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Having awareness of unfriendly influences, is quite a different matter than having fear of same, isn't it?
How can one stop from being influenced, if one isn't even consciously aware of being influenced to begin with or that there are forces which seek to do same!???
As i said to Vicky, tell those folks on the border of suicide, or those folks who live under oppressive rulers and regimes, or those being possessed and influenced greatly, that there is no need to be consciously aware of or concerned with hindering influences. I am SOOO sick of people's narrow, self focused concerns and attidudes. It's not just about YOU. It's about suffering of the Whole. You may be mature enough to not be influenced, but what about your brother, what about your sister, do you have any concern and awareness for THEM?!!
Justin, you're entitled to your beliefs and what you share. No problem. But you seem to have a problem with something I said or the fact that I didn't automatically agree with you. I'll try to respond to what you said and not try to get confusing and go off topic....
You are on a mission to influence with your beliefs. That's fine. But my posts about psychic ability weren't talking about that. It would be refreshing if a topic on this site actually stayed about that topic. I merely responded to what you wrote me.
About what you wrote me....If there are people suffering in the world who don't know they are under oppression, can't change it, and don't know how to even if they had a momentary wish that they could, it doesn't mean that I don't care. It doesn't mean that I can do anything. Yes, I can sit here for 20 minutes sending Love nonphysically to that person. Will it help? I don't know, probably in some way it will, but I won't see it. It's not like I'll get a letter in the mail that says "Thanks!" So what's your point Justin? That just because my post was about my own life, it must mean that I'm selfish and non-caring about people who suffer in the world?
All I said was that I don't experience my psychic ability as coming from this guide or that guide, or this being or that being. I experience it all the same way, one way, to my perception. That's what I see, that's what I know. If I'm wrong, well then heck I'm wrong. I don't really care. All I know is what I know at the moment. Just because I'm not getting psychic information that tells me how to save lives and find murders and bad guys, doesn't mean that I'm being influenced by low-level beings. And it doesn't mean that I'm not aspiring to use Love in all that I do.
I know, trust, and learn from my own experiences, psychic, spiritual, and otherwise. It's the best that I know how to do. I grow and learn and live and be at my own pace.
Now, as far as poor people suffering in the world who ARE being badly influenced and they don't know it and don't know what to do about it...again, what does that have to do with me and what I posted? I do give love. I do have good intentions. I do care about people. If I walk down the street and see someone in need of help, if I feel compelled to help I will. But if my Guidance is giving me a nudge that says "Don't fall for it, it's a set-up, you will get mugged". Then guess what? I'm going to listen to my Guidance. Does that mean I should let go of my fear and use the power of Love to change that would-be mugger and his evil-doing ways? Heck no. I'm taking care of myself. I don't have to be responsible for reforming a bad guy into a good person at my own risk.
Can I help all those oppressed people in the world you're talking about? Not at the moment. I could try to sell all my belongings, change my life, and move there and try to talk to them and help them, but is that what I want to do? No. Does that make me a bad person? No. Will it help if I pray for them? Probably. Will I necessarily see the results, see how it helped and changed their lives? I don't know.
Having awareness of love is great. Spreading love and being loving are great. Does it mean that when I'm not using, feeling, or being all-encompessed in love it must mean that I'm not living up to my potential? Who cares! I don't go around telling other people that they are wasting their time and that they should be doing more. I believe in allowing people to be themselves, live and learn at their own pace. Yes I pray for peace, for change, for lots of things. But I don't control anyone. I don't have all the answers as to why there is sickness, why there is oppression, why bad things happen. I do believe we are here to learn, to experience, and to grow. Yes I feel sorry that some poor sick child is born in an oppressive country and then dies before they got the chance to really live. But that's just life. If I could magically change it, of course I would. But there's a reason we aren't able to magically control and change everything. What is the point of being here if it's wrong to live our lives and enjoy and grow and experience what we want to do and have and be? Just because I'm not moving to a poor country to hold the hand of a dying child doesn't mean I don't care. And it doesn't make me narrow-minded.
Justin, your beliefs are good intentions. But you don't speak practically, not to me anyway. Yes, in a perfect-thought world, we could change the world with Love. And who is to say that that's not what is already taking place? Just because you see suffering, does it mean that people are doing something wrong, not opening up and aspiring to Love as much as they should at the moment?
Whatever anyone's beliefs are, the general belief is that "God" has a plan and a purpose and that things work out in the end. Yes, along the way we have the conscious awareness to make change, to help, to be of service, and that's generally what the world does. Life repeats itself. History repeats itself. I can look at a teenager and see myself in them, how I used to be, how unaware that person is. But does it mean that that person will or will not grow into the loving being they should be? Time will tell. They have the chance and the right to grow and be what they choose. We can help, we can influence, we can give advice, we can pray, but ultimately that young person's life is their own responsiblity. Sometimes you just can't do much but have good intentions for people and situations.
Just because you don't see the world as complete and perfect as you are aspiring, doesn't mean that anything is going wrong. Our perspective and view of "the World and Reality as a Whole" is pretty limited, but it doesn't mean that anything is wrong. An ant might think, "God dang it, all I see all day long is nothing but dirt. This world we live in sucks!" Well, that poor little ant has no idea what lies beyond his vantage point. But he lives his life, doing what he can, building, loving, reproducing. And somehow it all has little meaning and great meaning all at the same time!
Isn't life a wonderful place? So much to think about, argue about, and be happy and sad about. Maybe I'm just more of an optimist than you are, but I'm pretty confident that the World as a Whole is doing "ok". If we all die from the Sun exploding or the Earth's core dying, well I know that I for one lived my life with my own intergrity. No amount of worry about celestial catastrophe is really going to change anything if the world is ultimately headed toward planetary destruction. But if you want to believe that prayer will stop such a catastrophe, go ahead. How you live your life is your choice. I don't feel bad for what I am, what I know, what I think, feel, or believe. I learn as I go in this life. I'd love to end all the pain and suffering, and in the moments when I imagine that perfection, it does feel good. Does it make a change? I don't know. I'm just being practical. I believe there are a lot of things going on that I don't know about...much like how I'm using my computer at the moment, I'm just doing what I am doing at the moment, but there are background programs running that are doing all SORTS of things that I am unaware of. And that's ok. I don't need to know how to build a computer in order to enjoy using one.