Unforgettable Love Story

My friend Ryan Michael Newsome asked me the following question and I answer it below.

This phrase taken from your blog The Golden Compass - A Waste of Mind you wrote, “They feel the need to seek vengeance upon those who make life painful and difficult, they think punishing the bad guys will make the world a better place…” This of course written in response to what I presume can only be zealots immensely if not somewhat foolishly devoted to a cause.

My question I would suppose is what defines their nature? What is it that drives them to reach such a point?

I believe in the good of all people down to the person and I understand and know that they all mean well. I want to believe that they feel so devoted to the overall good of the world that they have defined boundaries, rightly or wrongly, of who or what they believe are standing in the way of global conscious happiness. In that sense it would make them appear to be good.

But then is their action or response therefore bad?
…Of course in the sense of good and bad purely.

Honestly, it feels like shades of grey in this area. It almost seems like misguided energy, determined to go one way but becomes displaced in the process. While I sincerely disbelieve that in “enemies” I do however believe in people who fervently disagree with a viewpoint, whether widely accepted or contested. I know that thoughts heavily influence anything when circulated, either by word, pen, or action.

Therefore if a group of people esteem a certain thought or thoughts that no longer seem to serve the evolution of our well being and world would it truly be disadvantageous to take up a zealot state of mind as some have?

I could be a person of peace, but sometimes to remain as such one would occasionally have to be a person of war.

I feel cloudy on this as it has been on my mind as of late. And since I’m relatively aware of many people’s points of view I sometimes feel double-minded about certain issues. If for no other reason than the fact that I understand them all so compassionately.

And some of it is astral projected off of my conscience I confess because I have read, really read with a certain intensity; the works of Timothy Freake and Peter Gandy on the origins of Christianity. The results were astounding and liberating, with sufficient, plausible evidence to support their claim. Now in response to my sexual orientation, it was like a dead weight was lifted off my shoulders. However it has only added fire to the triste animosity I’ve occasionally borne against today’s Christianity. The deal of mistruths innocently or deliberately preached; has hurt deeply me for years. I’d be lying if I did not say that having a enormous cannon pointed right back their direction would somehow satisfy me, even if temporarily. Maybe a zealot lies dormant inside of me… I realize that this may not be my true nature speaking, and I may still be healing slowly even as I have already healed through the sense of time; but I felt it apt to address this.

Sadly, a religion meant to give the greatest peace has inspire and produced the worst of all atrocities the world’s ever come across in history past and present.

As for zealots I would say if you use that label you would have to label the majority of humanity with it. Just look at the sales figures from movies with a largely violent content. Look at the viewer ratings…quite high, probably the highest market segment. This says that most of humanity sees life this way, and is using the entertainment to explore the ideas. But exploring these ideas as people do just reinforces the ideas and they will come out in physical action when stress occurs. Look at the way US citizens respond to anger, road rage, guns, and supporting wars. In India where such movies are less popular these people are more prone to work out their differences than fight.

We all have that knee-jerk reaction to lash out, defend ourselves, fight, and punish others for their harmful destructive deeds. The idea that “one would occasionally have to be a person of war” is a tempting idea to embrace, because most people do not have enough experience with the alternatives. And the alternatives seem like they would take too long to make a real difference. However I do have enough experience which tells me that the idea of war is flawed. It is a bit like trying to remove your thumbs from a Chinese thumb cuff. The more you pull on them the stronger the grip they hold on you. The more you make war the more war you create.

If we step back from our initial fight or flight reactions we find we come to a place of mind that can come up with alternative solutions. There have been times on the planet where the only visible options were to fight or die. So why not choose death? The problem is by and large we have not explored that option. What if we ran away and then was able to muster up a large enough group of people to imposes some sort of group pressure on the war-mongers to get them to change their ways? In the arena of world events the combination of the two approaches is the one that will ultimately make the difference and change the direction of humanity for good.

We are facing that very issue right now with the way our government is waging war on Iraq. There is a group of people on the planet that are objecting but we are not rioting. We are not grabbing our guns and murdering our own government leaders since it is truly they who are responsible for this attrocity. We are attempting to educate the masses to pay attention and solve this problem through the established political processes.

Ryan your idea about the good in people is accurate from one perspective and inaccurate from another. Yes all beings are good at their foundation. Yet at the same time, in the limitation of their present human incarnation, many of these beings are expressing pure evil. There is a purpose for it, but still the evil is there. Humanity as a whole gets to chose how to deal with this and how to transform and heal this such that beings wishing to express evil in their incarnation has limited ability to do so and limited ability to corrupt the minds and desires of others to also commit evil deeds.

What drives a person to express evil? In some cases it could be the soul wants to experience something it is not in order to understand what it really is. In most cases the desire to express evil comes from a mistaken idea about life, a response that seems to help a person in the face of a greater evil in the short run. Yet the response creates a habit pattern within the person which causes them to respond with evil in situations where it is not called for and it causes them to create, by Law of Attraction, situations where they can fight evil and express their own evil. The longer a person lives with these mistaken ideas the deeper their habits develop and the more evil they create in the world for them to respond to later once they decide to pull out of it. We are creative beings, we have much power, and we have been at it for a very long time now. This is the disadvantage of taking up a zealot state of mind as you have stated.

As an individual, and collectively as well, we must observe and decide if we have the power to stop evil by the power of love, by spreading the light, if so then we must use love to do so. If we do not have that power right now, then we must turn away from evil and ignore it and allow it to do what it will while we gathered enough power to stop it with the power of love and light. So when a child is creating evil, perhaps we can use love to transform them. When the leaders of our country is creating evil, then we must heal more of our own self and become leaders that can help others heal. Then together face the evil with our combined love. This is the approach I have been taking and working towards. Once I have the notoriety, the backing of tens of thousands of people, and the financial resources to protect myself and those I love I will be much more proactive in shining the light on what is going on in our world and teaching as many as I possibly can how to love our way out of the mess we are currently in. But right now I do what I can, I continue my own healing and I continue to teach others how to heal themselves.

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

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Is it your fault that someone lied to you, abused you, cheated on you or disrespected you? Is it your fault when you are mistreated? Are you to blame?

Unfortunately this is such a common belief that too many people hold when they are mistreated by someone else. For most of us as we grew up there were those who we trusted, those who were stronger than us, those who had more skills, those who were in charge of our lives, or those who were cool that gave us messages like, “It is your fault that I am blowing up on you. If you were smarter, prettier, paying more attention, if you did not do that thing you just did, bla bla bla…I would not be treating you like this.” Have any of us escaped the experience of someone else spewing their verbal abuse upon us?

When this happens to us at a young and impressionable age we tend to believe it. We develop all sorts of methods to cope. Some people rebel, get angry, abuse others, break some rule, or damage something. Other people hold it in, think they are at fault, and walk through life doubting themselves. No matter which way you react, the result is a person with low self-esteem.

A rebel who lashes out or who abuses others is just being arrogant. They may know they don’t deserve the ill treatment, they may be strong enough to express it, but they still have low self-esteem and they do not really love themselves. To truly love yourself REQUIRES that you love all other people too. Did you know that? You cannot heal your low self-esteem by becoming really good and skilled at one or more things. Being a great musician, sports figure, business person, or even lover does not make you worthy. Perhaps it helps you get or keep a job, but it can also win you the jealousy of others and get you fired. However doing your best for the good feeling you get from engaging your God given creativity into some endeavor that you enjoy is always a good thing and it does help you with your self-esteem.

The flip side of arrogance is a person who is constantly doubting themselves. They tend to think the problems of others they are in relationship with are their fault. They try too hard to please others. If someone suddenly stops like them, or suddenly disrespects them, they take it personal as if it must be true. If this is happening for you then you need to counter those thoughts with truth. You need to face the fact that most people are in some level of dysfunction in their lives. You need to remind yourself that their spewing is their issue. Reprogram Yourself such that anytime you receive disrespect your mind is flooded with talk that helps you understand the truth of who you really are.

Of course there are times we do things we are not proud of. We feel some guilt. When someone dumps on us at a time like this we feel extra bad. Even at these times you need to remember that their spewing is their issue and yes you too have your own issues to heal. When you realize you did something you are not proud of, something that you feel bad about, simply take a few moments to Reprogram Yourself so you will eventually cease doing such things.

As I was writing my blog I came across this blog called The Awakening that was posted by one of my friends. If you want to read about a great vision for how your life will be as you heal your self-esteem do read this blog. It will inspire you and will direct you in the sort of thinking that needs to be changed. It will provide you with help in your reprogramming efforts.

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

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Continued from What is Right or Wrong: Your Feelings are Your Guide…

Repeat of +Magdalin’s+ earlier statement…”So if you go with your feelings only, you will never try to do right if it feels bad. You will choose to remain how you are until you are confronted with a situation where you must change regardless of how you feel.”

I never said that someone should go with their feelings only. I have always stated they should use their feelings to guide them as an indicator of being on their path or off of it. Our thoughts are the cause of our feelings. We need to look at our thoughts in order to change our feelings. And we need to tag thoughts we discover do not serve us with the command to ourselves to wake up and shift them ASAP so that in the future we become aware much sooner. We need to contemplate and understand why they don’t serve us and what new thoughts we will replace the old habits of thought with.

This practice gives us the power to make ourselves happy and feel good anytime we want, no matter what the outer circumstances contain. However, there is another point to all of this…when we are feeling good we get in touch with a very deep source of inspiration. We get in touch with God. It is like we move to a higher vantage point where we can see a broader overview of our situation and then suddenly many other paths we had not considered appear before us for our consideration. New options emerge out of the darkness. These options and paths are hidden from us by the thoughts that create negative emotion.

So what is “doing right if it feels bad?” To me it sounds like confessing to a crime that you know will get you into trouble in some way. If you are clear about your thinking you will realize it could only feel bad if you have fear involved, or if intuitively you know that a bad outcome would come of your decision. So then is it really “doing right?” If you confess to a crime that you did and that someone else is being blamed and punished for then it would feel better to take the path of confessing than it would letting someone else suffer for your deeds. But if no one is taking the blame, and you have realized your errors, it would definitely feel bad to turn yourself over to someone who will punish you. In that case I say don’t do that. But if confessing feels better to you than living with the guilt then I say confess and let the chips fall where they may. If there are amends to be made then again confessing would probably feel the best.

What if you have cheated on your lover and you realize your error and resolve to never do it again, do you confess? Perhaps not. It may feel better to purge yourself of your guilt than to live with it. But does it feel better at the cost of the mental anguish your lover will then experience as a result of your confession? Will it feel better to have them doubting you forever more? We have more than one question to ask ourselves while trying to sort through such issues. I certainly have not presented all of the possible questions in regards to these situations. We need to think about how our actions in “doing right” affects us and affects others and then feel how each of those courses of actions feel and then choose the course of action that feels the best. That is “doing right” in my opinion.

+Magdalin+ in a prior response, one that somehow got lost, you wrote something to the effect that, “…people can feel good while they do all kinds of wrong things (superficial, and serious).” I want to comment on that notion.

People in that situation feel good relative to how bad they have felt. In some way they have been abused, judged, neglected, or harmed. After a long period of time of dealing with such a situation and the constant negative feeling of being unworthy, unlovable or unacceptable, they find it exhilarating to feel superior to someone else and they feel that superiority when they succeed in doing some sort of harm, be it verbally or physically. But this is a relative pleasure. It is like when the temperature drops below 20F for week and then it suddenly rises back up to 35F…35F now feels warm, when in fact it is nearly freezing!

We have to be aware of the long term affects of our thoughts and not just the short term affects. If we harm another that harm will eventually come back to us and that does not feel good. In fact the pain caused by this boomerang affect of karma is usually far greater than any momentary pleasure we feel by causing another to suffer.

For a person who experiences pleasure from making others suffer or from watching others suffer I recommend the following exercise to get yourself out of that sort of thinking. Which thought feels better? The thought of getting verbal or physical revenge on another…or the thought of healing one’s own self-esteem and of feeling worthy, lovable and acceptable? Wouldn’t you rather be immune to the judgments and unkind words or actions of others? Wouldn’t you rather help unconscious people wake up instead of causing them to suffer more? We need to compare different ideas and how they feel and choose the thoughts that feel the best. And we need to continue to reach for new thoughts that feel even better still as we move through time and gain experience. With each shift to a better feeling place, new thoughts of a better feeling nature become available to us.

So when we teach people to use feelings as their guides, and to understand how our thoughts create our feelings, we must also teach them this sort of process of reasoning so that they can make sense of it all. Some of it comes so naturally to me now that I often forget I need to mention these things. It is only when people begin to question what I have written and object to it that it brings these ideas up. And actually if I just present them, without the questioning from another person, the reason for presenting these concepts can go right over the head of the student. If you give people information they did not ask for, they rarely take notice of its importance. But if the question is asked, then the opening to understanding is created.

“I would like to expand on the abuse comment in brief…As far as the patterns and cycle of abuse goes, I had to counsel people in those areas and I have had friends that have come from such dysfunctional childhoods. Also most of us do not come from perfect family homes… So, more or less, we all need some help in healing in that area. However, depending on the type of abuse, severity of abuse and the mental/emotional/spiritual status of the individual, people respond differently to certain therapies, treatments, practices, ways for healing from that kind of past. Some people have a certain inner strength or, insight, or even destiny, and support needed, that enables them to find ways to heal on their own. Others, can go down the wrong path and lose themselves even more, before they can even recognize the need for internal healing. Others, seem like they have it together, while using faulty self defense mechanisms to avoid the darkness of the pain in them, by all kinds of addictive behaviors, and so on. Thus, “Healing” is a key word in this type of matter. What will cause healing in each person can differ. There are those who can respond to such therapies as the one you mentioned easily, which is similar to what is called, RET (Rational, Emotive Therapy, which is very popular in psychology) and change their behaviors and feelings by using reasoning to control their thinking. But there are those who need “healing” beyond this type of work. How this healing can occur it depends on the individual and their “Will” to seek the healing they need…where and how it can be found. It may be that they need spiritual healing along with psychological, because it is the need to heal the spirit, the most inner part of the soul that has been affected by the darkness of abuse.”

+Magdalin+ I agree with you that there are people my guidance won’t help for precisely the reason you state, lack of will to heal. There are those who have dysfunctional behaviors they are dead set on exploring. This is normal, this is natural, this is our God given right, and this is how we come to fully understand certain things about life. This is the reason I wrote the blog, Evolution of a Soul. A young soul is NOT going to follow the guidance I am giving. Only mature and old souls will be interested in doing this work. Young souls need to get their hands dirty, need to make a mess of things in order to understand why things are the way they are. It is one thing to be told hurting someone else will eventually hurt you, and another to experience the blows of karma when they beat upon your back.

However, anyone who does correctly follow the guidance I am giving can and will heal! Completely 100%. And I am willing to clarify any misconceptions you may hold so that you can follow this guidance correctly.

I am not here to support those who still want to wallow in the negative side of life. I will love them. I will forgive them…actually I just won’t judge them. (Not for very long that is…I occasionally get caught up in judgment for brief periods of time.) I will stay away from them. I will let others deal with them. This is karma. This is the soul’s path. We have all gone down it at some point in our eternal lives.

+Magdalin+ you emphasized a point that I do make often in my writing…One can feel in certain ways and in response, unconsciously do certain things, and make no connection between the thought/feeling/action they are experiencing and responding to. Ultimately it takes much work to understand the thought behind the feelings and actions. You may have to go through the experiences many times. Then it requires honest self evaluation and examination as to whether one’s thoughts are according to “right” practices and/or principles that will guide them to a better place, state, activity etc.

Yes, this is work. This is a practice. This is not a onetime thing that a person does to become aware. It is an ongoing effort to understand this connection and reprogram negative habitual thinking patterns that we have learned and continues to be taught to us by nearly everyone around us.

To rephrase what you said +Magdalin+…Books, blogs, and lectures by those who have mastered these skills can be extremely helpful. They can cut out much effort of trial and error by leading us directly to the sort of thinking we should engage in for the sort of circumstances we will face in our lives. But again, each person must do the work. We each must purposely and consciously engage in the suggested train of thought and feel where it takes us in our emotional state and see how it plays out in our actions.

“… my comment above [originally presented at the very beginning of this blog] centered on the law of attraction, and positive thinking. I agreed with using positive thinking as it is a right practice. However, I disagree with the gospel that this all can bring about certain expectation to come to be. If something is destined it will be. If it is not, then it is wrong for people to believe that if they focus hard enough on something it will happen. It is a wrong principle in that way. What is right is to seek to know what is possible for your life and focus on making that a reality. Use positive thinking against anything that is negative as to make wise choices and decisions to find and pursue the right solution to the problem.”

And with this statement you show us all that you too understand what I said above about being attached to the outcome. There are many people who misunderstand these teachings and believe that the Law of Attraction will get them anything they consciously want and quickly. Those people are in for a big disappointment…that feeling of disappointment will be their clue that their thoughts and ideas are not in alignment with truth.

But I do NOT agree with the idea that something is destined. It may be that at a specific point in time that too much energy and momentum is already behind a certain path of creation that WE have set into motion. We may wake up in circumstances we don’t like, or see something heading towards us that we do not want, but then it is too late. We must deal with it and put in the effort to set a new course and create differently such that our future will contain what it is that we do want. But WE are the creators of our life experience. And as stated in the blog Evolution of a Soul, WE is much bigger than this ego being we normally think of as ourselves. Also the closer one comes into alignment with their inner being and with God, the quicker our thoughts do manifest in the physical world.

“This I must disagree, with you, although I am not ready to expand on it too much at this point. This is a very complicated subject, and my insights come from personal, spiritual, experiences and revelations. There are things that are destined to occur, regardless. They are based on who you are and what you have been born to live out to a certain extent. I believe what you are doing right here, was pre-destined for you to do. However, certain events, situations, circumstances, choices, future states of being can be affected by present choices and decisions. Most times however, people are missing information viable to what choices or, decisions they are to be making today to effect their future in specific ways tomorrow and thus, the future occurs as it would based on where they are today, and what is destined regardless.

“The focus is on the “NOW”, because your actions NOW, determine the consequences you have to live with tomorrow.”

+Magdalin+ I also agree with your concept of destiny…ONLY if you view it from the physical human ego being level. Yes it does appear to us, to most people, that things are destined and out of our control. What you said is accurate from this human perspective. But the truth of Life is that WE are more than this. We have a higher self, that in reality we are one with and not in any way separate from, this part of our being is participating in this creation we call our life experience, and from that perspective WE are creating it. WE have chosen it, WE desire it, these experiences that we as an ego being say we don’t want, those experience that appear negative, the greater WE wants them because IT knows these experiences will balance us and teach us.

Feeling the Thoughts of Others

There is another point I wish to make about feelings. Feelings can tell you about the intentions of other people. A good example of this is discussed in my blog Jealousy and Low Self-Esteem. You are capable of feeling the thoughts and intentions of others. You will notice this when you first encounter someone or first begin to think about someone or first begin to talk with them on the phone. How did your feelings change when this other person first came into your experience? How did it feel, good or bad? When the conversation changes, did your feelings change?

To be able to discern between feeling your own thoughts about that person or their words and feeling the intention behind their words takes clarity of your own mind. You will find this difficult or impossible if you have agendas especially harmful ones. If you have low self-esteem it might feel like you are being judged even when you are not.

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Continued from The Evolution of a Soul…

We must realize that there is a force that is seemingly outside of ourselves that has a very strong creative influence in our lives. We must also realize that this force has our ultimate best interest in mind as it puts us into life circumstances that may seem to us in our limited perspective to be painful. We must also realize that this force does have our desires in mind and gives us the chance to fulfill those desires, even if our desires when viewed from a limited perspective seem harmful to us. This force that we call God, or the Masters of Karma, or the Holy Spirit, or our Oversoul are all attempting to create balance within creation, to satisfy all of our desires, to evolve us towards a very delicious and satisfying state of wholeness while maintaining our individuality. If we can keep this in mind while we are going through the difficult moments of our lives, and trust that this is how Life works, then we can let go of our attachments in any single moment of time. If we let go of our attachments then we also let go of suffering and embrace peace.

Desire is not the reason we suffer as some philosophies state…attachment to the outcome is the cause of our suffering. Desire is a creative mental state that draws lifeforce energy through us. Attachment causes us to suffer.

So in practical terms I feel I have covered the basics about life and how to avoid suffering using this new perspective when Life does not seem to be giving you what you want. Now I would like to cover how to use our minds to create within the boundaries I have just described.

Our Creative Mind

Although we may seem tiny and insignificant in terms of the great powers of Life that surround us, our minds really do have a very potent creative ability. This creativity gets much stronger as we expand ourselves into alignment with absolute Truth. Think of it this way…Imagine a small circle somewhere inside of a larger circle. The larger circle represents the full potential of who we are and absolute Truth and the smaller circle represents the developed personality containing all of its experience, habits of thought, and understanding of Life. That small circle is not necessarily dead center within the larger circle, the position within the larger circle is unique for each of us. Our goal is to expand that small circle until it is as large as the larger full circle. We do this by observing our thoughts and the consequences of our thoughts. Our feelings are one of the consequences of our thoughts.

When we start out as a new soul, that small circle is quite small. As we make mistakes and suffer the consequences it remains small. But once we learn from our mistakes, and change our habits of thought, our awareness expands and so does that small circle. Now at least in one small way, we understand a certain aspect of life. And this process continues until that small circle expands to the size of the full larger circle.

Our thoughts are creative. The first things they create are feelings. Our feelings are the primary basis of our experience of life. If we feel good, we experience a good life. If we feel bad, we experience a bad life. All masters tell us that when we are in alignment with God we feel good…the greater the connection, the closer to blissful our feelings get. When we are separating ourselves from God we feel bad, the flow of life-force energy into us is choked off, and it somehow feels like death, we feel like we want to die.

Since God is Life itself, since God is all knowing, all seeing and the greatest and only power that exists, it is foolish to separate ourselves from God. Yet as young souls we do not know this and we do it on a regular basis and come to the conclusion that it is some outside circumstance that is making us feel bad. This is very confusing for us and it takes a lot of time to work this out, and we create a lot of harmful elementals in the process. But once we do work it out we come to realize that feeling good means we are connected with God and all of that power, wisdom and guidance.

So the first thing to know about being creative is that it should feel good. When it doesn’t you are heading down the wrong path, an impossible path, a path that will not yield what it is that you truly desire. When you do not feel good something is wrong and you should stop in that moment and evaluate your thoughts or evaluate what you just came into contact with. You are getting the message that this is not going to be good for you or for anybody else, which is also you.

Sometimes we think that we need to feel bad when something bad happens to us or to someone else and we prolong the bad feelings. Can you see how that is not helpful? I am not telling you that you cannot feel your feelings and cannot have a good cry or that you should not let pent up emotions like anger out. This is not about putting on a happy face when you are really miserable…that will create physical illness in your body. This is about transforming the thoughts that created the emotions in the first place. When you first begin this process, it may take some time before you realize how you feel and those emotions might just build up to the place where releasing the emotions are exactly what you need to do. Have a good cry. Beat a pillow to a pulp. Go for a brisk walk and kick a few stones into a safe direction. Do your best not to off load these emotions onto other people or animals. Release the physical energy that builds up with emotion and while you are doing it restore your mind to sanity. Reach for thoughts that make you feel just a little bit better, and then again just a little bit better still, and keep doing it until you have released all the emotion, stabilized your mind and are feeling good again.

As for creative thought, “Not”, “No” and “Don’t Want” are meaningless! What we focus on expands. If you think, “I don’t want such and such,” then such and such is what you are creating.

One single thought will not create much in this world. It takes much more thought and much more focus on something to attract it into your life. Some people get the notion if I think, “I want such and such,” then such and such should appear. Of course that is not how it works. What about the billions of thoughts you hold in your mind the rest of the day? They are creative too and they will cancel out the single stray thoughts you hold because you really do not believe it is really possible.

Thoughts that create strong feelings are much more creative than thoughts that create weak or no feelings.

Desire is creative and for the most part happens automatically. When you feel something is missing, you automatically desire the missing object. When your car breaks down, you automatically desire the resources to fix it or a car that works properly.

Focusing on “I want, I want, I want” is really focusing on “I don’t have, I don’t have, I don’t have.” It is focusing on lack. It does not feel good. Focus instead on what it will be like when you do have it. Dream of how it will help you to have it.

Focusing on how your desire will come is rarely helpful. If you pay attention you will notice it does not feel good. It feels like a burden. It feels like you have extra work to do, stressful. It feels like you don’t know how to make it happen, frustration. Let God sort out how it comes, but do follow joyful inspiration when it comes, this often leads you to the fulfillment of desires.

Go with the flow. Accept what is coming and where you are. Often we need certain experiences to prepare us for what it is we want. For example, if you want a really good lover and partner, yet you tend to blow up in anger and blame others for your anger, you may need many experiences that help you work through your anger. Otherwise if the right person comes into your life you will alienate them and push them away. But if you have a few lovers come and go through your life, lovers that also have issues around anger to work on, you can both work through them together and part company when it is time to get ready for the partner who is that perfect match you are seeking.

Like attracts like. We attract things to us based on our dominant vibrations. These vibrations are formed by our thoughts and our feelings tell us the nature of these energies. Life is filled with random events, people and things that pass us by on a continuous basis. Yet we only tune into a small fragment of what is passing us by. This tuning in occurs based on our vibration that was created by our thoughts. If we have a desire, but are lost in the “whoa is me” sort of thinking, our desire can float on by and not be noticed due to the mismatch in our vibration. But if you are happy and carefree and feeling good you will notice your desire as it floats on by and reel it in.

Although this may have been a long blog, it really is a short description of a very large reality. In reality Life is much bigger and much more amazing then all of this I have explained. Others will paint a different picture, one that may even seem to conflict some of the things I am telling you. That is okay. Take it in, take it all in, and observe Life. Allow a multidimensional picture to form in your mind about how it all fits together. You may find it takes years for some of the pieces to fit. I used to think there was no such thing as hell. I’d get angry at my Christian upbringing for pushing that concept onto me. But these days I see how it fits…it is just that hell is not an eternal experience like we were taught. Hell is an isolated experience and one we build for ourselves through our thought process. Hell is something our Oversoul and the Masters of Karma helps us move out of by giving us experiences that balance and correct our thinking.

So if you don’t understand how a certain concept fits, let that be okay. Work with what you do understand and observe. You have all of the resources you need to understand Life and to master your own God given creative powers. Other people can guide you, but you have to do the work and make your own connection with God.

For those whose philosophy of life does not include reincarnation, this maybe a difficult explanation to swallow. Reincarnation may be a difficult concept to prove, none the less it does explain so much about the inequities of life. I know of no other philosophy of life that makes any sense or is fair in anyway without reincarnation in it. People that present philosophies without reincarnation in it are fond of saying that the unexplainable is the mystery of God. But I say that reincarnation is a fact based on my own personal experience. ALL prominent masters that I am aware of who are well respected and have been able to perform amazing miracles or had provable psychic abilities, state that reincarnation is a fact. These include masters from all over the world in many different religions and cultures.

What I have presented in this blog is a combination of my own experiences along with the teachings of many masters I have encountered in my years of study as well as intuitive information that comes from my own conversations with God. I know that I still have further to go in fully understanding all of this myself and I am open to receiving comments with alternative views.

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The greatest difficulty with understanding how our minds create stem from the narrow focus we hold on our single physical life. We are much more than this ego person in this body in this single physical lifetime. We are eternal beings whose lives have always been and always will be. Eternity is a very long time. No matter what occurs in a single lifetime it cannot affect who we really and truly are. Losing an arm or one’s eyesight is nothing for a soul that is immortal and perfect. For such a being how could there ever be fear or worry or doubt?

So we setup a game, one in which we forget who we are for what seems to be a very long time. Although time does not really exist we have created the illusion that time is real by a sequencing of events and a space in which these events leave their mark and maintain a continuity. The net result is a seemingly real existence where it seems that we can indeed be harmed…the mark is left and the continuity is maintained. The physical dimension is a place where we can experience and feel fear, something that cannot happen in our pure pristine state as God. Because a small piece of God isolates Itself in a human form and perspective, it can experience the rest of God as separate, vast, and powerful. Because God isolates many parts of Itself into many human forms, God gets many different perspectives to experience Itself form. This also gives God the chance to have many other beings to interact with relieving what must be the ultimate in loneliness.

Once we enter this dimension we take on a boundary that seemingly separates us, or delineates us, from the rest of God. This boundary is maintained by our own unique and individual experiences in the worlds of time and space. This boundary is our personality, which we continuously develop and fine tune over many lifetimes. Desires are born from the seeming lack that exists within any given moment and place; these desires draw life-force energy through us and anchor us in the movement through time and space.

In this playground of creativity we have many physical bodies which we call lifetimes or incarnations. When we start out we are a new soul, have forgotten everything about who we are and have a clean personality barren of any sort of habit or skill. When we complete our cycles of incarnation into physical form, we are a mature old soul, we remember fully who we are, we have a well developed personality which has the habits and skills of a master. There are many stages we pass through during our evolution; infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adult, maturity, and old age. This is why you can find old men who behave like a naughty child and a young child that behaves like a mature adult.

From the perspective of our Oversoul we chose the circumstantial setup of our lifetime. These are the broad brush strokes that paint the background of our life. They include people, places and the type of body that we inhabit.

Once in the body every thought we think, every action we take causes us to develop habits of thought and action. These habits of thought are the only thing that we carry forward with us from lifetime to lifetime. The habits of the body die with the body, but are easier to develop in succeeding lifetimes due to the habit of thought that came with the habit of body. These habits of thought are the personality traits that form the boundary that define who we are as a separate being from the rest of God.

There are consequences to our thoughts and actions which includes our feelings too. As a young and immature soul these consequences and feelings are difficult to relate to our thoughts and more easy to relate to our actions and outer circumstances. As a mature soul we come to realize that our thoughts are at the core of all of our actions and feelings. We also come to realize that we can even manipulate outer circumstances, including the actions of others by the way we think.

Our thoughts form permanent elementals in the psychic world which gain strength and energy with repetition of those thoughts and loose strength and energy by the lack of such thoughts. Elementals are Thought Forms. These elementals are the basis of what we call our energy and our habits of thought. These elementals repel certain people and events and attract others. With enough focus these elementals can even take on physical form. These elementals return to us frequently for a refresh of energy, and we feed them each time we think in the way that we created them. How much we feed them depends upon the length of time we give them our mental focus and how steady that focus is. Thus they seem to have a life of their own and they seem to control us when they return to us for a feeding. We can deplete elementals of their strength and energy by not thinking about them and giving our thoughts and energy to other more desirable elementals.

When we die we shed our physical bodies and live in our psychic and mental bodies. These elementals still exist there. They still influence us, cause us to think in predictable and habitual ways, and create the reality that we perceive in the psychic realm. As an immature soul, we have no understanding of these elementals; we believe them to be of a reality beyond our control. Thus we have either a hellish experience or a heavenly one based on the nature of these elementals, and the thoughts they compel us to think. This is one of the reasons so many young souls insist that there is a heaven or hell while in the physical world because this is what they have experienced. As a mature soul we gain control over these elementals and can deactivate them and create more desirable elementals. As a mature soul we can easily escape any hellish elementals and create heavenly ones even while we exist only in our psychic and mental bodies. This is why mature souls insist that life is what you make it while in the physical world because this is what they have experienced. If you have not gained control over your mind in the physical plane, you will not have control of it in the psychic or mental planes after you die.

At the highest level of our individual being is that which I call our Oversoul. Along with the Masters of Karma, or the Holy Spirit, or God, depending on how you choose to label that level of creation, our Oversoul helps our soul in its evolution. Our Oversoul with the Masters of Karma selects the circumstances of our next incarnation including physical bodies that are prone to illness or health, physical living locations which may contain pollutants that cause illness or a clean and natural environment, and kind loving people or abusive predators as relatives, friends, teachers, doctors, lawyers and other professional people we might encounter in our lifetime. Our Oversouls choose such circumstances in order to have experiences that are impossible to have as an unlimited and immortal being. Our Oversoul also chooses such experiences so that we can learn and correct our mistakes in thought and create elementals that support us in gaining that which we desire. The unfulfilled desires we form in our physical lifetimes are also taken into account in the setup of incarnational circumstances. Ultimately all of our desires will be fulfilled in some way over the course of our many incarnations.

For example if in a lifetime we desired wealth and created it at the expense of others our Oversoul would create circumstances for the soul to understand how it feels to be subjugated by another and used to create wealth for someone other than self. Then in another lifetime the Oversoul may create a lifetime where wealth is inherited, while peace and happiness may be kept at arm’s length for the soul to learn that wealth is not the source of happiness. If in a lifetime a soul created extreme pollution as an industrial leader, the Oversoul would create life circumstances where the soul must live in a polluted environment which would cause physical discomforts and diseases. If in a lifetime where sexual appetites were created by a man who forced sex upon his own or other children, or others who were physically weaker than he was, then a lifetime where he is unwillingly forced to meet the sexual appetites of others is created. You will find that in some past eras this was considered natural and normal in certain cultures and in this era it is considered perverted. As many individuals have experienced both sides of this issue humanity as a whole has changed its view on the situation and it is rare to find a culture that supports it. We must realize that we have done many things in our past lifetimes that we would now consider a crime; it is naïve to think otherwise.

From the perspective of the Oversoul evolution and maturity are the goal. The Oversoul wants to bring this separate, individual soul, to full realization of its oneness with God and into full power and access to the creative resources and attributes of God, while it still maintains its own unique beingness as an individual soul. From the perspective of the soul that incarnates in physical, psychic and mental bodies, desires are born, elementals are created, and the personality is formed, all of which lead to consequences and the creation of balancing and fulfilling circumstances by the Oversoul and the Masters of Karma.

To be continued..

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Lat February 26th 2008, we had Terin Taylor on our show…

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The Power of Love

This Tuesday, February 19th 2008, we will have two guests on our show…

HANEEFAH EL-AMIN aka Granny Queen.

When I met this woman on MySpace I went and had a look at her photos. I could see a white hair lady with happy friends and young ones. I felt such a loving energy from her that I dubbed her my Granny Queen. Either I didn’t notice her age, or at the time it said 99 or something like that. I didn’t realize she was only 2 year older than me! LOL…anyway I still think of her as my Loving Granny since she is a very loving lady with lots of energy for reaching out and helping others.

Shyni Skowronski

My other guest is my sweet and loving wife Shyni. I could say more about her, but I have already written many blogs about her, the most recent blog which exemplifies the power of love is The Honeymoon and the Truth about Eju.

It is said that Love conquers all, that Love heals all wounds, and that Love is the answer to all problems. This is true. Between the three of us we will be sharing stories that gives testimony to the Power of Love.

Why is Love so important in transforming the world? Look at all that is happening. Our government has gone fascist and continues to go deeper into this state daily. And pretty much everyone hates 13ush these days. Yet we must remember in the midst of our greatest pain that Love is the Power that will bring us out of our despair. We are not going to transform this world by hating these people, or by clamping down harshly and imposing suffering on more people. We need to bring ourselves to a loving place in order to receive the guidance necessary to successfully transform this world into a peaceful and loving place.

The show of February 12th 2008 Features Mark David Gerson

Mark David Gerson is a spiritual teacher and mentor, creativity coach, artist, sound healer and author of two new books — a visionary novel titled The MoonQuest: A True Fantasy, and The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write, a book and companion CD for anyone who wants to write, doesn’t believe they can write, is feeling blocked in their creativity, has written forever or is new to writing. His goal in all his work is to help people reawaken experience and express the fullness of their passion and potential.

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This is the third installment of A Beautiful Vision for Restructuring Our World, the second part is Our Power and Resources, How are We Wasting Them?

When the European Conquistadores came to the Americas, these continents contained a population of people that numbered in the tens of millions. These were people who were wealthy, cultured, and organized. They were living in harmony with nature and living happily and peacefully with one another. The Europeans came to the Americas and forcefully took what would have been given to them freely. The native aboriginal people of the American continents were generous. They were willing to share what they had and teach the Europeans how to live with nature and in a peaceful culture. The Europeans could not even see what it was they were destroying. They saw themselves as superior, when in fact they were inferior in way too many ways. It was only in their technology to do harm and kill, and their willingness to do so, that they were superior.

This abuse of power wasted a culture that in many ways is what we are seeking today. If only the Europeans would have shared their technology with the aboriginal Americans and learned the peaceful ways of those people we could be living in a world of peace today.

My point is…since there have been very large civilizations on this planet that did live in peaceful harmony, civilizations that did share and did look out for the greater good of all, then it is possible for us to change and become like they once were. Yet we can retain the lessons that corruption has brought us and keep the wisdom gained from our suffering to help us avoid ever succumbing to such a social system as we have now ever again. We can heal this planet. It worked once so it is possible and WE are the ones who can do it.

Social Systems and Organizations that Achieve Results

I have been reading about the works of the Delancey Street Foundation in reforming the worst criminals in our society. They use these criminals as teachers in what they call an each-one-teach-one system. Each person is a mentor and each is a mentee. They created their own businesses which funds the majority of their needs. They do not use government funding; however they do utilize donations from the public. They even built their own buildings using the labor of the criminals who are enrolled in their program. They have been doing this for 35 years now and are highly successful. They operate more as a family than anything else. They are a model of leadership and a working organization that can be learned from and which lends credibility to the vision I have been putting forth in this and my other blogs of this nature.

If the worst criminals in our society can do such amazing things with their limited resources, just think what we can do with the best of our society! I am certain there are many more models of functional social systems out there that we can use to architect a new society from. We just have to seek them out and learn from them and begin putting what we learn into practice.

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We are beginning a new radio talk show called World Transformation Radio where I will be interviewing guests who have been working to heal the planet. We need guests who have experience and achieved results, so if you know of someone, or you are someone like that please contact me. We also need participants that can help formulate these ideas I have presented and help flesh out the fine details necessary to begin implementing them. These talks will remain on the internet. These talks will attract other likeminded people who have the power and the will to take action. This will take time, I don’t expect these changes to happen overnight, but we must start sometime. Why not now? Will you participate?

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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Continued from A Beautiful Vision for Re-Architecturing Our World…

The greatest power comes from people, their labor, their intellect, their skills and their love. Currently this massive amount of power is being harnessed and abused by a relatively small number of people. People with money and governmental powers are at the center of this abuse. We know that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So giving too much power to too few people corrupts those people. This abuse of power is an extreme waste of our power. These corrupt people consume and waste too much of our resources. Thus we must stop allowing this to happen. We must distribute the power more fairly and evenly. We must have a way of auditing those who hold the power. Ever wonder why those with power want to watch us? We should be watching them!

People often ask me which candidate I support, who will I vote for? NONE of them! No matter how good the candidates are, the system is flawed and it corrupts them once they are in office! And if they don’t become corrupt, they are powerless in their office. We need a new system. Thus I have proposed some of these ideas for a new form of government in my blog called International World Government . Certainly the fine details need to be fleshed out, but the ideas in that blog are the basis for how we need to proceed.

Power comes in the form of wealth too. If you are wealthy you have the power to choose to work or relax. You have the power to dictate the directions corporations take. You have the power to hire people to work for you and engage in whatever projects you deem worthy. Some people acquire wealth by what seems to be a stroke of luck, but we know karma is at work. Some people acquire wealth by learning skills that make them wealthy. But should these people have the power to move our society in the ways that they currently are with this wealth they poses? Does their wealth make them wise enough to do so?

I do not want to blame the problems of the world on the politicians and the wealthy. We are ALL responsible. Karma, lack of understanding and failure to face the issues have all contributed to this situation we are in…both the good and the bad. For where we have come from, given the atrocities humanity has experienced, we are doing quite well actually. But we can do better…MUCH better than this.

The real power is in the people; not the few who are abusing power, but in the many who provide the real power. We need to harness the power of the masses, but these people are for the most part tired, hopeless, unaware, undereducated, and programmed with habits that keep them enslaved. Thus we must reprogram them, we must educate them, we must make them aware, and we must fill them with hope and relieve their tiredness.

Imagine a world where our children are taught ALL of the important skills they will need in life. Not just the ones our current systems are teaching, but the ones that are so clearly lacking. Like the value of true self-esteem and how to have it, creativity and how our minds create, the true history of the world instead of the myths that control us, how to create real wealth and not an imaginary one that enslaves us, how to get along in peace, how to care for our bodies and the basics of health, the arts, and of course marketable skills that serve the basic needs of our society as well.

Imagine a world where in each job there was a mentor and one or more mentees. Imagine how nice it would be if after you learn a job well enough to teach a few others how to do it, you could move on to learn a new job skill and do a new job until once again you taught a few others how to do it and moved on again. You would have more social interactions with others, a redundancy of labor that would allow you to work less hours and have more free time, a relief from the boredom of doing the same job for way too long, and an ever growing skill set which would give you far greater options in your life.

Imagine what it would be like if these same corporations also brought in experts in essential life skills to train its employees. What if training in mental, physical, and financial health were part of the job requirement of every employee? What if goals were set, mentoring provided and results were produced in all three of these areas for every employee? Would we as a society and the corporations themselves be worse off or better off for having put efforts into these areas as well?

I believe such changes in the focus of our schools and corporate world will turn people into responsible beings who are capable of running the social systems of the world in a loving and humane way. We would be able to vote intelligently, instead of on a whim or out of fear. We would have MUCH less illness and much less of the financial losses that go with illness. We would have clear minded people who worried less, accomplished more, and had more free time to relax and enjoy life.

Imagine a world where the corporations were mostly public, non-profit corporations. Where the incredible wealth generated by the corporate world went into funding public systems, roads and transportation, true education, health care, arts and entertainment, and the needs of all people worldwide. Imagine a world were taxation of the individual was unnecessary, no tax forms to fill out, no loop holes to search for, no money taken from our paychecks.

What would motivate such a shift? Right now the wealth and resources created by the labor of the masses are going into the pockets of only a few individuals, those people who are abusing power are corrupting the directions the powerful corporations are taking to be financially focused rather than focused on serving humanity as a whole. Imagine if this were to reverse how different this world would be for everyone. People who are waking up to the power they hold would make such a shift happen.

Who will run it? We ALL will run it. EACH OF US will take a turn…or at least a far larger percentage of the population than currently does. This mentor mentee relationship will extend even to the jobs of CEOs. Our jobs will evolve from labor to planning and architecting and taking responsibility. As we each learn new skills we each will learn how it all fits together, then many more of us will be capable of running the show. There will be far more experts instead of the relative few we have today. Abuse will be much easier to spot, and far more difficult to get away with, than it is today…and there will be less of a need to abuse the system due to the great life we all will have. There will be many others ready and capable of taking over the helm when we do need to remove a person from a position of power. Committees will be at the head of corporations and governments rather than presidents, prime ministers, kings or dictators.

Imagine a world where you can actually not work if you don’t want to. Currently, the way things are, if you are poor and not working we call you a bludger or homeless or a bum. If you are wealthy and not working we call you retired or lucky or a world traveler. We are already supporting those who do not work! But that seems to be invisible to most people. We are also supporting people who work but are so emotionally unstable that they really make more work for someone else who has to come along and clean up the mess they made. If we were to reorganize how our social systems work, how our education and corporations work, and how our governments work, we could afford to care for, feed, and provide housing and health care for everyone in the world even if they do not work a day in their life.

What then would motivate a person to work? Healthy people want something useful to do with their lives. It is the stress of our modern world that causes us to want to slack off. It is the boredom of doing the same job year after year after boring year that cause us to want to take this job and shove it. People would go to work because they love it. They would feel like they were contributing to the whole. They would have an immense social network that comes from the mentor and mentee system. They would be learning new things that would motivate them to want to get up in the morning and dive into it. And they would have greater financial abundance than a person who does not work and just lives off of the system.

Where will the money come from? From these corporations. Corporate officers decide their own salary or bonuses and get them even if they run the corporation into the ground. Why do we allow that? Look at how much money is stolen from us each day through the gambling that goes on in stock market. Why is this crime seen as acceptable? People gamble with the money that runs corporations which results in a skimming of the profits into their own pockets. It causes corporations to focus on financial rewards as the goal rather than on providing quality goods and services. Foreign exchange money markets are the same. Each financial exchange results in money being skimmed off into the pocket of someone who is basically spending their valuable time and labor resources stealing our money instead of doing something productive that will benefit us all. And the banking corporations too are misleading us and cheating us. We need to establish a public banking system, one where the details and management is public record instead of private and hidden from our view, one where it is easy for anyone to audit the system.

Imagine a world where religions and their ministers were prevented from teaching hatred, judgment, doing harm to others, and bigotry. What if a religion that taught “believe our way or you would suffer some punishment in the afterlife” was required to give an equal amount of time to teaching about all of the other conflicting religions that taught the same sort of thing? What if our schools taught the basic premises of all religions worldwide without giving too much focus or attention to any one of them? What if schools taught the provable concepts common to all religions, such as the rejuvenating and clarifying effects of meditation and contemplation, such as the creative power of the mind, such as we all have the ability to hear God speaking directly to us and that we do not need some sort of mediator between God and us, such as the power of love and wishing good things for others and the self destructive effect of wishing harm or judging another?

Imagine if being held accountable and liable did not mean punishment in the way we now have it with our current justice and prison systems. What if being held accountable meant you needed some extra training and education, perhaps it might mean a restrictive or lock up living situation, but with the resources to grow and change and understand? Of course lock up would be done in a much more humane and respectful way than it is currently done. I have gone much further into this topic in my blog, Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!

To be continued…

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

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This is the latest part of the story with the following installments:

Part 1 - A Marriage Made in Heaven Part I, Part II

Part 2 - The Suicide and the Accident

A side story - The Elephants of India

The Kidnapping and the Wedding

The Kidnapping

The Couple Reunite

We spent our first honeymoon night in a room at the home-stay of Madhu and Sandhya. Had I know about the abduction of my brother-in-law I would not have brought Shyni there. Years later when I questioned Shyni about it, “Why didn’t you talk me into staying somewhere else? Why didn’t you tell me Sandhya participated in kidnapping Shyam?”

She replied, “There was no other place we could have stayed. Everyone in Kumily was jealous of me. If I would have tried to take you somewhere else you would have wanted to know why. I did not want you to know about the kidnapping so soon and you trusted Sandhya. I wanted you to trust me before I began telling you how horrible these people can be. You needed to experience it for yourself first.”

I was still quite naïve about people, much more than I thought at the time. But as the story will eventually show, I did learn a lesson in life that I really needed to learn. Shyni was right to wait and let me discover this truth for myself. It did teach me to trust her more too.

Shyni was quite ill on the evening of our wedding day. She came down with a high fever. I attributed it to her not sleeping much the night before and all of the stress of the wedding. I went to the nearby restaurant owned by our Egyptian and British friends and shared a bottle of wine with them while I waited for my takeaway order to be prepared. Shyni does not drink, never has and insists that she never will, so she was happy I had someone else to celebrate with.

Due to her illness we did not consummate our marriage that evening either. Shyni remained shy about nudity and she objected when I undressed in the bedroom rather than the privacy of bathroom. I just figured it was time for her to get used to a new style of living and a new culture. I did not want to set the tone of our marriage as one of being prudish.

I hired a car and driver to take us to Munnar the next day. It was a beautiful four hour drive through the Western Ghats Mountains. These mountains rise quickly, with deep narrow valleys and another steep rise only one to two kilometers away. They contain plenty of water falls, rivers and lakes and are quite lush and green.

The journey was spectacular and magical…especially with my beautiful bride at my side. We were finally free. We sat close, held hands, looked into each other’s eyes and kissed often. This was something we could not do since the time we met, except when we were in the privacy of our bed room. And even then Shyni was holding back and reserving her affection until after the temple wedding. But now she was much more open and free with me and I was loving it!

At one point in our long drive I said to Shyni, “It’s too bad we can’t take Eju to America with us.” Eju is Shyni’s nine year old nephew, the son of her sister. He is adorable and has an energy that is very similar to ours. I love children and Eju is very easy to love because
he is so affectionate and well behaved. Shyni replied, “Do you mean that? Do you really want to take Eju to the USA?” I said, “Yes, I can see how much he loves you and how much he will miss you when I take you away.”

Shyni then proceeded to tell me how she had adopted Eju as her own son at six months of age. “I first found out about Eju when he was four months old. I came home from nursing school after my first year exams were complete. My family had not even told me that Jessie was pregnant. There was so much shame because Gopal did not want to marry her. For two months they all argued about how much dowry money Gopal’s family would accept for the marriage to take place. My father was too poor and did not have any money to offer. All that he could promise was a one third share in our family home and land. This was not enough for Gopal or his family to accept. Poor Jessie, she loved Gopal and did not want to lose him and she was facing the reality of how people in our culture would treat her as an unwed mother. Neither Jessie nor Gopal was mature enough to be parents, they were like children themselves.

“Then one night Jessie called me to come and help her. I had to ride three hours by bus to get to her house. A lot of Gopal’s family was there, a few of the men were drunk. They were all fighting over the baby and threatening to kill it. One of the men took Eju from the bed and tried to throw him to the floor. I quickly jumped up and caught Eju and ran out of the house with him. It was dark, and wet, the ground was slippery. But I ran as fast as I could down the hill and hid in the dark to see if I was being followed. I had to hold Eju’s mouth closed so they could not hear him cry.

“I watched for awhile as they came out of the house to look for me. It was too dark and it took them a little while to get organized, so I ran to a neighbor’s house and knocked on the door. They let me in and I told them what was happening. They hid us and let us sleep there overnight. I got up and took Eju home with me by bus at five in the morning.

“I had to tell my father what happened. He was very upset but not surprised. Jessie came home a few days later. I took care of Eju during that time, even when Jessie was there. I spoke with my great grandmother Ellie and asked her what I should do. She told me to follow my heart. I told her my heart said to keep Eju and raise him as my own son. My wise old great granny told me that God would support me if I was really confirmed in my decision.

“After about a week Jessie went back to Gopal and I kept Eju. A few days later my father asked me when I was going to send Eju back to his parents and I told him I was never going to send him back. We had a very long talk about it and how it was that I would take care of this baby. My father was already financially stressed and did not want another mouth to feed.

“I transferred from my nursing school, which was four hours away by bus, to a school in Kumily (which is where the family home was) and I took Eju to school with me. I told people he was my baby and his father worked a long ways away. I got a job dancing in shows for resort guests to help feed my baby and pay the bills. My father and brother Shyam played music at the resort, so they also played the music while my Uncle Cebe and me danced in the traditional Kerala style. My mother watched Eju while we performed.”

I interrupted Shyni’s story to ask, “Wasn’t it difficult to go to school, study, take care of a child and dance every evening? How could you manage?”

“Oh, I was often very tired, but I loved my life. I always wanted to be a mother so it was easy to take care of Eju. I loved being with my father and brother while they played music. It was difficult but I just did what I had to do. I could not quit school; I needed to have life out of the poverty that was too common in India. So I put up with it all. Until my father died, that is when I quit dancing and went to Delhi to work. Then my whole family needed money and Delhi was the only place I could earn good pay.”

I was blown away and my eyes were filled with tears. “Wow Shyni, I did not realize. You could have told me that Eju was your son. I can love both of you.”

“I did not know how you would take it. I wasn’t sure if you would understand. I felt I could tell you later and it would be okay.” Shyni said with a little bit of worry in her voice.

“It is okay. I love you and I am happy that we can take him to the States with us…we will be able to take him won’t we? Did you legally adopt him?”

“No. But we can do that if you like.”

“We will probably have to adopt him in order to get him a visa. Will Gopal and Jessie allow this?”

“It will take some time, but I can convince them. Eju does not want them and they don’t really want him either. Eju was so sad on our wedding day. Did you notice? He cried when we were leaving because he thought you were taking me to the USA. He did not understand what a honeymoon was, he thought Honeymoon was a place.”

I felt so happy that it was I who married this woman and not some other foreigner who might have objected. There were so many things in my life, the big things, in complex ways, that always seemed to work out in just the perfect way. I felt like this was one more sign that our marriage was divinely orchestrated and that my new wife Shyni too was moving with the divine flow of life. “Call your mother as soon we get to our resort and tell them we are going to take Eju with us.”

We stopped a couple of times along the way to enjoy the spectacular views. The rivers and valleys and waterfalls were too beautiful to pass by at a quick pace. I held Shyni close as we stood and admired the views. I felt an even deeper sense of connection with her because we were becoming a family. When I was considering taking an Indian wife, I thought it would be nice to find a widow who already had children, because I love children and because I knew a woman with a child would have a harder time finding a husband. I could not imagine taking a wife as young as twenty four like so many of the girls I had met. I did like the idea of having a younger wife, but not at the expense of immaturity. I preferred to have a mature woman even if it meant an older wife. As I held Shyni in my arms I was filled with joy and amazement at how God took so many of my desires into account when he set us up. I got a beautiful young wife who was also a mature woman and a child, this was everything I wanted. And we were getting along very well.

When we arrived at our hotel in Munnar Shyni was again not feeling very well and I needed a walk to stretch my legs after our long drive. She was already used to my routine of taking a morning and evening walk alone so she seemed to be fine with me going for a walk before it got dark. When I returned from my walk however she was not as happy. The hotel staff had questioned her about what she was doing there with me. They wanted to see our wedding certificates, which she showed to them. The man running the hotel did not seem to be impressed but the other two women on the staff began treating Shyni better. I held Shyni in my arms to comfort her and caressed her hair.

Indians have very strange ideas about life and what is appropriate and inappropriate. Actually people in all cultures have this problem, but it is much easier to see it in another culture than it is in your own. However, if you live in a couple of different cultures for a few years, it becomes easy to see the silliness of your own culture as well. I highly recommend that people go and live in a couple of different foreign countries for a few years. It would dramatically help you in your efforts to change your inner programming. If we could only take about one third of the born and raised Americans and transplant them to various third world countries for three years I bet we would see a rapid and dramatic change for the better in the entire world within a few years time. It would change the perspective of so many people who could then be effective agents for worldwide changes.

Shyni had also phoned Chechi (her mother) while I was gone. Chechi was happy to hear from us so soon on our journey. And Eju was very happy to hear about our ideas to take him to the States with us. They were also relieved that I was letting Shyni continue her communication with her family. They wondered how long it would be before they heard from Shyni.

We had a romantic dinner alone together for the first time since I have known Shyni. It was just the two of us, without family, indeed there were no other guests in the dining room at the time we were there. We talked a lot about our lives and our hopes and dreams for our future together and Shyni told me more about the troubles she had protecting Eju from harm.

“After I had been caring for Eju for two months, the president of Gopal’s community called me and she asked me to come to Gopal’s house for a meeting. When I arrived with Eju, Gopal’s cousin Sanu was there along with Gopal, Jessie and this community woman. She talked with us all and told Gopal that he had to pay some money to me for taking care of his baby. Sanu got very angry and picked up a chair, raising it over his head, to smash me with it while I was holding Eju. The community president was a big woman and she caught the chair and stopped him from hitting me. I ran for the door but Sanu caught me and began choking me to try to get me to drop Eju. I nearly passed out but I didn’t drop him so Sanu pushed me out the door. Both Eju and I fell onto the cement porch and got scratched up pretty badly. Gopal just sat there in silence; he said nothing.”

“Oh my God! What did you do?”

“I went back home and never took Eju back there again. But that is not all…Four months later Gopal’s mother and step-father came to visit us. She was being nice and wanted to hold the baby so I let her and I went to the toilet. My mother was there with them so I thought it would be okay. When I came back Gopal’s mother was gone. She had only been at the house for a very short time. I asked Chechi what had happened and she told me Eju’s grandmother gave him some biscuits and then they said they had to go. Very soon Eju started looking sick so we rushed him to the hospital.”

I was in shock. I could hardly believe what I was hearing. “Did they poison him?”

“Yes, Gopal’s mother poisoned Eju.”

“Did they pump out his stomach? Did the test it for poison?”

“Yes, we did have his stomach pumped and they did find that there was poison in the biscuits. They tried to kill him.”

I sat there for a moment with my mind reeling, How could anyone do something like that to a baby? Especially when someone else was taking care of it and not asking for anything. I was feeling mixed emotions. I was very proud that I had such a strong woman as Shyni as my wife and at the same time in shock at how sick some people could be. “Did you go to the police? Did you tell them what had happened?”

“No, we did not want any more trouble from these people. I called Gopal and told him to never come to our house again. I told him to tell the rest of his family to stay away or we would call the police.”

“Did that work, did they stay away?”

“They stayed away until Eju was nearly five. Then Gopal came by with a friend of his. Eju met Gopal at the door and called me. I asked Eju who it was and he said he didn’t know. When I came to t