Well, that's not quite true: I've never been able to use this for personal gain, other than charging people for some of the help I've given, so I haven't, for example, got any major lottery wins (hmmm ... actually, I can't recall even trying that one), but I've seen someone who was a gambling addict use, or try to use, a modest amount of psychic ability he had to influence the pokies. He had no major wins, but my impression is that he would occasionally have a minor win as a result of his efforts. (I also have seen, incidentally, two people lose their homes through the pokies, so I would not recommend trying this!)
I've also met people who have had wins at the pokies and on the lottery (same person - she bought a house with the first lottery win, and a house for her daughter with the second, but kept working - not enough won to give up that, and would continue to have occasional wins of a few thousand dollars on the pokies). She is not psychic, nor even particularly spiritual, so what gives?
Well, I think what gives is that people (a) get opportunbities sometimes as a test to see what they will do with them, and (b) sometimes seem to be very lucky as that is how they have chosen to have their (good) karma return to them. I'm happy to have my good karma return to me in the place and circumstances of my birth, etc, rather than through winning riches which may mean I later don't have enough good karma to prevent, say, a major cancer.
No doubt that winning karma could be useful, but getting a better job (less stress, rather than more money) would probably be more apt than a lotto win.
I still feel that use of any psychic ability to change the Universe so that I get money through a win would be wrong. In much the same way that I like candles to the rune Fehu for the financial well being of my family, perhaps it is a case of this being a test of other people's caring ... I am a little more inclined towards this being the same as the reason I don't interfere with the weather too much: if I, say, make it rain where I live, that may stop people who have a greater need for water from getting the rain they needed. If I actively manifest money for me through something like a lottery win, is that perhaps stopping a family where no-one has a job getting a much needed win for, perhaps, a child who has an illness?
There is an element of not being too focused on oneself here, which leads me to a very interesting post I came across recently on how to classify or explain paganism in terms of whether the focus is on the person, nature or the deities. Well worth a read: http://allergicpagan.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/the-three-or-more-centers-of-paganism/.
I have to say, sometimes I read some of these brilliant posts and feel somewhat intimidated about my own, ad hoc, patchy, casual, this-is-me-struggling-with-my-life-at-times blog ... ah well, that's nothing a block or two of chocolate won't fix :) Here are a few more links:
- some very good, down to earth common sense here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2013/06/a-druid-in-witch-city.html;
- this has really good stuff on gender: http://library.druidry.org/reviews/21lom.html;
- I might have found another blog to follow ... : http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sermonsfromthemound/2013/06/visualisation-meditation-and-pathworking/.
Let's tell a history of the world ...
Once upon time Spirit / The Goddess decided to do some more learning / growing, for which more experience was necessary. The problem was that in "the void" / the astral, everything was in harmony - you were automatically close to those who were on the same wave length as yourself, and never came across anyone who was different. So, Spirit / The Goddess decided, in the interests of learning, to create a world where it was possible to be in the presence of those you were in disharmony with.
It was quite a novel concept, and, if it worked as intended, should strengthen the unity of the Universe / The Goddess, as all the disparate bits of the Universe / The Goddess would be better able to tolerate/accept and work with the other bits of the Universe / The Goddess. It would be quite a step forward for the disparate bits to even be aware of each other, for a start.
So Spirit / The Goddess went ahead and created this physical level of reality. It was a bit of a bang of an event, actually, but lets skip ahead to when one little part of this physical reality, the Planet Earth, was developing a bipedal organism with the capacity to shape the environment and, eventually, move off the planet and thus survive any future planetary killing asteroids. For reasons based on the nature of the rules that Spirit / The Goddess had created as part of this physical reality, the bipedal organism used two sexes to reproduce, thereby mixing bits of the parental organisms and allowing change which, when successful, would lead to evolution. When unsuccessful, the change would become a candidate for a Darwin Award ...
All well and good, except for the short sightedness - metaphorically, as their physical eyesight (and other senses) was quite outstanding at that time - of the bipeds, who started building up all sorts of rules around - well, nothing, really.
At the time that the bipeds were developing all these rules, they were living as gatherer-hunters. There weren't very many of them, and they were feeling fairly insecure about that lack, so they decided to set about making sure there would be lots more of them. It took what they thought was a fairly long time for a new biped to be born after conception, so they started building up their rules around protecting what they would later refer to, when they domesticated other lifeforms, as "breeding stock".
Of course, in doing so, they started losing some of the tolerance of diversity that was the whole point of this physical reality coming into existence, but sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
Some of them were really struggling with this whole being-in-contact-with-things-that-weren't-in-harmony-with-them thing, and started behaving quite badly. Some of it was petty - jealousy and the like; some of it was worse, and included attempts at changing or controlling others, which led to some quite nasty behaviours that would later be described - when the bipeds had extended their range of grunts to include this particular sequence of sounds - as "evil". Those attempts at changing or controlling others included the formation of stereotypes - some of which were based on generalities, but all of which failed to take account of the wonderful diversity that is one of the key wonders of this Universe generally, including this physical reality and life as sub-sets of the Universe which also feature diversity as one of their key wonders.
This was most noticeable, perhaps, with regard to those bipeds who had the view that bipeds who could potentially bear bipedlets should not be hunting, they should gathering and grunting in a coo-like manner over bipedlets, whether they wanted to or not. Maybe this was part of the whole problem of bits of Spirit getting put into physical bodies which could, for want of a better term, die - they started looking at the surface, rather than the Spirit.
Of course it wasn't helped by those potentially-bipedlet-bearing-bipeds who decided they rather liked the idea of being looked after, and got quite pernickety, despite that word not having been invented yet, and started frowning upon - and worse - other potentially-bipedlet-bearing-bipeds who wanted to do outrageous things like hunting. And everyone frowned upon - and worse - those bipeds who couldn't potentially bear bipedlets who didn't want to hunt.
That didn't apply everywhere, though. From time to time, various groups of bipeds would "get it together", as some future bipeds would grunt, and be tolerant of difference, and maybe do things like domesticate fire, refine the manufacture and use of tools, domesticate quadrupeds, "invent" agriculture, and domesticate other bipeds - also known as "invent civilisation", which can be rather nice when done well.
Of course, sadly, at this time bipeds also started to discover that sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts - and promptly started attempting to do exactly that, with much effort devoted to getting sharper or bigger sticks and things like rocks, and recording or worshipping or both whatever biped had won what they would later refer to as "war". Groups of bipeds also even refined their grunts into languages so they could fail to understand other groups of bipeds entirely.
Now, one of the aspects of reality is that of a spiritual hierarchy: as well as The Goddess, there are gods and goddesses of varying experience and power. There are also manus in charge of groups and spirits in places, and the larger Spirit that inhabits the planet itself, called by some Sanat Kumara and by others Gaea. It's all a bit like a public service bureacracy, except this one works and is user friendly - largely. One of the gods, a Canaanite hill spirit originally, would get quite uppity and have himself declared The One True God, and try to get all the other gods and goddesses kicked out of this particular planet, but that's a little down the track.
All very confusing, and what makes it worse - and is not widely known - is that all these gods and goddesses and manus and spirits are also, as with the bipeds and quadrupeds and non-peds in this physical level of reality, learning and growing. In fact, you may recall that this whole mess was created because Spirit / The Goddess wanted to do a bit more growing/learning. Sadly, growth and learning is not always at a constant rate, nor even always in the right direction ... In fact, it got to the stage where one group of bipeds, a few centuries before the Caananite hill spirit who had got all uppity warped the work of a very evolved soul who incarnated as a Jewish lad, decided to sack the whole working and user friendly bureaucracy and try something they called "Buddhism".
It is to be wondered whether or not at times various gods/goddesses/The Goddess/Spirit would wonder about scratching out all this lot, and trying again ... hmmm ... maybe they did, and found that they have to try to make it work or the bipeds will keep on making the same mistakes ...
It is known that some bipeds thought about scratching out all this lot from time to time, and some of the few vaguely almost justifiable conflicts have been against those who tried to do this, or to assert control in a nasty way over other bipeds.
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear")
My "blogiography" is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project, and here for my bindrune kit-bag.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- The secret to being (financially) rich is not to have lots of money: it is to have an income above the poverty line, and then make whatever sacrifices are necessary in order to live within 90% of your means.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other.
- The means shape the end.
- Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
People I'm currently following or reading, or have considerable respect for, include:
- Red Catherine, a Romani woman living on Artemis, in South Australia;
- T. Thorn Coyle;
- The Wild Hunt;
- Under the Ancient Oaks; and
- the Order of Scathach.
Tags: finances, initiation, personal responsibility, selfishness, selflessness, spirituality,
First published: Laugadagr, 8th June, 2013
Last edited: Saturday, 8th June, 2013
