A Paduan
I should clarify. I do not believe in the Christian God. I do not see God as a person. I do not even like the term God. I call the energy of life, Spirit. Spirit to me is the essence of love.
Take Care
Dragon
i have a lot of friends in my life.
some are real close and some are casual friends.
in all, i still enjoy my connection with them and i enjoy the time i get to spend with them.
A Paduan
I should clarify. I do not believe in the Christian God. I do not see God as a person. I do not even like the term God. I call the energy of life, Spirit. Spirit to me is the essence of love.
Take Care
Dragon
recently i was watching a documentary on this woman who claimed that she could heal people with the power of her mind.
the documentary went into interviewing people about their experiences, and many of them actually had medical signs of improvement that could be documented and shown.
while watching this, i was seeing it as a example of psychic energy healing someone?
I am not a huge fan of Silvia Brown, I actually met her in person in Sacramento a few years back. She made a lot of mistakes and that did not impress me. Plus, she adds to much with Jesus and God and I think she does that to get the Christian support. In my search into "new age" thinking, I grow further and further from the thought of "Jesus" or "Satan" and kind of feel shocked when those names come up. Basically, I think they are fiction.
John Edwards on the other hand, I do think has a lot of talent. I saw a program with him, in which they set people behind him and asked him to describe what they were wearing and who they were. They then did the same thing with 5 other people who claimed no ability. John was right 60-70% of the time and the others were right 40% of the time. Even guessing you can get 30-40% correct. While they tried to say he should have gotten it 100% right to disprove him, they could not ignore the fact that he did do more.
John Edwards is only one of many, that I think have some talent for psychic thought. I have been to several seminars on the ESP issue, and done exercise with the methods used. Visualization with the mind and mental travel with the mind. I have learned one important fact. "If you believe, it is possible ... if you don't, you are wasting your time." I once heard it compared this way. There is a gene that allows you the ability to role your tongue, some have it and some don't. The same is with believing in psychic thought, some are predisposed to understand it and some don't want to. Just like with the tongue rolling, you really don't care that you can't. Although you might find amusement in those who do.
I believe in it, always will.
My thought
Dragon
recently i was watching a documentary on this woman who claimed that she could heal people with the power of her mind.
the documentary went into interviewing people about their experiences, and many of them actually had medical signs of improvement that could be documented and shown.
while watching this, i was seeing it as a example of psychic energy healing someone?
I have a thought on the "Randy" man people have mentioned here. He has offered 1 million dollars to anyone who can prove psychic power is real. Okay, you do realize a million dollars is not a lot to some people.
John Edwards signed a contract worth 10 million per year to have his show, plus he will receive residual income when it is sold into syndication. He also holds seminars nation wide, where he makes even more.
Silvia Brown is said to get a writing bonus of $500,000 - $1,000,000 for every book she writes. Plus, she gets paid $25,000 - $100,000 for some seminars she teaches.
So I ask, if a man offered a million to you to try to disprove your multi-million dollar career. Would you take it?
Just wondering
Dragon
give it to me~~.
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i know that some people wait until you are vulnerable......til you are weak when they strike.
Scum Bag = Someone without heart and love, who only thinks of themselves in all actions of life. Hurts to find joy, and hates to feel fulfillment.
Just my thought
Dragon
one of those subjects we all study at some point in school, is the holocaust.
i remember thinking before i learned about it, that i knew all the horrors of this event already.
after all, it had been mentioned on many programs.
A rose is like a moment in life. If you do not take the time to actually enjoy it for what it is. It could be lost before you knew it was even there. Thus the reason to take more time to enjoy them while we have them, and remember them all the more when they are gone.
Sorry, I am in one of those "deep mental moments" this evening. LOL
Take Care
Dragon
PS : I feel surrounded by roses of many colors, when I think of all the great people in my life.
recently i was watching a documentary on this woman who claimed that she could heal people with the power of her mind.
the documentary went into interviewing people about their experiences, and many of them actually had medical signs of improvement that could be documented and shown.
while watching this, i was seeing it as a example of psychic energy healing someone?
I bet nobody believes me about this either. Ah well, that's okay.
Robdar,
I very much believe you!!!
Dragon
recently i was watching a documentary on this woman who claimed that she could heal people with the power of her mind.
the documentary went into interviewing people about their experiences, and many of them actually had medical signs of improvement that could be documented and shown.
while watching this, i was seeing it as a example of psychic energy healing someone?
I have some questions. When you send energy to someone else, do they have to be somebody you know, or can you send it to anybody? When they get the energy, how do they know they got it? How do they feel differently when they get it? You know, this kind of thing would be easy to test experimentally.
Larc,
You asked this awhile back, sorry I took so long to answer. For me, I send it through a channel. Perhaps in a thought or something associated with the person. I believe we all have mental "power signs" that unlock doors in the psychic world. Although, I believe other connections can be felt in less formal setting. How do they feel it, often it is referred to as a mental buzz or warmth. Along with images that they associate with me. I have actually tested it, with time of day and everything. It is based on the energy of "ki" or "cosmic touch". In martial arts we use it to feel where someone is wanting to strike. In my training we did blind fold fighting in which we had to feel the energy of movement and the mind of the opponent. As for people feeling it that do not know me, I would never perceive to say I know the thoughts of anyone.
I hope this answered your question. Again, sorry I did not catch it earlier in the thread.
Take Care
Dragon
one of those subjects we all study at some point in school, is the holocaust.
i remember thinking before i learned about it, that i knew all the horrors of this event already.
after all, it had been mentioned on many programs.
I am terrible with rose names, but it was white with a reddish edge. It has gotten much larger now, and when ever I see them. I smile.
Take Care
Dragon
one of those subjects we all study at some point in school, is the holocaust.
i remember thinking before i learned about it, that i knew all the horrors of this event already.
after all, it had been mentioned on many programs.
One of those subjects we all study at some point in school, is the holocaust. I remember thinking before I learned about it, that I knew all the horrors of this event already. After all, it had been mentioned on many programs. The film footage was shown often in the news, and people talked about it. My history teacher took a different approach than this. We all set down in the afternoon to watch the video that was on the subject. The instructor started the program and on the screen we saw the video footage of carnage. We saw bodies stacked up like lumber, and being pushed into mass graves. We saw people walking around looking like death, with each bone showing as if nothing existed any more, except for the skin and bone. The sunken eyes of men and woman mistreated and tortured worse then anyone could ever imagine. It was like looking at the definition of hell, as people from some religion consider it to be. In these stacks of lifeless bodies laid the smaller bodies of children, who only knew life to be hate as these people tortured them into a death they did not deserve. The movie really touched everyone, seeing all this death and hatred in one moment of time that would be there marked in our brains for a life time. The movie ended and everyone was speaking among themselves about how terrible this was, and how they hated Hitler and the Nazi party. The teacher then went to the door and invited a old man in. He was very slow in moving, yet he had one of those smiles that told you he was a loving old guy. He set down and the instructor introduced him, "Every one this is (He said his name) he is a survivor of the concentration camps and I thought you would benefit from hearing him speak." The man cleared his throat and told us about his life, his voice was strong, but we could hear the pain in his thoughts as he mentioned how he lost his entire family to the hate. He mentioned seeing his father shot in front of him, and the fear he woke to each day and the hunger he dealt with through the night. He then ended and asked if people had any questions. We raised our hands and people asked careful questions, they were afraid to ask anything that would upset him. I wanted to know something though, so I raised my hand and asked, "Do you hate the Nazi's." He paused for a minute and said, "you would think I should, right? Well I don't. You see I feel, as I have gotten older, that to hate them is to let them win. All they were was hate and anger and evil behavior. I was not that way when I went in as a young man, and I refuse to be about that after I lived through it. You can hate for many years, but you can love for a life time." Now some may say, how do you remember so many details about a class from high school that happened 13 years ago. I respond, how do you not remember something like that? It taught be a lesson that has come up more then I ever thought it would. You see when I walked away from the Jehovah's Witnesses and into the world. It was not some blind decision. No, I learned something about the real truth of the society. Something that made me realize that I could not stay in a organization of false teachings and control. So in all honestly, I was angry. I spent days upset, and night thinking about all the years I had wasted. I was in a daze for what seemed like forever, when it was really just a few months. I remember one morning getting up and talking to my wife about something else I found that was wrong. It was a beautiful morning, the sky was blue and the birds were singing a morning song. I did not notice though, I was to busy thinking about this waste of time, and those wrong teachings. I ate breakfast and started to walk to my car, on the way I passed a rose bush I planted years earlier and always took good care of. I walked by it and right there in the middle was the first rose in blown for the season. It was awesome looking, all huge and colorful and full of life. It was weird, as I stood looking at this flower I got this amazing flashback in life and I remembered something from high school. It was this old Jewish man, and he said these words "You can hate for many years, but you can love for a life time" and my mind suddenly woke up. I realized, in all of my frustration about the Witnesses and the time they took from my life. I was actually losing more time with the anger and frustration, when I should have been living it. I should have been reading things I wanted too, learning new things, going new places and basically loving and not hating. If this old man could love after what he had seen, then I could love after what I had seen. It was time to learn to live again, and I was ready to go. Life is so much about these small lessons and things mentioned we never think will apply. The joy to me, is finding the reason for them later. Funny thing is, that trigger to find joy was such a simple thing. "I just needed to stop and smell the roses" and thus I remembered "You can hate for many years, but you can love for a life time." My thought Dragon
one of my best friends, an ex-elder, swears alot.
years ago i never would have sworn.
but they say bad assocaiation spoils useful habits, so what the -----.
Here is my thought on swearing. "Sometimes the word just fits!"
I would not say I swear a lot though, hardly every, but when something happens and I want to. I will, it is better then trying to think of other fake swear words to replace them. Like "Fudge, Shucks, Shot, Darn, Gosh" and other odd sounding things. One rule I live by though, I never swear in front of children. Want to know why? The little buggers tell on me. LOL
My thought
Dragon