I know this is an odd question but it keeps coming up I find. It is possible that "The Burning Bush" that Moses saw was some sort of life form. I saw a burning bush in August 1970 when I was climbing Mt. Shasta, so a burning bush might be a part of the life forms resident around large mountains or volcanic mountains around the world. Mountains like Mt. Shasta and Mt. Kailash are known to be very spiritual mountains too.
What happened to me was I was climbing the mountain and it was about 3 am in the morning with 3 friends in August in 1970. I had set out alone because I was cold and hadn't brought a warm enough sleeping bag to be warm enough outside. So, I set off alone to warm up. I was trying to climb the mountain in one day from Horse camp Sierra club lodge because I found I don't do well sleeping at altitude as some people stay at Lake Helen at around 10,000 feet on the mountain which is a shorter climb than Horse Camp which is at about 8000 or 9000 feet. Before I got to Lake Helen I found the Burning Bush. I likely would not have seen it if it were daylight. But, that's what it looked like for me too. I'm a very intuitive and telepathic person, so I talked to it with my mind. It told me it wasn't there for me but I was welcome to be there. I felt sort of like I was a nail to an electromagnet or something. Being there completely changed me in a variety of ways. Finally it said to me in my mind, "You must leave now or you will be damaged." So, I obeyed then thinking that I was getting to be like an overcharged battery or something. I was in a very spiritual point of view and I was crying because I knew I had had some kind of very Jesus or Moses kind of experience.
However, over the next months I was scared by what had happened to me. What appears to have happened is I became a receptical for the Holy Spirit and I was able to change things and heal people even at a distance. However, for me it was also scary because I felt like my elbows to my hands were catching on fire so it was painful like my arms were literally on fire. I was frightened by this and had no one to teach me what to do with this really powerful supernatural energy. I was 22 in 1970.
I started traveling because I was scared to New Mexico and to Colorado and Utah in my 1966 VW Blue Bug car. And by meeting and helping heal many people I finally got some sort of balance in regard to the holy spirit and no longer felt I might die because of the Holy spirit resident in my body.
So, what is a Burning Bush? Is it a lifeform? IS is an angel? or is it a lifeform that lives on really big powerful mountains sometimes like a Mountain God or what?
I don't know the answer to this but meeting the burning bush in person made me understand what happened to Moses, Jesus and all the disciples and Prophets a whole lot more through the years.
By God's Grace.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Generating your own Heaven Realm is a good habit to start and to keep going
Generating your own heaven realm is about consistently thinking kind and positive thoughts.
Some people call this praying but you could also call this lucid dreaming, meditating, contemplation, positive day dreaming or consciously generated positive night dreams.
I find generating positivity 24 hours a day starts with what you do with your consciousness during the day while you are awake.
For example, around 1983 I met my first American Tibetan Buddhist Teacher after I had had my first Tibetan Buddhist Initiation in Ashland, Oregon around 1980. I learned from my first American Buddhist teacher that practice (praying or meditating) creates your own individual heaven realm over time.
I saw this as an incredibly good idea. Over the years I watched my personal heaven realm grow and watched it interface with all heaven realms both in heavens and on earth.
I began formally my own personal heaven realm by doing the following prayer which makes me feel good and feel very happy in my subconscious both waking and sleeping.
"May all beings attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss
May all beings be free from Suffering and the Cause of Suffering
May all beings never be without the supreme Blisss that is free
from all near and far all grasping and aversion"
I have repeated this prayer while experiencing all life in the universe being free from Suffering for over 30 years now (likely 32 since meeting my first American teacher).
I have likely done this prayer millions and millions of times already. Each time I do this it gives me great peace because I am experiencing all beings in the universe being free from suffering.
So, this creates the actuality of this in the past, present and future by doing this.
I understand the true nature of time and space and souls and because I do this is constantly manifesting in infinite ways throughout the universe in the past, present and future throughout the universe
By God's Infinite Grace
This prayer is for the Biggest whale or elephant and the smallest bacteria and everything in between throughout the universe in the past, present and future.
Experience this for a moment with me
By God's Grace
Another exercise I find helpful is to experience yourself as the whole universe as a way of experiencing God and becoming one with God.
Try this if it suits you.
Now experience this encompassing the whole universe while in all time and space also past, present and future.
Within my first few years of doing this often I would wake up in the morning saying this prayer. So, I would actually be asleep saying this prayer in my mind. This made me very happy to know I was even generating my own heaven realm while I slept in addition to generating a heaven realm while awake.
By God's Grace.
Experience this if it suits you.
By God's Grace
While you are experiencing this speak in your mind or out loud the Prayer above for all beings in the past, present and future.
Experience the end of suffering and the bringing to Bliss of all Beings in the past present and future of the universe.
Experience the peace this brings you.
Now stay there if you can 24 hours a day while you go about your life and business if you can.
By God's Grace
Some people call this praying but you could also call this lucid dreaming, meditating, contemplation, positive day dreaming or consciously generated positive night dreams.
I find generating positivity 24 hours a day starts with what you do with your consciousness during the day while you are awake.
For example, around 1983 I met my first American Tibetan Buddhist Teacher after I had had my first Tibetan Buddhist Initiation in Ashland, Oregon around 1980. I learned from my first American Buddhist teacher that practice (praying or meditating) creates your own individual heaven realm over time.
I saw this as an incredibly good idea. Over the years I watched my personal heaven realm grow and watched it interface with all heaven realms both in heavens and on earth.
I began formally my own personal heaven realm by doing the following prayer which makes me feel good and feel very happy in my subconscious both waking and sleeping.
"May all beings attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss
May all beings be free from Suffering and the Cause of Suffering
May all beings never be without the supreme Blisss that is free
from all near and far all grasping and aversion"
I have repeated this prayer while experiencing all life in the universe being free from Suffering for over 30 years now (likely 32 since meeting my first American teacher).
I have likely done this prayer millions and millions of times already. Each time I do this it gives me great peace because I am experiencing all beings in the universe being free from suffering.
So, this creates the actuality of this in the past, present and future by doing this.
I understand the true nature of time and space and souls and because I do this is constantly manifesting in infinite ways throughout the universe in the past, present and future throughout the universe
By God's Infinite Grace
This prayer is for the Biggest whale or elephant and the smallest bacteria and everything in between throughout the universe in the past, present and future.
Experience this for a moment with me
By God's Grace
Another exercise I find helpful is to experience yourself as the whole universe as a way of experiencing God and becoming one with God.
Try this if it suits you.
Now experience this encompassing the whole universe while in all time and space also past, present and future.
Within my first few years of doing this often I would wake up in the morning saying this prayer. So, I would actually be asleep saying this prayer in my mind. This made me very happy to know I was even generating my own heaven realm while I slept in addition to generating a heaven realm while awake.
By God's Grace.
Experience this if it suits you.
By God's Grace
While you are experiencing this speak in your mind or out loud the Prayer above for all beings in the past, present and future.
Experience the end of suffering and the bringing to Bliss of all Beings in the past present and future of the universe.
Experience the peace this brings you.
Now stay there if you can 24 hours a day while you go about your life and business if you can.
By God's Grace
What is Supernatural?
My way of explaining this would be to say that it is a higher order of "Natural".
And natural is sort of like Breathing. You do it all the time or else your body ceases to be alive.
So, what allows you to breathe and inhabit your human body is "Supernatural".
Without your "Supernatural" component then you are dead.
It took me a long time to try to define this because mostly it is misused in that people think that Supernatural is a bad thing.
That's not the right way to look at it.
It is what makes your body alive instead of dead.
In some ways it is about consciousness creating physical reality too.
My thought is that this is why "Gratitude is the motor of life".
Imagine your life is an engine in a car and what runs the car to all kinds of great experiences is gratitude.
So, without gratitude for the good things you are already experiencing nothing good tends to come to you.
Without gratitude people start to kill themselves and others with their hate and anger.
But, if you can be grateful for the good things in life like being alive, being able to breathe, any food you have to eat, any good health you have, anyone who is your friend or relative who is good to you and anyone good you meet along the way, then more good is then enabled to come into your life through your gratitude.
So, therefore, good supernatural experiences come from the gratitude you are experiencing every day.
What is gratitude really?
It is a love of life
joie de vivre French
or joy of life
or in French
joie de la vie
So, without joy of life and love of life one doesn't tend to have good supernatural experiences ongoing.
Understanding this one can start generating one's own heaven realm through this wonderful technology of the spirit.
By God's Grace.
And natural is sort of like Breathing. You do it all the time or else your body ceases to be alive.
So, what allows you to breathe and inhabit your human body is "Supernatural".
Without your "Supernatural" component then you are dead.
It took me a long time to try to define this because mostly it is misused in that people think that Supernatural is a bad thing.
That's not the right way to look at it.
It is what makes your body alive instead of dead.
In some ways it is about consciousness creating physical reality too.
My thought is that this is why "Gratitude is the motor of life".
Imagine your life is an engine in a car and what runs the car to all kinds of great experiences is gratitude.
So, without gratitude for the good things you are already experiencing nothing good tends to come to you.
Without gratitude people start to kill themselves and others with their hate and anger.
But, if you can be grateful for the good things in life like being alive, being able to breathe, any food you have to eat, any good health you have, anyone who is your friend or relative who is good to you and anyone good you meet along the way, then more good is then enabled to come into your life through your gratitude.
So, therefore, good supernatural experiences come from the gratitude you are experiencing every day.
What is gratitude really?
It is a love of life
joie de vivre French
or joy of life
or in French
joie de la vie
So, without joy of life and love of life one doesn't tend to have good supernatural experiences ongoing.
Understanding this one can start generating one's own heaven realm through this wonderful technology of the spirit.
By God's Grace.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Religions are Obsolete?
Why do I think this?
Catholics think all protestants are going to hell. Sunni Muslims think all Shiite Muslims are going to hell. Shiite Muslims think all Sunni Muslims are going to hell. Hindus think all Muslims are going to hell.
Do I need to go on?
Religions are obsolete because of paranoia in the human condition. If people slowed down enough to consider their positions more and came out of their paranoia about everything and stopped killing each other over religious positions I wouldn't have to think that all religions are obsolete.
What isn't obsolete?
The human condition isn't obsolete. We as humans mostly need to believe in God or we are likely going to take legal or illegal drugs to mask this need.
However, I have seen people believe in Buddha and Compassion who do not necessarily believe in God and be perfectly happy about compassion too.
So, what do humans need not to kill each other over their religions?
This is the question we all must ask each other.
Because who are the mass murderers killing people in their schools or workplaces every week or so here in the U.S.?
What do they believe in? IS there a common thread?
And are they any different really than terrorists?
What is happening to the human race right now except maybe overpopulation?
And what do humans need to do to stop killing each other?
Catholics think all protestants are going to hell. Sunni Muslims think all Shiite Muslims are going to hell. Shiite Muslims think all Sunni Muslims are going to hell. Hindus think all Muslims are going to hell.
Do I need to go on?
Religions are obsolete because of paranoia in the human condition. If people slowed down enough to consider their positions more and came out of their paranoia about everything and stopped killing each other over religious positions I wouldn't have to think that all religions are obsolete.
What isn't obsolete?
The human condition isn't obsolete. We as humans mostly need to believe in God or we are likely going to take legal or illegal drugs to mask this need.
However, I have seen people believe in Buddha and Compassion who do not necessarily believe in God and be perfectly happy about compassion too.
So, what do humans need not to kill each other over their religions?
This is the question we all must ask each other.
Because who are the mass murderers killing people in their schools or workplaces every week or so here in the U.S.?
What do they believe in? IS there a common thread?
And are they any different really than terrorists?
What is happening to the human race right now except maybe overpopulation?
And what do humans need to do to stop killing each other?
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
THE PATH ACCORDING TO FRED:
Religion: if you have a religion in your life look to it for the beginnings of discipline and culture in your life.
Truth-If you seek truth look to philosophical inquiry. From Philosophy came all the sciences past, present and future.
Enlightenment-If you seek enlightenment develop compassion for yourself and all beings in the universe and join this with Truth.
If you do all these things you will have the best lifetime possible for you. This is my experience, this is my belief after living 62 years here on Earth.
end quote from:
Intuitive fred888: The Path According to Fred
intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2011/01/path-according-to-fred.html
Jan 5, 2011 - The Path According to Fred. Religion- If you have a religion look to it for discipline and the beginnings of culture in your life. Truth-If you seek ...Though the above was originally written January 5th 2011 by me at another site, when I go into Intuitivefred888 on another computer than one of my own or in my family, this article is usually the first one that comes up at Google regarding my site. So, when it came up in Google Search once again I decided I should share it again with you. Have a Great Day!
Note: I originally composed this in Firefox. But the computer I'm using right now in Oregon does not presently have Firefox. So, while composing in Google Chrome, the transition is not as smoothe as I would like between them evidenced by all the black stuff there at the top of the page.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Positive Thinking
I used to think positive thinking was baloney and while in my 20s I was always into honesty about everything even if it hurt people's feelings. Then I started to see that honesty wasn't always the best policy because sometimes my honesty hurt people in ways I hadn't intended it to.
Then I started to realize there was something more important than honesty, Compassion.
I realized I had been set on a very critical path and I wanted to stop being truthful and critical of people in my "Honesty".
I saw that many religious paths destroy people around them in the same or other religions subtly destroyed other people's lives.
For example, mostly white religions destroyed the lives of minorities or people who were white but believed different things than they did.
So, I started to see that the same people who talk about Christmas being destroyed were not sensitive to all the people being hurt because they didn't feel okay about celebrating their own religion around Christmas time because in the U.S. Christmas is overwhelming.
However, the other side of this is every majority religion everywhere on earth does this too.
So, what Christians in the U.S. have done to others all other big religions around the world still do the same thing to destroy people in other religions who are minority religions.
Anyway, I digress.
Positive thinking I discovered in my present wife and finally had suffered enough in my 20s and 40s to realize her positive thinking was saving my life: literally.
She was the type of person I was raised to marry growing up but I didn't meet her until she was 39 and I about 46. But, she saved me from myself and I saved her by becoming her knight in shining armor so to speak. And life has been pretty good ever since, even though I almost died in 1998 from a heart virus and in 2015 from a burst appendix. Her positive thinking was one of the reasons I pulled through both times.
So, what I'm saying here is Positive thinking can save your life if applied practically to any situation.
So, my point of view at present is: "I would have already died around age 50 without God sending me my present wife.
I'm really grateful to God for all the many many blessings he has bestowed upon me in my life.
Then I started to realize there was something more important than honesty, Compassion.
I realized I had been set on a very critical path and I wanted to stop being truthful and critical of people in my "Honesty".
I saw that many religious paths destroy people around them in the same or other religions subtly destroyed other people's lives.
For example, mostly white religions destroyed the lives of minorities or people who were white but believed different things than they did.
So, I started to see that the same people who talk about Christmas being destroyed were not sensitive to all the people being hurt because they didn't feel okay about celebrating their own religion around Christmas time because in the U.S. Christmas is overwhelming.
However, the other side of this is every majority religion everywhere on earth does this too.
So, what Christians in the U.S. have done to others all other big religions around the world still do the same thing to destroy people in other religions who are minority religions.
Anyway, I digress.
Positive thinking I discovered in my present wife and finally had suffered enough in my 20s and 40s to realize her positive thinking was saving my life: literally.
She was the type of person I was raised to marry growing up but I didn't meet her until she was 39 and I about 46. But, she saved me from myself and I saved her by becoming her knight in shining armor so to speak. And life has been pretty good ever since, even though I almost died in 1998 from a heart virus and in 2015 from a burst appendix. Her positive thinking was one of the reasons I pulled through both times.
So, what I'm saying here is Positive thinking can save your life if applied practically to any situation.
So, my point of view at present is: "I would have already died around age 50 without God sending me my present wife.
I'm really grateful to God for all the many many blessings he has bestowed upon me in my life.
Gratitude
One of the most important parts of a Spiritual Path is gratitude. Because if you are not grateful for whatever you have now, how do you expect to get more than you already have?
This might sound trite but it is also true, "Gratitude is the motor of life".
Imagine your gratitude is an engine in your car and you need to get from California to New York (Or either way (or from Florida to Seattle) either way for whatever the reason.
IF you want to go there and aren't grateful for what you have already, you are not going to get wherever you are going to.
If you ask me why this is I cannot really tell you. However, I have observed this scientifically throughout my life.
I have a friend for example, that all he would say if you asked him how he was in the last year was something like "Well. I suppose it could be worse but I don't know how?"
Though I understood what he was talking about he has a nice car and owns 1/2 his own house from her parents (his sister owns the other half) and he is unhappy with some of the investments he made the last few years. However, to always lead with being unhappy is only bringing more unhappiness into his life. I'm not sure he sees this.
However, intellectually he is one of the most intelligent people I know. So, what's wrong with this picture? I cannot really say except maybe he didn't expect to be living the life he is living right now and being single.
However, he has also been one of the most important people in my wife and my life for around 20 years and has been very supportive of our relationship and we tried to fix him up with at least 20 female friends of ours to no avail. So, is the problem being single? Is the problem his parents died?
Is the problem something we don't know about?
However, not being grateful for what you do have: Life, car, property, that is paid for I believe isn't really good. Even if your life isn't what you thought it was going to be that isn't good enough.
Only 1/3 of people on earth consider themselves happy by the way. So, that means 2/3 of people are sort of miserable on any given day.
And even I might say my 20s and my 40s were pretty miserable at times. However, since 50 my life has been pretty good so I stay alive for the good times. Will it always be this way? I don't know. I do what I can for myself and everyone I know so they choose to stay alive and try to be happy too.
So, in the end what is the motor of life?
Gratitude and Joy are the motor of life.
So, try to figure out how to generate both Gratitude and joy for what you have rather than be constantly complaining about what you don't have.
By focusing on the good things in your life naturally more good things tend to come to you. If you insist upon focusing only on the bad things in your life more bad things will come to you.
This is how life works and it is actually scientific.
Why is this?
Probably because no one wants to be around someone who is complaining all the time. They don't want to be your friend, they don't want to hire you for a job, they don't want to know you or live next to you.
So, complaining is one way to end your business life, your social life until all you have left to do is to commit suicide and then you are out of your body moaning and making life difficult for those who haven't died yet.
And that's just the road to hell.
So be grateful and find the joy in life so you don't have to go to hell.
This appears to be somewhat scientific for some reason or other.
I cannot explain it but it is the way things actually work here on earth and beyond.
This might sound trite but it is also true, "Gratitude is the motor of life".
Imagine your gratitude is an engine in your car and you need to get from California to New York (Or either way (or from Florida to Seattle) either way for whatever the reason.
IF you want to go there and aren't grateful for what you have already, you are not going to get wherever you are going to.
If you ask me why this is I cannot really tell you. However, I have observed this scientifically throughout my life.
I have a friend for example, that all he would say if you asked him how he was in the last year was something like "Well. I suppose it could be worse but I don't know how?"
Though I understood what he was talking about he has a nice car and owns 1/2 his own house from her parents (his sister owns the other half) and he is unhappy with some of the investments he made the last few years. However, to always lead with being unhappy is only bringing more unhappiness into his life. I'm not sure he sees this.
However, intellectually he is one of the most intelligent people I know. So, what's wrong with this picture? I cannot really say except maybe he didn't expect to be living the life he is living right now and being single.
However, he has also been one of the most important people in my wife and my life for around 20 years and has been very supportive of our relationship and we tried to fix him up with at least 20 female friends of ours to no avail. So, is the problem being single? Is the problem his parents died?
Is the problem something we don't know about?
However, not being grateful for what you do have: Life, car, property, that is paid for I believe isn't really good. Even if your life isn't what you thought it was going to be that isn't good enough.
Only 1/3 of people on earth consider themselves happy by the way. So, that means 2/3 of people are sort of miserable on any given day.
And even I might say my 20s and my 40s were pretty miserable at times. However, since 50 my life has been pretty good so I stay alive for the good times. Will it always be this way? I don't know. I do what I can for myself and everyone I know so they choose to stay alive and try to be happy too.
So, in the end what is the motor of life?
Gratitude and Joy are the motor of life.
So, try to figure out how to generate both Gratitude and joy for what you have rather than be constantly complaining about what you don't have.
By focusing on the good things in your life naturally more good things tend to come to you. If you insist upon focusing only on the bad things in your life more bad things will come to you.
This is how life works and it is actually scientific.
Why is this?
Probably because no one wants to be around someone who is complaining all the time. They don't want to be your friend, they don't want to hire you for a job, they don't want to know you or live next to you.
So, complaining is one way to end your business life, your social life until all you have left to do is to commit suicide and then you are out of your body moaning and making life difficult for those who haven't died yet.
And that's just the road to hell.
So be grateful and find the joy in life so you don't have to go to hell.
This appears to be somewhat scientific for some reason or other.
I cannot explain it but it is the way things actually work here on earth and beyond.
Anger might not be a useful emotion
My friend has a Master's degree in History of Religion from UCLA specializing in Buddhism and Sanskrit. With this he could teach at almost any college or university History in the U.S. However, he would rather live in Mt. Shasta, play music and run a music recording studio for himself and many other musicians he knows from all around the world.
This choice has served him well both as a musician, traveling all over the world playing music and being incredibly free to pursue his spiritual path as an adult.
He was telling me anger is not useful. He mentioned even the Dalai Lama thought that anger wasn't useful. Then he said that when you are angry you poison yourself with bad chemicals.
I remembered how angry I was in the early 1990s when I couldn't get custody of my daughter from my ex-wife. I always attributed my heart virus that I almost died from to this anger. So, here was another bit of evidence going in this direction.
Then I said to my friend, "But when I'm a little angry I'm always the most intelligent. In fact, I could say that all the best things in my life came from me getting a little angry and making changes that made my life an ongoing miracle."
He looked at me and said, "But this isn't the anger of rage that some people experience."
I said, "Yes. That's true."
So, just remember when you are really enraged beyond it being useful to you and your future.
Because poisoning yourself with the enraged chemicals your body makes only shortens your life and the quality of it and likely does nothing to change whatever is wrong to something better.
The fight or flight response is very short term and sometimes (like when a bus is bearing down on you) it's good to run for your life.
This choice has served him well both as a musician, traveling all over the world playing music and being incredibly free to pursue his spiritual path as an adult.
He was telling me anger is not useful. He mentioned even the Dalai Lama thought that anger wasn't useful. Then he said that when you are angry you poison yourself with bad chemicals.
I remembered how angry I was in the early 1990s when I couldn't get custody of my daughter from my ex-wife. I always attributed my heart virus that I almost died from to this anger. So, here was another bit of evidence going in this direction.
Then I said to my friend, "But when I'm a little angry I'm always the most intelligent. In fact, I could say that all the best things in my life came from me getting a little angry and making changes that made my life an ongoing miracle."
He looked at me and said, "But this isn't the anger of rage that some people experience."
I said, "Yes. That's true."
So, just remember when you are really enraged beyond it being useful to you and your future.
Because poisoning yourself with the enraged chemicals your body makes only shortens your life and the quality of it and likely does nothing to change whatever is wrong to something better.
The fight or flight response is very short term and sometimes (like when a bus is bearing down on you) it's good to run for your life.
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava was supposed to have brought Buddhism in it's present form (of Tibetan Buddhism) to Tibet. While I was in Rewalsar, India in 1986 I began to suspect that Padmasambhava was one of Saint Germain's incarnations. I asked Saint Germain whether he was Padmasambhava.
He answered me the next day when I stepped into a protecting building which was protecting his footprints that he had melted into a Boulder up about 2 thousand feet from Lake Rewalsar. I laughed as I saw the footprint was exactly my size foot and put my Vasques Cascade size 14 mountain climbing boot into the footprint. It fit exactly and I laughed. The monk showing me the footprints looked amazed and as we walked outside the sky had turned purple with purple clouds. Then, purple and violet lightning came out from those clouds.
This I knew was Saint Germain confirming that he was Padmasambhava too.
So, I knew Tibetan Buddhism was a creation of Saint Germain as Padmasambhava when he brought it up to Tibet from Nalanda University in India then.
At the time I thought that likely Merlin was an old Padmasambhava. I still sort of think this. However it happened though Padmasambhava was the same soul as Saint Germain.
I no longer have any doubt of this at all.
He answered me the next day when I stepped into a protecting building which was protecting his footprints that he had melted into a Boulder up about 2 thousand feet from Lake Rewalsar. I laughed as I saw the footprint was exactly my size foot and put my Vasques Cascade size 14 mountain climbing boot into the footprint. It fit exactly and I laughed. The monk showing me the footprints looked amazed and as we walked outside the sky had turned purple with purple clouds. Then, purple and violet lightning came out from those clouds.
This I knew was Saint Germain confirming that he was Padmasambhava too.
So, I knew Tibetan Buddhism was a creation of Saint Germain as Padmasambhava when he brought it up to Tibet from Nalanda University in India then.
At the time I thought that likely Merlin was an old Padmasambhava. I still sort of think this. However it happened though Padmasambhava was the same soul as Saint Germain.
I no longer have any doubt of this at all.
What is a Spiritual Path?
On a spiritual path often you might start with a Philosophical question: For example, "Who Am I?", "Why Am I here?", "What is the purpose of my individual life?", "What should I do with my life?"
If you ask priests or ministers of ANY religion often their motivation is to enslave you to their way of thinking.
So, as a person who chooses to be on the spiritual path you might ask: "Why are you trying to enslave me to your path?"
Then they might beat you up or kill you or shun you because you are not acting like a slave or they might not talk to you anymore.
So, my way of describing what a Spiritual Path is would be to say that through your experiences and your scientific proof in your life you are creating your own personal religion. Should everyone join you in this religion? Usually not, because you have proved what you have proved only to yourself. So, they could only honestly join you if they had either proved what you have proved to yourself or they decide to trust you from what you have shared with them already.
The longer you have survived proving these things to yourself and still have your mental and physical health the more likely people will be able to be helped by what you have discovered about life. IN other words, the religion that you have proved to yourself based upon science and beliefs just might be superior to what anyone else has come up with. So, for this reason it might be good if they at least listened to you about what you have discovered.
So, scientifically choosing your path is important to your well being and the potential well being of all around you. As you grow the human race thereby grows to in understanding and awareness and in a greater sense of well being and oceanic experiences that encompass the whole universe and beyond.
For example, if the religion you were raised in answers all your questions in a satisfactory way you might not need a separate spiritual path. But, if you are constantly coming up against hypocrisy and incongruencies in your religion then you might have to embark on a spiritual path that may or may not contain some or all of the religion you were raised in.
You have to be true to yourself and to God if you believe in God.
One of the more remarkable things I experienced in 1985 and 1986 was to be around hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists in Bodhgaya who were receiving the Kalachakra Initiation from the Dalai Lama. So there were about 500,000 of them there.
Here were 500,000 people who were amazing in their auras and peace and compassion in a way I had never experienced before. Because these were not Theists which means they didn't necessarily believe in God. However, they were precious beyond belief and in many ways more sincere (because their lives often depended upon it) than most Christians and especially secular Christians here in the U.S.
So, I had to deal with this paradox of "Here are 500,000 people mostly not believing in God who are amazing and compassionate and helpful in a new and really wonderful way. Even Atheists likely would be happy with these people simply because they don't believe in God.
And yet, even not believing in God they were amazing people and helpful and loving and compassionate. They were rich and poor, educated and uneducated and all the rest just from mostly different cultures than I came from. And on top of this there were about 10,000 westerners from North and South America, Europe, Japan etc. who were very educated like myself which made this even more interesting.
So, I found a home there in Tibetan Buddhists that I had never found before. Because these people accepted more people the way they were than anyone else I had ever met before on Earth.
They believe in 49,000 paths to enlightenment and more than one of these path includes believing in God. So, I can be a good Buddhist and a good Christian at the same time without rejecting any life on earth human or animal in a spiritual sense which was my original goal. So, I can believe in God, be mystical Christian still and also be a Tibetan Buddhist in practice as well.
This has been a truly wonderful experience.
If you ask priests or ministers of ANY religion often their motivation is to enslave you to their way of thinking.
So, as a person who chooses to be on the spiritual path you might ask: "Why are you trying to enslave me to your path?"
Then they might beat you up or kill you or shun you because you are not acting like a slave or they might not talk to you anymore.
So, my way of describing what a Spiritual Path is would be to say that through your experiences and your scientific proof in your life you are creating your own personal religion. Should everyone join you in this religion? Usually not, because you have proved what you have proved only to yourself. So, they could only honestly join you if they had either proved what you have proved to yourself or they decide to trust you from what you have shared with them already.
The longer you have survived proving these things to yourself and still have your mental and physical health the more likely people will be able to be helped by what you have discovered about life. IN other words, the religion that you have proved to yourself based upon science and beliefs just might be superior to what anyone else has come up with. So, for this reason it might be good if they at least listened to you about what you have discovered.
So, scientifically choosing your path is important to your well being and the potential well being of all around you. As you grow the human race thereby grows to in understanding and awareness and in a greater sense of well being and oceanic experiences that encompass the whole universe and beyond.
For example, if the religion you were raised in answers all your questions in a satisfactory way you might not need a separate spiritual path. But, if you are constantly coming up against hypocrisy and incongruencies in your religion then you might have to embark on a spiritual path that may or may not contain some or all of the religion you were raised in.
You have to be true to yourself and to God if you believe in God.
One of the more remarkable things I experienced in 1985 and 1986 was to be around hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists in Bodhgaya who were receiving the Kalachakra Initiation from the Dalai Lama. So there were about 500,000 of them there.
Here were 500,000 people who were amazing in their auras and peace and compassion in a way I had never experienced before. Because these were not Theists which means they didn't necessarily believe in God. However, they were precious beyond belief and in many ways more sincere (because their lives often depended upon it) than most Christians and especially secular Christians here in the U.S.
So, I had to deal with this paradox of "Here are 500,000 people mostly not believing in God who are amazing and compassionate and helpful in a new and really wonderful way. Even Atheists likely would be happy with these people simply because they don't believe in God.
And yet, even not believing in God they were amazing people and helpful and loving and compassionate. They were rich and poor, educated and uneducated and all the rest just from mostly different cultures than I came from. And on top of this there were about 10,000 westerners from North and South America, Europe, Japan etc. who were very educated like myself which made this even more interesting.
So, I found a home there in Tibetan Buddhists that I had never found before. Because these people accepted more people the way they were than anyone else I had ever met before on Earth.
They believe in 49,000 paths to enlightenment and more than one of these path includes believing in God. So, I can be a good Buddhist and a good Christian at the same time without rejecting any life on earth human or animal in a spiritual sense which was my original goal. So, I can believe in God, be mystical Christian still and also be a Tibetan Buddhist in practice as well.
This has been a truly wonderful experience.
Dogma?
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The Spiritual Path and why it is important
I was raised as a child to be a minister in my parents church. However, the problem I found with all this I can best describe as dogma. Every religion and church has a certain amount of dogma. This is the problem I ran into regarding religions and churches in general and why now generally speaking I don't go to any church much.
So, what I find is the most important thing is to be looking for a compassionate path through life.
This path is important so you don't wind up killing yourself and or others. It is a path of mutual respect where you realize you need to stay alive but other people have the need to stay alive themselves. So, your path becomes "How do I accomplish this?"
And this is what a spiritual path is.
It is a way to find your way through life without killing anyone or yourself. It is in a way like becoming a scientific researcher regarding all aspects of life.
It is a voyage of self discovery where it might at times include religions or it might not.
It is a path of integrity through life honoring your right to be free and others right to be free.
However, it is also a path where you do not allow others to encroach upon your right to be free and also you help protect others right to worship as they please too as long as they are not harming others in the process.
So, a Spiritual Path is finding a path of integrity and compassion that works for you that includes Right livelihood, often a family, could include owning your own business but might also be about working for others.
A spiritual path is about finding enough meaning in your life to stay alive and to experience your life to it's fullest.
A spiritual path is about finding happiness both in this life and after.
A spiritual path is about the pursuit of happiness
but it is also about helping others pursue their happiness too.
So, it is much like a scientific researcher in the pursuit of happiness and bliss.
So, follow your bliss in life because that is where life has meaning and hope.
A spiritual path is also a path of compassion and hope for yourself and all beings.
So, what I find is the most important thing is to be looking for a compassionate path through life.
This path is important so you don't wind up killing yourself and or others. It is a path of mutual respect where you realize you need to stay alive but other people have the need to stay alive themselves. So, your path becomes "How do I accomplish this?"
And this is what a spiritual path is.
It is a way to find your way through life without killing anyone or yourself. It is in a way like becoming a scientific researcher regarding all aspects of life.
It is a voyage of self discovery where it might at times include religions or it might not.
It is a path of integrity through life honoring your right to be free and others right to be free.
However, it is also a path where you do not allow others to encroach upon your right to be free and also you help protect others right to worship as they please too as long as they are not harming others in the process.
So, a Spiritual Path is finding a path of integrity and compassion that works for you that includes Right livelihood, often a family, could include owning your own business but might also be about working for others.
A spiritual path is about finding enough meaning in your life to stay alive and to experience your life to it's fullest.
A spiritual path is about finding happiness both in this life and after.
A spiritual path is about the pursuit of happiness
but it is also about helping others pursue their happiness too.
So, it is much like a scientific researcher in the pursuit of happiness and bliss.
So, follow your bliss in life because that is where life has meaning and hope.
A spiritual path is also a path of compassion and hope for yourself and all beings.
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