These Changing Times

What to believe...there is so much information out there and everyone has a different opinion on what surrounds us and the plague of unfolding events full of turmoil.

Just in the past few weeks I've been presented with:  the president is bad, the president is good...we will ascend...we won't ascend...Earth will go through a readjustment period in the near future...or won't...we have white hats that are helping human civilization get back on track...civilization will continue as it always has...good extraterrestrials are on their way to help us...bad extraterrestrials are waiting to get us...we reincarnate...we don't.

What exactly is right?  What is civilization and Earth going through, if anything?  We hear on television and the newspapers of expected Earth changes.  Everyone speculating but no one  confirming anything.  Again, via the media we hear about how our societies around the world are deteriorating.  What they say between the lines is that there is no integrity amongst the people.  Lastly, we hear about how whole governments are crumbling due to financial systems going bankrupt.

I always hear, "These changing times."  What exactly is changing?  Is it really or is this just another ploy to frighten us into compliance?  Because of the fears we harbor we are ever more aware of how vulnerable we are.  What will happen if....?  Will I survive?  What will I have to give up if life, as I know it, changes?

Now more than ever most people are aware of their mortality.  They seek somewhere they can find comfort and answers.  Here in the United States anyway, most people identify with an organized group whether Christian, eastern, esoteric or alternative.  The rules are established and they feel more comfortable fitting into a fixed order, giving them the sense of having a spiritual home.   They sense they are  more in control of their lives both, while they are alive and after they die.  Within that religious or spiritual group they take what feels right and disregard rules that don't apply to their personal lifestyle.

Then there is the small percentage of people like me that don't fit in to established groups.  I am just as aware of my mortality as the above mentioned people.  And just like those people I seek definition and grounding.  But unlike those people I can't pick and choose within an established organization's set of rules for what fits me.

 As I said in my first post, I have tried on many beliefs from other groups.  And they have given me a wonderful foundation in which to build.  But from that point on, I'm  on my own.  It seems I'm freelancing more and more now.  The longer I am on this spiritual path the more I am finding the answers within me rather than what someone else tells me is true.  I am discovering my own unique form of spirituality.

I'm not saying my belief's are right for you but they are right for me.  And with every piece of knowledge I feel more grounded and sure of myself.  I fear less, and am more adventuresome.

My First Entry

This is a blog about my spiritual journey and how it pertains to my everyday life.  I am not a Christian, or Buddhist or Taoist or anything for that matter.  I was raised Christian, but it just never worked for me.  It took awhile but I finally realized it just wasn't a good fit.

Back in the 1980's I read everything I could find on spirituality beginning with Shirley Maclaine's books.  I can't give you a list of the books I've read over the past 25 years; there were so many and I never kept a list, but I've read some pretty far-fetched stuff as well as main stream stuff too. 

Then when the internet was born I joined some groups dealing with spiritual matters over the years.  But eventually, with each one, I would feel the fit wasn't quite right there either.  As a matter of fact I left another group just last week.  

I'm pretty open-minded so I don't feel threatened by new ideas.  Even if I don't believe something for myself, I can say, " Cool, that's an interesting idea."  But if it does sound interesting and doesn't go against my gut feeling and it's not immoral, I'm willing to try almost anything, at least for awhile until I can develop an opinion about by experiencing it. 

When I join a new spiritual group or read another book I try on the new beliefs like you'd try on a jacket.  I say, "Okay, that's an interesting perspective, lets go with it."  And I talk about it and wear it for a short time and sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesn't. But at least I tried it. 

I used to be so afraid of just about anything I didn't understand.  I have to admit that.  But now, hell, the dark cabal, 4D or the bad ET's, just to name a few, don't scare me anymore.  The way I figure it is I've been coming here lifetime after lifetime; ignorant of all this stuff and I have never been deceived by some dark cabal or been trapped in some paradigm for thousands of years up until now.  Universe has taken care of me just fine so why not live my life and experience as much as I can and let Universe continue to do just that. 

I watched a short Eckhart Tolle clip the other day.  In it he says that every thought is an energy form and therefore negative thoughts are energy bombs or hostile entities that attack our life; because our negative thoughts will attract negative events and people to us.

Wow, what a thought!  So if I'm afraid of being deceived or falling into a trap, that is exactly what will happen.  If I think the whole world is full of bad people and there are no good people, I will attract bad and negative people to me.  If I think I am a klutz then I will be a klutz.  If I hate being alive, then I will hate living.

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I wish there was a place I could fit in.  A place I could call home rather than just another stepping stone but maybe that's just part of my path on this journey I'm on.  So I ask myself, "What now?"  What is the next step in my spiritual journey?  Another book or group it would seem.  But for now I am content to sit back and start this blog.

Reference:  Eckhart Tolle Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbj4nLOPN8o&feature=player_embedded#!