John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Sunday, July 21, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

I come to life with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Your Ministry of Healing and of Love You do not have to be "ordained" to be a minister in the world. God has ordained you by virtue of your being alive. You can be — and are — a minister right now. Every day, if you look for it, you will find a chance to bring your ministry of healing and of love to someone new. --Home With God by Neale Donald Walsch
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Well, it's SUNDAY, which means it's time for my SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO, where I post a video about any religious subject...

Uploaded on Mar 20, 2010
The ninth installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion". In the second part of this episode I explore the vestigial structures found within the human body.

Human Vestigial Organs:
Appendix
Wisdom teeth
Plantaris muscle
Human tail
Coccyx
Ear-wiggling muscles
Recurrent laryngeal nerve
Olfactory Receptor genes
Body hair
Goose bumps
Male nipples

Poor Design in the Human Body:
Blind spot in the vertebrate eye
Bursa of the knee
Ulnar nerve of the elbow
Poor protection of the brain by the skull
Lack of brow ridges found in other primates

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MUSIC CITED:

Fila Brazilia - Another Late Night

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TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=180

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Education
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------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------

Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.

Heavenletter #4602 An Impending Event , July 1, 2013

God said:
Something magnificent is about to happen. I don’t have any other way to say it but that.

Your range of thinking has expanded since you have been reading Heavenletters. Of course, you are always expanding. Now you are expanding and extending your heart and mind further.

So, now, when I say something magnificent is about to happen – may even have happened before this Heavenletter is sent out to you – it will impact your life although it may not specifically pertain to your personal life.

What would you like this magnificent happening to be? Do you want it to be a sign, such as a comet streaming through the sky, or do you want it to be a concrete event that can only make you know that you and I exist as One?

I tell you the magnificence that is about to burst forth is not a flashy event. It is not a movie in the sky or a dramatic performance on Earth, and, yet, this occurrence will be a portal to the opening of all hearts on Earth, including yours.

You will first wonder about it, wonder about what you feel, and wonder whether you really feel it, wonder whether your sense of it is really real, and that, really, life on Earth is taking on new dimensions. You have felt hopeful before.

For a long time, Heaven and Earth have been getting closer. You will wonder:

“Can it be that there is no longer division between Heaven and Earth? Can it really be that they have melded into One, just as You say, God, that You and I and everyone are One? Can it be that I live to see this day, and see it here on Earth? What will the newspapers say? Will they note this rising that I feel so strongly within me?

“God, You are telling me that there is an impending event or something like that about to happen, yet, it is subtle. It is not going to be snow in summer, or high temperatures rising in winter. It is not going to be a cataclysm, and, yet, it will be noticed. Will it be known, God? Will I know this magnificence that is going to spring up in life, in all lives, and in mine? Can this be true? Am I asking too much?

“Is this going to be a New World? Will I visit other planets? Are You, God, really everywhere, and are there many Kingdoms and lands that I seek to know. Would I seek to know them unless they did exist?

“Will I visit Heaven, or will I exist here as a human being who enjoys two worlds? That can’t be right because You have said – I think you have said – that Heaven and Earth will be One, in actuality and also in my recognition. Can it be that I will know, and know for keeps? What are You telling me, God, dear God. You couldn’t be leading me down a garden path, could You?”

No, I could not.

Together, We, you and I and everyone, are going to walk down an actual garden path, not a fantasy. Oneness will be known. And you will know it. In this magnificence I hint at, there will be overt change, subtle as it is. You will know that something is different. You will know that something has changed. Whether you can name it or not, you will know, and this change will not be a back and forth change. It is change that will stick. The changes inside you will be, not envisioned, but seen, seen and experienced, and you will experience naturally, for what is upcoming is part of your destiny. You are My envoy. You participate in the glorification of Earth as it rises. And, so, you rise with it. You will know something. You will know you are rising. All glory to My Self Who is God within you.

http://heavenletters.org/an-impending-event.html

And now, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.

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As artists, we no longer have any limitation; we are creators, just like the one who created us.
~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.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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