On Alignment with One's Purpose, and Relieving Suffering

An excerpt from a speech made by comedian, Jim Carey
at the inaugural event for GATE (Global Alliance for 
Transformational Entertainment)

June 4, 2009 

       I was two people my entire life:

       I was in the living room, entertaining people, being a monkey, doing my thing for the company...

       ...and I was always trying to relieve my mother, who was suffering.  She had arthritis, flubitis, and everything under the sun that was nagging at her...she was depressed. 

On Eating Crow, and the Four Levels of Knowing

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It's OK not to know, until you do know --and you will know; 

the Universe always answers questions we throw at it, 

just (sometimes) not at our desired rate of response.  

It may be days, weeks or even years before the answers 

reach us.  But they reach us.

Mmm, mm.  Dig in.

        John Ellis, an affable, congenial drawing teacher I had in college, lectured one day about The Four Levels of Knowing.  He applied the concept to drawing, but I have found that in fact, it is applicable to all of life, really.  In all things there are levels of understanding, some shallower, some deeper.  In my travels through The Rabbit Hole, I have found this a very helpful philosophy when it comes to the metaphysical world, where like Alice, one confronts people and phenomena that all seem quite hard to believe.

My Experience Doing Angel Card Readings

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Angels in a Box

        I've never been one of those "angel people," never had a bunch of angel-this-and-that littering my world: angel wind chimes on the porch, angelic wallpaper on my desktop, gaudy angel t-shirts, angel posters on the wall...never been my thing, still isn't.

        And I'd describe myself in a lot of ways, but angelic would probably not be at the top of the list.  Not sure why, then, I felt compelled to buy Doreen Virtue's Healing with the Angels Oracle Cards one day, other than mere curiosity  –it seemed I had been seeing, feeling, communicating with and dreaming of them almost daily.

        But, at that time there was no way I would have told anyone about this.  I thought I was imagining these things.  Initially, I filed these experiences away in my ever-growing mental file folder, "Yet Another Weird Thing in My Life."   And that was that.

When Groups of Beings Work as One Mind

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        I've observed that groups of sentient energies will sometimes work as one consciousness.  I don't mean work "together," I mean they speak and act as one, single mind.  Here are a couple examples.

It was on an episode of his show, Beyond,
which aired some years ago, that I noticed 
the angels working  with him.  There are 
other interesting things about James I will
write about in future articles. 

Healing with the Angels

        One day, I was casually watching a video of James Van Praagh speaking to an audience, doing readings, his usual work.  I had to do a double take of the video when I noticed two, tall  angels (for lack of a better description) standing on either side of him.

Dr. Oz on How Mediumship of John Edward Changed His Life

by Micheal Logan of TV Guide

Published March 14, 2011

"I've learned in my career that there are times

when science just hasn't caught up with things,

and I think this may be one of them."

                                                  --Dr. Oz

        As a rule, the worlds of western medicine and psychic phenomena just don't mix, but that's not the case on Tuesday's installment of The Dr. Oz Show. Oprah discovery Mehmet Oz will welcome famed psychic medium John Edward, who claims to relay messages from the dead, and the two men will discuss how connecting with the afterlife can be therapeutic for those in grief.

The Old Religion in Japan

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The fox spirit, or kitsune, carries out the 
will of the onmyouji, was a messenger to 
the divine realm, and could be a shape-
shifting trickster.

          I recently stumbled upon the following article posted by "ren" back in 2004 on a religion website.  I have edited the text some, so it flows a little better.

          In the article, ren makes a point-by-point comparison between Japanese witchcraft and Wicca, the neo-pagan religion founded in the 20th century, based on ancient European spiritual practices.

          I found it interesting because witchcraft isn't often spoken of with regard to Japanese culture.  As Christianity had in the West, Shintoism and Buddhism trumped the Old Religion in the Land of the Rising Sun ...but its vestiges remain.

          Here is the article:

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