Month: February 2021

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Life Review — The Movie From Hell

Afterlife

In the past forty years, there has been an explosion of books, articles, and videos concerning just what happens to us after we die. Near death experiences, travels to the astral world, people who claim to have been to heaven, hell, purgatory and everywhere in between. There is even the claim of an atheist who alleged a near death experience and claimed he saw himself just sleeping (and snoring no less LOL). Still yet another alleged he wound up on the planet Saturn. Yeah, there’s a whole bunch of stuff out there about the afterlife these days.

Perfect Justice

Have you thought about it? Perhaps your feelings about it come from your religious upbringing (or lack thereof) Maybe pop culture or a friend or relative or neighbor. Maybe a book or group of books. Maybe you have never even thought about it and simply don’t care. Maybe you have even had a near death experience or perhaps a brush with an angelic spirit. In any case, it is my belief that, for a variety of reasons far beyond the scope and focus of this blog post, that it is impossible for our essence, our spirit, not to continue after the body has stopped functioning. Our bodies die…we do not…we keep right on going, with our personality intact. We leave this earth dimension and move on to that part of the great beyond where we exactly and precisely belong. Our placement is based on the state of our spirit. No randomness. No chaos. No corruption. No favoritism. No fixes. Just perfect justice.

The Life Review

My efforts to learn more about this afterlife thing has led me to the conclusion that when we die, we will all experience a procedure called a “life review”. Every aspect of our entire life — from the time we exit the womb to the second that we take our last breath — will be reviewed by us. In my imagination I picture it as being in sort of a cosmic movie theatre. While there will be advanced spiritual beings who monitor and oversee the event, there is not any lecturing from them. Every single evaluation and judgement on my life will come from me and me alone during the course of this life review movie. Divine judgement has already taken place before the life review in the proper placement of my spirit in the afterlife. There are many here on earth who claim that after a period, we are allowed to come back to earth and give it another go. And there are many here on earth that say that is bullshit. What do you think? In any case, the purpose of this life review is instructional so as to “grow our souls” as we continue on with our existence, whatever it may be, after this earth lifetime is over.

A Special Movie

This life review movie is a very special type of movie. Even though we have no physical body, our five senses come into play in a vivid, sharpened manner (high definition many times over). What makes this life review movie particularly unique is that we not only see and hear and feel what we did and didn’t do during our lifetime here on earth, BUT we also simultaneously see and hear and feel how our words and our actions affected other human beings, for better or for worse. both positively and negatively. We are able to feel their emotions with regard to things that we did or did not do. Our actions may have had an effect on someone many degrees separated from us. We are able to view our life from several different perspectives all at the same time. It is a wild movie. Where we did good, the movie is pure unadulterated bliss. Where we royally messed up however, it is a hellish torture. It then becomes the movie from hell. I am going to have bootmarks all over my spirit ass from kicking myself while watching all my stupid mistakes.

A Happy Ending

I have always been a fan of happy endings in movies. I figure I still have some time left in this world. Not much, but some. If life was a calendar, I would be somewhere in November right now. However, I am very well aware that nobody knows for certain when their “number will be called”. For me, it coud be as much as a dozen or so years from now or it could be sometime later today. Nobody really knows for sure. In this earth dimension, in what remains of this lifetime, it is my intention to do everything that I know how to do, using whatever resources that I have, to make the last part of my life review movie have a happy ending. I don’t know about you but I am so tired of making mistakes. I don’t want to have to make frequent trips to the cosmic concession stand and the celestial rest room in order to avoid watching a really bad movie. How about you?

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Speaking To An Empty Lecture Hall

This Blog’s Purpose

As mentioned in the very first post of this blog, this blog has 2 purposes: (1) to present you with information about how you can manifest good things in your life, presenting you with techniques that have been proven many times over to actually work; and (2) to receive some income in some manner or form. I am currently planning to offer one or more e-books for sale later this year. Any income from this will then help me in the realization of my visualized life paradigm for what remains of my lifetime. While I originally intended to launch the book(s) and blog at the same time, an event occurred last summer that urged me to just get started with the blog, ready or not. So that is what I did. I just started writing these posts.

An Audience Of One

Some years ago, during one of the many jobs that I have worked over my lifetime, I found myself as a representative of my trade union in the facility in which I worked. Approximately 250 employees worked in the installation. In an effort to improve communication within the labor workforce, I started a monthly newsletter. Using my own free time for writing and editing and my own money for printing, I kept it up for roughly a year and a half before it became overly time and money consuming. I did receive unsolicited positive feedback from a number of employees regarding the newsletter. On the last page of the newsletter, titled, “Some Final Thoughts”, I always wrote something which was close in tenor to the content of the posts of this blog. Some of that positive feedback was in regard to that specific page of the newsletter, so I know that some at least were reading and enjoying it. So for now, until I am ready to engage in actions that will serve to invite a multitude of people to this blog, I will harken back to that previous experience. I will simply make believe that others are actually reading these blog posts and receiving something beneficial from them. Even though nobody else is currently reading this blog, there has been one documented reader who has already been helped — me. As I write a new post each week and then subsequently proofread and edit same, I remind myself of concepts and truths and techniques that during the course of everyday living, one tends, for one inexplicable reason or another, to forget. I speak of concepts and truths and techniques that have helped me with past manifestations that for whatever reason, I have put aside. I can only chalk that up to the fact that I am a highly flawed human being.

The Inner Voice

I read an account somewhere (can’t remember where) concerning the author, lecturer and mystic, Neville Goddard. He was the author of sixteen books as well as having given thousands of lectures. In the early sixties, he wrote a book entitled “The Law and The Promise”. He began to incorporate concepts from that book into his lectures. His business agent noted to him that his lectures were not being received as enthusiastically as previous years and that the numbers attending the lectures were dropping. As I recall, his response to his business agent was something to the effect “if i have to speak to an empty lecture hall, so be it. What I currently have to say about what I wrote about in The Law And The Promise, simply must be said.” Until such time as I am ready to employ measures to introduce this blog to a larger audience than one…myself…I will continue to “speak to an empty lecture hall”. For whatever reason, the inner urge, the inner desire, the inner prompting, to write is stronger than the logical choice to just wait until I am writing these posts for others in addition to myself. The inner voice said “just start writing” and so I did. And if nobody else on the planet ever reads these posts, it’s ok. The fact is that they have already helped someone — me. And through that help, I may then be better able to help others in what remains of my lifetime. Thus, the primary goal will have been reached through an indirect route. Sometimes, that’s how life works.

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Overlooked Household Poison — Throw It Out Now

” Danger Will Robinson “

Did you ever watch the tv show “Lost in Space” originally aired in the mid-sixties? The two things I remember about it was that Professor Smith guy (prototype of today’s politicians) and the stupid looking robot they had. Billy Mumy played “Will Robinson”, one of the Robinson family that was piloting a space ship that was lost in outer space. Whenever Will Robinson was about to encounter a dangerous situation, the robot would wave its arms and shout “Danger Will Robinson, Danger.” Well, if you had that robot today he would be saying the same thing to you regarding a very toxic poison that you probably have within your household. It is not in the medicine cabinet. It is not in the basement. It is not in the attic. Nor is it in your garage or shed. It is inside — you. It is called “regret”. Every time that you make the choice to re-activate it, you succeed only in re-infecting yourself and causing harm.

What Is Regret ?

Just what is “regret”. It has been defined as “feeling grief, depression or disappointment over something that you have done or have left undone.” I have always kind of distrusted people who say that they have no regrets. I feel that they are not really telling the truth and display narcissistic tendencies. In Romans 7:15 (NLT), the apostle Paul states, ” I really don’t understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.” I guess it’s all part of being a fallible, mortal human being.

Learning Is Magic

Learning is a magical thing. To gain knowledge that will help you to live a richer, fuller life is the essence of learning. If you can learn from the negative results of things that you did (or neglected to do) — if you make effort to apply to the right here and right now what you have learned from the past — then you will be successful in using past mistakes as lessons to create (manifest) good things in the right here and right now — for yourself as well as for others. If you choose to rehash your past mistakes over and over and over again in the form of regret, then you have not learned a damn thing. You will only be successful in creating more bad things in the right here and right now — for yourself and others. Is that what you desire? You would be similiar to the junkie who regrets the addiction but keeps shooting the poison into their veins nonetheless. To paraphrase Clemenza from the movie The Godfather, “Leave the regrets, take the learning”.

The $64,000 Question

So now we get down to the “$64,000 Question” (how’s that for “old school”): how do you stop yourself — from wallowing in counter-productive, toxic regret and start yourself living free from errors and mistakes of the past? To have regrets is one thing — to wallow in them is totally another. When they come into your thoughts, say “Fine. OK You’re here to remind me of something I already very well know but I just don’t have time for you now. I’m busy fulfilling this dream I have with what’s left of my life. So, no disrespect mister regret, but don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” The eternal “now” is the only sure thing that you can work with. Every minute of your life, a “new now” comes along. If you keep grieving over past mistakes you will only succeed in perpetuating them.

What Can You Do About It ?

Sit down and start thinking of what you did in your life that was right and resulted in positive results. Walk away from everything else in your life for a few solid hours and really think deeply about it. When you have come up with something that you can “really hold on to”, write it down. Put it on an index card. Write it on a poster and hang it on your wall. Hang it around your nose if you have to. Scripture states, “Write them on your doorframes of your houses and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:9 NIV). Whatever manner you choose, keep these things in your mind. Allow the good feeling that they produce to dominate your feelings. Regrets will then have no room to maneuver and along with Elvis, will “have now left the building”. And YOU will then be in a better place to help yourself and help others also. Isn’t that a good thing? There will be more about this whole topic in a future post.

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Have You Tried CBD Oil For Knee Pain Relief

For the past fifteen years, osteoarthritis pain has invaded my knees. Both knees are afflicted, with the left knee pain being the more severe. Cartilage has worn away and a “bone-on-bone” situation is in place. The orthopedic physician who first examined me back in 2005 said I would definitely be requiring knee replacement within five years. That puts me ten years now past his definitive prediction. My current orthopedic physician has said for the past five years that I should get both knees replaced after looking at the xrays and stating, “you’ve got one ugly set of knees there.” However, my rule of thumb with this situation is to keep my original knees for as long as possible. So with this in mind I have tried many things to reduce the pain over the years. These remediation efforts include: walking (to maintain muscle strength), over the counter topical ointments and creams, ibuprofin, acetaminophen, aspirin, cortisone injections, hyaluronic acid injections, aspiration injections, knee sleeves, orthotic braces, glucosamine tonics and at home exercises. Within the past year I have experimented and found good results with the use of a topical balm containing CBD oil.

What Is CBD Oil ?

CBD (Cannabidiol) is a natural compound found in the resinous flower of cannabis, a plant that has been used for centuries for medicinal uses. CBD is related to another compound found in the cannabis plant, namely THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). THC is the compound that causes the “high” that cannabis is well known for. Both CBD and THC have therapeutic benefits but unlike THC, the compound CBD does not get people “high” (intoxicated). THC and CBD act in totally different ways on the receptors of the brain. The fact that CBD can be used for a variety of ailments without any psychoactive effects makes its emergence in the field of therapeutics an exciting event.

CBD Uses And Products

Much scientific research – a great deal of it sponsored by U.S. government agencies – as well as ever increasing anecdotal accounts from both patients and physicians highlight CBD’s potential for a wide range of ailments: (1) inflammation from osteo and rhematoid arthritis, (2) neurological conditions (alzheimers, dementia, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury), (3) stress and anxiety, (4) skin problems (acne, dermatitis, psoriasis), (5) metabolic syndrome (diabetes, obesity), (6) cardiovascular dysfunction (atherosclerosis, arrhythmia, (7) neuropsychiatric disorders (autism, ADHD, PTSD), (8) better sleep, (9) therapeutic pain relief.

Depending on what you are using it for, CBD can be used through several different types of products: (1) sublingual spray, (2) drops, (3) capsules, (4) topical salves, creams and ointments, (5) bath salts, (6) tea, (7) even treats for your pets.

It is very important for bioavailability and absorption effectiveness to purchase from a vendor that provides first run, full spectrum, premium grade, CBD oil, lab verfied with small batch labelling. Many companies cut costs by using second run or even third run oil. This oil is just not as effective because all of the other cannabinoids are lost during multiple extraction runs. While many companies use MCT oil carrier fluids, try to find a company that uses hempseed oil carrier fluids. Hempseed oil helps to better metabolize the CBD into your blood stream. Before you purchase a CBD product for yourself, be sure to do your homework. Buying a low quality product may simply be throwing away your money as well as giving you less than optimum results which in turn would give you an inaccurate conclusion about the effectiveness of CBD.

CBD: A Pleasant Surprise

After doing research on CBD, I decided to give it a whirl to see if it would help tamp down the pain of the arthritis in my knees. Short answer — CBD works. It really works. It doesn’t make my knees feel like they did when I was young. There is still a residual of pain but it is reduced. I probably should apply the balm three times a day but sometimes I will only apply it once or twice. Some days I will skip it entirely. Nothing scientific, but it seems to work better when I apply it consistently. Ahhh — lack of consistency — one of my many flaws. In any case, I am happy that I tried it as it as been a pleasant surprise. I will keep experimenting and at some point I will see what happens by combining external use CBD (topical balm) with internal use CBD (drops).