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I just finished reading Captain Robert L. Snow’s book “Looking For Carroll Beckwith: The True Story of a Detective’s Search for His Past Life”. This is a story of an Indianapolis Police Commander who was dared to have a past life regression. He becomes rather obsessed with determining if the events he felt and saw were real events. He is able to document a lot of his previous incarnation and shows it in this book.
What really surprised me about the book was his fear of being thought an odd ball for possibly believing that the regressions were actually showing past lives. He goes through a moral dilemma about this.
This book made me question my belief that there is a large population out there in our protestant world who also believe in reincarnation. I have believed in reincarnation since I was a child. I was not taught this as I was raised Southern Baptist but it just made sense to me. Am I just an odd ball myself? Or are there others out there reading this whom believe in reincarnation?

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Have you ever heard of an SEP? We have a running joke in our family about SEPs. SEP stands for Somebody Else’s Problem. The idea was introduced to us in Douglas Adams 5 book trilogy “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe“. In “Life, The Universe and Everything”, Ford Prefect one of the main characters explains an SEP as “something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brains doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem”.

I experienced an SEP first hand. I was living in the country about 12 miles from Georgetown, Texas. Everyday I traveled to Georgetown at least once a day sometime more often. It wasn’t until it came out in our weekly paper that I saw it. A fuel tank from a Saturn V rocket had fallen through the atmosphere to land on earth about 50 feet from the road. The same road I traveled back and forth on to go to Georgetown daily. It had been lying there for 5 days before I saw it! This was hard to miss. It was big. Tour buses started stopping at it. NASA denied it could be theirs; they were sure something that big would burn up when it entered the atmosphere. After about a month, NASA finally sent a crew to look at it and then they agreed it was theirs and they hauled it off.

The mind plays a big part in SEPs. I understand that our mind gets so many sensory inputs that it has to weed through them and only brings out what is pertinent to the situation at hand. How much are we really missing?

My son’s science class did an experiment where you stare at a red spot for a minute then look at a white sheet. The premise is that when you stare at red, the red receptors get tired and shut down and your brain takes over and says you are still seeing red. When you look at the white paper, it takes a while for the red receptors to wake back up and realize the scene has changed but your brain realized you are seeing something else and activates the other receptors while red wakes back up therefore you see green (all the other colors without red).

We kid our teenager about something being an SEP because he doesn’t want to deal with it. But seriously, how many things do we miss in life because it is an SEP?

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There have always been influences in society. I don’t think our culture in the US is the only one that experience mass influences. Many through the years remember some TV shows and movies. In this remembering, a group consciousness develops. Sometimes it is just an episode that stays with the society in their memory.
One such episode that sticks in every one’s mind that has seen it is the Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection
episode of the bookworm. You know which one I am talking about don’t you. It has so pervaded our minds that it is like a group consciousness. The official title is “Time Enough at Last”.
Why would such a show stick in so many minds?
If this same show was shown in a different culture, would it stick in their minds also?
If it made such an impression on so many individuals, would it make an impression on the society as a whole? It does seem to follow that if such a large group of individuals have stored away in their minds the same images or ideas, that culture would be influenced in some way.
Lets look back at this particular episode where a man who loves books is prevented from reading them due to job and other obligations. He finds an escape in the bank vault where he can read undisturbed for a time. When he comes out of the vault, an ‘end of the world’ holocaust has occurred. But this man quickly realizes that this frees him from all obligations and he can now read to his hearts content. He collects books in piles and organizes them as to when he will read what and then the worst happens, he breaks his glasses.
Maybe this speaks to so many because there is so much we would rather do than what we are obligated to do. Just like this man we are lonely in a world full of people because we are not doing what we love. As soon as we are allowed the opportunity to pursue our dreams, does that loneliness disappear? (You can be alone but not lonely.)
Sometimes in the pursuit of our dreams our hopes are dashed to pieces. A long time ago, I found my dream job but soon realized it was not what I had expected. I was not thrilled with it. My dreams were dashed. It takes a while to recover from dashed dreams and to come up with a new one. You are afraid to pursue something new, as the dream now appears better than actually obtaining the dream. You don’t want to be disillusioned again. But it is the dream and the pursuit of happiness that this country is built on. As a human being we have to have a dream even if it is never obtained.
However if the dream is obtained, even if we are pleased with it, we still need a new dream. We always need something to strive for.

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What is conscious living?

My definition is living a life where one is aware of and at peace with their actions. To be at peace with our actions means that we agree that we did the best we could, or we did what was right.

This is more than just knowing what I am doing; it is actually being in control of my actions and knowing why I am doing something. I am deliberately doing something with intention. This does not negate spontaneity. Sometimes an opportunity may come along and a person may deliberately decide they will take that opportunity. A person doesn’t just go along with the flow but they make their own path. In other words they know what they are doing and they agree with the action. In fact living a conscious life will actually open you up to more possibilities, as you will start to notice them.

Conscious living is living in the now. It is being aware of what is going on right now all around you. What do you hear right now? What do you smell? What do you see besides the words on this page? The now will open up in front of you and you will experience more and see more as you become aware.

I know I am not presenting this real well but a good and entertaining book about living the conscious life is Way of The Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman. This book tells the story of a young college athlete and his friendship with an old man who becomes his mentor in striving for a conscious life. This is a really inspiring and mind-opening book. It will change the way you look at your life. There are great possibilities out there but you have to be aware of them by being aware of what is going on around you. For those who prefer movies you are in luck Peaceful Warrior is in DVD form. If you need a Christmas present this will be one that will be used over and over.

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Just like we have a circulatory system, a lymph system and a nervous system, we also have a meridian system. The meridian is an energy system and parts of it have been photographed. I understand that it is as thin as a fishing line.

After I read Donna Eden’s book Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality — Updated and Expanded I started running my meridians every morning. That is when you run your hand over the meridian. Just like in Reiki where the palm is used for healing, your palm is used to smooth out the meridian and get the energy going in the right direction.

Once you learned the meridians, it does not take long to do. A couple of minutes while in the shower does it. What are my benefits? Well, I don’t give anything up easily and that includes my blood. I am not a free bleeder. If I bleed, it is not for very long. So when I give blood it takes at least 20 minutes, and usually 3 people come and go on the table next to me. I have even been stuck and they could not get anything to come out! After I had been running my meridians for a couple of weeks, my husband and I went to give blood. This time I was finished before my husband was, and he has “garden hose” for veins (those are his words). He asked me what happened, did they give up on me and I said, “No, I was through”. The only thing I could attribute that to was that I had been running the meridians, one of which is the heart meridian and another is the circulatory meridian.

It is an interesting exercise and I recommend it. You may not feel any obvious changes right away unless your meridians are really messed up to begin with.

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Some people think that God does not talk to us mere mortals. That He only talked to the prophets of old.
I don’t believe that.
He talks to us all the time.
Some people are in such alignment with God that they don’t know that God is talking to them. They take it as their own thoughts. In other words they own the thoughts.

Others are on such a different wavelength that they have to be hit in the head before they finally ‘sit up and take notice’. That is when they realize their thoughts are coming from somewhere else. I think this is what happened with Neale Donald Walsch in his Conversations With God books.

Others start to seek Him out, usually after they realize they are hearing such thoughts and they realize they are not from themselves. I am not getting all psycho on you. This is meditation. These conversations leave you at peace with yourself and the world. If you are more upset afterwards, these thoughts are not of God. God leaves you will peace, joy, love, harmony, the fruits of the spirit. He also leaves the judgment up to us, He does not judge.

Just realize that God is talking to us all the time, no matter where we are. It is our choice whether to hear Him or not.

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I took a day off Monday. That was my self-pity day.
I went to the doctor and confirmed what I suspected. I have shingles. I have not been to a “real” doctor in 6 years. Most of my complaints have been handled by using EFT, NAET or some other form of energy medicine. But reading about the shingles online scared me into making an appointment.
I am glad I went. There are some medicines that can make the virus more manageable and between that and using my energy modalities, I expect to have an easier time of it. In fact I am feeling much better this morning.
In looking up Shingles in “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die…” book it says the underlying emotions are: Fear that things won’t work out the way we want, Being over-sensitive, On-going tension concerning a situation and Hostile energy being manifest. What is insidious is that I don’t feel any of these, at least not to the extent that my skin would break out in this virus. But then again that is why it came out in another form. If you have an emotion that is so buried that you don’t know it is there, it will eventually come out in some form.
So how do you keep your body at peace? How do you stem these emotional outburst before they cause physical damage? I’ll think about that tomorrow.

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