Was thinking about feeling the PUL this morning and wanted to talk to my friends on the board, touch base what not. Have been receiving some heart warming emails and don’t think I don’t sop it up because this board is my inspiration and has been for many years.

I call PUL a different set of 3 letters: ULE. U is for undistorted, L is for love, E is for energy, then, isn’t this clever, lol, the word ule is appropriate for Christmas to denote good cheer, yet good cheer we could use all year long.
So I made a simple affirmation for myself to be of good cheer all year long, for the rest of my life.

One time a few years back I had a most serious question. I wondered if it were a benevolent universe behind all the flim flam, the cruelty I saw, the haggling and the way mankind seemed to see only the worst in people and never looked at what was good in people, including myself, I was at the time having some difficulty with family relations and a tenant I had next door thought I was deliberately wanting to make him homeless, when I was deliberately trying to make him a home owner and proud of it.
It is easy to invite misunderstandings by miscommunications, or as in my case, no communication at all, or not enough of it.

So I turned over a new leaf! wow! It was a decision to communicate at all times whatever I was thinking or feeling so that “other” (the cosmic mind mirror) would not be generating false ideas about my good intentions. Then I wouldn’t have to go clean up the mess I had unintentionally created and all would be well.

In the meantime, noticing this fault in self to not openly communicate meant I had to take responsibility for my family members getting the wrong idea that just because I had invited them to come live with me didn’t mean I had invited my 13 yr old niece’s boyfriend and his dog to move in, nor the Dalmation they had found on the road, and I hadn’t counted on accepting my nephew, nor his 16 yr old girlfriend, and every one was getting pregnant. My generosity had turned into doormat subjecation all because of family values. I was simply too “spiritualized.”

So the leaf turning would happen, forced by circumstances thereof to see what was, not what should be.
I was also doing retrievals and my meditations were of bygone days, yet I still had my head in a book when I wasn’t feeding the chickens or chasing coyote off.

Mother has since transitioned and to my wonder and great heartfelt gratitude, she came looking for me shortly afterwards and a retrieval was done. It turned out she’s just as cute on the other side as she was on this side, meaning she’s an individual and unique; never a dull moment with mother. The retrieval went well because she knew I did them and believed, although she didn’t quite understand the basis of retrieval, she knew about the spirit world from her own contacts with friends and family during her lifetime, and she knew whatever she needed, I would be there for her.

Back to this benevolent universe idea. The answer to that question I learned is both yes and no.
I did some experiments and found out, benevolence will outpicture in one’s life, but only if you ask to see it and then stand back and wait for it to show up with expectation of trust.
Although I did not find this benevolence operating very often in C1, I found enough examples within out of body experiences operating first within my “intention” to find the answer to this most important question.
Once you find only one such experience of ULE, it begins to set up housekeeping in the heart. There, you nurture your truth finding treasure. It truly is a benevolent world when that is what your heart begins to generate that same benevolence to all others consistently.
What you put out, you get back simply because of the cosmic mirror reflects your intentions to see and know this ULE. As more of us begin to use a decision mechanism, to state our intentions to the universe, just what we would like to see manifest in our personal reality, we issue a request to the universe and then wait for it patiently to show itself. Soon enough what you intended to see and manifest will be there.

I remember how owning a farm became a manifestation for example. The lazy person’s way to manifest is to carry this image of a farm in the head for 25 years. I never thought about it. I just had an image, that one day I would have a farm. Didn’t know how, when or where. Just that one image. Then when circumstances were that I had to move one day, the farm opportunity appeared at the right price. My point is whatever thoughts you carry year after year, in a habitual way, that is also creative thought. Yet so much more quicker and powerful is to set an intention, make a decision to acquire a particular knowing through experience perhaps, as we are here to gather experiences, it cannot be argued, we do learn that way as well.
It behooves us to maintain our center of emotional activity, for in truth, as a spirit incarnate here your emotional center is your true home you live in. Keeping our center, within peace, within benevolence, would be to go forth without doubting or in a fearless manner. Never let fear set up housekeeping in your consciousness. From growing gardens here and there, I learned to take care of my own garden and then others began to want to do the same, because they saw how gorgeous the garden could be. I made friends in neighborhoods as we stopped to chat that they possessed some flower I had not acquired yet in my own garden. It was a way to expand the chest with ULE, to share the beauty of each flower and we had something in common to discuss..we were the flower growers on the edge of the ghetto. It was a reason to be inspired.
You take care of your own turf, it begins to be catching to those around you. If enough people thought “peace” it too would be quite catching. It could extend around the world. I smile now as I know I’m just one person and not that important, not able to change the world, nor alleviate the suffering of little children on the other side of the world. But I can be taking care of my own peaceful turf, keeping my faith and holding it out to those I meet in case they want some, in case they ask, and in case spirit prompts me say what’s in my heart by taking that risk. May we all grow flowers on this board and may I live to see a peaceful world, but if I don’t live that long, I know I’ll still be able to come back and view the world as I envision it will some day be, with no wars and no more killing, and no leaders leading us to war; for we would be having no need to fight for those items we are willing to give away before they are stolen. And Peace of mind, first in our home, then growing outward, is the only item we are wanting in truth.
I feel the future is already here, and I have just come to announce it within this lifetime.
Love you all! You’ve all been so good to me and helped me so much! I’m not going anywhere, I’m just getting started actually! talk soon! alysia

  Well put Alysia, and as usual in a nice, heartfelt and very practical form. As usual I've gone and gotten all big picture-ish about love on the other thread, but it's nice too see that what we say dovetails very nicely.

What you say bears out very well what's often taught on the topic - that having got past ego enough to start living through love we need a mixture of insight, belief, determination, and persistence to keep it going as well as the wisdom (smarts) and compassion (care for others) that's more often talked about.

We're as ever required to show love towards ourselves as well as towards others, meaning that it's about using skilful means to find the middle way - it's possible by giving too much of ourselves to get into an unsustainable situation, as well as to be too stingy. It's also possible out of inexperience and lack of skill to try to do the right thing, but to not be able to pull it off.

Like everything else in life it seems to be a long learning road, one on which we can start with small actions and gestures but grow into something magnificent as our skill, confidence and love grow.

Love like aggression (in truth just a dualistic word for 'unloving' behaviour) quite magically escalates in successive exchanges ....

Right on T. One of the hazards of growing up in the Western world seems to be that most of us pick up a heavy layer of self hate - maybe something to do with the addiction of our society to paternalistic and authoritarian religions and behaviours.

Tibetans express amazement at how prevalent this phenomenon is. We struggle to love ourselves, and that as most know is the first step on the way to being able to love others.....