It Is A Family Life...

Why do so many of us live our lives without any awareness of those around us? Why are there so many strangers and so few friends? Why do we work, shop, and do business without knowing much about those we are with? Could it be it is a family thing?
Could we be fallen Adam's house (from Genesis in the Bible) ignoring our lousy cousins who are just as full of sin as any other cousin we never met and do not know? Could it be we are such sinners we do not think any one would want to know us if they do not have to? Could it be we are inhibited by fear of how "bad" we have heard or learned others can be?
Could we be descended from a migration family descended from the original human inhabitants of Africa spread out into Europe and Asia and the Americas over the course of millennia? Could we have lost our family humanity by ages of war and hate too long ago to remember? Could a human family tree membership be the best kept secret of those who know?
Whatever story you believe of our origins, both the current popular timelines include a time with a smaller human population that were family, migrating and filling the Earth. We did not grow rooted to where the current populations of people with similar visual appearances are found. We did not simultaneously grow in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. According to those who teach us history, whether religious or evolutionary based, we are one big family sharing a planet.
I try, as much as possible, to live life more lucidly than I remember living the decades before I realized my life in Creation as an adopted child of God from His creative faculty exercise in creating life as we experience it every day. My life is full of estranged extended family members. There are no strangers, only distant cousins. There are no strangers ruining life, only family members misbehaving and making a mess of things because they do not care for everyone as family, or treat the earth as home, or have any human pride in the "world" we have made on the planet by our works.
It is difficult to believe but "those who know" in both religious and public education schools teach "we are family", and "it's a family affair"  (Google these quotes for two wonderful songs from when I was a child).

How Hard Is It To Be Saved?

              How hard is it to be saved, or should the question really be how easy is it? 

Consider the Islamic terrorist believes he or she will be rewarded by God for their acts of destruction. Consider Christians believe many people will be going to hell, that they need Salvation. Consider the Jewish people believe they are God's chosen people to inherit a Messianic Kingdom when their Messiah comes. Consider so many of the other religious people in our world believe in a God Creator that has made all known reality by It's Sovereign power. Can it really be possible for any agreement? Can it really be possible to be saved?

Consider so many different types of governments exist at work on the Earth, each with its own legal codes. Consider cities, territories, and even countries have their own bodies of law too. Even many religious bodies have their own Holy laws as well. Some organizations hold their membership to sworn secrecy and other rules. How can anyone determine by this evidence what is right to do or not to do? What is truly good, and what is really bad?

Consider the variety of educations one can be recipient of in this modern era of enlightened thought. One can specialized in Economics and know how the wealth is really distributed and why. On can specialize in History and learn its lessons before you have to learn them from your own experiences. One can study Languages and become able to communicate with more people than existed just a few thousand years ago. One can study Law or Religions, specialize oneself therein and know how these have evolved over time and how they have interacted from the available perspectives.

What can we know about our fate though? What can we know of our length of days? Can we determine whether the dead do or do not rise? Can we know whether we are created or just a cosmic size accident? Can we learn how to love in time so we can at least say with that perspectives true conviction - 

"It is not hard to be saved by a loving God, just do no harm and why would he treat you with any less gentleness? If you cannot be sure something you have done was harmless, just allow this loving God to clean up any mess, put back together anything damaged, heal anything hurt, or resurrect anything you think dead from your own or someone you love's actions. Can you see a God who loves you will do all that so you may be saved by Him for the life He has created for all His family..."   

Can I get an Amen?

Love Your Enemy...

What type of love are some preaching with so many going to Hell in their eyes? Is it Love that gets people cursing each other to eternal burning in the afterlife? Is it love to blindly accept so many going to Hell because they did not walk your path, worship God in your way?
The "Cults of Venom" religions have an art of cursing others not worshiping their way, living their lifestyle, avoiding their so-called sins... Any love, sex, marriage they do not endorse is worthy of the flames of Hell to them. Their endorsements come from their Holy Scriptures however misguided an interpretation they may be making therefrom.
Now in the Bible of "The Christians" worshiping the God of Abraham their are plenty of codes against sex acts, and nudity, and certain marriages, but there is also the "grain of salt" all good Bible scholars should use when reading any of the "laws" in this Holy Scripture. When there was the "repeal" of the Jewish dietary and circumcision requirements for proper worship, by the Jewish founders of Christianity, it should have caused any intelligent follower to think the legal code is "not written in stone". It is not fixed for all time many thousands of years before Christ what is and is not allowed...
The Bible itself teaches those who will learn in the Book of James in the New Testament That Liberty/Freedom is the law to be as one is going to be judged against. In the Gospel of John of the same New Testament it is said Jesus said we will know the truth and the truth will set us free. In the Old Testament of The Bible it is written in Jeremiah as a warning from God that friend and neighbor, father and son are going to perish from God's own acts to stumble them up...
The Law to me is this great stumbling blocks' work, and the Preachers of law and those quoting the law with its venom are the snares. Especially the misguided Christians with their "love one another" message and the obvious lack of love for those not conformed to their administration of the laws interpretation.
I say from my learning, laws are not good on their own. Without a body of law being made enlightened and guided to do Justice it is just another body of legislation. We have enough laws to fill legal libraries, but without their providing for Justice being done, they are just more game rules for those wanting to play a legal game, or live innocent in the eyes of the law. The Nazi's were innocent in the eyes of their law in their time too...
If you are doing no harm to yourself or others, I feel you are innocent as a dove. I will not have a semantic argument about what is harmful or harmless because that is just plain silliness as anyone knows what is harmful and what is not. Now not doing any permanent eternal harm or damages to each other but being destructive to oneself  (like smoking, or drinking too much alone or together) I would think forgivable because when you get back to the Creator there's no permanent damages (or harm) done...
From now on, now that you too know, when you hear someone spitting "hell's fire" and "God's fury" over something, take it with a "grain of salt". As I like to say, "no harm, no foul, not even their rotten mouthing off at others not made their way"...

While Waiting...

While I am waiting for the end of time, or the end of civilization as we know it (like what happened in ancient Rome when the Barbarians sacked Rome) by economic collapse from the quick profit speculating hustlers, or public unrest over the gross inequality in the capitalist western world, I choose to read the Bible over and over again (different editions to ease the monotony). It is to me a book inspired by God, given to His creation, is due such devoted attention. This especially while seeking to meet Him as a living ancestor of humanity by act of the creation of our lives.
The Bible I have heard described as a love story about God's great love for His creation. I have heard the Bible called the story of God's Salvation of His fallen creation by His act of love in dying in our place on a cross. I have heard the Bible called the Word of God given humanity for its instruction in life and the reality life occurs in. I can stand all the above descriptions as partial descriptions, each a piece of the big picture the Bible is a part of, the never ending story of God and His creation, His people...
 I have been sharing Bibles with my family for years but it seems no one likes it as I do. I cannot get enough editions of the Bible but have slowed down my buying Bibles until I catch up with my reading them. I too like listening to audio editions of this Holy Book treasury of scenarios and situations as well as lessons good for us, if not created humanity even, to get acquainted with.
At times I consider it a good book and that it may have been the Jewish peoples reader for their student bodies with their Rabbi's lesson filling the Books of the Bible in use by them inherited by the Christians from their Jewish founders. It would make a wonderful reader filled with great material for many lesson plans.
Yet I still find myself believing in a life inside a living invisible God that has always existed, will always exist and must be patient as a Saint as well as quiet as a "church mouse". If we live in God imagine how much He bears with while we live our human lives complete with all some excuse as "human nature". Imagine if you were God, what would you do with your creation if it took no time to seek you, learn about you, or even try to figure out if you are real by trying to make contact, while they seek extraterrestrials instead of you?
God is as real as gravity, able to hold us in creation by our belief if we follow His advise and believe in Him. God is as real as oxygen, the stuff we need in order to live a life in His creation as His created people, His adopted children.
Without God's Grace how will anyone ever succeed in reaching home in Creation while we are coming from the depths of depraved humanity behaving like predators and tyrants over their own species. We are our own worse enemy and life as we live it is not only a misguided farce but a nightmare where hate reigns, and money rules who will eat, get medicated, receive the best humanity has to offer itself, and death is always an option to cause for some too young to be counted or too hated for any public outcry about taking their lives. We live where it is some peoples jobs to take human lives as if the allowed to spill human blood for the "good" of others. Sure the Bible prescribes the death penalty, but read Jeremiah again and tell me there is not a warning for us all in it about friend and neighbor... The death penalty seems as great a stumbling block as abortion is to me! When we are like our "villains", even to finding the shedding of blood excusable, how are we the heroes in this story? I guess some forget a necessary evil is still evil!
Back to the beginning, reading the Bible may not cure cancer, heal illnesses in general, or even help someone find a way to feed their children for another day, but it does not make matters worse, which some misguided people trying to get rid of our moral grounds and religion are surely doing even if they are doing it in the name of liberating us from childish belief in a God-hero coming to our rescue someday... Lord knows we need to be saved from ourselves. Especially from the "special ones" who want to be the ones "allowed to do" what others are not!

Star Date 2018...

I often like to think of my life in relation to my years in the Sunlight, or their Star Date of 56 years and counting, like I was on a survival mission (in some science fiction) like an adventure in God's Creation though, instead of a Hollywood set. On a mission to seek God, and a Life knowing Him like any family member, and being a fellow Spirit in His Spirit Creation. Unlike Captain Kirk in Star Trek (where I first heard Star Date used) I am not captain of a star ship but an heir to a throne of my creation someday, as any child of God may do, and that includes Star Fleets, Inter-dimensional Ships and even Time Traveling Ships too...
My favorite Books include the God of Abraham line of Scriptures, all of them... As I cannot tell which of them preserves a valid religious experience, as they all lay claim too. As well I cannot tell if any of them are outright lying in their contradictions of each other as their God, the God of Abraham, in the Old Testament of The Bible in the Book of Jeremiah warns about Stumbling blocks and Snares that father and son, friend and neighbor will perish from HIM! By His own doing.
Tossed into these Scripture readings I include works about a God Creator as the God of Abraham claims to be in Genesis (another Old Testament Book of the Bible). I wouldn't want to ignore things that may be revelations about the Creator...
Then there's the works about the spiritual reality and powers (like the 1001 Arabian Nights) and books teaching spiritual abilities (like telepathy, etc.). Spiritual classics, like Jewish Mysticism books (the Zohar), Sufi poets (like Rumi), and even Hindu classics (like the Upanishads) are all books I like reading.
Now my absolute favorite meditation is a Solar Meditation I stumbled upon the concept of reading books offered by the Cosolargy Community in the USA. I prescribe its use whenever one is in the Sunlight, whether it is direct or indirect sunlight (both help plants grow). Take a moment when you are in the "Light" to think it is penetrating right through you into your marrow and your bones, into your atoms, cells, blood and organs, into your brain and its link to your organ of perception (infinite mind link), filling you with its energy and flooding your energy fields around you like a great "X-Ray gun", but full of so much more power.  Then go about your work or other deeds until you remember in the sun to do it again. You can meditate in the sunshine too using this guided meditation deliberately as well.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blogs and enjoy the "Light" while you have the "sunlight" gift from God's Creation.

Space, Inner and Outer are Waiting!

Space is called the "final frontier" in the original Star Trek opening, and it certainly lives up to this description. There is seemingly a never ending amount of space outside of us. In this outer space there may be Alien Civilizations or just more room for our growing Humanity populations on the verge of colonizing our near Earth partners in our Solar System, like the Moon and Mars.
Entering within ourselves, looking at the vast space between electrons, I wonder is it infinitesimal the depth we can delve into inside us is. As we learn about it in our physics labs will we find another potential infinity. In my thought experiments I have magnified the inner realm (as we do outer space) and find the atomic levels of space strange new dimensions to explore, containing space at a distance within, as the space above our heads, where the stars are contains space at a distance outside us. Going in or out of a building one does not use different rules. Space at a distance in or outside anything any different?
Beside the size of space in and out side of our self yet to discover and continue exploring, space provides a wonderful future home for humanity. It is located on power grids with "Goldilocks zones" where solar power is at its strongest for powering our lives and the growth of our to be found to be space thriving crops and herds. Life in space already has power grid developed "lots" waiting for us to build space stations in them for our use. Space is the safer place to live compared to planetary surfaces, with the planets like Earth having many more natural disasters than floating in space in an orbiting space station does.
Finally, when I first started my thought experiments in magnifying space I noticed at a certain magnification everything just looks like colored space with sensations of their particular type. This led me to think there is nothing but space, or that space is the matter of the singularity, or the hidden clay of the Potter. Space is what everything looked like in extreme magnification to me. What else existed in the beginning beside God, or the singularity? Only where one or the other was...