Lilou Mace”s productions “Juicy Living Tours” are dedicated to awakening. she uses freely the term “co-creators”. She reminds me of Rabbi Darfour’s:
“The Bible is telling us that God needed human help so that the entire life/growth process might move forward.”
“…. Man must be a co-maker with God in making this earth a garden.”

“One of Judaism’s more audacious theological principles is that God and humanity need each other to complete the creative process.”
“We may not be equal partners with God ,but we are definitely part of the equation.”

More picturesque are the statement in “Stepping into the Magic” :
“Our thoughts and beliefs create our reality. Our thoughts are energy and that energy attracts people, events and opportunities which match that energy which resonate with it. Every thought is a prayer. Whatever we believe or desire or fear or expect we magnetize towards us”

“There is no such thing as luck, chance, coincidence or fate. There are no accidents. Nothing is predestined other than our chosen destiny (and that we can change)”

The message of hope is:
“…that growth through struggle is fast becoming a dusty old relic, the history of which will make future generations shake their heads in disbelief; we are the mapmakers, the dream-weavers, the co-creators.”

“We are in the forefront of a whole new way of being-in-the-world, shining a light into the future of our dreams, learning to create a world of peace and harmony”

Here are some observations, not necessarily endorsements from Rabbi Darfour: “A successful religion is one that explains life effectively for its members. In an age of alienation, with people living anonymously, in compacted areas of high population density, a place where anonymity and loneliness can be overcome under the mantle of a commonly shared experience is bound to hold a strong attraction…”

I don’t particularly resonate with what the rabbi said about loneliness but I believe that works for many. In fact, my husband keeps reminding me that we go to Mass for the social dimension of worship; I hope I see the benefits of this soon enough.

One of my complaints against my church is: “In failing to supply people with solutions to overwhelming social problems and in failing to supply society with a sense of lasting meaning.” The quotation is still from Rabbi Darfour

My search for meaning is similar to what the Jews have been impatient with: “Congregants come to the synagogue to be sang to and preached at.” Maybe my responsibility is to go to another church as suggested many times by a friend happy in her parish in my hometown.

“It’s true that religion may be enjoyed and expressed through the highly emotive, but I (Rabbi Darfour) do not think it can really grow that way. Faith must be shaped by more than emotional moments”

“Instantaneous salvation, faith in a flash, throwing oneself into God’s hands and hoping for the best, is neither right or wrong. It just strikes me as being insufficient as a building block for a mature religious life”

Rabbi Darfour in “Finding God in the Garden” continues:”I see faith as a commitment to the sum total of beliefs, sentiments, and practices, individual and social that has as its object a power we recognize as supreme on which we depend for guidance and inspiration and with which through prayer and ethical conduct, we can enter into a relationship.”

“My experience with my church hs to be dealt with accordingly: such a faith is arrived at only after much effort, struggle, thought and behavior refined by social experience. It requires patience and experimentation.”

I do like experimentation. I like personal experience

“Faith is a process in becoming. Working to achieve it never ends.”

Those like me, who have been programmed with memories of “Original Sin” we are better off using our time with the Ho’oponopono version popularized by Joe Vitale in his “Zero Limits”. We are better off with the forgiveness pathway than with the “acceptance” route taught by the Hawaiian spiritual leader Aunty Mahealani. Of course, I would have chosen her pathway had I been to Hawaii and “locked in into the Aloha Spirit”. It’s ideal for those who have never been tainted by “Original Sin” – already in the LIGHT as Aunty Mahealani believes.

Jim Paredes’ article “In the Midst of Chaos, Follow Your Truth” in the Philippine Star of July 27, 2014 enumerates the graphic effects of “Original Sin” on humanity even if he didn’t label them as such.

I like Paredes’: “Do something to stoke the line of indignation. In your own little space, and with your own little voice, scream as loud as you can. To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A good indignation brings out all one’s powers. When there are enough voices raised, the world will have to listen and something will be done. This could be our last hurrah”

I have realized, for quite a long time now that I can hardly make a difference in the political world. I am convinced I can do more by doing Ho’oponopono and leaving things for the divine to move things and people.

Rabbi Darfour has a disturbing insight that agitates me but I must be humble enough to recognize my limitations. However, in a smaller scale I can do something about choices I make in my daily life. Often I choose less humane options out of sheer laziness. Even if I have been working on my spirituality, I still catch myself choosing what is convenient for me instead of making choices for the greater good.

Rabbi Darfour’s disturbing insight goes:
“We know how to make things grow better now than ever before in the history of the world. We can and do greatly
enhance the nutritional value of food. We know how to grow more in less space. We can improve the breeding of
creatures used for food. In fact, we have created a situation in which no one in the world needs to go hungry.

If people starve (and millions do), it is for political reasons and not because we have not learned how to make more and better food available. For reasons that upon examination often seem as cruel as they are bizarre and irrational, we have chosen not to exercise our more humane options.

I remember reading from “Post” last March of this year that in Ethiopia some farmers produced a nutritional plant that could feed millions at a cheaper amount. Yet the government disallowed the growing of the crop to save the existing industry/livelihood.

Clearly the above is an example of a political situation, disturbing but beyond me. I choose to make a difference by doing as much good in my world of daily choices.

Spiritual Alchemy says: “It is obvious that if we want to change our biology and state of well-being we need to change our perception. There are many therapeutic methods available today that focus on this, most of which appreciate that, by addressing the physiology or instinctual behavior, the fear which underlies the disharmonic perception becomes transformed into positive light energy.”

“As unification spreads upon this planet, we are also seeing the coming together of the four great tenets of society: religion, science, philosophy and the arts. This is reflected in the work of the brilliant cellular biologist Bruce Lipton.”

I would like to believe this even if the conditions in my country do not seem to confirm the above. I would like to go to a higher level of consciousness and see the above truth. I draw inspiration from the videos on Hawaiian spirituality that views the present chaos as part of the necessary evolution. These videos can be accessed on my website.

Bruce Lipton states that: “It takes only three days for the DNA to produce a response to any new messenger’ (hormone, virus, antigen etc) which comes knocking at the door of the cell membrane. This goes against the belief that our body is unable to deal with present day environmental issues or new viruses. From this we can conclude that the gene pool or our DNA is not static with its message set in stone but is more akin to that ocean of unlimited possibilities into which we cast our fishing line of intention with its bait of perception attached, producing a new scenario fashioned in less than three days.”

My hopeful interpretation of the messages of both Dr. Christine Page and Bruce Lipton is that instead of being swallowed in the present day problems we should work on our consciousness, our thoughts should be enlightened by possibilities instead of being stuck in the present negative thoughts of the collective consciousness. One can go to Neale Walsch, Esther Hicks, Carolyn Myss, Martha Beck, Gill Edwards etc for help