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2. How often does your child see ghosts/entities? Pretty much all day
3. What type of “being” does your child see? My grandfather who died 13 years ago
4. Where around town will your child most often see these beings? Anywhere
6. At what age did your child being seeing ghosts? We noticed it around 9 months
Anything else you would like to add? She tells us he keeps her safe
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Spiritualism is a belief that spirits of the dead have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.
What do spirits do all day?
“Well, they don’t really experience time like us.
3. A team of psychologists from Saint Louis University claims that stress can be spread from person to person like a virus.
Now, if stress can spread like a virus, so too can love and healing spread like a virus.
1. Imagine the doctor entering the hospital ward.
The good doctor is positive, loving and calm.
This helps the sick patient.
2. Imagine you are the pilot of a passenger plane which has just been struck by some dangerous emergency.
It does not help you, nor the passengers, if your ego feels great fear.
A game of golf would not be real if there were not some minor ups and downs; but you want to avoid the extremes.
3. Why does the government carry out acts of terrorism as part of its ‘Strategy of Tension’?
They want to get you angry with, and scared of, the ‘terrorists’.
When people are scared they will obey their ‘big brother’ government.
So, detach yourself from fear and anger.
Fear and anger make you sick.
4. In the past you may have been hit by extreme fear, anger, grief, worry and despair.
But we should practise non-attachment to such extremes.
This means not holding on.
5. We should practise non-attachment to lots of things.
“All the delightful things of the world – sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts – these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed.
“But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering.”
-Sutta Nipata
6. It is not a good idea to ‘suppress’ our feelings.
Research shows that people who are able to talk about their grief, anger or fear get rid of these negative feelings more quickly.
People who are not able to talk about these feelings are more likely to suffer ill health, mental or physical.
Some people get angry when there is a long queue at the airport.
Some people learn not to get angry.
They are not supressing their anger; they just don’t feel anger.
We see ourselves as separate selves.
Our body feels the pleasures and pains of life.
Imagine switching out of the SELF mode into the NON-SELF mode.
In the NON-SELF mode there is no grasping of pain or pleasure.
But this is difficult for our minds to imagine, just as ‘infinity’ is difficult to imagine.
Some people write about the dangers of talking about the Oneness of everything.
“Holding to both the oneness and multiplicity of existence takes greater spiritual maturity…
“It requires being present with the moment with all it’s paradox and radicalness.
“Experiencing both the bliss and sorrow of existence takes greater spiritual maturity…
“It requires us to be present to the entire situation of existence, our own and all others.
“In terms of our tradition, we describe this as the dance between emptiness and form and our path as the willingness to experience both and their mutuality.
“The main emphasis of our path is to show up wakefully to the play of emptiness and form…”
And only that one ‘entity’ is good.
That one person is ‘God’.
Or the Tao, or the Force, or the Holy Spirit, or the divine…
Paradoxically, it may be that if we give up our supposed ‘free will’, we can then follow the will of ‘God’ (or go with the flow, tune into the Tao, realise that we are part of ‘God’) and live happily ever after.
By Alexander Macfarlane
By maria dupovkina
This raises the question of why we are not all tuned into ‘God’ already.
One can speculate that if God is going to create ‘a real world’, then, as with a game of golf, there has to be an element of chance.
By IWGIA
Of course, things may always have existed.
The Buddhists would argue that ‘God’ may not be the best term to use.
Some Buddhists are not keen on the idea of a creator God.
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Some Taoists would argue that every ‘thing’ and every ‘action’ is a mixture of ‘good’ and ‘evil’.
“Taoists believe that nature is a continual balance between yin and yang, and that any attempt to go toward one extreme or the other will be ineffective, self-defeating, and short-lived.”
Mohism promoted a philosophy of impartial caring – a person should care equally for all other individuals, regardless of their actual relationship to him or her.[48]
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“I can distinguish between two types of events as determinants of every minute fact that occurred in my life.
“Some were the result of conscious decisions, in many cases taken as the result of an evaluation of pros and cons (always with incomplete knowledge of the real situation).
“As it is impossible for me to take stupid decisions (the stupidity defined by myself), I was forced to decide in a determined way, searching the best results.
“In other cases my behaviour was the result of random and/or uncontrolled external factors. In the first case I would repeat my action; in the second, my response would be forced.
“However, if the external random factors would be the same, I also would repeat my action
By Mayank Austen Soofi
“So, the life of my identical twin entirely repeating my own life shows that I never had a true free will…
“My identical twin shows me the inescapability of Hume’s fork: My actions are either causally determined or random.
“In either case, I am not free.”
By babasteve
Etienne Vermeersch writes (Is free will an illusion?):
“Ruben Rial Planas shows in his ‘twin analysis’ that he has made two types of decisions in his life:
Or we can see ‘Reality’ as being ‘0’ which can be +X -X.
“The mystics of all the great traditions agree that all distinctions are imaginary and that the Ultimate Nature of Reality is non-dual.”
Of course the mystics would also say that Ultimate Reality is much more complicated than we normally imagine, and that Ultimate Reality cannot be described in words.
Dr. Ian Stevenson:
“Twins in Sri Lanka.
“We did testing that showed they were identical, yet they were markedly different in their behaviors and physical appearance.
Conversations/Dr. Ian Stevenson.
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The Self-Aware Universe – Amit Goswami
Jack Schwarz practiced mind over matter.
He could put a long sail-maker’s needle through his arm without injury.
David Seidler “eliminated his cancer through meditation and imagination…
Ros Barber‘s new novel Devotion is about God and parallel universes.
Finlay Logan‘s daughter has died, in a parachute accident.
Finlay meets Gabrielle Salmon.
Gabrielle Salmon is a scientist who studies consciousness.
Finlay can choose.
Things are made out of tiny ‘particles’.
According to the scientists, when you come a cross a ‘particle’ it does not have a ‘fixed state’ – until your mind decides what its ‘fixed state’ will be.
In other words, if you come across Mr Schrödinger’s cat lying very still on the grass, the cat is neither dead nor alive – until your mind decides what its ‘fixed state’ will be.
Let us imagine that you have a very strong feeling that the cat will be alive and well next year.
Then the cat is currently not dead.
The future has affected the present.
dailymail – Can the past change the FUTURE?
Christians believe that things go better when you tune into the Holy Spirit.
The Taoists would call the Holy Spirit the Tao.
When you are tuned in, the cat is not dead.
Some Taoists and Christians and others believe that bliss can be achieved when:
1. You believe that, when tuned in, life works out for the best.
2. You are compassionate
3. You are moderate (Avoid extremes)
4. You are humble (The selfish ego is switched off)
5. Everything is in balance
6. Being tuned into the Holy Spirit or the Tao or whatever you want to call it, you go with the flow.
(You are not battling against the Holy Spirit or Tau)
7. You avoid the use of force; you avoid pitting your will against the universe.
Eventually the cat will die, but it will continue in the Spirit.
“It stretches our own humanity to love a child who is less than perfect… And that is an important lesson for us.'” (Dr. Frank Oski)
Christians refer to both ‘spirit’ and ‘body’. [4]
There is a belief that spirits inhabit and animate beings.
The body is like a computer.
The spirit is like the person who operates the computer.
The New testament refers to evil spirits.
Luke 11:2 “When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.'”
How might a spirit achieve bliss?
Lao Tzu taught that we should eliminate all that is dark and negative in ourselves.
Buddhism refers to the need for loving kindness.
Christians refer to tuning in to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit can be found in Islam, and in Hinduism and in Buddhism.
Recently we referred to Kim Noble, who has more than one ‘personality’ or ‘spirit’.
Kim Noble , 50, has dissociative identity disorder (DID), which means that she has scores of different personalities.
“There’s Judy the teenage bulimic, Salamoe the devout Catholic, Ken who is gay and over 100 more.”
Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities.
Is each of these ‘personalities’ a ‘spirit’?
Recently I met Bob, whose ‘spirit’ could see his body being operated on.
Bob had a heart attack and was taken unconscious to a hospital.
While in the operating theatre, at 3am, Bob found himself looking down at his body.
He could also see his late father, who told him that he was going to be OK.
At 3am, Bob’s mother, who was at home, had a vision of her late husband.
It would seem that our spirit can exist without the body.
Carl Jung believed that life has a spiritual purpose.[65][66]
Our main task, he believed, is to ‘transform’ our spirit.
“Based on his study of religions, Jung believed that this ‘journey of transformation’ is at the heart of all religions.
“It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine.[67]
“Jung wrote about the transformation of the impure soul (lead) to perfected soul (gold).[19]
Jung influenced quantum mechanics with the idea of synchronicity.
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“He often drew, painted, or made objects and constructions at times of emotional distress, which he recognized as more than recreational.” [14]