Embracing uncertainty in our STRANGE NEW WORLD. PART 3

It’s a fact that, even if we are facing the challenges ahead collectively as a species, and even if the fundamental conditions of our existence are the same for everyone, we are all ultimately on our personal journeys. I have my own experiences and I try to make sense of them to the best of my ability, but it’s clear that we all draw very different conclusions about what is right and wrong, true and false. 

For me, I guess that it really comes down to the choice between love or fear. Should I hesitate all the way out of fear of making mistakes along my spiritual path or do my best with what I’ve got? Should I fear that I might one day make a mistake that could lead to my ruin or try different things to see what does and does not work? I know that I want to do what’s right and avoid doing what’s wrong. In all of my fallibility and brokenness and with all of my personal problems, I try to be a good person. And I pray to God that he will show me the way. What more can I do?

At present the need to embrace uncertainty, together with the importance of present moment awareness seem to come up from different sources, without me looking into these subjects specifically. For example, I started listening to a YouTuber named Aaron Doughty again just a couple of hours after I had been thinking about these things. I haven’t listened to him for a while. He talked about exactly this - the need to embrace uncertainty and how bringing awareness into different aspects of life is the biggest factor if we want to change things. 

I have learned that when I think about something, and encounter information about it shortly after, there is usually something to it.

So, maybe it’s time to choose what to listen to as well. Because memory and perception are very selective. This means that if we perceive the world from a place of fear, we will find more fearful things in it and we will remember more fearful things. And if we perceive the world from a place of love, we will find more expressions of love in it and we will remember more of those things. This is simply how our perception works. 

To conclude: I believe that at the heart of the Bible is the radical love message. This is something that is hard enough to follow. If I observe my thoughts, words and actions, I find so many ways that I fall short of it on a daily basis. So maybe this is where I need to start, keep on doing the spiritual practices that give me results and seem to make my life better and not worry so much about whether they are right or wrong. Maybe have a little faith in that if I need to change certain things, this will be clear to me eventually, instead of letting the fearful thoughts of others get to me. Because I have enough to deal with when it comes to areas of my life where I know that I need to be better. If I constantly worry about this or that thing, that cannot be proven anyway, I will have less energy left for those areas.

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Embracing uncertainty in our STRANGE NEW WORLD. PART 2

I’ve absolutely rejected the idea of running around proclaiming that the end is near and that we all need to repent or face eternal damnation. But, as I’ve said in previous posts, I’m finding good reasons to believe that biblical end-times prophecies are coming true. It isn’t hard to relate certain parts of the Book of Revelation to events that are taking place right now. And there are other sayings by Jesus and st. Paul scattered throughout the New Testament. There are the wars and rumors of war, famine, diseases, the mindsets of people in the End Times, the global tyranny that is on the rise, the persecution of Christians (look at what is happening in for example India, China, Pakistan or Egypt right now) and so on.

The point of these posts however, is not to give a comprehensive overview of Biblical prophecies coming true. If you want to look closer at this, the internet is full of information about it. It is interesting to note however, that one of the absolute cornerstones throughout the Bible, from that of prophetic warnings in the Old testament, to the prophecies about Jesus, to the prophecies about the End Times, is precisely prophecies and their fulfilment. 

Even if I haven’t looked into it, I also believe that it is very possible that the different kings in the prophecies in the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament will fit neatly with the main actors on the global stage today. 

And I don’t know what to make of this. Because as many know, these prophecies are pretty serious stuff. They are pretty violent, full of cataclysmic events and suffering. 

But I want to approach this as openly as possible. Because I quite frankly don’t know what is going on. I understand very well how much our upbringing shapes our beliefs and perception of the world. Which means that I most definitely can’t trust the judgment of anyone else. Or of myself for that matter. So I have to be very careful with believing things without sufficient evidence. 

A big problem is that as humans we crave certainty. We want things to be simple. Especially if we think that there is danger in being wrong. And if you think about it, this is quite natural, as for the absolute majority of our evolution as a species, our continued existence has relied on us being right about the world. So, what happens when we bring in this need of certainty into spiritual realms? Realms that are more real than anything physical, but where we cannot check our beliefs against reality in the same manner, as for example whether an area is full of sabre toothed tigers or not. I think that this is quite an interesting question. 

The conclusion that I’ve come to, is that even though the potential of being wrong with regards to spiritual matters is something that scares me, there must come a point where I just let go and trust. I often ask God for guidane. And I know that God is listening. And the only guidance that I receive, is that all will be well and that I shouldn’t be afraid. It’s really only the wordmachine in my head that tells me otherwise. And when I look at those that tell me that the end is coming and that sinners will be judged, they seem to only speak from their intellects as well. And if my reasoning here is sound, it follows that the intellect alone is not reliable in spiritual matters. 

Embracing uncertainty in our STRANGE NEW WORLD. PART 1

We are living in extraordinary times. There are two very distinct ways of looking at what is happening in the world. Both perspectives are spiritual in nature. One is the less known Ascension Process / spiritual awakening and the other is the more classical Biblical End Times. I am finding good reasons for believing in both of these perspectives, but I have a hard time making the fit neatly together. This is something that I find troubling. I find it troubling because I truly believe that we are living in the most important time in the history of the planet. And if this is true, it seems vital to do one’s best to try and understand exactly what is going on. Vital because what we believe to be true, will inevitably determine how we relate to what is going on.

In this three part series, I will juxtapose said perspectives. In the first post I will look at Ascension Process / spiritual awakening. In the second post I will look at the End Times. Finally, I will wrap it all up in the third post.

The spiritual awakening, whatever it is, is definitely happening. The question is what is happening. 

I have my own experiences and the experiences of others to rely on. I know what other people are saying about it: That the frequency of the planet is rising. That we are going into the 5^th dimension in what it known as the Ascension Process. That this is why I feel this weird energy rushes and that this is why all of my dysfunctional ways of thinking, bad habits and destructive behaviors are coming to the surface. 

People are saying that there is a timeline split between the old and the new earth that is emerging. That our bodies are transforming to from carbon based to crystaline-based. That the tyrants that are governing us from the shadows are on their way out. That we are manifesting this reality together and in a sense, our thoughts and perception is what creates this reality. That quantum physics confirm this. That these are the real reasons the world has turned upside down. And so on.

And why not? Once you realize, beyond any reasonable doubt that the world is not what it appears when you observe it with your five senses, anything becomes possible.

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Confusion - What do we really KNOW?

In this post, I’m going to try and separate what I know from speculations. I’m not asking you to take my word for anything. But I encourage you to look into it for yourself. Seek out information. Meditate on it. Pray about it. 

So, what do I know really? I absolutely know that what we are seeing with the whole situation that has been going on the past 2.5 years and what we’re seeing with Russia and Ukraine, have spiritual reasons behind them. Take it for what you will. I’m not saying that I will never suffer from what is happening in the world. But what I do know, is that the only answers to the crisis are spiritual ones. I’m not looking for the ego-gratification of convincing anyone that I am right. I’m not interested in debating or who has the best arguments. The only thing I’m interested in, is speaking what I know to be true to anyone that listens. To shine some light in the darkness, maybe bring someone a little bit of hope and relieve some suffering. And if no one listens, I’ll keep on talking anyway. 

During my life, I guess I have been a seeker. Now I’ve found something, but I’m not sure exactly what. There are a lot of people out there that are confident in their explanations of what is going on. Perhaps some of them are right. All I know is that I’m not one of those people and that I haven’t found sufficient reasons to fully trust any of them. And I have even less reason to trust the official “truths” about what is going on. I can be more or less certain that they are untrue. 

So, I’m to a large degree as confused as most people. I wish that I could be as certain as many others seem to be. At the same time, I don’t believe that uncertainty is a negative thing. It’s a scary place be in. But not a bad one. And since many of those that are certain hold contradictory views to each other, all of them cannot be right. And my guess is, that someone who is very sure of him/herself, would generally be much more uncomfortable being thrown into uncertainty, than someone already living there. 

What more do I know? Well, I know that there is a God and that this God is personal. I know this because this God has made his existence known to me and many other people in different ways. I also know that everything that happens, both to us as individuals and on a collective level, has reasons behind it, even if those reasons to a large degree are shrouded in darkness. I know that there is some sort of plan. That what is happening now is not just random events that can end up in any way. 

I know that the world is much more than what can be perceived with the five senses. Exactly what, I don’t know. But I know that there is some sort of energetic reality, that somehow corresponds with the one that we can experience with the five senses. 

Finally, I know that we are being fed lies about how the world works, politics and the systems that we live in. That we are being fed these lies by the establishment, whether it is by the mass media, politicians, other public figures or the education system. How deep the proverbial rabbit hole goes, I don’t know. But where I stand today, I’m prepared to keep an open mind even towards the most crazy, far out ideas about how things really work. Because I believe that I have been given sufficient reason to doubt more or less everything that I have been told is “true”. 

God's kingdom and heaven on earth

In the Book of Revelation it is talked about 144.000 people that are going to rule together with Jesus in from mount Zion over the earth. This is likely symbolic language. Jehovahs Witnesses for example, believe that these are people that will rule over the earth from heaven.

An interesting thought came to me with regards to this. And I’m not in any way saying that this is a matter of fact. But hear me out.

Many mystics, both within Christianity and other religious traditions that use Christian terminology, believe that heaven is an internal state and not an actual place. And there is some support for this in the Bible, in that it talks about heaven and paradise as if they were two different “places”. So, what if these 144.000 are actually people that have realized heaven within, i.e people that have reached some form of spiritual enlightenment. And what if these are people that are going to build the new kingdom, separate from the corrupt kingdoms of the earth. 

There are a few other details in this. But if we accept that even such passages in the Book of Revelation that on the surface seem literal, might also be symbolical, these become easier to swallow as well.

There is an obvious link between the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation and there is in the Book of Daniel a heavy emphasis on the corrupt kingdoms of the earth, that are finally to be replaced by the kingdom of God. 

Now, these 144.000 cannot rule until they have fully realized heaven within themselves. This means that until they have set aside all of the ego’s petty desires and wishes, they are not fit to rule.

History has seen few examples of enlightened rulers and in all likelihood none that have been totally enlightened. As a rule with very few exceptions, our rulers have been chosen among the biggest egos. But I believe that this, in one way or another, is coming to an end now. 

The end-goal, I believe, for all of humanity, is to live in total freedom, freely choosing obedience to the will of God. But before this can happen, ego-less rulers that are truly there to serve in total humility need to govern the masses. The choices are really simple. Love over hate. Good over evil. Humility over pride. Forgiveness over judgment. But until the veil is lifted so that one sees this choice clearly, one needs truly benevolent rulers. Rulers that cannot become corrupted by power.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of PART 10

What should I believe with regard to all of this that is happening? This is a question that I keep coming back to. Because there is no doubt that beliefs are important. What we believe shape our thoughts, words and actions. And even if I don’t believe this, for many Christians what we believe makes the difference between salvation and damnation, between heaven and hell. Even if I don’t believe this myself, I believe that this is something that deserves to be taken seriously. Not just because of the issue of salvation and damnation per se, but also because this tells us something about the importance of beliefs.

And now I’m going to say something that may not be popular. In fact, I’m going to say it many times on my blog. What I’m going to say is: Christians and New Agers might have things to learn from each other.

Because my best conclusion is that somehow both all this weird stuff with chakras, aliens, energies, quantum physics, reincarnation on the one hand, and Christianity, the End Times and the second coming of Christ, must be true. This is the only conclusion I can draw, however strange it feels when I actually spell it out. 

Why?

Because on the one hand, I’ve had many personal experiences of things that New Agers talk about, such as chakra openings and the energies that flow through the meridian system. And I've had very similar experiences to many other people that also go through what can be called a spiritual awakening and the Ascension Process. But I’m also very much drawn to the message and the person Jesus Christ, and I can’t deny that many of the End Time prophecies of the Bible seem to be coming true. As far as I can see, when I try to be as humble and open as possible, it's impossible for me to completely dismiss either side. 

If I’m wrong about this I sincerely want to know, from someone that can deliver a convincing argumentation. "You're being close-minded" or "believe this or you're going to hell" does not count as convincing argumentations though.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of PART 9

When you realize that the world is more than can be perceived with the five senses, anything becomes possible. I keep coming back to this. And this is something that I absolutely know. I can’t prove it with evidence, arguments or logic. But I’m willing to go out and sound like a crazy person to many of oy Facebook contacts, because at the moment this is more or less the only outreach that I have, even if occasionally someone else finds his/her way to my blog. Because this, whatever it is (I believe that there is much that no one has yet fully understood about this), is more important than anything else. It’s definitely much more important than what a few friends, relatives and acquaintances might think of my mental state. And I know that this, whatever it is, will probe itself to be real to more and more people. Simply because I know that it is. 

If I was alone in this, it could easily be written off as pathological. But as I’ve said, I’ve shared many experiences with my wife, and all over the world people are reporting similar experiences. Two YouTubers that have many followers, that talk about this, are Victor Oddo and Aaron Doughty. To someone who has had no such experiences, their content will probably seem quite outlandish. But it should tell you something that these people have rather large followings that are growing every day. It’s also a funny thing to read about this in different forums. People seem to have a hard time understanding how this weird stuff can have grown so big, since the idea that it all actually might be true seems completely out of the question, unless personal experience has convinced them otherwise. And to a large extent, this is just the way it should be. This is at least what I believe, since I don’t believe that it’s good to accept anything at face value no matter how true it is. Why we believe something is often much more important than what we believe.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of PART 8

If I try to put my big issue with regards to modern spirituality and Christianity into words, it would sound something like this: I cannot deny that what many of the books within modern spirituality teach is true. Much of it is actually based on Hinduism from the beginning. A funny sidenote is that C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia books, in his theological books, said that the only valid religious choice for mature people, is between Christianity and Hinduism. Funny enough, Lewis also believed that everyone’s aim is to reach the same perfection as Christ, even if he didn’t believe that this would reach fruition during this lifetime. 

I have had many experiences with the chakra system, as well as the meridian system. I’ve also felt what Eckhart Tolle calls “the inner body”, which I would say probably is connected with the meridian system. 

I can furthermore not deny that the development in the world seems to follow the pattern predicted by those that speak of the Ascension Process. Neither can I deny that my personal experiences coincide with what others are reporting. For example, when someone says that there are heavy, burdensome energies affecting us, I tend to feel tired and sluggish as well and when the energies are light, i feel light and need less sleep. This has happened too many other times to be written off as coincidences, especially seen in the light of everything else that is going on. And as I’ve already mentioned, how I experience myself and the world has shifted in a way that is in line with what would be expected according to those that speak of the Ascension Process.

Yet furthermore, just like many others that report going through a spiritual awakening, I’ve awakened to my own shadow. I’ve started seeing one personal issue after the other in what appears to be an endless stream. Destructive habits, attitudes and beliefs that have been there all along, but which I’ve been blind to until I started to awaken. These habits, attitudes and beliefs are now suddenly blatantly obvious and causing problems in my life that I cannot ignore. Problems that get worse and worse until I deal with then. And yet, consistent with what other people are reporting, I also become more and more able to deal with my problems, even if the struggle is sometimes so hard that I momentarily sink into despair.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 7

Today I want to start talking about what in spiritual circles is called the Ascension Process. More specifically, I want to bring up the fact that many people right now, are reporting strange things occurring in their lives. It can be anything from seeing energies in the air, to having energy rushes throughout the body, thoughts and insights that don’t seem to come from themselves, seeing the same numbers over and over again, heightened intuition and strange synchronicities.

At the core of this is the idea that everything, including thoughts and emotions, vibrates at different frequencies. If I understand it correctly, this has some basis in quantum physics. However, I’ve only read the popularized versions of quantum physics and I guess that among researchers, there is probably som disagreement when it comes to this. Especially since the physicists themselves don’t really seem to know exactly what they’ve encountered here. 

I have already made a several posts about what has happened to me personally. You can find some of them in my series What's going on on the inside parts 1, 2 and 3. I will also make a post about biblical prophecies in the near future. Until then, there is an abundance of material on this online.

From what I’ve experienced so far, what other people say about the Ascension Process seems consistent with my own experiences. Two consistent thems, that go hand in hand, are “waking up to who we really are” and “waking up to the true nature of reality”. Another consistent theme, is that we have much more power over ourselves and our lives than we think, but that we need to train ourselves out of the reactive state that most of us operate from. Instead we need to make active, intentional choices independent of the circumstances that we find ourselves in.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 6

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

In today’s post, I feel that I need to make something clear. Namely what I don’t believe in this situation that we are in and why. What I don’t believe, even if I cannot be certain of it, is that we are facing some end-times scenario where the righteous will be saved but sinners condemned for all eternity. I simply cannot in any way get this view to fit with the idea of an all-powerful, loving God. I’ve spent a great deal of time reading and thinking about this issue. I have done so, because even if I don’t believe this to be the case, I know that many people do. Some that are overall more insightful and intelligent than I am. And the idea of hell causes some fear in me, even if I don’t believe in it, simply because I cannot be sure. Considering this, I can only imagine what fear it must cause someone that actually believes in it. 

Since our beliefs and the emotions associated with them shape who we are, the words that we speak, the actions that we take, and consequently what effect we have on the world, I believe that this is an important question. Especially in these times of uncertainty that we are in that, in one way or another, are spiritual at their core.

I can ponder this forever. But the conclusion that I come to, over and over again, is that no matter how much I turn things around in my head, it is still impossible for me to reconcile hell with a loving God. If God is love and can do anything, why would God let anyone suffer for all eternity? Finite suffering I can understand. It may for example shape us into better people or prepare us for something better down the road. But eternal suffering just seems like cruelty for no reason. Often, if if you look at things that many regard as sins, because of things that we do not know or understand are trespasses. 

I know that God is infinitely more wise than humans. But unless this means that the mind of God runs totally contrary to the minds of humans, where good becomes evil, up becomes down, etcetera and vice versa, this does not suffice as an explanation either. And I don’t think that anyone would be able to defend the logical implications of such a stance. Think, for example, of what you would think of a father that would allow his child to be tortured even for five seconds. And now think of how much greater the difference is between a human and God, compared to that between a child and an adult.

For these reasons, even though I actually do believe that the answers, to a large degree, are to be found in the Bible, I at least have to reject the classical Christian interpretation of the End Times.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 5

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

In today’s post, I will talk some about my personal stance in relation to what is going on right now (sorry for taking so long to get to the point…). From where I stand, I simply don’t know exactly what is going on. Just that whatever is happening, it is happening. It is not a matter of blind faith or “maybe something is happening and maybe not so let’s have a debate to see who’s right”. This, whatever it is, is real. I keep coming back to this, because this is the key thing that has to be understood. Scientific materialism has already lost the battle. It just doesn’t know it yet. Reality, not clever arguments, will inevitably prove it false. 

I’m not interested in talking about if this is happening. I’m interested in what is happening. Because maybe there is already an answer out there that is just waiting for everyone to get on board. Or we have different pieces of the puzzle that are still waiting to be put together. Or there is one truth, but it has some gaps that need to be filled.

What I can say for sure is that there is a spiritual component to reality and to the events taking place in the world. And from this it logically follows that until we know more, anything is possible. Except of course that which already can be ruled out. Which is not much, compared to the realm of infinite possibilities. 

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 4

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

As I hinted in the first post in this series, the way I see it, in one way or another, we have reached the end of a long road. The world will not just go back to normal and we are on our way towards something that is radically different from anything in recorded history. And even though the world is in a dark place right now, I believe that this is something wonderful. That one way or another, all will be well. Because this awakening that is happening - and it is happening - cannot be for nothing. And every time that I feel close to God, I feel nothing but love and assurance. It is only when I feel alone in my mind, hearing only my ego’s small voice, that I doubt. Of course I cannot convince anyone else about this, since this is my personal experiences and in some cases also my wife’s, since we’ve shared quite a few of them. 

But I can say this with absolute certainty: Until you start seeking God, things will continue to get darker and more painful. I know this for a fact. And in all likelihood, if you’ve started to wake up, this will resonate with you. If it doesn’t right now, perhaps you will remember this in the future when all seems to fall apart. Because turning to God is always an option, even if it is born out of desperation. “Seek and you shall find”, as famous Jesus quote says.

To conclude this post and pave the way for next post: I believe that there are a few spiritual explanations for what is going on. All can be called a form of global spiritual awakening. They can roughly be divided into three categories: Ascension, end times and the end of a cycle. “Ascension” or “The Ascension Process” is the term used in more modern spiritual circles. According to Christian terminology, what is happening would be referred to as “the End Times”. Islam and Judaism have their versions of this event. In Hinduism and Buddhism you find concept of huge time cycles. In this context, the end of a cycle is signified by cataclysmic events and the shift, just like with the Ascension or the conclusion of the End Times, results in a radically different world.

There is also one alternative that isn’t explored as often. Namely that, in spite of a seeming incompatibility, it’s a combination of two or more of these explanations.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 3

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

Don’t you think that it’s a little weird that we just seem to be hit by one global crisis after the other?  As if something is not quite right with what we see or read in the news? Do you get a feeling of unreality when you look at the state of the world? Perhaps this feeling of unreality is something more than just your mind playing tricks on you?

I don’t intend to go into much evidence when it comes to the politics of the current situation in this series. Others have done that much better than I ever can. Towards the end of this post, I will however provide some information if you want to check out alternative voices that talk about what is going on.

What I want to talk about is the spiritual perspective. And at the core, I absolutely believe that what is going on right now is a spiritual matter. In the next post I will go into more detail about this. Here I will just say that this is not something that happens within a small, fringe group of New Agers and/or tin foil hats. All over the world, people are reporting that they are going through spiritual awakenings. I am going through one. The big problem is that the evidence that we are receiving is of a personal kind. This means that from the perspective of the current paradigm, there is no way to prove that what we experience is real, since modern values tell us to disregard anything that cannot be proven objectively, even if reality at its core is a subjective experience. Let me repeat that: Reality at its core is a subjective experience. We only have access to our subjective interpretation of our sense data. Please don’t just brush this off as this is very important. This means that we don’t have direct access to the “objective” world that is given such primacy as far as knowledge is concerned today. There is no easy way around this. But this is the condition that we find ourselves in.

I will talk more about this in the next post.

Now, if you are looking for more political information that doesn’t follow the mainstream narrative, Russell Brand has made several good analyses on YouTube and Sky News Australia is pretty good also. I’ve made a couple of attempts at making sense of the political situation as well. The best ones are the following: Voldemort part 2 and 3 and The calling part 12.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 2

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

I wish to draw your attention to something that I know some have noticed, but that most commentators seem to miss. Namely what has happened to us. I will make a whole post on this. To understand what I’m talking about here, you need to understand a fundamental insight. Namely that attention is everything. Depending on what we pay attention to, we will get a completely different life and reality. So, what do you think will happen, if we are not even conscious of what we are paying attention to, in a world with unlimited access to distractions 24 hours a day? We of course have our smart phones, we have games, tv-series, pornography, sensationalist journalism etc. Doctors prescribe psychotropic drugs that make us more absent and numb our senses, often because of problems caused partially by our inability to focus. We are constantly under stress and pressured to always be accessible. Furthermore, social media is replacing human interactions and make us focus more on our appearances than our actual selves. 

It is in general pretty clear that our culture is destroying us mentally and emotionally. And it’s not as if there is no psychological research available that can tell us this. Coupled with this, we have a huge control system in place, that to a large extent is capable of running itself through advanced algorithms.

There is however a way out of this. We need to: Seek God first. Meditate. Pray. Practice mindfulness. Start looking at ourselves and our choices with as much honesty as possible. Bring as much awareness into our lives as possible. Don’t be afraid of looking at that which is shameful and painful. It’s going to be there whether we choose to look at it or not. Be honest with ourselves with regard to our habits, with as little judgment as possible. Start making conscious choices, instead of just letting life happen. Change will not come from us changing the political system. Change will come when we start taking responsibility for ourselves and our lives.

An attempt at making sense of what's going on in the world as humbly as I'm capable of Part 1

If you want a good foundation for understanding what I'm talking about here, please read my posts: Identity and selective perception 1 and 2 and A way that smart people reach conclusions based on faulty premises.

There is something strange going on in the world, within me and within many other people. That much I can be certain of. Things are not what we are being told by the establishment. And whatever else may be true, I’m certainly not the only one seeing this. Whatever else may be true about this, there seems to be a double awakening going on. One that pertains to who we are and our spiritual natures and one that pertains to the state of the world. 

This is what I believe that I can say for sure. But here the certainty ends. There are many theories about what is going on, on both the inside and the outside. And I wish that I could be as certain as many people claim that they are. But I am not. If you’re seeing and experiencing what is happening and identify as “spiritual but not religious” you might call it the Ascension Process. If you lean towards Christianity, you might believe that what we are seeing is the End Times. In this, two things are for sure: The strange experiences that me and many others are having, are connected with what is going on in the world. And what is going on in the world right now are not just random events happening by accident.

The Calling. Part 12

The world is slowly opening up again. So soon we will be back to normal, right? 

Now, I’m no economist. But if you have an already unstable world economy and you introduce a situation, where you shut down the whole of society so that one in five businesses have to declare bankruptcy as a direct consequence of it, take measures that deteriorate people’s mental health, thereby making them less productive and more prone to behavior that costs money for society, pay enormous sums of money to corporations that are going to “save” us and take all kinds of costly measures to handle the situation, make the biggest wealth transfer in history, from everyone else to the richest people on the planet, wouldn’t that have rather serious consequences? And shouldn't those that govern us know this, considering that they have access to all the best experts in all relevant fields? In light of this, do you really think that the actions of our leaders are simply due to fear and incompetence?

And an equally important question: When the consequences come, are you going to trust the people that made the decisions that created the mess, together with the only people that benefitted from the mess, to come up with the solution? 

As I’ve said in another post, I don’t know what I can say about this without being censored. But go to YouTube and search for “world” and “reset” if you want to know more about what I’m talking about. Russell Brand has made great videos about this.

This is not meant to spread fear. Everything is in God's hands and you are infinitely and eternally loved by God. But it's time to start thinking about who to put our faith and trust in. 

The Calling. Part 12

It feels weird to say this out loud. But this awakening stuff, whatever it is, is definitely happening. The biggest event in the planet’s history is about to happen and it’s not just some elite club that is part of it. What is happening inside of many people, including myself, right now, is so huge that it will alter the course of history. Unless those that want to stop it manages to do so. And then they will be the ones altering the course of history instead.

I don’t know if the outcome of this is already predetermined or if our choices ultimately matter in the grander scheme of things. Some believe that they have the answers to these questions. I don’t. But now that I do know that, whatever else may be true, these spiritual awakenings are definitely happening, I also understand that it’s something very extraordinary that I and many others have the privilege of experiencing. Something that, as I asid, will alter the course of history.

I want you to pause for a second to reflect on what this actually means. If you are like me, your ego is probably still partially denying that this is happening. It might not feel as real as the maybe not so real reality that you have grown up to regard as the only reality. But this is absolutely real. And if it’s real, and there are people in the world that want it to go in another direction, they would want to stop it.

So, if you’re not going through an awakening yourself, please just ponder the idea that this awakening is actually happening. Couldn’t what is happening in the world right now, where our rights are rapidly being taken away. Where those that have awakened are also the same people that see dangers with the solution to Voldemort (the one that cannot be named), refuse to take it and therefore systematically separated from the rest of society.

The Calling. Part 11

While, as I said in the last post, I believe Christianity holds the key to this reality, I don’t believe that it should exclude learning from other religions. I know for example that the Chakra system of Hinduism is real. I also know that the Buddha said something important, when he said that the root causes of suffering are attachment and aversion. God built these things into our experience of reality. 

There is in general a whole energy system inside, that we can access just by paying attention to it. How could this be wrong? What I’ve come to realize, is that if the Bible gives a clear no no to something, we should listen to it. But the idea that we should try to discern prohibitions that aren’t explicit in the Biblical texts I believe are erroneous. If it, for one reason or another, is important that we don’t do something, I think this will be very explicit in the Bible and if we look at its effect on our lives, it should be pretty clear why as well.

The Calling. Part 10

So, why Christianity and not other religions? I think that the answer is to be found in the person Jesus. His life and example. I believe that he provided a blueprint for how to live in this world. 

At the same time, I’m starting to suspect that there is truth to the statement that we live in multiple dimensions simultaneously. And in other dimensions we might interact with reality in a different way, even if everything is connected. But the best way of interacting with this dimension was exemplified by Jesus.

The Calling. Part 9

It is as if a puzzle is being laid now. That is the best way of explaining it. Many different people get their piece of the truth. Maybe some people get the same piece and maybe all of those people are not going to reach the public with what they are finding out. I don’t know. Maybe, for one reason or another, the pieces of truth are not coming through without interference. Maybe they are distorted somehow. I don’t know.