When is violence perfectly acceptable behavior? I rail against violence and how horrible is the person who beats a child or any other who can not defend themselves. I scream about how wrong it is for an elder person to be beaten and harmed. I rail against a child who is harmed by any other.
Yet I turn my eyes away from and I even condone others who do this same as I abhor. I praise and support and even feel pride for ones that I know have exactly exacted this type of violence against humanity and say.... we are justified. Are we justified when the child spills a glass of milk? Are we justified when the elder stumbles breaking a dish? Are we justified if a woman does not have a perfect meal on a table at the perfect time? Are we ever really justified?
Is not a life being ended by another person murder? When is murder not murder. We, I believe, are very confused.
This picture was taken well after the actual murders when we dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and taken from http://www.pickchur.com/2011/02/hiroshima-64-years-after-the-atomic-bomb-was-dropped/
These are the questions that I ask myself then turn away, adjust the temperature on my thermostat then pour another coffee to go about my day as if these things are not as real as the bruises that I see upon my neighbors body after her husband's anger.
Between the Cracks-Life
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Saturday, October 5, 2013
We are the Butterfly
The Butterfly effect, theory of Chaos was given to us by Mr. Edward Lorenz (may he Rest in Peace) in the 1960's in order to attempt to explain how weather might change. He accidentally (if there is any such a thing) gave us an understanding much deeper than the weather.
This Story goes as this : A Butterfly in China flaps its wings and the resulting tiny change in the air accumulates with other factors which eventually becomes a hurricane in the United States. This is Chaos theory in a nutshell, one action (regardless of its size) is important because each action is received by another which eventually manifests into something bigger and unseen by the originator.
I am not a mathematician, just a simple philosopher so can not even begin to show you the equations which went into Mr. Lorenz's proof, however all the proof I need is everywhere around me.
The simple understanding would be that we are wanting to make a meal but in order to do so we need to have heat to cook with, we need the correct type of groceries, we need transportation to the store or a healthy body to grow the food then process it ourselves, much goes into making a meal. Chaos theory basically says that it all began somewhere and the cumulative tiny somethings became our evening meal. If even one of the tiniest things changes so does the result. For instance not enough versus perfect conditions of rain or nutrients which changes the flavor of the vegetables which are used to create the meal. It is each variable in its development which contributes to the end product, it is considered chaos simply because everything is depended on something else which if looked at would resemble a chaotic mix which has variable results. The mathematical proof, however, shows that with the exact same variables the exact same result will happen but it must be exact. This world is not made to be exact, it is made to be diverse, wonderful, colorful, and delightfully surprising.
We do not, often, enjoy being fully responsible for the events in our lives but we are. This understanding shows us clearly that there is a cause and effect for simply everything that happens in our lives. It also helps us understand that by changing just one tiny, little thing, we can change the entire outcome of an event. We are in complete control at all times of our lives to decide how to react to the current flutter of the 'butterflies wing'.
I am thinking of some of the worst possible moments of my life and how was I responsible for those? Well, I was not responsible for that persons decision or reaction to whatever happened which created the event that collided with my own life. I am, however, in complete control of what I choose to do now that it has happened. When that butterfly flapped its wings starting a chain of events which eventually collided with my life, I then could decide what to do with its result. I can choose to allow it to define my future or I can use it to catapult me toward wonderful dreams rather than a nightmare life.
Every day, we flap our wings which sets into motion a chain of events. Even if we choose to never rise from our beds a chain of events has begun which will collimate until a result eventually transpires. Along the way toward the result, however, are numerous points in which we can change the direction into another possible event. We can choose to smile at a stranger walking down the street and never know that the other person was on their way to commit suicide because he/she had lost all hope in humanity. Perhaps that smile was just the flap of your wing that caused the other to decide not to go home and beat his/her child out of frustration with the world.
We will rarely know how our action or lack of reaction affected the whole but be assured that everything you/I do is a link the the chain which creates our lives.
This Story goes as this : A Butterfly in China flaps its wings and the resulting tiny change in the air accumulates with other factors which eventually becomes a hurricane in the United States. This is Chaos theory in a nutshell, one action (regardless of its size) is important because each action is received by another which eventually manifests into something bigger and unseen by the originator.
The simple understanding would be that we are wanting to make a meal but in order to do so we need to have heat to cook with, we need the correct type of groceries, we need transportation to the store or a healthy body to grow the food then process it ourselves, much goes into making a meal. Chaos theory basically says that it all began somewhere and the cumulative tiny somethings became our evening meal. If even one of the tiniest things changes so does the result. For instance not enough versus perfect conditions of rain or nutrients which changes the flavor of the vegetables which are used to create the meal. It is each variable in its development which contributes to the end product, it is considered chaos simply because everything is depended on something else which if looked at would resemble a chaotic mix which has variable results. The mathematical proof, however, shows that with the exact same variables the exact same result will happen but it must be exact. This world is not made to be exact, it is made to be diverse, wonderful, colorful, and delightfully surprising.
I am thinking of some of the worst possible moments of my life and how was I responsible for those? Well, I was not responsible for that persons decision or reaction to whatever happened which created the event that collided with my own life. I am, however, in complete control of what I choose to do now that it has happened. When that butterfly flapped its wings starting a chain of events which eventually collided with my life, I then could decide what to do with its result. I can choose to allow it to define my future or I can use it to catapult me toward wonderful dreams rather than a nightmare life.
Every day, we flap our wings which sets into motion a chain of events. Even if we choose to never rise from our beds a chain of events has begun which will collimate until a result eventually transpires. Along the way toward the result, however, are numerous points in which we can change the direction into another possible event. We can choose to smile at a stranger walking down the street and never know that the other person was on their way to commit suicide because he/she had lost all hope in humanity. Perhaps that smile was just the flap of your wing that caused the other to decide not to go home and beat his/her child out of frustration with the world.
We will rarely know how our action or lack of reaction affected the whole but be assured that everything you/I do is a link the the chain which creates our lives.
We are the Butterfly
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Mistakes and Conditioning
Today we are thinking about how many mistakes are made by our lack of understanding or sometimes just a plain good ole mistake.
When I made a mistake by taking that job where the Boss was just a major pain in the butt, far more demanding than I was willing to give, what did I do? I found another job. Mistake over. When I made a mistake by having the heat too high while trying to fry an egg, what did I do? I threw out the crispy mess, washed the pan, turned down the heat and fried a new egg.
When my Parents made mistakes by imparting into my mind things which just are not true, what did I do? I took these mistakes as something that I had to live with. When the scientists said that our DNA was everything and no matter what we desired, the DNA we were born with would determine our fate, what did you do? You accepted this as truth even though we now know it was a mistake.
The big question is why am I not treating others making mistakes with their interaction with me the same as when I, myself, make a mistake?
Those others who made mistakes with me most probably just tried to give me wisdom from their own experience or what they thought was right. This does not mean that it still holds as a truth today or that it even applies directly to me. Perhaps it is time to stop being angry about the mistakes made with me and just go about my life accepting the wisdom of my own truth of myself at this moment. Perhaps it is time to wash that pan and throw that crispy mess out.
Instead of accepting that they did something to me, I am thinking they just made a mistake. This mistake is one that I can either continue living with or let it go.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Change
We believe or have come to understand that when a person says..... "I will accept this no longer" it does not mean the same as "I love you no longer".
Even when we begin loving ourselves enough to no longer accept a certain treatment from another, the love is still present. Love never goes away but sometimes it expands to include ourselves also.
It is in this expansion to ourselves that love can find its full expression and if that includes those that we love traveling our journey with us then it is magical. If, however, love has found expression within self and does not include the others continuing along our journey, it has not failed.
Love never fails.
Even when we begin loving ourselves enough to no longer accept a certain treatment from another, the love is still present. Love never goes away but sometimes it expands to include ourselves also.
It is in this expansion to ourselves that love can find its full expression and if that includes those that we love traveling our journey with us then it is magical. If, however, love has found expression within self and does not include the others continuing along our journey, it has not failed.
Love never fails.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
The New Rug 08/27/2013
Today we wrote our beliefs (or the beginning of them) for the first time. It was quite scary and we questioned our very sanity. We know that the life we live is very real, tangent, can taste it, touch it, feel it and live it but it seems so incredible that still we want to question it. It is so far outside of what we are taught is normal that... well we can only hope our children learn to accept gifts out of thin air better than I do because they always amaze and surprise me.
As we wrote earlier, We are (as a species) learning to accept that "Thoughts are Things". Well, this could possibly be some type of psychosis or a part of mental illness OR it could be real with the shift humanity is going through. We laid down for a nap trying to calm our mind about the validity of our life findings but more so sharing them with the world. We as a species are so new to this evolution that those believing in this way are seen as completely insane.
When we finish our book, "Life Between the Cracks - a New Dawn" there will be a lot of people questioning our sanity even though we know (my Partner living it with me for the past almost 16 years) that every word is true with much of it also being witnessed by her. But we took a nap, exhausted from the fear of how that blog would be received and the writing of it reinforced our lack of internal strength at completing and publishing that book.
As I sat on the stoop watching the dog play this evening, our neighbors Son came over with a rug thrown over his shoulder saying, "Mom got this for you and cleaned it for you today". Then he brought it in, waited patiently as I picked up the former rug (which did not completely cover the hard wood floor), swept under it then helped me lay the new rug. As incredible as having a rug of this quality delivered to your door as a gift the rest of the story makes it understandable. For the past week, I have been wanting to polyurethane that floor because it is so dull and just can't seem to find the time or money to do it (refinishing a floor is messy). The only message I can find here is the Divine saying, "There problem solved... now write your book".
What a magical world we all live in.
As we wrote earlier, We are (as a species) learning to accept that "Thoughts are Things". Well, this could possibly be some type of psychosis or a part of mental illness OR it could be real with the shift humanity is going through. We laid down for a nap trying to calm our mind about the validity of our life findings but more so sharing them with the world. We as a species are so new to this evolution that those believing in this way are seen as completely insane.
When we finish our book, "Life Between the Cracks - a New Dawn" there will be a lot of people questioning our sanity even though we know (my Partner living it with me for the past almost 16 years) that every word is true with much of it also being witnessed by her. But we took a nap, exhausted from the fear of how that blog would be received and the writing of it reinforced our lack of internal strength at completing and publishing that book.
As I sat on the stoop watching the dog play this evening, our neighbors Son came over with a rug thrown over his shoulder saying, "Mom got this for you and cleaned it for you today". Then he brought it in, waited patiently as I picked up the former rug (which did not completely cover the hard wood floor), swept under it then helped me lay the new rug. As incredible as having a rug of this quality delivered to your door as a gift the rest of the story makes it understandable. For the past week, I have been wanting to polyurethane that floor because it is so dull and just can't seem to find the time or money to do it (refinishing a floor is messy). The only message I can find here is the Divine saying, "There problem solved... now write your book".
What a magical world we all live in.
Human Evolution as seen through our Eyes
This blog is difficult to write because it is going to have views in it that are controversial. We identify as Christian in faith, you may now choose to continue reading or discontinue. Why do we identify as Christian? Firstly we pay no mind to the fact that the book called the Bible was plagiarized from other works. Why? Those works were plagiarized from other works which were plagiarized from the Universal Consciousness itself. Each tells the same stories in different words, some can accept the wording of one book but not another so the same story has been rewritten over and over hoping that one of the versions will get through our closed minds to germinate.
We try to live our lives based on the story of the Christ and only give any measure of acceptance to what we call the "red words" within the book called the Bible. We do not believe this is a holy book, it is simply a guide as are the other books with the same teachings. Unless you want to define the word Holy as being something from the Divine to ourselves, inspired and pure in which case you, my friend are also Holy. The "red words" are as close as we can come to what the message of The Christ is. The other books of the Bible are either history or another version of what they believed The Christ meant. In many cases an attempt to bring about the Christ Consciousness much more quickly than evolution will accommodate were attempted but by doing this much of the message was lost in that current mind set. So to each the "red words" will be slightly different depending on what we are lacking within ourselves. We believe that The Christ consciousness lives within every person (or individual spark of the Divine) upon this planet today. Some are allowing it to grow within and others are rebelling against it but it does not matter because it is still there.
What does this have to do with human evolution? Everything.
In my short lifetime there have been more changes, more quickly than in any other recorded history. It is not only the material world which has changed drastically. Our way of perceiving the world has also changed. We, as a species, are becoming more aware of various cultures and much more sensitive to each other. This creates a "rewiring" of sorts with in the brain allowing us to see what we could not see before. Imagine being the Christ and knowing what he knew with no mentor? We are much in the same boat currently and trying to find our way, as a species through these beginning stages.
To try to understand what is going on, the world has labeled the dis-order with many names trying to organize it in a comprehensible way. We call Mental Illness a Dis-Order which means out of order. To the world we are out of order. The mentally ill question the validity of what the orderly accept without question.
We believe that those labeled mentally ill are only the first stages of the expansion of the mind. Of course, it will be difficult. The first attempt at making an automobile did not go smoothly and this rewiring is no different. Why do we believe this? It appears to be World Wide and to have come on strong with no warning or preparation for it, quite naturally. Is this not what evolution does? Some re-wiring has been less than desirable as in the case of the "criminally insane". Has this not happened through out our history? Species come and go with those most desirable being kept while the others culled?
Let me back up for a moment. There has been a lot of warning for us but we just have not paid attention to it or we did not believe it applied to US. Over the ages many books have talked about this moment in time, including the Bible. We just always thought it was off in the future somewhere or a fairy tale or anything except the possibility that it is here now and we are living it. It is here my friends and like it or not, we are living it.
The "Mentally Ill" have many exaggerated traits currently. We see this across all spectrums of the various labels given to those who's minds have spontaneously re-wired themselves. This is natural, it it were not they would be able to cure us. We can not be cured because we are not ill, we are only the next step of evolution. One of the traits of the "Mentally Ill" or those who are the first wave of this new humanity are that we are loving, kind, generous people who worry about the affect we have upon others.
Why is this not a spontaneous evolution or downloading or rewiring of the human race? It is because the mentors have not had the opportunity to help others going through this re-wiring thus preventing any more chaos than is absolutely necessary. Imagine if everyone were able to just spontaneously understand that truly what we think we receive? This is a truth but with this power also comes responsibility which for the very young (think in terms of giving this power to a child) can have disastrous consequences.
Here a tiny example (we have been given the gift of seeing between the cracks, a compartmentalized brain sees things in a different way than most). We fostered a little 3 year old boy this past winter. We did not tell him that he could not create what he wished. We also did not tell him that he could. We (my Partner and I) do not believe what happened to our dog pen or guttering was an accident. He had watched the story of the 3 little pigs on television and took great delight in repeating... "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down". A few days later (he had been repeating this phrase several times each day and laugh because it was funny to him) a huge storm came up with wind unlike even what had been experienced while receiving the inflow of a hurricane earlier in the year. During that event the dog pen stood tall and stable. I was not frightened because I had asked (silently) that we be protected while this child learned the lesson which is all that is needed. This event however, with the little boy saying "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down" resulted in the roof of the pen being torn completely off and the pen laying on its side in the flower bed. He was very frightened and we told him that it would be better if he did not say that again. He, however, was quite excited that this had happened and he (without our saying so) believed that he made that happen. He continued saying his phrase, "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down" and a few days later another storm came through which removed the upper rails of our guttering around the house. The next morning we took him out and again, asked him to stop saying that. It seemed to satisfy him and he discontinued saying that and nothing else has happened to the house sense. None of the other houses in the area had been affected by the winds as our home had. We also wonder about our bed bug episode because he was very fond of saying, "Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs Bite". Sigh.....
So what is currently being considered "Mental Illness" is simply human evolution in its infancy stages and the modern world attempting to understand. What created the re-wiring? It is impossible to say, perhaps early inoculations/vaccines, perhaps some way our food was altered, perhaps just simply that the human race is in this stage of evolution. It could be anything really but that is unimportant. What is important is that those who are considered "Mentally Ill" speak our truth because we are the uninitiated mentors for all who will come after us. We are already seeing many of the positive effects through our questioning old parenting methods, holistic medicine, and most important of all, how a little Love can heal ourselves and the entire planet.
We only have a limited amount of time to bring Love, consideration and self responsibility to the front as the number one thought which should dictate virtually every action we initiate because truly, What we think, We create.
Speak up even if the World is not ready to hear what you have to say. It is important.
We try to live our lives based on the story of the Christ and only give any measure of acceptance to what we call the "red words" within the book called the Bible. We do not believe this is a holy book, it is simply a guide as are the other books with the same teachings. Unless you want to define the word Holy as being something from the Divine to ourselves, inspired and pure in which case you, my friend are also Holy. The "red words" are as close as we can come to what the message of The Christ is. The other books of the Bible are either history or another version of what they believed The Christ meant. In many cases an attempt to bring about the Christ Consciousness much more quickly than evolution will accommodate were attempted but by doing this much of the message was lost in that current mind set. So to each the "red words" will be slightly different depending on what we are lacking within ourselves. We believe that The Christ consciousness lives within every person (or individual spark of the Divine) upon this planet today. Some are allowing it to grow within and others are rebelling against it but it does not matter because it is still there.
What does this have to do with human evolution? Everything.
In my short lifetime there have been more changes, more quickly than in any other recorded history. It is not only the material world which has changed drastically. Our way of perceiving the world has also changed. We, as a species, are becoming more aware of various cultures and much more sensitive to each other. This creates a "rewiring" of sorts with in the brain allowing us to see what we could not see before. Imagine being the Christ and knowing what he knew with no mentor? We are much in the same boat currently and trying to find our way, as a species through these beginning stages.
To try to understand what is going on, the world has labeled the dis-order with many names trying to organize it in a comprehensible way. We call Mental Illness a Dis-Order which means out of order. To the world we are out of order. The mentally ill question the validity of what the orderly accept without question.
We believe that those labeled mentally ill are only the first stages of the expansion of the mind. Of course, it will be difficult. The first attempt at making an automobile did not go smoothly and this rewiring is no different. Why do we believe this? It appears to be World Wide and to have come on strong with no warning or preparation for it, quite naturally. Is this not what evolution does? Some re-wiring has been less than desirable as in the case of the "criminally insane". Has this not happened through out our history? Species come and go with those most desirable being kept while the others culled?
Let me back up for a moment. There has been a lot of warning for us but we just have not paid attention to it or we did not believe it applied to US. Over the ages many books have talked about this moment in time, including the Bible. We just always thought it was off in the future somewhere or a fairy tale or anything except the possibility that it is here now and we are living it. It is here my friends and like it or not, we are living it.
The "Mentally Ill" have many exaggerated traits currently. We see this across all spectrums of the various labels given to those who's minds have spontaneously re-wired themselves. This is natural, it it were not they would be able to cure us. We can not be cured because we are not ill, we are only the next step of evolution. One of the traits of the "Mentally Ill" or those who are the first wave of this new humanity are that we are loving, kind, generous people who worry about the affect we have upon others.
Why is this not a spontaneous evolution or downloading or rewiring of the human race? It is because the mentors have not had the opportunity to help others going through this re-wiring thus preventing any more chaos than is absolutely necessary. Imagine if everyone were able to just spontaneously understand that truly what we think we receive? This is a truth but with this power also comes responsibility which for the very young (think in terms of giving this power to a child) can have disastrous consequences.
Here a tiny example (we have been given the gift of seeing between the cracks, a compartmentalized brain sees things in a different way than most). We fostered a little 3 year old boy this past winter. We did not tell him that he could not create what he wished. We also did not tell him that he could. We (my Partner and I) do not believe what happened to our dog pen or guttering was an accident. He had watched the story of the 3 little pigs on television and took great delight in repeating... "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down". A few days later (he had been repeating this phrase several times each day and laugh because it was funny to him) a huge storm came up with wind unlike even what had been experienced while receiving the inflow of a hurricane earlier in the year. During that event the dog pen stood tall and stable. I was not frightened because I had asked (silently) that we be protected while this child learned the lesson which is all that is needed. This event however, with the little boy saying "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down" resulted in the roof of the pen being torn completely off and the pen laying on its side in the flower bed. He was very frightened and we told him that it would be better if he did not say that again. He, however, was quite excited that this had happened and he (without our saying so) believed that he made that happen. He continued saying his phrase, "I'll huff and puff and blow your house down" and a few days later another storm came through which removed the upper rails of our guttering around the house. The next morning we took him out and again, asked him to stop saying that. It seemed to satisfy him and he discontinued saying that and nothing else has happened to the house sense. None of the other houses in the area had been affected by the winds as our home had. We also wonder about our bed bug episode because he was very fond of saying, "Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs Bite". Sigh.....
So what is currently being considered "Mental Illness" is simply human evolution in its infancy stages and the modern world attempting to understand. What created the re-wiring? It is impossible to say, perhaps early inoculations/vaccines, perhaps some way our food was altered, perhaps just simply that the human race is in this stage of evolution. It could be anything really but that is unimportant. What is important is that those who are considered "Mentally Ill" speak our truth because we are the uninitiated mentors for all who will come after us. We are already seeing many of the positive effects through our questioning old parenting methods, holistic medicine, and most important of all, how a little Love can heal ourselves and the entire planet.
We only have a limited amount of time to bring Love, consideration and self responsibility to the front as the number one thought which should dictate virtually every action we initiate because truly, What we think, We create.
Speak up even if the World is not ready to hear what you have to say. It is important.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Rainbow Bridge Poem
| Just this
side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been
especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are
meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play
together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm
and comfortable. |
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| All the
animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who
were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them
in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content,
except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who
had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but
the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright
eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the
group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and
faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... Author unknown... |
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