INTRODUCTION
We all dream, whether during
sleep or by day-dreaming during a boring school class, a recital or any other
event of which we wished we were not at.
Some dismiss dreams as
nothing but a play on the conscious mind.
However, to me, they are more than that. Dreams are an area of 'inner sanction' for learning. They can
be good or they can be bad (nightmares). They are our connection to the Great Spirit
known as GOD among many other names. I find that if they are good then it is
through my spirit connection of Faith with GOD, who leads me. If they are bad then I usually find
they are from myself, concocted from something I had thought about just before
I went to sleep. That is why the
last thing I do at night, most of the time, is say a prayer. I like to keep ‘faith’ connection to
our Creator, GOD, as well as to my ancestors that dwell in the spirit realms.
I can hear the moans and
groans now as people say 'not another religious nut'. Firstly, let me say that I am not a 'religious nut'. It is true, I do believe in GOD but I
do not bombard everyone I meet with such devotion to my beliefs. My motto is 'each to his own'. Besides, the religion of this society
seems to have lost its glory as it has become far too commercial for its own
good or for that of others, which in itself may be a Blessing. This is not to say that some people do
not need it, for many do to show their form of what they believe to be ‘faith’. What I don't like about religion today
is that those organisations who propose to be 'good' seem to make an awful lot
of money out of their followers and yet do not seem to put any of that money gathered
from their followers to work to help those followers, or others, in need in any
real constructive way for progress of the spirit within their followers.
Sure some religious
organisations give a percentage of their intake but it is usually only a small percentage
whilst taking the majority of the profits to 'overly' enhance their own
lifestyles and to be able to continue their showy pageantry in all it’s ‘pomp
and grandeur’, at the expense of those who give over their hard earned
cash. An example of this was at a
dinner party one night with one of the guests being a visiting Bishop from
Vatican City. As I sat next to
this man at dinner listening to his stories of his lifestyle I was totally
disgusted. Firstly I thought that
priests, especially those in the Vatican, did not drink, smoke or engage in
sex. Well this fellow certainly
put me straight about that. He
enjoyed a lifestyle involving them all.
His holidays were taken in South America where he stayed in a Vatican
supplied apartment along with his South American lover, or, in a Vatican
supplied apartment in South France with his French lover. I was absolutely flabbergasted. Here I was a 28 years old woman who had
always held such people in high regard for their way of life only to discover
that I had been wrong about them all along. I was amused at first then that
amusement grew to anger as I realised how little of people's money is actually
given back to the people in their time of need as opposed to how much actually
gets used to allow such rogues as this priest to have such an indulgent
lifestyle at the expense of others.
Particularly with so many starving and homeless people in this World. Now I’m not a Catholic so maybe those
of that chosen denomination are forgiving of such behaviour from one of their
own but I am a 'spiritual' human and do realise when wrongs are being done. This man’s answer to his behaviour when
I mentioned his hypocrisy of preaching one thing to his flock such as the sin
of sex outside of marriage then doing it himself was that he was ‘only
human’. My thoughts at such an
admission was he took a vow to be chaste and serve only God yet here he was
servicing two women in opposite sides of the world. Not only was he cheating God, he was cheating both
women!
Now I am fully aware that
some will say 'but those in need still have to learn their lessons'. This may be true but at the same time I
will say; 'yes, and those in greed still have a lot to learn too'.
When I turn on the
television or read a newspaper and see the plight of the millions in third
world countries in need I generally turn off the television or fling the
newspaper aside in disgust.
I had a man in my life once that
asked me 'what would you do if I gave you a million dollars?' I thought about his question and
replied 'I would keep a quarter of it to buy a house to live in, invest a
little and would give the remaining three quarters to the needy'. He looked at me smiled and said 'then I
shall give you not one dime of mine'.
I smiled and asked him 'why?'
He said 'if those people are in that situation it may be because they
deserve that situation from something they have done in the past'. I thought about what he had said for
some time. I didn’t know if what
he said was right or wrong. I do
know that GOD is forgiving of past sin but I also knew what this man said was
true to some degree. I know that
charity, being Love, was a far greater gift for humans to give than money. I did feel annoyed however that the
churches didn’t seem to give a hoot about these people as far as even feeding
the hungry properly. They may well
have done something bad in the past to warrant where they were now placed in
this incarnation but it was still a duty to GOD to be kind, generous and
understanding to such people as a way to show them the good and right way to
live. Then maybe they will come to
learn by their past errors. As the
saying goes; ‘love they neighbour as thyself’ because who knows one day we may
end up having such an experience of a lesson to learn within another physical
life if we are reborn, or if perchance we venture onto the wrong road in this
physical life, or a repercussion of the wrongs done when we pass through the
door of ‘physical’ death from this physical plane to a low spiritual realm of
which will have to be faced and rectified before being able to advance into a
higher spiritual realm for further lessons on the process of life.
As I grew up I realised what
charity really means. I had always
thought of it as 'money' but in actuality it is more than mere money. Charity as explained in the Webster’s
Dictionary as; 'love, kindness, disposition to think kindly of others,
practical kindliness, alms-giving.'
Alms-giving got me so I looked it up; 'gifts to the poor'. Money does not even come into it. Then I thought about it more.
I now know that if that man
were to ask me again what I would do with a million dollars, I would answer
differently. I would now say 'I
would keep a quarter of it to buy a house to live in, invest a little and I
would keep the remaining three quarters in trust to help the needy' as I realised that the needy
would not know what to do with money in such a way as to help themselves out of their
dilemma. The only way to help
those people out of their dilemma is to educate them on how to live properly
for they may well have been souls of past lives who had been greedy, or who did
nothing to help their neighbours and who were indeed sent back to this
dimension to pay off their due karma created by their past greed. I understood now what that man
meant. However, I could not
understand why he didn’t see that if such greed is allowed to continue then it
will always be that way, for that is the flow of life.
What I still cease to
understand is why the religious organisations of today that makes millions of
dollars or pounds or whatever currencies out of their followers do not help
more than they do. Surely the life
of a human is worth caring for more than an expensive piece of art to hang in say,
a Vatican City building, or as is mostly the case, shut up in the basement
where no one can even appreciate the work.
One of the commandments of
Jesus is: 'don't collect treasures on earth, think of them for heaven...where
your treasures are, there also will be your heart'. This commandment in itself makes me wonder about the true
virtues of the administrators of such religious organisations who are extremely
wealthy land owners. Why is it
that these religious organisations aren't putting up buildings to help house
the homeless, cold and needy or at least providing further education for those
people who need to be taught the 'good and truth' of life.
I might also add, for those
sceptics, that I am fully aware that no one in this World is perfect, if they
were they would not be here for we are all here to learn to become more 'constructive
to progress spiritually' than we are so that we may attain the 'perfect' state
of what is called by those in this physical plane ‘heaven’ without being cast
down time and time again, physically or spiritually or both, and that includes
those that get the calling to serve GOD in a building of whatever name they
call the building, a Church or Temple, and whatever denomination they choose to
teach their dogma. The ‘only true
Temple’ is the body that carries the spirit of those having a ‘physical
experience’ not some building of brick and concrete.
The morals and virtues of
this 'physical' plane of this World certainly make me wonder.
The following sections, to
be uploaded in due course, are pertaining to works that were written through me
as a teenager, they are then followed by works written since and over periods
of years.
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