Why do many religions use idols in their place of worship despite the fact that many religions, including various forms of Christianity teaches one not to use idols for worship?  Eastern religions especially are notorious for idol usage and worship. Christianity too has its fair share of idols as well, from Jesus on a Cross to figurine of Mother Mary. I was pondering on this thought mostly at the hypocrisy of one religion shamming the other for its practices and an answer came forth...

Idols are acceptable as long as they are used as reminders for one to be spiritual. When it comes to worshiping the alarm clock that is when things go awry. When they associate the greater with that of the item being the greatest, all hell breaks loose and it literally does. The madness begins when the idol that stood as a representation of God, becomes God. Weaker the mind, the greater the madness that infiltrates the collective consciousness.

In this dimension, where the 5 major senses imprints one with the workings of this material dimension, people have used idols as a back door to connect to the spiritual realm, partly because the spiritual realm is hidden in this materialistic realm. The truth of the matter is that it is actually co-existing and inter-mingling with this dimension at all times and many spiritual beings have developed the ability to see beyond this realm by using their sixth sense which is dormant in many. The majority of Earth's denizens are lost relying on their five senses.  alone.

In the end one doesn't need idols to connect to God spiritually. Use it for what its worth and move on after gaining a certain footing. Idols are of earth material, in every sense, it will only tie one down to this realm and one doesn't need it access the spiritual realm. Many religions have yet to discover this spiritual truth.. Religions came into being as a tangible bridge to connect to the higher realms and many lost sight of their true purpose in the process; spirituality..

The closer we get to 2012, many spiritual beings that are awakening will risk going into a great sleep. This sleep will forever destroy those souls that cannot emerge from the conforming laws of Gaia's (Earth) mechanism. While we are spiritual beings for the grandest divine purpose, we are also here to experience what life has to offer. With these many experiences we take in, comes a great risk. One such great risk is conformity - to the ways of this planet. Many spiritual beings know the importance of walking the middle path; One foot here and the other foot where we really belong as spiritual beings of God.

There is a great war going on, unknown to many.. This war has been fought since the beginning of time in this dimension. Many small battles have been fought, many won and some lost. This war that is here, is the fight for the survival, in every sense. As the planet is going through its evolutionary process, many forces are trying to gain the upper hand. The dark side (evil, devil, anti-life, whichever name mortal men gave it) seeks to control the emerging force of consciousness within this section of the universe and planet Earth (Gaia) is at the forefront  of its drooling jaws. The spiritual war is that of the consciousnesses and yours.

This is a call to arms. God needs you to protect Earth and help in its evolution! You are the most  beautiful of the ancient of beings. You are one of the divine angels that has existed before this universe was even born. Join the God's collective to raise the global consciousness of Gaia to become a conduit for God's spirit to spread into the sleeping consciousness of Gaia's denizens! You must awaken to who you really are and awaken others! Take up and don your spiritual armor, my beautiful angel of light. Be who you were meant to be! You are one of the sleeping Angels! This is a fight for your soul! Awaken, awaken, awaken.. Aum.

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Ties that bind doesn't end with the cutting of the umbilical cord.. From the moment of  your birth, the cord that was tied for survival to the mother, becomes a hunger fest for the need to survive with new cords being built every day. With the birth and death of a cord, many thousand begins to engulf and sink into your body, the body that is nothing more than a puppet in the end built on desires. There is no cutting of the cords in the end, there is always going to be a pull from one direction or the other but, the biggest question is.. Which side will you be pulled to ? How many strings can you manage to bend the thoughts of time and space to be pulled Godwards.. Can you ever sever the cord that God pulls on you? Can you ? Can you ever cut the umbilical cord that you are connected to even before you were born? Ever so soothingly God always calls to you... Gently tug on that Cord  in acknowledgment and God will pull you towards until you can touch the face of God..

It is written in the ancient Vedic scriptures that when science and religion comes together that is when they both will truly understand the Force, till then each will have half of an understanding of the Force of God.

So heres to nothing, to gain everything.. So heres to "I know nothing" to understand something that is beyond what the human finite mind can wrap their hands around.. infinity is nothingness in an altered state of physics where the human brain cannot gain entrance.. 

Imagine how boring would life be if the skies didn't have any clouds ? The blue open sky is your mind and the cloud gives It, Its texture.. It is also these clouds that gives you the in-ability to see past the pattern of texture the mind has painted.. A double edge sword of the duality that exits in this dimension..

Prana being the vital life force of God is abundantly present all around us, for those who have the sight to see this can draw Prana in through meditation, feeding their soul and even their physical body. Prana also known as Manna is the Food of the Angels.. It is the very spirit of God that this Prana is made up of. During the Exodus, the Israelite-s fed on this Prana (Manna) for several years as they made their way to the Promised land. Prana is life as it is God!

Jesus Christ spoke of manna as well:
"Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world." (John 6:31-33 RSV).

P.S. Small world ;-)

When I was around 23 I coined up a phrase "Even God re-cycles, its called re-incarnation". This came to me when I was reflecting on life and its possibilities. Being  born and raised a Christian, many a times I would look and find glimmers of this elusive truth in The Bible but not quite as many eastern religions would put it. There are many examples of re-births in The Bible, from Lazarus being brought back from the dead to Jesus himself being resurrected from the cross, informing that he will come again. I am sure that there are many more incidences  of Jesus bringing people back to life even though life was brought back into the same body. Re-incarnation is definitely possible as nothing is impossible for God and it is only in our minds we tell ourselves of what God can and cannot do.

Why is it that we cannot remember our past lives? It is because some of us may never had a past life and for some of those rare ones that has had past lives, simple truth of the matter is that  it would overwhelm the senses  if one were to know all their actions of past lives. It is hard enough  coping with the emotions of this life. Ponder on this question.. Do we remember every single detail of this life? Of course not, we may remember major moments in our life of which the rest are easily forgotten. Remembering our past lives is something like that, we might only have glimpses of major moments when doing a Past life-regression. I have seen some of the major moments that has happened in a past life regression.

Some clues about the soul and it reincarnating. As you know everything is energy and energy cannot die, it can only be transformed. You are energy, your body is made up of energy which houses an energy body within it, some may vaguely call it as a soul (please check an earlier blog on this subject) but that is not the case. A soul has to be nurtured and grown for it to maintain its identity after death. For those that doesn't have this cultivated soul, their energy dissipates into their immediate surroundings (some can call this Hell) at the time of their death. Imagine your soul energy dissipating and absorbed into the Earth energy; that is the "death" of a soul. For those who have a developed soul, they can exist in a "heavenly" state as energy beings with the spirit of God often choosing to reincarnate to serve God's purpose here on Earth. If you came from the Heart of God, isn't that where you should return to ? Do now see the importance of building your soul ?

If you are further interested in learning more about the soul and are curious about doing a past life regression, please check out the Cycles of The Soul: Reincarnation course published by Higher Balance Institute which includes a guided past life regression program that you can use at your convenience in your home!