Dragons, Kings, and the gifts in our life

The first reporter on scene asked the King what happened, how did one of the most successful Kingdoms in the upper world collapse so quickly? The King though gravely wounded wanted to tell the story for others to learn from it and be prepared.

The King coughed and some blood sprayed, a servant wiped his mouth, and he started talking. When I was a young man, I came a cross a Dragon’s cave. I new of the dangers of either dealing with, or fighting with Dragons, but I was a young and and rash in my youthfulness. I came back to that cave entrance often, sometimes armed for battle,  sometimes dressed in finery for negotiating, but I never had the courage to enter the cave and search out the Dragon.

I was still a prince at that time, but the people of the Kingdom and the lands surrounding the Kingdom recognized that I seemed to have an uncommon wisdom. I convinced my Father the King to make small changes that really mattered little, but made the Peasants happy and they felt their life was better.

When I became King after my Father the King grew to old to rule with the vigor he once had, the people of my Kingdom wanted more. They were happy for the changes I made as a prince, but now that I was king, they thought I should be doing more. I was not sure what to do, but I felt it my obligation to do something.

I had a horse saddled and once more went riding across the country side. I determined that perhaps if the people in the Kingdom felt rich they would be content? I made small changes in the ruling of the Kingdom concerning money matters so everyone in the Kingdom would pay less in taxes. I secretly set up a rebate program so they would receive back varying amounts of money over time, so after a period of ten years they would be equally wealthy.

After some years went by, everyone was happy and the Kingdom was fruitful. People wore finery, and had nice homes to live in. Each thought they were just a little better than the people around them, but overall they tried to get along. Over these years though, a small thought held by one of the people started spreading through all the people.

The king coughed weakly, and a little blood flowed dribbled from the side of his mouth. A servant cleaned it away. One person a few years ago decided that the possessions and wealth were because he was a little more special than everyone else, and something he could not see was making sure he received just a little more than everyone else. It was not true, but he believed it

Of course this was not true, because it was my financial planning for the Kingdom that determined what each had received over the years. But that did not stop him from telling his neighbors that he was just a little better, and therefore had a little more than they did.

So the neighbors thinking it may be true, asked him where the extra came from? The peasant not really having a pat answer but needing a reason, decided to say the King had given him extra wealth and other valuable things. Most did not believe it, but a few did. Over the next decade I saw the Kingdom was split in half with people believing they had extra wealth that the King had given them.

This thinking among the people, with almost half of them thinking they were better than their neighbors was causing a problem. They wanted to prove they were wealthier than others, but when their wealth was counted they found this was not really true. This made them angry. Because they felt they were better than their neighbors. They started complaining that they all have the same amount of wealth and there was no way to show how rich they were. They must be poor and the King had used trickery and fooled them into thinking they were rich.

Things became worse in the Kingdom until the people were split in two angry mobs. One group was sure they were better because they were given extra, and the other group were sure that everyone was about equal, and no one was better off than the other.

A great war erupted, and there was terrible slaughter on both sides. After some days, the fighting slowed because there were no more people who had either not been in battle and were either wounded or killed.  The King finally met the Dragon he feared so greatly. As the King lay dying, the Dragon walked around the Kingdom collecting the treasure it had given out over the years to the People of the Kingdom. The Dragon had if one looked closely, tears in its eyes.

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Spirituality in the physical plane – mature content, 2 of 2

Though it does seem on a physical level that here is some women with absolutely no self worth or self esteem being kept as a pet by one or many men over a period of time, spiritual thinking can see the relationship as something else. From a spiritual point of view these relationships can be thought of as quite dynamic. It can even be said that these relationships are an example of love at its highest representation.

If you accept as a basic concept that we are here on this earth to learn and become better human beings, these relationships are not terrible, and there is no exploitation. It takes is a rethinking of what we see from a physical to a spiritual process. For many people it is too big of a jump, and their minds can not accept that something horrible is being done as an act of unconditional love and growth for another.

I think this is true, and relationships like these are an obvious example. I think that growth and high level love are shown in many horrible things that take place in this world daily. Going back to the idea that we are here on this earth to learn and grow spiritually, who is it we are learning from? There is no supreme being that takes us by the hand and leads us through our life, and shows us what we need to know, and we understand the learning, and are grateful for the instruction.

We humans do not operate like that. We humans learn by making our own mistakes and committing our own crimes. For example, there is a savage murder yesterday. It is a terrible thing and the killer should be banished to prison for life, or executed as soon as possible.

This is the physical side of our thinking in action. What we do not think about is the spiritual side of what occurred. What about the victim, what did they learn from this experience? There is nothing obvious for the victim. Probably because of circumstances, or bad judgement they died a horrible needless death.

What about the possibility that they lived their life for this moment to happen, to willingly be the victim for the killer? While this thought is shocking and perhaps revolting, it can be seen as a possibility on a spiritual level.

The killer in this heinous crime needed to learn something from the killing. Why should someone who is here on this earth on their own journey, be randomly murdered, halting their path of learning and spiritual growth? There does not seem to be any balance or justice in this thought.

What about the possibility that these people agree to be in these positions for the sole purpose of being the victim out of love for the person(s) who need(s) to learn from this experience? While agreeing to be a victim, and be abused, tortured, or murdered is disgusting and repulsive on a physical plane, on a spiritual plane, it is an example of love on the highest level.

What more could a spiritual being do than volunteer to be a victim for another beings spiritual growth? Again the idea is repulsive, but history is full of people who have chosen to be a victim rather than allow another innocent person to be a victim. The most recent example to me is the holocaust. Many, many known and unknown people stepped up in place of another knowing full well what the consequences would be for them. Yet they did it anyway in an act of supreme love.

From that perspective, is the idea of one person living their life until some predetermined moment when they are to be a victim unreasonable? I do not think so at all. In a realm where everything is supposedly perfect, no matter how unjust it appears on the surface, it makes complete sense. Many of the worlds religions are of the belief that everything that happens is the will of God. The idea of a human being agreeing to be born to be a victim of another on the physical plane, is nothing different than Gods will being done on a spiritual level.

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Spirituality in the physical plane – mature content, 1 of 2

This post and the one following is a two part post. You may find them, unsettling, disagreeable sick, or revolting. If you are not open to thinking from a new perspective, I suggest you skip these next two posts. Thank you.

From time to time I have been at social functions, where I see young women who I know are being exploited. They are willingly sitting in a chair ignored for hours at a time. The man shows up or summons them to him for something. That is their life purpose by all appearances, to be totally dependent on one man in a one way relationship.

It is not obvious unless you understand the type of man they are with. I imagine they are everywhere, but to me they are only visible when it is a social gathering of some type. These are men who think the whole world serves only them, and that is how they live their life. Perhaps they are sociopaths to some degree, or maybe something different, but their views on how the world works, are far from normal.

The women are usually young and of course pretty, who are not in the rocket science league of brain power, but I am sure they are smart enough to do something different with their lives if they made the effort. I am not sure how the process works, but it must start at home when they are children. They are somehow turned into possessions instead of human beings by their fathers I think, or so it appears.

So they grow up and graduate high school, and maybe try out college, or living on their own. But it is not easy for them as they are used to being Daddy’s pet, and they miss that life. All they had to do was be cute for Daddy, and make him laugh, and everything else was okay. Daddy took care of their survival needs and that is all they needed

When these women are out on their own, perhaps before, male predators know them as soon as they see them. That is what some men specialize in, finding these women. They know some Daddy’s raise their little girls like this, probably because they were raised in the same type of environment. They spot these young women, and start working on them almost before they have lived on their own in the adult world.

So here is young woman, some toy a certain type of man picked up, and can afford right now. As long as she doesn’t act too stupid, or start thinking she is important, she will be what most people think of as a kept woman. She will have clothes and things, and she will get her own, cell phone, car, and probably spending money. This is not a Sugar Daddy relationship, because the woman is not out on her own and living in her own place. She is totally dependent on a man taking care of her.

The worst part of it in my opinion is that these women, and their men see this type of relationship as totally normal. If you try to tell them how abnormal the situation is, they will look at you like you are talking in a language they have never heard of before.

Of course the time comes, when he starts thinking she is not quite what he wants, perhaps he wanted her to do his bidding once or twice and she was not home, or she is spending money a little too fast, or maybe her mouth is getting a little smart for his liking. It could be as simple as she is starting to get boring to him. At any rate, sooner or later he will get tired of her and throw her out, or give to one of his friends as a pet.

I am not sure what happens to these women as grow into middle age, but I imagine that life does not improve for most of them. There is an alternate spiritual view I have been introduced to over the years, and it paints a whole new paradigm of what is happening in these relationships.

Part two tomorrow.

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Relationships that last are not shallow to begin with

I had a couple of dogs when I was a young boy. Like all kid’s dogs, they were with me for many years. I shared a lot of my life with them. Many days they were my only companion as I was deep in the woods fishing, or wandering looking for who knows what. Eventually my dog’s in their turn grew old, and eventually died. They lived good lives, and I missed them terribly. I would cry over them, but one day I realized I was crying about how I felt, not about them being gone.

Now farther down the road, I know it is the same with relationships. If you go to any blog web listing, say wordpress.com for instance, there is a number of recent blog posts written every few minutes about a relationship that has ended. What confuses me however is I don’t read about how grief stricken some of the hapless bloggers are. I read some of the posts a second or third time and I do not see where they are overwhelmed by the situation.

What I do read is they are stricken over the effect someone leaving is having on them. They are overwhelmed that someone could not be in love with them. They are grief stricken that the relationship is over. They can not fathom the idea that someone could possibly want to be somewhere else than with them.

I could be wrong in my thinking here, but by the time they get to this point in their lives it should be clear that the world does not revolve around them. It should be apparent that the other person had a life before them, and they will are going out to find their life again with someone who thinks about life the same way they do. I have met a few people that are really heartbroken, and have been for years that someone they loved with all their being left them, but that is not what I read in most blogs.

They are not crying about the relationship, or what happened in it. They are generally sad for themselves, and how this effects them. For those of you who have solid relationships you understand what I am getting at. A good relationship is not all about you, a good relationship is all about direction.

If someone enters a relationship for themselves, they better find someone with no self worth who thinks they only exist to make someone else happy. For any relationship to work, there must be a few things going in the same direction.

First you have to forget about looks. They are a relationship built on sand. Looks only last a short time, and then most people start to forget that they were first drawn in over looks, and start looking for something more in the relationship. If you are the jealous type, you better look for a homely person…

Secondly, it is important to share the same thoughts on the most important things in your life. If you can not find agreement on those things most important to you, you are heading for a breakup. Write down the four or five most important things in your life and find out if they feel the same way before you get serious.

Find out how you both feel about time away from each other and what you expect from each other as boundaries. For example if you are the quiet type, and they like to be with many people, one of you is going to be hurt. Remember too, what you see is what you get, people do not change because you want them too.

I am by no means an expert, but these things will help. If you enter any shallow based relationship , do not expect it to last. When it does end, do not be surprised, and remember, it is not all about you. They invested part of their life too. If you feel like crying over the relationship, think about what you are crying over. Usually you will find it is all about how you feel. When that happens be happy, you are one of the lucky ones in it is over quickly.

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Basic truth, sharing, and the fundamentals of belief

I remember as a child, different religious people coming to our door, knocking and preaching, and then the anger it would set off in my parents. Not because they were atheists or anti-religion, but because they saw these people as an invasion of their privacy, and an interruption in their day. The end result was normally raised voices, and a demand to leave the property.

When I was living on my own, and these folks came to my door, I would encourage them to share with me what they believed to be their truth. After one or two visits and no arguing, I would not see them again. At one function I attended some years ago, I found myself in conversation with one of the men who used to knock on my door.

I asked why he did not visit any more with his friends? I was curious both about what more they would tell me, and also why they stopped trying to convert me. This man told me they thought I was a minister of some kind, and there was no sense trying to convert me.

I thought that was funny, because a minister was the last thing I would have considered myself to be! After a while they all quit coming around to try to convert me, and I forgot about them. Some time later, I moved to a bigger city, and there the process started all over again. The outcome was about the same, except after listening to the many different versions of what they had to say, some of them would ask me what I thought?

This was my opportunity to explain what I have learned over the years to them. The sum of what I learned from my own reading, talking, and some television programs has taught me a lot. I shared with them those things I found to be common in everything they had told me over the years plus what I learned on my own.

Each group has a slightly different version of how this all came about. None of us here today really knows what the true story is, or even if any what we believe is true, or made up. I was not there, and you were not there, so we can only speculate on what is the truth. Thankfully it does not matter.

If you imagine a special present, it is easier to explain. As I remove the bow, the ribbons, and wrapping from the package and open the box, I see the fundamentals we all share. When I look closely, some basic truths becomes evident.

We are all one family.

None of us has a monopoly the truth.

It is our responsibility to live the best life we can.

We should try to love and be good to one another.

We should do our best to treat each other with respect.

We all come from the same place. Not one of us on earth comes from somewhere else.

That is all there is to living well, everything else is fluff.

Some of these people, after hearing me did not know what to say. One of them decided they would be sending an Elder to speak to me as I was obviously confused, thinking this way. Others have put up futile reply’s, but quit part way through when they realize there is no real argument. I usually never see them anymore, as there is nothing for them to argue over, and no one to convince.

It is much easier to keep it simple, as simple allows for more agreement, and less argument. If there is nothing to argue over, then these folks have nothing to discuss. Take away the argument, and you take away the wind in the sails. Happy sailing!

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