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Could the venerable 10 Commandments create less Peace for its Jewish, Christian and Muslim adherents?

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How could the venerable 10 Commandments be a cause for anything other than Peace for so many devout Christians, Jews and Muslims who follow its tenets as a broad common unifying thread within all three of these long standing great houses of religious traditions? 

Is this even a fair question?

Let us begin first with a refresher of the list itself:

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.‘

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.

Now don’t these seem like a pretty good list of pretty good things to be doing?

Well, lets read closer… is any of one of these anything to be doing?

In fact, all but 2 of the 10 Commandments are commandments for things of things not TO BE DOING. 

The two notable exceptions being:

 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 

Honor your father and your mother. 

What do those of us who study The Law of Attraction ( aka LOA, aka The Law ) know about what The Law does with what we think we should not be doing?

That’s right, IT DOES THEM.

All 8 of the not to dos in The 10 Commandments when given thought energy manifest dos.

8 of The 10 Commandments largely do not tell us what to do. 

They focus the thoughts of those of us who study them most intently, most intently on what not to do. 

On examination, clearly many of these commandments are about not being LIARs, CHEATs, and FAITHLESS. 

On the face of it this seems intuitively positive as the negative of a negative.  However, we know that throught action of The Law, focus on the negative of a negative manifests a negative. 

What if the these had been written as The 10 Instructions to be TRUTHFUL, HONEST and FAITHFUL?  

Can you feel then how they might have had more profoundly positive manifestations?

Yours in peace,

Yucel 

What is it to be “Downloaded”?

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 We often hear of people who channel spirits or “Download” directly from god or another dimension.  For instance, Mohammed is said to have Downloaded the Koran (the Muslim holy book) directly from god.  Moses too is fabled to have done a direct Download from god of the ten commandments.
 
This story of Moses is in the Koran, the Bible and the Torah (Jewish holy scrolls).    These three holy books are in fact very much alike in content, differing mainly in two areas.
The Koran considers Mohammed the latest and most important prophet and sees Jesus as a prophet.
 The Bible does not recognize Mohammed and sees Jesus as Son of God and a Savior and God in his own right.
The Torah, which is the oldest writing, appears as the foundation for the other two book and does not mention Jesus or Mohammed.
 
Were these stories passed along or as Muslim tradition holds, was the story of the Koran “Downloaded” (not the Muslim word which would be in Arabic) directly to Moses from god?
 
Then there is/are Abraham Hicks.  Mrs. Hicks alleges to Download ( or channel, as Mrs. Hicks claims to be some kind of Spiritual Medium ) directly from Abraham an interdimensional entity group some very wise teachings on Law of Attraction which are then published and presented to large groups.  Well worth reading or listening to in my opinion.
  
Then again, what if its all downloaded?
 
What if we are all interconnected and one with the wholeness of god; and, everything is god; and, we are ourselves, as is everything else, one with this all encompassing god? 
 
This conceptualisation is consistent with many teachings from New Thought spiritualities, eastern religions and philosophies, and is alluded to by western religions and in some opinions which then diverge on paths to perhaps other conclusions, but I digress…
 
If consistent with this oneness we are all interconnected and one with god, a god (or universe or spirit or law or what every conceptualisation of this entirety you prefer) which is everywhere present and no where not present,
 if we are thus all one with god, then we are each one with god.  Yes?
 
And if we are each one with god, then isn’t everything, from the rude driver who cuts you off on the street while swearing, to the sublime music of Mozart, to the wisdom of holy books, to the discussion with your parents of what is for dinner, to the realisation that god is love, isn’t it all Downloaded?
 
Can you be one with god, and everyone and everything else one with god, and everything not be downloaded?
 
Isn’t everything Downloaded?
 
Yours in unity,
 
Yucel
  

Does god need worship?

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Science of Mind teaches us that god does not require worship and is not even effected by worship.  That all thoughts are prayers and all prayers are answered all of the time, for all people, regardless of any merit, or lack there of,  of the person or the prayer.  That this in fact the nature of god (or if you prefer, the universe) to react to all of our thoughts (prayers) and create automatically (manifest in form) from these thoughts.  That this unversal nature is mechanistic in form so far as our  thoughts automatically become manifest creations within the universe.  A virtual cause (thought) is effect (manifestation). 

We are also taught, that we exist entirely within god.  That all of what we are is within god.  That everything is within god.  That all is god and nothing is outside of god.  That when we create, we create within god within ourselves.

We are also taught that we have free will, within god.  This will being free is wholly ours and is also free from any will of god.  That the free will is thus ours alone. 

Could free will, if it were truly free of any influence or judgment of god, then be free (outside) of god?  Thus separate from god?

That we exist and everything exists entirely within god concept is important elsewhere within this religion.  So, this internal/external issue is a key point. 

Can we have will free of god and yet be contained completely within god, as god is everything and everywhere?

If we create say disease within our bodies or allow disease to enter our bodies, is the disease then free of our will?   Could the disease created by us now within us be still subject to our will?

If our incarnations, will, thoughts and spirits are a kind of mini model of god, yet within god, as we are also taught,  what would be the implications for the healthy or diseased parts within us?  Would they also be subject to our will or are they free of our will with will of their own? 

We are taught that through knowledge of our connection and total immersion in the perfection of and within god, that we can heal all things within us, as god is perfectand we being wholly of and within god, we are similarly perfect.

Yet, how could we heal disease within us if we had allowed it carnation?  What about the disease’s will to live?

Doesn’t disease have its own portion of free will (as germs will want to multiply)?

If disease or health is within us and could nurture or consume us,  would we not desire that within us to be loving towards us?

If we felt this way, could not god then, having created us within god, desire too that we would be loving towards god?

Could we then through hate or avarice or disregard, consume god as a virus consumes some of us?   If this were possible, could we through love of god then nurture god?

Depending on our religions, we are taught among other things that god is love or that god is an angry and vengeful god.

Do we not become diseased when we are angry, or vengeful, or depressed?

Are we not healthy when we are joyous, loving and free?

Is it worship?  Is it coincidence?  Luck?   Or is it just the nature of things that bitter feelings manifest through The Law as sickness just as love and joy manifest the glow of good health?   (  Law of Attraction aka LOA see more at:  http://choose.ws/2009/06/18/what-is-reality/drama-story-truth/feeling-the-drama/yucel/ )

Does our love for god shape the face of god or only create in matter that which passes while only our eternal spirit endures?

What if any is the karmic price to our spirits for loving or hating god and/or the other spirits within god?

What part if any part of us exists outside of god?  Or are we all just mini mirrors of god and of each other, while all within god?

Your piece of the puzzle and yours in peace,

Yucel

What Happens When We Pray for Others

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Prayer for others is something many of us who pray spend a great deal of time doing.  And, if we don’t pray, and are members of say Law of Attraction (LOA) groups, all of our thoughts being prayers, what if we think or wish things for others?
 
Can these prayers have any affect on others?
 
Many sources on LOA, and other modalities, like Real Love ( www.reallove.com ) state that we cannot control the behavior of any particular other person.
 
Neal Diamond Walsch, in Conversations with God, Book 3, posits that nothing ever happens to anyone without that person to whom it happens consent.  He takes this to the level of embryos being aborted, and so on.  There are no victims for Mr. Walsch.
 
In conversations with Rev. Michelle Medrano of New Visions Center on this topic, it seemed  ( http://www.newvisionaz.org/ ) she feels that prayer for others could work, could never harm;  however, only if the prayer was requested by the person being prayed for.  This asking could be direct or indirect (on deeper levels of consciousness or spirit). 
 
On interviewing a very helpful Christian Science Practitioner  ( found thru  http://www.spirituality.com/ ) on this and other topics I learned that this practioner feels it a breach of  personal ethics to pray for those who have not asked.  That prayer for others is felt to be at best a form of “Mesmerism” (named after Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th century Physician  whose work on treating hypochondria with various spiritual seeming seramonies led Scottish surgeon James Braid to develop hypnosis in 1842) and that such prayer for others is in any event ineffective. 
 
Christian Scientists believe in a personal relationship with God without gate keepers or intersession by others.  In fact, it is my understanding that Christian Science Practitioners work largely to help one see for ones’ self the truth of connection with source and to thus heal ones self.  I hope to clarify these points further in the future. 
 
Then there are the Christians, with whom many of us in the West are familiar, always praying for everybody… for all manner of things to come into the lives of others.
 
If we have ever seen a movie on Voodoo, this seems to work on others.   Though, some believe you have to believe it (so you create it for yourself) and others believe it works on believers and non believers alike.
 
Then there is the whole dynamic of the conscious cocreation of society as a whole.  How does ones actions or prayers affect the life of someone else?  And, how do these add up into a whole of REALITY, what ever reality is?
 
I have more questions than answers and look forward to inputs and clarifications.
 
My personal beliefs are that we create fully our own reality.  And, somehow, these all sum together to form “The World.”  And, that others call us into their lives as we call them into ours.  That there are no accidents.
 
What do you question?  What do you believe?
 
Peacefully yours,
Yucel