that in addition to the baptismal formula converts were asked, "Dost thou believe in the remission of sins and eternal life through the holy church?"
Entry 1,794 - December 29th, 2021
Any foreign energy within the building or within myself that I have absorbed from other people or animals is released into the large grounding tree outside.
Trees throughout the community aid in my body’s healing.
The cells in my body are incredible at healing and restoring balance.
Before I meditate with anyone else, I always ground myself and protect my energy from absorbing the energies of others.
Entry 1,795 - January 19th, 2022
What’s mine is mine
What’s yours is yours
You cannot have what is mine, you cannot have what is yours.
Entry 1,796
Be vulnerable for those who are afraid to be themselves. Be vulnerable to help those who feel like they can’t. Be you, and one day you might see how it truly made a difference.
When my name was "Kylee Webb," when I had long hair and wore girly clothes—that was to people-please, to make others feel comfortable at the expense of my own happiness and authenticity.
It was because I was afraid of losing family and friends. That image existed because I was afraid to be vulnerable with my full, authentic self as a trans man.
Never again will I be afraid to be raw and authentic. Never again will I be pressured into being like an emotionless stone because others can’t handle me shining as my true self. Cheers to being vulnerable.
Entry 1,797
“I am in the timeline of my highest good, my deepest desires, and my ultimate fulfillment”
Entry 1,798
Note from May 2018 Kylee to Present day Kylee really hit me deep.
"The only person worth defining myself is me. My actions cause reactions. I will be who I know I'm supposed to be.
Don't just believe it, feel it, know it, live it out. We weren't meant to be cataclysmic faults in the universe but rather fearless pioneers of our own fate. Don't settle for less, settle for what you think is best."
Entry 1,799
Some of my favorite quotes from the book “Freedom” by Osho:
“The true freedom comes out of choiceless awareness, but when there is choiceless awareness the freedom is neither dependent on things nor dependent on doing something.
The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is the freedom just to be yourself. And you are yourself already, you are born with it; hence it is not dependent on anything else. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you.
A sword can cut your head but it cannot cut your freedom, your being.
It is another way of saying that you are centered, rooted in your natural, existential self. It has nothing to do with outside.”
- From Freedom by Osho
“You were not born a Christian or Mohammedan; you were born just pure, innocent consciousness. To be again in that purity, in that innocence, in that consciousness, is what I mean by freedom.”
“The moment one takes responsibility for oneself…And remember it is not all roses, there are thorns in it; it is not all sweet, there are many bitter moments in it. The sweet is always balanced by the bitter, they always come in the same proportion. The roses are balanced by the thorns, the days by the nights, the summers by the winters. Life keeps a balance between the polar opposites. So one who is ready to accept the responsibility of being oneself with all its beauties, bitternesses, its joys and agonies, can be free. Only such a person can be free….”
“And don’t allow yourself to be cheated by astrologers, mind readers, palmists, predictors of your future. There is no future if you don’t create it! And whatsoever is going to be tomorrow is going to be your creation. And it has to be done today, now— because out of today today’s womb, tomorrow will be born.”
“This is my experience: the day I took complete responsibility for myself, I found the doors of freedom opening to me. They go together.”
“If you choose freedom, then you have to destroy all the strategies of others that make you a slave. That’s what I am trying to do here: trying to cut all your chains, making you free from everything so that you can be yourself And the moment you are yourself, you start growing, you become greener. Flowers start opening up, and there is great fragrance around you.”
Entry 1,800
I’ve had many lovers but the greatest lover of all of them was always myself.
Entry 1,801 - April 1st, 2022
When I read Adyashanti’s book about asking “Who am I?” as a way to explore who you are, I realized at that earlier moment, I didn’t have a very deep desire to truly know. Yes, the question was endearing to a point, but I was still very much attached to the desire of knowing who I am in the physical body in relation to others. I was still interested in exploring myself from a place of separation rather than from a place of oneness.
Now, don’t get me wrong—this is not bad at all. It’s merely an experience we play with until we’re ready for a new one to explore. And it was good that I was finding my desire for how I wished to express myself and what I liked, rather than how my family or friends wanted me to express myself and what they liked. This point in my evolution was crucial because it helped me discover what I personally wanted to explore.
However, now at this stage, having broken free from other people’s desires for how they want me to look, act, and be, I feel even more free to explore the depths of my depthless being. Now the question “Who am I?” burns within me with even greater intensity, urging me to find out beyond my physical body.
When I look at people, I can’t help but see myself in them and them in me, but I still can’t fully tap into the realization of who I truly am. I know intellectually that we are one, and day by day I feel myself becoming more in tune with intuitively sensing that oneness. Yet, until the burning desire to fully know who I am is fulfilled, I feel it will continue to burn within my being. That question feels like a fire, burning away all that isn’t truly me. I can sense its sanctifying work upon me.
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