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believing

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In protestant, well now more secular, Sweden, we serve mass on Sundays at 11 o’clock, like many who practice Christian faith. So each Sunday, weather I want it or not, I come to think about religion.

I was baptized by my own wish when I was 7. My parents were not really religious and they did not want to force me into anything. When I was born in Sweden in 1977, religion was widely considered to be a very personal choice, and often looked upon like an “opium for the masses” (Marx). But my parents, especially my father, had their private belief in GoddessGod, and I always strongly believed in GodGoddess, and I came to believe in Jesus. I also came to believe in angels, spirits, ghost, demons, magic, fairies, trolls and other powers.

When I got to know more concepts of GodGoddess, or the universal soul/consciousness, in Taoism and Buddhism I integrated these views into my beliefs, and when I got into shamanism and Wicca my understanding developed further. The later two also helped me to integrate my beliefs in spirits, fairies, magic etc into the picture, and like this I have been going on learning.

At the same time, philosophy and all kinds science have made me understand existence and GoddessGod in new, amazing and very inspiring ways.

Altogether, I have built my understanding of existence and GodGoddess by letting myself be enlightened of and inspired by many different sources.

I find it wise to believe that there has been(there is) human beings who have been(are) so in love, harmony and understanding with existence that they intensify their communication with and openness towards GoddessGod to an extent which makes them profoundly enlightened. They can then become prophets – a clear channel for divine love, inspiration and power, and words which helps others get closer to GodGoddess.

However – to believe that one of these individuals, these prophets, should have been able to express the whole truth of what we call GoddessGod is, according to my opinion, simple-minded. It is also believing to much in things like the capacity of the human brain and constitution, not to talk about the capacity of the human languages. Therefore it has never been an option to me to believe that any single religion holds the real truth about GodGoddess.

But I do believe in GoddessGod, in my own way. I also believe that the power of love is the strongest power of all, I believe strongly in the power of thought, intuition and persistence, and that one need to handle these powers with care and attention.

I find it hard to describe GodGoddess like GoddessGod is, I feel that no one can do that, but maybe everyone can actually do it,  in their own, special, unique, way.

But to describe it like a universal truth???

I mean, how do you describe feeling?

Or being alive?

How can you truly describe the 6 hour long sunrises over the waters of Stockholm on midsummer mornings or the intense winter silence in the deep forests of the Scandinavian north; the views from the high Alp tops of Austria or the power and beauty of the fertile earth and floods around Vienna; the special light in the air on Mallorca, where the high concentration of moisture in the air is making the sky look so close…

I believe that there are power(s) and knowledge which are beyond our capacity of understanding, but that every human can experience all of them and some can even find the words to tell us about these experiences. To listen to them is wise.

But to follow anyone’s words blindly I believe to be neither wise nor the point of them telling these wisdoms to us. I think that the point is to help us all to experience life more profoundly, for us to love more, experiencing GoddessGod deeper and deeper… They do this for us to live a better life, so that there will be more harmony and love in our societies,

and so that we might find the words to contribute to the human understanding of existence and GoddessGod with our own unique knowledge.

the venus project and the zeitgeist movement

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It came to me that when I know highlight development of high tech solutions to society’s problems (see post from this morning), I almost have to link to one of the really grand visionaries in this matter: Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project. The Venus Project is also closely connected to the very interesting Zeitgeist Movement – I might write some more about this movement in the future.

Peter Joseph, who started this movement and made the enlightening films Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, also published this film here below in March this year. It describes the basic ideas of The Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project:

The Zeitgeist Movement: Orientation Presentation

you’ll find more on Peter Joseph incl interviews @ zeitgeistmovie.com

I remain unconvinced about that these people offer the right solutions to our problems, although they have some interesting and bold ideas. But they are definitely asking the right questions and thus they have good idea about what our main problems are. And I love the fact that they aim for finding solutions and getting other people involved in that mission, instead of just pointing out what is bad in the world.

Plato’s Cave by Sam Weiss

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narrator: orson wells, animator: dick oden, music: larry wolff

This is the best thing that I’ve come across this week,  since a while actually, and it reminded me of that so many insightful and great people has existed at all kinds of moments and places in history. I got the info about the makers from the credits at the end of the film and the Long Island University Libraries…

The tale of the cave of Plato is such a wonderful critic of society, it is metaphysical, almost sprititual, and so many other things.

The beginning of it reminds me of something I read a while ago about us partly copying the synaps-connections of our parents when we are children. The synapses more or less decides how the different parts of our brains are connected. So, we are physically programmed to, partly, process and react to knowledge and stimuli more or less exactly as our parents would.

Talk about having our heads in chains… (see movie)

A FAIRY TALE – EL CUENTO DE HADAS – SAGAN (2003)

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A FAIRY TALE

Once upon a time there was True Love in the middle of Nothing. True Love was full of joy and harmony, but it was lonely, it had no one to share everything with.

So True Love made a hard decision, and split itself into billions and trillions of pieces, screaming of pain, but also singing in joy! Because True Love knew, that once all the billions and trillions of pieces had fallen into harmony, it would be able to see and love itself as the wonderful creation that it is! And it would never be lonely again.

You are a part of True Love, and so are your friends and so are your enemies. Remember your origin, and you will look upon the world in a different way.

EL CUENTO DE HADAS

Una vez habia Amor Verdadero en la mitad de Nada. Amor Verdadero era lleno de felizidad y harmonia, pero se sentia sólo, no tenía a nadie con quien podía compartir todo.

Asi que Amor Verdadero hacía una decisión muy difícil, y se compartió en billiones y trilliones  de piecos, gritando del dolor, !pero también cantando de felizidad! Porque sabía que, una vez que todos los piecos habrián caido en harmonía, !sería capaz de verse y amarse a si mismo por la creación fantastica que es! Y nunca más estaría sólo.

Tú eres una parte del Amor Verdadero, y también lo son tus amigos, y tus enemigos. Recuerda tú origín y mirarás al mundo en una manera diferente.

SAGAN

En gång fanns Sann Kärlek i mitten av Ingenting. Sann Kärlek var full av lycka och harmoni, men kände sig ensam, den hade ingen att dela allt med.

Så Sann Kärlek tog ett svårt beslut, och delade sig i billioner och trillioner bitar, skrikande av smärta, men också sjungande av glädje! För Sann Kärlek visste att när väl alla de billioner och trillioner bitarna fallit på plats, skulle den kunna se och älska sig själv som den fantastiska skapelse den verkligen är! Och den skulle aldrig vara ensam igen.

Du är en del av Sann Kärlek, och så är dina vänner, och dina fiender. Minns ditt ursprung och du kommer att se på världen på ett annat sätt.

DAS MÄRCHEN

Es war einmal Wahre Liebe in der Mitte von Nichts. Wahre Liebe war voll von Freude und Harmonie, aber es hatte niemanden womit es seine Liebe teilen konnte.

Also traf Wahre Liebe eine schwierige Entscheidung, und explodierte in Billionen und Trillionen Einzelteile, schreiend von Schmerz, aber auch singend von Freude! Weil Wahre Liebe wusste, das wenn einmal all die Billionen und Trillionen Teile Harmonie gefunden haben, wäre es fähig sich selber zu sehen und lieben als die wunderbare Kreation die es ist! Und es würde nie wieder alleine sein.

Du bist ein Teil von Wahre Liebe, und so sind es auch deine Freunde, und deine Feinde. Erinnere dich wo du herkommst, und du wirst die Welt anders sehen.