Many Paths to God

Many people say that there is only one path to God. They will try to tell you that this or that religion has all the truth and is the only way to God. But that is just what many people say and there is no truth in it.

People are different and they need different ways to express their spirituality. Some people are more cerebral and some are more emotional. Some people are more contemplative while others require action. The Ancient sages of India understood this and they devised different ways for people to come to have a relationship with God. They called the various paths "yoga", a way to unite with God using various methods suited to the individual.

Many people also say that their view of God is the only correct one. But that is just what many people say and there is no truth in it. The infinite cannot be fully described or explained. The infinite can, however, be experienced.                                                                 
                                                                                            
There are various paths to the experience of God. The path one chooses is not as important as the experience. We shouldn't worship a particular path. The path is only a way to the experience of our Divine Lord.

Grant

Our Imagination of Things is Just Our Imagination

 
 Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Lawrence

We all assume we are experiencing the world as it is. But what we are experiencing is information that is created into "the world" by our minds. In truth, we are only experiencing our imagination created by our minds from bits of information that our minds decipher from an infinite number of relationships that exist.

Humans think that their imagination of things captures the truth of life. But our image of what we think is the world no more captures reality than any other creature's view of the world. Our bodies and brains have evolved to help us survive and to create offspring. That is how our brains are wired, and what we see as reality is essentially important for us to survive as humans.

So we mistake our imagination of things as things. But there are no things. There is just life, or being, that takes on endless interconnected individual characteristics evolving through time. Then particular individual beings evolve into other individual characteristics in an endless cycle involving a constant interplay of information we experience as relationships.

When we realize how limited our present capacity to experience the totality of being really is, then there can only be humility and a sense of wonder. Instead humanity imagines that we are at the pinnacle of understanding and development as a species. But that is just our imagination.

Just as a lizard sitting on the desert rock imagines it knows everything about its world, humans sit on a tiny rock in the cosmos called earth and imagine we know everything about our world. But our imagination of things is just our imagination.

Grant

Empower Yourself: Make the Best of It

 
 Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Lawrence

Often times things are pretty bad. That is the nature of life. But it is during those times that there is one thing you can do and that is to try to make the best of it. Sometimes "the best of it" doesn't do that much to help the situation.

But there is a good psychological reason to use that strategy when faced with difficult times.

If you are able to think about the situation and make some changes, or even not make any changes if that is what is needed, this process gives you some measure of control. In short, the mental strategy of making the best of it empowers a person.

Often times in tough situations and when under tremendous stress, the feeling of powerlessness makes the situation feel a lot worse.  It is this feeling of powerlessness that can be overcome to some degree by examining the situation and then doing, or not doing, what you think will make the situation better.

Over time things change. Knowing this, we can choose to focus on the present and make the best of any situation we are going through.

Grant

Rubio Says More Moral Victories Coming, Changes Campaign Slogan to "Rubio! for the Fun of It"

MIAMI, Florida--A campaign spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity since that person was not authorized by the Rubio Campaign to speak on the record to the press because that person is not a very good speaker and usually has trouble articulating the Rubio Campaign talking points even though that person is a campaign spokesperson, said yesterday that Rubio will never quit running for President.

After a humiliating defeat in yesterday's Super Dooper Tuesday Republican Primary, Senator Marco Rubio discussed the way forward in his quest toward winning the Presidency. Rubio, after failing to win one delegate in any of the several states that held primaries or caucuses or dinner parties or get togethers, told his campaign staff that this was not a loss but a moral victory.

Rubio was quoted as saying to his staff, "Look I am not going to let a guy with small hands and a really bad spray tan win the Presidency. I will never stop running."

In a gesture to prove his point, Rubio ran around the headquarters repeatedly for what many believe was well over an hour and said that a con man couldn't run like that.

According to the anonymous campaign spokesperson, Rubio was informed that the billionaires that buy elections no longer thought he was a good investment. Rubio, it was reported, laughed and said, "Who needs their money. I am going all the way, just like I did on my first date."

Rubio said that he had a lot of laughs making fun of Trump over the last several weeks and that laughter is indeed the best medicine.

"Look, I am going to make people laugh all the way to the Presidency." Rubio declared.

Rubio was evidently also encouraged by the fact that people were laughing about his inability to win any major states despite having spent hundreds of millions of dollars. He told his staff that laughter is the key to many more moral victories.

Rubio demanded that staffers begin working on material that will make for the best jokes ever seen in any political campaign. Rubio left the room and came back dressed in a clown outfit yelling that the new campaign theme will be "Rubio! for the Fun of It."

At Rubio Campaign Headquarters today staffers were seen dressed in funny outfits and make-up trying to make each other laugh. The biggest laugh line seemed to be when one-staffer joked, "What is smaller than Donald Trump's hands? Rubio's delegate count!"


Political Analyst Chino Idiota

Buying Hope Isn't Cheap

"Auntie you are wasting all our money supporting that TV preacher," Harlan said with disgust.

"We barely have enough to eat and every time Pastor Johnson asks for a prayer request you rush him out money. Look the lights are about to be shut off and the water bill is late. Please Auntie turn the TV off and don't listen to him." Harlan pleaded.

"Son you know Pastor Johnson is doing the Lord's work and he needs our support." Auntie said.

"What work is he doing Auntie?"

"He jus be takin our money and buying jets and big mansions and we don't even have enough left over to buy poison to kill the cock roaches," Harlan mockingly laughed.

But Auntie was not listening to him. Instead her eyes were glued to the old TV in which a large, rotund, sweating preacher was pleading for the faithful to listen to the Lord and send his ministry money now. Pastor Johnson had important work to do. He was spreading the good news around the world to save those that had not heard the Gospel.

Auntie smiled, "Now son, you take down this envelope and mail it right away."

Harlan looked at the envelope addressed to "The Good News Ministry" and he knew that his words were worthless.

Auntie said, "Son, you know the Lord blesses those that blesses him. The Lord is faithful."

"What Auntie? Are you Serious?"

"You got diabetes and a bad heart. I can't buy a job. We ain't got nothing. Nothing!"

"Do you hear me? We ain't got NOTHING," Harlan yelled.

Auntie began to get upset.

"Son get going. We ain't got nothing now. But the Lord is fixin to come through for us. Pastor Johnson says that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, great things are going to happen." Auntie smiled and poured herself some sweat tea.

Even though the temperature was blistering hot outside, they had no air conditioning. They could only afford to run a few fans in the window.

Harlan thought for a moment. He didn't want to make his Auntie upset so he settled down and resigned himself to doing what she told him.

"OK Auntie I gotta go. I'll drop off the envelope."

"I Love You," He said.

"You always been a good boy. I am so proud you are mine, baby." Auntie smiled.

Harlan grabbed the envelope and left the little run down country shack.

Auntie turned up the volume on the TV to hear more of God's word. But then the lights went out, the fans stopped, and the TV went dead.

"Oh dear," Auntie sighed,"They finally got around to turning off the electricity."

Grant

Why Do the Financial Elite and their Political Puppets Create Cotastrophes like the Flint Water Crisis?

English: American businessman Rick Snyder (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Deceased comedic genius George Carliln once said, "They don't give a f*ck about you. They don't give a f*ck about you!" Carlin was referring to the financial Elite that control the US and much of the world.

The biggest mistake people make is believing the opposite of Carlin's astute observation. People credulously believe that somehow the globalist owners of the so called "free world"  care anymore about them then they do about any other resource they own and control. The financial Elite not only care nothing for Americans, Germans, Irish, Indians, or any other nationality, but they care as much for people as they would a tree, a rock, oil, water, or any other resource at their disposal. People, like the rest of the world's resources, are to be used and discarded for their profit and pleasure. That is the sad fact.

We see an example of this with the Flint, Michigan water crisis where the financial Elite made sure that their puppet Governor, Rick Snyder, paid the creditors at the expense of the health, education, and safety of the people of Flint, Detroit, and other bankrupt municipalities. Many are calling for the Governor's resignation for purposely allowing the poisoning of the children of Flint with lead loaded water. This was done because the  corrosive water source was cheaper than the much cleaner source of water coming from Lake Huron. Instead of resignation, Snyder should be imprisoned. Or at the very least, be made to drink the water he expected the people of Flint to drink. You can be sure that if the same rules applied for the financial Elite and their political puppets, the rules would be different..

But the cities of the US are crumbling and the water crisis we find in Flint is also found in many other cities. American politicians are not only keen to make sure that the wealthiest pay the least taxes, they also make sure that the corporate welfare queens continue to get free government handouts at the expense of every other citizen.

So whether they are utilizing slave wages, destroying the environment for profit, poisoning people, or wrecking whole economies because of scams and bad bets, the Elite are operating the same throughout the world.

Why?

Because as Carlin said, "They don't give a f*ck about you."

Don't believe otherwise. 

Grant

We are the Walking Dead: Zombism is Destroying the Life of the Planet

English: A participant of a Zombie walk, Asbury Park NJ, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Zombies have become a cultural phenomenon because they connect to some deeper level to what we have become. People recoil at them yet are at the same time fascinated by them. But I believe that Zombies represent a deeper psychological manifestation that rises from our subconscious.

People have become, like Zombies, walking dead. We are single minded in our desire to consume. We are fixated on consumption in the same way Zombies are fixated on the consumption of human flesh. The world is full of life but we have lost any connection to it. Instead, we are fixated on consuming it until there is nothing left, ultimately leading to our own demise.

The more we devour, the more we want to devour. Our appetites are insatiable.

The only way to kill a Zombie is to destroy its brain. People are destroying themselves and their planet because their brain has been destroyed by pop culture and a never ending stream of nonsense fed to them by a media and societal structures designed to destroy any creativity or intuitive connection to their spiritual being.

Human beings, like the Zombie, are presently bent on the consumption and ultimately the destruction of all life.  But there is a way out of the Zombie culture that is consuming the life out of the world. If we start taking time to reconnect with our higher spiritual being then there is hope.

Grant