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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

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Are you aware that there are many people who see right through you? No? Okay, so look around the room; make sure no one is looking over your shoulder. Yes, I am writing this to you. Directly to you, the one who is reading this right now.

How does it make you feel to contemplate the fact that you are transparent? Does it push against your right to privacy? Do you believe your thoughts and intentions are private? You don’t have something to hide…or do you?

This is not a joke. This is real folks. There are plenty of people who can see right through you, right now. There are probably a few of them in your life. If that thought makes you just a little bit uncomfortable then you would benefit greatly from the information contained in this and my other blogs.

There are two ways in which this occurs. The first way is that we all give off many clues to our inner state and thinking through our words and actions. The second way is that some people are that psychic that they can read you clearly without even looking at you or ever having met you before.

Psychics are Watching You

Whoooooh…okay you caught me…I was intentionally trying to give you the heebeegeebees, there are no psychics watching you, not to my knowledge anyway. But through the course of your day, and probably nestled somewhere in your life are people who know if you are up to no good or not. They know if you have something to contribute or if you are just there for the taking. They know if you intend harm or love.

In my early thirties, even though I had already had a few psychic experiences myself, I was relatively unaware and skeptical about this side of life. That was until I met my late wife. We spent seven years together before she died in 1998 of cancer. There were so many experiences where she accurately read my mind and intentions, as well as the intentions of other people. I say she read me and others accurately because I was there. I knew what was what; I knew what I was hiding and what I was not facing. I would later get confirmation about the other people. We also studied with multiple spiritual masters who in great detail described the personality of people in our lives that they never met.

Stories of these times and what we learned can be found in my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story.

As I continued to study, practice and grow I too developed these abilities. Not to the same remarkable level as others I have known, but enough to amaze myself. And enough to give me a distinct edge in walking though life safely and in peace. I use my psychic abilities daily to make choices. My feelings are an indispensible guide that have lead me into an unforgettable life.

Your Words and Actions Expose You

Too many people look at the actions of others and then jump to incorrect conclusions. I know just how easy that is to do from personal experience. That comes from a negative, frightened or watchful place inside that is trying to protect us. A common example of this is when someone sees a woman flirting or in some way being sexual and labels her a sinner or lowlife whore.

Okay so we know that plenty of people jump to incorrect conclusion and are judgmental, but don’t let that discount the fact that people can read us by our words and actions. That would be a mistake. Given enough time the results of your words and actions will speak for you and about you. People who are paying attention will notice. Okay so not too many people are paying attention right? Sad but true, that is indeed right. But still, there are some people who are paying attention and they do notice.

One of the well known things about life is that we develop habits of behavior through repetition. (Psychologists, hypnotherapists, marketers all know this.) When a person begins to lie, and each time he continues, he reinforces the behavior until it becomes a habit. Soon lies slip out everywhere and they are noticed. If a person develops a habit of judging others, even if it is in the privacy of their own mind, soon the judgments will slip out in the form of words. The habit of thought becomes too strong and then the judgments are being spoken. And if others reinforce the same insane mental activity of being judgmental, then the words become actions.

Maybe while talking with you, face to face, a person is nice. But when they tell you about what happened between them and an ex-friend, they tell you heaps about themselves. The way they talk about another person exposes the habits of thought they hold. These thoughts were thought about enough by that person that they came out in words. People say, “Oh sorry, I don’t know why I said that.” But in truth they said it because they have thought it many times. It is very rare that a person says something that they have never thought about before. And those are the times that our divine nature is more clearly expressing itself through us. Not when we say something mean or stupid.

So when I watch someone stab another in the back, I wonder when they will do that to me. I know they have no respect for others, and no respect for themselves. If they try to explain how the other person deserved it then I know that they think some people are worthy and others are not, and that they don’t really know where their inherent worth comes from. They don’t know how their thoughts affect their future. In essence they don’t know the most important things a person should know about life. When someone complains to me that I have done such and such to them, yet I know that I have not, then I begin to wonder how many people they have done such and such to. People who complain about others are most often trying to shift the focus from themselves and onto others. In reality they are pointing out their own character defects.

An Example

A real life example of this was a friend who came to me to tell me about how her brother was lying about her and accusing her of cheating in a joint real-estate deal they had going. He made a very emotional scene in front of other family members. I asked her if she was trying to cheat and she said no. I then told her, “It is he who was trying to cheat you. I suspect this because of his emotional reaction. A person reacts strongly when they are out of control. When they are out of control they fall back on their programming, their repeated thoughts and behaviors. Your brother could only see that you were cheating him because in his world everyone cheats. Everyone includes himself.”

My friend replied, “Well that is interesting because that is the reason why I came to talk to you. I was about to sign some final papers to close out our dealings and we each were going to take our share. When I saw the numbers I looked at the original contract and he had modified it so that he would get a larger share in the property than he should.”

This point bears repetition…A person reacts strongly when they are out of control. When they are out of control they fall back on their programming, they repeat their thoughts and behaviors from previous experiences. This will tell you about who they are and it has no reflection upon you…unless you of course feel a strong attraction to hanging around with this particular person.

One of the reasons people can’t read things clearly is because their desires get in the way. You want or think you need something so badly that you are willing to look past the obvious and keep heading towards your goal. You become willing to believe someone’s words when their actions or prior words already communicated their true intentions. But if you think about it carefully you will know that you have known fact from fiction, many times in the past. Start paying attention and you will begin to understand when you are correct and when you are projecting your fears and worries on a situation.

What to do about it? I say you should be proactive and face your fears. Dive in and begin to deal with the places in life that you are not authentic. Your personality is your greatest asset. The quality of it determines what you will attract to yourself, the level of health you experience in the body, and the peace of mind that you experience. Put in the effort, pay attention to your thoughts, think only thoughts that make you feel good and your actions will flow from there. Make a loving harmonious outcome the intention you approach all of life with.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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I had a friend ask…

“Why is it when it’s on ’God’s time’ it seems that nothing is happening? At least nothing good.”

We are the ones to label things good or bad. There is no such thing as an absolute good or bad, life just is, and it is eternal. That which you are, always has been and always will be.

When people talk about God’s time what they are saying is that the specific things they want sometimes, oftentimes, or even most of the time, takes time…too much time for their taste so they call this God’s time. But these people are missing a key piece.

We always get what we want eventually…or our desires change due to the circumstances in our lives that help us clarify our goals and desires. The reason this is so is that we are all endowed with the creative aspect of God. We are co-creators with God.

The problem is with us. We don’t understand how to use our creative energy and we don’t even understand who we are. So the time it takes for us to create something we desire is the time it takes for us to learn how to create it, how to recognize it when it comes and how to stop blocking it when comes.

Let’s take relationships as an example. There are many people who want a really good juicy relationship. They want the right size, shape and attractiveness. They want the right income level, the right sort of disposition such as kindness or toughness, the right common interests, etc… But too often there is neediness mixed in with these desires. They need someone who will help pay the bills that overwhelm them, or they need someone who will be a good father to the child they already have, or they need someone who will make them feel special and important and loved.

This is not how life works, things and people don’t come to you based on your desperate needs. Like attracts like, dysfunctional people attract dysfunctional people, functional people attract functional people. You might say, “How insulting, I am a really nice woman and my last relationship was with an abusive man.” But I would say that although you might be a nice woman in one or two ways, you are still dysfunctional…you don’t believe you are worthy, or you don’t know how to stand up for yourself, or you don’t know how to tell the difference between a kind and loving person and a person who is abusive, or you don’t know that it takes abusive people a very long time to change and you are trying to change them, or that it takes a lot to get them to want to change, you don’t understand many things that you will learn from your painful relationship experience.

This learning happens in God’s time. Once you have learned all of these things, once you are the kind of person you want in your life, then you will have that sort of person in your life. The same is true with money, health, adventure.

This is why it is essential to be proactive in your efforts to grow. The more you grow, the more you become aware, the more you clear out the misunderstandings you hold about life, the greater the things you attract to yourself will be.

“Then why is it that I see so many screwed up people with good jobs, lots of money, and crazy women with such hot looking men?”

When we look at the surface of other people’s lives they can look really good and appealing. But you don’t know what lies below the surface. If they are indeed screwed up and crazy, then their real life will also be screwed up and crazy. One day they will get so messed up on drugs or too indebt or fool around one too many times that their whole world comes crashing down. They won’t know how to handle it either. Also they cannot really even appreciate the good life they have, because things are ultimately meaningless. If they stop for two minutes with nothing to do they will go crazy because their inner world is crazy. They need to keep forever busy to distract them from their craziness.

If you really understood the people you look at, if you knew their innermost thoughts and desires, you would see that what they have is a perfect match to their vibration. What they have matches their desires and it is teaching them the lessons they need to learn to move on to other unfulfilled desires they hold.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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I know this blog is going to piss some people off. But for all of you who are pissed off at the title and contents, consider this…this idea you keep spreading that God/Jesus/Whoever is out there and we are all separate miserable sinners lucky to be loved by God if we worship him and only him…this message is doing a huge disservice to yourself and to humanity. Why? Because you are delaying some people from realizing their godly self.

I AM GOD. YOU ARE GOD. These are quotes attributed to Jesus, “Do you not know that you are gods? What you do to the least of my brother you do to me. I and the Father are one.” And Psalm 46:10 which also comes from the much revered Bible says, “Be Still and Know that I am God.”

If one is still, stops the mind and goes into the knowing that in that stillness God can be found, then one can experience the “I am” as God. How can it be any clearer than this? “I am” the one who is still is the “I am” that in the stillness can know that they are God. This same thing has been taught by MANY masters worldwide. For those of you deeply involved in a religion such as Christianity or any other religion for that matter, you must realize that there have been more than one master who has walked this earth other than the one you worship. This possibility is available to you. You can master your own life.

People all over the world have become enlightened. People all over the world have experienced the realms of heaven first hand! People all over the world have healed others. People all over the world have raised the dead and have themselves risen from the dead. (See my stories of this in my blog Truth vs. the Bible halfway down into the blog.) People from all over the world, in different cultures, in different religions, and even of no religion, have experienced healing miracles and other phenomena that go way beyond rational explanation. If you discount wholesale the experiences of these thousands of people in favor of the religion you were brainwashed into you are indeed a fool. You have been fooled by a wolf in sheep’s clothing and you have limited yourself to physical experience, limited those who are influenced by you, and kept yourself and others from having a Godly experience of life. In my view of life this is the worst “sin” of all!

There was a time where I was groping in the dark…indeed still there is some darkness for me too. I used to read the magnificent stories of many masters who experienced all those things previously stated and wondered, “Can these things happen for me? Can I experience myself as God?” I want to tell you that it has indeed happened for me too. Now I am not saying I have mastered life to the extent some of these others have mastered life, but I have had some very deep and profound glimpses and I have made some deep and profound changes in my personality in the span of my lifetime so far. If you read my book, Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story , you will see a dramatic difference between the man I was in my thirties and the man who is writing these blogs. That is the result of experience and real change. And I continue to evolve and improve with each and every day. So can you! I am NOT unique. I am NOT special. If you admire me, I hope that you can admire your own self and will seek to experience the God within you. I have even had a couple of experiences of Samadhi, a deep state of meditation where the mind is bypassed and an absolute connection with God is established. In such a state I realized the truth that each and every one of us is indeed One and we are all God. This was a very real experience and it is what motivates me to push forward no matter what the expense to me is to help others in their healing. It is because I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are one with me and by helping you I am helping myself.

God is more than the connection between all living things. God IS ALL living things, all inanimate things too. God created all of Manifest Creation, from His own Self, and then moved Her own consciousness into creation to experience what He created. For plants and animals She created a group memory for each species. For humans however God created an individual and permanent memory and consciousness for each human being. This is what differentiates each individual from another, but it is still God who is the living being in each individual human being. The human being can and ultimately will discover that She is God and can move beyond this boundary of consciousness and memory to reunite with the wholeness of God and back into the limitation of the boundary anytime He chooses. (For more on this topic please read Evolution of a Soul. )

So I encourage you, wholeheartedly and with love…seek! Discover who you are. I’ll spoil the ending for you…You Are God! But in reality I spoilt nothing, because the intellectual knowledge that you are God is NOT the same thing as remembering that You Are God. Not by a long shot! Make it your intention to remember, and it will happen!

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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You are living God’s life. Your experience is God’s experience. Forgetting any religious brainwashing you may have…What is it that God would enjoy experiencing through you? How is it you can give God the greatest joy and experience each and every day?

Hint…make time for yourself. Feel, don’t let the mind keep telling you “work, work, work!” Enjoy children, pets, nature. Take time to relax and know all is well. Take time to dream. Make love. And do work when it does feel good. Do whatever it is that feels good with the intention of giving God the best experience possible.

The conflicts in your life are about how…how to go about achieving what you want.

You know what you want. You just feel limited. Forget the how, you will eventually get everything you want or your wants will change.

Zina

Funny, I was telling a troubled co-worker these very words just this morning, only it wasnt a religious brainwashing but an abusive upbringing she is struggling to overcome. Sometimes I feel that I am the only one around me that ’gets it’, then I read this….I am a little dissapointed that there is no blog to comment on tho…

Thank you for, yet again, reminding me that we are all connected, and Im not the only one….Zina

I love Zina. I posted this as a bulletin only one day and it just so happened that she was telling the same thing to a friend that very day! Great minds think alike…(we all share the same mind because we are all one being!)

Zina is one of my dear friends on MySpace. She often leaves some very enlightening comments on my blogs. So do add her as a friend if you need more like minded people on your friends list.

Now Zina has her wish, this here is a blog to leave a comment on.

This blog is very true…if you think about it carefully, think about EVERY single wish you have had, every desire, every thought you repetively think, then you will realize that what you have in your life now is a perfect match to ALL of those thoughts and desires. So be careful what you think about, choose wisely what you desire, meditate, pray, and most of all follow your bliss. Let God move through you, live through you and let God experience the best life possible Through You!

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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This first paragraph from my blog, Relationship Breakups How to Cope, triggered a conversation about Suicide that I thought more people would be interested in.

Suicide will not take you were you believe you will be going, to a place of peace. Suicide is trying to escape from yourself, and you just cannot do it. Wherever you go, there you are. In the afterlife, you will not be in the heaven you think you will be in; you will still be enmeshed in your life’s troubles, because the afterlife is still life. It is just life in another dimension. And you will not have the ability to change your programming there. You will be stuck with it, playing out your dramas over and over until your next physical life begins. And in your next physical life you will set up the same dramas so that you can finally face the issues and move through them. So in reality you will have to walk through that fire all over again, face the same pain all over again, and finish the walk to the other side. Don’t do it!

How does ANYONE really know what the outcome of suicide is?

At any given moment, we are right where we are suppose to be… And, each of us eventually does leave our physical bodies to rejoin All That Is…
I know many of us have theories and beliefs about killing one self - mostly horrible beliefs with horrible believed outcomes…
Are we sure that these conditioned beliefs are not just that? Conditioned beliefs.?.?.?

This topic is something I have been theorizing about for about a year now…
Personally the doom and gloom theory does not “work” for me…

I am wondering if you are implying that suicide is not an option only IF it has to do with a relationship gone bad…

What about the terminally ill?

What if they decide to stop all forms of treatment, knowing that there body will cease to live by doing so?
Are they too doomed to such darkness on the “other side”?

What about the smokers of the world, are they not “killing” themselves each and every day?
Sure, it is not a quick gun shot to the head, but in the end, it is still the same, isn’t it?

I make these statements based on two thing:

1.Personal experience and remembrances of the other side…as dim as they may be.

2. The teaching of many masters I have read. Why do I trust they know what is what? Because they brought me quite a ways on my spiritual path, ie.. I got results, and I don’t believe their teachings could have brought me results if these masters did not know what they were talking about.

So in answer to your question…what I know is that we don’t magically change consciousness when we leave this realm. We loose our bodies, certainly, but those with open minds and some level of control over what their minds think do experience the same openness and control on the other side. Those without that control in their physical life still don’t have it in the afterlife. Thoughts manifest realities instantly on the other side. Thus these people who are in such a dire mental state remain in their dire mental state and manifest realities to support it.

As for those who have terminal illnesses, choosing to pull the plug on life support is different. Death occurs by natural means, previously it had been artificially sustained. Their mental state remains, but the body is gone. So if they suffered due only to their illness, the illness is gone and their suffering is gone too. But if they suffered due to unresolved psychological states of mind then they too have to deal with that on the other side.

This is not about being punished for killing yourself. This horible afterlife experience is not due to an edict passed down by God that says you must suffer for taking your own life…NO! It is about the fact that the dominant way you think is not going to change in the afterlife. It remains and it dominates your experience there. We change our thinking here and gain control of our minds here on the physical plane. Once we gain control of it, once we realize we can change our lives by changing our thinking, then we have the ability to do the same in the afterlife. But go ahead and ask people if they can change their reality by changing their mind…most people would say no. I have experience that says the opposite. I constantly and deliberately change my life experience and reality by changing my mind. I also have experienced, in this lifetime, NOT having this sort of control and being blown about by the winds of fate.

If you were a master and shot yourself in the head to end it all you would be fine on the otherside because you had control over your mind…but then a master can leave his body when he chooses and would not need to shoot himself in the head to leave this plane of existence.

Are not ALL illness’s created from some sort of unresolved psychological states of mind? EVERYTHING that is our life, IS created by our thoughts…Illness included…So, how is this scenario any different from any other?

I would say not in all cases, but in most cases yes. There are cases where masters are helping to balance the karmic load of a love one. In the book series, The Magus of Strovolos, Fire in the Heart, and Homage to the Sun Daskalos has an illness that he “suffers” with, in that he is stuck in bed and limited due to the illness. But he demonstrates to the author Kyriacos C. Markides he can turn it off at any time and be perfectly well, then he returns the illness to his body. Although this is not my own first hand experience, I trust the author and Daskalos that the experiences conveyed were accurate and did happen and their explanation of why they occurred. He does this to take some of the karmic load off a family member who would have died otherwise. This sort of thing can only work in the case where the other person had learned their life lesson, but still the momentum of energy was such that it had to be dealt with.

But lets look at the majority of the cases…

Most people cause their diseases for various reasons:

1. To understand the disease process and the experiences that go along with it.

2. To pay a karmic debt and learn the lesson that goes with paying that debt.

3. They simply have abused their own life force energy, and bodies, due to the ignorant way they used their mind and their actions in life. This is similar to 2 but not exactly the same.

In all three of these cases the person who dies from a disease has gone through the experience. It has transformed them in someway. When they passover, they no longer have a physical body. The emotional body that the do experience is whole. Often they think they have miraculously been healed from their disease. Most of these folks probably have not gained enlightenment or freedom to move as they please in the psychic (emotional) and noetic (mental) dimensions. They are bound by the confines of the predominant way they use their mind and manifest based upon that just like the one who commits suicide. But they completed their experience in a natural way.

A person who has committed suicide has not completed the challenge they set forth for themselves. Due to karma or due to a poor mental state they found themselves in circumstances that overwhelmed them and caused them to deliberately destroy their life. They thought they could escape the pain of the life they had created, but they have not learned what it takes to move beyond recreating that experience. So in their next life they will once again create such an experience. And in their afterlife they will still not be free of the mental state they are in exactly like the person who dies of disease is not past their mental state either. But usually the person who created the disease already learned their lesson, or most of it and their mental state was altered in a beneficial way by their experience.

Lets take Hit.ler as an example…He killed himself because he had lost his war and the rest of the world would soon be coming to take him away, to ridicule him and abuse him and kill him. Certainly on the other side Hit.ler was creating war, victimizing others, and dealing with the energy of that experience. Did he suffer? Well perhaps not like a Christian might think. He probably had a grand time victimizing others. But did he know God like a great Yogi does? I doubt it.

Then he returns in the life of 13ush and recreates the same experience all over again. Will he kill himself this time when he finally looses, or will he face the world he created and deal with it and fully experience the anger and hatred he created in others?

First I must say….
Love the 13ush/Hit.ler theory….
I believe that without even having to “decide”…

Second…
How can we be certain that the person who commits suicide is not indeed facing the very “challenge” they set forth to accomplish in this life?

I’ve heard it called “soul contracts” and “sacred contracts”…. but, could it not be possible that suicide was what that person came here to do? Maybe as a “lesson” for someone in their lives? Maybe a contract was set forth between the two “souls” before manifesting here in this reality? Maybe the act itself goes according to the plan they themselves chose for their “dance” this time around on the big stage…???

What if I personally wanted to experience the experience of a loved one who kills themselves as one of MY “soul contracts”… Would that “experience” not have to be fulfilled by someone in order for me to experience mine?????

You obviously think a lot and in depth about things. Bravo. Be sure to feel too. Just a caution from personal experience…thinkers tend not to feel as much and need to make more of an effort to do so.

I’ll admit there are probably cases where a soul chooses to experience killing themselves and also there are those who choose to experience a loved one killing themselves.

But still we come down to the real point to my original statement and that is death is not going to magically transform you. You will leave with whatever consciousness you have, whatever abilities you have attained or have not attained.

When making the choice to commit suicide or not, I doubt the person themselves would have enough awareness to realize this is a soul choice they are making. They would probably just feel an overwhelming compulsion to do so. If they were so evolved as to be clearly in touch with their inner voice I find it very unlikely that they would be in a place of wanting to experience suicide.

As for the one who wishes to experience the suicide of another Law of Attraction would most likely hook them up with someone who is hell bent on doing so anyways. Someone who even after reading such advice as I have given would blow me off as crazy, would still believe that sweet oblivion would come or they would be with God and all would be well.

My original statements are for the person who is making the decision based upon the idea that they can free themselves from the horrors of their physical life, which I would guess to be most cases, they are attempting the impossible.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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I had a friend, who shall remain Anonymous, write the following letter to me in response to my blog What is Right or Wrong? Your Feelings are Your Guide!…

Hi: Right or wrong?… Somethings are really uncomplicated when it comes to that topic.. for example, if I took my time to send you and your wife a Valentine’s comment, it would had been RIGHT or proper for one of you to reciprocate and send one back or at least have the courtesy to acknowledge the receipt.. now, that was WRONG! Trust me your time is NOT more valuable than mine whatsoever! Preach… Walk the talk!

Peace, Anonymous

How does it feel to you when you judge people Anonymous? Is that a good feeling? Watch that over time. Notice what it does to your internal system. Do you know that the hormone cortisol is secreted into your bloodstream in excessive amounts when you engage in such thinking? That is a scientifically proven fact. This hormone is also linked to cancer and memory diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.

So you have to ask yourself is it really worth it to destroy your own body for someone who does not even care enough to give you the respect you deserve? How many people will come into your life that you will have to train in how to respect you? And once you have trained those people, what about the next batch that comes along? This will become your life long duty and it will never end!

I am very sorry that you are offended by my lack of returning a comment. However I did not receive a comment from you, nor did my wife. I just went back and checked them all and there is nothing from you in either of our profiles. And it is rare that I don’t accept a comment, only when it is spam or I suspect the links in the comment are from hackers.

I understand jumping to false and inaccurate conclusions as I have done exactly that TOO MANY times in my life. One thing I have discovered about anger and judgment…there is ALWAYS something I don’t understand. If I only dig a little deeper I discover it.

I do practice what I teach. I am loving in my thoughts and actions. I still have my occasional slip ups but I quickly notice when it happens and change immediately and put in some effort to reprogram my reactions. But I have never taught anyone that being a good person requires that you return comments…where did you learn that from? It is a false teaching. If you think right and wrong can be defined by such a way, then you really do need to read my blog What is Right or Wrong? Your Feelings are Your Guide!

I do make every attempt to return comments, but there are times I just cannot keep up with all the comments I get. I had 3500 friends on valentines day, now I have many more than that. Sometimes I do not return comments that are generic and general in nature. Just because I get the impression people just send the same thing to all their friends and they are not really even writing to me specifically. But when someone writes to me personally and it is an indication they have actually taken the time to read my writings or enjoy my videos or slide shows, then I respond in a very personal way.

I am not offended by your outburst. However I suggest you take a look at this pattern in you for your own sake. You will alienate friends and loved ones this way and you will certainly make your own life miserable with it.

Cortisol? very well aware of it; however, too much credit given to the simple fact that I found it outrageous that someone that “teaches” about life would act in such manner. Very SIMPLE… not judging, no outburst (very funny), no damage to my internal system etc lol Again, I believe in honesty and I simply stated how I felt… I forgot about it after I put my thoughts in writing. SIMPLE, you are going too deep… Courtesy is elementary my dear… As far as friends.. it will happen to you. Have a wonderful day, Namaste, Anonymous.

Finding it “outrageous” that someone would act in such a manner, whether they teach what I teach or not, is certainly a judgment. It seems that you don’t even know what a judgment is. You have created a rule, (you mistakenly thought) someone broke it, and you have judged it to be so wrong that you are outraged by it. That is a judgment.

A non-judgment would be to observe that someone did or did not do a certain thing and to observe that it is either taking that person towards or away from their goals in life. You could even be disappointed they are heading away from their own goals or that you missed out on their company without that being a judgment. But to be outraged that someone does not do what you expect them to do is a judgment.

This is a HUGE issue with far too many people. They do not even understand what a judgment is. And you need to understand the difference between judgment and observation because judgments do harm yourself and sometimes those you judge.

Judgments of SMALL things can do you greater harm than judgments of big things. The reason for this is that with big things you are often afraid to make a judgment because of the repercussions, but with small things you think they don’t matter, but they do. Habits of thinking in judgmental ways are formed each time you hold a judgment. So if you hold judgments about many small things then you establish a strong set of habits that become difficult to break once you do realize you need to break them.

Yes I believe that courtesy is elementary and important. I believe it is helpful in making people feel welcome, wanted and loved. I believe it is helpful in gaining people’s trust and their aid when you need it. But courtesy is not so important as to become outraged when it is not present, it is not so important as to ruin your mood for even an instant, which can snowball into ruining many more moments. And courtesy is not so important as to develop a habit of judgment because courtesy was missing.

I am NOT going too deep. Everyone will eventually want and need to go this deep if they wish to live a happy and peaceful life. I am not judging you either. I am simply observing that what you are doing will not take you to a peaceful and happy life and that it could create disease in your body. My feelings about your letter to me are happy because you offered the substance for a perfect lesson that will heal many people.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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This blog is an answer to a couple of letters from a friend who is having difficulties leaving her abusive husband. If you have some practical advice or resources for women in California with this sort of difficulty please post as a comment.

“Dearest Michael,

“Thank you for your Relationship Break Ups – How to Cope blog. I have found it helpful and I am in agreement with much of what you have said.

“I have been trying to make a marriage work for a long time now that was more than likely doomed from the start and now I am trapped or at least unaware of a way out.”

Becoming trapped in a relationship or feeling trapped is a very bad sign that you are not in the right place, not with the right person, not doing that which nurtures your soul.

“I was unable to work for most of the last 5 yrs due to the abuse I received from my husband. I was depressed and suicidal. I committed myself to the mental hospital 2 or 3 times and was heavily medicated for much of that time.”

I often wonder why people stay in such relationships for so long. I guess this is how we learn that we cannot change other people who do not want to change. But I would suggest to a young and inexperienced person to take heed of such telltale signs early in a relationship and get out much sooner. Don’t let tradition, religion, or the coercion of family stop you from protecting yourself.

Abusive people do not change overnight. An apology is not enough. It will happen again because it is a habit they have developed. They need help. If they don’t get help and are not putting significant effort into changing, then get out! What is a significant effort? Changing their TV and Movie watching habits, changing their reading habits, they should be reading something daily that reinforces a healthy mental attitude and healthy habits of action…and I do not count the Bible amongst such books. They should be making time for meditation, contemplation and reviewing their habits of thought and reprogramming them. Read my blog Reprogramming Yourself, if your abuser is not taking the steps I list in this blog they will not change.

I also recommend another blog How to Deal with Passive Agressive Behavior.

“My husband was sexually molested by a catholic priest when he was 10. He was an altar boy. I am telling you this because I want you to be able to understand, as I do, that there are reasons in his case, for the arrogance as you have explained it. I understand that I have been subjected to his lies, cheating and manipulation, emotional, verbal and financial abuse because of what happened to him.”

We all should have compassion for those who do us harm because in fact they are hurting. We may not always know the reasons why they are hurting, but to commit such harm one must be hurting. Even still, compassion does not translate to staying with the abuser…you can be compassionate and loving while you leave to take care of yourself.

“After a lot of soul searching, reading and contact with blessed angels such as you, I have finally come to a better place within myself; I have a greater understanding. I no longer take any medication other than my blood pressure pill and a multi-vitamin. I was finally able to get a part-time, minimum wage job, which has recently become an “on-call” position and have kept it for about 3 months now.

“Unfortunately, while I am extremely grateful and blessed to be mentally and spiritually better, some of the abuse continues and I know that it would be best for the both of us to move on. He still has anger management problems and is verbally abusive and he still controls all of the money except my tiny paycheck. I have been unable to set much of that aside as I have had to use that money for my basic necessities. I don’t even know how much he makes. And he has told me he will fight having to pay me alimony because of all of the years he had to support me while I couldn’t work. I cannot afford to be alive right now let alone afford an attorney to help me.”

I know this about life…there are always more options available than meets the eye. When we are feeling bad we cannot see them. Habits take over. Illness sets in. You must do something somehow to get away from him.

“There are shelters that may be able to help me, but they are run by the Catholic Church. How am I supposed to go and ask for help from the same people that technically put me in this position to begin with? I have no money or support system. No family that is willing to help me, I’m lonely and scared and I don’t know what to do. And so yes, I have considered suicide. All I know is that I cannot take this situation anymore as it is eating away all of the progress I have made healing myself.”

The people running the shelter at your local Catholic Church are not very likely to be the same people who abused your husband as a child. And you are a grown woman. If you discover abuse there you can report it.

Have you considered a live in job such as health care aid or nanny? I know one woman on MySpace who was in great financial trouble, she met another woman on MySpace who had a big house, was all alone and offered her a free place to live. I also know of another person who was given a free place to live due to a friendship that developed on MySpace.

Go inside, get centered, shift your energy such that you feel good. Then take a step in a direction that will free you. This is where faith comes in. The next step will reveal itself to you.

Husbands can say things but that does not mean it will happen like they say. You could look up his pay standard in online salary surveys to determine an approximation of what he earns. Won’t an attorney take the case if they can get their fee out of the settlement?

Have you even contacted an attorney? I bet you have more options than you realize. California is a joint property state I believe. You can file a divorce on your own. You would be due half of your combined property. The court would make sure that happened whether you used an attorney or not.

Living with him is going to suck the life out of you and make you feel unable to do anything so get away from him ASAP! My late wife kicked her ex out of the house. She took his house keys off his key chain before he left for work and once he left she unplugged the garage door opener, packed some of his clothes, put them out on the porch and called him up to inform him he was out and to pick up his stuff. This worked really well for her.

“We don’t own any property except our car and I guess I would be entitled to 1/2 the value of that, which isn’t much. I could not afford to stay in our apartment even if I could “kick” him out. I have a call into an attorney and I am waiting for a response. My father told me that he had to pay for my mother’s attorney when they divorced eons ago and he wants me to make my husband pay for the attorney. I honestly don’t know if it works like that or not anymore and I won’t know till I talk to the attorney.”

I still say kick him out that gives you one or two months of rent paid…you did pay first and last I am assuming. And by then perhaps an attorney will have him paying your rent, or perhaps another option will open up like a live in working situation.

“We have been married a little over nine years. Living together longer but I guess that doesn’t count. In California 10 yrs is considered a lengthy marriage and after 10 yrs of marriage I would be entitled to 1/2 of his retirement when he retires. According to the attorney I spoke to a while back, up until 10 yrs, I would be entitled to some sort of alimony for 1/2 of the yrs we were married, so about 4 1/2yrs.

“Understanding how my husband ticks, I think there is an effort on his part, sub conscious or not, to make me end this before our 10th anniversary in December so that I won’t be entitled to any of his retirement. He also has a law suit pending against the church, of which I know few details. I don’t think he wants me to have any access to that potential compensation either, regardless of the fact I have suffered collateral damage from his abuse. He is very Jeckel and Hyde when it comes to money; he always has to have control of it. He is nice as pie when we have it, and mean and nasty when we don’t. So in all honesty the only thing that will be an issue is alimony.

“I’m not looking to rake my husband over the coals. I left my last marriage with little more than bedroom furniture and could have had some alimony but declined it. I just wanted out. I was 22 then and had just gone thru some training and knew that I could get a good paying job. The situation is quite different now. I am going to need some help until I can get on my feet and that’s all I want. After everything I have been through with him (much of which I haven’t mentioned here), I think I deserve at least that.

“I have an appointment with an attorney next week so I should know more then.”

I believe that is good attitude not wanting to take too much of his money. However, you do need to take care of yourself and I would suggest that you do get the maximum you are morally and legally entitled to. You don’t know what the future holds and you can certainly tell him to stop making payments later down the track if you are doing well and feel like you have received what you need to move on with your life.

“Last Sunday I started attending Co-dependents Anonymous meetings to try and get some help and support. My whole life has been spent trying to help and rescue others and now when it is vital to my wellbeing that I focus on rescuing myself, I honestly don’t know how. I am angry and hurt over this relationship and I’m finding it hard not to focus on him and what he’s done to our relationship. And because I’m stuck here with him, I cannot mourn the loss of this relationship appropriately which in turn makes me angrier and hurt.”

Good job going to co-dependents anonymous that is a great step for you to be taking. Do speak up at the meeting and do make friends with whoever feels good to be around. You need all of the support you can get right now.

Since you have been such a wise and loving counsel for others try this exercise…write out your dilemma, then turn around as if you were a friend or counselor and read what you have written as if you received it from someone else. Take yourself out of your shoes and put yourself in the shoes of a friend or counselor. What advice would you have to give to yourself?

“On top of the marriage problems my 17 yr old college bound, high school basketball star, daughter, informed me last week that she is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. I have a 19 yr old alcohol and drug addicted son who isn’t speaking to me and a 21 yr old daughter who decided to become a stripper instead of going to college. She just got out of jail because her abusive boyfriend falsely accused her of domestic violence. Instead of taking a plea that would have kept her out of jail and could have been expunged, she decided, against my advice of course, to take it to trial where she could end up in jail for quite some time. And, I’m still looking for another job. One with which I will be able to support myself.

“Michael, I feel as though I have stepped into the twilight zone and it is very hard to stay positive during all of this. But I want you to know that I am so grateful for you and my other blessed MySpace friends that have been so caring and supportive during this extremely stressful period in my life. I don’t know what I would do without you guys and I thank my Creator everyday for the blessing of my friends.”

All of your children have to learn from their own life experiences through living them. You can give advice and you should give it. But then you should move into loving them. Forget that they are ignoring your advice, and just love them. The more you can do this the more it will be felt and the more seriously they will consider your advice. But most importantly right now you have to take care of yourself. You need to take your mind out of your problems and give your mind a chance to be open to receiving the solution.

I can feel your fear and your loneliness. I understand this is a very difficult situation to be in. But it is most important to take care of yourself as best you can, which means somehow, someway remove the abusive husband from your life.

So I called this blog 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Perhaps my friends will be kind enough to post their story of how to leave a lover when they stop being loving. And if you live in California and know some of the legal rights or social services this woman might be able take advantage of please do post them here.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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In this blog I will be delivering solid evidence that we can heal this world using the real life examples of people who have achieved dramatic results. In particular I will be reviewing the wonderful achievements of the Delancey Street Foundation. These folks have a thirty-seven year history of successfully healing the worst of society’s criminals while working WITHOUT government funding.

GOALS to Healing the World: For every single person on the planet…provide housing, food, clean water, sewage, energy, health care. Move into living sustainably on the planet, heal the mental dysfunction that causes so much hatred and violence, cut crime and violence by 90%, reduce drug usage and addiction by 70%, and end all wars. While dramatically increasing the quality of life, peace and happiness of all people everywhere.

I bet if you were to take a poll of all of the people in the world today and ask them if we have the resources to achieve such a goal most folks would say no. I believe the real question is not can we achieve this, but do we have the will and the desire to achieve this?

Solid Evidence – Dramatic Results

Delancey Street Foundation has been in operation since 1971. That makes thirty-seven years they have been in operation as of 2008! That sort of longevity says they must be doing something right. Although their achievements are many I wish to focus on the following since these achievments are critical in duplicating Delancey’s model for healing the entire planet and achieving the goals I stated earlier.

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They have reformed thousands of the worst criminals in society.
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They have helped thousands recover from drug addiction.
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They have educated thousands who were failed by our public education system.
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They have funded their operations largely by their own efforts through businesses that they themselves have created and through private donations.
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They have maintained the highest level of service and integrity in the businesses they run.
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They continue to expand nationwide in the USA as well as influencing programs in other countries too.
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They use an “each one teach one” principle where older residents help newer ones…everybody works.

The basic principle of healing the planet is that people need a better education on how to live a healthy, happy, and abundant life. People need to be given the skills to succeed in their relationships with others, the skills to maintain a healthy mind and body, and the skills to be productive in the workforce. Society as a whole needs better systems to solve the problems we face and manage the common resources we are all creating in our everyday work life.

If an organization like the Delancey Street Foundation can take people with the most dysfunctional life skills and transform them into people with functional and even exceptional life skills, then we can reproduce this success on a larger scale.

What Delancey Street Foundation does is it has the residents who have been in their program longer teaching the newer ones all that they need to know to be healthy and happy members of society. Using this system everyone gets at least a high school equivalent education complete with certification, and many even get a BA college degree. But there is much more power in this system than the fact that a person gets the certificates and degrees that can help get them a job in the real world. Each resident becomes a teacher and a leader too. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT!

By helping each resident become a teacher and leader they also move a long ways towards achieving a healthy sense of self-esteem. They each get to experience patience and compassion. They each have to become a good example for another person to follow. This is a level of responsibility we just are not taught in our usual course of schooling. If you read my blogs Healing the World Using Law of Attraction and A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World you will see I had suggested a system such as this. Do we really need expensive universities? Perhaps for some things they are necessary, but for many things we could go back to more of an apprenticeship program for teaching job skills. Or we could mix the high school and college education in with on the job training. It would make things more interesting for the students and give businesses cheaper labor.

The other thing that the Delancey Street Foundation is doing is creating businesses and using the residents to run those businesses. We are not talking small, barely making it businesses…no, WE ARE TALKING FIRST CLASS, AWARD WINNING BUSINESSES THAT ARE ROLE MODELS THAT ALL OTHER BUSINESSES SHOULD BE FOLLOWING!

They have a moving and trucking company, run by convicted criminals, that has the highest rating for non breakage and not a single incidence of theft or loss of property. It has been in operation for 33 years. It is the largest independent moving company in the bay area averaging 5100 moving jobs per year.

They built their own headquarters, a beautiful Mediterranean style housing complex for 500 on the waterfront in San Francisco. It won the “Award of Honor for Design Excellence” from the American Institute of Architects.

This complex also houses one of the finest restaurants in San Francisco the Delancey Street Restaurant, which they also operate and use to train their residents in. It was named one of “San Francisco’s Delicious Dozen” and won other awards and high reviews in local newspapers.

The Crossroads Café, Bookstore and Art Gallery is another one of Delancey Street Foundation’s businesses. And like their other businesses this too is a first class operation with attractive décor, spacious and inviting. It provides the best of coffees, fresh juice, bagels and other fare typical of a café.

That is not the end of it either. You really should pay a visit to the http://delanceystreetfoundation.org website to see how truly remarkable this organization is. You will find heaps of videos, articles, photos and resources. You may even find a service they offer that makes you want to hire them yourself or take one of their training courses.

Does this inspire you? It should! If an organization like this can take convicted murders, thieves, drug dealers and addicts and teach them life skills, turn their lives around while at the same time running first class businesses that pay their expenses then certainly we can achieve the goals stated earlier using the same sort of techniques these folks are using. And we could free millions of people who are suffering in prisons all over America and all over the world.

I believe the acomplishments of the Delancey Street Foundation proves that what I have suggested in these other blogs will work for transforming this world; we can achieve these goals. Please read these and help us all by holding these visions in your own mind too.

Healing the World Using Law of Attraction
International World Government
Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!
A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World

There are many more poor and disenfranchised people on the planet than there are those who currently control the governments of the world. We need to pool the power of this majority to overcome the sick and corrupted systems we currently call “government”. If we treat them well and give them what they need we will form a solid point of power that will sweep across the entire planet by law of attraction. We can transform this world into a peaceful, loving and functional home where we all thrive.

Use this blog as a hopeful dream of a future that WILL be!

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
Help Make This Dream a Reality

I fully intend to prove that it can be done by actually doing it. This is not an idle conversation we are engaging in. I am looking for your support in achieving all of these goals. There are many ways in which you can participate:

*Very Simple. Read these blogs. Dream of the possibilities presented in them as often as you can. Tell others who feel discouraged about the course of humanity to read these blogs.

*Some Involvement. Comment on this blog with information that can help this process along. Who else is achieving results? Who has failed and why? What pitfalls do you see? What ideas do you have for solving those pitfalls?

*More Involvement. Participate in World Transformation Radio Talk Show. Be a guest on this show and get involved in working out the details of our solution. Actively promote this radio show to your friends and email list. Help me get guests on the show who are well known and carry some level of credibility.

*Total Commitment. Stick with this project for the many years it will take to get it off the ground.

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I received this as a comment in my post Brutal Killings and Acts of Unspeakable Horror…

Holly

“Lately I’ve been very emotionally troubled and depressed about all the horrible violence that goes on in our world, not just humans hurting other humans, but humans hurting animals too. I am a huge animal lover and recently have seen some horrible videos about the treatment of cows in slaughterhouses, and even worse, the fur trade in China where animals including dogs and cats are often skinned alive. What I have seen is too horrific for words and beyond my comprehension. Now I read, in Canada the baby seal hunt is going to start in less than a month and over 300k will be bludgeoned to death at 3 months of age. It breaks my heart to know how many helpless animals are suffering in this way every second of the day. I can’t get these images and thoughts out of my head and is affecting me terribly. How can God let this happen? Why is our world so evil and violent? I don’t want to be in a world like this, but there’s no escape and I feel helpless. I can’t help these animals being tortured and killed in China every day. I can’t save 300k baby seals. I can pray and sign petitions, but it still all feels in vain. I guess I am mainly concerned about animals because they are helpless and have no voice, although the amount of pain inflicted on humans by other humans is horrendous too. Why does this all have to happen? Why doesn’t God intervene instead of allowing all this suffering to simply prove a point of some sort or make us learn a lesson? I am to the point where I am angry with God over this. I just don’t understand and I feel so lost. If anyone can help give me peace of mind in some way I would appreciate it. Thanks.”

Dear Holly, thank you for your questions and for letting me post my response in a blog such as this. Many people think and feel the way you do. I used to think and feel this way too. At times my answers here in this blog may seem harsh. I do not mean to offend you or others. I do mean to wake people up and motivate them to make a greater commitment to their own healing process. We are ALL responsible for the state our world is in. And it will take more than a few people to solve issues as big as these you are mentioning and the many others that plague our world today. There is no way we can get the masses of people to all change without a large base of leaders who we can rely upon to take up the work necessary with integrity, wisdom and courage. Hopefully everyone who reads this will take it as a wakeup call from someone who loves life, loves humanity, loves the animals and the planet we live on, and loves all of God’s creation.

“Lately I’ve been very emotionally troubled and depressed about all the horrible violence that goes on in our world, not just humans hurting other humans, but humans hurting animals too.”

Yes it is quite a horrific state of affairs, isn’t it?

“I am a huge animal lover and recently have seen some horrible videos about the treatment of cows in slaughterhouses, and even worse, the fur trade in China where animals including dogs and cats are often skinned alive. What I have seen is too horrific for words and beyond my comprehension. Now I read, in Canada the baby seal hunt is going to start in less than a month and over 300k will be bludgeoned to death at 3 months of age. It breaks my heart to know how many helpless animals are suffering in this way every second of the day. I can’t get these images and thoughts out of my head and is affecting me terribly.”

YES YOU CAN get these images and thoughts out of your head. Stop telling yourself and others that you cannot. To do so you will need to stop looking at the videos and stop reading the bulletins about it these horrible events. Find something else to think about when these images and thoughts come to you. Practice other thoughts. View other more loving images. Look for examples of people who are helping others and healing
humanity. Look at the happiness that is being created by such people. Read books about the lives of masters and those who have conquered themselves, created fantastic miracles, and healed many people. Watch movies that inspire and uplift you. Go love your family and your animals. All of these things will change your focus and get these thoughts and images your of your head.

For book recommendations see the end of this blog post about Self Healing.

For movie recommendations see the end of this blog post The Golden Compass – A Waste of Mind.

But then we come to the real problem. You don’t want to get the images and thoughts out of your head. You want to look at them and you want a solution. You want people to change because they should and it is right and they are stupid and doing horrible things. But this is not going to happen just because you want it to. It will take much more effort than that, much more power, much more energy.

We can fix this problem and ALL of the other horrible problems we face in the world. But it will take real leadership. It will take many people with real power, real wisdom…it will take people who have mastered themselves, mastered their own lives. Are you that person? You can be and that is where the real work begins. Until that happens, follow my first suggestion. Balance your life. Save the ones you can, but focus mostly on things that inspire and uplift you, and heal yourself so you can be a real leader one day.

You mentioned that this is affecting you terribly. Yes it is, and this is a VERY BIG problem for you. This will make you sick. This can lead to very real diseases such as cancer, heart attacks, and Alzheimer’s disease. So you must change your tactics. Merely complaining about the problem will not make the problem go away nor will it help your health or inner peace.

“How can God let this happen?”

Because God is pretending to be all of us people who are pretending to be powerless. God as you and I and all of the others on this planet is in denial. If you wake up to the fact that you are indeed God and you help others wake up to this fact, then you stand a very real chance of regaining your power and becoming the kind of leader that can make a difference.

“Why is our world so evil and violent?”

The world is evil and violent because we used our Godly powers to create the violence and the evil in the world. Every time we see someone do something we don’t like and we judge them we contribute to this creation we call evil. Every time we punished someone we create more evil and violence. Every time we do these things and insist we must punish, every time we insist upon creating laws to judge and punish, we teach others that this is necessary. Over time we have created a lot of evil by this very process. And we get real angry when someone comes along and tells us we need to love those we are judging instead. In fact we have even been known to crucify them for speaking out like that. We are doing this to ourselves!

“I don’t want to be in a world like this, but there’s no escape and I feel helpless.”

You are right. There is NO ESCAPE from your creations. WE ALL created this mess and now WE ALL need to deal with it. You can clean up your world. You can live in total peace on earth while all of this goes on around you and just ignore the rest of it knowing that this world is an illusion, because in reality it is. You can even get to the point where you merge so completely with God that you graduate from this planet and do nothing to prevent things like this from happening. I do realize that masters such as this do influence others who may just go on to do the work that is necessary. I am not judging this situation. I am just saying it is possible.

“I can’t help these animals being tortured and killed in China every day. I can’t save 300k baby seals. I can pray and sign petitions, but it still all feels in vain. I guess I am mainly concerned about animals because they are helpless and have no voice, although the amount of pain inflicted on humans by other humans is horrendous too.”

Everyone is free to create as they wish, even if they chose to create evil. It is after all an illusion. At some point in time each of us will wake up to this fact and we will be perfectly whole and complete and suffer no damage as a result of our actions within this illusion. We cannot take this away from others. But we can remove ourselves from it if we chose.

“Why does this all have to happen?”

All of this happens because too many people are way too lost in life and don’t understand life. There is too much poverty, they suffered too much abuse as a child, our governments lead us to commit harsh acts to punish offenders without any effort to reform and transform them, because religions have spread too much false information about life and how it all works, because we are brainwashed into loving money instead of loving life, etc…There are MANY reasons.

These people who torture and kill unnecessarily will suffer as a result of what they do. It cannot be any other way because we are all One, what we do to others, including the animals and the planet itself, we do to ourselves. These events that are occurring now are a result of the things we have created in the past. I have heard many “nice” people adamantly deny that they ever committed any sort of evil such as the evils they are horrified by. But I have my doubts; especially since these people really don’t understand how life works so how is it they know they have never done such a thing? It seems to me to be a convenient position to take in order to justify their continual judgment of others. We are living in the world we have created. Most people, if not ALL people, have committed some sort of atrocity in their eternal lives.

“Why doesn’t God intervene instead of allowing all this suffering to simply prove a point of some sort or make us learn a lesson?”

This is not about God proving a point. This is about cause and effect. We all chose to enter into manifest creation in order to experience and understand who we really are. While doing so we created it a certain way and now we are living in our creation. If we want it to be different we can create it differently. If we are really and truly done with manifest creation we can complete our experiences here and depart never to return.

“I am to the point where I am angry with God over this.”

Being angry at God is in reality being angry at yourself.

“I just don’t understand and I feel so lost. If anyone can help give me peace of mind in some way I would appreciate it. Thanks.”

If you really want to understand then you will have to put forth the effort to understand. There have been masters walking the planet for as far back as history goes. They have always pointed the way. Religions have clouded their wisdom with their distortions, worship, and superstitions. So by and large most people really don’t believe mastery is possible for the average person.

These masters have not asked for or required people to worship them, but they have asked us all to try out a new approach to life. Most people don’t even try, they insist that they are fine, they insist that it is impossible to understand life, that nobody understands it, or that the master is special in some way, they don’t believe, they disagree, bla bla bla. Sorry to sound so cynical, but if this is NOT you I am describing then you have an advantage, and if this is you then you probably have much more suffering to do before you decide to change and understand.
SOLUTIONS

We really could focus ourselves and fix this one problem. We could force people worldwide to treat animals better. We could create police forces to ensure it. We could create prison terms for abusers. But the dysfunction would express itself in another way and there are already so many more problems that need fixing as well.

Really, it would be much easier if we tackle ALL of the other horrible problems we face in the world at the same time and come up with a very real solution. We need to deal with the root of the problem. But it will take real leadership. It will take many people with real power, real wisdom…it will take people who have mastered themselves, mastered their own lives. Are you that person? You can be; that is where the real work begins.

I have suggested the path to healing this planet in my blogs:

*Healing the World Using Law of Attraction
*International World Government
*A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World
*Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!

The World Transformation Radio Talk Show is meant to help this process along but not enough people are participating in it yet. That will come in time. But if you are serious about making these sorts of changes on the planet then get involved. Heal yourself. Become a leader. Help work out the details of how we will make all of these systems come together.

For healing yourself, becoming a master, becoming a leader read the blog post Self Healing Guide – From Misery to Bliss.

PLEASE TELL OTHERS ABOUT my blogs and my radio show…let’s work together to raise awareness of how to solve these worldwide problems.

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

image credits to Keith Hodos

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