In my effort to educate my many fears I came across several insightful statements from my book Urban Shaman. I read about two kinds of interpretations: evaluation and analysis. I consider this helpful because I’m still trying to silence my monkey mind.

Way back in college I did a lot of analysis of literary pieces as an English major. Now I realize I wasn’t doing analysis but evaluation. No wonder I have been anxious. I was constantly passing judgments on people and events whether they were good or bad. And to think that till I was older than 60 years old I was still doing my school routine of nightly examination of conscience. You can imagine what this does to a judgmental ISTJ personality.

Fortunately The Energy Prescription book says: “Our human personality is not our true nature. Spirit is our true nature, and sometimes the old needs to die so that the new can be reborn.”

According to Dr Christine Page: “Now as we face the Age of Aquarius, we are being asked to develop self-consciousness. Each of us must accept responsibility to fully embody our incarnated soul and hence together move forward in a collection of highly individuated connected beings.”

Indeed the above is such a stimulating statement. However, now that I am approaching 71 years and as I fight against elevated blood pressure readings, I choose not to get into the fray, much less get caught in the conlict between the Liberals and the Traditionalists especially in religion.

I can’t help but be grateful for an article by blog.action.org posted on Facebook exposing why the UNCRC has frontally
attacked the Vatican for its handling of sexual cases against the priests. I prefer the article of Bobit Avila of the Philippine Star – clearer tackling of the issue with implications for the Philippine situation.

Back to Dr Christine Page to explain my side:”…in an educational system that taught us there is one right answer to any question – and that it is held by someone else and understood only by a lot of mental effort… We were trained to ignore and mistrust our own instinctive and intuitive answers.”

I have so many criticisms against my church but I can’t believe Neale Donald Walsch would so openly identify the Catholic Church as the religion that “had God all wrong.” He stated that, “… readiness for a new paradigm, a new understanding, a larger view, a grander idea “is the purpose of his books Conversations with God.

Rabbi Darfour has a milder statement: “We need to fuse the disciplines of critical thinking and the results of historical knowledge and scientific truth with our desire to believe in and relate to that which is part of as yet apart from us.”

“The tools of biblical criticism, archaeology, and modern-day cosmology were not yet available to biblical scholars, theologians, and religious historians. Now they are, and because they are, science and religion no longer need to repudiate each other to justify themselves. Instead, they can complement each other. The science of the cosmos can indeed strengthen if not confound, the faith of the believer.”

For a couple of days I spent quiet time mourning the loss of my Cecile B. DeMille’s parting of the Red Sea; according to Rabbi Darfour”s research, The Red Sea was too shallow a body of water to cause the pursuing soldiers to drown. The point of the story was to show how our powerful God saved His people. Many biblical stories used literary exaggerations
to effectively bring across a point.

I don’t have enough knowledge of biblical criticism , nor do I know enough of archaeology. I have read much about cosmology but I don’t think it is enough. My Theology of 24 college units is so ancient. But I can’t stop wishing that before I die I may hear from our pope new statements, new interpretations of the nature of man and of sin.

According to Ronald Mann:…”the spiritually wise and awakened being knows that subtle spiritual forces control and direct all of creation.”

The above has inspired me not to rush and fix circumstances. It has given me a certain peace; after all I was reminded by a very good friend when I was still teaching at SJDDios College: “Be still and know that I am God.” Though my faith is not as strong as hers I have learned to trust that God is in control..

I interpret subtle spiritual forces as the energy that springs from my prayers. Together with the Law of Attraction, these subtle forces draw to me the circumstances that match the energy of my thoughts and emotions. It helps that foryears I have tried to tame my negative emotions of fear and guilt. It also helps when I pray joyfully. I have learned o believe a childhood, pious statement from a nun that joyful prayers are carried faster by the wings of angels. It doesn’t bother me that several books have debunked the belief that angels have wings.That’s God’s problem ,not mine.

Recently, from “Zen Limits” by Joe Vitale I learned the Ho’oponopono prayer which has helped me to surrender cases clearly beyond me. When my brother-in-law died inspite of our prayers I immediately shifted my prayers for his loved ones especially my youngest sister. We were extremely saddened but deep down we experienced peace.

It takes Faith to entrust to God circumstances which otherwise would have left me frustrated or depressed. Somebody posted on Facebook: “Faith is having peace when you don’t have the answer.”
Another posted: “I will open my mind and my heat to believe that God is loving and trust my loving higher power to do for me what I can’t do.”

According to Ronald Mann:…”the spiritually wise and awakened being knows that subtle spiritual forces control and direct all of creation.”

The above has inspired me not to rush and fix circumstances. It has given me a certain peace; after all I was reminded by a very good friend when I was still teaching at SJDDios College: “Be still and know that I am God.” Though my faith is not as strong as hers I have learned to trust that God is in control..

I interpret subtle spiritual forces as the energy that springs from my prayers. Together with the Law of Attraction, these subtle forces draw to me the circumstances that match the energy of my thoughts and emotions. It helps that foryears I have tried to tame my negative emotions of fear and guilt. It also helps when I pray joyfully. I have learned o believe a childhood, pious statement from a nun that joyful prayers are carried faster by the wings of angels. It doesn’t bother me that several books have debunked the belief that angels have wings.That’s God’s problem ,not mine.

Recently, from “Zen Limits” by Joe Vitale I learned the Ho’oponopono prayer which has helped me to surrender cases clearly beyond me. When my brother-in-law died inspite of our prayers I immediately shifted my prayers for his loved ones especially my youngest sister. We were extremely saddened but deep down we experienced peace.

It takes Faith to entrust to God circumstances which otherwise would have left me frustrated or depressed. Somebody posted on Facebook: “Faith is having peace when you don’t have the answer.”
Another posted: “I will open my mind and my heat to believe that God is loving and trust my loving higher power to do for me what I can’t do.”