The dangers of holding a rigid belief

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Reinforcing statements made in my last blog, when I wrote about the crippling effect a rigid belief will have on a person’s intellectual and spiritual growth, a friend told me this:

 When my parents died, I became quite psychic for about a year afterwards. During that time my mother communicated telepathically about her life on the ‘other side’.  At one point she communicated to me that she was assisting a Christian missionary adjust to his new life after leaving his earthly body. This man had spent most of his life in China and my mother was having a very difficult time for this missionary did not believe in an afterlife!  He still thought he was on earth and in his 3D body!  Nothing would make this fellow change his mind because he did not believe that the soul lives on!  From that telepathic communication, I realized that some religions, by not emphasizing the fact that we live on after our bodies cease to exist, cause all kinds of false beliefs and trouble later on.

As my mother was giving me this message about people dying and not believing they are dead, I thought to myself, “I have never heard of Christian missionaries in China, I must be making up this conversation I am having with my mother.”

As my own limiting beliefs cut in I began to dismiss this precious communication with my mother, then about two weeks later I flipped on the TV. As I randomly changed channels I came across a television documentary about Christian missionaries in China!   Gratefully I realized that my telepathic conversation with my mother had been real!

I had other conversations with my mother after she passed, but I remember only one significant conversation where she explained what it was like for her to die and what happens afterwards.  Obviously this was meant to be passed along to me as I now have less fear of dying than I would have had otherwise.  

 

Dying is a gift to the soul to return home from whence it came.  Too bad people do not know this.  It would make the entire process of dying so much easier for many people.  As for my mother and I being close, I believe she was quite psychic and some of this ability was passed along to me when I was born.

 

For me the contact with my mother faded over time.  I think it is because an individual  has to work on the other side, helping to elevate others as well as themselves. It would seem that the type of work changes but one is always progressing in one way or another.  No one ever sits on a cloud and plays a harp all day; there are just too many things to do!  There are actually many roles that individuals can take on once they pass over.  My cousin, when she passed over, became a teacher/counselor following on from her earthly life doing exactly the same work.  My sister, who was an artist at the time of her passing, tapped into the creativity of healing via sound, color, crystals and light.

 

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It seems our roles here on earth can often influence our activity once we cross to the other side of consciousness, and most certainly heavily controlled beliefs and rigid attitudes will continue in the Afterlife - often limiting our development. If we want to continue to expand our awareness both here and after we die, it seems almost imperative that we develop both an open, flexible mind and an ability to listen.

 

Programmed beliefs from childhood usually are so deeply imbedded that we almost cannot recognize what a hold they have over us. Intellectual and academic beliefs can also dictate our view of life. In both cases the ego maintains control by wrapping our identity around these beliefs. It’s a dangerous state of affairs, causing enormous suffering as Mankind fights to the death to maintain its beliefs here on this planet, plus turmoil and confusion once an individual passes over.

 

These days I am trying hard not to reject outright what others have to say, easing back to consider what is quite often a new and very different point of view. It doesn’t mean I have to agree, but being open allows me to hold my ego in check preventing what could otherwise be a dogmatic and useless interaction. The times when I do close down and attack an idea it does not take me long to recognize my mistake. Eating humble pie is not nice, but dogmatically refusing to acknowledge new thoughts and ideas has far worse consequences.

Posted by Lyn on July 23rd, 2009 :: Filed under Creative Writing

The process of Time & Belief

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16th July 2009

I am starting to realise that to execute this earth-life experience ( living a life) we need to function in a certain way, and to do this we have a physical mechanism that creates a past present and future…doesn’t mean its real or an illusion, it means its a process.

While we live through this 3rd dimensional life we exist within a state or maybe we could call it a program called Time. As physical beings we are equipped with a beautifully developed, complex design that draw us through Time in a linear way allowing us to have a full life experience, consisting of physical, emotional and mental components and it now occurs to me that once this human earth process comes to an end and we die Time disappears and we are back in the limitless Now of Consciousness. Once we die we revert back to who we have always been – our awareness slots into another level of existence, like a key into a lock. The whole 3rd dimensional experience drops away and we are again fully alive within an all pervading divine state of consciousness. Some refer to the energy that lives on after physical death as our soul or our spirit, and such names can identify this energy, but I like to call the vibratory wave that leaves the body at death a divine spark of Consciousness.

So I am saying that Time is part of the physical body’s experience. That past, present, and future is a complex process we use (need) to accommodate a memory of the past and a hope for the future so we can begin to grow, learn and change. The dimension of Time has been created as a human learning process. This ‘time-program’ aids our development, sitting as it does inside 3rd dimensional space. Quantum physics is showing that matter does not operate within Time unless conscious intent overlays this limitless state, and as already suggested - when we die the energy which is our consciousness reverts back to the limitless state of Now.

It would seem from what Robert Munroe and other have reported, many people are intensely impacted by this earth experience and at death they carry many of the beliefs attached to this life over into this all pervading limitless consciousness. According to these reports, many people are still caught up in the role they have been playing within the 3rd dimension of past present and future, so the illusion continues even after the death of the body. Munroe has written extensively about these Belief System States on the Other Side of Life. He suggests that if, as a person dies, they are strongly attached to a certain set of beliefs – for instance, let’s say ‘right wing Christian beliefs’ - then the consciousness that leaves the body finds itself resonating with this Belief System so the energy is powerfully attracted to this massive thought-form. I am sure this is a bizarre human description of a natural energetic process, nevertheless it would seem that the illusion of belief can continue after death.  This is why it pays to let go of mind numbing beliefs while still experiencing physical life. We really do need to let go of all religious, scientific, political, philosophical and personal beliefs while still earth bound, this way we can quietly revert back to our true divine state once we move out of this process of dimensional Time.

For a long time my attitude has been to take knowledge from every source I can then simply move on and not get caught up in the socialisation of this knowledge. Intuitively I have been aware that these confined thought-forms create systems that can overwhelm us they are so powerful. This is what I call the human massing of a particular belief - and there are thousands of these separate little packages, some scientific, some environmental, some religious.  Humans seems to want to come together to make their ‘thing’ strong. They create their own reality within the reality of this physical world and its power can distort society’s experience….the US gun lobby for instance; this is a perfect example.  Jung talked about archetypes and this is what these various ‘isms’ create;  an archetypal mass state that takes on a life of its own. Powerful belief system like this can dominate whole nations. Hitler’s 3rd Reich is another example.  People get so caught up in these massive systems they are unable to think clearly for themselves.

 So I say let’s take what we can from the many branches of science, philosophy, religion and whatever else we are following… let us take this knowledge and allow our higher selves to help develop insights that allow a unique, personal understanding  of what feels ‘right’. By separating the knowledge from the dictatorial, narrowly focused, limitations holding sway over such knowledge we can untangle ourselves enough to discover our own independent and very special view of life.

This is when insight and heart felt wisdom begins to lead us toward new understanding allowing us to step outside the processes of time and archetypal belief systems and rediscovering the fullness of who we are.

 

 

 

Posted by Lyn on July 18th, 2009 :: Filed under Mystical life
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