Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How Can Knowing About My Past Life Benefit Me?

By Hailey Marshall

Reincarnation is the belief that we have lived other lives in past eras is growing increasingly accepted. Now it is being explored by people from all backgrounds. Why are they interested? Because it has become known that the secrets to being a success in the present are about understanding what happened in a past life.

Have you ever expressed the thought 'Who was I in my past life?' If so, you are definitely not alone in your thinking. Past life regression often is the key to the many answers of our past, presents and even to our future.

Past life regression deals with the belief that we remain eternal souls that become reincarnated each and every time our physical bodies die. As forever eternal beings, we carry out lessons, desires, and experiences from one life to the next.

There is the belief that each time we experience a rebirth and we choose a current mission that defines our purpose for being alive. Through seeking the answer from what may have happened in previous lives will lead to a better understanding of why we exist today. It also allows us to make the right decisions through our current life that will yield better experiences and no prior baggage.

Discovering the main purpose behind 'What did I experience in my past life' will provide help needed to heal old wounds, develop success in the present; direct you towards making proper career choices, form quality relationships with friends and partners and will delve into a deeper sense of the self in all that you do.

There are several accepted means of discovering the truths found in prior lives. Hypnosis is a common popular means of venturing into the truth of our prior lives. This is due to its ability to put a person into an altered state of the mind. Since we are open and very relaxed through hypnosis our unconscious mind has the potential to take over.

A trained previous life regression specialist knows the professional insight which allows for the ability to access repressed memories in people. In addition to helping us deals with the emotions that can come up through prior life regression sessions.

Self-hypnosis and visualization can also help access your memories of 'Who was I in my past life.' Simply find a quiet, private space and focus on clearing the mind. Leave a notebook beside your bed and start writing down your dreams first thing every morning. Repressed memories are often played out in our dreams, as we review some of the more vivid and realistic scenes from our past. Focus on the thoughts, images, and feelings you wrote down to help you unlock the significance behind these past life scenes.

Look at all the patterns and images that emerge when recording dreams and meditating as this will open the door to previous past life memories that you may not have dealt with in forever. While you may consciously wish to retrieve knowledge about 'Who was I during my past life' there are those individuals with an irrational fear that a past might be filled with sins or evil deeds and have unconsciously buried the memories as a result.

Honestly, such fears are generally unfounded. All you need to do is relax and allow your mind to wander as it naturally would. Cease all the mental blocks and accept what the mind eventually reveals. The questions behind 'What did I do in my past life?' can be unlocked by looking deep into the recesses of the mind for the answer.

Make lists of favorite foods, your fears, your talents, your physical characteristics, things that attract you or repulse you. A fascination with a time period from the past, an ancient sculpture, a well-known painting from an earlier decade, obsession with a certain style of cuisine or a strong desire or need to travel to a certain area may be a clue from the subconscious mind.

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Who Is Poor? - The Religious Concept

By Abdul-Qadir Thamin Ayinde

Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessing be on him), one day, asked his beloved companions whether they knew who a deprived person really is. They all responded that a deprived person is the one without any money or wealth. Then he told them as follows:

"Among my community the deprived person is the one who will appear on the Day of Judgment before Allah: Such a person had observed prayers; he had paid his compulsory alms; he had observed his compulsory fasting; But he would have ill-treated somebody, he would have falsely accused someone;

He would have taken someone else property without authority; he would have murdered someone; he would have hit somebody. All his virtues will be given to his victims. If his virtues have finished before his wicked deeds have finished, the errors and sins of the victims would be given to him and he would be thrown into Hell."

Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessing be on him) has said the reality. Such a man is really broke. His state is like that trader who has goods worth one thousand rupees but he is a debtor for two thousand rupees. How can such a man be called affluent?

A pious man who offers certain prayers or performs certain forms of adoration but even after that commits some forms of evil actions, behaves rudely with the people, treats poor and the hopeless people cruelly, how can such a man be called virtuous?

The Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessing be on him) has thus made this clear by quoting an instance. He said that the best moral character melts error like water and bad morals spoils man's record as vinegar destroys honey.

As Muslims we should therefore try as much as possible to keep away from hurting other people's mood whether through our utterances or actions. It is not enough struggling to do his duties to Allah in forms of prayers or giving obligatory alms while neglecting his duties towards others or even depriving them of their rights.

Every equation must be balanced on the Day of Judgment. Every person will claim his right that has been taken away from him or her while on the Earth. The reward is either used to compensate or the sins of the victims are added to the culprit's load.

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