2 posts tagged “confusion”
Of what value is belief? This conversation began with a simple question about the form life takes throughout the universe. An interesting question…a curiosity to satisfy…but we must first come to know who we are, from experience, NOT from belief or from the teachings of others. Only then we can really know the answers to such questions. You should not believe me or anyone else. You must discover the knowledge that lives inside of you…
Tryphania
I was just curious…and wanted to know what your thoughts are on the possibility of life existing in other parts of our universe? Do you think we are alone?
There is NOWHERE that Life is Not. For God is Everywhere and Everything.
However, the Human experience is the highest experience that God has of Himself in existence. Perhaps that is duplicated in other places; on other planets…some say it is not, others say it is…I am not certain. But human consciousnesses can experience themselves as one with All which is one with God, and can create with the Almighty many things beyond the grasp of the ordinary human.
So, humans are the highest experience that god has of himself… and if you look at reincarnation… then, were we ever in existence of a different form other than human? I’ve always wondered how that works…
Perhaps, I have read in some places that some have been angels who decided to go human. I have read that some go through the experience of being rock, plant, and/or animal then go through the experience of being human.
In other words, what level are animals? I’ve had it explained to me before that animals and humans don’t go together in reincarnation… rather that animals evolve to a higher existence, but they do not ever reincarnate into a human form. I have not yet put my views on reincarnation into a complete belief pattern… simply because just when I think I understand it, I suddenly learn something new… and so my views are always evolving and changing and growing.
I explain much of this in my blog Evolution of a Soul. However, we are getting into pretty abstract territory here. The first problem is there are no words to fully describe an experience that is outside of the physical experience. Our words can only accurately describe that which we can experience in the physical world. Yes there are some words to describe those things beyond the physical, but how is it any person can really understand them if they don’t remember an experience that is beyond the physical?
Belief is Not Knowing
The second problem is with beliefs. Belief is NOT KNOWING. So of what value is a belief? It could be of value in the sense of it taking you to the state of knowing by giving you a guiding point to follow. But beyond that, belief is a limitation where most people get stuck. People decided to believe some philosophy and then search no further for truth, knowledge nor experience. This is the trap that too many religious people find themselves in. They get angry if you challenge their beliefs; their anger exposes the level which they are stuck within their beliefs. So one must be careful with beliefs and always remember that they really don’t know. If a person gets angry when you challenge their beliefs, they don’t know, they don’t want to know, they just want to be peaceful within their beliefs.
I have read that there are times that a human will incarnate as an animal to fulfill a desire that can more easily be fulfilled as an animal. One example was given of someone who was so in love with eating that they came back as a pig since a pig has a far greater capacity to eat than a human; after fulfilling such a desire that one then continues incarnations as a human.
I have also read that once a spark of God passes through the “Idea of Man”, once they become human for the first time then that soul must pass all the way through the many experiences and incarnations necessary to come to full and total realization of themselves once again as the spark of God they are.
I’ve also heard before that as far as reincarnation goes, humans evolve here on earth as far as they can, lifetime after lifetime, but then, once they have moved beyond what they can experience here, then they move onto other planets…where there are other life forms that live in a higher dimensional existence. Or, they stay here, and choose to help other humans on earth with their life experiences. There are whole groups of individuals who have formed religion-like congregations, based from these beliefs.
There is so much out there as far as information goes… and it’s as if the possibilities are endless! It’s also easy to become confused.
I too have read many different accounts of how things are beyond our physical incarnations. There are many versions and ideas, they are a lot of fun to explore since they cause us to expand our thinking and our view of this very small experience of life we call physical reality.
I must say in these regards I do NOT KNOW. What I do KNOW is that we exist, that we are eternal beings, that there is much more than this physical existence or single incarnation. I have had enough experience outside of my body and merged with God that I remember and know this is true, but I have not had enough experience and remembrances to validate these other fascinating things I have read.
I do trust the many sources I have read, their wisdom is so very profound and their achievements are way beyond my own, and they brought me to advance as far as I have advanced thus far and this is why I trust them and follow their lead…so for me it is a belief, a not knowing, it is something I am seeking to verify for myself.
I haven’t yet decided on what I believe, simply because there is so much out there that cannot be proven…and so then it comes down to picking and choosing what I believe…and how much faith I have.
I want to know as much as I could possibly know…and understand as much as I could possibly understand before I let myself start having too much faith in one idea.
Maybe it’s not about what is the truth…maybe it’s simply what kind of truth I want to choose?
I believe truth can be known, but there again you see I too am using the word believe. It has been my experience that I continue to discover more truths about life through experience. I also believe that to know ultimate truths, one will not be in body when one comes to know them. This physical body is too limited of a structure to hold the total truth of the unlimited within it.
For now it is enough to know that the people who go around telling us our life is limited to a single incarnation and we had better follow the one and only son of God, or the one and only master who ever existed, or the one and only true religion…it is enough to know these people do not know what they are talking about and are simply involved in a fantasy.
Go with the practical. Improve your life and your awareness each and every day. Look for evidence and proof that it is improving. Improve upon your personality. Learn how to gather energy and what it is that depletes you of energy. Learn to have your own experience of the Unlimited within yourself. These are the kinds of things I teach in my blogs and in my book. These things will hold you in good standing within yourself and enable you to be strong under any circumstance life presents to you. This will give you the greatest chance of KNOWING the truth of these things you are asking me about.
Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
image credits to sharaff
Do you think there is an evil force directing people? Or is all the evilness and wrongdoing in the world only a direct result of past life karma?
Yes and no…it depends upon your perspective. From the perspective of our individual ego selves, certainly there is an evil force at work. A force with more power than the individuals it preys upon. It is a grouping of dark beings who work together. This evil force is also due to individuals that work in conjunction with an existing system that has flaws in it that are easily exploited by those with evil intentions and some financial or influential power (such as parents, spouses, teachers, religious leaders, police and government to name a few).
But there is another level, another perspective that you can operate from. It is from this perspective that the answer is no, there is no evil at all. This is the perspective of God, of the All That Is. This is the perspective of the Source of all energy and all systems in existence; this is the Source of balance that allows manifest creation to exist.
All of us have participated in evil thoughts and deeds at some point in our eternal life. I know many people find this hard to believe since they are so good and nice in this lifetime, and some people don’t believe in reincarnation. Those folk will probably have a difficult time understanding this lesson. But I would also say that those folk do not understand life, because belief is not knowing. Just because you believe something it does not make it true, it only creates a reality that seems true. I will also state that I do know; I do NOT believe, I KNOW! However, you cannot take my knowing and just arbitrarily switch to believing what I am telling you. You yourself must become a seeker of truth and keep seeking until you experience a greater part of your own self and who you really are such that you KNOW these things too.
So once again I state that all of us have participated in evil thoughts and deeds at some point in our eternal life. When you consider the All That Is, a balance must occur. The evil we experience is that evil that We collectively created and the fact that we are experiencing it and aware of it is due to Law of Attraction and its connection to our individual creations of evil elementals. Elementals are the thought forms we created in our past. They are attached to us but do go out into manifest creation and then return to us with more power. When they return to us we are confused because they carry the energy of others with them and do not seem to be of our own making but they must be if we attract them. We must intentionally and with much effort focus our minds in a new way when those evil elementals return to us in order to deactivate them and rob them of their power. In so doing we create positive, loving, and life giving elementals as we focus our minds in this new way.
As we reprogram our minds, deactivate evil elementals and create positive elementals we make progress and we learn. We come to understand the true nature of reality and how our thoughts create it, and eventually we master our energies. Once we master our energies we have access to much more power; in this state of mastery we are in tune with the will of God and we are essentially a body and ego with the fullness of God moving through it. We still experience ourselves in a separate way, but at the same time we experience the fullness of God’s energy too. This power cannot be touched by that which we consider as evil. This is the ascended state of man.
In my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story I take the reader through the most common experiences we all face in life. Specifically I reveal what I was thinking, the good and the bad, and the real life results I got. The relationship between my thoughts and the results I got are undeniable and the number of examples given are many. I expose myself in this way so that the reader can relate these lessons I am teaching to their own thoughts and outcomes and have a real chance of making real change in the direction the reader wishes their life to go.
Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
