Today is obviously not a day for writing, since my daughter asked me to write an article about a definition of 'mental age' .. but I can't get into it .. for the child in me wants to chill out and play silly games instead. LOL But I'll give you a brief description, and let you take it from there ...
How does one define the mental age of a person? Defining the physical age is easy enough, most people measure it year by year, although I'm told the asian countries count a child as one year old when it is born, while western countries count it as one, one year after it is born.
What then is 'mental age'? Surely a person has the same mental age as their years since birth .. but no, many of them don't - just look at their behaviour, if nothing else. It all seems to come down to emotional maturity? Just how old is that person you are having that discussion with? Not how intelligent, (e.g. a gifted child of six can have a mental (coping) age of only three years, and many of the world's most brilliant scientists and great thinkers could not cope in social situations and would have temper tantrums), but how do they cope with life's challenges, and when people question their opinions or judgments? Or are you the one who might need to 'grow up' and deal with life differently? I know I have my moments. :-)
Oh dear, sometimes I can be incredibly 'childish'. It's ok to be child-like, but to call someone childish is an insult .. or a fact. So our mental age seems to be defined by our emotional maturity, but what does that mean?
Here is a good definition of emotional maturity -
http://www.michaelppowers.com/path/mature.html
And here's a bit of fun to see how 'old' you are?
http://www.mysticgames.com/mysticgames_cfmfiles/tests/showtest.cfm?TestID=24
I am quite old it seems LOL
Love & Peace
Ama
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Fundamentalist Christians
Let me be quite specific ..
I have no issue with what you as a person believe. I only make it an issue when you are rude to me, inform me I am wrong for broad reasons, and from badly translated copies of your personal Bible.
Don't tell me I am going to hell just because I argue with your interpretation of the Bible. If you want to have a discussion, be prepared to state Chapter and Verse, because I'll be checking it up, taking it back to the original languages, and questioning 'why' you think what you do. And I would expect you to do the same to me (but you don't?) So think it through!
And don't come onto a site where I am talking paranormal subjects with other people, and butt in and expect a friendly welcome. We have heard it ALL before, and most of us don't need to hear it ever again. And let me remind you, your Bible says you should not associate with people like me - so what are you doing on a site that defies the teachings of your Bible? We are not looking for missionaries. We do not need to be saved, and often, some of the people with me there do not even WANT to be saved .. by the God who hates instead of loving, who judges and torments, and finds us all wanting.
In that case I would have to question your judgment. Why love a being you fear? Isn't that what hostages come to do to their captors, and don't we see it as a mental illness, something they have to be cured of?
I am not the cure. I make no claim to knowing everything, or anything, about God, but I speak from my experiences, from the knowledge I have gained over the years through my readings in the theological field, anthropology, mythology, christianity and metaphysics.
You will not convert me to your way of thinking by throwing the Bible at me. For one, respect your books! For another, I will pick it up and throw it right back at you! And if you can't catch .. duck! LOL
And we love you .. says a quiet voice in my head. God loves you, all of you, so much. How could you possibly doubt that? Only 144,000 people are supposed to be able to go to heaven. Are we all so sinful that there are only 144,000 good people on the planet right now? Or was it the number of recognised Christians at the time the Revelation was written? What does logic say? I am frightened to think that there could be so few.
Love & Peace
Ama
I have no issue with what you as a person believe. I only make it an issue when you are rude to me, inform me I am wrong for broad reasons, and from badly translated copies of your personal Bible.
Don't tell me I am going to hell just because I argue with your interpretation of the Bible. If you want to have a discussion, be prepared to state Chapter and Verse, because I'll be checking it up, taking it back to the original languages, and questioning 'why' you think what you do. And I would expect you to do the same to me (but you don't?) So think it through!
And don't come onto a site where I am talking paranormal subjects with other people, and butt in and expect a friendly welcome. We have heard it ALL before, and most of us don't need to hear it ever again. And let me remind you, your Bible says you should not associate with people like me - so what are you doing on a site that defies the teachings of your Bible? We are not looking for missionaries. We do not need to be saved, and often, some of the people with me there do not even WANT to be saved .. by the God who hates instead of loving, who judges and torments, and finds us all wanting.
In that case I would have to question your judgment. Why love a being you fear? Isn't that what hostages come to do to their captors, and don't we see it as a mental illness, something they have to be cured of?
I am not the cure. I make no claim to knowing everything, or anything, about God, but I speak from my experiences, from the knowledge I have gained over the years through my readings in the theological field, anthropology, mythology, christianity and metaphysics.
You will not convert me to your way of thinking by throwing the Bible at me. For one, respect your books! For another, I will pick it up and throw it right back at you! And if you can't catch .. duck! LOL
And we love you .. says a quiet voice in my head. God loves you, all of you, so much. How could you possibly doubt that? Only 144,000 people are supposed to be able to go to heaven. Are we all so sinful that there are only 144,000 good people on the planet right now? Or was it the number of recognised Christians at the time the Revelation was written? What does logic say? I am frightened to think that there could be so few.
Love & Peace
Ama
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Called to Serve - Part 3
This blog is posted to answer questions from a comment by Arch on Part 2. Since Blogger would not allow me to post a comment after his, and I could not work out why!
His Question:
Is calling an internal or an external thing? Meaning do you regard it as something God asks of you, or is it something you choose to do? I guess the two are not exclusive, but I'm wondering if you have a different name for something God asks of you and something you feel compelled to do?
My answer:
Hi Arch,
The calling I feel in my heart, and 'know' in my soul, is a very internal reaction. It is based in calmness, peace and healing (though, having ego, I might not always react that way). All of us were created through the energy of love and curiosity. In other words, we appear to mirror our creator. Given the right circumstances, humans are capable of incredible Love; and when we are of a balanced mind and emotions, we become incredibly creative .. in a million different ways.
Created from love, we express love (give out the vibes/energy) when we are happy and satisfied, and the opposite when we are not. When we 'live' our calling, we share that love with the world in many forms, some more obvious than others. If you are Christian you might call it God's love; the Wiccans see the Goddess' love .. and then there is the 'wisdom' of Buddha or Confuscius, each of whom taught love in different ways. Here, then, is a very stong central theme .. Love.
A calling is something that satisfies our internal need to give love through external action. A person called to serve God might do so by praying all their waking hours. The act of praying answers an internal need, the external action might answer someone else's need to believe that people are capable of sacrificing their lives in prayer for others, or some other way, although they might also think them completely nuts. The Love the praying person is expressing through their prayers may change the foundations of the world, or a grieving person's heart .. and we might never know it, and nor might the person praying .. but change happens anyway. Remember the comment about the butterfly.
We were created with the gift of free will. We have the right to say no, and to control our own destinys, so I do not believe that God has asked me to do anything except be myself. I try to serve humanity in the capacity I was created to achieve. I know this from the peace it gives my soul. It is my choice to listen to the 'still quiet voice' that sometimes says 'write this' and sometimes says 'Ama, sit on your hands' (in other words, reconsider that paragraph or thought LOL). I follow because I want to, I am never 'compelled'.
In my opinion, a person may define God as anything they like, as long as they are at peace with their decision. My son says he is a Jedi .. that's fine with me.
May the force be with you,
Love & Peace
Ama
His Question:
Is calling an internal or an external thing? Meaning do you regard it as something God asks of you, or is it something you choose to do? I guess the two are not exclusive, but I'm wondering if you have a different name for something God asks of you and something you feel compelled to do?
My answer:
Hi Arch,
The calling I feel in my heart, and 'know' in my soul, is a very internal reaction. It is based in calmness, peace and healing (though, having ego, I might not always react that way). All of us were created through the energy of love and curiosity. In other words, we appear to mirror our creator. Given the right circumstances, humans are capable of incredible Love; and when we are of a balanced mind and emotions, we become incredibly creative .. in a million different ways.
Created from love, we express love (give out the vibes/energy) when we are happy and satisfied, and the opposite when we are not. When we 'live' our calling, we share that love with the world in many forms, some more obvious than others. If you are Christian you might call it God's love; the Wiccans see the Goddess' love .. and then there is the 'wisdom' of Buddha or Confuscius, each of whom taught love in different ways. Here, then, is a very stong central theme .. Love.
A calling is something that satisfies our internal need to give love through external action. A person called to serve God might do so by praying all their waking hours. The act of praying answers an internal need, the external action might answer someone else's need to believe that people are capable of sacrificing their lives in prayer for others, or some other way, although they might also think them completely nuts. The Love the praying person is expressing through their prayers may change the foundations of the world, or a grieving person's heart .. and we might never know it, and nor might the person praying .. but change happens anyway. Remember the comment about the butterfly.
We were created with the gift of free will. We have the right to say no, and to control our own destinys, so I do not believe that God has asked me to do anything except be myself. I try to serve humanity in the capacity I was created to achieve. I know this from the peace it gives my soul. It is my choice to listen to the 'still quiet voice' that sometimes says 'write this' and sometimes says 'Ama, sit on your hands' (in other words, reconsider that paragraph or thought LOL). I follow because I want to, I am never 'compelled'.
In my opinion, a person may define God as anything they like, as long as they are at peace with their decision. My son says he is a Jedi .. that's fine with me.
May the force be with you,
Love & Peace
Ama
Monday, July 25, 2011
Called to Serve - Part 2
Continuing on my theme of what it means to be 'called' ...
What is a calling? You could describe it as a voice in your heart that asks you to do something with total focus and dedication. It is something you feel you are born to do. The example in the online dictionary was "Samantha felt 'called' to be a doctor", or you could want to be a dentist or a car mechanic. For a Christian it can be a 'calling' to follow Christ. For an athiest it could be the exact opposite, a great desire to prove that there is no intelligent awareness in the universe? I think, sometimes, the problem with a 'calling' is the intensity in which it governs your life.
As a child I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, and yet I grew up 'knowing' I would follow God, and Christ, and help people with paranormal problems, and demonic ones. What a thing for a child of five to have to think about - particularly as it defied the teachings of the church that I went to. And then there were the thoughts and memories in my mind, of other lives, and other times, when I had done the same sort of work - and so my 'lessons' were more like memories than any formal teaching, and my teachers were angels, as well as people in the street. So the 'child' never really felt like a child, but very old, and was never sure she knew 'enough'. And yet I served, from the age of seventeen, and people, old and young, would come to me and talk and ask questions, and I generally had an answer that satisfied their need - and I bless the angels for that gift, and thank God for the angels.
To serve, or be of service, means that you must help people to find your own peace of mind. Pretending that you don't have to provides no satisfaction, nor relief. You cannot turn your back on the need to serve, anymore than you can turn your back on the desire to following your calling. People who do can become small, mean and shallow.
Following your calling means giving your heart to humanity in some cases, or to animal welfare, if that is where your calling lies. It means knowing the inside of a car upside and backwards, for a true mechanic, or being able to read the soul of a tree for those called to serve nature. It's more than an ordinary knowledge of your subject, its an indepth understanding of how the world works .. in relation to where you serve.
When you find your true purpose you 'know' it in your heart. You find a peace there that can be found in no other place, and when you do good for others, it touches the whole world .. not just the two of you .. but the love created by peace of mind ripples out into the ether, sparking other moments of enlightenment and helping others find their true hearts as well. Remember the old chinese saying 'a butterfly flapping its wings in China can cause hurricanes in the pacific' (or words to that effect), it applies here because one deed of goodness leads to another, and another .. snowballing ... and another saying, before I sign off. "It only takes a moment to make a difference."
And last of all, one of my favourites, for which we can thank Gandhi .. "be the changes you want to see in the world".
Ok .. so follow your heart and BE them.
Love & Peace
Ama
What is a calling? You could describe it as a voice in your heart that asks you to do something with total focus and dedication. It is something you feel you are born to do. The example in the online dictionary was "Samantha felt 'called' to be a doctor", or you could want to be a dentist or a car mechanic. For a Christian it can be a 'calling' to follow Christ. For an athiest it could be the exact opposite, a great desire to prove that there is no intelligent awareness in the universe? I think, sometimes, the problem with a 'calling' is the intensity in which it governs your life.
As a child I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, and yet I grew up 'knowing' I would follow God, and Christ, and help people with paranormal problems, and demonic ones. What a thing for a child of five to have to think about - particularly as it defied the teachings of the church that I went to. And then there were the thoughts and memories in my mind, of other lives, and other times, when I had done the same sort of work - and so my 'lessons' were more like memories than any formal teaching, and my teachers were angels, as well as people in the street. So the 'child' never really felt like a child, but very old, and was never sure she knew 'enough'. And yet I served, from the age of seventeen, and people, old and young, would come to me and talk and ask questions, and I generally had an answer that satisfied their need - and I bless the angels for that gift, and thank God for the angels.
To serve, or be of service, means that you must help people to find your own peace of mind. Pretending that you don't have to provides no satisfaction, nor relief. You cannot turn your back on the need to serve, anymore than you can turn your back on the desire to following your calling. People who do can become small, mean and shallow.
Following your calling means giving your heart to humanity in some cases, or to animal welfare, if that is where your calling lies. It means knowing the inside of a car upside and backwards, for a true mechanic, or being able to read the soul of a tree for those called to serve nature. It's more than an ordinary knowledge of your subject, its an indepth understanding of how the world works .. in relation to where you serve.
When you find your true purpose you 'know' it in your heart. You find a peace there that can be found in no other place, and when you do good for others, it touches the whole world .. not just the two of you .. but the love created by peace of mind ripples out into the ether, sparking other moments of enlightenment and helping others find their true hearts as well. Remember the old chinese saying 'a butterfly flapping its wings in China can cause hurricanes in the pacific' (or words to that effect), it applies here because one deed of goodness leads to another, and another .. snowballing ... and another saying, before I sign off. "It only takes a moment to make a difference."
And last of all, one of my favourites, for which we can thank Gandhi .. "be the changes you want to see in the world".
Ok .. so follow your heart and BE them.
Love & Peace
Ama
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Called to Serve - Part 1
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My daughter is blogging at present. It's a pure joy to see the wisdom she has, although she is only in her twenties .. and me at her age .. well, she's a lot more grown up than I was. I was still a child then, with children, she being the youngest, and her older brother. A child raising children .. but isn't that the way?
Thinking of the actions of children led me to remember my favourite chapter in 1 Corinthians, number 13. It tells us what love is, and what it's not, and then says
Face to face - so many people are seeking what they 'are supposed to do' in this lifetime. So few of them think they find their true calling, or even recognise it when it is staring them in the face. They are so busy looking for 'grand adventures', but sometimes God simply wants them to do small things often, in kind and gentle ways.
When I was seeking I already knew my 'calling', but I was frightened to confront the reality of it, in a society that looked down upon people who were 'different', and I am very different ... though I can laugh about it now. I wanted to be like other people, not see things that others didn't, or know things they didn't, or have experiences that would frighten the hell out of most of them, but to me became part of the 'norm'. Or part of the normal. Because I wanted to be normal.
What I had lost in all that 'wanting' was that I had never been what I wanted. Being normal was not something I could go 'back' to, since it had never been there. What I was confronting was accepting that some of us are 'called to serve' in different ways, and that we have to ignore society's norms to help people who are caught up in things 'they cannot understand'. So whatever you are called to do, if it sits well in your heart, and makes you happy, then do it.
"Sits well in your heart" does not mean 'feeds your ego'. We should not glory in harming others, but in being of service to each person we meet, because this service is what is lacking in society now, so focused as we now are on 'serving' ourselves.
The ego is a child demanding attention. A frightened, lonely child who is only 'happy' when the being it governs obeys its commands, stays 'safe' and doesn't venture out of the appropriate behavours that make the ego feel protected. This is the child who spoke, thought and reasoned .. but when did we stop growing up?
Now that I am an adult I put an end to childish ways - or did I? I admit there are moments when I am hurt that I can act in childish ways. Hurt my feelings and I will 'turn the other cheek', but eventually even I run out of cheeks, and then I will say 'no more' in various ways. Sometimes simply by no longer talking to the person that has hurt me. In that way I do the least amount of harm, and I am here to do exactly that. Let me do no harm.
Every person on this planet was created to serve God (call it Spirit or Allah, or any other name that you think appropriate). Ignoring this knowledge is not going to benefit anyone. Oh, I know there are plenty of people who think God doesn't exist, and that's fine, as long as they are doing good, taking care of themselves and other people, I don't see a God in a fiery chariot coming down to smite them, just to prove s/he exists. Nor, for that matter, does 'God' smite those who do wrong .. regardless of what people are actually expecting. Sometimes I think we would all learn to be better adults if s/he did smite a few of us once in a while. But that is just an observation, and I, like the rest of humanity, know I deserve a smite or two.
Did you realise that being kind to other people was serving God? Think of it this way, there is a part of God (Holy Spirit .. or just plain Spirit) inside every person. An act of kindness to another is a way of showing love to that person, and to God. Pretty simple. God's ways are simple, clear and precise .. if what you are learning isn't, you'll know a human got to the information and complicated it. We are good at that!
My daughter asked me to write about being 'called to serve'. This is what came of the request. Expect more in part 2, but not today. LOL
Love & Peace
Ama
My daughter is blogging at present. It's a pure joy to see the wisdom she has, although she is only in her twenties .. and me at her age .. well, she's a lot more grown up than I was. I was still a child then, with children, she being the youngest, and her older brother. A child raising children .. but isn't that the way?
Thinking of the actions of children led me to remember my favourite chapter in 1 Corinthians, number 13. It tells us what love is, and what it's not, and then says
"When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child;
when I became an adult,
I put an end to childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
but then we will see face to face."
Face to face - so many people are seeking what they 'are supposed to do' in this lifetime. So few of them think they find their true calling, or even recognise it when it is staring them in the face. They are so busy looking for 'grand adventures', but sometimes God simply wants them to do small things often, in kind and gentle ways.
When I was seeking I already knew my 'calling', but I was frightened to confront the reality of it, in a society that looked down upon people who were 'different', and I am very different ... though I can laugh about it now. I wanted to be like other people, not see things that others didn't, or know things they didn't, or have experiences that would frighten the hell out of most of them, but to me became part of the 'norm'. Or part of the normal. Because I wanted to be normal.
What I had lost in all that 'wanting' was that I had never been what I wanted. Being normal was not something I could go 'back' to, since it had never been there. What I was confronting was accepting that some of us are 'called to serve' in different ways, and that we have to ignore society's norms to help people who are caught up in things 'they cannot understand'. So whatever you are called to do, if it sits well in your heart, and makes you happy, then do it.
"Sits well in your heart" does not mean 'feeds your ego'. We should not glory in harming others, but in being of service to each person we meet, because this service is what is lacking in society now, so focused as we now are on 'serving' ourselves.
The ego is a child demanding attention. A frightened, lonely child who is only 'happy' when the being it governs obeys its commands, stays 'safe' and doesn't venture out of the appropriate behavours that make the ego feel protected. This is the child who spoke, thought and reasoned .. but when did we stop growing up?
Now that I am an adult I put an end to childish ways - or did I? I admit there are moments when I am hurt that I can act in childish ways. Hurt my feelings and I will 'turn the other cheek', but eventually even I run out of cheeks, and then I will say 'no more' in various ways. Sometimes simply by no longer talking to the person that has hurt me. In that way I do the least amount of harm, and I am here to do exactly that. Let me do no harm.
Every person on this planet was created to serve God (call it Spirit or Allah, or any other name that you think appropriate). Ignoring this knowledge is not going to benefit anyone. Oh, I know there are plenty of people who think God doesn't exist, and that's fine, as long as they are doing good, taking care of themselves and other people, I don't see a God in a fiery chariot coming down to smite them, just to prove s/he exists. Nor, for that matter, does 'God' smite those who do wrong .. regardless of what people are actually expecting. Sometimes I think we would all learn to be better adults if s/he did smite a few of us once in a while. But that is just an observation, and I, like the rest of humanity, know I deserve a smite or two.
Did you realise that being kind to other people was serving God? Think of it this way, there is a part of God (Holy Spirit .. or just plain Spirit) inside every person. An act of kindness to another is a way of showing love to that person, and to God. Pretty simple. God's ways are simple, clear and precise .. if what you are learning isn't, you'll know a human got to the information and complicated it. We are good at that!
My daughter asked me to write about being 'called to serve'. This is what came of the request. Expect more in part 2, but not today. LOL
Love & Peace
Ama
Monday, May 9, 2011
Channelling
There's a large part of me that does not like conflict in any way, and would rather walk out of a difficult situation, rather than hanging around, stating my case, and making it worse .. which is what would have happened if I had not left the building early on Saturday afternoon just recently.
Where were we .. we, being myself, my grown daughter and a couple who are good friends. We decided to go to a Trance Channelling session at one of the spiritualist groups here in Melbourne. My previous experience with this has been varied. One session I went to, many years ago, was incredibly beautiful. Quan Yin came through the lady channeller and gave many people in the room relevant messages, clear information and help. If I had been braver, and owned up to thinking I might be the Quill Pen she was asking for, I might have had a message too, but it was long before I knew my role in this lifetime, and I was not sure .. so I booked a reading with channeller afterwards, but the only person who 'came through' then was a lost soul (yes, I could recognise them even then) from the very recent Turkish earthquake who demanded I 'rewrite the Koran', something I know (and knew) next to nothing about, so there was no way I was going to follow those orders.
Another session was completely different. I invited myself to it out of curiousity. I think it must have been the first time I would see a channeller at work. So I asked nicely, through a friend of the channeller, and the lady seemed quite happy for me to join her small, select, group .. until I got there and was seated. You see, I made a mistake. I told the 'entity' beforehand that if it wasn't in the Light I would know and kick its ass into healing. So when the channelling lady saw me she looked uncomfortable, checked with her 'guide' and informed the group that the 'unbeliever' had to leave or the 'guide' would not be appearing that afternoon. Hmm.. me being the only newcomer in the room, you can guess whom everyone looked at .. and so I got up and left. Later I checked and it seemed the 'guide' didn't appear that afternoon anyway .. right. It was of the White Feather, or Yellow Eagle .. or something american indian variety, and I had gone in with an open mind and no desire to cause trouble ...
... which is the same state of mind I was in when daughter and I rocked up in the city to sit in with this lady, who, by a quick search on the internet, seemed very busy among the various spiritual churches, but had no webpages to tell us about her. No problem. We are not all computer literate.
So the four of us gathered downstairs, got told we could go upstairs 'now' and went up and were the first people there. I admit the energy of the space was not particularly nice, which affected the lady in the 'couple' more than it did me. I have walked into nastier energy and tend to ignore it until I feel like something has to be done. Well, once it was mentioned I cleared the building, and cleared it again. Accumulated negativity occasionally takes some work .. and it felt ok to me afterwards - so I made sure my friends and daughter were shielded as other people came into the room. It was set up for about 30 and in the end there were perhaps 12 of us?
I will cut a long story short and just tell you the puzzling bits. The lady channeller came into the room, walking straight through where we were (nearly all, 3 or 4 came late) sitting. She did not introduce herself, just sat in her chair facing us with her eyes closed (didn't even look around the room) and starting doing some deep breathing and twitching, which I assumed was her way of preparing to go into a trance. Eventually a very soft voice came through, again not introducing itself, and it then told us, to raise the vibrations in the room it was going to give us a brief talk .. all the time getting louder and louder. In the end the channeller was straining her throat and coughing repeatedly, without being allowed to drink water, which was in a glass beside her, because it might disrupt the energy of the entity???? Hmmm??? Whatever - having channelled Gabriel (archangel) and a few other entities myself, drinking water was never a problem, but .. each to their own way of doing things.
So who was this strange creature and what was the message - basically it was convoluted, confusing, non-sensical and some of it was completely untrue. Now that's being blunt. After a talk that went around in circles, up mountains and down valleys, without actually getting to any point, she then said we could ask questions .. but only if we 'talked very quietly' (said the man running the show). The problem was that the lady channeller was obviously deaf and misunderstood the questions .. but hang on now .. wasn't it the entity answering the questions, and where exactly was it, that it couldn't clearly hear what was being said .. or for that matter, SEE anyone in the room. It proved that by asking twice if one questioner had understood the answer (she nodded .. it had been her third attempt to get a straight answer to a simple question, and she just finally gave up completely). Well, the entity asked if she understand, again, and the man running the show answered that the lady had nodded .... and we moved on.
Before that another lady, desperate for an answer, got some convoluted nonsense as an answer and left in disgust. I am kicking myself over that one, because I should have gone after her. I knew the answer she was looking for, but by the time I abandoned the channeller and went downstairs for a break she had left. I am sorry.
My daughter asked a question (which I had given her, based on something the entity had said) and was given an answer that was only vaguely related to the question itself. She had to ask it three times in a row, before the channeller appeared to 'hear' it. 'What happens after you die?' .. the answer told us what happens to the body before you die, but non-specifically - and that the silver cord snaps. I did a quick search on the internet, knowing full well that the cord 'dissolves', and yes, it seems some people do believe it snaps. That's one heck of a jerk in a very gentle experience. It can snap due to accidents, not suicide, but it throws the spirit into shock and they can often end up as lost souls because of it .. so why was the entity teaching something like that .. it seems it had a big issue with suicide - that was what the original lecture had been about .. don't commit suicide. I couldn't agree more, such a waste of a lifetime, but please, next time, don't try and explain things in such a complicated manner.
Somewhere, just before I went downstairs, the man suggested to the entity that everyone needed a break, and everyone in the room decided they did too (we all shuffled and got ready to get up) .. only the entity was having too much fun and refused to co-operate .. so I admit to going downstairs, where I promptly lost my temper, made a few polite comments to the staff waiting to make coffee etc for everyone, and then I went back upstairs, waited until my friend had got her answer, and then begged the entity to allow everyone to have a break. I used my almost recent operation as an excuse, flattered the 'spirit', saying I would love to hear more, and finally it agreed to give up the channelling and let us all go.
I know what I have forgotten. Early in the middle of all those strange statements, half truths and such-like the entity said, and/or inferred, that it wasn't human and had never been human. It had never lived on planet earth .. it then contradicted itself at the end and inferred it was human. At the beginning it spoke of everyone being individuals, in spirit .. and then, when asked 'who it was' by a young lady at the very end, told us that when you are in-spirit you are 'all one' and so it didn't matter who the entity was because it wasn't that anymore, inferring that it had had human lifetimes. And yet, it had never been human, nor lived on earth?
What is wrong with this scenario.
1) the entity (I refuse to call it a spirit) had no respect for the lady channeller, forcing her throat to overwork and causing her to cough a number of times before she told it back off a bit
2) it refused to say who it was, or even who it 'had been' (when I asked it after the other lady)
3) it had never been human, then contradicted that and inferred it had had human live times
4) the information it gave was confusing, contradictory, convoluted and complicated .. Spirit works on the KISS principle when it teaches .. keep it simple, silly.
5) it never answered a straight question with a straight answer .. why use 4000 words when 3 would do
6) it appeared not to be able to hear what people were saying, even though we were told to be quiet to not disrupt the energy of the channeller's connection
7) it could not see anyone in the room .. the channeller's eyes were closed, but if it was actually in the room with us it would have been able to see everyone .. unless it was, of course, blind .. but blindness is a human condition, not a spiritual one.
So who was the entity? I have my suspicions, having seen the same dark blue aura around another spiritualist lady channelling in her church not far from my house. She also talked this base-level, convoluted nonsense that says nothing in a great big circle. At the very least it was a very young soul who enjoyed the audience's energy, as it was busy draining us dry, or trying to, and thrived on the sound of its own voice.
I would be interested in other people's experiences with trance mediums. I intend to start investigating all the spiritual churces I can reach easily around here .. and there are lots. I want to know the level of their teaching. I would think, in a 'society' that has been around since the 1800's, they would be way past the 101 (first class, first day, of a university course) level of our learning. It's not hard to step up. You just have to be prepared to learn to love and forgive.
Love & Peace,
Ama
Where were we .. we, being myself, my grown daughter and a couple who are good friends. We decided to go to a Trance Channelling session at one of the spiritualist groups here in Melbourne. My previous experience with this has been varied. One session I went to, many years ago, was incredibly beautiful. Quan Yin came through the lady channeller and gave many people in the room relevant messages, clear information and help. If I had been braver, and owned up to thinking I might be the Quill Pen she was asking for, I might have had a message too, but it was long before I knew my role in this lifetime, and I was not sure .. so I booked a reading with channeller afterwards, but the only person who 'came through' then was a lost soul (yes, I could recognise them even then) from the very recent Turkish earthquake who demanded I 'rewrite the Koran', something I know (and knew) next to nothing about, so there was no way I was going to follow those orders.
Another session was completely different. I invited myself to it out of curiousity. I think it must have been the first time I would see a channeller at work. So I asked nicely, through a friend of the channeller, and the lady seemed quite happy for me to join her small, select, group .. until I got there and was seated. You see, I made a mistake. I told the 'entity' beforehand that if it wasn't in the Light I would know and kick its ass into healing. So when the channelling lady saw me she looked uncomfortable, checked with her 'guide' and informed the group that the 'unbeliever' had to leave or the 'guide' would not be appearing that afternoon. Hmm.. me being the only newcomer in the room, you can guess whom everyone looked at .. and so I got up and left. Later I checked and it seemed the 'guide' didn't appear that afternoon anyway .. right. It was of the White Feather, or Yellow Eagle .. or something american indian variety, and I had gone in with an open mind and no desire to cause trouble ...
... which is the same state of mind I was in when daughter and I rocked up in the city to sit in with this lady, who, by a quick search on the internet, seemed very busy among the various spiritual churches, but had no webpages to tell us about her. No problem. We are not all computer literate.
So the four of us gathered downstairs, got told we could go upstairs 'now' and went up and were the first people there. I admit the energy of the space was not particularly nice, which affected the lady in the 'couple' more than it did me. I have walked into nastier energy and tend to ignore it until I feel like something has to be done. Well, once it was mentioned I cleared the building, and cleared it again. Accumulated negativity occasionally takes some work .. and it felt ok to me afterwards - so I made sure my friends and daughter were shielded as other people came into the room. It was set up for about 30 and in the end there were perhaps 12 of us?
I will cut a long story short and just tell you the puzzling bits. The lady channeller came into the room, walking straight through where we were (nearly all, 3 or 4 came late) sitting. She did not introduce herself, just sat in her chair facing us with her eyes closed (didn't even look around the room) and starting doing some deep breathing and twitching, which I assumed was her way of preparing to go into a trance. Eventually a very soft voice came through, again not introducing itself, and it then told us, to raise the vibrations in the room it was going to give us a brief talk .. all the time getting louder and louder. In the end the channeller was straining her throat and coughing repeatedly, without being allowed to drink water, which was in a glass beside her, because it might disrupt the energy of the entity???? Hmmm??? Whatever - having channelled Gabriel (archangel) and a few other entities myself, drinking water was never a problem, but .. each to their own way of doing things.
So who was this strange creature and what was the message - basically it was convoluted, confusing, non-sensical and some of it was completely untrue. Now that's being blunt. After a talk that went around in circles, up mountains and down valleys, without actually getting to any point, she then said we could ask questions .. but only if we 'talked very quietly' (said the man running the show). The problem was that the lady channeller was obviously deaf and misunderstood the questions .. but hang on now .. wasn't it the entity answering the questions, and where exactly was it, that it couldn't clearly hear what was being said .. or for that matter, SEE anyone in the room. It proved that by asking twice if one questioner had understood the answer (she nodded .. it had been her third attempt to get a straight answer to a simple question, and she just finally gave up completely). Well, the entity asked if she understand, again, and the man running the show answered that the lady had nodded .... and we moved on.
Before that another lady, desperate for an answer, got some convoluted nonsense as an answer and left in disgust. I am kicking myself over that one, because I should have gone after her. I knew the answer she was looking for, but by the time I abandoned the channeller and went downstairs for a break she had left. I am sorry.
My daughter asked a question (which I had given her, based on something the entity had said) and was given an answer that was only vaguely related to the question itself. She had to ask it three times in a row, before the channeller appeared to 'hear' it. 'What happens after you die?' .. the answer told us what happens to the body before you die, but non-specifically - and that the silver cord snaps. I did a quick search on the internet, knowing full well that the cord 'dissolves', and yes, it seems some people do believe it snaps. That's one heck of a jerk in a very gentle experience. It can snap due to accidents, not suicide, but it throws the spirit into shock and they can often end up as lost souls because of it .. so why was the entity teaching something like that .. it seems it had a big issue with suicide - that was what the original lecture had been about .. don't commit suicide. I couldn't agree more, such a waste of a lifetime, but please, next time, don't try and explain things in such a complicated manner.
Somewhere, just before I went downstairs, the man suggested to the entity that everyone needed a break, and everyone in the room decided they did too (we all shuffled and got ready to get up) .. only the entity was having too much fun and refused to co-operate .. so I admit to going downstairs, where I promptly lost my temper, made a few polite comments to the staff waiting to make coffee etc for everyone, and then I went back upstairs, waited until my friend had got her answer, and then begged the entity to allow everyone to have a break. I used my almost recent operation as an excuse, flattered the 'spirit', saying I would love to hear more, and finally it agreed to give up the channelling and let us all go.
I know what I have forgotten. Early in the middle of all those strange statements, half truths and such-like the entity said, and/or inferred, that it wasn't human and had never been human. It had never lived on planet earth .. it then contradicted itself at the end and inferred it was human. At the beginning it spoke of everyone being individuals, in spirit .. and then, when asked 'who it was' by a young lady at the very end, told us that when you are in-spirit you are 'all one' and so it didn't matter who the entity was because it wasn't that anymore, inferring that it had had human lifetimes. And yet, it had never been human, nor lived on earth?
What is wrong with this scenario.
1) the entity (I refuse to call it a spirit) had no respect for the lady channeller, forcing her throat to overwork and causing her to cough a number of times before she told it back off a bit
2) it refused to say who it was, or even who it 'had been' (when I asked it after the other lady)
3) it had never been human, then contradicted that and inferred it had had human live times
4) the information it gave was confusing, contradictory, convoluted and complicated .. Spirit works on the KISS principle when it teaches .. keep it simple, silly.
5) it never answered a straight question with a straight answer .. why use 4000 words when 3 would do
6) it appeared not to be able to hear what people were saying, even though we were told to be quiet to not disrupt the energy of the channeller's connection
7) it could not see anyone in the room .. the channeller's eyes were closed, but if it was actually in the room with us it would have been able to see everyone .. unless it was, of course, blind .. but blindness is a human condition, not a spiritual one.
So who was the entity? I have my suspicions, having seen the same dark blue aura around another spiritualist lady channelling in her church not far from my house. She also talked this base-level, convoluted nonsense that says nothing in a great big circle. At the very least it was a very young soul who enjoyed the audience's energy, as it was busy draining us dry, or trying to, and thrived on the sound of its own voice.
I would be interested in other people's experiences with trance mediums. I intend to start investigating all the spiritual churces I can reach easily around here .. and there are lots. I want to know the level of their teaching. I would think, in a 'society' that has been around since the 1800's, they would be way past the 101 (first class, first day, of a university course) level of our learning. It's not hard to step up. You just have to be prepared to learn to love and forgive.
Love & Peace,
Ama
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hello again
Hello everyone,
(if you read both my blog sites you might be having a deja vu moment .. this is the same post for today as the Sacred Gates site .. so ... no need to read it again.)
It seems rather appropriate to say hello again, after being away so long .. and where have I been? I've been on a long and complicated journey through bowel cancer and kidney stones .. they happened within 2 weeks of each other, so that I couldn't separate the pain of the operation for the 'removal of the site of the polyp - just in case' from the stones that were stirred up by filling me to bloating point with saline (some 6 bags full), which some bright spark decided would be a good idea a couple of days after the operation.
We shall draw a veil over the first hospital experience, and instead commend the nurses, and doctors, at the second hospital called Casey, where I was admitted for the procedure to remove the kidney stones .. all 8 of the stones were 'made of a substance we do not recognise, so we've sent them away for testing'. They've never told me what they were, but right now I don't care. I am just very relieved the whole experience is over and I am well on the mend, to the point of gardening again, and carrying clothes baskets down to the line to hang the washing out.
So hello! I've learned a lot about myself since the couple of weeks before the operation on the 3rd March. I've learned some good things, and some not so good. I've learned what I fear, not cancer, not death or dying, no, my strongest fear was that the pain would never stop. Hmm .. turns out I'm a bit of a control freak .. an undercover one. LOL I chose one heck of a way to learn it for certain. I am laughing at myself now.
Hello, hello .. the radio is back on. And I'm back at 'work', in a spiritual sense. Seems I'm going to be starting a 'church' .. well, a something anyway. The word church is synonymous with people running away in fright. I want them to run towards God/Spirit, not away. The Love is there. We only have to reach out and touch it ...
Love & Joy,
Ama
(if you read both my blog sites you might be having a deja vu moment .. this is the same post for today as the Sacred Gates site .. so ... no need to read it again.)
It seems rather appropriate to say hello again, after being away so long .. and where have I been? I've been on a long and complicated journey through bowel cancer and kidney stones .. they happened within 2 weeks of each other, so that I couldn't separate the pain of the operation for the 'removal of the site of the polyp - just in case' from the stones that were stirred up by filling me to bloating point with saline (some 6 bags full), which some bright spark decided would be a good idea a couple of days after the operation.
We shall draw a veil over the first hospital experience, and instead commend the nurses, and doctors, at the second hospital called Casey, where I was admitted for the procedure to remove the kidney stones .. all 8 of the stones were 'made of a substance we do not recognise, so we've sent them away for testing'. They've never told me what they were, but right now I don't care. I am just very relieved the whole experience is over and I am well on the mend, to the point of gardening again, and carrying clothes baskets down to the line to hang the washing out.
So hello! I've learned a lot about myself since the couple of weeks before the operation on the 3rd March. I've learned some good things, and some not so good. I've learned what I fear, not cancer, not death or dying, no, my strongest fear was that the pain would never stop. Hmm .. turns out I'm a bit of a control freak .. an undercover one. LOL I chose one heck of a way to learn it for certain. I am laughing at myself now.
Hello, hello .. the radio is back on. And I'm back at 'work', in a spiritual sense. Seems I'm going to be starting a 'church' .. well, a something anyway. The word church is synonymous with people running away in fright. I want them to run towards God/Spirit, not away. The Love is there. We only have to reach out and touch it ...
Love & Joy,
Ama
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