Spiritual History in the Earth: The Two Worlds

In mankind’s having passage in the Earth through time, past accounts of historical events of humanity’s activities are recorded by the few historians through hundreds and thousands of years. These “historians” or scribes were hired and paid to write the physical history of the times – and to write according to the directions and desires of the ones who pay the historians/scribes. All scribes of past ages worked for someone and got paid. It was not an educational or academic task. It was a task set forth by the person who either had money or sat upon the throne.

This was true then, and still can be found to be true today – especially at this time in history with the political influence of the owners of the news outlets in regards to how news gets narrated. This is how history gets recorded on this physical Earth. Those with certain points of view, who pay the money, get the stories written and reported according to how those with money want it written or broadcast. Sound familiar? Today, we call it “spin” and “entertainment”, so as to include even fictional (“fake”) accounts, and “alternative” facts of which they offer much “entertainment” to their audience. To sum up, humans during historical times, wrote the history of the times according to the views of the victors who won the war, or who sponsored and payed the scribes.

I mention this, because, we have an interesting situation on this planet, and with the history of mankind on this planet. We really do have two worlds that co-exist at the same time, in the same place on the same planet, (using the Harry Potter fictional series of stories as a metaphor to help understand how this can be.)

There are two worlds on Earth that co-exist. It is very few people who see both of these very real worlds – and make no mistake, both of these worlds are experienced in very, very real ways. What I write here is no fiction. There are two worlds existing simultaneously and not everyone, or rather not a majority are aware or can be aware of the two.

One world is the physical world which everyone participates in via the 5 senses. The tool to experience this world is the physical body – whether it be human, animal, tree, plant, bacteria, rock or anything else physical. The second world is the spiritual world, which coexists in all planes of existence, including coexisting alongside the physical Universe which includes Earth.

HOWEVER, this spiritual world can only be detected by those who are actively involved with spiritual beliefs, PLUS actively interactive with their 6th sense or their spiritual/soul-self. This is also known as “born into the awareness of the spirit/soul”, which is an actual spiritual-plane awakening experience, spiritual awakening manifestation, and recognition of spiritual existence. This spiritual connection is “seen”, “felt”, or “become aware of” only by those who go through this process. Going through this process is only a freewill choice, and can be enhanced or shut down depending on a person’s own attitudes and choices.

I mention this because of this article’s topic being related to Spiritual History or rather, the History of Spiritual activities and events happening alongside events in the physical Earth. It is these spiritual events which are recorded in the Bible, and other recognized/accepted writings through the ages. Spiritual events are part of the “unseen” or “second” world, and have their own historical recordings – one of many records being the Bible – others being the Torah, the Koran, etc. But, the recordings of the spiritual world’s existence and experiences associated with it, don’t perfectly parallel physical history. They don’t perfectly/accurately follow a physical world calendar or timeline. The Spiritual events are spread out over time, with that time being condensed in the Bible and other recordings. This is why many are capable of denying the events in the Bible (and other spiritual books), and consider them to be myths or fiction.

This is why the Bible’s recording of historical events doesn’t completely parallel the physical plane’s recording of historical events. For example, the telling of Noah and the flood centers around the events related to Noah’s spiritual messages to build the Ark and bring animals onto it, then endure a great flood with its ramifications. This event happened, but the physical Earth’s historical accounts that are recorded, don’t coincide or speak of the same timelines. In addition, with this issue, loss of physical historical accounts happened all the time, if any physical historical accounts even ever existed at all.

The Bible and other spiritual holy books don’t give the physical information which would help identify what year, what location, the logistics, accurate details of the animals, etc. for exacting physical proof of the event. That’s not its purpose. In the “Noah” example, the information centers around the spiritual messages that Noah received and how those spiritual messages help Noah and his family to fulfill their task to make it through the flooding. It is the recording of the fulfillment of Spirit interacting with the physical Earth. In essence, the Bible and other books and historical documents, are the recordings of the main examples of Spirit interacting within the physical Earth, but not the recordings of mankind’s day-to-day, year-to-year, physical comings and goings, as historians tended to record.

Spiritual events have their own insertion in a time range or time line, for the purpose of manifesting in the Earth, many times in line with astrological forces. And these events when they come forth and manifest, are not recognized by everyone. They are not advertised, nor are they recorded in history books as mankind’s normal everyday comings and goings are. However, now, in today’s world, they are more and more being written about in books, and presented in conferences, meetings, and spiritual learning gatherings. The percentage of people who are aware of the spiritual presence, experiences, and events, and open to these being real, experience them independently of the world happening around them. The physical world is not the creating force of the spiritual events manifesting. Famous examples of these are the sightings of the Mother of Jesus – Fatima, Medjugorje, Lourdes, as well as Near-Death-Experiences or NDE’s, as well as psychic experiences, plus the many personal individual, spiritual experiences which create controversy and are either believed and/or disbelieved by those who don’t experience spiritual events.

In our day and time, now, there are any number of books and audiovisual recordings sharing the telling of individual spiritual experiences and spiritual events. And there are tens of thousands, if not millions, of NDE’s in which people report having spiritual events happen while having medically died. There are also many hundreds, if not thousands of individuals experiencing a contact or connection with Christ, and other Spiritual Teachers.

One cannot call up and make an appointment to have a spiritual experience of these kinds. Spiritual experiences are not governed by physical world principles or laws. The Spiritual is a world that is not represented by physical anchors in the physical Universe. Yet, there is no plane of existence, including the physical Universe, where the Spiritual world is not it’s mate/partner/parallel world. The Spiritual world is the world from which all other planes come into existence, and one cannot separate Creator or Creative Source from that which is created.

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The Biblical/Spiritual accounts that are recorded in the Bible, have been recorded and also passed down, by specific spiritually-aware people and groups, – not by public historians who have little or no spiritual experiences and no awareness of or desire for awareness of Spirit, and are not directed by spiritual motivators. An example of this life situation or spiritual life experience is how the Edgar Cayce readings are recorded, but these are not recorded in the general public’s history recordings. No one learns about Mr. Cayce in their school history books. The psychic records of Edgar Cayce, and many people like him – are privately held and in non-academic books/writings. These and other spiritual events/history which happened among the spiritual world that exists parallel to the general public world are preserved in the spiritual-topic physical recordings of the Bible and many other written forms, through the ages. With this example, individuals everywhere choose for themselves whether they believe that Edgar Cayce was a real psychic. The same is said for beliefs in all manners of spiritual and religious paths – whether a person believes if the psychic, soul or spiritual world and experiences are real.

The two worlds – the physical and the spiritual – don’t blend together much, except through individuals and our personal beliefs, experiences and understanding of spiritual events. The thing to remember is that when wanting proof of the spiritual world, the tendency is: 1. a person never identifies what physical evidence they’ll accept as absolute proof. If they say, “If someone came back from the dead,” they have already NDE’s all over the world, but tend not to accept them. 2. the request or demand for proof tends to be for physical evidence of a non-physical reality.

Therefore, ultimately, the spiritual experience can only be a subjective experience – something within us – which affects how we feel and think within our own individual consciousness.

The physical world’s only connecting link to the spiritual world are the Chakras which exist aligning with the human body, making it possible to experience the 6th sense plane (the spirit body) / spiritual plane within certain circumstances while in a physical body. In turn, again, the spiritual experience is a decidedly subjective experience only… at this point in time.

This principle – of spiritual experiences being subjective – has a purpose as well. The purpose is that it protects the freewill aspect of consciousness. Because it is subjective, happening only within the consciousness of that individual, it is a freewill choice for the individual to decide whether to believe in the spiritual world existence. It remains a choice that can only be made within the person’s heart and mind. The individual faced with experiences identified as “Spiritual Experiences” is the one that defines and makes the identification of it being “Spiritual”. In turn, also the decision whether to continue to believe it is spiritual, even long after the experience has past.

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With our venturing into the world of spirit, is it any wonder that there is such controversy? Spiritual experiences happen or don’t based on a lot of different factors – beliefs, willingness, study, desire, open-mindedness, understanding, purpose, a practice of prayer and/or meditation, and many other factors, some of which could be spiritual factors, which we may never know about while living in the physical Universe.

One factor does seem to help though. The decision to have an open-mind and an open-heart. The Bible and other holy documents, mention the willingness to Love. Our human experiences of real love comes hand-in-hand with having an open-mind and an open-heart. Rigidity in our thinking and feeling seems to limit love and limit spiritual learning. With this, rigid thinking/feeling also then tends to limit our ability to bridge the awareness of and experience of two-worlds existing simultaneously in the same time/space. Deciding beforehand, without ever even asking the question of ourselves or asking of a higher consciousness, whether there is more than what we individually hold in our own single mind, happens so often within ourselves and others, that it can take many years and many lifetimes to open to new paradigms and new ways of thinking and feeling.

Deciding to be intolerant of other beliefs, begins/continues a process of closing down the awareness of our self as spirit, while deciding to be tolerant of other’s beliefs begins a process of learning more – even learning more of that which had been hidden within our own personal beliefs – and where our beliefs would take us in our own expansion and evolution of understanding and sincerely practicing our beliefs (which in turn, makes our beliefs alive in the world.)

Like eggs, our own beliefs sometimes need to be opened so that we can realize that we have to dig deeper even into our own beliefs in order to discover what richness had been stuck within the shell – a shell which we thought was all that there was to life. Like seeing the surface of a body of water, rigidly thinking this is all there is to the body of water – we can limit our learning in extremely great ways, until we decide to break the surface and look deeper underneath – where there is the potential for learning about a whole other world we didn’t know existed.

In discovering brand new worlds which have/had always been here, albeit just under the surface, can astound us and amaze us. And of course, this creates the situation again – where our own subjective experience is something we can only share through verbal or mental descriptions, and not by passing the experience onto another for them to internally experience personally and holistically. We can only share things holistically through our psychic / 6th sense – the soul sense.

So, there you have it. We can share the physical world experiences through physical means and we can share the spiritual world experiences through spiritual means. And we experience both of these together within ourselves individually and therefore subjectively.

And when fictional stories come out, like Star Wars and the mentioning of the Force, or Harry Potter and the World of Magic, we can let these stories help us to crack the egg shell, or help us to look beneath the surface of our own possible explorations and learning – the world that is waiting for us to discover – a world which some of us are learning that is within us, and has been within us ready when we are – and all we need to do is be willing to love and learn.

God bless us, Everyone.

The Man in the Sky

When someone asks us if within our religious or spiritual beliefs, we believe in a man in the sky, tell them, “Yes”.

Tell them, “When I look up in the evening sky, I see the sunset filled with colors spanning throughout the horizon – beautiful to behold. I see a magnificent signature at the end of a day, as if saying, ‘This is a day that I have made’ with Him signing his name.

When I look into the sky at night, I see the stars, planets, comets, and other of the most awesome wonders to behold. With extending my seeing further by putting satellite telescopes in front of my eyes, I see beyond what I could have even imagined, billions of light years, billions of stars, billions of galaxies, deeper and further than ever thought possible, seeing supernovas, gas giant planets and stars, and more beyond anything any human imagined before the telescopes came into being.

When I look up into the morning sky, I see the sun rising with colors that are more beautiful than I could ever recreate on a canvas, even though many have tried. During the day, when I look up in the sky, I see the blue skies filled with birds flying, trees and mountains reaching into the sky, rain falling down feeding the entire Earth and snow bringing stillness and quiet.

When I see the birds, I see the Wright Brothers taking us up to be with the birds, something we did not think possible, until we strived for it. I see planes traversing the entire planet in a matter of hours, carrying men, women and children. I see the Saturn 5 rocket and Apollo 11 capsule, with Neil Armstrong taking us yet further into the sky than we’ve ever imagined possible allowing us to touch the moon with our fingers. I see the telescopes giving us the visions of what is beyond who we are here on this planet. I see the Solar System, and the Milky Way Galaxy. I see other Galaxies, other planets not even close to us. And I see billions of years into the past, billions of light-years to the other end of the Universe, with myself being a part of all of this, conjoined with the Universe.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field

When I look up into the sky, I see many parts of myself that I have discovered are greater than just the person standing in my shoes. With my ever-growing spiritual beliefs and my ever-growing science understanding, I feel and see myself as seeking that which is beyond what my own mind can think up. I see myself as being the man in the sky and I am beckoning myself to seek more than what I currently believe in Religion and Science. I am also beckoning myself to seek more than what I have in my mind about what is in the sky.

From seeing/feeling/sensing ALL this, I know that I am more than just what I see of myself in my body standing here. I see that I am more than just a Democrat or a Republican. I am more than an Israeli or Hamas. I am more than a Russian or a Ukrainian, Chinese, European, Asian, African or American. I am more than just who or what is standing in my shoes. I am conjoined with something that is larger than myself – a whole unimaginable-until-now Universe larger. And when I study and learn ever more of what I believe through religion and spirituality, I feel again that I am conjoined with something and Some Life that is a great deal Greater than myself,…
… and I feel a beckoning.

No human being on Earth, knows the fullness of what or who God is. But, whatever This Life is that is larger than myself, I feel the innate driving, beckoning feeling to find out more, about This Life that I am a part of, and about my life, myself which is a part of This Life.

This ALL is beckoning me to open myself to possibilities beyond my own mind, perspective, heart and my own understanding. In my spiritual beliefs, I have experienced, become aware of, and come to believe in, more than who I had been, and in my scientific study and explorations, I have experienced, become aware of, and come to believe in, more than who I had been.

And this is what I see when I look up to see the Man in the Sky.”

[Tell them this.]

Sincerely,

Whomever Looks Up

A Drop of Ocean

Every experience that a human being goes through belongs to every human being. Every experience that any living organism has belongs to every living organism.

Every experience that is part of any galaxy or the entire physical universe belongs to the whole galaxy or whole physical universe.

Everything in the ocean belongs to every drop of the ocean. Everything within the Infinite Consciousness of God belongs to every part of the Infinite Consciousness of God.

All of Infinity belongs to every part of Infinity. All experiences belong to all that can experience.

By the term “belongs to” I mean ‘is inherent to,’ ‘imbibed to’, ‘innate to,’ ‘part of,’ and therefore, ‘no separation from.’

The experience of taking the first step on the moon, belongs to every human being. The experience of turning the gas knob to ‘on’, at the gas chambers of Auschwitz belongs to every human being. Every experience of breaking every athletic record or murdering another person, every act of good and every act of evil belongs to every living organism that has the capacity to experience – from the largest of all things to the smallest of all things.

Every organism or consciousness part of the Infinite by the nature of having no separation, no dis-union, by the nature of being one with Infinite things, … owns all experiences that are experienced.

The Infinite Consciousness of God owns all experiences that are experienced, because no experience happens separate from the Infinite Consciousness of God. All beings and things that have some level of consciousness – which are all things that exist – are part of the Infinite Consciousness of God, and therefore connected to all things that exist.

As we do unto others, therefore, we do unto all Infinity, of which we, ourselves, are included.  This means that both dying on the Cross and knowing the full Glory of God belongs to all of us.

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(©, 2017, Jodie Senkyrik)

Science vs. Religion – the Human Spirit

The Human Spirit Transcends Science: Science is a great tool of and for mankind.  Like any tool, it is useful in certain situation, but worthless in others.  A hammer is great for driving nails. But If I need to drive a screw into a piece of wood, the hammer is not a useful tool. In fact, it makes the job harder, or even impossible.
Our Western, rational world has a tendency to apply science like a hammer to a screw. If we put it in perspective, it’s a great tool.  However, some applications just do not fit.
An example would be to prove my mother loved me – or didn’t love me. Science is not the appropriate tool for this question.  It cannot measure love.  It doesn’t mean that some will not try to apply this tool inappropriately. Science can look at externals, such as what my mother did for me. Then propose a proof of love based on those externals.  But we can match those actions of hers using other people, or even machines. But they won’t have love as their motive. The person might be paid to do some of these duties. The machine has no ability to love.  Yet they “replicate” my mother’s loving actions toward me.
A favorable view of science can morph into worship at the altar of science. That does not bode well for humanity.  Just as money can be a great tool or resource, so can science. But love of money elevates it to an idol we worship.  We can fall into the same trap in our view of science.
Another pitfall is applying science “correctly”, but immorally.  The Nazi experiments on humans are repulsive to any who haven’t killed their conscience.  It was a “proper” use of science as a tool, but totally unacceptable when we consider values.
Is there a lesson here?  Yes.  Recognize the spiritual nature of humanity.  That requires that we acknowledge human values that transcend science.   With that perspective, we can identify the situations where science can be a help.  More importantly, we can identify where it can be misapplied. Treat science like a tool, not a god.  “Have no false gods before me…”  B.B.

Thank you, B.B.  I’m going to add a few additional points to what you’ve said, if you don’t mind.

First, the scientific understanding we have today, is not the scientific understanding we had 50 years ago or 50 years before that. Look at what we’ve learned through scientific discovery in the last 50 years. Look at what science has discovered in the 50 years before that … and before that… and before that… on into millenniums in the past.

Now, tell me what we’re going to scientifically discover in the next 50 years, and the 50 years after that, and after that and on and on into millenniums into the future. Science cannot tell us what we’ll discover, because it hasn’t been discovered. Using science, there’s no way to identify the next 50 years of scientific discovery much less millenniums beyond that.

To do this we must leap beyond the scientific understanding of today. This is the purpose of spiritual and religious thought. Spiritual and religious thought and it’s tenants cannot be proved or disproved using today’s science.   But, inadvertently and on purpose, religion and spiritual thought have given us information about things that we can strive towards – namely motivation to search for ‘the truth’ that is beyond our scientific understanding.  In effect, it hasn’t waited for science to catch up and instead seeks to show us where we’re going.

Using science, we can make conjectures coming from what’s being worked on yesterday and today, and projecting forward with common sense and experience telling us – as we seek, so we shall find – as we seek answers and discovery using science, we will find answers and discovery using science.

Unfortunately, for science, it’s also true that what we do not seek, we will not find.   I mention this in regard to the behavior among many people to ridicule and dismiss scientific research into non-physical phenomenon like spirituality, paranormal, etc.  Instead offering non-scientific based prejudices instead of scientific data.

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It is a fact of science that no matter how much a white person studies and learns about the black race, he isn’t a black person and cannot fully know the black experience. And no matter how much a black person studies and learns about the white race, they aren’t white and can never fully know the white experience. We cannot be what we are not and our knowing of the other is limited.  Science is not meant to be treated as a religion, even though many have turned it into their religion. Religious thought is not gained through scientific method but many assign it to be “science.”

The day will come that science will discover many things that have heretofore been in the realm of the spiritual and religious. Scientific study has discovered the realm of other universes and other dimensions.  It has already discovered that everything that exists, exists as vibration. Atoms are merely vibrational focuses which create certain behaviors, including the behavior that leads humans to experience “matter.” Metaphysically, it is believed that Christ’s ability to heal comes from His being the highest level of vibration of God Consciousness and His touch brought the ill into this higher vibration, changing their physical bodies in the process – like a tuning fork.

But, does scientific discovery of heretofore spiritual aspects mean that there is no God and there never was? Of course not.  To say this is what it means is like the guy in the Patent Office in early 1900 saying, “We might as well close the patent office because everything has already been invented.”  (That’s actually true – someone did say that.)  These things are not the end of discovery or belief in God, they’re the beginning.

Quite literally, we are in the dark ages still with regards to what we think is true and what we have no clue about, if we compared what we know today to what we don’t know yet to be discovered tomorrow.

As humans, we tend to consider the God that we think exists, in terms that we can understand with our mind. We’ve built religions around understandings of the mind. This is usually based on the belief that we CAN understand God with our mind – the part of us that analyzes and comes to rational understandings (based on what we understand up to that moment.) This can only mean that our understanding of God is based on what we understand in our own mind – not God’s mind – our own. So, there are limits to our understanding through both scientific thought and religious thought.

But, even so, where is the heart in this analysis? The heart isn’t a part of the analysis of the practical mind. The heart as we’ve all experienced, seems to laugh at the mind at times, because our hearts many times defy logic and analysis, reasoning and practicality.

Yet, our experience is that the heart is where Love exists. And while there may be a few that say Love is only a chemical reaction in the brain, those same people, don’t tell their children “I only love you because the chemicals in my brain go that way. Take away the chemicals and I won’t love you anymore.” Imagine what would happen inside a child’s heart if we did say that to our children.

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I’ve given practical and rational discourse on science and religion. This comes from a mental understanding of the topic. Yet, if we didn’t also have caring and compassion and love and kindness in our hearts, we wouldn’t care what people believed or what conflicts arise from beliefs. The motivation for writing this discourse as well as the motivation for all the searching and believing comes from the heart – the desire to help people understand and possibly feel that we are all in this together.

We are brothers and sisters seeking the same thing – to know ourselves, to love, to learn ultimate truths, to know what is beyond our current knowing and beyond ourselves – to answer the question – “Is scientific understanding all we are or are we more than just analysis in the mind? Are we also Love embodied and as Love embodied, a part of God, the ultimate limitless Love, – a God who possibly exists way beyond our limited scientific understanding which we have today?”

For us to hold to this belief, we must hold to something other than logic and reasoning, we must hold to that which is from the heart – which helps motivate us to open up our minds to possibilities infinite in size and scope. This is so we can answer the question, “Is Love real?”

Imagine if scientific study discovered that Love is real.  For science to do this, it must leap beyond the confines of the physical world, because when it does, it will discover much more than just that.

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“Imagine a world without science – only religion with no science – a world where science was not pursued or allowed. What kind of world would we have?
Now, imagine a different world – one without Religion – a world only of science, unlimited science with no religion – where religious beliefs were not pursued or allowed. What would that world be like?
Now imagine a world with both science and religion where both were pursued and allowed.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1998-2015, Jodie Senkyrik)

The Universe and Here

The Hubble Telescope and all the future telescopes will indeed show us the scope of the universe and so much of what is in the Universe.

We may find that we share knowing that which all the life in the Universe may know, also.  We may find that there is one thing that we share with the life in all the super clusters of galaxies, local clusters of galaxies, all the stars and planets in all the billions of galaxies – and that is what is in front of our nose that we keep dismissing or forgetting –

and this is that the very best thing in all the Universe and all the galaxies and all the solar systems and all the planets –

and that so many of the different life forms on these other worlds might know also –

and this thing that we find and that we know and that they may find or they may know –

and which we have here on Earth and that exists in all the Universe and all other possible universes –

the very best thing of all life – in all locations – on all planets – in all galaxies – and in all universes –

that which has no equal and all other things are pale when compared to –

the single best thing of all universes –

is Love.

Here, there, and everywhere.

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“The universe deals with numbers like “billions”.  Hopefully, it won’t take billions of years to learn that Love is the best that all Universes have to offer.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2014, Jodie Senkyrik)

“All art is inspired by something.  All of creation is God’s artwork, and all of God’s artwork is inspired by God’s Love.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 1996-2014, Jodie Senkyrik)