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Does Tithing Really Help Me Get aTenfold Return? How Does Law of Attraction Respond?

Nov. 01 Featured Posts 1 comment

Interview of Michael J. Losier
by Lauren N. Mitchell

It’s common for people to ask me how they should feel when they do something. It’s none of my business or my vibration how you feel; although I recommend that you feel good all of the time. Recently I had a conversation about tithing. The person I was talking to said that it’s important to her and her family that she tithes 10%. It is her belief that if she tithes 10%, she will get a return of 100%.

Law of Attraction doesn’t do math. It doesn’t have a brain or a conscience. It doesn’t make decisions, and it doesn’t ever decide. It’s pretty busy matching the vibration you are sending, but it doesn’t know how to count.

If you tithe 10% and you didn’t feel good tithing it, that’s a negative vibration. If you tithe 10% and it made you feel good, that’s a positive vibration. It’s not what you tithe; it’s how you feel about what you tithe.   It’s up to you to decide what percentage makes you feel good, or what it should be. Use your Vibrational Meter Reader (your feelings) to help you decide whether it’ll make you feel good to tithe or if it won’t feel good to tithe. You are the depleter of your own energy, so you decide how you’d like to be replenished. Your replenishment would be the joy and satisfaction of giving the tithe, but only if it feels good. So pay attention to your Vibrational Meter Reader the next time you are asked to tithe or do it voluntarily. Remember, it’s not what you tithe; it’s how you feel about what you tithe. Law of Attraction will match those vibrations, without counting, making decisions or deciding “how much.”

So your question might be, “If I feel really good, will my return be 100%?” First, it’s almost impossible to calculate the percentage of the return. It’s all about your feeling of abundantness. It might come back to you in a thousand ways, a thousand different times.

Just feel good about tithing and know that you’ve added the vibration of abundance to your current vibration, and that is immeasurable.

 

Michael Losier is the author of the best selling book Law of Attraction, Law of Connection and the soon the be released Fulfillment Needs.

 

 

 

 

Visit Michaels Official Website to learn more about Law of Attraction

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God or Goddess: Which One Should I Choose?

Jul. 11 Videos no comments

The Pagan Perspective recently answered the following question by one of its Youtube viewers:

What are your thoughts on a male following the goddess in paganism and a female following the god.  Do you feel that the sex of someone should determine if they follow the goddess or the god in their pagan life?  I’m male and beginning to learn about paganism.  I feel that I connect more to the goddess but I have noticed from reading things and watching videos that males tend to lean more toward the god and females to the goddess.

Speaking from a Wiccan experience, Mary, the speaker, answers the question by looking at the people that surround her.  She contends that the followers of the Wiccan tradition are drawn to both the god and the goddess and can relate to aspects of both.  Followers who want to honor both strive to understand what is power and warrior-like in the goddess and what is kind and nurturing in the god.   However, if you study both of them at their depths they will both encompass every experience that will take us to the levels of supreme wisdom and confidence.

Mary asks that you try to relate to both god and goddess in their many different aspects.  If you feel more connected to one or the other then find out why.  See if you can find that which you admire in one, in the other.  It’s important to understand who both are so that you can explore who you might be.  The femaleness and the maleness of the deities doesn’t define who they are in terms of potential.  It also doesn’t limit or define them or us.

If we are not relating to the god and goddess as equals, we may not be in tune with who we are.  Don’t limit what god or goddess can be.  Explore both but if in the point in your study you lean towards one or the other, enjoy what you have to learn and then decide what you want in your life.

 

To view the Youtube video go here.

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Create Your Own Religion on HuffPo

Jun. 27 Just for Fun 1 comment

Do you have what it takes to create your own religion?  Now’s your chance.  The popular blog Huffington Post is hosting a competition in their comedy section to see who can create the best religion.  All entries are considered.  The best will be posted directly on the site.

You’ve got the long hair, the nice bushy beard, and lots of beliefs, but you don’t have the 2.2 billion adherents worldwide. Or perhaps you’re chubby and like to sit cross-legged, but no one is making statues of you. Or maybe you’re a mediocre sci-fi writer that wants people speaking your psuedoscience.

Well now you can be the next Jesus, the next Buddha, or even the next L. Ron Hubbard. Sign up now to create-your-own religion. You name it, write down the beliefs, rituals, and holidays. We will then post the best submissions on our site and allow you to compete for followers.

So what are you waiting for?  All it takes is submission of a simple form and you could be the next big influencer on the planet.  Just give your religion a name, name it’s core beliefs, holidays and rituals, and you’re all set.

Are you more of a follower than a leader?  Check out some of the religions that have already been submitted:

Rationalism: Since any advanced piece technology is indistinguishable from magic, only ignorant people can be part of this religion. These ignorant people are to study the Holy Fluctuation, the deviation from the great singularity.

Universal Calculatism: The universe is an enormous calculator, space is the numerator, time is the denominator, we are the answer.

The United Church of Awesome: See others for the Awesome inside them, and help them realize their potential for Awesome, which in turn will cultivate your own.

Allnessanity: The allness is the atom. The all of it is in every part of it. The trinity being in all things. Negative, positive and neutral. Everyone, everything, everywhere are all connected via the atom.

 

To read more about the Create Your Own Religion Competition go to Huffington Post’s Comedy Section.

 

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Dianetics Movie Receives Indie Fest Award

Jun. 15 News 2 comments

On June 1st, Indie Fest recognized Golden Era Productions’ four-and-a-half hour documentary, How to Use Dianetics, for exceptional achievement in craft and creativity in the category of educational and instructional films.

The film is a four-and-a-half hour book on film of L. Ron Hubbard’s seminal work, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, a book about that explores the existence of a mind with three parts: the conscious “analytical mind,” the subconscious “reactive mind”, and the somatic mind.

Produced by Golden Era productions, central dissemination center of the Scientology religion, How to Use Dianetics contains more than 10,000 computer-generated special effects graphics.

“The film is a tour de force, graphically illustrating every component of Dianetics. It enables the viewer to see each of the concepts presented in the book,” says Catherine Fraser, Director of Public Affairs for Golden Era Productions. “The step-by-step presentation makes it possible to master every Dianetics principle, one at a time. The film has already been translated into 16 languages, and we ultimately plan to expand this to more than 70 languages in all. Great care was taken to stay true to the book and bring the bestseller to life, making it as realistic as possible, even down to filming a real black panther to illustrate one of the key concepts in the book.”

Judged by highly qualified film industry professionals, the Indie Fest recognizes filmmakers who produce fresh, standout entertainment, animation and compelling documentaries.

 

To visit the official Dianetics site go here.

To learn more about the How to Use Dianetics documentary and Golden Era Productions, go here.

 

 

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Will Hell Freeze Over?

Jun. 15 Just for Fun 1 comment

Who says religion and science aren’t compatible???

The following is an actual question posed on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam. The answer was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

“First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving.  I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.  With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

  1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
  2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, “…that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.”, and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.”

The student received the only “A” given.

The story appeared on the View on Buddhism website among other sites.

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Faith and Psychiatry

May. 26 Science 1 comment

Spirituality and/or religion are often integral to helping fix some of the emotional problems that send average Americans running into the offices of mental health specialists.  For example,when a patient is depressed, they will often ask what the point is in continuing their lives.  Sometimes the answer can be obtained by having the psychiatrist integrate the patient’s spiritual or religious beliefs with traditional psychiatric treatment to find out what gives their lives meaning.

The need to integrate a person’s spiritual or religious beliefs into their treatment is embodied by Victoria Maxwell.  In 1992, Victoria had a psychotic event where she ran around shouting “I am one with God”.  That episode began a series of treatments which didn’t really address the root of the problem: 

“The one element, which could have helped me accept treatment more readily, was overlooked. My spiritual beliefs were not only ignored, but more accurately actively avoided. Care providers were reluctant to discuss spiritual topics for fear of destabilizing my mood…  But this was a most heartfelt dilemma and conflict I needed to reconcile in order to start the healing process… Because facets of my psychoses felt life changing, I was at odds with the medical profession. How could I label something of such significance as only pathological? I sat on the edge of my hospital bed, despondent and unclear as to how to reconcile accepting that I had a mental illness without abandoning my spiritual insights by calling them delusional.”

Victoria would be glad to know that if she had faced the same problems today, things might have turned out a bit differently.  On Friday, May 20, 2011, one hundred experts in the field of psychiatry came together  to discuss this very subject. The conference was held in Vermont and was  titled “Spirituality in Clinical Practice: Exploring Advantages and Pitfalls in Addressing Client Spirituality.”

At the conference, psychiatrists stated that now that they’ve actively decided to integrate a patient’s spiritual beliefs with treatment, they face two distinct challenges:  1) not letting their own beliefs interfere with the patient’s needs and 2) patients feel guilt or mistrust of psychiatry because they are not giving God a chance to heal their suffering.  In the past, psychiatrists have solved issue # 1 by tactfully and respectfully refraining from discussing their own beliefs.  However, this has started to change as some psychiatrists start working with local pastors and other local religious leaders to find a way to help their patients.  Regarding issue # 2, one man’s answer was: “I’m going to sound simplistic, but the key question (for the patient) is do you know all the ways God heals? And perhaps a follow-up. Aren’t you limiting the ways God can carry out healing (by) creating a distinction that what we’re trying to do in psychotherapy is unfaithful or ungodly.”

Finding the right kind of help is of utmost importance for a rapid healing and recovery process.  Therefore, if you or someone you know is in need of psychiatric treatment, don’t be afraid to ask your practitioner if they are willing to incorporate your spiritual or religious beliefs into the treatment.  The worst thing that could happen is that they refer you to another psychiatrist.  And that wouldn’t be so bad would it?

 

To read the Bennington Banner article go here.

To read Victoria Maxwell’s story go here.

Photo courtesy of nondani.

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Religion Comparison Tool

May. 22 Religion no comments

Have you ever wondered what the similarities and differences are between some of the major religions?  If so you might have researched it on the internet, or the library or just left the question for another day.  Fortunately, Patheos has come up with a side by side comparison chart where you can pick up to three different religions to compare side by side.

Patheos’ comparison lens provides you with some quick facts including when the religions were formed, how many adherents they have, what text they hold sacred, and what their symbol is.

You can also get more detailed information including information about the religions origins and founders, influences and historical perspectives, and how it developed over the years.

If you’d like to know more about the way it views particular topics, you can see a detailed comparison of its views on gender and sexuality, moral thought and action, and the religions visions for society.

To use the Religion Comparison Tool go here.

 

 

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The Final Freedoms

May. 22 Books 17 comments

On the horizon is approaching a religious and cultural furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait.

On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear. What science and religion thought impossible has now happened. History has its first literal, testable  and fully demonstrable, proof for faith.

The first wholly new interpretation for 2000 years of the Gospel/moral teachings of Christ is on the web. Redefining all primary elements including Faith, the Word, Law, Baptism, the Trinity and especially the Resurrection. Questioning the validity and origins of all Christian tradition, and  focusing specifically on marriage, love and human sexuality; it overturns all natural law ethics and theory, and at stake is the credibility of several thousand years of religious history.

What first appears a counter intuitive challenge to the religious status quo, on closer examination contains a wisdom the theological history of religion either ignored, were unable to imagine or dismissed. An error of presumption which could now leave ‘tradition’ staring into the abyss and prove humbling for secular speculation.

Using a synthesis of scriptural material drawn from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the world’s great poetry, as in the beginning, it describes and teaches a single moral Law, a single moral principle, a single test of faith, and delivers on the Promise of its own proof; one in which the reality and will of God responds directly to an act of perfect faith with a demonstration of his omnipotence, an individual intervention into the natural world, ‘raising’ up the man, correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception beyond all natural evolutionary boundaries. Intended to be understood metaphorically, where ‘death’ and darkness are ignorance and ‘Life’ and light are knowledge,  this personal experience of omnipotent transcendent power, moral purpose and confirmation of a covenant between man and God is our ‘Resurrection’ and justification for faith. By this act of ‘creation’, on a perfectly objective foundation of moral principle, conduct  and virtue, true morality and the good  ‘Life’ begins.

The first ever viable religious conception capable of leading reason, by faith, to observable consequences which can be tested and judged is now a reality. A teaching that delivers the first ever religious claim of insight into the human condition that meets the Enlightenment criteria of verifiable, direct cause and effect, evidence based truth embodied in experience. For the first time in history, however unexpected, the world must contend with a claim to new revealed truth, a moral wisdom not of human intellectual origin, offering access by faith, to absolute proof, an objective basis for moral principle and a fully rational and justifiable belief!

As in the beginning, this is ‘religion’ without any of the conventional embellished trappings of tradition. An individual, spiritual/virtue/ethical conception, independent of all cultural perception; contained within a single moral command and single Law that finds it’s expression of obedience within a new covenant of marriage. It requires no institutional framework or hierarchy, churches or priest craft, no scholastic theological rational, dogma or doctrine, no ones permission and stripped of all theological myth, ‘worship’ requires only conviction, faith and the necessary measure of self discipline to accomplish a new, single, moral, categorical imperative and the integrity and fidelity to the new Divinely created reality.

If confirmed and there appears a growing concerted effort to test and authenticate this material, this will represent a paradigm change in the nature of faith and in the moral and intellectual potential of human nature itself;  untangling the greatest  questions of human existence: sustainability, consciousness, meaning, suffering, free will and evil. And at the same time addressing the most profound problems of our age.

Providing the ‘means to ends’  this new teaching is asking humanity: choose the future you prefer? The status quo, with existing religious traditions, mired in their own contradictions, corruption, hypocrisy and hocus-pocus, offer little but pretensions and divisiveness, and where existing political process can only feebly respond by spin and whitewash, to the growing chaos of fear, more war, terrorism, economic turmoil, environmental degradation, injustice, natural disaster, plague and pandemic; or comprehend that human nature, prisoner to its evolutionary root, exists within fixed limits of understanding, and by taking new personal and moral responsibility, in a single change of mind, heart  and conduct, by faith, transcend those limits and blow the status quo strait to oblivion.

Trials of this new teaching are open to all and under way in many countries, colloquial evidence already suggest confirmations have and are taking place. For those individuals who can shake off their existing prejudices, imagine outside the cultural box of history,  stand against the stream of fashionable thought and spin, who have the moral courage to learn something new and will TEST this revelation for themselves, an intellectual and moral revolution is already under way, where the ‘impossible’ becomes inevitable, by the most potent, political, Non Violent Direct Action any human being can take to advance peace, justice, change and progress. To test or not to test that is the question?

The tragedy for humanity will be if religion, theology, skepticism and atheism have all so discredited the very idea of God and revealed truth to re-imagine, discover and experience just how great this potential is?

 

Published [at the moment] only on the web, a typeset manuscript of this new teaching is available as a free [1.4meg] PDF download from an increasing number of links including:

http://www.energon.org.uk

Table of Contents

1. the Fall and forfeit of a spiritual inheritance
2. A Divine comedy, the trap, of David’s line
3. Perfect faith
4. The Gospel of the Resurrection / the Test of the human spirit
5. Circumcision of the heart
6. the Law of Life
7. the Marriage of wit and wisdom
8. Passing the stain
9. Health
10. Woman
11. the single way of the Resurrection
12. Choice and judgement
13. Against traitors and rebels
14. Wisdom
15. Search for the Resurrection and find the living God
16. To Arms to Battle
17. the Way: a new exodus part 1 Baptism of water, profession of faith, confession of death
18. the Way: a new exodus part 2 Baptism of fire, to be born again, season of fasting
19. the Way: a new exodus part 3 Traps and snares
20. the Way: a new exodus part 4 a Pilgrims progress
21. the Lord’s Day: part 1 the Resurrection, Baptism of the Holy Spirit
22. the Lord’s Day: part 2 amazing Grace
23. the Lord’s Day: part 3 the Victory of faith
24. the Redemption: part 1 Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
25. the Redemption: part 2 Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
26. the second pillar of the Law
27. Dead roots: part 1 anti-Christs
28. Dead roots: part 2 Babble-on
29. Dead roots: part 3 the Apocalypse of Israel

Article submitted by Robert Landbeck.

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The Nature of Existence

May. 19 Movies 1 comment

What if you asked the spiritual leaders, gurus, scientists, artists, and everyday people of the world why we exist?

Roger Nygard travels to the sources of the world’s major philosophies and talks to scientists, philosophers and religious leaders  to talk about the nature of human existence and the meaning of life.

In this entertaining documentary, Roger receives answers from all areas of the spectrum.  From a Christian wrestler, to a 12 year old child, to Carl Sagan’s wife, and more.   Follow him on his quest and find out whether he learns the answer to his questions by the end of his journey.

Here are some of the quotes you can find (not verbatim):

  • I exist to figure out why we exist.
  • I don’t doubt God, I doubt his representatives.
  • A world with only happiness would be hell.
  • Science gives us a journey to find something that may ultimately be indistinguishable from our concept of God.
  • God created himself ; We are a thought of God; We are all God/Goddess.
  • Santa, why do children in Africa get genocide for Christmas?
  • Everything that happens is a challenge to find God in that event.
  • There are over 1000 religions because no one religion has exterminated the rest.
  • The way you live your life is what you believe in.
  • The person who confronts you is your liberator.
  • If you went back to before the big ban and had the same ingredients, would we still be where we are today?
  • Religion is for people who believe they’re going to hell; spirituality is for people who have been there.
  • Is the world a better place for having humans in it?

If you are a Netflix subscriber you can watch this movie instantly.

To learn more about the movie go to its official site here.

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US Religious Knowledge Survey

May. 19 Religion no comments

Agnostics and atheists score the highest in a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center on questions regarding the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

The study was conducted along with the Social Science Research Solutions and surveyed 3412 adults living in the continental United States.  Interviewers asked 32 questions and found that on average Americans answered 16 of them correctly.

Atheists and agnostics scored 20.9 followed by Jews (20.5) and Mormons (20.3).  White evangelical Protestants scored a 17.6 while white mainline Protestants scored a 15.8.  There was also a marked difference in responding Catholics with white Catholics scoring a 16.0 and Hispanic Catholics scoring an 11.6.  People who were religious but followed no particular religion scored a 15.2.

The study also found that how much schooling an individual has completed is the number one factor influencing their religious knowledge.  College attendees were found to have answered an average of eight questions more than people with a high school education or less.

Previous surveys by the Pew Research Center have shown that America is among the most religious of the world’s developed nations. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults say that religion is “very important” in their lives, and roughly four-in-ten say they attend worship services at least once a week. But the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey shows that large numbers of Americans are uninformed about the tenets, practices, history and leading figures of major faith traditions – including their own. Many people also think the constitutional restrictions on religion in public schools are stricter than they really are.

To read the original U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey go here.

 

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