
Although I am a Shaman, which by definition means I do not follow any organized religion, I do believe in God. I believe God is too incomprehensible for our human mind to really grasp all of his aspects. I say “he” knowing that god is not a he or a she. God is the energy of both male and female. God is an energy form that assumes the masculine role for the most part. This is in part because the masculine side is the side of power and action.
I also believe that other gods exist. The gods that Hindus pray to, Egyptian gods, the gods of the Greeks, all existed and exist today. Think of these gods as lesser gods, or aspects of the one god. Heaven is a bureaucracy, not a one man show, so to speak. Using the U.S. government as an example, if the President is God, then the lesser gods are like governors. There are even city/state gods, much like mayors in our system. There are also the worker bees of the heavenly system, such as angels, archangels, etc. There are many layers of these.
While the God that Christians think of as personified in Jesus is the high god; that does not make their religion the top religion. Christianity has been so twisted over the years that it does not even resemble its original form.
The Bible has many things wrong. One has to remember it is a bunch of allegorical stories, written by different writers, hundreds of years after the events depicted took place. So we have stories passed down (hearsay evidence, not allowed in our courts) that were translated across several language besides. Many words and terms could not be translated with full certainty of accuracy, and these were translations of oral stories to begin with. Much of the Bible was plagiarized from older religions and pagan beliefs anyway. The Bible should be noted for what is NOT in it, as much as what is in it. In 367 or so, the Bible was revised and many books were thrown out and others added. At one point there were over 300 versions of the Bible in existence. The Catholic Church demanded they be burned. To be caught in possession of a banned version was heresy and severely punished.
As to God being a kind old man, all loving and forgiving, well… This is the same guy who burned Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground and turned Lot’s wife to salt just for looking back as he did it. God is an energy form and as such; has all of the elements (good & bad) in his makeup. If we are made in his image, and if we have bad, then bad has to be part of his being also. If he was pure love as some fools would have us believe and tell us we are supposed to aspire to, explain why he allows war and death and rape and all the other things we do.
The fact is: God cannot be neatly boxed into some idea of what we want him to be. As I said in the first paragraph, we cannot really comprehend all that God is. In some ways he is not all powerful, either. Because he set up the rules of karma and how earth works he is (in effect) hemmed in by his own rules which he cannot violate without causing all kinds of ripple effects. For this reason, God does not take the form of a human being and come down here and walk about. If he does come down again, which the Bible says he will; then it will be because the proverbial shit has hit the fan. Many believe this take place in 2012. I do not believe that.
I do believe the Anti-Christ is here now. Many believe he was born in 1962, although I cannot say one way or the other as to his date of birth. I do believe there will be a battle of good and evil in our lifetime. Some believe the events in Iraq are a prelude to this. I believe the Anti-Christ will be defeated. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The world is in the balance.
I do believe some people are indeed evil, not just bad. I believe in the death penalty (an eye for an eye), but not how it is applied in this country. I personally am a marksman with a pistol and would have no qualms (or guilt or bad karma for) killing anyone looking to send me home before my work is done. Killing in self defense is morally and legally (at least for now) allowed even here in the land of PC speak.
I think the whole idea of enlightenment has been all botched up. To be enlightened is not to be all loving and holy and living like a hermit or a yogi. Enlightenment is to be relieved of your burden of issues and karma. It is the state where you find contentment, without drugs, drink or a book telling you how live. It is in knowing you are GOOD and being comfortable as a person, as a soul and knowing you are the best you can be at this moment, without closing the door for future evolution.
You can swear, drink and have sex and be enlightened. (Swearing is NOT taking God’s name in vain, but saying; “Do this because Jesus says you should” IS taking his name in vain).
Being enlightened is the state you achieve when your psychological baggage has been emptied, your karma debt paid, and your soul is basically as clear as (it) was on your FIRST incarnation, and you do not have to reincarnate to continue your growth. I believe that I am 97% of the way there. And I can tell you the last 7% was harder then the first 70 or 80% was. So it is not all that hard to move substantially upward. I do not advocate trying for 100% as I am, since that is a real chore. Get to a level of comfort and you will be so much better off.
Just as the U.S government has various agencies, heaven has spirits that handle details. Your evolution is being watched and recorded, and world events are being manipulated based on the laws of karma. The old saying “what goes around, come around” applies to world events as well to YOUR individual actions. As any history buff will tell you, history repeats itself over time. Look at the Roman Empire and the USA today and only a fool will fail to see the similarity. Karma is in play on a personal level for every being on the planet, and for nations and groups as well.
The pyramid of heaven has many levels. God is at the top and humans who are low lives on this planet go to the bottom. As you evolve, when you die you will go to a higher level of the pyramid. Life and afterlife is NOT FAIR or equal, and life is not supposed to be. No amount of PC thought and liberal bull will change this fact. Reincarnation is the process by which you evolve. Each time you come back, hopefully you will learn new lessons and pass up to the next level when you go to the afterlife. It is possible to skip levels and move up quickly if you live the good life while here and learn what it is you came here to learn in the first place. So on this key aspect, all of the major religions have it wrong, because eternal life is not fixed. Life for your soul is eternal, but you are not condemned to stay at the level where you may be now. More importantly, you do NOT get to move up just because you believe and tithed to some 501(c).
There is no hell, which in some ways is unfortunate, because some humans deserve to go there if there was one. But since you are a human only for a short time (of your real life), it really would be an abomination to make your soul pay forever and ever.
Here is a tidbit that may bring some pleasant thoughts to you. When you die, you will go to your appropriate level of the pyramid. Lesser beings (perhaps your idiot brother or thieving cousin or conniving ex) will go to a lesser level and are not allowed to visit the levels above them. So you will not have to deal with them in the afterlife.
Souls tend to hang out in groups, much like cliques here on earth. They often reincarnate together and make pacts to help each other get thru the harsh life here on earth. This is where you get the term soul mates, which may be platonic or romantic. Your wife in a past life may come back as a sister or daughter or niece in the next.
Sometimes souls get in a rut and keep making the same mistakes over and over and do not evolve. Sometimes they plan to have a soul from a higher level cross their path to help them. Often these higher souls were once down at their level and they knew each other in a past life. I myself have come across many souls needing help, that I knew in past lives. I suspect that all true healers have this experience many times in their lifetime(s). On one level it may be repaying a karmic debt, or it may just be helping a friend. It is what we (healers) do, our raison d’etre.
Each life is a class, and earth is a very hard harsh classroom. Negative energy is seven times more powerful then positive energy here. This makes it easy to be bad and hard to be good. But if was too easy, you would never learn anything. You need resistance (in the form of weight) to build muscles. To build “good” you also need resistance. So if life is a class, then you should not fear dying. Think of it going on to the next class (after a recess in heaven). Look forward and not backward. This maxim applies to life in general. Humans resist change and doing so is futile and wastes energy. Go with the flow and life will be much easier. Being in the “now” is better then being in the past, and for the most part is better then being in the future.
I am many lives old and understand the process of reincarnation. My job as a shaman is to help people along their path in life, so that they evolve and pass the class. I can even help some skip a few levels. This is not easy, work and consciousness are required. In theory, if you had no karma to repay, you could go to a level where you would never “have” to reincarnate. Even karma can be cleared, but how that is done is not for publication here. However, clearing karma is like going to court, nothing is assured; and the judges on the other side cannot be bribed or bought.
Life is a self fulfilling prophecy. Your thoughts, combined with your energy level and karma bring to you all that you desire. We are all gods and create our own futures. Unfortunately, we have no real understanding of the process of creation. Despite the simplistic lines most new-age gurus espouse, like “think rich and you will be rich”, there is more to it then that. If they were correct, every person who believed they were going to win tomorrow’s lottery would, in fact, win it. The movie “The Secret” has it correct but misses the other most important element, that which is already in your soul.
If you were born with no bad karma to overcome, your soul would be like a white piece of paper with some black marks on it. The marks would represent the resistance you felt you needed to overcome, to help you learn your lesson. Since you are coming into a negative class, those marks will quickly draw more negative weight for you to overcome. Now it gets interesting. Your life will begin to pick up more black marks. So by the time you are 21you have a lot to get past. Some people actually go backwards, dying in a worse state then they came in with. Their subconscious has become so covered with black marks, it has become defective software. So going around thinking good thoughts on a conscious level will not override the subconscious processes. So you will not win the lottery by just believing or hoping or praying for that matter. God is not going to override your predominant energy.
Clearing your wounded soul is what will fix the software and get you moving upward. Time moves us all forward, but only living the good life and clearing our issues will move us upward.
As you clear your own emotional and psychological issues, your energy rises. Your physical energy rises; you become more immune to illness, since all disease rises from dis-ease. This is a just a good side effect. The real benefit is your “inner” energy or “light” rises. Like a bulb on a dimmer, as it gets turned up, it gets brighter, illuminating your life and making it brighter. Light drives out darkness. This draws to you better people (with higher [matching] energy). It also draws good events to you. Good luck is just good energy in some ways. Raise your energy and ALL THAT LIFE ENTAILS gets better, although this is not always in direct linear fashion.
Most organized religions tell you their idea of “living the good life”. Most of the stuff they espouse is BS and more about power & control and rules. Do you really think God cares how you organize your refrigerator? Organized religions want to be the middle man between you and God. I am a middleman also, but with a difference. I was appointed by a higher power, I never wanted it, or sought it. And more importantly, I do not want to hold that position in anyone’s life for more then a very short period. My job, as I see it, is to help people evolve and get to the point that they have the self esteem to approach God directly, not with fear, or shame, or supplication. I am just a guide to help you get there. You are a god (albeit a much lesser one then some), so learn to create a better future, as is your right.
However, some cannot be helped because they are not open to it. I do not try to change those people to my belief system, nor do I advocate killing them. Healers guide, we do not force. Religion has brainwashed so many people that they will not allow any belief other than the prescribed dogma of their religion.
So you are a god, you are a responsible for your own future. What are you going to do to make it better? Work hard and move to the suburbs. That is your outer life, not the inner life that counts.
Besides 2012 is coming, as is $6.00 per gallon gasoline. (Gas is the equivalent of $7.50 a gallon now in some EU countries) The world is not going to end in 2012 as some believe, but it is going to really shift. The world AS WE KNOW IT is going to END.
The coin of the realm in the new world will not be money. Instead of how much money do you have; it will be how high your energy level is.