Subject: Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me.?
April 26, 2008.
Sometimes we wonder why bad things happen to
us. This give a possible reason.
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Subject: [B-shar-List] Do We Plan Our Life
Challenges Before Birth?
So often, when something 'bad' happens to us,
it appears to be purposeless suffering. But
what if our most difficult experiences are
actually rich with hidden purpose, purpose that
we ourselves planned before we were born?
Could it be that we choose our life's
circumstances, relation****ps, and events? In my
research for my book Courageous S-uls: Do We
Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?, I found
that the answer to this question is a definite
yes. Working with four of the most gifted
m-diums and c-annels in the country, including
one who is able both to see and to hear our
pre-birth planning sessions, I've examined the
pre-birth plans of dozens of people. These
people planned such challenges as physical
illness, having handicapped children, deafness,
blindness, d-ug addiction, alcoholism, losing
a loved one, and severe accidents. Courageously,
they planned these challenges for purposes of
s-iritual growth. Of the many people with whom
I've spoken, there was only one who did not plan
his challenge before birth. Yet, like everyone
else, he did choose it.
In Bob's case, he made his choice shortly after
birth, when an accident occurred in the hospital.
The following comes directly from Bob's session
with the me-ium (Staci): 'The [s-irit] guides
were immediately by Bob's incubator side, waiting
for him to slip out of body and into that state
of consciousness where the sp-rit or astral body
is released. They knew it was going to happen
quickly. 'My spi-it guide wants us to start with
the chessboard, the planning board. It's a chart
on which the steps of growth and development are
plotted through one's life, so that the so-l has
a visual reference. This board is like a flow
chart. A flow chart is a question. If the answer
is yes, you take one path. If the answer is no,
you take a different path. 'When this accident
happened to Bob in the incubator.
. . the phrase I'm hearing is `back to the
drawing board.' Bob and two of his sp-rit guides
got together and went back into the room with the
planning board to diagram the alternate path that
would be taken to still achieve the -oul's goals
for this lifetime.' They're showing me the
instant he [Bob] found himself back in s-irit in
the planning place ..very disoriented by this
rapid and huge change and surprised to find
himself there. He did not realize what was
happening to the infant body. He recognizes
his guides, trusts them implicitly, and is
totally willing to be guided.' I'm hearing one
of the two guides, who is speaking for both of
them, telling Bob that there has been a mishap
in a procedure and that Bob's brain has received
too much oxygen. Bob appears to be in a state
of shock about this quiet, eyes wide, pupils
dilated, numb and glum.
S-irit guide: The nurse involved in the
operation of the tubes attached to your crib,
where your physical body is even now, has
made an error and has allowed too much of
the elemental oxygen to flow through. This
has elevated the oxygen levels in your brain,
and damage is occurring.' I see them showing
Bob his eyes, the baby's eyes. Bob's s-irit,
while attached to the baby's body, is out of
the body. As they speak to him through t-lepathic
thought, his mind's eye sees those eyes. They
show him the damage and how the eyes will look
as he proceeds through childhood and into
adulthood.
Sp-rit Guide: There is no damage to the brain;
it is to the eyes. There is an increase in your
intelligence. Though it is a minor increase, it
will serve you well. You now have the option to
reevaluate your plan for your life to see if
these changes will serve your purposes. If you
so desire, you may withdraw from this body,
return to us, reevaluate a new host family, and
draw up new plans. 'Bob fires off a lot of
questions rapidly to his guides. He asks about
his ability to walk. He wants to be reassured
that his body will still be able to function
as he expects. They assure him that it will.
Then he asks: Bob: What about my work?
Spir-t Guide: This will be accomplished.
Bob: Will this handicap impede my ev-lutionary
process in this lifetime?
Second Spiri- Guide: Let's see. 'Between the
guides and Bob, in the middle of the air, is
the planning board for his old life on the
bottom, a transitional planning board above
that, and above that the board for Bob's life
as it will be after this change. These boards
are like a hologram film in appearance, not
solid. Their thoughts create these boards and
draw lines on them. Lines represent the process
of growth. 'A diagram forms. There are little
branches along the way. Some of them are houses.
For example, the home his family occupies at
the time of his birth, the home they move to,
and the places he occupies in adulthood, even
college, are mapped out on this board. It all
happens very quickly.' With their thoughts,
they move elements from one board to another.
The first thing they take from the original
planning board to the transitional board is
his mother.
-pirit Guide: Let's begin with your mother.
She will remain in this life with you and will
continue to be your mother. Bob: That's good.'
Bob looks reassured. He takes a deep breath
and lets out a sigh [of relief].
S-irit Guide: Your father . . . 'They move
him from the original board to the middle board.
Spi-it Guide: He will still be with you.' Very
quickly other elements are moved, family pets,
relatives, things like that. They all go to the
transitional board. As the guides move these
elements to the transitional board, they also
appear on the top board.
Spi-it Guide: These elements are unchanging
and will remain a steady influence, focus, and
force in your life. But your teachers will
change. This school [points to a school
element on the lower board] is no longer
relevant because of your condition. You will
now be going to this school [points to a
school element that suddenly appears on the
transitional board]. This school will serve
your needs best and will ve you the guidance
you need to live in the world under these
conditions.
Next, let's take your friends. [End excerpt]
As Bob's session with Staci continued, we
heard he and his sp-rit guides do a great deal
more planning regarding many different aspects
of his life. In the end, Bob decided to accept
the additional life challenge of blindness
rather than return to spi-it to plan a new life.
I believe that an awareness of how we plan our
life challenges can completely change the way
we view them. Wisdom may be acquired in a more
conscious manner; negative feelings are replaced
by acceptance, for giveness, peace, and
gratitude. Ultimately, regardless of our
challenges, we deepen our appreciation of life
as a so-l-expanding, e-olutionary process.
* * *Robert S-hwartz is the author of
Courageous S-uls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges
Before Birth?. A free PDF with a large sample of
the book is available on the About the Book page
at
www.CourageousSouls.com.
The book may be ordered on the Courageous So-ls
web site or on any of the Amazon web sites, and
it may be ordered through any lry or bookstore
by providing them with the ISBN number
(978-0977679454).
Author Bio In a personal session with a medium
in 2003, author Robert Sc-wartz was astonished to
speak with nonphysical beings who knew everything
about him - not just what he had done in life,
but also what he had thought and felt. They told
him that he had planned many of his most
difficult experiences before he was born.
Realizing that a knowledge of pre-birth planning
would bring great h-aling to people and allow
them to understand the deeper purpose of their
life challenges, he devoted the next three years
to studying the pre-birth plans of dozens of
individuals. The extraordinary insights that
emerged speak to our heartfe lt, universal
yearning to know . . . why.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Urantia Book. April 27, 2008.
Here is something from a book I read many years ago.
It just about explains everything that ever happened
this Earth which they call Unrantia.
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THE URANTIA BOOK
PART IV - THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JE--S
Page 1344
PAPER 122 - BIRTH AND INFANCY OF J--US
It will hardly be possible fully to explain the many
reasons which led to the selection of Palestine as the
land for Michael's bestowal, and especially as to just
why the family of Joseph and Mary should have been
chosen as the immediate setting for the appearance of
this Son of G-d on Urantia.
After a study of the special re****t on the status of
segregated worlds prepared by the Melchizedeks, in
counsel with Gabriel, Michael finally chose Urantia as
the planet whereon to enact his final bestowal.
Subsequent to this decision Gabriel made a personal
visit to Urantia, and, as a result of his study of
human groups and his survey of the s-iritual,
intellectual, r-cial, and geographic features of the
world and its peoples, he decided that the H-brews
possessed those relative advantages which warranted
their selection as the bestowal race. Upon Michael's
approval of this decision, Gabriel appointed and
dispatched to Urantia the Family Commission of Twelve
selected from among the higher orders of universe
personalities which was intrusted with the task of
making an investigation of Je-ish family life. When
this commission ended its labors, Gabriel was present
on Urantia and received the re****t nominating three
prospective unions as being, in the opinion of the
commission, equally favorable as bestowal families for
Michael's projected i-carnation.
From the three couples nominated, Gabriel made the
personal choice of Joseph and Mary, subsequently making
his personal appearance to Mary, at which time he
imparted to her the glad tidings that she had been
selected to become the earth mother of the bestowal
child.
"1. JOSEPH AND MARY"
Joseph, the human father of Jes-- (Joshua ben
Joseph), was a He-rew of the Heb-ews, albeit he carried
many non-Je-ish ra-ial strains which had been added to
his ancestral tree from time to time by the female
lines of his progenitors. The ancestry of the father of
J--us went back to the days of Abraham and through this
venerable patriarch to the earlier lines of inheritance
leading to the Sumerians and Nodites and, through the
southern tribes of the ancient blue man, to Andon and
Fonta.
David and Solomon were not in the direct line of
Joseph's ancestry, neither did Joseph's lineage go
directly back to Adam. Joseph's immediate ancestors
were mechanics builders, carpenters, masons, and
smiths. Joseph himself was a carpenter and later a
contractor. His family belonged to a long and
illustrious line of the nobility of the common people,
accentuated ever and anon by the appearance of unusual
individuals who had distinguished themselves in
connection with the evolution of r-ligion on Urantia.
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Mary, the earth mother of Je--s, was a descendant of
a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the
most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.
Although Mary was an average woman of her day and
generation, possessing a fairly normal temperament, she
reckoned among her ancestors such well-known women as
Annon, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Ansie, Cloa, Eve, Enta,
and Ratta.
No -ewish woman of that day had a more illustrious
lineage of common progenitors or one extending back to
more auspicious beginnings. Mary's ancestry, like
Joseph's, was characterized by the predominance of
strong but average individuals, relieved now and then
by numerous outstanding personalities in the march of
civilization and the progressive evo-ution of re-igion.
Rac-ally considered, it is hardly proper to regard Mary
as a Je-ess. In culture and belief she was a J-w, but
in hereditary endowment she was more a composite of
Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian
stocks, her rac-al inheritance being more general than
that of Joseph.
Of all couples living in Palestine at about the time
of Michael's projected bestowal, Joseph and Mary
possessed the most ideal combination of widespread
ra-ial connections and superior average of personality
endowments.
It was the plan of Michael to appear on earth as an
`average' man, that the common people might understand
him and receive him; wherefore Gabriel selected just
such persons as Joseph and Mary to become the bestowal
parents.
"2. GABRIEL APPEARS TO ELIZABETH"
Jesus' lifework on Urantia was really begun by John
the Baptist. Zacharias, John's father, belonged to the
Je-ish priesthood, while his mother, Elizabeth, was a
member of the more prosperous branch of the same large
family group to which Mary the mother of Jesus also
belonged. Zacharias and Elizabeth, though they had been
married many years, were childless.
It was late in the month of June, 8 B.C., about three
months after the marriage of Joseph and Mary, that
Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth at noontide one day, just
as he later made his presence known to Mary. Said
Gabriel: "While your husband, Zacharias, stands before
the altar in Jerusalem, and while the assembled people
p-ay for the coming of a deliverer, I, Gabriel, have
come to announce that you will shortly bear a son who
shall be the forerunner of this d-vine teacher, and you
shall call your son John. He will grow up dedicated to
the Lord your Go-, and when he has come to full years,
he will gladden your heart because he will turn many
souls to -od, and he will also proclaim the coming of
the soul-healer of your people and the spi-it-liberator
of all mankind. Your kinswoman Mary shall be the mother
of this child of promise, and I will also appear to
her."
This vision greatly frightened Elizabeth.
After Gabriel's departure she turned this experience
over in her mind, long pondering the sayings of the
majestic visitor, but did not speak of the revelation
to anyone save her husband until her subsequent visit
with Mary in early February of the following year.
For five months, however, Elizabeth withheld her
s-cret even from her husband. Upon her disclosure of
the story of Gabriel's visit, Zacharias was very
skeptical and for weeks doubted the entire experience,
only consenting halfheartedly to believe in Gabriel's
visit to his wife when he could no longer question that
she was expectant with child.
Zacharias was very much perplexed regarding
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the prospective motherhood of Elizabeth, but he did not
doubt the integrity of his wife, notwithstanding his
own advanced age. It was not until about six weeks
before John's birth that Zacharias, as the result of an
impressive dream, became fully convinced that Elizabeth
was to become the mother of a son of destiny, one who
was to prepare the way for the coming of the M-ssiah.
Gabriel appeared to Mary about the middle of
November, 8 B.C., while she was at work in her Nazareth
home. Later on, after Mary knew without doubt that she
was to become a mother, she persuaded Joseph to let her
journey to the City of Judah, four miles west of
Jerusalem, in the hills, to visit Elizabeth. Gabriel
had informed each of these mothers-to-be of his
appearance to the other. Naturally they were anxious to
get together, compare experiences, and talk over the
probable futures of their sons. Mary remained with her
distant cousin for three weeks.
Elizabeth did much to strengthen Mary's faith in the
vision of Gabriel, so that she returned home more fully
dedicated to the call to mother the child of destiny
whom she was so soon to present to the world as a
helpless babe, an average and normal infant of the
realm.
John was born in the City of Judah, March 25, 7 B.C.
Zacharias and Elizabeth rejoiced greatly in the
realization that a son had come to them as Gabriel had
promised, and when on the eighth day they presented the
child for circumcision, they formally christened him
John, as they had been directed aforetime. Already had
a nephew of Zacharias departed for Nazareth, carrying
the message of Elizabeth to Mary proclaiming that a son
had been born to her and that his name was to be John.
From his earliest infancy John was judiciously
impressed by his parents with the idea that he was to
grow up to become a sp-ritual leader and rel-gious
teacher. And the soil of John's heart was ever
responsive to the sowing of such suggestive seeds. Even
as a child he was found frequently at the temple during
the seasons of his father's service, and he was
tremendously impressed with the significance of all
that he saw.
"3. GABRIEL'S ANNOUNCEMENT TO MARY"
One evening about sundown, before Joseph had returned
home, Gabriel appeared to Mary by the side of a low
stone table and, after she had recovered her composure,
said: "I come at the bidding of one who is my Master
and whom you shall love and nurture. To you, Mary, I
bring glad tidings when I announce that the conception
within you is ordained by h-aven, and that in due time
you will become the mother of a son; you shall call him
Joshua, and he shall inaugurate the kingdom of hea-en
on earth and among men.
Speak not of this matter save to Joseph and to
Elizabeth, your kinswoman, to whom I have also
appeared, and who shall presently also bear a son,
whose name shall be John, and who will prepare the way
for the message of deliverance which your son shall
proclaim to men with great power and deep conviction.
And doubt not my word, Mary, for this home has been
chosen as the mortal habitat of the child of destiny.
My benediction rests upon you, the power of the Most
Highs will strengthen you, and the Lord of all the
earth shall overshadow you."
Mary pondered this visitation sec-etly in her heart
for many weeks until of a certainty she knew she was
with child, before she dared to disclose these unusual
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events to her husband. When Joseph heard all about
this, although he had great confidence in Mary, he was
much troubled and could not sleep for many nights. At
first Joseph had doubts about the Gabriel visitation.
Then when he became well-nigh persuaded that Mary had
really heard the voice and beheld the form of the
div-ne messenger, he was torn in mind as he pondered
how such things could be. How could the offspring of
human beings be a child of divi-e destiny? Never could
Joseph reconcile these conflicting ideas until, after
several weeks of thought, both he and Mary reached the
conclusion that they had been chosen to become the
parents of the Mes-iah, though it had hardly been the
J-wish concept that the expected deliverer was to be of
divi-e nature. Upon arriving at this momentous
conclusion, Mary hastened to depart for a visit with
Elizabeth.
Part 1.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How To Get Rid Of Kidney Stones. April 27, 2008.
Subject: Parsley Tea For Urinary Tract Infections
And Kidney Stones
(JW Drink Parsley Teas 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 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.
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 you
thumbnail. You won't feet a thing, but will be amazed
at the results. Thousands have done this instead 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]
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