Subject: The Urantia Book. Part 3. April 29, 2008.
Here they mention the birth of the nice person.
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"6. THE HOME AT NAZARETH"
The home of Je--s was not far from the high hill in
the northerly part of Nazareth, some distance from the
village spring, which was in the eastern section of the
town. Jes--' family dwelt in the outskirts of the city,
and this made it all the easier for him subsequently to
enjoy frequent strolls in the country and to make trips
up to the top of this near-by highland, the highest of
all the hills of southern Galilee save the Mount Tabor
range to the east and the hill of Nain,
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which was about the same height. Their home was located
a little to the south and east of the southern
promontory of this hill and about midway between the
base of this elevation and the road leading out of
Nazareth toward Cana. Aside from climbing the hill,
--sus' favorite stroll was to follow a narrow trail
winding about the base of the hill in a northeasterly
direction to a point where it joined the road to
Sepphoris.
The home of Joseph and Mary was a one-room stone
structure with a flat roof and an adjoining building
for housing the animals. The furniture consisted of a
low stone table, earthenware and stone dishes and pots,
a loom, a lampstand, several small stools, and mats for
sleeping on the stone floor. In the back yard, near the
animal annex, was the shelter which covered the oven
and the mill for grinding grain. It required two
persons to operate this type of mill, one to grind and
another to feed the grain. As a small boy J--us often
fed grain to this mill while his mother turned the
grinder.
In later years, as the family grew in size, they
would all squat about the enlarged stone table to enjoy
their meals, helping themselves from a common dish, or
pot, of food. During the winter, at the evening meal
the table would be lighted by a small, flat clay lamp,
which was filled with olive oil. After the birth of
Martha, Joseph built an addition to this house, a large
room, which was used as a carpenter shop during the day
and as a sleeping room at night.
"7. THE TRIP TO BETHLEHEM"
In the month of March, 8 B.C. (the month Joseph and
Mary were married), Caesar Augustus decreed that all
inhabitants of the Roman Empire should be numbered,
that a census should be made which could be used for
effecting better taxation. The J-ws had always been
greatly pr-judiced against any attempt to "number the
people," and this, in connection with the serious
domestic difficulties of Herod, King of Judea, had
conspired to cause the postponement of the taking of
this census in the -ewish kingdom for one year.
Throughout all the Roman Empire this census was
registered in the year 8 B.C., except in the
Palestinian kingdom of Herod, where it was taken in
7 B.C., one year later.
It was not necessary that Mary should go to Bethlehem
for enrollment Joseph was authorized to register for
his family but Mary, being an adventurous and
aggressive person, insisted on accompanying him.
She feared being left alone lest the child be born
while Joseph was away, and again, Bethlehem being not
far from the City of Judah, Mary foresaw a possible
pleasurable visit with her kinswoman Elizabeth.
Joseph virtually forbade Mary to accompany him, but
it was of no avail; when the food was packed for the
trip of three or four days, she prepared double rations
and made ready for the journey. But before they
actually set forth, Joseph was reconciled to Mary's
going along, and they cheerfully departed from Nazareth
at the break of day.
Joseph and Mary were poor, and since they had only
one beast of burden, Mary, being large with child, rode
on the animal with the provisions while Joseph walked,
leading the beast. The building and furni****ng of a
home had been a great drain on Joseph since he had also
to contribute to the sup****t of his parents, as his
father had been recently disabled. And so this Je-ish
couple went forth from their humble home early on
the morning of August 18, 7 B.C., on their journey to
Bethlehem.
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Their first day of travel carried them around the
foothills of Mount Gilboa, where they camped for the
night by the river Jordan and engaged in many
speculations as to what sort of a son would be born to
them, Joseph adhering to the concept of a s-iritual
teacher and Mary holding to the idea of a Je-ish
M-ssiah, a deliverer of the Hebrew nation.
Bright and early the morning of August 19, Joseph and
Mary were again on their way. They partook of their
noontide meal at the foot of Mount Sartaba, overlooking
the Jordan valley, and journeyed on, making Jericho for
the night, where they stopped at an inn on the highway
in the outskirts of the city. Following the evening
meal and after much discussion concerning the
oppressiveness of Roman rule, Herod, the census
enrollment, and the comparative influence of Jerusalem
and Alexandria as centers of J-wish learning and
culture, the Nazareth travelers retired for the night's
rest. Early in the morning of August 20 they resumed
their journey, reaching Jerusalem before noon, visiting
the temple, and going on to their destination, arriving
at Bethlehem in midafternoon.
The inn was overcrowded, and Joseph accordingly
sought lodgings with distant relatives, but every room
in Bethlehem was filled to overflowing. On returning to
the courtyard of the inn, he was informed that the
caravan stables, hewn out of the side of the rock and
situated just below the inn, had been cleared of
animals and cleaned up for the reception of lodgers.
Leaving the donkey in the courtyard, Joseph shouldered
their bags of clothing and provisions and with Mary
descended the stone steps to their lodgings below. They
found themselves located in what had been a grain
storage room to the front of the stalls and mangers.
Tent curtains had been hung, and they counted
themselves fortunate to have such comfortable quarters.
Joseph had thought to go out at once and enroll, but
Mary was weary; she was considerably distressed and
besought him to remain by her side, which he did.
"8. THE BIRTH OF JES--"
All that night Mary was restless so that neither of
them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of
childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August
21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of
women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male
child.
Je--s of Nazareth was born into the world, was
wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for
such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by
manger.
In just the same manner as all babies before that day
and since have come into the world, the promised child
was born; and on the eighth day, according to the
J-wish practice, he was cir***cised and formally named
Joshua (J--us).
The next day after the birth of Je--s, Joseph made
his enrollment. Meeting a man they had talked with two
nights previously at Jericho, Joseph was taken by him
to a well-to-do friend who had a room at the inn, and
who said he would gladly exchange quarters with the
Nazareth couple. That afternoon they moved up to the
inn, where they lived for almost three weeks until they
found lodgings in the home of a distant relative of
Joseph.
The second day after the birth of Jes--, Mary sent
word to Elizabeth that her child had come and received
word in return inviting Joseph up to Jerusalem to talk
over all their affairs with Zacharias.
The following week Joseph went to Jerusalem to confer
with Zacharias. Both Zacharias and Elizabeth had become
possessed with the sincere conviction that --sus was
indeed to become the Je-ish
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deliverer, the Mes-iah, and that their son John was to
be his chief of aides, his right-hand man of destiny.
And since Mary held these same ideas, it was not
difficult to prevail upon Joseph to remain in
Bethlehem, the City of David, so that Jes-- might grow
up to become the successor of David on the throne of
all Israel. Accordingly, they remained in Bethlehem
more than a year, Joseph meantime working some at his
carpenter's trade.
At the noontide birth of Je--s the seraphim of
Urantia, assembled under their directors, did sing
anthems of glory over the Bethlehem manger, but these
utterances of praise were not heard by human ears. No
shepherds nor any other mortal creatures came to pay
homage to the babe of Bethlehem until the day of the
arrival of certain priests from Ur, who were sent down
from Jerusalem by Zacharias.
These priests from Mesopotamia had been told sometime
before by a strange r-ligious teacher of their country
that he had had a dream in which he was informed that
"the light of life" was about to appear on earth as a
babe and among the -ews. And thither went these three
teachers looking for this "light of life." After many
weeks of futile search in Jerusalem, they were about to
return to Ur when Zacharias met them and disclosed his
belief that J--us was the object of their quest and
sent them on to Bethlehem, where they found the babe
and left their gifts with Mary, his earth mother. The
babe was almost three weeks old at the time of their
visit.
These wise men saw no star to guide them to
Bethlehem. The beautiful legend of the star of
Bethlehem originated in this way: Je--s was born August
21 at noon, 7 B.C. On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an
extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the
constellation of Pisces. And it is a remarkable
astronomic fact that similar conjunctions occurred on
September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the
basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events
the well-meaning zealots of the succeeding generation
constructed the appealing legend of the star of
Bethlehem and the adoring Magi led thereby to the
manger, where they beheld and wor****ped the newborn
babe. Oriental and near-Oriental minds delight in fairy
stories, and they are continually spinning such
beautiful myths about the lives of their re-igious
leaders and p-litical heroes. In the absence of
printing, when most human knowledge was passed by word
of mouth from one generation to another, it was very
easy for myths to become traditions and for traditions
eventually to become accepted as facts.
(JW Please don't be surprised if you find out that
the Star of Bethlehem was not an actual star but is
and was an alien spacecraft.)
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Book Of Urantia. Part 4 of 4.
April 29, 2008.
This talks about the flight of Joseph, Mary and the
child into Eqypt.
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"9. THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE"
Moses had taught the J-ws that every first-born son
belonged to the L-rd, and that, in lieu of his
sacrifice as was the custom among the heathen nations,
such a son might live provided his parents would redeem
him by the payment of five shekels to any authorized
priest. There was also a Mosaic ordinance which
directed that a mother, after the passing of a certain
period of time, should present herself (or have someone
make the proper sacrifice for her) at the temple for
purification. It was customary to perform both of these
ceremonies at the same time. Accordingly, Joseph and
Mary went up to the temple at Jerusalem in person to
present Jesus to the priests and effect his redemption
and also to make the proper sacrifice to insure Mary's
ceremonial purification from the alleged uncleanness of
childbirth.
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There lingered constantly about the courts of the
temple two remarkable characters, Simeon a singer and
Anna a poetess. Simeon was a Judean, but Anna was a
Galilean. This couple were frequently in each other's
company, and both were intimates of the priest
Zacharias, who had confided the s-cret of John and
J--us to them. Both Simeon and Anna longed for the
coming of the M-ssiah, and their confidence in
Zacharias led them to believe that Je--s was the
expected deliverer of the J-wish people.
Zacharias knew the day Joseph and Mary were expected
to appear at the temple with Jes--, and he had
prearranged with Simeon and Anna to indicate, by the
salute of his upraised hand, which one in the
procession of first-born children was --sus.
For this occasion Anna had written a poem which
Simeon proceeded to sing, much to the astonishment of
Joseph, Mary, and all who were assembled in the temple
courts. And this was their hymn of the redemption of
the first-born son:
Blessed be the L-rd, the G-d of Israel, For he has
visited us and wrought redemption for his people;
He has raised up a horn of salvation for all of us
In the house of his servant David.
Even as he spoke by the mouth of his h-ly prophets
Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who
hate us;
To show mercy to our fathers, and remember his holy
covenant
The oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
To grant us that we, being delivered out of the hand of
our enemies,
Should serve him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Yes, and you, child of promise, shall be called the
prophet of the Most High;
For you shall go before the face of the Lo-d to
establish his kingdom;
To give knowledge of s-lvation to his people
In the remission of their s-ns.
Rejoice in the tender mercy of our Go- because the
dayspring from on high has low visited us
To ****ne upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow
of d-ath;
To guide our feet into ways of peace.
And now let your servant depart in peace, O Lord,
according to your word,
For my eyes have seen your salvation,
Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
A light for even the unveiling of the gentiles
And the glory of your people Israel.
On the way back to Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary were
silent confused and overawed. Mary was much disturbed
by the farewell salutation of Anna, the aged poetess,
and Joseph was not in harmony with this premature
effort to make J--us out to be the expected Me-siah of
the J-wish people.
"10. HEROD ACTS"
But the watchers for Herod were not inactive. When
they re****ted to him the visit of the priests of Ur to
Bethlehem, Herod summoned these Chaldeans to appear
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before him. He inquired diligently of these wise men
about the new "king of the -ews," but they gave him
little satisfaction, explaining that the babe had been
born of a woman who had come down to Bethlehem with her
husband for the census enrollment. Herod, not being
satisfied with this answer, sent them forth with a
purse and directed that they should find the child so
that he too might come and w-r****p him, since they had
declared that his kingdom was to be sp-ritual, not
tem****al. But when the wise men did not return, Herod
grew suspicious. As he turned these things over in his
mind, his informers returned and made full re****t of
the recent occurrences in the temple, bringing him a
copy of parts of the Simeon song which had been sung at
the redemption ceremonies of Je--s. But they had failed
to follow Joseph and Mary, and Herod was very angry
with them when they could not tell him whither the pair
had taken the babe. He then dispatched searchers to
locate Joseph and Mary. Knowing Herod pursued the
Nazareth family, Zacharias and Elizabeth remained away
from Bethlehem. The boy baby was se-reted with Joseph's
relatives.
Joseph was afraid to seek work, and their small
savings were rapidly disappearing. Even at the time of
the purification ceremonies at the temple, Joseph
deemed himself sufficiently poor to warrant his
offering for Mary two young pigeons as Moses had
directed for the purification of mothers among the
poor.
When, after more than a year of searching, Herod's
spies had not located Jes--, and because of the
suspicion that the babe was still concealed in
Bethlehem, he prepared an order directing that a
systematic search be made of every house in Bethlehem,
and that all boy babies under two years of age should
be k-lled. In this manner Herod hoped to make sure
that this child who was to become "king of the Je-s"
would be destroyed. And thus perished in one day
sixteen boy babies in Bethlehem of Judea. But intrigue
and m-rder, even in his own immediate family, were
common occurrences at the court of Herod.
The massacre of these infants took place about the
middle of October, 6 B.C., when --sus was a little over
one year of age. But there were believers in the coming
Mes-iah even among Herod's court attachés, and one of
these, learning of the order to s-aughter the Bethlehem
boy babies, communicated with Zacharias, who in turn
dispatched a messenger to Joseph; and the night before
the massacre Joseph and Mary departed from Bethlehem
with the babe for Alexandria in Egypt. In order to
avoid attracting attention, they journeyed alone to
Egypt with Je--s. They went to Alexandria on funds
provided by Zacharias, and there Joseph worked at his
trade while Mary and Je--s lodged with well-to-do
relatives of Joseph's family. They sojourned in
Alexandria two full years, not returning to Bethlehem
until after the de-th of Herod.
Part 4 of 4.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How To Get Rid Of Kidney Stones.
April 28, 2008.
Subject: Parsley Tea For Urinary Tract Infections
And Kidney Stones
(JW Drink Parsley Tea with a little honey to sweeten
it or buy some fresh parsley in the grocery store and
eat about one stalk of it three times a day to disolve
Kidney Stones.
Here are two other methods of getting rid of gall or
kidney stones.)
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First Method.
First Day
8:00 AM 8 oz. water, 8 oz. of apple juice.
9:00 AM 8 oz. water.
10:00 AM water, juice
11:00 AM water
12:00 AM water, juice
1:00 PM water
2:00 water, juice
3 water
4 water, juice
5 water
6 water, juice
7 water
8 water, juice
Second Morning
8 oz apple juice
9 " " "
10 " " "
11 " " "
12 " " " - 4 oz. lemon juice.
1 - 4 oz. olive oil - 4 oz. lemon juice.
Drink it right down if you can. I usually eat a
craker right after.
* Can repeat process in 1 month, or 3 months or
whenever desired or needed.
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Third method.
Many people have spoken to have gall stones, (JW
Also possible kidney stones.) on top of their other
problems. Here is what a top American nutrtionist told
me to do about this, simple and easily without surgery.
My whole family have done this successfully.
Drink a quart of apple juce daily for five days, This
will soften up the stones to such an extent that you
can squash them in your fingers.
On the sixth day, skip dinner and at 6 p.m take a
tablespoon full of epsom salts with water. Repeat at
8 p.m. At 10 p.m. make a cocktail of four ounces of
olive oil and four ounces of fresh squeezed lemon
juice. shake vigorously and drink right down. In the
morning yhou will pass green stones varing from the
size of grains of sand to some as large as your
thumbnail. You won't feel a thing, but will be amazed
at the results. Thousands have done this instead major
of major surgery.
In closing I would like to say that my heart goes out
to you . I don't know you but I know what you are going
through. Thousands are going through the same
experience.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fourth Way To Get Rid Of Kidney Stones.
April 28, 2008.
I'll probably offend some of my friend in reposting
this information. I know Coke contains 6 of more
teaspoonfulls of sugar and will raise your sugar level
but this is from a friend who I trust. It may still
be a hoax but I've never tested it personally.
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Hello John,
The fastest way to get rid of kidney stones
is to drink a 6 pack of Coke Classic in 20
minutes - or as much as you can to fill your
bladder.
Kidney stones are uric acid based. Coke
is very acidic - and acid dissolves acid. I
helped a buddy in extreme pain - could
barely u-inate for 3 days. It quickly
knocked the painful shards off and the stones
passed within a few hours. He was ur-nating
in about a half hour. My friend did not know
exactly when they passed because they
dissolved so completely he did not feel them
pass. I learned this about 10 years ago from
a chiropractor and naturopath - 2 different
persons. Coke is one of the many causes of
kidney stones, but in an emergency, serves in a
medicinal capacity.
E-
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Gates. April 30, 2008.
Here is some information about Bill Gates, the rich
man who is the inventor of Microsoft.
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S-iritual life of Bill Gates
Abstract:
In an age where the super rich invest their wealth in
various interests such as football teams, vintage
aircrafts etc., Bill Gates stands apart.
He has not only pledged a large percentage of his
wealth to charity, but has also stated that after July
2008, he will be devoting all his time to charity work.
The Sp-ritual Science Research foundation (SSRF)
conducted spi-itual research to find out the spir-tual
factors that contributed to Bill Gates taking this life
path.
The spiri-ual research was done through the activated
and highly advanced sixth sense of Anjali G-dgil, a
seeker of the SSRF. Her spirit-al analysis was checked
and reconfirmed by
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/aboutus/
His H-liness Dr. A-havale.
We often look at our lives from a very myopic
viewpoint i.e. we are born, we live and then we d-e and
there is nothing before or after that.
However, according to Spirit-al science, our life is
but a part of a continuum of many lives from our first
birth till we finally realize G-d or until our
dissolution. In other words, we all come from Go- and
finally have to go back to -od. Every time we are born
on Earth, it is an op****tunity to make spiritu-l
progress so as to move closer to our final goal i.e.
becoming one with G-d. From the standpoint of spiritua-
growth, the op****tunity to be born on Earth, if used
well, can result in our rapid -piritual growth. Refer
to point 3.2 in the article
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/afterdeath/#32
Where do we go after d-ath.
Every time we are born on Earth, we learn afresh the
various worldly activities such as walking, talking,
pursuing academic studies or a career etc. When it
comes to s-iritual understanding and growth, we start
where we left off in our p-evious lifetime. Our deeds
and spi-itual practice done in pr-vious lifetimes,
either on Earth and/or in other subtle regions of the
Universe, pre-decide the major events of our current
life and the happiness and unhappiness we are due to
experience. This is known as our destiny and in current
times it makes up 65% of our lives.
Refer to the article on,
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/benefitsofspiritualpractice/insulationfromdestiny_f.php
What is destiny and wilful action?
When people enjoy tremendous worldly success or
happiness, it is generally due to merits from a
pre-ious lifetime. Worldly success does not raise any
eye-brows from a spiri-ual standpoint. However, when a
person pledges to donate a substantial amount of his
fortune along with his complete time to help the world,
it does raise interest from a spirit-al standpoint.
There are very few people who are able to walk away
from their wealth and also devote their time to help
society. It is for this reason the Spirit-al Science
Research Foundation proceeded to find out through
spiritu-l research, the contributing factors behind
this noble act.
2. Information about some relevant past lives of Bill
Gates
What the s-iritual research revealed was very
interesting. The following are the salient facts:
Bill Gates has had a rich sp-ritual background in his
past lives. He is a seeker of Go- following the
Spiritua- 'Path of Action' ("Karmayoga"). The -piritual
Path of Action ("Karmayoga") is inherently about practicing Spiritu-lity
according to the principle ‘As one sows, so shall one reap’. The knowledge
received also revealed that his faith and his efforts undertaken
on this path to -od, has made him a philosopher with
thought-leader****p in the Path of Action.
Through spi-itual practice he has acquired a place in the subtle highly
evolved plane of existence, the <"Mahaloka"> (a region which is more
subtle
than H-aven).
He has done spirit-al practice for 20,000 years in the subtle plane of
existence called He-ven ("Swargaloka") and for 3000 years in the subtle
plane of existence called "Mahaloka". Please refer to the article on
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/afterdeath/
Where do we go to after dea-h?
2.1 Enormity of the feat
The enormity of this feat can be understood from the following points:
One has to attain a minimum
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/spirituallevel_saints/
spiritual level of 60% to attain Hea-en and of 80% to attain Mahaloka.
Given
that most people in current times are at the 20% spirit-al level, this is
very significant. Refer to the article on
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/spirituallevel_saints
">What is spir-tual level, for a breakdown of the world’s population by
spir-tual level in 2006. We can appreciate the high level of spiritu-l
growth achieved by Bill Gates in his earlier lives to be able to attain
these higher subtle planes of existence.
To give a comparison, 6 years of intense
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/aboutspiritualresearch/spiritualpracticefordevelopingsixthsense.phpspir-tual
practice * on Earth is equivalent to just 7 hours of spi-itual practice
done
in Hea-en and 5 hours in "Mahaloka". In other words, the momentum of
spiri-ual growth gained through: 1 year of spiritu-l practice in Heaven =
7509 years of spiritua- practice on Earth 1 year of sp-ritual practice in
"Mahaloka" = 10,512 years of spiri-ual practice on Earth. This means
that Mr. Gates in his pre-ious lifetimes, in the subtle
planes of existence, has done spiri-ual practice as per the Earth
equivalent
of 150 million years in hea-en plus 31.5 million years in "Mahaloka." This
amounts to
a total of over 180 million years of effective spi-itual practice in Earth
years before being born as Bill Gates in this lifetime.
* Please note: Intense spirit-al practice in terms of
quantity would mean about 12-14 hours of practice a day. In terms of
quality, it means that the person does all his daily activities as service
to -od, with a lot
of desire and with the primary purpose to attain Go-.
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/Bill_Gates#top
3. What is the purpose of Bill Gates’ birth on Earth?
Bill Gates due to his ample spi-ritual practice in p-evious births has
already transcended (gone beyond) the attachment to happiness one enjoys
in
Heav-n and has attained "Mahaloka", which is the region even
more subtle and evolved than Heav-n. Usually a person who has ascended up
to
"Mahaloka" has bypassed the cycle of birth and dea-h and hence does not
have
to be reborn on Earth to settle his destiny.
However, he can come to the Earth region of his own free will. Earth is
the only region among all the spi-itual planes of existence, where actual
action can
be performed, as the s-ul has a physical body. This is
the region where we can actually work away our give-and-take account and
complete our
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/lawofkarma/index.php
Karma.
This also stresses upon us the im****tance of spir-tual practice. From
his
past lives, as Bill Gates has a deep faith in the Spir-tual Path of Action
("Karmyoga") he has taken birth on Earth to ascend
(progress) from actual actions of sacrifice to complete
renunciation.
By virtue of his merits and sp-ritual level from pr-vious lives, this
highly intelligent individual is destined to lead a life of fame and
fortune
equivalent to that enjoyed by the likes of a king. That is why
he has been able to earn so much wealth. As a seeker on the Path of Action
he is known as a "Karmayogi". His spiri-ual practice is that of offering
his
wealth for the benefit of others. He had to take birth on Earth in
order to experience renunciation.
As Bill Gates has already experienced all the pleasures in the subtle
plane of Heav-n, he does not have any craving or attachment to wealth.
However, he now has the privilege to experience first hand, the
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/benefitsofspiritualpractice/experiencingbliss_h.php
Bliss of giving away wealth and of the resultant renunciation. Sacrifice
of
wealth in the real spir-tual sense means having no attachment to wealth.
Bill Gates is already at this stage. By giving away one’s
wealth, even the thought that, 'I have wealth' does not
remain. That is the stage of renunciation. Enjoying wealth can at the most
give pleasure, overcoming attachment to wealth gives superlative happiness
called
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/benefitsofspiritualpractice/experiencingbliss_h.php
Bliss. However progressing to renunciation gives even more Bliss.
4. Future of Bill Gates’ spi-itual practice
The wealth acquired by Bill Gates is result of his pure thoughts and
unshakeable faith in the Path of Action.
Giving away his ac***ulated wealth helps do away the
sense of achievement associated with it. Thus he will ascend from the
level
of sacrifice (giving away), where there is a sense of achievement of
wealth,
to that of renunciation where even this sense of achievement is
overcome. This is his goal. Thus he is close to achieving his objective
and
is now moving towards renunciation.
5. What can be the possible course of life as a result of good deeds?
Enjoying a prosperous, famous and influential life like that of a king.
Getting stuck in actions if one fails to donate: Even
if the person does not have attachment towards his wealth, if he does not
donate it, then due to the thoughts of achievement related to the acquired
wealth,
he gets stuck in the Path of Action. For attaining the ultimate stage of
G-d-realization, one has to finally go even beyond one’s path of sp-ritual
practice.
Getting entangled in the Path of Action means getting
trapped in thoughts about active actions pertaining to one’s duties.
Giving
up the Path of Action means sacrificing acquired wealth and progressing
from
sacrifice to renunciation.
Rapid further progress by donating: By donating the acquired wealth, one
is liberated even from the thoughts of achievement and one progresses
faster. Bill
Gates is an excellent example of this. He is an example of a great
ev-lving so-l.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Talk To A Cat. Listen To A Cat. May 1, 2008.
These people say you can learn how to send messages
to a cat and recieve messages from a cat.
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Animal communicators - specialized type of p-ychics -
believe that meaningful t-lepathic communication is
possible with your pet. They say even you can do it.
I broke my ankle in five places, writes the unnamed
author at
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm
http://www.cyberark.com/animal/telepath.htm
Interspecies Te-epathic Communication
I was lying in bed in a great amount of pain when I
heard, ‘I know we come from different cultures, and
maybe you don’t think I can help you, but if you just
pet me, I will take away your pain.’ I heard these
words in my head as clearly as someone speaking to me.
I opened my eyes to find my angel cat Kisa on my pillow
and looking right at me. I knew it was her. I did pet
her and my pain did go away! I slept comfortably for
the first time since the accident.
The author is a self-professed animal communicator,
one of a growing number of people who say they have the
ps-chic ability to communicate te-epathically with
various animals. Anybody can communicate with animals,
the author claims, and says it’s done through imaging.
Animals communicate in pictures, feelings, emotions,
and concepts. Sometimes you get a picture of what the
animal is trying to communicate, but many times it is
an emotion or concept that you pick up.
What is Animal Tele-athy?
The animal doesn’t actually open its mouth with words
flowing out verbally, say the animal communicators at
The Fur People, but animals do amazingly communicate
non-verbally. Many times I receive information in
words; or feelings in my body; or pictures and symbols
which the animal gives me through telepa-hy.
My experience is that telepat-y is the universal
language of the animal kingdom.
T-lepathy between people and animals is not much
different than te-epathy between two people, according
to Raphaela Pope. The dictionary defines tel-pathy as
‘communication of impressions of any kind from one mind
to another independent of recognized c-annels of
sense,’ writes Pope at her
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm
site
http://www.mother.com/%7Eraphaela/pages/whatis.html
What is Tel-pathic Communication with Animals
website.
My experience is that tel-pathy is the universal
language of the animal kingdom. I believe that humans
are actually born with tele-athic ability, but tend to
suppress or forget it when they learn spoken language.
Tele-athic communication assumes that animals are
sentient beings with their own purposes, desires,
choices, and manner of looking at the world.
Webster’s defines sentient as responsive to or
conscious of sense impressions, and by that definition
it would have to be agreed that most animals are
sentient beings. And certainly many have desires and
make choices. But can they communicate those desires
and choices? Surely, a dog can communicate that it
wants to go outside by standing by the door and
scratching at it or barking. And incredible discoveries
have been made about the minds and communicative
abilities of some higher primates, most notably
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm
site
http://www.kiva.net/%7Elarryy/KokoChapter.html
Koko, a gorilla who was taught American sign language
and now has a vocabulary of more than 600 words.
Talking to her caretakers through sign language and a
special Macintosh computer, Koko is able to articulate
not only such basic desires as what and when she wants
to eat, but how also how she feels about many things in
her life.
There is a great leap, however, from saying that
animals can communicate their needs in the familiar way
that they do to saying that they can do so through
te-epathic words and pictures (just as tel-pathy among
humans is not an everyday event for most people).
Animal communicators believe that it’s not only
possible, but that they can talk to animals in this way
at will. Raphaela Pope recounts a consultation she had
with a German Shepherd named Helga: Helga’s person,
Joan, told me that Helga had a very severely lacerated
left ear. She wanted to know how the dog had injured
herself. When I tuned into Helga, she showed me a
picture of digging at the wooden fence surrounding her
property. Helga tried to get her face under the fence,
only to run into an old rusty piece of barbed wire.
Later, Joan asked Helga to show her exactly where the
wire was. Helga led her to the spot and Joan found the
old rusty wire wrapped around the base of the fence!
Animal communicators have many such anecdotes, some
of which you can read about in such books as Penelope
Smith’s "Animal Talk" and "When Animals Speak". But
why talk to animals? For many animal communicators,
it’s their business.
As consultants, they offer their services to help
customers solve problems they are having with their
pets. This type of service is most beneficial to you
and your pet when there are problems going on, says The
Fur People. Behavior is one way an animal can
demonstrate its unhappiness, and illness is another.
I discovered that one of the s-crets to effective
communications with nature is to be clear within
yourself, emotionally and mentally.
How You Can Do It
Can you talk to your pet? Animal communicators
provide these tips:
I discovered that one of the se-rets to effective
communications with nature is to be clear within
yourself, emotionally and mentally and to put a little
emotion into the communications. Allow yourself to
notice, listen with your heart, speak with feeling,
then trust that you’re connecting.
Laura Simpson, from "The Art of Noticing Your Pet."
Picture in your mind what it is you are trying to get
them to do or what you are trying to tell them. Send
them your emotions and feelings too. If you intend that
your message gets there, it will. Try not to lean over
your animal in anticipation of hearing what they are
saying. Sit back, relax, and let the animal’s thoughts
and feelings come to you.
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm
site
http://www.cyberark.com/animal/telepath.htm
Interspecies Telepathic Communication
The basic steps of telepathic animal communication
are creating a state of quietness and receptivity in
order to actually receive the communication, sending
the message, and receiving the answer.
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm
site
http://www.mother.com/%7Eraphaela/pages/whatis.html
Raphaela Pope
How do you know your experience is genuine? Raphaela
Pope offers this answer: People new to animal
communication often ask, ‘How can I be sure the answer
came from the animal? It feels like I’m making it up.’
If you are in a quiet and relaxed state, not putting
out a lot of thoughts or emotions, the information that
comes to you must be from the animal. Because it comes
to you through your mind, or your emotional sense, or
your visual perception it may feel like it is from you.
You will know it is not when you get an unexpected
answer.
Laura Simpson adds:
Many folks will want to discount the communications,
thinking their imagination is working overtime... but
if you listen closely and with your heart you’ll soon
discover that your imagination knows what it’s doing...
the images and words come up as they do for a reason
and if you will respond in trust that your insights are
valid, you’ll find that your pets, and in fact all of
nature, have quite a story to tell you!
Still, since the pets cannot verbalize their problems
and illnesses, how do we really, really know if we, or
an animal communication we might hire, is understanding
what the animal might be trying to communicate? The
proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. If
the problem or illness goes away or improves after such
communication... maybe there’s something to it after
all.
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