John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Sunday, August 4, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

I am so honored that the Power of the Universe has chosen for me to be ME.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

I had the worst luck last night! I went to the GOOD HURT last night around 8:30 to watch Brandon West and the Cat do their thing, but I go kill some time in Santa Monica until then, then come back.the bus stop, the most unexpected, and EMBARRASING thing that EVER happenedto me took place. I ACTUALLY PISSED ALL OVER MYSELF! right on the sidewalk. In PUBLIC. The funny thing is, I didn't need to go just seconds before... It was that sudden. I'm not old, I'm not a baby, yet this thing happened to me. How mortifying!

Anyway, I couldn't go back to the club smelling like urine, so I went home.

Well, that was last night. I know today will be better. It can't get any worse...

New Spirituality and Religion

The New Spirituality will never condemn traditional religion, but seek always to include it in the process by which divine truth continues to be revealed.

There are far too many treasures in your religious traditions to abandon them. The future of humanity with regard to religion is not about desertion, but dissection, not about rejection, but rejuvenation.

What humans will do in the years just immediately ahead is begin to dissect their religions, looking at them closely, exploring them piece by piece, examining them doctrine by doctrine, to see what makes sense and what doesn't make sense, what is functional and what is dysfunctional, what works and what doesn't work in tomorrow's world.

--Tomorrow's God by Neale Donald Walsch
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

And now, since it's SUNDAY, it's time for the SUNDAY SCHOOL VIDEO, where I post a video about any religious subject.

Uploaded on Mar 20, 2010

The twelfth installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion". In this episode I trace the final step in the evolution of our species and discuss the most important clue that shows human beings do indeed share a common ancestry with other primates.

The Chromosome 2 fusion is examined in detail, showing not only is evolution supported by fossil evidence from the Earth, but also by genetic evidence found within our very of genome. This video demonstrates the overwhelming, undeniable truth that evolution is a FACT, not a hypothesis, opinion, or matter for debate.

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MUSIC CITED:

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

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PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

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

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discove...

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Education
License
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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 #4614 God’s Voice Everywhere, July 13, 2013

God said:
Just think of it! God speaks to you. Personally, I speak to you. In whatever form, I message you daily, hourly, minutely. You hear Me in the wind. You hear Me in the stones. You hear Me in your heart. You hear Me many ways. The thing is you hear Me.

Someone else’s voice may speak Me, nudge you, remind you, echo Me. You hear Me in the jungles, and you hear Me by the sea.

We can say that every grain of sand tells you something of what I am saying to you.

And, whether you are aware or not, fully aware or not, I speak to you at every turn in every moment. I Who AM Silence Entire, also say your name constantly and keep you in My heart. No one would call Me a chatterbox, and, yet, I never cease calling to you, asking for you, drawing you to Me. I, Who AM the very heart of you, call to you instantly and constantly.

It is not that I miss you, for I am by your side at every turn of life and at every moment. At the same time, I long for you to know Me. I long for you to say My Name. By whatever Name you call Me, I know Who you mean. I recognize your voice anywhere. I ask you to recognize Mine.

“Halloo,” I say.

I say it fifty-million ways, and I never tire of echoing My heart to you. You are the claimant to My heart. It is to you whom I speak in all languages. My vibration is high. Poof! I make a Universal Sound. Instantly the ether translates My vibration of sound into the language you understand. We can say even that you understand My sound without translation. It has been said that music is the Universal Language. More correctly I AM the Universal Language whether it is in music or in the cheep of the cicada or in the Waves of the Sea.

I can even be heard in the gong or in the hammering of nails or in the chopping of wood or in the buzz of a saw and the buzz of a bee.

Beloveds, where is it that I cannot be heard or seen or gathered, felt and known? I am seen in a glass of water or in a stein of beer or a glass of milk or heard through a soda straw.

Look, when I say I am Everywhere, I mean Everywhere. There is nowhere where I am not. Eyes can see, and ears can hear. Eyes do see, and ears do hear, and hearts beat to My tune. You dwell in Me, and I dwell in you.

We are reciprocal. We are so reciprocal that you cannot possibly know (you think you know) where I begin and end or where you begin or end. There is no beginning, and there is no end. Infinity and Eternity do not begin, nor do they end, nor do you and nor do I. Nor can We, ultimately, separate Our One Self from anything at all. We are the dust in the street, and We are the Light of the Sun, and We are the Light, and We are this named Infinity and Eternity. There is no separation anywhere ever any time.

Do not look for explanations. Explanations do not add. Explanations take away. Talk about fitting a square peg into a round hole. Beloveds, We are a Whole, for everything fits into Us, for We are Everything Everywhere Always. Space and time do not exist, We, you and I, We exist and have never not.

http://heavenletters.org/god-s-voice-everywhere.html

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

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If you can't feel love, it's because you are resisting love; it's because you've learned how to stop expressing your 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.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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