Spirituality - The cure to depression in the western society

In this western society, the view we take of life is a depressed one.
The three fundamental beliefs about the essence of us humans are the following:
-Human life is the result of pure chance. A coincidence.
-We live in a universe we know nothing of, completely external to us, disconnected,
-We come from nothingness and will return to nothingness when we die.

Pointed out so clearly I can't help but laugh when I see this statements.

These symptoms are all too similar to those of depression as described by Aaron Beck:
-"I am a worthless person."
-"The world is an inhospitable place."
-"My past is tragedy; my future is hopeless."

I believe it is time to change these basic views and accept that we are spiritual beings living a human experience. We have some form of consciousness that isn't physical and must exist separate from our physical human form. We are one with this planet interconnected and intertwined with it, and are completely capable of living in harmony with it.

The most accepted definition of spirituality is that it is something that people feel, believe in, follow, that gives those who believe a greater quality of life. A happier life experience. It's completely natural. Our essence. Calling out to every single one of us. So lets stop fighting it and welcome it in with open arms.

Lets erase fear and doubt from the hearts of the people. Lets open our arms and embrace this planet, Gaia. Lets stop it's destruction. Let's stop the war. Let's stop the pollution. Let go of all this pain and hurt, and let us be one.

In other words.

Lets love. For love is all we are.

Perception. What are we actually seeing?

There is so much distance between what is physically outside there: an object, a person, animal, plant, mineral, spec of dust, whatever; and us perceiving it: our brain giving us information about this object, what it is and that it's there. Perception. Tainted with our ideas, emotions, thoughts, opinions; preconceptions, ours and those of others. Preconceptions of how things usually are, how things should be, how things shouldn't be, what exists, what doesn't exist, what's possible, what's impossible, what we like, what we don't like, and so much more.

Everything we percieve travels and morphs during perception, so that when our brain eventually registers it and gives us information on what we're seeing, it no longer is the object or situation that exists out there on its own without us perceiving it. 

Terrence McKenna on LIFE

A very clever man indeed

Who am I?

The question resonating in the minds of many
Who am I?
Sometimes we approach it with a gentle curiosity, and others with sheer frustration.
Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?!?!
Seeking desperately for an answer that  just won't come.
So over time we accumulate characteristics that we think might define this I we refer to: likes, dislikes, beliefs, values, morals, principles... and so on.
Now think again, where do all of these features come from, they're not appearing out of thin air. In fact we're just taking other peoples likes, dislikes, beliefs, and adopting them as our own. Every belief we have comes from somewhere, we listen, read, watch, and whatever we like we adopt as our own, so now that persons belief is a part of me. It is the I. Or so we believe.
It's a matter of the mind. We could easily change any of these characteristics any day if we so chose.
This can't be what defines us, it's too impermanent. This is the ego.
Yet we are all so convinced that these are this I we were searching for. We need these things, these appearances, these characteristics to define us. Define us compared to what? To everyone else??

The truth is there is no me and you. There's us. We are all one. Inevitably. Interdependent. Whether we like it or not, whether we choose to accept it or refuse it, we're all exactly the same. Love. We are all love. We love to love. Even hate is the fear of love. So let go of the barriers, let go of the fears, and embrace all. May you call them your friend, enemy, or family, we are all one, and we are all love, different parts of the same body. One soul. One love. Without one there would be no other.

And as for the original question of who am I?

I. Is simply I. The sheer act of existing and breathing is all we are. Consciousness you can call it. There is nothing more to it than being. There doesn't need to be more to it.

But who am I? You may still ponder.

The question is unimportant, the answer exists all on it's own.

I AM.

"Live the life you love, love the life you live" - Bob

We're all on our very own journey, going from A to B, trying to get somewhere from here. Be something. Be somewhere. See something, somewhere. Be someone. Somewhere. Somehow.










All these aims, goals, objectives... casting a cloud over the sheer beauty, and miraculousness, of every single instant, that is the now.

The world is absolutely filled, jam packed, bursting.. with wonders. Miracles. 

 

Magic

... and the end of the day, each of our individual lives, is meaningless, worth nothing in comparison to the infinite never ending life cycles of this planet and the universe. The life of the whole. Afterall we're just life on a rock floating through space and time amongst infinite other rocks. And that's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Life is much too short to take any of it seriously. So lets enjoy our lives and give love to this planet, for it has been around and shall be around, for a long long time.

There is no us and them in this great circle of life. We are all one. All life, here on earth.
One superorganism.

Gaia.

The sun. The moon. The earth.

Air. Water. Fire.

Life.

The ying and the yang.

Peace, love, and harmony.

You may call me cuckoo...

But this a world where angels do exist, and dreams really do come true. With love, light, and intention, all our hearts desire are at our fingertips. 

 Just ask and you shall recieve.

So live and love, for this life. 

Play with water and dance with fire.

Dance! Dance! Dance!

to your hearts desire.

Let lose and feel life.

All there is to do, is be

As the earth pounds beneath your feat, be gone with the wind.

As our good old friend Bob would say "live the life you love, love the life you live". Live it to the fullest, squeeze every last drop of juice out of it. And savour it .

And have no fear of death, for certainly the journey does not end there.

It is only the end of the beginning.

What this world could be..

This is a video about the venus project. It's an idea. An idea of how this world could be, without money, all living as one. It's just one idea. A possibility. Something like this, is the ONLY way forward.

Growing up and the paranormal

We enter this life innocent and pure. Full of creativity and joy, with our imaginations running wild. The only sadness we know is when our needs of love, food, and sleep are left unfulfilled. None of these crazy mind games and problems we create for ourselves now. Now that we've "grown up".

As children we know we are children and our parents are "grown ups", we almost admire them, one day we will be them, one day we will "grow up". We believe in magic, fairies, angels, the paranormal; but we know the grown ups don't believe in these, and so the idea is planted: one day we will be like that, one day we must "grow up".

I ask why? Why does "growing up" mean letting go of our imagination, our creativity, our search for fun. Why do we stop playing? Stop making believe? Stop being silly? Stop creating?

Why does growing mean becoming so damn serious?

Grown ups can play, and I know for a fact we enjoy it too. So why not do it? It is OK. It is the most beautiful thing to see adults playing and enjoying the simple things that they did as kid.
I was walking along the street one day and there was a man making really really big bubbles, the size of humans. Everyone was stopping, adults, children, dogs. It brought so much happiness. Smiles, joy, amazement. Just for some bubbles. So simple. Yet if that man hadn't been right bang in the middle of the street, nobody would have been enjoying this.

Why as "grown ups" do we forget to make times for these simple pleasures?

Or even play dough ("modelling clay" if you want). You give an adult play dough, and they have so much fun with it, I've seen it. Merging colors together and creating. Or any toy really, you see it, adults playing with kids, when they're not absolutely exhausted from running after them, we love it. And it is ok to play, there is nothing wrong with being what some might call "childish". Its ok to enjoy these "childish" games. It's not being childish after all, it's going back to our essence, where we originated. There was never any reason to change. There was never a need to "grow up". It's just an idea planted in all out heads, and we all do it, it's what everyone does, but there's no need. What we NEED is to enjoy ourselves, to have fun, to play, to create, to be. We were born that way, why is there this idea that that should end.

Another notion that comes about as we "grow up" is that everything should make sense, everything should be logical. We have to be able to explain everything, understand everything. If we can't explain something logically then it is not possible.

I assure you, the paranormal exists.

Extra terrestrials. They are out there. There is no reason why we should be the only life form in all this space. Humans have encountered them. Yet we try to deny it. Why? If you don't believe it then even just crop circles. We don't have the intelligence to produce these. These extra terrestrials are of super high intelligence, they have the answers to all our problems of scarcity which they try to communicate with us through these crop circles. Yet you tell some people this and they'll just laugh in your face (On a side note I strongly reccomend watching Thrive, you can watch it online for free at http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_movie . This documentary discusses possible sources of unlimited free energy and other really interesting matters)

Just because we don't understand something, doesn't make it any less real.

Then there's magic. Magic is real. Life is magic. The fact that we all exist here, with everything else on this planet, in what once was such a harmonious manner - that is magic.
As humans we have the ability to control things with out mind: move objects, bring things about. Once upon a time in many cultures this was common, yet as we have "advanced" and progressed to where we are today we no longer need these powers, and so the have been forgotten. Today we underestimate the power of the human mind. We live in an era where we hardly use our brains anymore, but I assure you, the human mind is one of the most powerful things out there. Telepathy, telekenesis, teleporting. We can communicate with just brain waves, but we have phones and computers these days, so all these skills have been forgotten. We even have the ability to heal ourselves and others. But we have hospitals and medicine which we have to pay for now, so why use our own free abilities. It's madness. We've managed to create so many things that can do everything for us, we no longer do anything for ourselves. We've forgotten, but we can remember.

All it takes is belief, patience, and time, to reconnect with this. It's all real. 

Then there are the non-physical beings. One might call them ghosts, spirits. It's all real. You feel them, that presence, that energy, it's undeniable. Yet we're brought to believe that these are just fairytales, and we accept this. We accept everything we're told. So here's me telling you now:

anything and everything is possible: magic, fairies, spirits, ghosts, teleporting, telepathy, all of it. All it takes is reconnecting with our true essence and who we are, and from there it can all happen.