consciousness
The Sum of Ourselves
As souls living in the Earth, we create circumstances for ourselves and others.
What is not widely understood is that in looking at the sum of all human lives which a soul experiences, and under the umbrella of what is commonly called, “Karma”, when we, through our own freewill, create problem experiences in individual lives and/or in the world as a whole, we are then the ones who are given the divine task of cleaning up those problems. Of course, this cleaning is done over whatever time or lives are needed, and with as much help as is needed.
Look out at all the people who want to help clean up the planet, or clean up societal issues, or clean up a certain aspect of life – the environment, the government, medical knowledge, law, spirituality, education etc. They are people like you and I. This means like us, they feel within their hearts and minds the desire to bring better things into this Earth – to help make the world a better place.
As you might understand where I’m going with this, almost all of the 7.3 billion people who want to help “clean up” this world – make it a better place for all people – are the one’s who helped create these problems from within our past lives. (Not everyone.) Like you and I, others have learned from mistakes of past lives, and this learning is now deep within our hearts and souls helping us be inspired, motivated and understanding of the benefits of creating a better world for all life.
Those of us who are ready to do something to help – whenever we are ready of our own freewill to be willing to do something to help – are the ones who enter into the middle of the “problems” in some form, and work at leading new ways into the future. If we led the way in creating the mess, we can find ourselves with opportunities to lead the way in cleaning up the mess.
This process is not punishment. It is not obligation or penance. It is a process of healing, forgiveness, mercy and more. It comes from within our hearts – a new recognition of the opportunity for brotherhood among peoples – a recognition of the benefit and healing that comes with compassion and cooperation, kindness, forgiveness and patience. This feeling of wanting to contribute to the betterment of humankind comes from the best and greatest part of ourselves.
I’ve had past lives in Atlantis, partially as military personnel. In several lives and in several roles. I went to war, attacked, harmed and killed people. Without choosing further learning on my part, I then experienced lives where I had been attacked, harmed and killed. However, from then a willingness to learn greater understandings of the human experience, that which I learned from human life as a whole, led to a greater understanding of much of the experiences I created for others on the receiving end of what I dished out.
After much of these “learning” lives, I became priests, doctors, Seers and other service roles which have given me opportunity to help heal whom I wounded, help clean up the messes I’ve made, help repair the things I broke, and help bring together that which I took apart. This greater purpose gave me inspiration and life in the doing.
I’ve been so many different nationalities and races, that my memories of these lives help me to listen to and feel more understanding of the pain and suffering of others, as well as willingness to work hard at letting go of knee-jerk judgment and condemning of people on a particular side. (I still stumble at times, though.)
I walk in my shoes as a white man this life, but I recognized the other lives still existing within me, and in some I still seek and learn to bring forth life rather than take away life – meaning I still have work to do.
I have past lives as female, so they are within me. I have past lives as other races, other social roles, different religions and different sexual orientations, so those experiences are within me. I’m not those people on the outside anymore, but I am, like every one of us humans, the sum of all my past lives, experiences and learning, even if remembering all these experiences doesn’t come easy or automatic, (as every human knows.)
Why do some people choose to harm if they’ve had past lives? Because we all “remember in our soul” different things. As I’ve written in other articles, the 9-11 hijackers subconsciously remembered being on the receiving end of tremendous Atlantean attacks – with their feelings and thoughts that Atlantis- a great technical power invading everywhere in the world- was wrong to do that to people. The hijackers wanted opposition and revenge. They remembered their hatred even though they didn’t remember their past lives.
A lot of us remember our hatred. A lot of us humans remember feelings of bitterness and desire for vengeance. We may come up with today’s version of justification, but we are still the sum of all our feelings whether healing or harmful. We still, of our own freewill, get to choose which feelings we will act upon.
Some of us subconsciously remember love, also. Some of us “remember” lives in which the Master touched our life – directly or through others. Some remember spiritual lessons which they’ve learned, some remember a drive within our hearts motivating us to greater purposes.
It’s not an easy mix when we remember something worthwhile. We can lead ways to better paths, but we need to remember that it was ourselves who helped create those worse paths. When we seek to help bring healing from pain and suffering, we have to watch out for our blaming anyone who represents the person who we were, back when we helped create the pain and suffering. In actuality, most of us, are struggling not with the other person, but rather with who we were in that past life. We may “remember in our soul” that the “other person” is capable of harm, because we caused harm when we walked in those same shoes.
We are on this path together, meaning all of us are called to help heal all the different aspects of human consciousness that need healing within ourselves, whether we approach this task from one direction or some other direction. As we heal ourselves, we are helping heal the whole of human consciousness – not all in one lifetime, of course, but as Edgar Cayce says, “One hair at a time”.
If this seems daunting, just remember, we have eternity to do this, and as John says, “All you need is Love, dat, da, da, da dahhhhhhh.” Love is “leading new paths into the future, instead of following the old paths of the past” – leading the new ways of love, cooperation, compassion, forgiveness, mercy, patience, respect, and letting go of judgment instead of following the old ways of selfishness, hatred, condemnation, judgment and disregard.
We’re in this world together. We won’t have the same ideas, beliefs, paths and ways to manifest our hearts and souls, but that’s not the important part. The important part is that since we have the freewill to choose what motivates us, we can choose to manifest the best healing parts within us, or the worst harming parts within us.
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“We can be among the first ones to lead the new ways into the future, or we can be among the last ones to follow the old ways of the past. ” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2007-2018, Jodie Senkyrik)
“We have eternity to work this out. This means that we have eternity to forgive ourselves and others … if we really want to take that long.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2014, Jodie Senkyrik)
“Those who are willing to forgive, will find they can. Those who are unwilling to forgive, will find it impossible.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2018, Jodie Senkyrik)
Program Information: 2018 – Looking Forward and Going Within
It doesn’t always benefit us to know what possible futures there are, if we don’t know that we can help bring a better future, change a harmful future, or don’t know the best and most effective ways to change the future.
Many times, people have asked me what to do when they get a psychic premonition of a possible problem, disaster or harmful future. My answer is always the same. These events come to us, so that we take steps to help heal, avoid or change the event. We cannot always take physical steps to change a harmful event, but we can ALWAYS take spiritual steps – through prayer as well as sending light through either meditation or other methods. We may not be able to stop a harmful event completely, but our prayers come with energy to transform the event like a high vibration tuning fork affecting a low vibration tuning fork.
The Feb 10-11, 2018 weekend retreat will help us explore the paths set before us and help us practice the steps which can potentially change paths for the better for all, even if we have differing opinions of what is better.
I have psychically seen the future change many times through our spiritual work and effort. Many paths that had been forewarned about have been changed. Events which had been foreseen have been healed and dissolved through efforts before these events manifest. In essence, the Light can dissipate the imminent dark clouds.
You are welcome to join us February 10-11, 2018, in learning more of what we can do to help ourselves, friends and families, and the world in which we live by sitting in a comfortable position, closing our eyes, going within, turning our minds to the heavens and raising God’s energy in the world through meditation, prayer and understanding.
Saturday evening:
5-6pm: check-in on the patio of the office building for overnight attendees.
6:30pm: Saturday dinner in the cafeteria
7:45pm: Intro, opening meditation, “Perspectives on God” and discussion in the comfortable meeting room of the office building.
Sunday morning: (all Sunday meetings are in Steve’s Hall)
8-8:30am: Day-only attendees check-in on the patio of the office building.
8:30am: Breakfast in the cafeteria for overnight attendees
9:30am: “New Power in Prayer, New Connections in Meditation” includes several meditation periods and discussion
12 noon: Lunch in the cafeteria
Sunday afternoon:
1:30pm: “Looking Forward” includes several meditation periods, includes Q&A and any other discussion.
3:00pm: Break
3:30pm: “Looking Forward” continued Q&A.
5:00pm: “Official” ending.
(The times are flexible if needed or desired.)
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Sexual Harassment? Yes, but Look Deeper
We have a lot of news about sexual harassment and sexual predators, people – mostly well-known men – who are charged with misusing their positions of power or influence to harass others sexually. Because it has been easier than usual to isolate these incidences and charge the people with these abuses, it has been very easy for many people to jump on the band-wagon to condemn and judge those who are singled-out.
The trouble is that the problem has a deeper core. On the surface, we can easily imagine and see how these harassing incidences play out. We can also understand how people can take advantage of others. We have been doing this to each other for millennium after millennium.
But, in looking at this, I’m seeing a deeper issue and cause that is across the board – human related – rather than just being isolated incidences. I’m seeing sexual harassment on the job as only a symptom of this deeper human-wide issue.
What I see is that the issue is not about sex and power. It is about respect. It is about whether we respect other people in other situations, in other circumstances of life, in other genders, other religions, other cultures, other races. The question is put to us – do we respect others?
It’s easy to say, ‘well, respect has to be earned.’ No, it doesn’t. No infant has ever been charged with ‘not deserving respect’ because they haven’t yet earned it. No child has ever been labeled in school – “undeserving of anyone’s respect because they haven’t fulfilled anything deserving it”. We don’t say at some point, ‘they’ve now grown up, and we can decide whether they’ve earned respect or not.’
As human beings, we don’t think about these things, but in the back of our minds, as family and friends of those infants and children, and without thinking, we hold some level of respect for them automatically. That level is usually based on the amount of respect we generate in our own heart for human beings in general.
As human beings and spiritual beings, we are born into deserving of Love, of mercy, of kindness, etc., … and of respect. But, across the board of all human existence, we can see where we fall extremely short on giving that respect, or love or kindness, etc. to others.
When we actively work to respect another person – consciously – we treat that person so much better. We work to not harm them. We work to be kind, generous and merciful to them. We work to forgive them, to support them and to offer them as much of the best of ourselves whenever they need it.
When we actively don’t respect someone, it becomes so easy for us to demonstrate that lack or small amount of respect through abuse of all kinds, harassment, insults, condemnation, judgmental criticism and every other means to demean them and look down on them. It becomes easy for us to charge them with “no longer deserving respect’. When we choose to not respect, it becomes easy to mistreat and abuse them. When we have little or no respect for another person or group of people, it becomes easier for us to enslave and kill them. (When we have little or no respect for others, subconsciously, we can have little or no respect for our self.)
We usually have in our individual minds and hearts that measuring stick which we hold up to them and say, ‘they don’t deserve respect because…’. The reasons are vast and numerous. They don’t deserve respect because of . . . their gender, their race, their religion, their lack of religion, their social status, their occupation, their age, their spiritual beliefs, their country of origin, their education, their location, their behaviors, their lack of behaviors, their affiliations, their past, their present, their future, their X, their Y, their Z and on and on.
Look across the board to all humans and look for some person or group who is giving respect to every human on the planet. Not someone who is “saying” I give respect, but rather someone who is giving that respect without being asked. Look far and wide, because when we are honest with ourselves, and respecting what honesty really is – and the level of honesty within ourselves – we will find all of ourselves wanting and failing at respecting all others. Many women (and men) have been on the receiving end of sexual harassment. All human beings have been on the receiving end of being shown little or no respect. All human beings have also been on the giving end of ‘little or no respect’ towards another individual or a group (and ourselves.)
For myself, I can think of only 1 man who, in His heart, mind, and soul respected each and every human alive – albeit all life. And while He may have chastised and warned people against those who said one thing and did another, when it came to His end, He recognized the respect all deserve as children of God in His words of equality and humility -“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” In essence, saying “Father, they are deserving of forgiveness. They are deserving of mercy. They are deserving of the Love You have for them – even that Love through Me. They are deserving of consideration, of patience, of encouragement, of all You have to give, … and they are deserving of respect… even though they don’t know it or take it on for themselves to bestow it to others.” He saw then, and He sees today, all of us as His equals deserving all that God gave Him and all God has to give.
As souls, we are innately born into existence with respect from the Father/Mother God. As souls, we recognize the reality of each of us having our own parcel of the Godhead within our own existence and spirit. We are all sparks of the Infinite Consciousness of God, and from this Infinite Consciousness of God comes respect as well as the other Spirit Qualities of Love, Compassion, Mercy and others. These qualities reside within us waiting for us to express them outwardly towards others. By the very nature of our existence, we are children of God and innately are already deserving of respect, and called to give respect (as well as deserving of love, kindness, mercy, etc. – then called to give love, kindness, mercy, etc) by our very existence. Yet, we don’t always automatically receive them from others or give them to others.
Every effort we make to change our own ‘lack of respect’ into ‘respecting’ moves us one step closer to creating a better world for all people. It could help if we remember His words, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”, and take them on for ourselves to bring into the world towards others and to ourselves. In a world one day filled to the brim with our respect for one another, (and other qualities), then we will have Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards All Men and Women (and all life).
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” ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ (John 8:7) applies to how we treat our self, also.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1997-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“Jesus never lied when he spoke. Yet, sometimes we still find it hard to believe him… and sometimes, we absolutely don’t.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1997-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“Disappointment in others occurs when there is a small amount of our assistance for them to reach a large amount of our expectations.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1997-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“There will never be a day that we can stop hatred and violence in the world by opposing it using hatred and violence.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2016, Jodie Senkyrik)
Praying for a Miracle
Miracles are real. Miracles happen. I’ve seen them. I’ve experienced them. I’ve prayed for them specifically, and I’ve had them happen when I asked for them.
I’m not anyone special that I would be favored by God more, or loved more or be considered more worthy. God sees everyone equally, always. God has everyone equally in His/Her heart. Likewise, Christ has everyone equally in His heart.
I don’t know if I help make miracles happen besides praying and asking for them, but I do challenge myself to have faith, constantly. I consider this important, because if I’m asking God for something, then the challenge I give myself is to pray and have faith in Christ – that which He asks – not pretend or as a trick to trade something – which we all try to bargain our way into God’s good stead.
No, the challenge I give myself is to actually have faith that all things are possible with God. I challenge myself to turn my unbeliefs into beliefs – have faith in Christ Jesus – and not just in the easy times, but in the difficult times. This challenges my thinking, challenges my doubts, challenges my heart and all the thoughts and feelings within me. I have to choose to change and then change. I have to choose to not doubt, as much as I have to choose to have faith. I have to choose to not disbelieve as much as I have to choose to believe.
It is a question for me to ask, do I give Christ credit for being Christ? Do I give God credit for being God? Do I recognize that Christ is capable of all the Bible tells me and even more? For me, I am challenged to believe what the centurion said to Jesus – “If you say the word, I know it will be done.” Then open the mind, allow for all possibilities, believe it and have faith.
Christ, Himself, told us we must also pray, and in some of these prayers, I ask specifically for “A Miracle.” In the specific times that I’m thinking of as I write this, the receiving of the miracles were almost instantaneous. I say almost because one time a whole 10 seconds had to pass after I asked for a miracle, (after 3 hours of praying and working on my faith, then trusting that God knows better than I what needs to occur, and accepting that Christ is the Father’s “right hand”.)
Practicing all of this is a lesson in “learning”, also. We are called to know ourselves as spirit beings experiencing physical bodies. We are called to know ourselves as a part of and one with the Infinite Consciousness and Spirit of God. Growing into these are not automatic, but rather done through effort, practice, open-minded learning and choosing of our own freewill to move into this awareness. Learning about miracles is one of these lessons. In fact, there’s a whole course in miracles. The books are called, “A Course in Miracles”, if anyone is interested.
Miracles are real. Miracles happen. And never hesitate to ask God for a miracle. After you ask, then you get to choose whether to be open-minded to learn or not.
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There are online prayer lines where prayers people ask for are listed. These are sincere prayers being asked for. One can add their own and pray for the others. When I pray for the others, I can sense the real need and the real calling to prayer.
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“If we miss the miracles happening, the problem is not with the miracles.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2006-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“God does not criticize or label the poetry of our living our own life. ” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2013, Jodie Senkyrik)
“Another of Christ’s messages: Everyone can be forgiven and
everything can be forgiven.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2013, Jodie Senkyrik)
Coming to Our Senses?
I was thinking about your comment that 9/11 is a lessening of what would have occurred if it weren’t for prayers. However, millions of people died because of 9/11 – in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria. Our rights have been severely restricted and people have been tortured and had their lives taken away from them by imprisonment. It appears to me that there was no abatement in suffering and that 9/11 and its aftermath will create more before this madness ends.
Is an economic collapse necessary to bring people to their senses? Is it necessary to defund and dismantle the war machine? Will the US finally look inward when things come crashing down? Lisa H
You are right. Millions of people died because of the 9/11 attack. You’re also right that there is no abatement in the existence and presence of suffering. But, all I say now is recorded in the Akashic Records available for all to investigate. That future of which we were able to heal so much, the future which included the prayers and meditations of millions of people bringing forth change, the future which these millions were able to raise the vibrations of this whole planet through spiritual effort – is a future which had been helped to be avoided where billions of people would have died instead. There would have been suffering for all humanity for a whole generation and longer still.
The planet itself was slated to undergo cataclysmic destruction from energy and consciousness patterns destined to manifest. Through the great effort of so many, who brought forth the love, mercy, compassion, cooperation and all manners of other help, so much has been healed. But, so much has not yet been healed, also.
What we see today is still great suffering. Yet, there is a great difference, because of what has been healed and therefore avoided because of the healing. Are there still serious problems? Absolutely. “Is an economic collapse necessary to bring people to their senses?” An economic collapse would NOT bring people to their senses.
Are you asking what would bring people to their senses? My answer is not the answer you might look for. You’re asking for an external event to trigger people looking inwardly. External events don’t bring about civilizations to look inward. Internal events bring about individuals looking inwardly. Internal events only happen when individuals of their own freewill choose to be open in their hearts and minds to have internal events happen. So, what would bring people to their senses?
Patience. A quality which so many deem so insignificant and unworthy that it is ignored and dismissed without so much as a second thought. Patience is a quality which people feel is so unimportant that few seek to develop this quality, (and many choose not to at all.) Yet, in patience we will know our very souls – because of walking our path to go within to seek our own souls. And in knowing our souls, we will recognized our innate inner spiritual nature, knowing then that we are eternal spiritual beings with Infinity within us and at our fingertips, not fleshly beings that have to fight each other for every scrap of physical food.
This Earth is not our spiritual home. We come from the awareness of our spirit nature, and in time, we will return to the awareness of our spirit nature. Christ said to all of us, “I go to prepare a place for you.” This is the place in consciousness where we are once again aware of the truth and existence of being spirit. We are spirit beings, born in the spirit image of God. Because Jesus Christ has completed the spiritualization of the Earth, this transformation of consciousness – from believing we are flesh beings to being aware that we are spirit beings – is guaranteed, but not in a single lifetime. Neither God, nor Christ, nor so many other souls helping will give up on any soul. God has willed that no soul shall perish – forever destined to believe they are a fleshly, separated being. And so, the path is slow, so that no soul is left behind – not a single soul.
Hence, patience with one another and patience with ourselves is to be learned. And with God, learning patience is possible.
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“God’s Patience is as Infinite as God.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2004-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“God does not accept “No” for an answer when He calls us. He does accept “Not Yet”, but He does not accept “No”. He will wait with Infinite Love and Infinite Patience until we’re ready to have “I’m ready, now, to say ‘Yes'” come from inside our heart. ” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2004-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“God does not approach us with judgement or criticism in His heart, but rather Patience, Understanding, Kindness and Love.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2004-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
Faith in God, Faith in Ourselves, Faith in Others.
If we’re not working on any particular one of these three areas of faith, then we’re trying to sit on a stool with 1 or 2 of it’s 3 legs missing.
Faith in God, we know. We’ve been taught this, and we try to practice it. We’re familiar with what it calls for. This has been with us for a long time growing up and as adults. It is what is most pointed to when people talk of faith at all.
Faith in ourselves, is a little harder, because it’s easy to forget this. When we’re struggling with life’s slings and arrows, it’s easy to get lost on our own woes and sorrows. When we’re overwhelmed with the serious and bulldozing experiences which can come forth in life, we may call upon God and have faith in Him/Her, but it’s easy to forget to have faith also in ourselves to make it through even these desperate challenges.
But, faith in others???
Here is where we stumble and fall over and over, again. So, many of us think of others and think the worst. We see the worst in some people and think the worst in all, sometimes. It is so easy, and it seems automatic, like a recorded response that plays over and over in our minds and hearts triggered by … whatever triggers the response.
Faith in others is one of the more challenging “faiths” to have. We can easily become cynical, bitter, resentful and angry when we choose to not even try to have faith in others.
Yet, we may have faith in everyone who thinks and feels exactly like we do – everyone who believes exactly like we believe. However, we may give up the struggle to have faith in any of the many human beings who feel, think and believe differently.
It is so easy to have faith in someone who believes exactly like we do – even though there is no one in existence who believes actually EXACTLY like we do. It is so easy to have faith in anyone who speaks the same words, espousing the same views, demonstrating the same feelings and thoughts, as we ourselves – even though there is no one in existence who PERFECTLY matches our own views, words, beliefs, feelings and thoughts.
It takes a decision within ourselves to have faith in others, and what can help is to have faith in their higher self – that part of ourselves that is still connected to the Infinite Universal Divine Consciousness, and sees with the eyes of this Divine Perspective.
We have a hard time living our human lives from this Divine Perspective place in our consciousness. But, the choice still exists for us to make. In addition, many people seem far, far, away from this place in our consciousness what with the horrors people bring forth in our world.
All things are possible with God, and it is possible to have faith in others when we remember that, like God, who has given them eternity, we, too, can give them eternity to work things out within themselves – working out the cynicism, bitterness, resentment. hatred and more. 1 million, 2 million, 5 million years is not that long for working out inner issues – to change our hearts and minds. Yet, eternity (which is even more than 5 million years) is what God gives us, and at no time does God abandon us to work on ourselves without Him/Her in all this eternity. Infinite Love is like that.
We can look at this one life and think we’re doomed, or they’re doomed or he’s bad or she’s wrong or this or that or the like. But, God looks at us through the eyes of Eternity and in that Eternity, God can do all things – including bring us back into an awareness and Oneness with Infinite Love – the Love that permeates Infinity and connects us to the Love that exists inside Eternity.
With Faith in God, we can better practice faith in ourselves, and with both of these, we can learn how to have faith in others – knowing there is something within each soul that is connected to God and will never be disconnected – remaining connected for Eternity.
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“Nothing has manifested in the world that wasn’t first imagined.
This includes harmony, cooperation, kindness and peace. That which we imagine in our minds, will be what we manifest in the world – even if we imagine harm and violence upon others. ” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“We accept that computers work even though we don’t understand how. We know someone somewhere knows how they work. We have faith in that. Can we have faith in Christ even though we don’t understand or know how it’s all possible? The fact is Jesus Christ understands completely how it’s all possible.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“Suffering is not a failure. This experience is what the soul has sought, in order to walk the journey out of suffering, and in doing so, leading other souls out of the suffering which they have indeed been experiencing and been lost in for more millenniums than we could even count. Jesus is the first.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2013, Jodie Senkyrik)
Previous Article: Love and Hate
The previous article was heavy. It wasn’t very uplifting, inspirational, supportive or light. Hatred is like that, isn’t it.
God’s gift to us isn’t hatred. God’s gift to us, is that which we are made of – that which is our very essence – that which our spirit existence is based on – Love. Love is our essence. Love is our substance. Love is the material of which we are made of. God made us in His/Her own image and that image is Love. We are made out of the spirit substance that is known and recognized to be Love. For this reason, and from this substance, we live and exist.
We naturally gravitate to love, are attracted to love and long for love. To all of us beings, love is the round peg finding a round hole – a square peg finding a square hole.
In contrast, we must struggle with all our might to avoid love, to disconnect from love and to push love away (and we do that.) We must work hard to deny love, because our very own essence is what we are denying.
Many will say, “rubbish” to all this, in an effort to run away from love, in an effort to push away love, in an effort to say “no” to love – which in turn, is running away from ourselves, pushing our self away and saying no to our self. We do this, because we’re so used to thinking this way – to say no to love.
Being True to Ourselves
We need not do anything to be true to Love. We need not reach outward to find it, but rather settle into it. We need not carry out any thought or activity in order to be the essence of love, because it is the substance of which our spirit is made of. Even if we have shown very little of this essence of which we are, we were created at the beginning of existence as love, and we will exist as love – as our self and the true essence of our self – for all eternity. Nothing will change this truth – no thought, no action, no behavior. This is true for every living being.
The challenge is for us to choose how, and when we express the “true-ness” of our love existence. At any moment, we can choose in that moment to express our true self, or on the other hand, express any of the other imagined necessary reactions to the experiences we consider not worthy of love or not worthy of a form of love.
God is the Consciousness of Love – the Infinite Consciousness of Infinite Love. All the different levels of consciousness which we perceive in the Earth, from the “lowest” form of life to the highest form, are part of this Infiniteness and what is being referred to here. Therefore, every action, thought, and behavior impacts God and therefore ripples out to Infinity and our self.
If we are unwilling to make these choice to express the truth of the substance of our essence – love – to be our self – our true self, how can we expect others around us or those we are aware of through the media or in positions of prominence to make these choices. If we choose to demonstrate expressions of “non-self/non-love”, how can we expect others to demonstrate the self that is love in return to us. If we are not willing to change our own expressing of that which is not love, how can we expect those who are learning from observing us – our personal example (of which their are many) to learn to change their ways of expressing.
From the essence of the substance of God that we call our individual self with our freewill, we choose how we express life in this world. No one can force us to hate. We can only agree to it. Likewise no one can force anyone to love. We can only decide to be willing and then carry love out.
Regardless of how much we argue that we were forced to act a certain harmful way, we still know that we were not forced to feel the feelings that led to that harmful act. We were not forced to think the thoughts that fed the feelings. We were not forced to perceive the other as worthy of harmful acts.
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What this means is the phrase, “Be yourself” has a bigger meaning. For us to be ourselves, we need only to be willing to love and to be loved – in other words, to BE LOVE – to exist as our self – Love.
It’s not easy, but with desire, hope, practice, patience, forgiveness, mercy, compassion and effort one day at a time, we can let ourselves be ourselves, more and more.
“Hatred is Not Justice”
(The title is a quote from the book, “Nosso Lar” by Francisco Cândido Xavier. It is translated from Portuguese to English in the book, “Astral City”. )
There are many people in the world right now, who currently say that their hatred leads them to bring justice. We see and hear many people all over the world saying that their hatred brings justice. But, all sane people know that their saying this, doesn’t make it true. Yet, frustratingly, like the others, all of us still have times when we grasp hold of the idea thinking that with our hatred, we can enact justice.
But, hatred is not justice. When we catch ourselves and step back – stepping back from our own hatred, which we can do, albeit asking God’s help to do this – we can acknowledge that the words of the title statement are true words.
In the moments of hatred rising, why do we take hold of the idea that hatred might bring justice? More often, it is because of our suffering. We may believe that to be rid of the pain of hatred as well as the suffering of others or our own being attacked by our human brothers and sisters, we must act out of hatred in return, calling it justice.
But, hatred is not justice. God’s gift to us is not hatred. In that vein, we may wonder, ‘then what do we do with criminals and terrorist’s?’
There are many things we can do. We start with God. Our prayers, our meditations, our acts from the heart – all of these are where we start. In addition, as the human race, throughout human history, we also have progressed on a path of developing laws designed to govern behavior. This evolutionary path is not finished. We are not at the end of evolving lawfully or socially. Our efforts to walk a higher road has led humans to strive to design laws and create consequences to breaking those laws according to ever higher principles of honest justice.
For us as individuals, we can take a look at our self. We can choose to let the statement live in our own behaviors and choices. This can help us as individuals to choose a different behavior towards the people in our lives and the people who we only know about on TV. We can choose to hold onto the principle that hatred is not justice, and then look for ways to make it real in our day-to-day lives, activities and relationships.
When we choose to remember that hatred is not justice, we can also act from this awareness towards those who think that their hatred is their source of justice. When we act from hatred, we don’t always realize that our hatred is the same as others’ hatred. We may deny our hatred, and they do, too. We may justify our hatred, but so do they. In the end, where is the difference in hatreds?
There are too many examples in the news, every day, of when people act from the belief that their hatred is different – their hatred is righteous – their hatred is justified – their hatred is a gift from God. No one religion holds the monopoly on these acts of hatred – every philosophy and religion has people who have acted believing hatred (whether in large ways or small ways) is their way to justice.
But, hatred is not justice. We will evolve beyond hatred, learning this, if we remember one day at a time, that justice does exist, even though we may never, in our own minds and our own paradigms, understand fully how it could be. We can evolve beyond hatred, with God’s help. We can evolve beyond hatred through our prayers, our meditations, one day at a time, through our efforts on each day that we remember God and God’s Infinite and unending Love for each of us.
God will never give up on teaching us – “hatred is not justice” – that God is the Justice we seek, in addition to God being Infinite Understanding, Infinite Patience, Infinite Kindness, Infinite Love, Infinite Forgiveness, Infinite Peace, Infinite Mercy and more.
These are God’s true gifts to us.
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“What would you want heaven to be like? Are you creating that in your heart and mind, right now? Are you helping to create that for others in the world?” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2006-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“It is best that we don’t believe everything we hear about someone. It is also best that we don’t believe everything we say about someone.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2006-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“For us to release ourselves from prison, we must release everyone else, as well. For us to release ourselves from karma, we must release everyone else from the karma we assign to them and expect them to go through, as well. Mercy and Forgiveness are the keys. We cannot move on, when our hands are holding on to the chains we place on others.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2006-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
A Prayer for Our Times
Lord, the prayers that need praying right now, let those prayers be what we pray to you, though we may not know the words that are needed.
Lord, all souls who need prayers right now, let these souls receive the prayers, though we may not know who they are.
Lord, the message you would create in our hearts, let the messages be received and become part of us, though we may not have thought of them ourselves.
Lord, the love you have for us, let that love manifest, though we many times forget to remember it.
Pray for the Family of Man.
“Pray for all life.”
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External vs. Internal
Trump has removed Bannon from the NSC, and Nunes has recused himself from the investigation into possible collusion between Trump and Russia. What do you think? N.F.
The question for me isn’t what are those other people doing. The question I ask myself each day is “What can I do today, to help?” Whether it’s pray and meditate, act with respect and kindness towards others, consider my role of supporting groups I believe help, recycling, or doing that one thing that only one person can do, I ask myself, what can I, one person, do today? This is what each individual has the capacity for, because all things that are accomplished are accomplished by individuals doing that which they can do as an individual – with individuals cooperating with each other – to bring about large events.
Sitting in the silence of this question, when put out to the Infinite Consciousness of God, I can get many answers – not all at once – and certainly not coming through the “lightening and thunder.” But, for me, my main answer is be true to myself – to my own heart, what I value, what I care about, what concerns me, what I try to affect by being one person adding my effort to other “one persons”.
We can contribute to the change in the world, in our nation, in our community and in our own family, by changing ourselves, by putting forth effort, and by recognizing that we can affect our own life and maybe the life of someone we contact. Like the story of the boy who kept throwing beached starfish back in the water, when another person pointed out there were hundreds and thousands out of the water – “My effort matters to the one that is helped by that one act.”
From what I see psychically, everything is happening for a reason, but the big picture and understanding of why it happens this way, is as big as the Universe and all of Evolution through all time. Our prayers and meditation help to bring about higher guidance, and higher levels of healing. The effort we put forth is an act of creation of a new world – one built with what we do as an individual, today.
Finally, with regards to all the destruction that also happens – this too shall pass. Hence why the specific maneuvering in the government and external world doesn’t matter as much as the changes we make happen within our own hearts and minds.
If we want focus on the people in government to help bring about a better world, first, we need to look to the Spirit of God that lives within our own hearts and within our own efforts. God’s help and guidance is stronger for those we pray for, but God will never take away a soul’s freewill to choose their actions for themselves. If we see people’s actions as being harmful, then instead of judging, condemning and criticizing, be a person who instead prays for those who are lost in their desire to harm. Remember, if all we are is a person who condemns and criticizes, but doesn’t pray to do something to help bring real change, then all we are is an empty noisemaker.
Thank you for contributing to this blog. God bless you.
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“If we could fully realize that every experience we create for ourselves and others is experienced not just by our immediate surroundings, but by all life in our area, in our planet, in this universe and in all the infinite universes, as well, would it affect what we decided to create for others to experience?” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2014, by Jodie Senkyrik)
The Good Fight
There are many that are ready to fight the current political establishment. There are many that are ready to fight against these first people. Which group of people has something worth fighting for? Both. But, what is it that each is fighting for? This is the question that each of us must ask ourselves. We can claim that we are fighting for the most noble causes – for people, for security, for freedom, for rights, for this, for that, for the other thing, etc.
But, who is fighting for honesty? Who is fighting for compassion? Who is fighting for mercy and forgiveness? Who is fighting for kindness and patience? Who is fighting for patience towards yet “not condemning” the other side?
The “fight” for these is in bringing them forth through our behavior. In effect, letting these live from inside us, coming from our own heart and mind, coming out in how we relate towards those around us is the strongest way to fight for them – by demonstrating them. It is the strongest way to make honesty alive, real and solid in the world. It is the strongest way to make compassion, kindness, patience and the others alive, real and solid in the world. But, it is a fight that few are willing to engage in, dismissing it easily as if Christ never mentioned it.
If we require the acts of others to have these qualities, yet without these qualities being alive in us, through our own actions, then we are not putting forth the good fight. When fighting for truth, why bother if we aren’t truthful with ourselves? When fighting for kindness, why bother if we’re not kind to our enemies? When fighting for mercy, why bother if we don’t show mercy to any group who thinks differently than we do?
Christ taught that the Romans were the brothers of the Jews. He never condemned the Romans or their system of government. Christ taught the message that what was worth fighting for was that which we can find within our own hearts. It requires us to address who we are within ourselves, first and foremost.
Governments and people in the government will come and go, but who will we be during this time slot – a kind and cooperative person if one side wins and a violent and condemning person if the other side wins?
What does it benefit us to gain all we want in government, or all we want within our own business, or in the world, but then lose our humanity, lose our respect and kindness towards others, our dignity and self-respect, lose our ideals and that which we strive for bettering ourselves? What does it benefit us, if we use our mind and heart to win the insult battle or win at condemning others more, or use our knowledge to belittle anyone, but then lose our spiritual path or lose our very soul in the process.
This will be done plenty, by others and ourselves, but who do we become when we add to the insults and belittling?
As human beings, we have many examples throughout history of when it became fun to cause suffering onto those we saw as less than, who we saw as beneath us in character, or the enemy, idiots or clueless. We have many examples of when it became easy to pick up the stones with which to stone others. We laugh at the words, today, that ridicule those we don’t like.
Imagine the world, today, if we put all that energy and effort into praying and meditating for all the people and all life on the Earth. Imagine if every day more and more people joined in the praying and meditating to lift the spirits of all life on the Earth.
How does something like millions of people joined in praying and meditating come into being and start? With one person one day deciding “I will.”
“We can do it if we try.” John Lennon
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“If chaos, selfishness, bitterness and judgement of others gives us joy and peace of mind, and lifts one’s heart into the presence of Love, then by all means hold onto that. But, if it doesn’t, consider trading up for that which may be better at lifting one’s heart into the presence of Love.” (The Rainbow Cards, 1996-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
That Worthwhile Deep Within
If you’re wondering what effect government actions will have in the long term, you don’t really need to wait and see. You also don’t need to hang your hopes on promises. We can look at the human race all around the world – not just in the United States – and see the pushback that is happening from people who don’t want human, social and spiritual evolution to occur. The pushback is happening in the form of attempts to revert back to previous states of consciousness and previous states of life. Peace and cooperation – not chaos – are products of God’s presence and guidance. Christ never taught chaos, He taught better things than this.
There are issues and “sicknesses” deep within so many human consciousnesses in the Earth. In fact, one can easily say that we all have issues and illnesses within us. For all of us, these are coming to the surface, becoming visible and even being pseudo-supported by some. The racial, religious, and cultural prejudices all around the world that are now more visible than ever before, are a major part of that which is coming to the surface, having been repressed and buried deep within before now.
There are many that, if possible, would like that these “sicknesses” never came to the surface – that one could hold onto them throughout all time. There are many that think that it is right and just to hate a different culture. There are many that think the only way to have peace and harmony is if everyone is the same – starting with the same skin color, then religious beliefs, then political party, then this, then that. To some degree, no one is completely immune to these thoughts and feelings.
Of course, that argument comes from declaring that love is not the center of our existence and therefore not the center of spiritual law. For some, Love is only an emotion that has little power for healing.
The truth is all of us are the same, and all of us are different. We are the same in that we all – in fact all of life – are spirits of the One God. We are all spirit beings. All life is first a spirit being. All life! That means from the smallest thing that exists to the largest thing that exists – we’re all spirit first.
We are different in that the Infinite Consciousness of God creates Infinitely and not finitely. Infinite Consciousness has created Infinite Possibilities, Infinite forms, Infinite manifestations of Spirit and has given spirits in these Infinite manifestations freewill.
When we choose the path of healing our own issues and illnesses within us, we make a more open path for healing for those that follow us or who may be in our lives. We open to our own Infinite possibilities, because we open to a greater presence of the Infinite Consciousness. This changes the status quo within ourselves and within our own environment.
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Difficult times are ahead. It will be easy to hate – as easy as it comes. It is one of the easiest things to look down upon, to dismiss, to diminish, and to disrespect. It is as easy as it comes to consider others to be less than worthy of respect from us, less than worthy of being afforded dignity and less than worthy of human kindness from us.
It is difficult – it takes sometimes dogged, persistent effort to do that which is worthwhile – to show respect – to show human kindness – to recognize that every soul is equally worthy of all human rights and all compassion and consideration. It is difficult to change the deepest part of our own souls, because we then have to let go of benefits that we think we gained through countless lifetimes and years of being prejudiced and condemning – putting ourselves above others – pushing others down beneath us.
For some of us, it will be impossible to change, because some of us will consider ourselves alone in the world, and having only our own prejudice and contempt of others as our companions. But, with God – the Infinite Consciousness of God, all things are possible. With God, all things can be accomplished. With God, our deepest fears and selfishness, our deepest disregard and contempt for any others can indeed be changed. With God, we can open to the truth that all others are our brothers and sisters in God’s Infinite Consciousness and Spirit for each of us has that Spirit of Oneness within our very being – giving us our very existence – uniting us all at our very core of our self.
With the Infinite Consciousness of God, we are one, and we will find our way out of our selfishness and our illusion of being alone. As human beings, we can find our way back to being in the Family of Man. As souls, we can find our way back to being enveloped in Infinite Peace and united again with the Infinite Love of our Infinite Source of Life.
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“Sorrow, suffering and despair are appropriate things to feel when we feel disconnected from God. Pity the person who has lost their connection to God and cares nothing at all about it.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1995-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“If we really want to know if Someone is Real. We need only sincerely ask to meet with that Someone. ‘Seek and ye shall find.’ ” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
Seeking the Truth
Every single human being on the face of the Earth, who has lived before and who will live yet, believes that we hold the truth in our own paradigm of our own everyday beliefs. Holding onto this paradigm can motivate some of us to close our minds and hearts to anything other than what we already have in our own paradigm. If we’re so convinced that we hold the truth in our beliefs, we will not then open our minds and seek even greater truths.
This is unfortunate indeed. Even the Bible tells us to “Trust not our own understanding.”
Regardless of whether we believe something is the truth or not, if we look for the truth, with effort, we will find it. If we look for what is untrue in order to call it true, we will still find it. If we look for whatever will shore up what we believe, we will find that. Whatever we seek, we will find. Whatever we have in our hearts or minds, if we seek more of that, we will find that. Hence, why is it that we don’t always seek greater truths.
If we have cynicism is our hearts and minds, and we seek to confirm our cynicism, we will find what we want. If we have doubt in our hearts and minds and want to confirm our doubt, we will find what confirms doubt.
The person who works hard to discern the difference between the truth and that which is untrue, – only through holding onto that desire in one’s heart and mind – will find the truth, and eventually know it.
Christ gives witness to the truth from within our own consciousness and within our own heart. There is no mistaking Christ coming forth to confirm the truth within our own consciousness. There is no lie that can stand up to the truth Christ confirms. There is no prejudice, selfishness, fear or judgement that will stand up the the truth Christ gives witness to. The truth is based in Love, and it is love which helps us to grow in discernment. However, we have freewill and so we can still reject what Christ confirms.
So we need not throw the baby out with the bathwater. It is easy to say, “they are all fake and all lies and all unethical” It is easy to seek out confirmation of this, but the person who ONLY has their own understandings and beliefs about the world, will stumble and fall over and over again, for as long as they have themselves ONLY that they believe.
There are some us humans who fully intend to mislead, because it serves selfishness and what is desired. There are some of us who mislead ourselves. None of these people are easy to pick out, because sometimes there are parts of us that want to believe that what they say is the truth. There are sometimes that we want to believe what we ourselves are telling ourselves. We wish it to be true so much that we are willing to believe what is untrue.
But, there are also people who fully seek to put forth effort to be honest and ethical. To say that all are unethical is to deny the truth. This is true of leaders, journalists, teachers, and all manners of all people.
It is a good prayer to pray, “Lord, teach me the Truth. Help me be good soil for the truth you teach.”
One thing I believe I’ve found is that Love and Truth are same, but you’ll still need to decide if you believe it or not.
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“Sometimes, we prefer to still think we’re right, rather than accept that we’re not and correct it. And boy, how visible this is to the other people who observe us.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“The real truth of the world we live in vs. our perspectives and understanding of the world we live in – are worlds apart.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
“How we live our life, while in this world, is our legacy to the world when we leave it.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1999-2017, Jodie Senkyrik)
Can We Heal Karma?
Is there a way to pray to erase bad karma? Can we undo bad acts and bad thoughts before they boomerang on us? Lisa H.
Karma, or rather a Karmic energy pattern, manifests because of previous causal actions’ vibrations at a certain level “finding” an appropriate circumstance and environment to manifest in a particular person’s life – circumstances and opportunity in which the vibrations of the original causal act/behavior can match. It’s like a round peg finding a round hole to fit in.
Every act we make goes out into the Infinite Consciousness of all Life and gets experienced by all Consciousness – including ourselves when circumstances and the environment match up. We use the term Karma to label causal acts that are painful or harmful. We tend not even to think of positive and helpful acts in the same way, even though all acts/behaviors impact upon Infinite Consciousness and all beings experience them in some manner.
Because the original causal acts are carried out at a certain level of vibration, based on the individual’s and the environment’s vibration, AND because prayer and meditation help to raise vibrations, YES, our prayers can help to raise the vibrations of “Karmic” acts. The influence of prayer and meditation can raise the karmic vibrations set to manifest, like a tuning fork can raise vibrations of lower level tuning forks, and in turn, diminish the impact of Karmic manifestation, and potentially heal it altogether with enough prayer and meditation. In addition, healing our relationships through kindness, forgiveness, love, compassion, understanding, patience, mercy, humility and more, can also bring in the higher vibrations of God’s Love flowing through our own hearts and minds, which also brings in higher vibrations that can heal or diminish karmic events.
An example of the impact of prayers and meditations is the prediction Edgar Cayce had about New York City. During his reading, he saw New York City being devastated by a city-wide earthquake which leveled the entire city. But, because of prayers and meditations throughout the decades between Edgar Cayce’s time and our time, the karmic manifestation of destructive energy that was returning to its matching starting point was diminished.
On Sept. 11, 2001, only the Twin Towers were destroyed instead of the entire city. Thankfully, this diminishing happened because much of the karmic energy was healed/diminished by people’s efforts. However, sadly, not all of the karmic energy was healed. In doing a reading on it, I saw that it would have taken twice the number people praying and meditating through the decades to keep one building up and 5 times the people to keep both buildings standing. Still, with the people praying and meditating through the decades, we were able to help in the amount demonstrated.
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“It is irrelevant whether we can or cannot do something. What matters is if we’re willing or not willing in our heart. It is the one who is not willing, who cannot. It is the one who is willing, who can.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2016, Jodie Senkyrik)
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