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..THE THIRD EYE ..
The science of how to enter into yourself has been known for thousands of years, but no religion wants you to enter into yourself. They want you to look upwards at the sky for a fictitious God. If your inner eye remains closed, you are going to remain a Catholic, a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a communist, but once the inner eye opens, you start becoming free of all these fetters and all these imprisonments.
Every person has the potential, but you have been diverted into looking for God outside yourself – and He is sitting inside you. All the priests of the world are against God, because once you know that God is within you, the whole profession of the priesthood is finished. Churches will be empty, mosques will be empty, temples and synagogues will be empty, and the whole politics of numbers and the power that it brings to the priests will be gone.
You are only an individual without any adjective.
The world will be immensely beautiful if there are only individuals, not belonging to any religion or any political ideology, but belonging to their own inner self. That’s enough, more than enough. Belonging to life itself is the only true religion, the only truth that has to be discovered. And it is not far away, just a little fear has to be dropped.
And if you go on trying, as you will become acquainted with the beauties of nothingness, the fear is going to disappear automatically. You have accidentally found the right path – now don’t lose it.
Every person has the potential, but you have been diverted into looking for God outside yourself – and He is sitting inside you. All the priests of the world are against God, because once you know that God is within you, the whole profession of the priesthood is finished. Churches will be empty, mosques will be empty, temples and synagogues will be empty, and the whole politics of numbers and the power that it brings to the priests will be gone.
You are only an individual without any adjective.
The world will be immensely beautiful if there are only individuals, not belonging to any religion or any political ideology, but belonging to their own inner self. That’s enough, more than enough. Belonging to life itself is the only true religion, the only truth that has to be discovered. And it is not far away, just a little fear has to be dropped.
And if you go on trying, as you will become acquainted with the beauties of nothingness, the fear is going to disappear automatically. You have accidentally found the right path – now don’t lose it.
... THE THIRD EYE....
The 3rd eye is not only symbolic, as he says. The 3rd eye is the pineal gland which has shrunk to the size of a pea in today’s human being out of disuse and our focus on the material aspects of life. The pineal gland functions as a sensor to the spiritual-energetical world, which is the world of fine-matter, unlike this material or coarse-matter world we see with our five senses. Things of the finer-matter world include vibrations emitted from thoughts, feelings as well other electro-magnetic vibrations and finer energy sources. Certain types of meditations as well as food products, the proper mode of living, can aid in the reactivation of the so-called 3rd eye or pineal gland. The pineal gland is the center for the 7th sense in human beings and that being perception. It also functions as a so-called inner voice and has clairvoyant visionary capabilities.
~~ Connection between inner and outer beauty ~~
The outer beauty comes from a different source than the inner. The outer beauty comes from your father and mother: their bodies create your body. But the inner beauty comes from your own growth of consciousness that you are carrying from many lives.
In your individuality both are joined, the physical heritage from your father and mother and the spiritual heritage of your own past lives, its consciousness, its bliss, its joy.
So it is not absolutely necessary that the outer will be a reflection of the inner, nor will vice versa be true, that the inner will correspond with the outer.
But sometimes it happens that your inner beauty is so much, your inner light is so much that it starts radiating from your outer body. Your outer body may not be beautiful, but the light that comes from your sources, your innermost sources of eternal life, will make even a body which is not beautiful in the ordinary sense appear beautiful, radiant.
But vice versa it is never true. Your outer beauty is only skin-deep. It cannot affect your inner beauty. On the contrary the outer beauty becomes a hindrance in search of the inner: you become too identified with the outer. Who is going to look for the inner sources? Most often it happens that the people who are outwardly very beautiful, are inwardly very ugly. Their outer beauty becomes a cover-up to hide themselves behind, and it is experienced by millions of people every day. You fall in love with a woman or a man, because you can see only the outer. And just within a few days you start discovering his inner state; it doesn't correspond to his outer beauty. On the contrary it is very ugly.
In your individuality both are joined, the physical heritage from your father and mother and the spiritual heritage of your own past lives, its consciousness, its bliss, its joy.
So it is not absolutely necessary that the outer will be a reflection of the inner, nor will vice versa be true, that the inner will correspond with the outer.
But sometimes it happens that your inner beauty is so much, your inner light is so much that it starts radiating from your outer body. Your outer body may not be beautiful, but the light that comes from your sources, your innermost sources of eternal life, will make even a body which is not beautiful in the ordinary sense appear beautiful, radiant.
But vice versa it is never true. Your outer beauty is only skin-deep. It cannot affect your inner beauty. On the contrary the outer beauty becomes a hindrance in search of the inner: you become too identified with the outer. Who is going to look for the inner sources? Most often it happens that the people who are outwardly very beautiful, are inwardly very ugly. Their outer beauty becomes a cover-up to hide themselves behind, and it is experienced by millions of people every day. You fall in love with a woman or a man, because you can see only the outer. And just within a few days you start discovering his inner state; it doesn't correspond to his outer beauty. On the contrary it is very ugly.
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My wish is PEACE in whole world on this Christmas & may god bless all.
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Women and Witchcraft
In the earliest European societies, dating back prior to four thousand B.C.E., people were grouped into tribes. Life was organized around survival. A male's ability to hunt was integral to the societal system, but far more important was the power of women to give birth, thereby sustaining the continuity of the tribe.
Women were also the healers of these early European societies. It was primarily the women who tended to the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of their people. Often, women were the religious leaders of their tribes, guiding people through the different stages of their lives.
The diverse abilities of women were thought to be sacred. These sacred female powers became personified into the figure of a goddess, a deity thought to be the mother of all life. It has been established by scholars that a goddess was probably Europe's primary deity until as recently as three thousand B.C.E. (Eisler 1-7).
Female leaders in religion became increasingly rare in the centuries leading up to the witch persecutions. These women continued to represent feminine authority. They were the sibyls of Greece, the Witches and Druidesses of Celtic Ireland and Britain, women who were now separated from society, but still sought out as well as feared. To the male dominated establishment, these women were now a threat. In a society where God is male, women become devalued.
Witchcraft was (and is) the survival of fragmented pagan belief systems mainly collected from the folklore of Celtic Britain and Ireland. European Archeologist Marija Gimbutas notes that the women called witches "were greatly feared since they continued to represent the power of a formidable Goddess on Earth" (20). When the Catholic hierarchy absorbed Britain and Ireland, it encountered the Celtic people, whose religion and way of life was still contrary to the ideal that women should be obedient to men. The church henceforth set out to eliminate these belief systems, as they had tried to do to the continental pagan religions who were also matrifocal in origin, and they accused these other religious groups of devil worship.
The most harmful work of propaganda ever directed at women was the Malleus Malificarum, or Witches' Hammer. This book set a standard of misogyny so great that Western civilization is still influenced by its hateful ideas. Historian Selma Williams examined the "Malleus" for its sexist content and found statements such as: "A woman is by her nature more quicker to waver in her faith and consequently quicker to abjure the faith, which is the root of witchcraft" (qtd. in Williams 39).
Throughout the witch persecutions, the use of healing techniques was a major issue in the charging and convicting of a suspected witch.The female healers of Europe represented a threat to the church hierarchy, which supported the rising male medical profession. These male doctors catered to the upper class who could afford them.
The practice of medicine by women was a threat to the Church because medicine contained the power over life and death, a power belonging to God alone, and delegated to his male representatives on earth.
The sexuality of women was probably the most significant issue involved during the witch persecutions. During those times, in an era when sex was viewed as sinful, women could not hide their obviously s*xual natures: they became pregnant; they gave birth; they menstruated. Negative attitudes about sex were translated into negative attitudes about women, and reflected themselves strongly in witch trial procedures. In the Christian religion, we are often reminded of the temptation of sex; however, in the times of the Witch Persecutions, the church often mentioned s*xual temptation as being inherent in women, therefore making her an obstacle on the path from man to God (Cavendish 3057).
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Women were also the healers of these early European societies. It was primarily the women who tended to the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of their people. Often, women were the religious leaders of their tribes, guiding people through the different stages of their lives.
The diverse abilities of women were thought to be sacred. These sacred female powers became personified into the figure of a goddess, a deity thought to be the mother of all life. It has been established by scholars that a goddess was probably Europe's primary deity until as recently as three thousand B.C.E. (Eisler 1-7).
Female leaders in religion became increasingly rare in the centuries leading up to the witch persecutions. These women continued to represent feminine authority. They were the sibyls of Greece, the Witches and Druidesses of Celtic Ireland and Britain, women who were now separated from society, but still sought out as well as feared. To the male dominated establishment, these women were now a threat. In a society where God is male, women become devalued.
Witchcraft was (and is) the survival of fragmented pagan belief systems mainly collected from the folklore of Celtic Britain and Ireland. European Archeologist Marija Gimbutas notes that the women called witches "were greatly feared since they continued to represent the power of a formidable Goddess on Earth" (20). When the Catholic hierarchy absorbed Britain and Ireland, it encountered the Celtic people, whose religion and way of life was still contrary to the ideal that women should be obedient to men. The church henceforth set out to eliminate these belief systems, as they had tried to do to the continental pagan religions who were also matrifocal in origin, and they accused these other religious groups of devil worship.
The most harmful work of propaganda ever directed at women was the Malleus Malificarum, or Witches' Hammer. This book set a standard of misogyny so great that Western civilization is still influenced by its hateful ideas. Historian Selma Williams examined the "Malleus" for its sexist content and found statements such as: "A woman is by her nature more quicker to waver in her faith and consequently quicker to abjure the faith, which is the root of witchcraft" (qtd. in Williams 39).
Throughout the witch persecutions, the use of healing techniques was a major issue in the charging and convicting of a suspected witch.The female healers of Europe represented a threat to the church hierarchy, which supported the rising male medical profession. These male doctors catered to the upper class who could afford them.
The practice of medicine by women was a threat to the Church because medicine contained the power over life and death, a power belonging to God alone, and delegated to his male representatives on earth.
The sexuality of women was probably the most significant issue involved during the witch persecutions. During those times, in an era when sex was viewed as sinful, women could not hide their obviously s*xual natures: they became pregnant; they gave birth; they menstruated. Negative attitudes about sex were translated into negative attitudes about women, and reflected themselves strongly in witch trial procedures. In the Christian religion, we are often reminded of the temptation of sex; however, in the times of the Witch Persecutions, the church often mentioned s*xual temptation as being inherent in women, therefore making her an obstacle on the path from man to God (Cavendish 3057).
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Gods and Goddesses
In early civilizations, human survival depended on a regular food supply from plant and animal sources. These, in turn, depended on the goodness of Nature, manifested on the Earth, through the sunshine and the rain that were necessary for growth of plant life and and also animal life, directly or indirectly
Earth, Sun and Rain were key figures in the process of survival and were probably the initial sources of worship by human beings. Perhaps with the exception of the Sun, these were viewed with female attributes – the great mother who gives and sustains life.
It is an established fact that in addition to male deities or gods, female deities or goddesses were common in the religions of early civilization.
Here are a few examples:
Roman
Gods – Jupiter, Neptune
Goddesses- Venus, Minerva
Greek
Gods – Zeus, Poseidon
Goddesses – Hera, Gaia
Egyptian
Gods – Osiris, Horus
Goddesses – Isis, Bastet
Nordic
Gods – Odin, Thor,
Goddesses – Frigg, Freyja
Also, it appears that there is a renewed interest in Goddess worship in the western world at present.
Although it is a fact that most early religions had both male and female deities, that is, gods and goddesses, it is most noticeable that in the Abrahamic religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which constitute more than half of the present world's population, deity is exclusively male. Female deities have disappeared entirely.
Perhaps, this is related, to some extent, to the unequal status of women in comparison with men in today's society.
Here are some verses from the Bible to illustrate this unequal status:
Leviticus 12:2
“If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days.”
Leviticus 12:5
“But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks.”
Judges 19:16-30
Some men in the city wanted to "know" a visiting Levite. The owner of the house offered his virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine so that the men could rape them. Verse 24 states: "Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing." The man sent his own concubine outside to the gang, who proceeded to serially rape her. She died of the attacks. The man only learned of her death when he was leaving the house in the morning and stumbled across her body. The woman was clearly considered expendable and of little value.
Ephesians 5:22-24
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."
These are just a few verses showing the unequal status of women in comparison to men in the Bible.
The Quran of Islam has a similar message:
Quran 4:34
“Men are superior to women and have authority over them, while women must obey men or risk being beaten.”
Apologists may offer some roundabout explanations in an attempt to refute what is stated above showing the unequal status of women in the Abrahamic religions.
Earth, Sun and Rain were key figures in the process of survival and were probably the initial sources of worship by human beings. Perhaps with the exception of the Sun, these were viewed with female attributes – the great mother who gives and sustains life.
It is an established fact that in addition to male deities or gods, female deities or goddesses were common in the religions of early civilization.
Here are a few examples:
Roman
Gods – Jupiter, Neptune
Goddesses- Venus, Minerva
Greek
Gods – Zeus, Poseidon
Goddesses – Hera, Gaia
Egyptian
Gods – Osiris, Horus
Goddesses – Isis, Bastet
Nordic
Gods – Odin, Thor,
Goddesses – Frigg, Freyja
Also, it appears that there is a renewed interest in Goddess worship in the western world at present.
Although it is a fact that most early religions had both male and female deities, that is, gods and goddesses, it is most noticeable that in the Abrahamic religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which constitute more than half of the present world's population, deity is exclusively male. Female deities have disappeared entirely.
Perhaps, this is related, to some extent, to the unequal status of women in comparison with men in today's society.
Here are some verses from the Bible to illustrate this unequal status:
Leviticus 12:2
“If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days.”
Leviticus 12:5
“But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks.”
Judges 19:16-30
Some men in the city wanted to "know" a visiting Levite. The owner of the house offered his virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine so that the men could rape them. Verse 24 states: "Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing." The man sent his own concubine outside to the gang, who proceeded to serially rape her. She died of the attacks. The man only learned of her death when he was leaving the house in the morning and stumbled across her body. The woman was clearly considered expendable and of little value.
Ephesians 5:22-24
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."
These are just a few verses showing the unequal status of women in comparison to men in the Bible.
The Quran of Islam has a similar message:
Quran 4:34
“Men are superior to women and have authority over them, while women must obey men or risk being beaten.”
Apologists may offer some roundabout explanations in an attempt to refute what is stated above showing the unequal status of women in the Abrahamic religions.
Christmas 2015
First time I came to America
so many questions in my mind
I honestly feel awe and wonder
to see the skyscraper ...very spectaculer
Times passed...
Sometimes I feel good
sometimes i feel down
Especially during this Christmas season
My memory playing around my mind
In my beautiful home town
Christmas came so wonderful
Far away from the materialistic
Far away from the commercial things
Christmas was so pure
Chrismas was so holy
The time to reflect ourselves
I miss my home town
Place I would light the candles in front of our home
What a joyous feeling
We did not know what is stress
We have nothing to worry about
Only laughter and laughter
only hapiness and happiness
In this very huge and famous country
I think I know the meaning of Christmas
After a long journey
I still know...that We should worship the Lord
with our pure heart and our pure intention
He is still the same God ..that I worship long time ago in my sweet little town Bitung North Sulawesi.Indonesia
I hope CHrist can live foverer in my heart
I still have faith and always be a servant to the Lord
Granton.WI...
so many questions in my mind
I honestly feel awe and wonder
to see the skyscraper ...very spectaculer
Times passed...
Sometimes I feel good
sometimes i feel down
Especially during this Christmas season
My memory playing around my mind
In my beautiful home town
Christmas came so wonderful
Far away from the materialistic
Far away from the commercial things
Christmas was so pure
Chrismas was so holy
The time to reflect ourselves
I miss my home town
Place I would light the candles in front of our home
What a joyous feeling
We did not know what is stress
We have nothing to worry about
Only laughter and laughter
only hapiness and happiness
In this very huge and famous country
I think I know the meaning of Christmas
After a long journey
I still know...that We should worship the Lord
with our pure heart and our pure intention
He is still the same God ..that I worship long time ago in my sweet little town Bitung North Sulawesi.Indonesia
I hope CHrist can live foverer in my heart
I still have faith and always be a servant to the Lord
Granton.WI...
~~ what love is ? ~~
"Love needs no reference – that's the beauty of love and the freedom of love. Hate is a bondage. Hate is imprisonment – imposed by you upon yourself. And hate creates hate, hate provokes hate. If you hate somebody you are creating hate in that person's heart for yourself. And the whole world exists in hate, in destructiveness, in violence, in jealousy, in competitiveness. People are at each other's throats either in reality, actuality, in action, or at least in their minds; in their thoughts, everybody is murdering, killing. That's why we have created a hell out of this beautiful earth – which could have become a paradise.
"Love, and the earth becomes a paradise again. And the immense beauty of love is that it has no reference. Love comes from you for no reason at all. It is your outpouring bliss, it is your sharing of your heart. It is the sharing of the song of your being. And sharing is so joyful – hence one shares. Sharing for sharing's sake, for no other motive.
"But the love you have known in the past is not the love Buddha is talking about or I am talking about. Your love is nothing but the other side of hate. Hence, your love has reference: somebody has been beautiful to you yesterday, he was so nice that you feel great love for him. This is not love; this is the other side of hate – the reference proves it. Or somebody is going to be nice to you tomorrow: the way he smiled at you, the way he talked to you, the way he invited you to his house tomorrow – he is going to be loving to you. And great love arises.
"This is not the love buddhas talk about. This is hate disguised as love – that's why your love can turn into hate any moment. Scratch a person just a little bit, and the love disappears and hate arises. It is not even skin-deep. Even so-called great lovers are continuously fighting, continuously at each other's throats – nagging, destructive. And people think this is love…
"Your love is not really love: it is its very opposite. It is hate disguised as love, camouflaged as love, parading as love. True love has no reference. It thinks not of the yesterdays, it thinks not of the tomorrows. True love is a spontaneous welling up of joy in you, and the sharing of it, and the showering of it – for no other reason, for no other motive, than just the joy of sharing it."
"Love, and the earth becomes a paradise again. And the immense beauty of love is that it has no reference. Love comes from you for no reason at all. It is your outpouring bliss, it is your sharing of your heart. It is the sharing of the song of your being. And sharing is so joyful – hence one shares. Sharing for sharing's sake, for no other motive.
"But the love you have known in the past is not the love Buddha is talking about or I am talking about. Your love is nothing but the other side of hate. Hence, your love has reference: somebody has been beautiful to you yesterday, he was so nice that you feel great love for him. This is not love; this is the other side of hate – the reference proves it. Or somebody is going to be nice to you tomorrow: the way he smiled at you, the way he talked to you, the way he invited you to his house tomorrow – he is going to be loving to you. And great love arises.
"This is not the love buddhas talk about. This is hate disguised as love – that's why your love can turn into hate any moment. Scratch a person just a little bit, and the love disappears and hate arises. It is not even skin-deep. Even so-called great lovers are continuously fighting, continuously at each other's throats – nagging, destructive. And people think this is love…
"Your love is not really love: it is its very opposite. It is hate disguised as love, camouflaged as love, parading as love. True love has no reference. It thinks not of the yesterdays, it thinks not of the tomorrows. True love is a spontaneous welling up of joy in you, and the sharing of it, and the showering of it – for no other reason, for no other motive, than just the joy of sharing it."
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the snow
I visited my old self today. Looked at the window as every time the first powdered snow falls on the ready and anxious ground. What a marvelous sight, soothing and calming.
What a beauty. A reminder of the blessings man is endowed, the changing cycles of season.
And so I dream, that after all, it is not a bad life. It is in fact a glorious life, and I wish for all, peace, love and happiness.
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What a beauty. A reminder of the blessings man is endowed, the changing cycles of season.
And so I dream, that after all, it is not a bad life. It is in fact a glorious life, and I wish for all, peace, love and happiness.
Thanks all for your read.
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Beautiful Creation.
When God created man and man asked him, you come with me to the ground. Then God said, I can not be with you but send my form with you on the earth Then God created woman.
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