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?


Friday, November 25, 2011

The Truth About Voodoo

By Jade Davidson


If you search the internet about voodoo, you'll find out that the most searched terms are these: voodoo dolls, how to make voodoo dolls, and of course how to use voodoo dolls and how to do voodoo. These will be our topic for this article.

We have many misconceptions on voodoo because we have been fed by the Hollywood movies that portray voodoo as a very harmful and evil thing to pursue. We think that voodoo invokes evil spirits that causes harm to other people. While this is a possibility, this is highly discouraged in the practice of voodoo since the real voodoo discourages the black magical arts. This is very similar to Hinduism and Catholicism, voodoo has many statues that are represents the loas or the deity, the lesser gods. They are here, waiting for us to call upon them - spirits that are earth bound. It was man's evil desire that prompted him to use voodoo as an evil tool for revenge. The real practitioners of voodoo wants a peaceful relationship with everybody. It doesn't seek to destroy but to heal.

Many voodoo practitioners don't use voodoo dolls by pricking them. Although this is a wide practice, many voodoo practitioners use the voodoo dolls as lucky charms and amulets. These are kept and as much as possible, always held with them so that negative forces will just be at bay. The voodoo dolls are mainly used to heal other people and many other good reasons too.

If there is a religion that is quite similar with voodoo, this is the religion practiced by the native Indians in the USA. Why did the latter religious belief never receive negative attention from the media? Why is it that voodoo seemed to claim all of the negative reputation? The reason for that is that voodoo has been developed by the Africans when slavery flourished. Since superstition and witch craft was highly feared during ancient days, the African slaves used their knowledge of how to do voodoo to scare their white masters. The voodoo dolls then became very famous for being a witch's tool for torture.

Be reminded of the fact that any magical and supernatural force has noble roots. While it has started out as a means to spread goodness, it can possess negative vibrations to do exactly the opposite. If used to manipulate people and bring bad luck to others. The law of karma will be felt in many ways - either you will have conflicts, mishaps, and become uncontented and unhappy for the rest of your life. The decision is always ours to make. There isn't any potion or protection spell that can prevent the law of karma to be at work.




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How an Spiritual Guide Can Help Find Yourself

By Wayne Stanford


To develop in spiritualism in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a immense task. Modern distractions like 9-hour workdays and bills, we have bond our focus mostly to material things. As a result, our concepts of self-worth and meaning are misplaced these days in society. How can we achieve a balance in this day and age? However, you can go online these days and find out through the use of a spiritual guide or connect with one of the many spiritual communities. Nevertheless, before that, let us reflect on ourselves.

Looking inside yourself goes beyond recalling the things that happened in a day, week, or month. You need to look closely and reflect on your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motivations. Periodically examining your experiences, the decisions you decide on , strengthening relationships with friends and loved ones, and also conversing with an online spiritual guide can help. Here are several pointers when you are searching for yourself: be objective, be forgiving of yourself, and lock on your areas for advancement.

When it comes to spiritualism and people like yourself, religion and science have differing views on matters of the human spirit. Established religion views people as spiritual beings temporarily existing on this world, while science views the spirit as just one dimensional plane of an individual. Mastery of the self is a continual theme in both Western and Eastern teachings. The needs of the body are recognized but placed under the inner needs. Beliefs, values, morality, rules, experiences, and good work provide the draft to secure the growth of oneself.

Whether we judge that life's meaning is predetermined or self-directed, to grow in spiritualism is to realize that we do not merely live. We do not know the full meaning of our lives at birth; but we gain knowledge and wisdom from our interactions with people and from our actions and reactions to the situations we are in. As we get to know more about this meaning, there are sure beliefs and values that we reject and affirm. Our lives have purpose. This purpose puts all our physical, emotional, and intellectual potentials into use; sustains us during trying times; and gives us something to look forward to---a goal to reach, a destination to reach. A lone individual without purpose or meaning is like a drifting boat at sea.

If you still feel like you need more to find yourself, go online and find it. There are plenty of resources out there that can help you achieve your goals of discovering yourself. A start would be to seek out others with the same goal. A suggested move would be that of joining online spiritual communities or forums for discussions on the matter.




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