Autumn

Autumn is a dazzling time of the year.  It's a time when Mother Nature shows her beauty in the changing of her trees from a massive green to a multi-explosion of colour.  Mountain sides and city streets lined with trees that were green just a moment ago are now full of reds, yellows, oranges and browns.

Cool breezes lightly blow across our path 

to refresh our soul and uplifts our hearts.  

The seasons come and the seasons go giving 

us an opportunity to stop and appreciate all we have.

 Just a fleeting moment in time the seasons go.

Did you take the time to appreciate the spring rains that swept away winter's splendour or the  beauty of spring explosions of flowers and the promise of better days ? Did you go some place in the summer that you'll remember for many years?  Now is the time to get out and explore the beauty of Mother Nature's  last stand for autumn is here.

Autumn by Eddie Dulian

Resplendent hues appease my vision, 

Fall has fulfilled its yearly mission, 

Sporadic breezes blow leaves around, 

Forming multi-colored patterns upon the ground. 

Sparrows utter subtle sounds, 

As frantic squirrels make their rounds, 

Brisk weather chases summer's bugs, 

Emerald lawns become saffron rugs. 

Children pile all the leaves they can muster, 

Indian summer provides added luster, 

Autumn is a season full of esteem, 

It is a time of nature's brightest gleam. 

Intuition

So where does this intuitive information really come from? I bet you thought that I was not going to tell you. Brace yourself now, that intuitive information actually comes from ourselves. Let me explain that. The “you” that you are consciously aware of is only a small part of you. There is the physical part of you, your human body. You are certainly aware of that. Then there is the conscious part of you, your thoughts and feelings, again a part that you are aware of. Add in the subconscious mind, that storehouse of information and the programs that we have built that control our actions and behavior. This is all part of the human “you.” But there is more to you than that. The higher parts of ourselves actually reside in the spiritual realm. These higher parts are still you, you are just not normally consciously aware of them. And it is from these higher parts of yourself, your soul if you will, that intuitive insights come from. And since these higher parts of yourself are in communication with other souls and spirits, we can say that the intuitive information really comes from the universe. Also be aware that these higher parts of yourself have access to everything that you have ever learned, including what you learned in past lives.

Arthur unknown

Release Me

We are locked in our bodies because we are worried about it.  Will my body be in pain, will it suffer?  Will it resolve into nothing if I leave it behind?

 

After all our worry and despair, we finally come to the realization that the body is nothing.  Nothing more than the vehicle that transported our spirit for a time.  Letting go of the bodied is as easy as counting 1    2     3.  Because we are so worried about our bodies we will suffer and be in pain, physically or mentally - makes no difference.

 

You might say, we live for 60, 70, 80 plus years often in pain because we just can't let go of what has been our home for so many years.  When we finally realize that our body is worn out and can no longer serve us, we are then and only then ready to leave it behind.

 

Some would say that this is just no so. But think about it and you will see that I am right.  Even a person in a hospital who seems so alive and recovering from their illness so well, will suddenly leave there body, dying.  Yes, they unconsciously let go of what they didn't need any more.

 

Can this be of any comfort to a person who has been ill for many years to read?  Not always.  We are not told nor do we believe or think that we are so attached to our body that we can not let it go so easily.  We are often held onto by our spouse, a daughter or son who says "please don't die, I need you".  We tell them we are sick and it would be better for us to die, but selfish acts of others do more harm than good for us.  I want to leave now, please let me go...

Spiritual Laws

In my study of Modern Spiritualism, I learned that "Spiritualism Is a Philosophy because it studies the Laws of Nature both on the seen and unseen sides of life and bases its conclusions upon present observed facts. It accepts statements of observed facts of past ages and conclusions drawn there from, when sustained by reason and by results of observed facts of the present day".

We as Spiritualists are told that we are to study Natural Laws and learn about how they effect our lives and the life of the universe.

It is my goal to present to you as many Spiritual Laws as I can now and in the future. As you read the laws, you will begin to see how the problems in your life and the world are affected by the them. You will even get an idea as to how you can use the laws to make life better for yourself and others.

While I was studying a Course in Modern Spiritualism I started researching the many laws that Spiritualists know.  I was surprised to learn that there were well over a hundred natural/ spiritual/universal/cosmic laws in existence and all the laws were God's laws. I also learned that there is no set number of the laws and that they were in effect in the physical world and the spiritual world. In the spiritual world the laws work at a much weaker/finer form.  For example, when we think of the Law of Gravity as it relates to the physical world: "In our world, gravitation is a force exerted by the Earth's mass on all objects within its sphere of influence. This force causes all bodies to fall toward the center of the Earth and also keeps all objects from flying off the face of the Earth..."  In the spiritual world, it means that all spirit matter and spirit beings,  are prevented from floating around due to a finer gravitational field there that is a fraction of what it is in the physical world.

I will start by providing a definition for a law and then make a comment about what the law means to me.

The first laws is: "The Law of Abundance. (sometimes referred to as the Law of Opulence or Success.) By creating visualizations of abundance in our lives we draw this energy of success into our reality. Success or abundance does not only apply to money. There is success in communication, spirituality, relationships and so on. When creating the abundance of financial gain remember to be IN this world, but not OF this world. We are not the sum total of our possessions".

Abundance comes to us in many forms.  It comes in the form of  love, happiness, spirituality and a hundred other positive, spiritual ways. Visualization is only one way for a person to create abundance in their life.  But, visualizing sometimes doesn't mean that a person well get what they're visualizing.  It take action on the part of the person.  If a person prays for a winning lotto ticket, but doesn't buy one, he will not be a winner. Take a moment and add to the list of abundance you have and have experienced in your life.

2. "The Law of Action: Put another way, " No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who think we understand concepts, such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only create knowingness when we act; doing becomes understanding. Every aspirant is a focal point of energy and should be a conscious focal point. In the midst of the whirl and storm (of the chaos of third dimension) s/he should make his/her presence felt".

The Law of Abundance is directly related to the Law of Action because we cannot have abundance in our life without action.  Nothing moves or comes into existence without us doing something to make it happen. An external force must be applied physically or mentally in order to move any object no matter how large or small it may be.

3. The Law of Akasha. "A great cosmic law which is the principle of the intelligence of substance".

The akasha being a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether" – are described as containing all knowledge of human experience and all experiences as well as the history of the cosmos encoded or written in the very aether or fabric of all existence.

This is the process of the mind and recognizing that memory is actually stored in a higher realm away from the body and spiritual data storage called the Akashic Records.

The Law of Akasha works when we make decisions or think of anything because we will then automatically connect to the true memory storage, which is then transferred back to the human mind for usage. We use these memories or experiences to complete any task that needs to be done. By doing this we complete the process which starts from the conscious world to the subconscious and then back to the conscious. This circuit is completed in a fraction of a second, over and over and over again. This Law works along with the Law of Action, the second of the Universal Laws.

4. The Law of Analogy. "Although this is a definite condition of third dimension existence, no analogy is ever exact in detail but only in certain broad basic correspondences. There will be found unchangeable points of resemblance, but in using analogy viewing creation, no two details are exact. Using analogy in trying to mentally explain the unexplainable, one attempts to convey understanding, in a broad sense".

Analogy is used to compare what is unknown to what is known in order to define the unknown thereby transforming it into new knowledge and understanding.

When a person is presented with an unknown he/she makes assumptions about the unknown and through experiment and analyzing the results, produces repeatable results that makes the previous unknown a known thus adding to his knowledge.

As we study Spiritual Laws we gain understanding of how the Laws affect us in our daily life and the lives of other people, nations and the universe.  The Laws provide us with knowledge and understanding that makes our lives a little easier. Easier for us to understand how everything in the universe is tied together and how each part affects another part.

Extraordinary

"All I ever wanted to be was a little extraordinary. But now all I want is to be ordinary again.

It‟s funny, isn‟t it, how life does that to you. Or perhaps it‟s just human nature, wishing for the greener side of the fence. One moment you are just an ordinary person, wishing for a little more adventure, a little more excitement – anything to break the day to day rules and restrictions you live by. Living with a simple wish, deep inside, to step outside your comfort zone, to become more: more noticeable, more amazing, more alive. Then when you have that in your grasp, when the opportunity arises to leave the less than exciting life behind, something happens; something that you never expected, something you weren‟t prepared to face. And there you are, looking back and wishing you were ordinary again".

From the ebook "The Star Kin Chronicles EXTRAORDINARY PART I"

By Evie Asterwyn

Phenomena of Spiritualism

The Phenomena of Spiritualism consist of Prophecy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Gift of Tongues, Laying of Hands, Healing, Visions, Trance, Apports, Levitation, Raps, Automatic and independent Writing and Paintings, Voice, Materialization, Photography, Psychometry and any other manifestation proving the continuity of life as demonstrated through the physical and Spiritual senses and faculties of humanity.

The Christian Bible has many examples of the phenomena of spiritualism which are in harmony with Spiritualists beliefs as shown the Old and New testaments of the Bible as following:

 

Materializations - Genesis3:8, 18:1 32:24, Exodus 21:10, 11, Ezekiel 11:9, Daniel 5:5, Luke 24:15, 16, 29,30, 31, John 20:1, 12, 14, 19, 30

 

Independent Spirit Writing - Exodus - 24:12, 32:16, 34:1, Deuteronomy 5:22, 9:10

 

Spirit Writing - Daniel - 5:5

 

Trumpet Speaking - Exodus 19:13, 16, 29, 20:18, Revelation 1:10

 

Spirit Levitation -1 King 18:12, Ezekiel 3:12, 13, 14, 8:3, Acts 8:39

 

Independent Spirit Voices -Deuteronomy 9:12, 13, 1, Samuel 3:3, 9, Ezekiel 1:28,

 

Matthew 17:5, John 12:28,29,30, Acts 9:4, 7, 11:7,8,9

 

Spirit Communication in Dreams - Job33:15, Joel2:28, Genesis 28:12, 31:24, 27:5

 

Trance - Genesis 15:2, 17, Daniel 8:18, 10:9, Acts 9:3,9, 22:17

 

Golden Rule - Matthew 7:12

 

Healing - Numbers 21:8, 9, 2 Kings 4:18, 37, 5:1, 14

Luke 5:12-26, 9:11, 14:2, 4 Mark 3:2, 5, John 4:47, 54

 

Gift of Healing -
1 Corinthians 12:9, 28

 

Healing by Magnetized Articles - 2 Kings 4:29, Acts 19:11,12

 

Disciples Charged to Heal the Sick - Matthew 10:8, Luke 9:2, 10:9

 

Disciples Heal the Sick - Acts 3:1, 6:8, 10

As you can see by the above listings, there are a number of books, chapters and versus from the Bible that confirms that Spiritualist phenomena has been active for thousands of years.

When one reads the New testament, he/she can even find many references to life after death as expressed by Jesus when he said to his decuples, "In my fathers house are many mansions" (John 14:4).

The spirit world exist and all humans will go there when they make the change called death.  We are spirits living in a human body to experience life as only this physical world can provide us.

it is up to the individual to determine for him/herself whether the information in the various Bible versus are from a disincarnate spirit, other than God or from God.  The majority of Christians will tell you that the communications as described in the Bible were directly from God to man even if those communications were through a prophet (medium).  Yes, a profit is a medium a person who stands between God and man to give information to the recipient.  This point can be argued for a long time only to have the individuals arguing not being able to convince the other of their truth.

In many respects, Spiritualism and Christianity are at logger heads over incidentals that have little value, scientifically or otherwise.  The truth boils down to what are your personal beliefs and why do you hold them so tenaciously?

In general, Spiritualists do not, normally, try to convince anyone that their beliefs are the only true ones and that all others are wrong.  If a person clam's to be a Spiritualist and tries to push his/her beliefs off on another, he/she is a fraud not a Spiritualist.

The true purpose of Spiritualism is to provide information to the public that life continues after the change called death and that deceased individual's spirit can be communicated with; proof of continuity of life.

Only One Life

For more than 160 years non-Spiritualists condemned Spiritualists for their knowledge that life continues after the change called death. They were also condemned for believing that mediums could contact the "dead" and communicate with them. Mediums have been communicating with spirit people for thousands of years and were able to document the information that spirits, the dead, provided.

One of the main things that mediums were able to show is that all people when they die go to the spirit world, heaven. The Bible says in John 14:2 "In my Father's house there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you..." (New Jerusalem Bible) Spiritualists believe that all humans when they die go to a place in the spirit world where there are people who are just like them. That is, a place for the average good person and a place for criminals, but all humans go there no matter who or what they were like when physically alive. The Christian church tells us that only those who have accepted Christ as saviour go directly to heaven and all others sleep in the grave until the great day of judgement.

In this world there are people who believe that this is the only life that they will ever have, when they die, that's it, life for them ends. Many more people believe that this will not be their only life and that life does continues after the change called death. But where does our belief in an afterlife come from?

In the Encyclopedia of the unusual and unexplained How the Major Religions View the Afterlife. "With all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions are in accord in one great teaching: Human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. Since the earliest forms of spiritual expression, this is the great promise and hope that religions have offered to their followers".

Anthropologists who study ancient man found proof that those early people had a belief in an afterlife. The Book of the Dead, the Enuma Elish, the I Ching, and the Avesta, they are among the most ancient religious texts still in existence and all of them have references to an afterlife. (Www.sacred-text.com) "Until recently, it was believed that the “primitive” cave paintings were merely depictions of hunting animals, but new research show that the cave paintings are evidence of travels to the spirit world these travels could be of a similar nature as the near-death experience, and therefore, it is possible that experiences of the ultimate reality are as old as humanity". (www.awakeningafterlifethebook.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=artice&id=67&Itemid=65)

As shown above, belief that life continues after the change called death, has existed for tens of thousands of years. The Bible even has many references indicating that even in the time of Noah man believed in an after life. In the Bible's New Testament 1 Peter 3:18 it says "For Christ ... was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit". If Christ continued to live as a spirit after his body was put to death, it means that every human, past, present and future, when their body dies will continue to live as spirit beings.

Christianity teaches that man is "body", "soul" and "spirit" and that when the body dies, the soul and spirit live on, believing that the soul is the body of the spirit. Other than the findings of scientists that there is an afterlife, Christianity is the source of our belief today that we, man, are created in the image of God. In the Bible, Gen. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness..." It says in John 4:24 "God is spirit...” this Bible verse tells us that we were created in the likeness of God as spirit beings long before we were born of woman. We don't know exactly when God created us (spirits). It could have been when God made mankind or untold millennia before that time, we just don't know. However, some people even believe that life only begins at the moment the male sperm unites with the egg of a woman and not before that moment.

Allen Kardec in his "The Spirit Book" asked his spirit guide Zefiro in question #78. "Have spirits had a beginning, or have they existed, like God, from all eternity?" "Zefiro replied
if spirits had not had a beginning, they would be equal with God; whereas they are His creation, and subject to His will. That God has existed from all eternity is incontestable; but as to when and how He created us, we know nothing. You may say that we have had no beginning in this sense, that, God being eternal, He must have incessantly created as to when and how each of us was made, this, I repeat, is known to no one. It is the great mystery."

An afterlife as mentioned above is a controversial subject in many respects but by the same token something that has been known for countless centuries. For us living in this physical world at this time the thought of an afterlife is a question. The church tells us that the bad person sleeps in the grave until judgement day, but do we. According to what is written above life continues after the change called death for all

Another question that comes up quite often is "do humans reincarnate"? The debate over reincarnation has been going on for hundreds of years. In the Far East, their is a strong belief in reincarnation. In the West, man believe that he has only one life to live. Whether you accept reincarnation as a fact or not makes no difference as to whether you go to heaven when you die, you will. I know that there are thousands of people who read this will say the reincarnation doesn't exist so, therefor, why debate the issue, if it is an issue.

One life to live, or many. You are the one who has to make up you own mind. For me, I'll wait and see what happens.