Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The Right to Believe

I came across an interesting posting which posed the question do we really have the " Freedom To Decide" our beliefs?

In much on of the world today we have laws that give us the right to free speech and the rights to religious freedom. This means that under the law we cannot be persecuted for our beliefs. But, does this give us religious freedom?

Look around the world today and you will as much hate and fighting between religious groups. Take the great tragedy of 911 as an example. A small group of terrorists, who claim to fight for a religious group, attack and destroyed two buildings and killed many lives. After the attack many turned their anger not only to the small group that was responsible, but towards any who followed the same faith the terrorists claimed to be fighting for. Government even follow suite harassing anyone with the wrong colour skin. Is this the right of religious freedom?

I believe that spiritually and belief is a personal thing, but there is one belief systems that I hold closest to and occasionally attend their groups. I tend to be reluctant to give people the name of the group because the information on the web is not accurate, at least not to the group I attend. The group is often considered a UFO cult, but in reality it is not. Most people say that the group is a bunch of wakos or worse, but the people in the group are intelligent people who I am proud to call my friends.

I'd like to think that most people are tolerant, but we are still ignorant of each others beliefs. Religion is one of the things you don't talk about. Through ignorance suspicion and hate are formed. We fear the unknown and the unfamiliar. I encourage everyone to make religion one of the things we do talk about, learn what other believe, why they believe it, and how they practise it. You don't have to believe what I or anyone else believes, but understand and respect their beliefs and their right to believe it.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Hidden in the Shadows

Have you ever put your child down for the night and had them scream? Have you ever had them scream before you even go to their room? By this I don't mean the normal "I don't want to go to bed" screams. I mean the child completely loses it, look of terror in their eyes kind of scream. Do you think that it is just the child trying to keep you around or is there something more?

I know with my son I can clearly hear the difference and in most cases where this happens he ends up staring at the same spot in his room. It has long been my belief that we come into the world spiritual aware and that over time we lose it and are taught by parent and society that our spiritual abilities are not real.

A couple of night ago we came back from my brother-in-laws place and my wife took our son into the house to put him to bed. He started to scream as she started to go up the stairs. She thought it odd but continued up stairs to put him to bed. In his bed room she sat with him in a chair, rocked and sang to him. Regardless of what she did he continued to scream.

I went up stairs, and being a way from the situation I recognized the scream. I find it common that, with my wife and I, the one not in the room with him has the better chance on noticing the differences in the screams. So I cleared my mind and went up stairs to face what I knew my son saw in his room and we terrifying him.

When I reach the hall out side his room I was hit with the powerful energy from his room and I knew that it was not a good energy. This had happened before but this was by far the worse I had felt from his room. I focused my mind on the light and entered the room with my mind. I looked around the room and saw the creature.

With that I started my attempt to clear the energy from his room. I ensured I kept my defences up and worked with my son and the spirits of light to clear his room. It took my quite a while but the instant I felt the main energy lift my son calmed down for a moment. It only lasted a moment, but I was already scanning his room and asking for defences on the room. There were still some negative energies in the room, but they were weak in comparison to the one that was just forced from the room. After a few more moment we were able to clear the energy from his room and he quickly settled.

It got me thinking. Our childhood is filled with stories of monsters in our closets and bogymen. What if I were to say that these are not just stories? That these things exist, you can't see them but your children can. It would explain why so many children are afraid of the dark. We spend so much energy trying to protect our children. I have failed to meet a parent who would not give their lives to do so. What if the most terrifying thing to our children is something that more of us are not able to defend against, something that over all our years we have learned to disbelieve? Open up your mind to the possibilities and your heart to the light. Watch for the shadows that lurk in the corners.

Just as an additional note, it is not always negative energies that are in my son's room. I have felt powerful energies of good or light there and when these energies are present; there are not screams, there is no crying.

Terry

Friday, January 06, 2006

The Dangers in Prayer

People in many faiths as well as those not following an organized faith take part or believe in the power of prayer to help "heal" other peoples personal and medical conditions and even large scale world events/situations. It is my belief that in many of these situations the praying does not help the situation. Many may say, well that's fine, but it does not do any harm and it makes me fell better. Well I cannot argue to what makes someone else feel better, but for the first item, they might actually be causing harm to the situation.

I believe that we can ask for help to be given to someone, to assist in their healing but we must be very careful. What happens in most cases where people "pray" for healings is that they end up making the situation worse. By prey with the thoughts of how bad the situation is and about the "poor" person who is a victim of it. This, rather than sending positive energy to the person and helping them, sends negative thoughts, like "pity". This only makes it more difficult for the person to heal.

I know of a case where a person I know was in the hospital with a critical condition. While in the hospital and trying to heal it they were having a very hard time of it. Medical treatments were not working and they were having a hard time spiritually healing. As it turned out their mother's church group was praying for them and unintentionally sending negative energy. Once they realised this and they block the negative energy from the group and asked their mother to stop; they were able to obtaining a healing.

For this reason, I will not ask anyone to pray/ask for a healing for me. I know that I can do it on my own with help from my spirit guides, and if I choose to respond to someone else's request I will briefly ask that they be helped and leave it at that, knowing that if the person looks up they will receive the help they need and I have done all I can.