Why Do People Face So Much Abuse/Victimization? Karma?

Some people do not like the idea of Karma or Reincarnation because they do not believe anyone deserves to be born with certain disabilities or conditions that make their life extremely rough, or be the victim of terrible crimes etc.  I believe we have these primitive/harsh conditions in this world because we have not advanced this far spiritually here on this Earth at this time.  We have improved on a lot of the really harsh physical conditions that we faced in the past, as a result of our technological advances.  We have conquered a lot of disease and have made our homes more comfortable and have added a lot of useful labor saving devices.  But, we have not really done that much to improve in the spiritual area in regards to our spiritual ideas/beliefs(that really affects how well we are able to behave) as we have done in regards to our ideas/beliefs in the scientific area.  I strongly believe that this world is really messed up spiritually and we really need to improve on our spiritual beliefs, and practices/training so that we will live in a world with less abuse and unhealthy conditions that are rooted in the spiritual and how well human behave spiritually.

Terrible things happen everyday in this world and still people hold on the the primitive beliefs of the past that often have a certain acceptance of brutality built into them. A GOD that is autocratic(all powerful)and  believes in eternal torture without hope is really the most abusive GOD one could conceive of.   We can certainly improve our understanding of God and reality, and become more responsible in regards to our important spiritual role we play in improving the spiritual conditions around us.  Some religious/spiritual beliefs tend to be too passive and accepting of what abusive/harsh things are happening in this world and tend to de-emphasize the importance of this physical world we exist.  We need to stop being so passive spiritually and start really making an effort to bring real spiritual change not only to ourselves, but to the world around us.  We need to realize that we really do not know much about the spiritual at this time and need to start doing the really hard spiritual research to figure out what spiritual beliefs/ideas will help to improve the conditions we exist in in this world the most.

 

Spiritual beliefs run really deep, so do not change easily  It takes really hard inner work in order to change ones inner spiritual programming/beliefs.  That is why it often takes a crisis or really rough circumstances for individuals to be willing to change what they believe and for collective spiritual beliefs changes to happen.  I know from personal experience that It is rough having certain disabilities that make surviving in this current world extremely difficult I would not be able to push the edge as well as I can if my life had been easy and I was not so aware by personal experience how abusive/harsh a world we live in and how desperately it needs to advance to a better place spiritually.

Primitive type spiritual/religious beliefs lead to primitive spiritual/physical conditions and the abuse/hardships that come with it. We live in a fertile spiritual environment for all sorts of really messed up individuals to grow in and for cycles of abusive behavior to continue over and over again. We really need change to happen in this world, and often the people who help make this change are themselves the victims of abuse or those really hurt by having someone close to them be victimized. Sometimes people are victims of disease or tragedies that we really need to address.  People who face tragedy often do really valuable things in this world by taking on causes to try to prevent similar tragedies.  They can gain in empathy and become much stronger and better characters as a result of facing such a trial or person crisis.  Facing a crisis or tragedy can be really rough on a person, but can lead them to changing into a more valuable person spiritually and give them a valuable spiritual purpose to their life.  Crisis is often so valuable in helping people to advance spiritually.  We really need to  advanced spiritually a lot more individually and collectively so we will be able to do an awful lot to make this world a healthier and less abusive place to live both physically and spiritually.

We Must Judge People, but Should do so Carefully!

One has to make judgments about people in order to figure out how to relate to them, and to evaluate how to respond to them and what advice/wisdom to offer them when they ask for it or seem like it would be a good thing to do. Our survival is determined by who we choose to trust and allow to get closer to us, and allow to work with us or for us or to work for. People will judge, even if intuitively without conscious thought and respond to people based on that.

It is a good idea to be careful(when able) not to respond in communication or action until one has really carefully evaluate someone and has figured out the best way to respond or relate to them. It is important to try to put one in another persons,s shoes as much as one is able. Being capable of having empathy for other and understand how complicated people’s lives and circumstances can be can help one to be more careful when making judgments about others so that one can relate to and communicate with them effectively.

People judge me all the time because of my uniqueness and my unique situation in this world, often not very positively, I expect this. People have certain beliefs programmed into them, that will determine what intuitive judgments the make about people and often act on without thinking. I am very much into having people improve on their beliefs so that they will make better intuitive as well as conscious judgments about people and situations and be able to behave in a better way spiritually in this world.

Energy, Technology, Our Economy, and the Need for Spiritual Advancement

We are going to keep using our oil, coal, and gas resources for quite some time into the future. With the state of our world’s economy we are going to have to use what energy resources we have to get out of the mess we are in.  Alternative energy will keep developing also and play its role along with the development  more of our oil, coal, and gas resources.   The United States will also need to keep developing all of its own energy resources in order to improve its economy through gaining more energy independence.   It is true we need to advance further spiritually in this world  so that we will become better at sharing the world’s resources(including energy) with less fortunate countries and people.  We do need  to be careful about demonizing certain industries(coal, oil, nuclear)  and all the people in it. This world would not have advanced as far as it has technologically if it were not for oil, coal, gas, and nuclear power.

The greenhouse affect is being exaggerated by certain people who have an agenda. It is a problem to quite a degree, but not an unsolvable one. I think we will be able to geoengineer the climate in the future to quite a degree and also find ways to lessen how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere. I do not believe we will stop using our fossil fuels when they are so cheap and abundant. We have huge amounts of natural gas and coal, as well as still having quite a bit of oil left. A lot of products we use are made from petroleum.

Our climate has naturally gone through periodic ice ages and may have been headed for another one, if we had not started adding so much greenhouse gas to our atmosphere. Nature can be brutal and often man has to figure out how to tame it to some degree so as to make life more comfortable and healthy. Progress is never perfect, but usually the good out weights the bad. And often an attempt to improve things may not go very well at the beginning, but with further work and tweaking will bring a lot better results in the future than if no attempt to improve things was attempted in the first place. I am into being innovative and looking for reasonable solutions. I certainly do not see using Ox power(an idea mention by a person I know) as a reasonable solution to the worlds energy needs in the future.

        This world is very complicated, but we can if we become more capable spiritually be able to handle this complexity and the serious problems that come with it. But, we will need to start really advancing in the spiritual area and become more willing to let go or improve upon the spiritual ideas of the past. We have so much more to learn about the spiritual and we need to start working really hard to start making some progress in this area. Science has advance so much in recent times, but the spiritual has been resistant to change and having improvements and advancement made in that area.   We can do a lot to improve our spiritual beliefs/programming(understanding of the spiritual)and spiritual practices/training.  One can only become really good at anything with proper training and programming.Spiritual people need to work with science and technology and the industries related to them, rather than just constantly demonizing them.
    We can do a lot of value spiritually if we work in cooperation with others and have the spiritual strength and awareness to be able to deal with the complexity and intensity of the problems that come with our age and the people who are contending with these problems. The solutions will not be easy, and will require a multifaceted approach. We have to much polarization in this world today, and this is making solutions to our serious problems so much more difficult. We need to start looking for the degree of truth that can be found in all the points of view presented when ever we are trying to find a workable solution to a problem

Learning & Improving Spiritually utilizing Real Live Human Sources

People who are attracted to beliefs that are unchangeable tend to like the spiritual beliefs of people from the past who are not alive right now and able to update or improve their beliefs in the present. Their beliefs become frozen in time and have the unchanging quality that come with the past. I prefer to deal with the beliefs of people living today and able to improve on their beliefs as they grow further spiritually. Face to face contact with believers really helps one to evaluate the spiritual energy they send out that comes along with their beliefs. One can learn a lot this way. One does not have to always learn from high profile celebrity spiritual thinkers/visionaries.

The Element Earth in Astrology and Fear

In spiritual groups I find people often have a problem with the element EARTH in astrology. The spiritual is most connected with the element WATER which is the opposite of EARTH. The element Earth does tend to be linked with the emotion of FEAR. People do well to fear negative/harmful consequences. Fear is hard to handle well, and one has to strong spiritually in order to handle it effectively. The spiritually weak will tend to have a lot of reasons to be fearful.

I do tend to be very much dominated by an inborn spiritual focus which make it hard for me to keep really grounded so I can be really effective in this physical world. If I just relax and go with the flow, which is a tendency among people with a spiritual emphasis, I tend to mess up when it comes to dealing with the physical(due to my disabilities-poor finer motor skills, limited visual and long term memory). Right now most of my limited visual memory is being used to deal with the internet and my astrology system. This make it even harder for me to handle the other physical things, that I must deal with in order to survive. But, my spiritual focus is what is the main thing that has helped me survive as long as I have on this Earth. It is amazing I have survived this long based on my insecure position in this world.

Fear does help me to take care of my responsibilities related to where I live. Fear that the foundation of the house will have problems makes me water around the house periodically during the drought. This is what people in Texas have to do because of the type of soil we have. Fear that the grass will die motivates me to water the lawn. Fear that my body and mind will not perform as well and my skin will break out, makes me stay on my strict calorie restricted diet. When I post on the internet I try to work things really carefully out of fear I will be misunderstood or will scare people away from me. This fear can be quite automatic at times with me finding it very tricky to communicate certain things because I know how people will tend to react. Fear of the consequences of not being strong enough spiritually keeps me training really hard with my meditative exercises.

Prevention does require a certain amount of fear of harmful/unhealthy consequences. I do tend to feel quite relaxed and secure a lot of the time and do not focus or sense fear a lot of the time. I just can access fear when I need it. I feel like I am balanced emotionally, and do not demonize some emotions as being only negative and glorify other emotions as being only positive as some people do.

My Two Near Death Experiences

Back in March 1992 I had what I believe really strongly where near death experiences.  I was trying to get media attention to my spiritual ideas and also trying to have some political impact during the election(primaries) happening at that time.  A lot of people where running as political outsiders and I felt I was the real outsider.  I wrote an article(letter to the editor) for the local newspaper in Roanoke VA. about how important character and really feeling empathy for people is to choosing a good political leader.  I was not happy by how slow they responded to it and sense psychically that they were rejecting it.  (This article was put in the newspaper as an op-ed quite a bit later).  I felt like I was not being listened to and that I could contribute a lot to helping make people sensitive to the concerns of those who often are ignored or not given any political voice.  I may have been quite a bit affected by the fact that Bill Clinton was only a few years older than me.  I did not see Bill Clinton as sensitive enough.  The pressure on me,  that led to the near death experiences,  started when I went downtown with a sign to draw attention to myself and started handing out a paper I wrote which was basically written to try to organize people who felt like outsider just like me, so that more voices could be heard.  I felt like I could relate emotionally really well to people who were being ignored and that I could really effectively speak for them.

I thought at the time of was really good at handling pressure since I had done so much intense spiritual training.  I always did best under pressure.  But, I just seemed to not be able to reach people and kept working at building up the pressure by trying to do more.  I took on not only the newspaper, but the local TV station, but got little in the way of results.  The pressure put my mind in a strange place and made me a little paranoid.  I started to loose my grip on reality and had to be careful how I was interpreting things.  I was lucky that I had an objective core that would not trust the way I was starting to misread what was happening around me and prevent me from rash actions based on incomplete information.   Often when people keep clear of you because of your intense state of mind one does not get good feed back to help one make sense of what is happening around you. Stress can do strange things to the mind.  I have a bad long term memory so I can not give you the details in a clear form.  Along with the stress was an anger(at being ignored and mistreated) that was as strong an anger as I could imagine.  I had no constructive way to direct the anger so it went inward creating a hug amount of stress.

Anyway the stress started to affect my heart which seem to be my weak point.  I have often pushed my limits physically and have used meditation and meditative breathing to settle my heart when I felt it was losing its rhythm and in trouble.  I had developed a lot of body sensitivity due to years of meditation and meditative walking.  I was born with a poor finer motor skills and believe my nervous system can not control my heart fine enough when I am really stressed.  When my heart is in trouble I can continue my meditative breathing continuously as long as I remain conscious.  The problem occurs when I sleep and can no longer maintain this type of breathing.  Anyway I got so much stress that I had to do continuous meditative breathing and was afraid to fall asleep and lose control with dire consequences.  I did feel at the time like I was connected psychically with a lot of people who would strongly want someone like me to just go away and disappear.

I did eventually get really tired and my body could not stay conscious.  So I lost consciousness and felt my spirit leave my body.  I do not believe all people have exactly the same type of near death experiences, but I tend to believe people who sincerely believe they had one.  You are the only one who truely knows you have had one.  I am very unique and have a poor visual memory which I am sure affected how unique my near death experience was.  I believe the spirit world and the dream world are the same to quite a degree and that near death experiences can appear dream like, but with a lot more intensity and realness in how they feel.  That we connect to the spirit world to a degree in dreams, but go completely into the spirit world in a near death experience.  In my near death experience, when my spirit left my body I had this vision of me shooting away on some kind of spacecraft away from the earth and felt like people/spirits that wanted me to gone where trying to force me(my spirit) to leave this planet for good.  I am sort of a spiritual warrior by nature so I managed to bail out and come back.  I felt my spirit pop back into my body.  I probably would have been in trouble if I left my body for long since I was home alone with no medical help available.  I believe my heart most likely stopped for a short period.

My second near death experience was more positive and happened I think a day later, if my poor long term memory serves me well.  This time I left my body and connected with my mother and felt her love.  I don’t remember any more than that, but I know it was similar to the first in how it felt related to leaving and returning to the body.  I do believe the act of leaving the body and coming back did relieve the stress in my body and helped my heart to get back in rhythm.  I did stay away from new sources of stress and started to take extra B complex vitamins again since I had discontinued taking them due to what some nutritional experts were telling people.

As a result of my near death experiences, and mental perception problems I had while under extreme stress I approached the spiritual differently.  I decided that I had to get rid of any of my beliefs that were based more on myth than reality or logic.  This was the beginning of a major overhaul of my beliefs and the begining of a period in which I was constantly questioning my beliefs and working to make them work better in helping me perform in this reality.  I wanted to have beliefs that really interfaced with this reality really well.   I also felt that my meditative walking, which I designed to help me handle really intense emotions and the stress that comes with them, did not perform for me the way they should and also felt that I better not stop doing intense aerobic type exercise again or stop taking my extra B complex vitamins.  I had stopped doing my intense aerobic exercises which involved walking swing really heavy hand weights a little while before this stressful period.  Not doing the intense exercise may have freed up energy that lead to me doing what I did that led to all the stress.  I write this experience because others are curious.  I really trust that I have a really good grip on reality and know that my near death experience is as real as the ones others have experienced.

PAIN

PAIN is a important part of life. It is hard to really achieve a lot in life without feeling quite a bit of pain. One often has to put ones heart on the line in order to make things happen in ones life. When one falls in love one is taking a risk by allowing oneself to become open and vulnerable to another person. When one takes on a really big challenge ones heart is also put on the line. When ever one puts ones heart and soul on the line one is risking that one will get hurt. When one pushes ones limits emotionally, one can overdo it and wear oneself down and get sick. When one pushes oneself too hard physically or are not careful enough one can have injuries. It is hard to avoid all the accidents or dangers that are part of life no matter how hard one tries.

One can get better at handling pain, if one has had a lot of practice dealing with pain. One can train oneself spiritually to handle a lot of pain well. Being able to handle emotional pain well through tough meditative training can help one to handle physical pain better. One can also meditate on physical pain directly which not only can make one stronger in handling pain, but can help one to heal oneself, provided one is on a good diet and gets enough rest so as to keep oneself charged up spiritually.

The pain we feel will not be stronger than we are, but it can be a match for our strength. The stronger we are spiritually, the more pain we can handle and the more pain we will be able to feel. Being able to feel pain gives one empathy for all those in the world who are struggling and gives one the strength of spiritual character to have a lot of positive impact in the world. This value of the spiritual strength and empathy that one gains from being capable of feeling pain really strongly can really outweigh the negative side of it provided one has` learned to handle pain really well.

Pain does tend to connect one really strongly to this physical concrete reality. It is really hard to see this world as an illusion when one is feeling a lot of pain, or is aware of all the pain that exists in this world. We are part of the collective spirit of this Earth we exist on. We should be able to connect psychically to the pain that exists here. But, we also need to be able to tune out this pain at times so that we can relax and recharge spiritually and appreciate and enjoy what is positive in this world. It is important to be able to find some sort of balance.

When people are hurting in any part of this world, we should be able to tune into this pain and sense how it is representing a certain unhealthiness within this collective spirit we are part of. A spiritual warrior has to be able to handle pain well and be motivated by this pain to not only work to heal him/herself, but to work to help heal the problems in this world that cause pain to so many of its inhabitants. One can get a lot of joy from helping/comforting those who are really struggling and hurting in this world. The more one see the value of pain in making sure one is aware of a serious problem, the more one can become able to better handle it.

We need people to take certain things seriously, and feeling the pain helps people take things more seriously. We have a lot of serious problems in this world and we need people who have a really serious focus and are aware of the pain these problems cause to help tackle and remedy these problems to some degree.

The Importance of Time to Our Reality

TIME is related to the physical side of our reality. If we were able to escape from the influence of the physical completely time would lose its importance. Some people do not value the resistant and challenging physical part of our reality that much and would like to be able to escape from this part of our reality and some of the laws related to it which include time. I believe that the physical aspect of our reality is extremely vital and we need to make the most of it and the challenges it poses and the strength that comes from it. With this strength comes a past that is unable to be altered after it has happened. Because the past can not be altered, we have a present that is stable and reliable to a considerable degree and that we can apply what we have learned from the past to, so that we can create a better future.

I believe the strength, stability, reliability, and purpose that our physical reality gives us is vital to our reality and vital to our spirit’s well being. I believe we do not escape the consequences of our actions by escaping time. That we will continuously face the consequences of our actions through time not only within our present life, but beyond this life. That the physical multiverse will continuously exist always providing spirits with the strength, reliability, and stimulation that incarnating in physical worlds provide us with.

I believe that a lot of spirits will tend to get attached to a particular planet in this multiverse and continuously reincarnate there so as to provide spiritual continuity there. It would be quite chaotic, if too many of the spirits on a planet came from other planets and were not attached to the past here and the traditions that exist here. Most spirits do tend to get attached to their physical location and to the traditions associated with a location. How a spirit acts when incarnated in this present life, will tell a lot about how the spirit will act through a series of lives. Most spirits do not change rapidly, as is indicated by how hard it is for people to change spiritually. Spiritual change or inner change takes a lot of time and effort due to the strength in which people hold on to their core beliefs.

. Those who do really challenge themselves intensely spiritually and use really difficult and intense spiritual transformation/development techniques to alter their inner being can go through quite rapid spiritual change. Most people do not go through rapid spiritual change unless their physical environment forces them to do this. Rapid spiritual change often requires a crisis in order to motivate someone to see that this type of change is required. Our very vital physical part of our reality provides us with these crises to help our spirit change and become more advanced/capable/aware spiritually and also with the means to transform our self using meditative techniques, diet, deep thinking, and a testing ground that can be used to test how well our beliefs and spiritual state does when strongly challenged over a period of time.

Dreams – A window to the Spirit World

I believe that dreams provide us with a connection with the spirit world. That is why psychics(prophets) often get valuable spiritual insipiration or visions while in a dream state(or a similar altered state). I believe that spirits in the spirit world world(not incarnated at this time)play roles in dreams and play out scenarios to represent the spiritual energies one is dealing with in ones life at the time of the dream. These spirits can represent through playing the role of a person in ones life, the spiritual/psychic affect these people are having on you at the time of the dream. These spirits can even play the role of oneself in a dream and play out a scenario that can give one insight into the spiritual state one is in at the time of the dream. These non-incarnated spirits will just mirror the psychic/spiritual/emotional energy that one is being affected by at the time of the dream.

Sometimes a dream will involved a more direct spirit to spirit connection between two incarnated people/spirits, or between even someone alive(incarnated)on this Earth and someone(often a loved one) who has died(passed on). People who are more psychic will connect with more such spirits that have passed on recently.

All this action happens on the subconscious level which is where one connects with ones inner spirit and connects with the spiritual side of life and the spirit world. The subconscious mind plays a very strong role spiritually.

The spirit world is less inhibitied and freer and a lot less limiting than the physical world, so dreams tend to be exaggerated and involve being able to do things one could not do safely in waking life. One can breath underwater, can fly like a bird and even travel through outer space in dreams without mechanical devices or vehicles.  The exaggerated quality of dreams can get a point across often in a way that is more obvious and less subtle than analyzing ones waking life. Symbols often play a strong role in dreams and in the spirit world. Most dreams are like analogies that can tell one a lot about what is going on in ones life at the time of the dream

Why Life Can Have Pain and Tragedy?

TRAGEDIES: People often wonder why really terrible things happen to people in this world. One must realize that we live in an extremely challenging world in which natural and unnatural disasters and tragedies happen. We have hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, famines, disease etc. We have bad accidents with our modern vehicles and technology. We have wars and people subject to really harsh conditions and terrible abuse. People can live lives that are really extremely painful and challenging. Some people may think that this means that our reality was poorly designed by God or universal spiritual forces.

But, if one believes in reincarnation, then people who have really tragic lives, will also have lives in which things will work out better for them. Things tend to balance out over time, but this balance can take more than one lifetime to balance out. Going through a lot of pain and hardship makes one appreciate when things are going well, and helps one to persevere so as to achieve a lot when the goings are really rough and big obstacles frustrate ones progress. The spirit will retain the spiritual/emotional strength its gains from having really rough lives and be able to utilize what it gains from one lifetime in future lives.

No matter how good our spiritual radar is, we can not avoid all the dangers that exist in this precarious multiverse, and at times may choose to expose oneself to these dangers for some important reason. But, storms do pass and sunshine does return, things are always changing and over time(lifetimes) this reality we exist in is very fair and can work really well for us. It is good to keep working on ones spiritual radar through improving ones beliefs/programming, diet, and spiritual practices/training so that one can handle the intense challenges that life will bring your way. What ever happens to us, we will survive as a spirit, and often we will overcome situations we may feel are impossible at the time, provided we just do not give up and just keep putting forth all the effort we can muster so as to out last the forces that are impeding us.

I do believe strongly that we should work to make this world more human. We can limit the amount of tragedy that happens in this world and cut down on the amount of abusive and harsh conditions that happen here. We do not need to learn everything the hard way. There are better ways to toughen the spirit and develop more empathy than having to go through terrible tragedies, that often take quite a bit of time to heal from so as to utilize the strength gained by having experienced them. We can use really tough spiritual training to toughen ourselves up spiritually/emotionally so that we can handle all sorts of really intense/rough conditions well.

In order to be helpful to people who are struggling with extremely rough times or are overcoming very intense trauma from a tragedy they or someone close to them has experienced, one has to be really able to handle this type of tragic spiritual/emotional energy well. We need people who have the spiritual character that can handle a lot so as to be able to help those who are in need support in times of tragedy, and to also be able to help tackle the intense problems in this world that leads to way too much tragedy. It is time for us to advance further spiritually in this world and make it a lot more humane place to incarnate in.

  • Thomas Goodwin "astrogoodwin"