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Spirituality for the Politically Incorrect

De: Nancy Showalter
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  • Hi, I'm Nancy Showalter. And this podcast is for you if you instinctively know that there is more to life than what you have been taught and you're not afraid to explore beyond conventional belief systems. Remember how everyone thought the world was flat and if you challenged that you were crazy? Or how people said if we were meant to fly God would give us wings? What about, "civilization is only four thousand years old," but science tells us differently? Very few of us are living to our fullest potential. I believe that is because most of us do not access the divinity within--the part that is one with our Creator. And how do we do that? That, and more, is what this podcast is all about.

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  • "Transforming Your Life with Words: The Science and Spirituality of Sound"

    "Transforming Your Life with Words: The Science and Spirituality of Sound"
    Jul 30 2024
    Last episode, we talked about reincarnation and how karmic law works beyond a single lifetime. Today, I want to talk about the power of the spoken word and how you can use your words to create positive karma and transmute negative karma.But first, as a foundation to understanding the power of the spoken word, I want to elaborate a bit on what we've already talked about during our first few shows. We talked about the I AM Presence, that part of us that was made in the image and likeness of God with all the divine qualities of the Godhead, like a miniature replica that contains all the same properties, but a very unique expression of the deity.We are androgynous, just as God is, male and female. It's the feminine aspect of ourself, the soul, that descends into the physical realms to spiritually evolve its divine qualities and return to its source, the I AM Presence, and the I AM Presence is the masculine polarity that always is in spirit. So this is why we instinctively think of God as masculine. But in reality, God is androgynous, both masculine and feminine.The ultimate goal of life is permanently reuniting with your I AM Presence and not being required to re-embody on Earth. This permanent reunion is a ritual called the Ascension.As a reminder, science says all things are a manifestation of energy. The only difference between any two things is its vibration and frequency. So what science calls energy, our spiritual traditions refer to as Light.When we are born into the physical body, we descend into the physical world, which is a denser energy frequency. But we never lose our connection to our Source, our I AM Presence. We are connected by a powerful stream of light from the heart of our I AM Presence to our heart chakra, or spiritual center, which is superimposed over our physical heart.This stream of light is what the Bible calls the silver cord. This energy that flows to us from the I AM Presence is what sustains us here. When it's withdrawn, we have what we call death. The life force no longer is in the physical form. This energy also is ours to use either constructively or destructively.Remember, we have free will. So we're creating every second of our lives, choosing how we qualify or use this energy because it's just a continual flow of the life force.In addition to our actions, we create through thought, through feeling, and through the spoken word. It's important to note that we create positive and negative results by the vibration that we send forth. When we are negative or depressed, we're misqualifying that pure light, and we're experiencing a very low frequency energy.We have free will and we can choose how we use this energy, setting causes into motion and reaping the effects of those causes. An example of this is every time you say, “I AM this or I AM that,” you are literally invoking the power of God within you to create that very condition, whether it's constructive or destructive. So again, we need to be aware of how we speak.When we begin to talk about our words, about sound, about the word, there's a sound from the east, the OM, that means “I bow, I greet, I accept.” It's an affirmation of our true being as we center ourselves in that point of bowing to our higher self, the I AM presence, of affirming we are immortal beings and accepting our reason for being and our responsibility to “be.” Intoning of the OM releases the frequency of the word, that same word that went forth as the origin of creation, and it takes us back to that point of origin, and there's a correlation between the OM and I AM that I AM.The OM is going within to that fiery core of being, just like the fire that did not consume the bush when Moses was on the mount. The I AM that I AM is the going forth with the fire of the heart of the Divine Presence to create.Now let's talk more specifically about sound. There have been many experiments with sound and how it impacts the physical world. Well, one great experiment, if you want to call it that, is where we read in the Bible when God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” The very first great experiment that was recorded and a great key for us also. We can give that same fiat, let there be “Let there be light,” and there will be light.However, the Bible is not the only place you find this action recorded. In the ancient Hindu Vedas we read, “In the beginning was Brahman with whom was the Word and the Word is Brahman.” Now this somewhat parallels the Bible. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish and Sufi mystics all believe that it is the Word that creates, pervades and sustains everything that exists. If this is truly the case, then the Word is the most powerful creative force in the physical universe.The Power of Your WordsThere have been many contemporary experiments that have brought forth some amazing revelations about sound. Take Dr. Masuro Moto's ...
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  • "The Bible and Reincarnation: Stories of Karma and Past Lives"

    "The Bible and Reincarnation: Stories of Karma and Past Lives"
    Jul 23 2024
    The concept of reincarnation is common in Eastern traditions, but not so much in the West. Some have argued that reincarnation is not mentioned in the Bible, so it must not be true. Even though the word reincarnation does not appear in the Bible, there are a couple of examples from interactions Jesus had with his disciples that were left in the New Testament that tells us that reincarnation was an accepted belief by Jesus and the disciples.The first example is when Jesus saw a man that was blind from birth. His disciples asked him, who had sinned that the man should be born blind? The man himself or his parents? Now, Jesus did not rebuke his disciples for this question, which they asked because they knew the law of karma and reincarnation. They knew it was entirely possible that the man could be blind because of sins committed in his previous life, because there would be no other time that he would have committed them since he was blind from birth.One of the many examples where he did just that is on another occasion when they called him Good Master. “Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He didn't even answer the question, but rather said, “Why callest thou me good? There is none good but God.” Not only was this an example of correcting them for calling the human person good, but it was also an example of Jesus letting the man who asked the question know that what was good in him was God. Jesus would not allow the idolatry of the human self, which is the outer expression of the God within. Regarding the blind man and the disciples' question, Jesus did answer their question. He said that neither had the man nor his parents sinned, but that the man was born blind so that works of God could be demonstrated in him.So, with this example, not only do we see that Jesus did not rebuke them for asking about the man's sin prior to being born, we also learn another reason why we might have the burden of an infirmity. We ourselves may have chosen to bear a particular karma of a loved one, or that of the planet, or bearing a burden solely for the same reason as this situation, that God should glorify himself within us through the healing process. It is not always our personal karma, and this is why we cannot judge ourselves or one another.The second example in the Bible of reincarnation, which is even more direct, is when Jesus said about John the Baptist, “and if ye will receive it, this is Elias which was for to come. He that he hath ears to hear, let him hear.” So, Jesus was saying that John the Baptist was a reincarnation of Elias. So, if we have ears to hear, we will hear. Not all Texts Were Allowed in the BibleWe need to also keep in mind that there were many texts circulating within the Christian community in the first two centuries. Some were determined by church leaders to be genuine and others not.In 367 AD, one of the church fathers named Athanasius put forth the list of the 27 books for the New Testament. He was also the one who gave a complete listing of the 66 books that belonged to the canon of the church at that time, and not all books were allowed in. There are a number of other gospels that were omitted.New RevelationsThen in 1945, the Nagamati texts were discovered, and they revealed information about the Gnostics, one of the early sects of Christianity, and their beliefs in reincarnation. They claimed to have knowledge of Jesus' secret teachings handed down to them by the apostles, and they also understood reincarnation. The Gnostics were ultimately destroyed by the Roman Orthodox Church because they were branded heretical. Their writings, which include some of the books that were eliminated from the final Bible canon, were destroyed, and their followers burned at the stake. So, what went into the Bible officially and what was prohibited was serious business back then. Then there was Origen of Alexandria, who in the 2nd century was one of the most distinguished theologians for the early church. His writings included teachings of Jesus on reincarnation and the heavenly hierarchy, another fascinating subject that we will talk more about in future episodes. Origen's books were widely used for more than a century—more than a century. They were criticized at the same time, however, and by the 6th century his writings were declared to be heresy and condemned, which resulted in the powers that be burning and destroying all of his writings, with only a very few remaining today.So, we cannot claim authoritatively that reincarnation is not in the Bible, and in the light of the 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi text in Egypt, we cannot say authoritatively that Jesus did not teach reincarnation, and not to mention that the majority of the population of the earth believes in reincarnation. There are also hundreds of cases of individuals that are born remembering exactly who they were, and in some cases, when the previous birth was recent enough, they have gone back to where ...
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  • "The Law of Karma: What Is It and Why Should I Care?"

    "The Law of Karma: What Is It and Why Should I Care?"
    Jul 16 2024
    Hello, everybody, and welcome to this episode on the “Law of Karma: What is it and Why Should I Care?” Last episode, we talked about your heart chakra, where the spark of your Divine Self resides, and how it is the doorway to connect to your higher consciousness, your I AM Presence. In the episode before that, we review the life of best-selling author, Dannion Brinkley, who has had three near-death experiences where he visited higher spiritual realms and communicated with spiritual beings. So, if you haven't heard that episode, you might want to go back and listen. It's pretty cool.Well, while in the spiritual realms, Dannion described what he called a life review, where he holographically relived every single thing he had ever thought, said, and his every action, both from his own perspective as well as he became every person he had interacted with, feeling exactly what they felt. He said that this was the highlight of his experience there because it turned his life around. Now, this type of life review is what each of us experiences at the end of our lives.It's a learning experience so that we can learn firsthand the consequences of our actions. That brings us to the law of karma, which is nothing more than a term that describes the cycle of cause and effect. Karma is a Sanskrit word from the Eastern tradition that literally means “action.”Unpacking Karma: From Ancient Wisdom to Everyday ExpressionsBut it's not just a concept in the East. This universal law of karma has been with us since the beginning of time, and it's known by a number of different names. Like currently in our popular culture, we know it as the law of attraction. From a scientific perspective, there's Newton's third law - for every action, there's an opposite and equal reaction. Even more colloquial expressions, such as what goes around comes around, what you sow you reap. If you plant corn seeds, you don't get tomatoes. So this is nothing new to us. We innately understand this law.This same teaching is found in a number of the world's religions. An example from the Bible is in the book of Matthew. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”Another example from the Buddhist scripture, from the Samyutta Nikaya, is “According to the seed that's sown, so is the fruit you reap therefrom. Doer of good will gather good. Doer of evil, evil reaps. Sown is the seed, and thou shalt taste the fruit thereof.” Now a more modern example is Florence Scovel Shinn, who was a spiritual practitioner in the early 20th century. She talks about the game of life. She says, most people consider life a battle, but it's not a battle. It's a game, a great game of giving and receiving, and we know that to be successful at any game, you have to know how to play. You have to know what the rules are, and what's the outcome that you're trying to go for. In life, this rule of giving and receiving, cause and effect, is very important to understand, because it guides us in the use of our free will. Because as we create, the results return to us.Now to fully understand this law, we have to begin with the basic premise that everything is energy, which we've covered in previous episodes. According to its vibrational speed and frequency, we have different manifestations. And this includes us. We are vibrational beings, and according to the level of our vibration, is what we're putting out to the universe that will come back to us. This initial premise that we are vibrational beings, and that we are physical extension of that which is non-physical, is vital to our understanding of the law of karma. It's important to understand that you're constantly creating. Your thoughts are creations, your emotions, your memories too, and of course your actions. All are manifestations of energy. Take for instance, if you had a traumatic experience, one perhaps that you've not completely released or gotten over, the energy imprint or record of that event is still in your memory body, even if you don't consciously think of it. But each time you do think about it, and feel it all over again, it's no longer something that happened in the past. It's in your present moment. The energy is still there with you.By re-living the past, you create the situation all over again. As you recreate the past in this way, the situation is made stronger, imprisoning you within an energy pattern that can totally engulf you. I mean, think about the person who's unable to get over a particular fear or phobia, and they refuse to leave the house. That's just an example. But it's these records, our misuses of God's energy, that is what creates our illness, our disease, our emotional bondage. But the good news is, the same holds true for your good memories. You can likewise raise your vibration to a very high level, simply by remembering or re-experiencing a very wonderful event that happened in your life. Many people use this remembering technique in their meditations to get centered in ...
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