The “Story” - Forgiving those who offend/hurt you

Intro:
At a certain point in life, you may come across the realization that all the problems in the world are but stories.

Can it be that simple?

Not only can it be that simple - the crazy thing is that it is that simple.

When two people meet they are not meeting each other…they are meeting each others stories of each other. What is ‘worse’ is that they are meeting each others stories that they feel the other has concerning them as well. (Its like a four way conversation between two people with the real people being absent.)

In a sense, its as if all of humanity is ‘possessed’.

Sure you probably have heard of demon possession - whether it be from your religious upbringing, or if it be some sci-fi horror movie that planted the idea.

The reality is that the far out and strange (fiction) is closer to reality than one knows.
For the most part we are handed allegories and metaphors for what is true knowledge.
We take these allegories and metaphors to be the truth or the exact representation of what is happening - and fail to see to where they are pointing too.

Even more so, we encase these ideas and turn them into beliefs…an us vs. them, and we get stuck within our dogma…within our fears. (Much of religion is like this, but outside of religion as well - anyone who identifies with their thoughts is included in this.)

For the most part, I view it as part of evolution.
The above term will throw many off as the very word clicks something in their brain and shuts it down from any rational thinking. They mistake the baggage that typically comes with such a word as the true meaning of the word.

Words are pointers my dear friends - christian, atheist, whoever and whomever you are…from whatever walk of life you transpire from.
We are all one and the same, we all come from the same source - regardless of the name you give this source.
“I am that I am” does not need a definition - nor can it be defined…the defining is the ‘idol’ one would think…or rather limiting the soul and encasing it into flesh. Go chew on that idea for awhile. - Hint, look in Judaism for the answer * or Christianity, but you may not be able to see past your own dogma this way, though it is possible.

We all have mental concepts of how things should or should not be.
Who we think someone should or should not be.
How we think someone should or should not act.
All these should and should nots.

The ability to look at someone and allow them to ‘be’ is indeed not only an art - but an extreme act of maturity.

Yes you can guide someone - but do not mistake this guidance as superiority, you can only guide as far as they are willing. (Well, I suppose unless you are a zen master who beats the truth into them…but surprisingly the human will is quite resilient and true change has to start from within.)

Forgiveness is key in order to make this work, in your own life, so that the other has space in their own life to change.

Forgiveness is looking past the man made self identity someone creates about themselves.
i.e.
- the sufferer
- the martial artist
- the beauty queen
- the ugly
- the this, the that…

All of this is something that we take quite seriously and we would feel like we were stripped naked if someone would say that “you being a doctor, etc., isnt all that it is cracked up to be.”
We readily, and steadily identify with what we do. After all who are we if its not what our actions our?

But can we see clear enough to know what our actions are?
The trick is that people see us better than we see ourselves at times.
(Well on one level - the egoic, and again, its all form and perspective. The true self is known by no other than you. Think of that white stone in revelation. Something else to ponder…but again, look beyond the centuries of metaphors and into how it applies into real, every day situations. If you dont see it - dont sweat, find something else…look for meaning where it is - here and now, in your own life.)

Meaning is not to be found outside of your own life or in some future moment.
Here again is the trick, once you reach a goal - its all down hill from there.
What will be the next thing you do once you achieve world fame or win 13 oscars?

Your movies are soon forgotten, even if talked about, they are shoved on some shelf collecting dust in the corner - to be outdone in technology in only a year or two. And the next generation will do their retake on what seemed to be the ultimate saga of all time. (i.e., Lord of the Rings, etc.)

Many people drag out their achievements till their dying day. (Star wars anyone?) Not picking on Lucas - but often we do not know how to carry on. We have defined, and thus limited ourselves by our own actions and perceptions of who we are.

As I have pointed out a many time - Jesus never saw a prostitute or tax collector.
He saw John Doe, or Jane Doe for who they were. A living, breathing person…and at the time he saw them they were probably not in the act of ’sin’, as they put it - and therefore were not the sinner.

Point being is Jesus did not identify people with their actions from the past.
He looked past it to who they are. This is salvation. (for some of you it is heretical, but ponder and think on it, and dont get lost in the words.)

The fact that he could allow someone to be who they were, without judgement (which is actually a commandment that we not only readily disobey, but find excuses why what we are doing is justified or not judgement…)

So Jesus saw the person and this is what let them break free.
They realized they had choice - they were not their stories and therefore did not carry the burden of guilt and worry that so many people take with them to their grave.

“Im an alcoholic” - well, if you say so…then dont be surprised that your life will be focused around the struggles that come with this one statement.

People really are at a baby stage. Its as if the world is going through labour pains, as Jesus put it, and there is a 50/50 chance of us moving on to the next level - or as M. Kaku put it, time to move on to a level 1 civilization…the hardest transition to make, will we survive?

I am voting with confidence that we will.

You only take out of a story that which you put into it.
Is someone not treating you nice, or unfairly? Then try to treat them how you would want to be treated. Yes, I know Jesus said this and it seems impractical, but listen to this…

…if you actually know, and believe, that the truth and power is within (and has been all along) then you no longer give your power away to people. You now make what I would call conscious choices, and are able to look past their stories to them - even if they are not yet able to.

in doing this you transform not only yourself, but allow for a transformation in them.
If they take this, is really up to them - but you will often see ‘little miracles’ happen, so to speak, that will reinforce the view that indeed they have no power over you.

You find these struggles mainly in close relationships.
I am reminded of Michael Cards song where he says, “Only a friend comes close enough to cause so much pain.”

The truth in this is simply that in close relationships the ego feeds more.
Stories, or pain bodies, know your weak point and how to feed off of you.
Much like a vampire syphoning off blood from his prey - the pain body feeds off of negativity.

Have you noticed with anyone that no matter what you say it is always wrong.
Perhaps you have noticed that a particular person close to you always complains - this is the pain body trying to feed. It does not want a solution…your arguing is fueling it.

If it, the pain body, wanted a solution, then it would chat with you and it would end.
But as you notice, complaining keeps going until you are dragged in it one way or another and it stops once it has had its fill and goes dormant again.

Sounds like being possessed doesnt it?
The pain body is an energy field. Is this a bit new agey for you?
The fact is this is science, we all are made up of energy - see its easy to get lost in words and what we think they mean.

Words, again, go through filters that were created by the though patterns pushed upon us by our milieu. (Religious, social, etc.)

With limited experience, we see the world in a limited way.
This is why all small cities around the world are like a pain in the arse to live in.
The city has its collective knowledge and thats as far as it goes - anything outside of that is met with scrutiny.

This scrutiny is not for learning, but more of a checks and balance to keep its little story alive - the one that feels so threatened because it knows there is more outside of itself. So this small town mentality, can be the hardest.

When you have a cultural mix, you can learn to open up your mind to see a broader picture - yet it still is not the full picture. With hope it is that you will be able to begin to have humility to see that the world is diverse, and that there is enough room for all of us here. Even for the small town people - there is a time and a place for everything under heaven. (ol’ wise solomon.)

Consider that the people who gossip about you, etc. do so out of their own fears and insecurities that they are not loved or lovable. There stories are there to protect them, it is all they know.
When you show true unconditional love the wall some tumbling down - and in truth, it may seem like it never does, but the fact is the walls Im referring to are within yourself.

We can spend our whole life with someone, mom/dad - brother/sister - spouce/friend - son/daughter, etc. and think we know them - but all we have is what we know about them.
The stories that they have created, and even more the stories that we have created about them.
Usually the two stories are at odds, as mentioned in the opening of this little spiel of mine.

Sometimes its easier just to move on.
Some people try to suppress their feelings - others become their feelings.
The balance is to acknowledge its there and watch it. This may sound weird, but when you realize that the thoughts buzzing in your head are not who you are - that you are free to make a choice at will, and you are not ‘judged’ for these thoughts - you become free to make more conscious choices and to let the stories that no longer suite you die off.

I was chatting with my partner today about a thought I had recently.
With what Im about to say there is a lesson to be learned on a few levels here, so watch carefully and pay attention as a lot of what I have already talked about can fit into this scenario at different levels (I only say this, as we are not accustomed to looking at different angles/aspects of a dialogue - and its good to do so, especially seeing that it is hard to cover every aspect that one would like to cover with just one example)

So here it is.

Scientology.
- No I am not promoting scientology, nor am I here promoting anything that requires you to add to a belief system. For me its time to go past gathering beliefs and time to start having some principles applied to our lives.

But here is the point.
In Scientology I remember hearing that they give letters of separation - i.e., to parents.
The parents would get freaked out and think that their kids joined a cult that brain washed them…after all, separating from your parents and asking them to never talk to you again is unheard of.

I would like to touch on one aspect of this which is as follows:
It is obvious that the parents (a.k.a. - for the most part - the ego unacknowledged) could not conceive that perhaps it is a conscious choice on their childrens part.

After all, at a certain time and place, when a person realizes that ’stories’ no longer suite them - the egoic stories of complaining which bring no solutions - then it is quite conceivable that they no longer desire to partake and have anything to do with that which is not constructive.

This is not belittling the parents - but it is giving the child their freedom to act and think in a way which is constructive to them…minus the drama that a lot of families have.

Now I know this may be a sensitive topic, and the point I am trying to outline may easily be passed over…or completely misunderstood.

This is not to insinuate that the kid is presiding in judgment over their parents…no, it means that they realize that the drama that constantly comes up is not really their parents…its a conditioned mind/thought pattern that the parents take to be them.

At a certain point, the parent must realize that they must let the child make their own choices.
They are only really there to give protection at the beginning and to serve as a guide - not to live their life though them, etc.

Many family relations are strained because of this identification with form. (When i say form, this includes thought as well.)

What I have to say cannot really be summed up in one blog. This is really only to light the fire, as it were. I would highly recommend anyone to pick up Eckhart Tolles audio book “A New Earth” and take a good listen. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind”.

There is a new day and age coming…and its now.
Time to throw off the labels and the ‘chains that bind’. - namely fear.
And as I have mentioned time and again, it is a amazing - for the most part - that the Christian motto is to fear. (This is by the fruit…for as the good book said, “By the fruit you will know them.”)

There is much I could say about Christianity, and much I have said.
I am not a Christian basher - if you were to throw a label around I would say I am a Christian as Jesus mean it to be.
…oh, no ideas of perfectionism, etc. If you think that then you did not catch one thing from my post here.

In conclusion - its time to go past beliefs, adding this or that to your line up of beliefs.
Its time to see some fruit. I see it in my own life, and I only say that as a word of encouragement. I see that there is life in life. - Imagine the irony in this.

Many talk of living a life abundantly, but fail to see the simple path and take the wide path instead that is more torturous to walk. But in our pain in suffering, if we go into it deep enough, we will come out cleansed. - and no this is not the way of the masochist I am referring to.

In life, we are quite content to stay in a buzzed state of displeasure without making change.
The ego/false self - pain body - loves this, and feeds off of it as stated.

Again, for more info, check out Eckhart Tolles “A New Earth.”
On a note: not everyone will take away the same thing from the same source as another.
Again, we all have our own grid systems and perspectives (understanding) of life. The journey is yours…the journey is unique. - I really am but a traveller on the road of life saying “Hello”.

If this little blog of mine helps to act as a light in this darkness, then I am more than glad.
But it wont be because of my subtle cleverness or way with words…it will be because this is the path you already have chosen. “When the student is ready the teacher approaches”. Basically you get the info you need at the time you are ready for it…and you digest it at different levels in the times you are ready to digest it.

Life is good - enjoy!

Peace

dAlen

p.s.
I forgot, I had mentioned that I thought this is all a natural part of evolution.
Basically the universe, if you can put it that way, wants to evolve into consciousness - past all of the silly identification with mental thoughts and mind projections of what it thinks about others, etc.

You can be part of the process or get spit out as waste.
Reminds me of the story in Revelations where God said he would “spit” some folks out of his mouth.

You either grow or evolve, or become irrelevant.
Now, I dont mean this to strike a note of fear in some of you…for some it might because you have been conditioned to be afraid - of everything. First thing I can say to you is, “dont worry - relax” - “you are loved… unconditionally”

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How to build a human {Science/Medical BBC Documentary}

Great BBC mini series - thus far - on various aspects of human cloning.

A four part series, with part one divided into six parts.
I havent watched the other four installments yet, but the first part was really thought provoking.

See if you can think out of the box as you watch the videos before quickly categorizing what is presented as good or bad - you may find that you agree with certain aspects and not others…the point is to allow your mind to ponder the different implications so that you can expand beyond the current limitations of thought.

Series 1of4 (part 1of6)

Found the video at thoughtware.tv - its a good site that brings together the best science/medical video stories from across the web.
The focus is on future technology/science/medicine.

Just a random thought that popped into mind, not really associated with this, but here it is: “Time to educate not legislate.”
A lot of potential growth is stunted due to fear, and fear actually causes harm to the very ones whom resisted new thought.

This does not mean that growth for the sake of growth is good - check out cancer cells that continuously divide and multiply.

The fact is that if humanity does not evolve on a conscious/’spiritual’ level (I use ’spiritual’ carefully as the term is so overused and misused), we will only have cleverness as we continue to advance; and we will eventually destroy ourselves, just as cancer destroys both itself and its host.

Cleverness is not intelligent.

Cleverness seeks its own and divides -
It is usually quite ‘insane’ on a social level… while Intelligence unites and includes.

So the point is not to ‘knock’ scientific advances, but to learn as much as you can, and while doing so evolve on a conscious level.

For this I will specifically point out Eckhart Tolles audio book “A New Earth”.
Listen to it again and again…until you get your thought patterns rewired.
(its not a religion or a belief…we dont need more things to add to our belief system…which does not work, we need practicality, and I believe you will find it in this audio book.)

Its basically teaching you about yourself and human nature - and how to deal practically with its disfunction.

Being an ex-O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and now needing no medication (it didnt work anyway) - I can highly recommend E.T. (Eckhart Tolles) audio books.

Those that seek, with all their heart, as Jesus put it…will find. You dont find when you search in the confines of ones pre-defined belief systems.

Those are all conditioned thought patterns brought on by your social/religious milieu - and the thought patterns you take as an identity of who you are. When you identify with something so tightly you cannot see the larger picture and take your way as the only way…

And we wonder why there are endless wars and division between people/nations - all in the name of love/Jesus. (What an irony indeed.)

Well, I have ranted enough, watch the video and enjoy!

Peace

dAlen

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Rowling on the defense again. {lessons of ego}

Intro:
BBC Article

I dont get it, well I do, but lets have a look at it.

When you come up with an idea, its in free space.
She owns Harry Potter no more than I do. If we are truly all connected, then all this “you are viloating my rights” is really kind of schizophrenic - as there is not you.

For most this concept is out there…so I will say yes I think there is a place for someone, like Rowling, to make money off of her work - but to what degree is it hers. This can be looked at, perhaps with more ease, by taking a look at the music industry.

Wired:
I read an article, forgot source, I think it was wired, that basically said that the music companies claim an eternal ownership of promo cds, If I understood the article correctly, and that you dont have the right to throw them away, etc.

Yep, it was an article from Wired.

This stuff is really summed up with one word, “Insane”.

With Rowling it appears that she had approved of an online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter World - well approved in that it did not seem to bother her. But when the person wanted to take the info and make a book out of it…oh my, it “infringes on my rights…” - well she did want to right a book and this may affect sales, although she claims money is not the issue.

I believe her.
I think she is so attached to Harry Potter…that she is not quite seeing clearly.

Im not trying to be rude, so let me put it another way.
Parents when they give birth can be not only over protective, but they can tend to act as if they ‘own the child’. They were the vessel in which the child came into the world, and they are the means in how that child will be raised and the environment in which they will learn and grow up…but they dont own the kid.

But actions, way into the adult life of the kid, shows that they indeed take that stance, even if unconsciously, that they somehow ‘own’ (for lack of better terms) the child.

The child is its own:
Once something is birthed its now its own.
In the case of Harry Potter, how I approach Harry is not necessarily how she approaches it.
She was amazed how so many people liked snape, back when she tried her best to paint him black…well first they liked the actor and that played a role in how they perceived snape.

Just like a child, she had not control how the audience perceived her work, her creation.

The story is what the individual makes of it:
Truth is, she is not that great of a writer. (Well, dont get me wrong, Im not even claiming to be a writer). I find that the beauty of her work is what I take into it when reading it, and what I get from the movies created by the producers/directors and again my perception of it.

I will say it again, because the point is simple, though I dont feel I can properly get it out the way I would like. And that is, once the idea is birthed, its owned by the collective.

Funny, there is a movie called “Troll”, I believe made in 1986, which had the main character, if Im not mistaken, whose name was also Harry Potter (Jr.)
This is pre-Rowling, and now the guy wants to remake the movie.

Sure you could argue to ride off of the J.K. Rowling Harry Potter success, but I dont think that alone would do enough to drive it.

Another Harry…pre-Rowling Potter.
Warner has either threatened to or is suing him if he goes forward with making the remake, saying they will stick to their claims to Harry Potter.

Well, hate to say it, but no one owns the name Harry Potter.
Its a name for crying out loud!

Now J.K. Rowling claimed she never read “Troll” (but did she know of it?)…
You know, when there is an idea, it usually pops up somewhere across the world.
I remember as a kid coming up with the wackiest name, “whatcha-ma-call-it” and then not long after they made a candy bar with that name. Now my mom was convinced I had just saw the commercial and forgotten.

100 Monkeys:
But lets look at the 100 monkeys.
What is it…I believe the concept is that after a certain point, say 100 monkeys learn something new, all of a sudden all the other monkeys already know it.

Forget about the 100 monkeys, I have seen quite a few times where one idea would pop up in a country in science, and supposedly it was secret, and then they find out that another country found the same thing…and then they are amazed.

Im telling you, and you dont have to believe me, but there is something to this quantum entanglement.

Conclusion:
But what does this have to do…or rather, how does this solve Ms. Rowling woes?
Well it doesnt, until she realizes that she needs to let the bird fly…its a gift to the world and she is not going to ‘miss’ anything.

The fear is there and it ends up running a persons life.
As she claims she has lost inspiration to write a Harry Potter Encyclopedia now, and has stopped writing some other book she had started due to this issue bothering her.

See, her life, is now being wasted, so to speak, because she is living with some tight identity around something that does not really belong to her. Again, if I have not made my point clear above in what I mean, then this will be taken the normal way that the mind sees things, such as, “well it is hers because…” but anyway…

Attachment to form, this includes thought form, is ego - and it doesnt really help anyone get anywhere. If she would let it go then the universe would take care of the situation, and perhaps she would see/realize that there is no situation to be taken care of.

Peace

dAlen

Monsanto {Documentary}

Intro:
There is much that could be said about this, but I will let you watch the video for yourself.
Its quite long, so pull back a chair, get something to drink and munch on and relax.

If you find it a bit dry at first it will pick up toward the end when they start talking about India & Mexicos corn, etc. The first part gives you more of a background into the company itself.

When you watch the bit about the Mexican corn and how N.A.F.T.A. affects this, (well with Monsanto, of course), you will be surprised.

Mexico & India:
In fact put that info with the fact that in India they (farmers) have to buy cotton seed basically from only Monsanto - as Monsanto has bought up most, if not all, of the major seed suppliers to farmers - not only do they have to buy this seed that grows with pesticide genetically engineered into it…(Im not against science or genetic engineering, but chemicals, pesticides in the plant? Science is a tool only…neither good nor bad. It is only that which the hand that wield it cause it to be. And in my view point, Monsanto is on the ‘bad’ path. My thought would be to understand nature & its benefits fully before trying to play god with plants turning colors…potatoes…and plants having pesticides in them…cotton…etc.)

Control: Ownership of the worlds food supply
So as you see, the problem isnt only with what they are selling, but they are owning nature.
You buy their seeds, you cannot collect it for planting for the next year. (This is tradition.) And they are ruthless if they think that you kept the seed for next years harvest. - Again, not that I would ever want to have their seed in my field…fact is many dont, and organic farmers have either come close to, or have been shut down by Monsanto because of these ‘false flags’ saying the organic farmer had Monsantos patented seed on their farm lots. What? Monsanto is the reason they went organic.

Revelations:
Ah, where was I?
Anyway, as you watch this video think of Revelations where it says no one “will buy or sell without the mark…” - well, make that “no one will buy or sell except Monsantos seeds”.

This whole fear/greed based mentality needs to come to a halt. It is self-destructive and companies like Monsanto is driving society into a mess. Well, they would like to think into their hands so that they control all that happens and thus retain power. But I see differently, people are waking up to a lot of the non-sense in the world and that type of fear/greed based mentalities time is up.

So without further ado, here is the link:

Peace

dAlen