Did You Get a Raw Deal?

Did you get a raw deal too? I know I did.
My father died when I was young.
My brother got all the academic talent.
I’ve got the middle child syndrome,
My sister got all the good looks.
Or my parents were unloving and abusive.

We all have similar stories.
Abraham Lincoln, Madonna, Shania Twain,
Bill Clinton, Sigmund Freud, C. S. Lewis,
Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Hemingway,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates,
Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ,
most of our multimillionaires, (except Bill Gates)
and some of our most richest and most famous talents,
and especially some of our brightest minds of the century
including Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,
all have all gotten raw deals in their lives.

The point is that it doesn’t matter.
All that matters is how we think.
How we think about ourselves,
how we think about others, and the world around us.
The way we've interpreted our lives determines our self esteem,
which influences how we think and interpret
and that influences the vibrations we send out into the world.

And guess what.
the universe responds to those vibrations.
If we learn to love ourselves, if we love life
and look at the positive side of life,
think positive, we can create our future through our positive energy.

Whatever cards we were dealt,
or whatever the genetic script, archetype, or sacred contracts
all we need to know is that we are magic,
and we can do anything, and create our own future.
So instead of wasting your energy on complaining,
invest it in your future.

Here is the leading age thinking that can change your life for the better.

When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The universe responds to your attitude, the way you feel.
The Teachings of Abraham, Jerry & Esther Hicks.

Revised May 2007

Why Some Religious Beliefs Differ

Here is an interesting reason why, with one God,
there are so many different religious beliefs.

At this time in our evolution, we are trying to identify spiritual reality
using our material understanding.
If God, or spirits are asexual,
we still have a need to asociate them as male or female, or father,
or something that is familiar to what we know.

Different cultures interpret God in different ways.
I have no doubt that any monotheistic religion originates from Source Spirit,
but we are understanding from different personal,
cultural understandings, and points of view.
Troubles have traditionaly arisen when we have interpreted it's roots
with our own agenda rather than finding it's true essence.

Studying Eastern philosophy, I gained a very high respect
for the intelligent interpretations of the philosophers of India.
Here two examples of how Hindus would explain these phenomenonae.

We are all of one Source. We are all connected.
Quantum Scientific "Strings of Energy" theory confirms this.
We are connedted in spiritual energy.

Understanding “The One and the Many Principal.”
Although we Westerners have trouble seeing it this way,
a material something can be one and many at the same time.
I know that I have 5 fingers,
but you are insisting that I am holding up only one hand.
We are likened individually to fingers of God's hand.
We are all one and we are many at the same time.

The following Indian story of the six blind men
offers a metophorical analogy:
A group of six blind men are permitted to approach an elephant.
The first blind man walks right into the side of the elephant
and proclaims “The elephant is so very like a wall.”
The second feels a sharp end of the tusk and says,
"oh, no, I can feel that the elephant is very like a spear."
A third grabs the trunk and says
"I understand the elephant is very like a snake."
The fourth feels the knee and says it is very like a tree.
A fifth has both hands on each side of the elephant’s ear
and proclaims that "elephants are very like a fan".
The sixth grabs its tail and says
"Ah ha, the elephant is very like a rope."

Analogies aside, we may not actually "see" God as a Spirit,
but what we get are sensations of the manifestations of God.
With quiet meditation, we can hear that still small voice,
and tuning in, we can be guided toward happiness.