%% ACTUALLY that can work; especially since God created all the silver, copper, gold, iron ore, real estate+ flowers, power to get wealth. Included, but not limited to that.
I was more talking about those who seek to profit from the 'idea' of God. Not my place,but also fruitless to debate the existence of a higher power.Neither party ever seems to change sides.....Unless youre knocked from your horse and struck blind of course!
"Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him. ' Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."
His name is, coincidentally, Paul, and he plays spiritual keyboards and has several albums. It's interesting because all his music is spontaneous , whatever he feels at the moment. That's the basis of his albums, and then later he gives the music names. He also does readings for individuals which is he plays spontaneously for individuals in response to the emotions he feels coming from an individuals soul, so to speak. He plays for crowds too, usually in spiritual settings (you can hire him) but otherwise, he is rather introverted and doesn't speak a lot. So in this life span cycle he is speaking with his fingers, reaching more directly into the mass psychology. He's not popular because this genre is not popular, but he is among the very best in this genre. There is substantial evidence he is the reincarnation of a popular Swedish composer from the last century. There is less evidence he was the so called Apostle Paul but there is definitely some weight there, and reason why I think so.. I'll see if I can Google up a link.
Ok I found a link. Here he is doing a "soul portrait" for someone. The portraits are recorded so you have your own record. You can hire him to do your own portrait. It's like a painting of what an artist sees, only a song of what he feels. He still travels far and wide around the world, only now with his music. Otherwise, I believe he is based out of Vancouver, BC. He doesn't claim to be Paul, but other authority have. [Edit] Oh, and here I found a Spotify link that's gives a good sampling of what he does, and the kinds of names he comes up with for his movements.
Technically no. The material world is fashioned out of imagination and faith, specifically the imagination and faith of the prodigal son, which made himself god of his own little world. Only in this world could he even dream to implement his imaginative, and faithful ideology. Even your own book of ideology admits that man was made in imagination as an image. Images come from imagination. And as you might guess, images are not the real thing, nor can they ever really represent the real thing. That's why the idea of "God in the flesh" is so nonsensical. That's like saying the real in the imagenative unrepresentative unreal. That's like fake news, which is news that fronts as real. To make a material world you first declare division to be ideologically true. You divide spirit and declare that particles are real. Particles are your base level of division, a concept which persists throughout. Then you invent particle physics to come up with laws about how elections, neutrons, quarks, and "dark matter" all work together in a generally reliable fashion. From that you can make the gold. And from the gold you can make the golden images, you know, those golden idols that look like God, and which represent God. Man is probably the greatest of all golden idols, looking like God, representing and even acting like God. When people say that Jesus was God in the flesh it's not Jesus they care about. It's actually an attempt to legitimize and justify man's own competitive endeavor to be Christ. In this endeavor, man, at best, can be the representative of a dead Christ. Or a Christ asleep. And at best, the prodigal sons new world order is just plain hell. Man, and the prodigal son are intimately connected and linked. As such man is his own maker. And attributing all this faith and imagination to a Good god is sin. What was fashioned out of imagination can never transform itself into the reality of the Good. That's why the prodigal sons world has a beginning AND an end, both an alpha and an omega. As the alpha and omega Jesus was admitting that he was involved, with the prodigal son, in the imagining of this world. In admitting this he found a way to escape it. If you want to follow him, you too will admit it. Only then will you find a way out.
Religion is like a rabbit hole, the further you go down, more rabbits and more holes. Peter the Rabbit is a story book, rabbits and religion make good entertaining stories. The thing about stories, the imagination can have free reign, anything is possible.
In the case of Paul Armitage, there was enough evidence that he was a Swedish composer from the last century that he ended up compiling it into a pamphlet. I read the pamphlet and found it convincing. Again, he didn't make the jump that he was Paul too, but other authority has. In my own case I had a reading from someone "spiritual" which gave me the top three past lives that were influencing my current informational span-cycle. Seemed probable, but nothing much one can do with the information. INo famous people anyway. Interestingly, I was told I was a woman in the 15th or 16th century that used white sugar. Apparently that meant my husband or family was rich to well off since that was expensive in those days. In my life, though I've gravitated to make dominated trades work, I do like to bake if there is a kitchen around. Not proof of anything but it is important to realize that people can change sex/gender/preferences in between material cycles. That's why it doesn't make sense to me that religious people argue that because you were born, this time, as one or the other, then THAT is what you ARE. Likewise with race. No one is actually black, or actually white! Anyone bigoted enough to argue anyone can actually BE a specific race has at least one foot in hell, and probably both feet, and are about to go deeper into the darker regions of hell. As for research, the research done on children who insist they were somebody else, or who remember things not possible for them to know...the research is extensive, and the most convincing of all. There are whole books on the topic. One parent decided to research his child's memory of being a fighter pilot downed in WWII. Or, at least he had way more knowledge about the Corsaire prop plane than a boy should have at such a young age. But his nightmares compelled his parents to do some research and since then they have published their conclusions. Probably most of the research has been done this way, by parents, on behalf of their children, out of curiosity. Adults can have personal experiences too, and especially through guided meditation. The benefits of re experiencing, or remembering some bad past experiences, from a place of current safety, is it can provide some psychological healing, so one can better handle the current cycle-span. A book was published by a man who claimed he was visited by ascended mastered of sorts, one make and one female, who appeared sitting on his sofa when he opened his eyes after meditating one evening in Maine in the 90's. After a few subsequent visits they decided to show him the personas of his past lives. At which point they shifted their appearances every few seconds. It took about an hour for them to cycle through about 1000 different appearances. Every race, every age, every gender, and every condition from rich to poor to healthy to sick, even different religions, going by appearances of course. All of these were supposedly him in past lives. There was a glitch at the end of the demonstration where one of the ascended masters did not appear, right before they reappeared as ascended masters. Here I might be fuzzy on the details, it's been a long time since I read this. But the reason was because the non appearing one represented his own self in this lifetime. This implied that the ascended masters, or one of them, was him in her most recent past life. Further questions and answers revealed that, yes, one of them, the female, was him in her past life. Thus, he had been talking to him/herself from the future. The male ascended master was her partner...from the future also. The plot thickens when it is eventually revealed that they were both followers of Jesus, 2000 years ago, going by the names Thomas and Thadeus at the time. It was implied, or stated, can't remember, that the average apostle may have experienced as many as 20 more span-cycles before really grasping what Jesus was teaching, and being able to capitalize on it toward their own "ascension"/"resurrection". In retrospect, turns out Thomas ("doubting Thomas") and Thadeus, were among the least bigoted followers at that time, which enabled them to gravitate towards a more enlightened interpretation of what Jesus was saying...which eventually led to their being ostracized from the main group...and even smeared ("doubting Thomas"). One thing they emphasized is that we do learn something substantial in most incarnations, and do take those lessons with us. Often It might just be one profound lesson in one lifetime. That's how bigoted the average person is. I think the phenomenon of child prodigy is substantial evidence of past lifetime, if we do take lessons with us, all kinds of lessons, maybe even piano lessons. This best explains how we now see children playing instruments on YouTube in ways that seem impossible. This could be why/how a young Jesus was able, at the age of 12, to go to the temple and teach the Rabbi about his "Father". Jesus, according to my research, was at the tail end of many prior incarnations where he had learned lessons, sometimes just one lesson in a lifespan. And took those lessons with him, and built up them, until his learning made him famous. When those two ascended masters were asked why Jesus arrived so much sooner, and even the first to arrive, they said that from the beginning Jesus did not completely believe in the new world order conjured up by the proverbial prodigal son. While his appearance here shows that he was a believer (in this world), he harbored serious doubts, from the earliest of times. Until finally he was not willing to play along anymore and made his exit ( he doesn't reincarnate anymore). My research suggests that so called Christians, today, are still among the most bigoted main group of followers. The so-called "broad path" people who gravitate towards popularity as a measure of truth. Their obstinance suggests the average believer has another thousand years of learning experience needed to really grasp what Jesus was saying. There are many books available to the least bigoted. Many years ago I was inspired by books from Sylvia Brown, and Betty J Eadie (Embraced by the Light) and Robert Monroe (Monroe Institute). A little Edgar Cayce. In the past couple three years, yet another book has come out by the man who was visited by the two ascended masters, who have since revealed a few of Jesus most significant past lives, what he learned, how he learned it, and whom he learned it with. He was usually with a partner or some kind of close friend it seems. I'm about a third way through the book.
Thanks mate.Fascinating. I'm a sceptic,but I must say I've encountered some 'old souls' in my time that have made me think we dont all have an identical starting point.