Channeled guidance from Bashar

WARNING: Is "Bashar" right? We do not know. Ask Darryl Anka, his channel. As when "Seth" speaks or "Abraham" advises, we ourselves must judge and decide.

What is the way? Shall we follow our bliss, like Abraham-Hicks says of the Law of Attraction? Are we to follow our feelings and heart...maybe our reason and head? Is it the Law of Vibration? What is the way of manifestation?

All asking, none knowing. All talking, none showing. All searching, none finding, traveling roads that go on winding. Channel Darryl Anka seems so passionate and sure.

The experience of our physical reality is mediated by our thoughts and views, our cognitive labels and feeling tone. Our response matters more than the world or universe that provokes us. Life is 51% response to 49% things that happen. Maybe what happens is the result of our previous karma, but what it (the results) will mean is yet to be determined, discerned, designated?

The road opened up before me. The Universe said, "Not this way" but did not seem to say which way then. Who or what was that up to? Might I choose? Did I fail to see the signs? Whither go I? Which way is "right"?

The Dharma knows all. The Buddha articulated a path (of practice) to bring about realization. Is it in line with what Bashar is saying? How about Galactica and Abraham-Hicks? Who can say, who can say when it can be any way?

The simulation seems adaptable. Now what? It's always the now. That means it's ours to choose. But we know not which way this leads or that -- so what to do? What is the guide?

I know, I'll call 888-CALL PSYCHICS and they can tell me for as much as $9.99 a minute or more. There was also that mysterious lady at the palm reading shop at the pier. And there's Aunt Lucy the Slatanic seance meister who listens to Slayer while prognosticating futures. Cash only.

Jump or slip, can only go in One Direction

Whether you jump or slip on the railing, you can only really go in One Direction

When Thing Fall Apart (Pema Chodron)

A spirit-prompted suicide? The Dark Side is tricky, devils and demons being very lawyer-istic. So let's say a superstar sold out for talent, fame, and riches then regretted it because there was nothing to do in hotel rooms on tour to enjoy those things except drugs and drink? Then, say, one day living the same old-same old habit, it becomes a rager. He's breaking everything up, getting aggressive, elated, hopping on rails in death defying stunts and the spirits, sick of his stupid showing off and eager to cash in on their side of the deal, give a little nudge. Not quite a push. But being high, he slips and dies. Oops. They collect the spirit on their end, the police come and have a look around with nothing much to determine other than the unknowable -- stupid accident or dumb deal? The Five Precepts could have prevented this death, but who has time for virtue or morality when you're effin famous? Woooo! It's time to party!

Liam Payne had multiple drugs in his body at time of death, including 'pink cocaine'

(ABC7) Oct. 21, 2024: A partial autopsy found that former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple substances in his system when he fell plunged floated to his death from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 16th, [as there was nowhere else to go but One Direction (down),] sources tell ABC News.

• [NOTE: Pink cocaine is not discolored coca leaves treated with toxic synthetic chemicals to produce the familiar powdered stimulant. It's a whole new concoction of different illegal drugs not based on nature but a lab, a cooker, and a dime bag dealer with a little cocaine sprinked in.]

Those substances included "pink cocaine" -- a new recreational drug that is typically a mix of several old street drugs, including methamphetamine (Crystal Meth), ketamine (Special K), MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly), and others -- as well as cocaine (Coke aka Nose Candy), benzodiazepine (Benzos), and crack (aka Da'Sh-t).  [What, no Crank, Glint, or Bath Salts aka Zombie Tonic?] More: abc7.la

The moral of the story?

Commentary and preamble by Wisdom Quarterly

So, Kids, the lesson here is that when you become YouTube famous and are a great influencer, maybe "don't smoke drugs"? Just saying.

How sucky are beauty, youth, riches, talent, and fame that you have to try every substance imaginable trying to manage your feelings?

Better to be

• mindful (practice bare awareness just watching without reacting to anything in the customary habit of giving in to attraction, aversion, or delusion),
• meditate (bring together all the parts of consciousness into coherence) for focus and absorption,
• let go (don't cling), and
• win some insight (liberating understanding because the truth sets one free) into the true nature of existence.

In other words, beat Death before Death beats you. Reach the deathless state (amata), a synonym for nirvana, or face these things that are all a part of samsara.

Or join a boy band working for cruel Simon Cowell of AGT and plunge to an early demise while he cashes in on increased sales, which is the usual result of an artist's premature death. Sorry to be harsh.

Crash course in Feng Shui (video)

Self-discipline enables the magic of martial arts

Maybe the Western world is a little off track

White men can't jump (or cook rice correctly)

What could females do with training and discipline?

MLK: Where do we go from here? (speech)

Dr. King via Gabe Gentry, Aug. 26, 2011; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "Where do we go from here?"

(Gabe Gentry) After spending almost an hour detailing the many successes of the civil rights movement up to that time, Dr. King asks the question, "Where do we go from here?"

What followed was 14 minutes of soaring oratory, condemning the inherent economic injustices found in a consumption-based economy. Within a year, he was assassinated [for questioning our war-based society and economic system, making profits for the few by dropping bombs on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to be able to order new ones] while protesting for universal living wages on behalf of Memphis sanitation workers.

["You can question our morality, Reverend, but you will not question our capitalism, our addiction to war, or our fundamental racism and caste structure with Blacks and Natives at the bottom and brown people in general" -- seems to be the message of the assassination. While it seems many civil rights activists supported him, in fact he is great because they turned their back on him for speaking truth to power at a radical (roots) level.]

Meditation for Business People

Matt Eschler, LMFT

Reality is not nearly as important as what you tell yourself is true about reality (Matt Eschler)

Better Attitudes in the Workplace Before "The Matrix" became a movie phenomenon, the word matrix meant "a point of beginning." By definition a matrix is where something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.

We are continuously developing our psyche as well as our soul. As we develop these parts of our being, we are required to create mental focus. The more we focus on something -- whether it's math or auto racing or football or career paths -- the more that becomes our reality, the more it becomes written into the neural connections of our brains.

When we focus we generate ideas and develop paths to even more thoughts. In a sense we are shaping our brain as well as creating our future. We can literally sculpt our brain just as we'd sculpt our muscles if we went to the gym. This sculpting is referred to as neuroplasticity by neuropsychologists.

There are numerous ways and means to shape our brains. Meditation and prayer are very cost effective ways to create peace, focus, and life direction. Through the meditation process, or while engaging in prayer, we are really committing to a pattern of thoughts that will enhance our lives. More>>