Personal Responsibility

As I watch my family endure the challenges and tribulations of the medical community treating their cancers, I think to myself that this does not have to be if they just had the knowledge to understand themselves as energy enfolded within physical matter supported by the chemicals found in the purest form in nature, earth and the universe through the chemicals of food, water and air. Working in the medical community, I witness people trusting the dictates of the physicians, nurses and medical personnel to provide the services to cure their cancer and other diseases. I watch as the treatment of the day takes the patient to the brink of death only to have the medical community tell the patient that nothing more can be done and death is imminent. I watch the effects of surgery performed to cut, remove and get rid of the cancer only to have the cancer return with revenge or to have the patient suffer or die of other complications from surgery. These patients put their faith and trust in medicine to help them and to save them from the ravages of disease only to die from the treatment or to suffer from the complications inflicted upon them with the treatment. I know that this does not have to be, the knowledge of Spiritual Philosophy does not create harm but provides healing and nurturing .

Today we see within our society and our world that change is imperative to maintain life upon earth. Our food is polluted, our water is contaminated, and our air is full of toxic chemicals that create havoc within our lungs. The three essential ingredients that maintain our health and life are in jeopardy at an alarming level of pollution. Obviously the government is not protecting our food, water and air even though there are agencies designated to provide those services. Corporations and our government for years have polluted our air, water and land and never had to accept any responsibility for there actions. Monsanto is sowing seeds of deception by introducing GMO seeds to the world. Change is essential so that we do not destroy nature and in the process destroy our intelligent human design.

I understand how I have changed my pattern of focus on disease to the focus of living my health. It is very clear within my mind as if it was just yesterday that I had my first breast biopsy at the age of nineteen or twenty. I felt that I would wake up from surgery with my breast removed just like my mother’s mastectomy because of cancer. The very first thing I did when I woke up from surgery was to lift up my gown to check my breasts to see if they were still there. After the biopsy, I continued making follow up visits to the surgeon and he continued performing biopsies. After following this pattern for several years, I asked myself what was I doing. I was seeing a surgeon and by nature a surgeon will continue doing biopsies so it was at that time that I stopped seeing a surgeon. I continued having mammograms for a number of years until I started studying Spiritual Philosophy. It has been fifteen years or longer that I have not had a mammogram done. I can happily say that I do not miss the radiation doses or the squeezing of the breasts. The fear that was part of my thinking as a twenty year old of getting breast cancer has ebbed throughout the years because my thinking has changed over the years. I know that medicine will not save me, and I know that the knowledge of Spiritual Philosophy will save me. This is why I want to teach Spiritual Philosophy.

I want to create a vibrant, healthy garden of Eden and help restore the beauty of nature and earth to its purest state of being. To create a healthy population of people, the air, food, and water must be in its purest form to maintain a healthy environment internally and externally. People have to understand their relationship to food, water and air and the importance of nature, earth and the universe for their support, substance, viability and continuation of life on earth. I have a greater appreciation of the importance of air, food, and water and how I am one with nature, earth and the universe. I can not survive without the chemical support of air, food and water and people must understand this on a totally new level then of people currently understand living on earth. People have to know that they are energy residing within physical matter and the only source of this knowledge is found in Spiritual Philosophy. People have to understand that the energy comes from the chemicals found in nature, earth and the universe in the form of food, water and air. It is the personal responsibility of each and every human being to breath, ingest and drink the purest chemicals found in nature, earth and the universe to maintain the gift of health and release the focus on disease.

Passions

As many as there are humans, there are questions and personalities, answers and interactions, disappointments and satisfactions, joys and sorrows, experiences and adventures. Our spectrum of experience as energy is infinite, as are the lessons we design for ourselves to learn as we grow and change as energy beings. Spiritual Philosophy is the exploration of ourselves as energy beings, our role as interactive beings in the Universal Energy, our power as creative consciousness, the sharing of the adventures of expanding conscious as part of Nature and the Universe, and what a gift we give ourselves by being human at this “time” and space in our evolution. I have had a passion for knowledge and learning all of my life. Yet my passions were selective, and therefore my learning was limited, until I began to really study Myself as an energy being, through Spiritual Philosophy. Then I began to be able to think about what I have learned from all interactions as energy: from the smallest detail of a tree branch and fragrance I remember as a child, to the laughter of my sister as we ran between bushes playing tag, the pleasure of fresh apple flavor bursting in my mouth as I bit into it, to the joy of holding my mother’s hand in a silent, happy moment. Learning to “heal,” to soothe all supposed wounds, comes from Knowing who we are as chemical energy beings. Knowing that this knowledge is what opens each heart and mind to love and the power of conscious growth and change (evolution) is, for me, the gift my mind was seeking in this life. I know others seek this knowledge, this gift, as human beings. Therefore, in my mind this is my joy and responsibility to share knowledge as I enjoy my life in ways I never could or would have without another teacher offering the gift of Spiritual Philosophy. This is the equality and responsibility of sharing love; to share what we know, what we learn; to communicate, to cooperate as human beings in our journey of life.

We each choose our paths of life. I have chosen to find the knowledge that has brought me satisfaction and motivation above all else. This is the gift I intend to continue to nurture, to share, to expand in every way that I can. I am learning what it means to truly live commitment as a lifestyle of growth and change, of love. To heal myself and to share this knowledge of “Know Thyself” adds to the healing of each level of life. The Earth supports us in our change, and I want to constantly add to the healing energy focus as a consciousness. I have been dual (i.e., conflicted) for too long, before, and in this moment in time I am changing my conscious eternal energy focus to the focus of healing. I have learned more than ever before why love is the healing energy.

Wings to Fly

Wings to Fly

"Energy is real. It is real now and it has always been real as a part and parcel of our human condition that allows us to grow and change within our own personal energy field. One of the primary levels of learning for our Dual Soul is the lesson of learning what energy we are, what energy we are comfortable with, the energy that we are not comfortable with, and the choice of energy that we want around us in our daily lives. If we did not have a personal energy field that is held close to our heart and Soul, we would not be capable of growth and change on a dynamic level on a daily basis. The more comfortable we become with our own energy field, the more productive we will become as human beings in creating what we want to create in our physical lives." (Kathy Oddenino,April handout, 27)

My cousin invited me to take one of the ubiquitous quizzes shared on Facebook, this one about “What Shakespearean quote are you?” When you click the link a short questionnaire pops up and after you answer the questions, your quote is selected. My result was "What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." A familiar portrait of the man we call Shakespeare, and one image of Juliet (the quote is one of hers) was included with the quiz result. (I had to make a joke about the portrait - my driver's license ID looks so different! :)Here's the rest of the result:
You are innocent, pensive and fascinated with names. You may be slightly rebellious, or fighting for a cause which is dear to you. Your quote is one of Juliet's lines!

Another cousin responded, Slightly rebellious? Too many stories we could tell. I had to laugh at this, and I thought of it again this morning as I was reading our handout from the last SP event. Kathy wrote about how we begin to live levels of change within ourselves as we learn to live the spiritual energy of our loving emotions. If that sounds complicated, it’s because we just haven’t thought about ourselves as “real as energy beings.” I know that we act out the energy of our loving emotions in many ways, such as the love we feel for our family, our spouses, people in need – and often the loving emotions that we set in place as children follow us throughout our life. This is interesting to think about. Kathy refers to her father’s love of baseball, and her parents’ love of dancing. I think of words, books, learning, and the way my parents are with people, how they love(d), their compassion. I often resisted living the energy of compassion, thus the rebellion! “It takes integrity, strength, and courage to support our positive beliefs system and to live it in our daily lifestyle.” (30)

Last night several of us got together and we talked about the value of knowledge, what learning means to us. Each personality, each person has his or her own way of expressing themselves, and the many levels of our thinking and emotions we reveal as we interact. Examples others gave prompted me to think about lessons my parents taught me, us, and how I appreciate these examples of love now. My mind, my level of thinking has expanded, because I no longer feel the compulsion to “rebel” against, to test love as a theory. I have grown into knowing that love is real as an energy. I did not realize before how elusive my definitions of thoughts, emotions, things were, because I did not yet know how to think of the reality of all of life and creation as energy and therefore not as “spiritual energy” and the infinite dynamic beauty of change. I understand better now why we have to grow as a mind before we feel “true love” as real, and as a conscious reality that we use as a daily, non-stop energy. Learning and the focus on “loving and feeding myself the food of spiritual wisdom” has shown me the wisdom of the Ethical Values as the foundation of our design as energy beings. As I gradually accept that “I am real only as energy ,” compassion and the sense of cooperation inside me overrides resistance, and cradles my fears as the love of a mother will a child, still firmly urging growth and sustenance. It’s fantastic.

The gentle guidance of a mother-love (which is the symbol of our Spirit, not the overriding “Father God” in the physical symbols and icons we have created) is what coaxes me into remembering how we are all created, as energy. What does it mean to use self-discipline to create equality, love, and truth in my thinking and in my physical life? It means to honor my father and mother, to honor life and the energy of creation as love. It means to “put away childish things.” It means to be born anew in the energy of love as thought form, without restriction, without the “hedonism” of self-centeredness that competition and fear support. Clarity replaces confusion in recognizable “forms,” as I listen and appreciate our humanity. What a gift it is to be alive and learning.

Integrity

"Even something as effortless as speaking simple sentences depends upon integrity of grammatical circuits within the brain." (BrainScapes,111)

Truth

Greetings,

I value my counseling sessions with Kathy as I explore my energy with her and how she opens my mind to new circles of energy within me. I would love to share with you how the circle of truth is expanding within my energy. Fear is alien to our intelligent design but if I do not understand my intelligent design I will think fear is normal. I came into this life living fear beliefs such as the fear of death, only one life, if I spoke my truth, I would be persecuted for my thinking, feeling of being bad just to name a few beliefs causing the energy of fear within my behavior which affected my work, my relationships, and my life.

Since studying Spiritual Philosophy, Kathy has worked diligently with me to change my energy of speaking untruth to living my truth. Thank you for being part of this journey as Kathy would share my experience of throwing her table over the railing and breaking the table and then my lying about the fact that I broke the table. This energy was very real within me but I have not always understood my behavior and why. Now I know that this energy was from a previous life or lives where I was persecuted for my religious beliefs and the memory was real to me today as it was in the previous lives where it was occurring. I have been working diligently to change my energy by speaking my truth and I asked Kathy if I still had threads of fear in speaking my truth. Her response was that I had changed my behavior at work in speaking my truth, which I feel in my behavior at work. Truth is what truly does set one free. My threads of fear are attached to speaking my truth as the teachings of spiritual philosophy for fear of persecution. It is in the doing that I change the energy of fear in to living my truth.

Today I have a dialogue going on with a respiratory therapist at work who I only see briefly throughout the week-end. This dialogue has been going on for maybe a month or two and it started with her asking about the bottle of Apollinaris that I was drinking at the time. She did go buy a case of the water and she and her husband love the water. The dialogue has progressed to my sharing my knowledge and Kathy's website with her which she read and found very interesting but stated that the seminars were to expensive. My reply was that the knowledge was priceless.

This past week-end Denish said that she had several questions that she wanted to ask me and that she would come back down to CT later in the night. This did not happen but I also was very conscious within my energy that when she said she had some questions for me, I felt a moment of panic (fear) which lasted very briefly but was real. I am excited that Denish has questions and I am looking forward to spending some time with her because she is giving me a gift of love for me to speak my truth of the knowledge that I have been studying. Plus she has a beautiful energy that I want to know at a deeper level.

I love how my energy knows itself and I am the only one who can change my energy to the energy that I want to be. It is as simple as saying to myself that from this moment forward, I am going to live my love, truth and equality. The key is that I have to put the change into action because it is only in the doing that the energy becomes real. Talking about my goals and not incorporating the energy into my behavior is revving my engine and going nowhere except stasis. I have had to become comfortable speaking my truth at work in order to expand to the next circle of speaking my truth.

We truly are a majestic design as I marvel at my energy and the changes that I am incorporating into my energy. Let us all be the best that we can be by living our ethical values as the fabric of our design. I loved reading the hand out from the seminar and one sentence I found as my truth is "When we are capable of changing our internal energy fields, we will have set change in motion." Kathy O, thank you for your determination to move me through my lesson of truth. My resistance was intense but your love and at times "tough love" kept nudging me to the next level. This is an eternal gift that affects my life now and will affect my energy in my next life. Friends, thank you for your patience and hearing the story of the table. Moving through this energy has not been easy for me at times and I know it was not easy for Kathy to have to use tough love but I am eternally grateful because of how I feel now. I am learning what it means to be a friend to self.Sending you bundles of loving energy.


"We must make a choice and continue to live our choice as we choose to live the loving neuronal energy patterns within our thinking mind in harmony with our loving emotions and infinite Spirit senses as our Intelligent Design."(Spirit Consciousness, pg 72)

A Pearl of Wisdom

A sentence I've heard came back to me as I was reading the recent handout from Kathy's seminar (The Soul: Infinity and Beyond), and thinking about kindness.

Someone who is spiritual doesn't let life get them down. They use experience as a tool of growth.

The illustration is of the art of stringing pearls, and the knots between them.

Sex and Ethical Values, Oh My!

Lately I have been wondering about the “sex is love” belief and its sister, the "sex is a sin" belief. They seem to be pervasive beliefs all over the globe and all over time, and they have probably done more to advance our negative perception our ourselves as humans than just about anything. So I was wondering how these beliefs have affected me and my life and how they relate to ethical values. These are the thoughts that ensued.

When we think about sex we are really thinking about our own spirit energy. Sexuality is a part of our spirituality. It seems that most people do not think of it this way, but our spirit is in the human body, and the human body must advance itself and recreate itself. So with sexuality the human race is able to perpetuate itself. Perpetuation is the very act of creativity. And creativity is the behavior of the spirit, although when creativity is truly spiritual it is imbued with all the ethical values of the Creative Spirit.

But as we have lived in fear throughout history, that creativity has not always been a spiritual act. It has not always been ethical. So the challenge is for man has always been to create with the ethical values.

Sexuality defines a manner of being creative. To take a creative seed, which is the human seed of the egg, and bring it together with the sperm and together to form new life in the physical body (not in a test tube) this is a creative act. It is the ultimate in creativity. It is a fractal pattern of what our Creator did to create the human species. The Creator took his own creative seed, which was his thought of Spirit, and created new spirit consciousness from it. And all of the Universe is a result of this vast thinking and of the commitment that the Creator had and always will have to the act of Creation. It is divine action, action of the Spirit, action of the ethical values of love, truth, perfection, equality.

But in our beginnings of fear, we created an institution of fear - religion - our way of pulling together the mental forces of those in fear and bringing it to a mass consciousness level. And one of the major tenets of religion is that sex is a sin. We might wonder how religion could take an act of ultimate creativity and spirituality and say that it is a sin. And yet this is what was done because religion reflects our fear thinking. And so we perceived that we were in sin to have sex because indeed we were in our fear thinking and so sex was not a loving thing and was not an act of creativity as much as it was an act of physical gratification, selfishness, harm, punishment, of abuse, domination, gender control, violence, and fear overall.

This is the story of us and sex if we look only at our past and at the acts of abomination that have pervaded our history. But just because this picture is in our past, it does not mean that this picture is the truest story of us, because when we begin to live our ethical values, we surely begin to understand sexuality and the act of having sex with another person as the creative, ethical act that it is. We can respect, value, appreciate and honor our sexuality because we can understand that it, like every other aspect of ourselves, is a part of our Creative Spirit seed of spirit consciousness.

So how do we get to this point of accepting our spirit energy and integrating ethical values into our behaviors, including sexual behaviors? Maybe the first step is to acknowledge that we live eternally and that we are still on our path of learning, and that we are greater, truly greater, than we have in our past perceived ourselves to be. This seems a simple enough thing to do -- it only means changing our thinking. It does not mean we must acquire a million dollars or climb Mount Everest or swing from the Empire State Building or win the lottery. All we have to do is change the way we think. Is there anything more fundamentally at our disposal than our thinking?

But our fears are in control of our thinking, and our fears do not want us to change. Our fears like being in control. They are the Napoleons, the fierce little dictators of our being. But truly they are impotent even as they have convinced us that we should surrender our power, our innate Creative Power of Thinking to the dictators of fear. The sex-is-love belief, the sex-is-a-sin belief, which are both intertwined, are such dictatorial fears. They have exercised power over us for millennia.

But we can make the conscious choice to regain our freedom of thought and shed the sex-is-a-sin belief and begin to perceive our sexuality through the perspective of ethics. We can challenge ourselves to ask how we are being kind to ourselves when we are having sexual behavior. How am I being kind and respectful of the other person? Am I using this act simply to gratify myself, or am I embarking on a journey of kindness or love and caring and appreciation of this other person? If we truly examine our intentions and our motivations, scrutinize them, we will see where we may be living vestiges of the beliefs and where we are living our loving behavior. We don't have to believe the voice of the ego, since truth is not the behavior of the ego. We can work with the creative energy of our spirit consciousness, which is inherent in each of us, to banish the fears that have held our intellect captive. And by doing so we can become more loving, more respectful of ourselves and our partners or partner.

Sex is not a sin. Surely our Creator does not judge his children as sinners. Sex and sexuality are the behavior of creativity and adventure. So we should love ourselves and love the expressions of love that we share. Sex is a physical act; love is an emotion. As we imbue our physical acts with the emotion of Divine Love, we become a master creator. We are learning. We can be proud of our lessons, and excited about our lessons, and committed to our lessons. We can share the joy of learning our lessons.

If we see success in these avenues, we will be the activation of the Creative Seed of spirit consciousness that brings good things to fruition. Sex is about bringing good things to fruition when it is coupled with the ethical values of the spirit. These values are within us at all times. If we seek them, feel them, know that they are ours, and share them, all good will result.