John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Monday, June 10, 2013

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

You may say I am a dreamer.

But I am not the only one.

I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will live as one.

— John Lennon
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Now since today's MONDAY, I usually post an episode of AWARENESS with ANTHONY DE MELLO. But the other day, this video showed up on my FB newspage, and I thought it was so awesome that I had to share it with all of you.

The text below is an excerpt from the video.

I hope you enjoy it.
◄ Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition ►

All we need is love, but do we really know what love is? Love is a word that is sung about in songs, written in poems, talked about a lot, and it’s something many people long for, one way or the other, mostly in the form of a partner. We hear it a lot these days: be heart centered, be loved, love is the answer, love always wins, send love and light, and so on. People use it casually in conversations in their everyday lives. It is seen as the solution to all the world problems. All you need is love.

If that’s so easy, how come nothing has changed fundamentally on planet Earth, despite the obvious technological progress? We still see genocide, oppression, and war is happening. Hundreds of thousands of children and civilians have died in the Middle East and around the world, because of the war machine under the control of psychopathic leaders, who couldn’t care less about anyone who holds up a peace sign with the proclamation of love as the force for change.

Looking at it more closely we can see that love is one of the most abused and misunderstood words. We mistake things like gratification, sentimentality, obligation, duty, passion, desire, and other superficial emotions, ideas and condition concepts, as love, in order to fill something that is ultimately lacking within us.

These distortions are also used mostly unconsciously as buffers to avoid facing reality as it is, by looking at the world with rose colored glasses on, instead of seeing oneself and the world more objectively, beyond appearances.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. – Niccolo Machiavelli.

There is personal love between humans, motherly love, love of family and community, love for oneself, love for something greater than the self, love for God, and even love for manmade ideologies and concepts such as for a nation and country. So what is love? How can we describe or define such a powerful force? Words are very limiting and can only point to it, but are not it.

Maybe we can start by examining what love is not. When it comes to interpersonal relationships we often see control games, jealousy and envy, which is obviously not love, but expressions and behaviors based on fear and need. Love is related to emotions and feelings, but they can be merely based on chemical reactions in the brain that result in high where people feed off each other, which also the basis for psychic vampirism.

Many relationships are based on this feeding mechanism, which has nothing to do with love, but it’s a parasitic need resulting in codependency. Sexual attraction is also mistaken for love at times. Many people get into relationships for the wrong reasons. Be it to escape the loneliness, to fill a hole in their lives, or feed off another person. For the most part this happens unconsciously and so people tend to lie to themselves about love and their relationships in many ways.

Uploaded on Oct 27, 2011
This video sheds light into the nature of love, relationships, the "New Age" movement, reality-creation, quantum physics, objectivity vs. subjectivity and how it all relates to the topics of "conspiracy theories", psychopathy, and the importance of esoteric self-work.

"Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition" has been selected as the #1 film 2011-2012 of the "Top 100 Global
Development Movies".
"The best positive, inspirational, thought-provoking movie of our times."
- RYB TV

Written, narrated and audio editing by Bernhard Guenther
Visuals and video editing by Humberto Braga

Based on:

- All you need is Love!
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

- The Positivity of Objectivity and the Time of Transition
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

- Being the change you want to see in the world
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

Related videos and articles:

- Know Thyself
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

- Know Thyself [Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is3CPH...

- Why You Don't Create Your Own Reality -- an antidote to fatuous New Age paradigms
http://cassiopaea.org/2010/09/15/why-...

- Organic Portals -- Soulless humans
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

- UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact [Video]
http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/20...

Music:

"All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles
"Symetric Lifes" - H.U.V.A. Network
"We Are Analog" - Hol Baumann
"Oleander (Phutureprimitive Symbiotic Remix)" - Bluetech
"Floating Retention" - Cell
"Terpene" - Carbon Based Lifeforms
"Rain Geometries" - H.U.V.A. Network
"The Garden" - Adham Shaikh
"Orientations, Pt. 2 (Ephemeride 15.43°)" - H.U.V.A. Network
"Longing for Silence" - Asura
"Silent Running" - Carbon Based Lifeforms
"20 minutes" - Carbon Based Lifeforms
"Polyrytmi" - Carbon Based Lifeforms

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

Now, as always, I want to end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world, a song I can only describe as PURE LOVE.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Take a deep breath and feel the air as it fills your lungs. Feel how the air is nothing but love.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Monday, June 10, 2013

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

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