Compartmentalizing God

Most religious organizations both Eastern and Western have their demigods, including Christianity. These are gods that rule over human conditions.  All religions have their Saints, Divas Devils and Angels. Every aspect of the human experience has a part of divinity assigned to it. In  Catholicism St Christopher protects your travel while St Joseph protects the family and home. Krishna has Ganesha cutting through the illusions of life and bringing balance and strength. Buddha has many Bodisatnvas as their understudies, so to speak. I have named only one each, but there are many more, plus many more Religions to look at. I am not here to define all the functions Religions and of the demigods, I am just pointing out that almost everybody compartmentalizes God in order to have a piece of the life-force energy pinpointed at what their current concerns might be.  Personally I think that "if it works, use it". It takes focus on any particular issue to bring your consciousness to bare in creating your desired outcome. Naming and Claiming a title for the part of the Godforce you use is not necessarily bad, although misleading to those that do not really understand the concept. The superstitious can have demons and angels running amuck in their daily lives.  MAYBE DONT DO THAT????Maybe do that but don't fight over it..... Peach Out ... Love is Light

Victims and terrorists on a Soul Level

The world has been shaken again due to terrorism in Paris. Lets look a minute at the underlying soul choice of the victims and the terrorist.
    I believe that all souls choose their birth and death. I believe that bodies are temporary and souls are immortal.  Of course this is only a belief and therefore subject to being totally wrong, but it could be totally right too.
     Let's think about these latest terrorism attacks as if on some level they have a plan and purpose.  What might be the purpose of souls "volunteering" on a higher level, to call attention to a situation, by making the world news and participating in a terrorist attack. What are the terrorists and the victims trying to call attention to that was worth the victims dying for.. Trust me , it is not the superfucial agenda of the religious persecution of anyone. At the bottom line it is HATE. They call attention to Hate and attract an outpouring of Love.
Here on this level of creation duality is the illusion and it is only through duality that anything can be understood. The struggle is as old as 3 dimensional reality. it is good vs evil, right vs wrong, light, vs darkness. Seemingly senseless death calls attention to the deeper senseless idea that there is a totally right or wrong anything. On a deeper level the terrorist and the victims are both invested in the same thing. Shining a light on hate. Do you think that One is different than the Other?????

grief and death

Hello all

Tonight I would like to speak of grief from the loss of a beloved.  I thought I had a good understanding about death. I knew that life continues beyond the physical death because of the experience of NDE that I had years ago. I didn't think that the death of a loved one would ever be very hard for me to handle. I had experienced the loss of my mother and my beloved aunt, among many other people that are close to me and handled it with a very zen attitude. Sadness yet joy that my loved one was on the other side of life and I could still communicate with them and would see them again one day.  NO Big Deal Right------And then I met and lost my beloved. my soul mate, my twin flame. We were not together very long, and he was fighting addiction. I knew in my heart that if he didn't stop I would have to leave him one day. I didn't care, not really, because the draw to him was far beyond anything I had ever felt. And then HE DIED .
 At first I was numb and then angry, unconsolable for weeks. I tried everything I could think of to get away from the feeling of the deepest loss I have ever experienced. After a few weeks I still was as raw as I was a short week after it happened, except I could speak his name without bursting into tears. I thought of him almost constantly. I was able to get dreams and the scent of him, I could even feel his arms around me once in awhile. I am a natural medium intuitive I lived for those moments. Those of you who have not experienced this may think it was just my imagination, but I know differently. I am a natural intuitive medium. All the soul contact I had, still did not quell the longing and sadness in my broken heart.

They say that grief is a process

The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

I think that Shock is the first stage, not denial. For awhile you have to remember to breath. It is as if your heart stops. Then there came denial and then a huge plate of pissed off at him for leaving me. I wanted to go with him for awhile but then acceptance came. I think depression was ongoing. It was like I had the flu for almost a year. It got measurably better once the acceptance stage took root but there is not one day that has gone by that I do not think of him, but now it is with a different kind of love.
I was fortunate to have someone move into my world that totally understood my grief because he had his own.  It has been almost 3 years now, and I have made my way through grief.  I have to tell you that even though I have never felt so horrible and my heart had never been ripped from my body like his loss gave me I was also able to release lots of pent up grief that I had stuffed since childhood. It was a total cleansing..

Many people turn to church and God when they receive a blow like grief. I think that  if it works use it. Just don't get lost in the process. Many others turn to pills and booze. Those things don't work, they take a bad situation and make it far worse. The best way is to surrender to the grief and allow it to wash over you. It will heal you if you let it.

The rains of change

The weather and corporate greed have taken a toll on my way of life of late. It is telling me that change is in the air for my path. When one door closes another opens. I choose the new door. I embrace the change I feel is coming.

Corporate Greed has weak foundations

I read someones post the other day that said daylight savings time is like cutting off your feet to put them on your head and hoping that will get you more time.
It struck me that this logic is being applied to the business world also. Greed has taken over the minds   of Corporate America and it seems to think that if they take from the least of us they will become more giant themselves. A giant building will crumble if its foundation is not strong.  The minimum wage worker is the grain of sand in the concrete that makes the pillars of the foundation for any great structure. One day soon the least of us will totally crumble and the entire structure will fall down. Those on the top have the farthest to fall. Everyone at the top forgets that or thinks that it will be someone else and not effect them personally..

  Greed is a disease akin to gambling. The rush for more and the desire for status and success takes over the brain and squashes the heart of its victims.
Practical spirituality lets me know that I am neither the little guy or the big guy. I am part of the dance of creation. I know that I have danced this dance before and after awhile I will get tired of the music. On the spiritual path we learn throughout lifetimes that the physical striving for more is a hoax because the "having more" that we seek is fleeting at best and confining at worst. On a small scale the hoarder in the hovel is learning this just as is the millionaire with the many houses and properties to juggle.  I choose to live a simple life that offers me all the comforts plus all the challenges that keeps me engaged in my life without overdoing either side of greed.

great loss brings the opening of the heart

We have experienced yet another death, close to us this week. Commander Sargent Major Larry Rayburn a twice decorated war hero, recipient of two bronze stars and a metal of valor, if I have my facts strait. Larry was the betrothed to my dear friend and part of our troop Gail Skinner.

      All the cliche's are quick to the tongue. Crossing over, going to the summer land, passing away are all ways to make death not seem so final.
     I do not believe death is final for the one that died but it surely is for those left behind. It takes a long time for the hole in ones life to be filled, once someone abruptly leaves.  In the Journey of Soul series by Michael Newton, we are told that we choose a few exit points to use as portals before we are born. If that is the truth, and my inner voice says it is, then why would someone like Larry choose this time to leave his beloved so suddenly? We can not really know and speculations really don't help. Practical Spirituality demands that we accept what is as "what is" and honor the soul choice of someone who leaves this life for the other side. Is that easy,, hell no... Is is suppose to be, again,  likely hell no.....
     I do not think there is anything that opens up your heart and leaves your soul to bleed like a loved one dying. The close runner up to the emotional wave washing over you might be the birth of a child. Spiritualist call the curtain between the world of form and the world of spirit a veil. It is also said to be a veil of tears on this side. That is certainly true as CSM Larry Rayburn returns home after his extended tour of duty here in this life. His life was a veil of tears in many ways. He walked through the valley of the shadow of death many times and then left in an auto accident on a wet road in the middle of the night. He spent a few tours in Iraq and Afgan to return home with PTSD. I pray he is at peace now and is watching over Gail and pulling his strings to get her taken care of. I salute you Commander Sargent Major Rayburn and wish you gods speed to your next great adventure. We will do our best to care for and nurture Gail. I am sure there are reasons for this that have yet to present themselves.
Blessed be the Light
Rev. Lorana