Unforgettable Love Story

I would ask those of you who have seen the Golden Compass and liked it to read this blog since you are the audience I especially want to reach. I am sure that you have a heart, would like to see a world in peace, and would like to see a world absent of suffering due to poverty and corrupt governments.

This movie had a lot of controversy. Primarily it seemed to be Christians who objected to it due to some sort of satanic influence of demons and witchcraft and psychic phenomenon. Perhaps there were other objections, even those along the lines I will shortly state, but on MySpace they were drowned out by the Christians and anti-Christians bashing each other over conflicting philosophies.

I saw the preview online and was immediately turned off by the violence of the film. I decided against seeing it. But I continued to read comments posted about the film, some of which were by my friends on MySpace in favor of the film. So I decided that I should have an open mind, see the film in its entirety and then come to my own conclusions.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the Golden Compass. I loved the idea of an alternative world where every human has an empathetic animal, which the writers of the film called “demons”. I expect if they were called “angels” there would have been far less Christians objections. It is sad really, that people can’t get past their labels and form their opinions based on the true nature of that which is being labeled because these demons were more like angels than demons. They reflected the state of mind and feeling of the human and vice versa. If the human suffered from a wound or was killed so did the demons suffer the same fate. If the demons were hurt in anyway the human suffered in the same way. People in our reality have become far too numb to their own suffering. Having such a demon might just be a good way for them to notice how much they really are suffering and prompt them to do something about changing it. We’ve learned to ignore our feelings too well.

It was the violence in this film that causes me to call The Golden Compass “a waste of mind.” All of the wonderful creativity of this alternative world was used to suck us into yet another violent film. Now I do understand that this world does indeed contain violence. To reflect it properly, there must be some level of it in our art, including films. But that is not what happens in films like this. What is happening is people who consider themselves good and righteous and loving and caring, consider this to be good violence. The bad guys are getting what they deserve. It is portrayed as the good fight. This “good fight” makes up far too much of the theme of the film and the alternative ways of changing the world are not even presented.

These types of films do great harm to the minds of the masses of the people in the world. They create in us a certain level of acceptability of the idea that violence is an effective tool for change in the world, when it is not that at all. To end violence, we must end violence. Period. We cannot end violence by using violence to do it. We cannot end corruption by enthusiastically engaging in the corruption of the film industry either. The hour and a half we spend watching such a film digs deep ruts in our minds which cause us to accept this idea and causes us to continue to act in violent ways to what we perceive as the villains in our lives. It causes us to believe in an us vs. them sort of perspective on life. There is no us and there is no them…we are all One!

Now I know there are plenty of people who are reading this and rolling their eyes, and it is you I wish to address here with these questions… What do you really know and understand about life? How much do you pay attention to the events that occur in your life and the thoughts you think? Do you own the negative events that are occurring in your life or do you blame them on someone or something else? How capable of loving others are you? How needy are you? What kind of impact do you have on others, is it positive or negative?

I have been paying attention to life and have come to understand it very well, especially the relationship between our thoughts and how it affects both our own inner experience and the events in the outer world. I know for a fact that we cannot create peace while focusing on violence and war. Watching such films is a focus on war. It carries over beyond the time span of the film. It enters our conversations with others. It forms our beliefs and opinions about life. And these thoughts do create the reality we live in. To continue to accept such films in our lives is to continue to accept war in our lives. We must reject them and encourage others to reject them too. I am NOT talking about legal bans on such films, I am talking about recognizing what they are doing to us and choosing to NOT watch them.

I would like to present the following as a concrete real life example of what I am writing about. I had a friend who responded to my blog titled Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane! She complained that her son was murdered and that she wished she had requested the death sentence for the perpetrators of the crime, as if that would have made up for the bullshit she went through with the court system and for the pain and suffering she felt at the loss of her son. When I looked at her profile I found out that her favorite TV programs, books and movies were about crime and punishment, they were murder mysteries. Here is an obvious point of attraction to the life she is living. I am not trying to say that everyone who engages in such entertainments will have murder enter their lives, but I am saying the suffering she is going through is exaggerated and prolonged by such entertainments. And this woman is quite ready to prolong the suffering of humanity by insisting that those who really need mental help receive abusive punishment instead. How is this different than the retaliation so common amongst terrorists?

We need to create and expand the market for a totally different kind of film. We need to ask for films that enlighten and empower us. We need to be inspired, uplifted, and educated by the entertainments we give our time and money to. We need to actively promote movies and other forms of art that take our thoughts in the direction we say we want our lives to go.

I am presenting here a very large list of films that you can rent on DVD that will inspire and uplift you. If you have not already developed a taste for such films, I encourage you to do so. For some this may be a difficult thing to do, since you like the feeling of the bad guy getting his ass kicked and have become addicted to films such as the Golden Compass. But I assure you that you can develop a new taste in movies and that it would greatly improve the quality of your life to do so. These are the sorts of films that will cause you to think differently and come up with creative ideas that can rid this planet of man’s inhumanity towards man.

The “Planet Earth” series and other nature documentaries can fill your mind with beauty and start you thinking about how amazing life really is.

“Amazing Grace” is a true story of how a British MP (Member of Parliament) was able to outlaw the slave trade. Some disturbing scenes are in it, but overall it is hopeful and shows what a few dedicated people can do, and also shows that big changes take time and persistence.

“The Ultimate Gift” an EXCELENT story of a spoilt rich young man who is transformed by the death of grandfather and the “gift” he left behind.

“Powder” although it is not a true story, in many ways it does show the kind of thinking and power that a person can attain to. Many masters had the sort of insight and compassion this boy had and even had their own amazing miracles…the miracles in “Powder” are a bit contrived however and some of them are useless.

“Michael” with John Trivolta. “Danny Deckchair” very funny, a good taste of Australia, romance. “Radio” a true story that is inspiring. “The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED” very inspiring! And check out the videos on TED.com…AWESOME! “First Do No Harm” inspiring true story of overcoming epilepsy. “The Elegant Universe” documentary series. “I am Sam” touching film about a retarded man raising a daughter. “Gandhi” very inspiring what a man on a mission can do. “The Color Purple” a woman overcomes being suppressed and mistreated by abusive husband. “End of the Spear” & “Beyond the Gates of Splendor” about the Waodani tribe of South America and how they overcame their violent nature. “The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn” inspiring story about a wise black man. “The Notebook” touching story of elderly care. “I Am David” inspiring story of the courage a young boy faces in war torn Europe. “The Brooke Ellison Story” true story of paraplegic girl who graduate summa cum laude from Harvard University (produced or directed by Christopher Reeve). “Emmanuel’s Gift” (produced by Oprah) a true story about a very powerful young disabled African man who transformed his nation’s ideas and government policies about the disabled. “Coach Carter” (a true story I believe) about a great teacher and basketball coach who transforms his students.

“Remember the Titans”, “Something the Lord Made”, “Just Like Heaven”, “Love’s Enduring Promise”, “1 Giant Leap”, “Life of Buddha”, “Experiencing the Soul: Before Birth, During Life, After Death”, “Indigo”, “Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet”, “Bend It Like Beckham”, “The War”, “Shall We Dance?”, “The Man in the Moon”, “Something’s Gotta Give”, “Philadelphia”, “Mona Lisa Smile”, “Steel Magnolias”, “Terms of Endearment”, “The Evening Star”, “The Other Sister”, “Origins: Nova”, “Unfolding Universe”, “World Almanac Video: The Expanding Universe”, “Magnetic Storm: Nova”, “If We Had No Moon”, “Marvin’s Room”, “Practical Magic”, “Little John”, “Fly Away Home”, “My Girl” 1&2, “Conversations with God”, “The Celestine Prophecy”, “As Good as It Gets”, “Places in the Heart”, “The Painted Veil”, “Smile”, “Shine”, “Ocean Oasis: IMAX”, “Sarafina!”, “The Associate”, “The Long Walk Home”, “A Walk in the Clouds”, “Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont”, “Chocolat”, “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story”, “Flicka”, “Freedom Writers”, “Mrs. Henderson Presents”, “Boys on the Side”, “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”, “The Gods Must Be Crazy” 1&2, “Driving Miss Daisy”, “Holy Man”, “Corrina, Corrina”, “The Mighty”, “Groundhog Day”, “There’s Something About Mary”, “Shiloh”, “Mandela and de Klerk”, “Raise Your Voice”, “Touching Wild Horses”, “Skipped Parts”, “A Walk to Remember”, “Joshua”, “Uptown Girls”, “Love Comes Softly”, “Sacred Planet”, “Mickey”.

These are just a few of the films I recommend. I took the list from movies I have rented from NetFlix. Certainly there have been many other such films I have watched prior to getting my NetFlix account. I would love to have a recommendation from you my readers for other films along the same lines as these.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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Sex does improve with Spiritual Growth! I can attest to that. And I will give you a real life example in just a moment. But first let’s bust a couple of myths, okay?

MYTH 1: Spiritual Growth is a Waste of Time

Anyone on a path of intense spiritual growth knows that very few people want to know about it. Why is that? That is because most people believe that learning about and focusing on spiritual growth is not important; not relevant to paying the bills, or to having friends or someone to love and hold on to.

Dogmatists try to pass morality off as spirituality and it is not. Morality is a manmade social construct. Anyone with eyes to see, and who travels around the world and gets involved with people in other cultures with different ideas and customs of morality can plainly see that morality is manmade and localized. It changes from place to place. And those who are pushing morality the strongest know the least about true spirituality.

Unfortunately those folks give spirituality, sexuality, and religion too, a bad name. Sexuality is not a moral issue. It is a gift of God.

MYTH 2: I Belong to a Religion, I am Growing Spiritually

Pick your teachers well. Many use religious faith as an excuse to remain limited and stuck, don’t do that. I have no knowledge of you or your teachers; I am only speaking from what I have seen. If you are growing spiritually you will see dramatic change, on a regular basis, in your own inner experience and in the outer world as well.

A Good Lover has a One Track Mind

So who is to be the judge of whether a lover is good or not? Well that would have to be the lover of the lover right? Actually it would be both, but you can’t lie to the other. Who will enjoy it the most, the good lover or the one receiving the good luvin? Definitely it will be the one giving that enjoys it the most. And of course if both are giving it their all, then double your pleasure and double your fun right. RIGHT!

If you focus your mind on giving pleasure to your lover, your own pleasure will heighten. Imagine for a moment that your lover is naked on the bed waiting for your touch. You caress them with such awareness. You notice how their bare skin feels against your hands. How the body curves and flows. How the change of texture at hairy and moist spots delights you…even your fingers become curious. Soak it all in like it has been a very long time since you had the pleasure of touching a naked human body. Feel how your chemistry changes. Feel how you can intensify that chemistry with your focus on giving pleasure to your beloved.

See just by thinking about it you felt a sense of pleasure. This is the power of a focused mind. And that power goes beyond the boundaries of your body.

How do you think your lover felt to be touched in that way? If you were really into it, you would touch your lover like this for a long time just to prolong your own pleasure. Yet your lover would feel your pleasure too! Your energy, your passion would be palpable. It would be so hot for them, and their passion would further fuel your passion. You would become like crazy animals, like dogs and rabbits. You couldn’t keep your hands off of each other.

Spiritual Growth Increases the Energy Others Feel Coming from You

The more you evolve as a spiritual human being, the clearer your energy becomes. What that means is that others will feel good around you much more often than they did earlier when you still had some issues to work out. You are much more capable of channeling a powerful loving energy directly from God and others will feel it.

There was a point in my life where I changed from taking energy from a person when I hugged them to giving them energy. I began to realize that I had more to offer and would begin breathing deeply and consciously asking God to channel loving energy through me to them. When that point occurred people began making comments about how good it felt to hug me, especially lovers. Children, animals, strangers and life in general have all responded in a positive way to my increased clarity.

How will your lover respond when love is flowing from you like a river? Spiritual growth is about making that possible.

Conscious use of Mind is the Power of Spiritual Growth

You are not your body, you are not your emotions, and you are not your mind. The real you needs to make a conscious effort to control and use all three bodies; mental, emotional, and physical. And the mental body is the first cause behind changes in the other two bodies.

Okay, so that may be a bit technical, and for the most part, unprovable…but what I am saying is that you are not your mind but need to gain control of your mind. Using sexual performance was a great way for me to grab your attention but your performance in any endeavor will be greatly improved by conscious deliberate focus of attention. By feeling your way through the activity, monitoring your performance, even using the outside eyes and experience of a coach, you can fine tune your performance.

So don’t be slack and let your thoughts and actions drift into unconsciousness. Start where you suffer. Where is it that you are suffering in life? Under what circumstances do you go unconscious and automatically react in a way that you later regret? What buttons do you have that others can push?

Let your feelings be your guide. If it feels good, your thoughts, your actions, are in alignment with the Source of your power. If they feel bad, you are moving away from your Source, away from what you truly want from life.

Feel free to post questions directly in my blogs and I will respond as I can and post them back in my blogs.

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

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Continued from Healing the World..

This is a corporation whose primary goal is to lead its employees to enlightenment. The secondary goal of this corporation will be to provide a sound financial system capable of supporting everyone who is employed by it, as well as funding projects that nurture and enlighten humanity as a whole.

A person who understands how life truly works is much more effective both as an employee and as guiding light to others. A person who is in fear, self-doubt, under the thumb of financial limitations, is a person who is looking for a way, anyway, to free themselves from the oppressive challenges. Sadly the current corporate and education systems are creating more of the self-doubting type of person than the self-aware type of person.

This corporation will be a cross between a typical corporation, university, and the disciplinary aspect of the military…taking the best of these systems and leaving the worst parts out. The types of things that will be taught will be holistic life skills such as, meditation, exercise, developing our intuitive and psychic abilities, how to maintain physical and mental health, how to create and maintain financial wealth, and how to find our own inner connection with God.

There is a famous saying that goes something like, “Those who know don’t speak and those who speak don’t know.” Well I am challenging that concept and observing that it is changing. In the past those who spoke were crucified or ignored. But we now live in a world where the numbers of enlightened people have increased, there is safety in numbers. It is time we speak up and begin to be more proactive in our influence of others. And it is my observation that this is indeed already happening.

For thousands of years Yogis and Spiritual Masters from many different cultures all over the world have been teaching the essential skills necessary to understand life and our place within it. Many enlightened beings have emerged from these systems and practices. We will utilize the best and proven methods of practice to accomplish our goals. This is a put your money where your mouth is kind of organization for those of us who are enlightened and willing to teach others…and I will do exactly that when I create this corporation!

Teach the Children

Our children and therefore our society are being done a huge disservice with our current teaching priorities. In most cases we force feed our children information. We teach them to follow restrictive regimes that stop them from thinking for themselves, that stifle their creative abilities, and cut the joy out of their lives. This is a terrible tragedy.

We need to cater to the learning styles of each individual child. We need to provide many different options and free choice in what it is that they wish to learn. There are ways to make education joyful and attractive, many teachers have come and shown us how. We need to respect these teachers, and utilize their modalities and let go of petty jealousies

Computers and the Internet make this a much more viable option than it ever was. Videos and interactive software can be utilized to teach many of the necessary skills. And it can be cheaply produced and distributed. This will free up the physically present “teachers” to specialize in social skills. They will provide nurturing and support for their students in the process of growing up. And they will be allowed to touch their students! With love and with respect!

It is at this level that we should also teach the students how to go inside, and the value of going inside, to find their inner resources. Instead of teaching no religion, the teachings of all religions and all cultures worldwide should be presented, in a fair and honest fashion. Instead of ignoring harmful behavior, those students should be given special attention to determine what their particular home life is doing to them and to support them in finding the peace they need at home or in finding new living circumstances that does support them.

Children are the future of the planet, by changing their education alone we can have a totally different culture and peaceful lifestyle on the earth in thirty to fifty years time!

Harmonious Living Arts and Entertainment

This is an entertainment company that creates, promotes, and distributes entertainment that inspires and enlightens. Our employees will work for Enlightenment Inc. and thus be growing themselves and the educational entertainment they produce will be used in the other systems mentioned in this blog.

We will advertise and promote our stuff in the flashiest way we can. We will boycott entertainment that promotes violence and hatred and fear. Such entertainment should not be banned, but we can create something so compelling that violent entertainment will soon become a thing of the past and as socially unacceptable as smoking in a public building is now in the USA.

What we focus on is our point of attraction. Our entertainment causes us to focus our minds. Our entertainment is a form of creating using the minds of the millions who participate in it. When I saw the events of 9/11 on TV my first thought was, “What movie is that?” It was way too much like the most popular American movies and I blame those movies for creating such an event in this country!

Just think what the opposite can do…we can make wonderful dramatizations of the lives of masters who have healed many, produced incredible miracles and overcome death. There are enough true stories of such beings to keep everyone on the planet inspired and entertained for decades! And that is not the only possible type of entertainment that we can produce that will inspire and delight people.

Guidance towards Sanity

The criminal justice systems of the world are WRONG! THEY DO NOT WORK. They are producing more hatred and violence! The war on drugs is WRONG! We need to focus on rehabilitation not punishment. I already wrote a great blog on this topic called Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane so please refer to that for more of what I have in mind.

Do Not Tell Me “It Cannot Be Done!”

All of my life people told me I could not do things, yet I constantly proved them wrong. And I know enough people right now that are enlightened enough to do these jobs and get them done. So don’t try to stop someone who is already doing what you say cannot be done. Instead present the problems we will face in this endeavor, and then help in figuring out the solution.

I fully intend to use my influence and the financial resources I create as a bestselling author to create and promote all of these systems and more. And I know many people will join us…

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

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

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*Enlightenment Inc. – Hires employees and teaches them skills for enlightenment as part of their work duties.

*Teach the Children – Free worldwide education with the best possible and enlightening resources.

*Harmonious Living Arts and Entertainment – Entertainment that inspires and enlightens.

*Guidance towards Sanity – Anti-criminal justice including an end to the war on drugs. Focuses on reform rather than punishment.

*International World Government – Using the Internet to make the governments of the world accessible by the average person.

Changing the World…

We all want to see it happen, but not all of us for the same reasons nor in the same direction. But when it comes down to it, we all want the world to be a better place to live, at least for ourselves.

Changing others is a difficult task. Other people must want to change. We tried forcing change, we tried locking people up in prison in hopes that it would change them. We tried condemning others to hell for their behaviors in hopes that it would change them. But has it worked? I say that people are changing in spite of these two failed approaches. If you don’t believe those two options have failed and proven to be impossible then wake up! Look at the data that is readily available. One of the biggest problems we face is that we have a system of government that caters to the fears of the general population and does not evaluate whether the actions we are taking are effective or not. The governments of the world simply ignore truth. Too many people ignore truth. This must change!

The most effective form of change has occurred as a result of attraction. We see that 12 steps programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and it’s offshoots, are solving the problems with addiction through the efforts of recovering addicts helping each other. By and large this is a program of attraction not promotion. People participate because they are attracted to those who have faced similar challenges and are living a much better life free of their addictive activities.

We see a spiritual movement that is surpassing the religious movements of the past. People are attracted to the light being spread by wise and compassionate people who have discovered real spiritual power within themselves. It shines brightly in certain people and others are attracted to them and what they teach. Yet there are no positions of superiority, only leaders who are showing others the light that is within their own being.

Lately we have been hearing a lot about a Universal Spiritual Law known as The Law of Attraction. This law states that we create our reality, both our inner reality and our outer world experience, through the focus of our minds. We attract to ourselves life experiences based upon the vibrations we hold, which are based upon the thoughts we think. I have proven to my own satisfaction that the The Law of Attraction is indeed at work in our lives. And many other people have done the same!

Brainwashing has been the traditional way that we have influenced the course of our society. And I do not see this influence going away anytime soon. Radio, TV, Movies, Newspapers, Magazines, and most recently variations on these mediums are online. School systems, government, military, corporations and religion also have played a role in the brainwashing of the masses. We must do this too!

In order to be effective in creating a positive change we must become involved in all of these mediums of brainwashing. It will take a large number of likeminded individuals to do this working together as a team. These changes are going to take money too. Unfortunately a lot of our money is tied up in taxes, taxes that are being wasted by corrupt and ineffective governments. It going to take a lot of promoting so that those of like mind will find us.

World Solutions Database and International World Government

I have already written a blog called International World Government on the basic concepts of this government. Some have responded to this in shock and horror. It seems like they are reacting to the title alone without reading the details. This is not a one person rules the world type of government that I am suggesting.

We need a common place that all people all over the world can go to register the problems this world is facing and begin the topics for discussion. Notice that I did not name it “World Problem Database”. The focus is on the SOLUTIONS not the problems. We must however register the problem, in order to begin discussing the solutions. And the solutions implemented should produce measurable results that take us towards our goals.

The goals of this government should be to provide the basic needs of all people everywhere on the planet. This includes nutritious food, clean water, clothing, housing, education, child care, energy, public transportation, a clean environment, humane treatment of animals, protection from harm and free medical care.

Continued in my blog  Enlightenment Incorporated

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

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Are miracles that are reported throughout history true? Or are they just the hopeful fantasies of silly superstitious people? I say, for the most part, they are true and I will tell you why further down…

When Jesus performed his miracle of the loaves and fishes before the great crowds that came to hear him speak what was the first thing that he did? FIRST He gave thanks, second he broke the bread and fishes, and third he instructed his disciples to distribute them to the crowds. Jesus gave thanks even before the miracle had occurred. Gratitude is a very powerful tool for creating. You cannot just give lip service, or mental service to gratitude, for when gratitude is done properly it is ALWAYS followed by a very good feeling that we refer to as gratitude. This feeling often moves us to tears…that is how powerful this feeling is.

I am often moved to tears by the responses of my friends on MySpace and here on my blog. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE!!! Some of my friends send me their gratitude for the work they see me doing. This brings tears to my eyes. Some of my friends have asked for my help to get them through some difficult situation. Once I have finished composing my email response to them, I am filled with intense gratitude because helping people is the biggest goal that I have for my life…more tears, even before I receive a grateful response back.

It is our emotions that tell us when our thoughts are on target. If we are feeling bad, we have separated ourselves from God, we have separated ourselves from our own higher power, from our source of energetic sustenance. But when we feel good, we are on target, we are connected with God, we are receiving our intuition, we are on our path in life heading where we ultimately want to be heading. And do not confuse this with the path that others, such as our family or our society, want us to go, this path I am referring to is the path that we have chosen along with the higher aspects of ourselves that is in direct communication with God.

I have experienced MANY miracles in my life. First let me say, that a miracle is just an event in life that we do not understand. All miracles occur according to spiritual law and coming into alignment with spiritual law. But for the most part we don’t understand these laws and so it seems like there has been some sort of divine intervention. There is no intervention, we are divine, we have only forgotten this fact and happened to stumble unknowingly upon the right thoughts and actions to receive our miracle. (Even if I word things otherwise, which I sometimes do, it is only so that what I am saying can be easily understood or accepted by others…other masters do the same…but they too know this fact I just stated.)

The more you practice the more you will understand Spiritual Law. Taking an active role by studying the teachings of great masters is the best place to start…but you still have to do the work, do the practice. You must come to understand the relationship between your thoughts and your feelings and the results you receive…including both the inner changes in your personality as well as the outer world changes that become manifest in your experience.

There was a time that I thought these reported miracles were a myth, a fantasy, the delusions of some superstitious people. But I no longer brush reports of miracles off so easily. I have had two major physical healing miracles in my life, and many minor ones too. The first major one is detailed in my book, Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story. The second one is detailed in a book that is just about to be published by another author called Living the Law of Attraction. Details about that book can be found at this website: http://livingtheloa.com

I live an amazing life…I know some of you who have read my bulletins and blogs might think I have a lot of dramas, that is true I do, but for every drama I have about ten things that are going so very very well. And those dramas I am also calling to myself by deliberately asking God to heal me of the last of my issues with judgment, anger, and criticism. I have been saving the best stories of amazing coincidences and miracles for my books. These experiences I have had, and deliberately call to myself, are due to the spiritual laws that I do understand…and GRATTITUDE is at the TOP of the list when it comes to POWERFUL ways to use the mind.

Be sure to remember to take ten minutes to remember everything you are grateful for. Actually this is a good practice to do every day. You too would experience many miracles if you did this ten minute practice every day. Guaranteed!

Love and Blessings to all,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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This is Part 3 of a story that began with these first two chapters (and a side story):

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

Photos of our Hindu Wedding Ceremony.

After what Shyni’s family referred to as our “First Marriage” I returned back to my home-stay room in Kumily alone. I was hoping that I would not run into
Mohammad, the young man who rented me the motor bike, nor Madhu or Sandhya, the owners of the home-stay. I returned to my room only to change my clothes and take a bucket bath before going out to dinner and hoped I could at least get through dinner before there was a question about the whereabouts of the motorbike.

Showers are not common in India, and when you do find one, they usually don’t work very well, which was the case in my room. Hot water was also not common amongst the native people, as they could not afford the electricity, gas or firewood required to heat the water. Nor did they have the hot water heaters that they called geysers, except in hotel rooms and home-stays that were meant for foreign tourists. It was chilly in the morning and evening, which meant that I needed hot water, and plenty of it. The geyser did not provide quite enough for my needs so I would fill up the bucket with hot water, wait 10 minutes for the geyser to reheat some more, and then begin my bath.

Being an American I had never in my life taken a bucket bath before I came to India. The concept was foreign to me. It was not too difficult to figure out, but still I had never even considered it before my arrival on these foreign shores. You have your large bucket which you fill with water at the desired temperature and a one liter mug which you use to scoop water out and pour over yourself.

I was able to make it through my dinner and back to my room without running into Mohammad. This was actually unusual since he was a “guide” in Kumily and was often seen in the various places I would go including the restaurants. I did not run into Madhu or Sandhya that evening either. It was almost as if Sandhya was avoiding me ever since I announced that I was going to marry Shyni, because in that week of time, she stopped coming by my room to talk. Of course I was hardly ever at my room like I had been in the prior weeks. So I just figured that was the reason.

The next day however was a different story. Mohammad came to my room and asked me where his motorbike was. He had noticed it was not parked outside. He also told me that I had been seen in Peremade, one of his friends had informed him. Mohammad wanted to know what I was doing there. I told him it was none of his business and proceeded to give him a lecture about spying on us a week earlier when Shyni and I was first introduced. But Mohammad would not be distracted by my lecture, he again inquired about the bike and he insisted that I tell him where it was.

I lied to him and saying, “You don’t have to worry about your motorbike Mohammad. I am taking good care of it. It was too cold last night to ride it home so I left it at Shyni’s house and I took a rickshaw back.”

“I went to Shyni’s house just before. My bike is not there. There is going to be trouble. Now you better tell me what happened. I will bring the police here!” Mohammad’s tone turned angry and determined. Again I was surprised at how much he already knew.

“Alright, I had a small accident and the bike is in the shop being repaired. Don’t worry, I will pay for everything.”

“That is my motorbike. You must tell me where it is. I need to file insurance claims.”

“I told you not to worry; I will cover all of the repair costs. It is not that much. The insurance company does not even have to know about the accident.” I was determined to give Mohammad as little information as possible.

“Now you stop playing with me. You must tell me where it is. Did you get hurt? Was there anyone else on the bike with you? Did anyone get hurt?”

“No one got hurt. I was alone.”

“If you don’t tell me where it is I am going to bring the police here…Do you want that?”

“If you bring the police I will tell them how you were spying on our conversation the other evening…Do you want that?”

“You better get that bike back here by this afternoon or there will be trouble.” With that Mohammad walked away in a huff.

I wasn’t sure what to do. I did not think that Shyni would be back home yet, but I went there anyway to see. She was not there. Only her mother Chechi and nephew Eju were there. I could not understand them, nor could they understand me. So I was still left to figure this one out on my own.

I had work to do, so I returned to my room to resume my writing. Mohammed came by and confronted me two other times that same day. Each time I refused to tell him more than I already had. He was not happy.

The next morning I went to Shyni’s home and she was there. We talked about her brother-in-law Gopal who was fine except for some stitches and a swollen knee. Shyni told me the motorbike was in Kottayam, three hours away, being repaired by Gopal’s brother. It was only going to cost Rs. 3000 (Indian Rupees), which is about $75. I could hardly believe the cost would be so low. I figured the metal on the new parts alone would cost that much. In reality it turned out to cost only Rs. 600 more than that.

We talked about what to do about Mohammad, what would we tell him about his bike? Shyni told me to say nothing more than I had to. Then Shyni asked me, “Would you like to stay here instead of the home-stay?

I could not believe it. I replied, “Yes, that would be great. And it would save me some money too!”

“My family has discussed this and you can sleep in the room next to the kitchen and I will sleep with my mother in the main room. We cannot sleep together until our temple marriage.”

That was fine with me. At least I would be closer to Shyni and save money at the same time. And with the dramas with Mohammad, it was also more comforting to be at the family home. So I went straight back to the home-stay to collect my belongings and check out. Fortunately I missed Mohammad, but Sandhya gave me a lecture about hiding Mohammad’s bike from him.

To be continued…

Love and Blessings,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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A reader of my blogs sent me this interesting story. On the surface it makes sense, but if you look just a bit deeper you will see the flaws in its reasoning. These flaws in reasoning are common to all people living in our society today, and are the reason that we have the problems that we do have.

Please enjoy the story and then follow through by reading my comments on it…

Drug Problems - The Story

The other day, someone at a store in a small Midwestern town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farm house in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, “Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”

I smiled and replied, “I did have a drug problem when I was a kid growing up on the farm in southeast Missouri.

“I had a drug problem when I was young:

“I was drug to church on Sunday morning.

“I was drug to church for weddings and funerals.

“I was drug to family reunions and community socials, no matter the weather.

“I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults and teachers.

“I was also drug to the wood shed and beaten savagely when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher. Or if I didn’t put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.

“I was drug out to pull weeds in mom’s garden, and flower beds, and cockleburs out of dad’s soybean fields.

“Those drugs are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack or heroin, and if today’s children had this kind of drug problem, America might be a better place today.”

Drug Problems - The Flaws in Reasoning

Those people of yesterday are the leaders, the teachers, of those of us who are living today. They are the creators of the life and culture we live in toady. It is their teaching, that we can force others to do the “right thing”, which is the root of the problems we face today.

What is the “right thing?” Well that is another problem; the assumption that there is one “right thing” and that any individual knows what the “wrong thing” for another person is.

We each can only know what is right for us. And we each can only know what is right for us in this now moment. Tomorrow, next week, or next year that right thing may now be the wrong thing and the wrong thing may now be the right thing.

The perfection in life is in our evolution. Evolution comes as we are faced with our previous creations, and we decide what we don’t like, and from that is born greater clarity on what we do want to create. From that point on, we need to focus on what we do want, rather than on blaming and complaining and focusing on what we don’t want.

In the past, for the entire history of mankind it seems, we believed forcing others to do the right thing made our world a better place to live in. Yet, has there ever been a time when we did not see problems in our world, or in the people who inhabit it? Can you see that this belief has never worked?

Forcing others to do something, anything, says to them, “You don’t matter. Your opinions, ideas, beliefs, and desires don’t matter. We know better than you.” Repeated over and over, as a person grows up from a child to an adult, this message is hypnotic and creates low self-esteem in the individual who had different ideas.

People with low self-esteem are not playing with a full deck. They are confused, delusional, needy, angry, violent and insane. Sadly this is most of the people on the planet. They are not people who know what the right thing is for themselves, let alone for other people.

Yet it is precisely these same people, with low self-esteem who are dragging others about by the ears and forcing them to do the “right thing,” merely because they have enough physical power to do so.

A person with true self-esteem, true wisdom, true understanding of life, demonstrates their wisdom in the way they live. Others flock to them to learn their secrets. They are loved in ways that most of us can only dream about being loved. They lead others by their example. And they love others unconditionally.

Yes, unconditional love really does mean loving regardless of the conditions.

Do you know what Nelson Mandela did in prison? He treated his guards, the very people who kept him in prison and even abused him, as real people. He asked them about their families and conversed with them as friends do. He became the president of the very country that imprisoned him.

How about Gandhi? He would rather starve his own body than let the people he loved go on striking back at their abusers. Thus he led a nation to free itself from the tyranny of a foreign government. Millions of people in India got to learn firsthand, by personal experience, that all people matter, no matter what they say or do. The rest of the world got to learn by observing this process.

Jesus Christ forgave the very people who tortured and crucified him. He knew there was no such thing as death and thus he showed us all the impermanence of erroneous thoughts, and the permanence of Truth and Life itself. Two thousand years later we still hold him up as a prime example of what is possible for all of mankind.

To be continued…

Kind Regards,

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

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I arrived in India on January 8th, 2005. It had only been eight months since I was deported from Australia and I could not wait to get out of the United States again. After living in Australia for five years I knew there was more to see in the world and I did not want to be stuck in a country I had already lived in for 40 years. Been there done that.

I had never wanted to go to India. Many people I had met in Australia had gone there, they loved it…and they ALL reported getting sick while in India. I didn’t want to go to a place where I was guaranteed to get sick. That did not sound like fun to me. But here I was embarking on a journey I thought I would never take.

At the time I gave Paramahansa Yogananda’s book Autobiography of a Yogi the majority of the credit for my about-face-decision to go to India. I had read the book two other times before but at that time it felt more like a fairy tale than anything else. But in August of 2004, less than a year after my first Self-realization experience, I felt drawn to read it again. My Self-realization experience was a gift from God; it was an experience I had no control of and could not create at will. It left me longing for more…Yogananda had reported having such experiences in his book. He went on to describe the practices the he had been learning from his master, the techniques for deliberately achieving that state of Samadhi. Yogananda also described in great detail the feats of many great masters he had encountered who had achieved this state. I got the notion from reading his book that going to India might help me unlock some inner doors. Thus I made the decision to go to this mystical magical place known as India, the land of a million spiritual masters.

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How can anyone tell you who God is? How can a church, a religion, or any teacher tell you who or what God is? They can not!. Have they seen Him? Have they talked to Her? Of course not! Not in the physical sense that so many seem to think that God is in.

Our language is not rich enough to put into words the incredible unlimited nature of God. The only thing anyone can do is describe to you how they have come to know and experience God. And even then the fullness and intensity of their experience will be lost in their words.

If you have been reading the various spiritual books on the topic of God and spirituality you may have noticed many inconsistencies or contradictions amongst authors. This includes all books; “The Bible” as well as the huge volume of modern books available to us.

You may have read some books that have been channeled and thought, “Because some spiritual entity is teaching through this author or speaker it must be true.” Then you read another author and find contradictions. How can they both be right?

Please keep in mind that the spiritual truth is given but the channeler (or author) may have blocks, judgments or set ideas about certain topics. These will interfere with accurate channelings. The truth is so much bigger than can be put into words; much of it gets lost as it is condensed down into the limited constructs that we use to communicate with.

You must consider the perspective that the communication is coming from and of the issue being addressed. It would be like a being from another planet trying to describe planet earth from his space ship orbiting the earth or while standing in the desert. The description may be accurate from those perspectives, yet there are many other descriptions that could be given from many other perspectives that are also accurate. How much different would the description be if this being were standing on the ocean floor?

God is everywhere and everything; there is nowhere that God is not. There is nothing outside of God, not even you and I. We exist inside of God; indeed we are a part of God, an inseparable part. There is no part of us that is not God. However, we are at the leading creative edge of God. We are expanding the Universe, we are expanding God, with each and every thought we think and with each new experience we have.

God is not some being that can somehow be perceived standing in some specific spot in creation. God is every single particle of all of creation in each and every dimension. God is the “All That Is.” To describe God is to compare God to something else and that something else is God too! Can you see how difficult it is try to explain God? You must experience God for yourself!

We do have many lifetimes. I am absolutely convinced of this. Some people find this difficult to believe. Why? Is it any more amazing than we exist at all?

I went through a five-year period in my life where I suffered with extremely painful back pains every single night. I tried doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists; I tried more than one of each and found no relief. One day I did a past life regression on myself. That night, no more back pain! And I have not had them since. This was an instant healing!

You can read this amazing story in my Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story. You will also find the story of how my late wife Kathryn healed a twenty-five year loss of smell and a severe skin condition that lasted ten-years…it prevented her from putting her hands in water! All three of these stories were miraculous healings that occurred as a result of becoming aware and changing our thinking! I also expand more on the conclusions my spiritual journey has brought me to in this book.

Your Personal Spiritual Discoveries
I don’t want to convince you of what you should believe about God or spirituality. However, I do want to convince you to reach for your own experience and understanding. I know that when you do get in touch with the vast spiritual being that you are, you will have experiences that will seem miraculous.

The truth is that these miracles are natural. When you shed the false ideas you have been taught all your life and discover for yourself the true nature of your being you will realize that true spirituality is practical, very practical!

You will discover that by using true spiritual principals you can make every action you take count. This beats the widely popular, yet false belief, that working hard and suffering in the hopes of some future gain is a worthy and noble way to live. When you clarify your awareness you may still find yourself working long hours, but they will be inspired hours that fly by. Those hours will infuse you with life force energy and heal any suffering you may have had in your life.

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

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Continuation…

I am not sure how developing one’s psychic ability is a hindrance to love.I know that I am still able to love and more so than I was ever able to in the past before developing my awareness and psychic abilities.

One would want to develop their psychic abilities to know when they are safe or to know when they are in danger. If you have a choice to make how do you make it? If you take your time, go inside, and feel as you imagine the path each choice takes you down, then follow the path that feels the best, you wind up in magical places with magical experiences that blow your mind and satisfy your desires.

I am not advocating developing your psychic abilities as an end. Actually I advocate developing awareness which includes psychic abilities but goes beyond that and includes developing right thinking.

As for other selling points of the book…I think the book stands on its own as an enjoyable read for anyone who likes love stories, true stores, and stories that have lessons in them which clarify spiritual principals. If you like reading those sorts of books it would be worth your time and money to read Unforgettable too.

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