“Dogs are a little more than human, a little less than divine” Fr. Mike Sablica

And the dog suddenly died. The dog was repeatedly beaten throughout it’s young life. The dog was consistently running away and would run around the neighborhood. The owner was the beater of this dog. The owner was a macho type guy. He bought the large German Shepherd mainly for it to add to his image. The image of a strong-powerful dude. This man never understood the loving care that the dog needed. The owner would not exercise his dog and kept it cooped up in the house. The dog was running away in order to exercise itself. Living in an environment like this the dog died, or somehow made itself die, or something!

By the natural reaction of running away the dog was saying to the man “let’s exercise.” GOD WAS SPEAKING THROUGH THE NATURE OF THE DOG here. The owner made the wrong interpretation that the running away was the dog disobeying him. This man was estranged from our shared nature. The owner’s ego destroyed the dog as he seemed to send all of his life’s frustrations into the beating of his dog.

Your dogs, and other pets, health is a reliable indicator of your health. Dogs are pack animals. Our dogs consider us as pack members. Dogs are hypersensitive with us. Dogs pick up our cares, hurts and diseases. Sicknesses in dogs, and our other pets and animals, are messages that we need to find out about. Your abnormal behavior can be hurting your pets. Our pets tell us if we need to make corrections in our behavior.

There was a distressed woman asking for advise on a facebook spiritual site. There was a picture of her and both of her dogs. The dogs had cancer. She did not know what to do. She loved the dogs. I replied by asking her if she was undergoing some major problem in her life. I explained that, if she was, that she should resolve the problem as soon as is possible. The dogs were sensing her prolonged stress and it turned into cancer for the dogs. The dogs sensed that their pack was sick and it made them sick. The woman replied back to me saying, yes, that she was going through a terrible time in her life. She very graciously thanked me and was so happy that I tuned her into part of the state of Self-Realization that knows itself as a “pack” and “tribal” member. She realized that we need to have a sensitive awareness of how our behavior affects others. Our alignment with truth realizes our love for the health of everyone and everything. Her reply ended with her eagerly going off in wonderful discoveries.

Do you have a dog that is manifesting benign tumors on its body? Some dogs have many benign tumors on their bodies. Those tumors on your dogs body likely are coming from toxic inter-pack vibrations that your dog is picking up from your environment. The dog is picking up fear from you and your environment. It is not natural for your animal to have benign tumors all over its’ body. GOD IS SPEAKING THROUGH NATURE here and your dog is telling you to make your environment more peaceful.

I was introduced to a couple whose cats both had diabetes. It was highly evident to me that the sweetness had gone out of the marriage of these two people. The dull and emotionally sullen environment gave the cats diabetes. We are energetically connected beings. We need to be conscious of being good to each-other. The state of the Self-Realized person is conscious of the affects and feelings that go on within interactions. You do not want to hurt anyone emotionally and you generally become mindful not to hurt anyone in any way. Here GOD WAS SPEAKING THROUGH THE NATURE OF THE CATS.

I have been in environments where dogs and cats seem to be in charge of their homes. But these homes seemed to be living in harmony. I have been in homes where birds are seemingly in charge of their environments and the owners live in harmony under these conditions. I have also seen harmony in environments where the animals and persons live as equals. Maintaining peace is the main thing.

Jesus intended for us to get to know who we are individually as well as collectively. Jesus explained our Spirit, that we share with him, to us. Jesus told us that if we love him that we should live as he told us. Jesus is our Universal Holy Spirit. Organizations like families, tribes, religions and others can tune into deeper understanding of the same group Spirit/Soul that we all share. Groups can and will get much clearer and deeper about the subject of our shared Same-Soul in the near future. Everyone can understand our interconnected reality. As I understand my own Spirit entangled with the energy of my body it becomes stunningly clear that I am energetically connected with everyone else. We all need to be aware of this. Families are much healthier when they realize how their interpersonal, and interspecies, behavior affects each-other. I see our Spirit in our animal friends. Thus, I come to the conclusion that if I watch out for keeping the overall good health of myself up, and the health of other beings up, I show that I love US All. I ‘love my neighbor as myself.” Animals are also our neighbors. We affect our animals and our animals affect us.

When we are sensitive to the fact that the health of our animals is intermixed with our health we are sensitive to the earth in this way. Our animals lead us to better overall health and to eventual full Cosmic Awareness.

Poop started dropping out of the back of the little boy’s shorts as he desperately ran down the sidewalk to make it home. A lesson in life like this helps us get our minds in touch with our bodies. A saying that I heard is “bring the body and the mind will follow.” Early lessons like this prepare us for the awareness of our Self.

By Self, I mean our mind with our body. The conscious part of our minds that observes even what goes on in our minds (THE WATCHER) is our Universal Spirit. This same Spirit is in us all. Seeing, knowing and understanding that we all share the exact-same Spirit is an intuitive realization of what has been called the “higher mind.” The more that you learn, study and observe your Self within interpersonal communication with others, the more you become conscious of your Self among others. This is part of higher consciousness. This is how the saying “we are ONE” becomes realized. Becoming conscious of your Self among others is the purpose of your life. Becoming conscious of your Self among others elevates you into “higher love.”

Along with realizing higher love comes the understanding that my personal behavior affects the well being of really everyone else because we are ONE. We as the human race are a connected Whole. If we truly want to realize our true Spiritual/Psycho/Physical nature we need to surrender to God, or the Universe, or to Higher Power, as we understand Higher Power. This has to be a complete surrender of your heart for the discovery of truth. You do this the best as you can to discover truth through your particular body. If you surrender only part of your heart your heart will be limited in what it sees. In a false or partial heart surrender you will seem separate from others and feel a need to control affairs and even be dishonest. A full heart surrender makes permanent long-lasting changes that are aligned with truth. You should not compare your Self to others in every way. Universal Spirit is prompting your particular Self among other particular Selves to understand your particular Self. If you truly enact a true ongoing heart surrender you will experience illumination after illumination in your life. Illuminations can give you the ability to see into others with understanding. Always ask your Self if you are generally being ethical in your undertakings. You have to strive to be conscious of your behavior at all times. Know your intentions and do not kid your Self about your intentions. Your intentions must be kept pure and not partially pure. If your intentions are not pure affairs will stay imbalanced. If your intention is not good for all involved your intention could be considered a sin. Sins are lies and we really need to eliminate one lie at a time.

Once we understand that we have gained control of our Selves, or our bodies, within the environment we need not ever stop expanding our understanding. In the opening paragraph I say, “bring the body and the mind will follow. Using myself as an example, I completely surrendered my heart to God as I took up running and hatha yoga. I knew that I needed to discipline myself in order, for me, to perform stand-up comedy as best as I could. My decision to surrender prepared me to achieve the ability to understand, know, and see our Universal Spirit. This is a healthy understanding that I use to help others. I help others to understand their particular Self among others. Once you truly see our Universal Self you realize that you have truly realized something precious – US. You realize that you are highly effective once you make this achievement of Self-Realization.

The more that we get in touch with our bodies through whatever means, the more we get in touch with our minds. Your mind is part of the Universal Mind. I was riding on a bus in San Francisco in a Spanish-speaking area. An older man sat down next to me who was drinking a Heineken that was wrapped in a small paper bag. I remarked to the man that I saw he was enjoying a beer. He said that he was and we had a good conversation for a few blocks. He got up to leave and in the doorway of the bus he held up his Heineken and said, “Always be prepared amigo.”

Holy man Nicholas Black Elk, and his Lakota Sioux, would paint their faces black after they had to fight in battle defending their people because they knew that they did wrong. Natives, as a whole, really have suffered what is called P.T.S.D., that is, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as have all other people who have had to defend their loved ones in this way. Long- suffering tragic outcomes from physical and psychological violence come with men not being in touch with the true way of Love.

Duffy’s life with the years of eclectic study along with the primal search for truth readied him for the highly important presentation of this book. Duffy puts an understandable Jesus into our minds. The Jesus of this gospel is interested in the treasure of spiritual truth that lies buried within the mind of every man and woman. As a great thought-leader Duffy puts the reader into the mind of the mystic when he points out the “hidden” oneness of a Non-Dual spirit that connects all minds. This Jesus was teaching about the Self-Realization that occurs when hidden inner truths become known (illumination). Awareness of oneness with everyone and the false identification with separation obviously come from an enlightened Jesus. This book brings us back to our true oneness.

Yes, mortal means deadly. It fragments the psyche of a person who goes by the Jesus dictum “love your neighbor as your self” but has to exclude gays. This type of cognitive compartmentalization blocks the free-flow (Tao) of energy inside of our bodies and causes physical and societal diseases. The fragmented or excluded truth can linger in us unconsciously, depending on how conscious we have become, and as a conscious struggle. This is part of removing cultural conditioning from the individual psyche that is one and the same with the Universal Psyche. We come to understand that our individual psyche is blocked from realizing that it is really the Universal Psyche in us. The Universal Psyche in us is blocked by the cultural conditioning that has been imprinted on us that we need to see through through contemplation. We get through the conditioning and then we see the Universal Psyche in everyone and everything. The blocked energy can morph into tumors within the body because it is not integrated (repressed or suppressed) with the free-flowing energy of our organisms. The misunderstanding, misinformation, meddling from someone else or possible hatred can contribute to dis-ease. The ten Commandments, the Deadly Sins have been presented to us as guidelines to keep us healthy and growing. The obituaries that we read have an underlying stench of mortal sin that cause us to experience lives that could be much healthier in many ways. We do not just have to learn through pain. Ideally, we learn through the love of our parents or guardians and all of the teachers who we sense we can trust.

The President of the United States grabs a baby out of a woman’s arms and holds the baby up in front of himself as a human shield. The President, Greg Stillson, is on stage, being fired at by an assassin from the balcony. The scene is from the 1983 science fiction thriller THE DEAD ZONE. The assassin, Johnny Smith, has super-psychic powers and perceived that the President, a ruthless demagogue, was going to order a preemptive nuclear strike. Johnny Smith knew that he would be killed but decided to sacrifice himself for the good of humanity.

A prerequisite for receiving the graces for higher illuminations of Self Realization is knowing, that if need be, you would die for your loved ones. You need to ponder this issue.

If someone like Stillson did cause a holocaust, it could end up that there could be just a few thousand people left alive on earth. People would ban together and form units in order to survive. We would go back to our primitive roots for survival. These survival units would be like tribes. The good tribes would have to protect themselves against the bad tribes. The bad tribes may be roving gangs. The good tribes would consist of true spiritual warriors. The tribes would be sought out by desperate wanderers who would be trying to approach a tribe in order to join and have protection. You would need to be worth something to the tribe. You would need to possess necessary skills for the betterment of the tribe and you would be screened for courage. In a situation like that, who would want someone who has no guts? A primitive tribe has a group psyche. In a group psyche there is no neurotic game playing allowed. If you play games with others too much you are banned. The group psyche lives in a state of tribal love for each other. Because of tribal bonding, everyone is considered a relative. This is the realized Universal Consciousness or the Universal Psyche (soul). We as civilized people live with the Universal Psyche but we do not see or understand it. We are estranged from our true selves.

When I am going to vote for a politician, I ask myself how I perceive this person would perform in an actual military battle. Does this person have courage? How brave are they? Would this person hold up in battle and do their part to save their platoon? Would this person die to save the rest of us? An excellent example of someone who was willing to die for his friends was Audie Murphy – the most decorated soldier in the Second World War. You can learn about the bravery of Audie Murphy at Wikipedia.

If it came down to it, I would die for my mate, my family and my friends. Having a Self Realization of this kind helps open our hearts and this connects us to our Universal Sacred Heart. The more that we are connected to our Universal Sacred Heart the more we are connected to our Universal Psyche and they are really both one and the same. Knowing the oneness of our Universal Sacred Heart/Universal Psyche is a beyond language higher mind Self Realization. I realize that the soul that I have is part of the same group soul or psyche = same soul in different bodies at different levels of development or Light. This is a beyond language perception that we have to sense. In order to sense this truism is why we meditate, contemplate, and employ the many other methods of prayer. When we analyze ourselves in this way we discover our level of courage. We stand up for our Self if necessary. Maybe we find that we would not die for our loved ones but at least we know where we are at. We are telling our Self the truth. The more courage that we employ in attempting to tell ourselves the truth the clearer will be the perception of our Universal Sacred Heart/Universal Psyche connection. The stronger that we form and maintain the connection the greater we become illuminated. Everyone becomes illuminated differently. That is why it is called Self Realization. You discover your unique Self. Your unique Self houses our Universal Sacred Heart/Universal Psyche or our Universal Presence. Self Realization is the process of Self Integration. Through truth we achieve the virtue of courage. Through truth we achieve the state of Integrity. Through this state we see that our individual Self is really a group Self. Higher spirituality and the contemplation that goes with it is beyond language.

Most of us have an inner circle of people who we call our friends. I have a few good friends. I also screen the people who I may let into my inner circle. We have to keep the bad ones out or we will be unhappy and so will those around us. I also imagine how my inner circle friends would perform in a life and death physical battle. Would they die for the group? Are they neurotic game players? Are they passive aggressive personalities? How ethical are they? How sensitive to others are they? Are they capable of improvement? Are they truthful with themselves. WOULD THEY HOLD UP A BABY?

I saw the Loch Ness Monster when I was at Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. I saw a Sasquatch when I was hiking in the Nicolet National Forest. I encountered a Leprechaun in Ireland. If statements like these are not meant to be humorous then something is most likely wrong. I am sure that there were also people, at the time of Jesus, who said that they were at the Crucifixion of Jesus who were not. We get a feeling that something is wrong with many tales that we here in everyday life.

When a matter does not make sense to us we are better off to do our own detective work and get to the bottom of the matter in question. This is the objective/subjective path for Self knowledge and awareness that will lead us to Illumination after Illumination. We become conscious of objective and subjective simultaneous awareness. This path eventually strengthens us to the point of facing any difficulty that life brings us – openly. We become strong enough to speak openly about our Self in the direct presence of others. We have realized our Self, which is really the Self of everyone, and we begin to notice how others have not. When matters do not make sense to us there is very likely what is called a “a fly in the ointment.”

There was certainly “a fly in the ointment” when it came to the Crucifixion of Jesus. Imagine how horrible it must have been for Jesus or anyone else who stands their ground in the face of universal truth and has to die for it. Jesus wanted us to realize ourselves. Many brave souls have experienced the horror of choosing to die because of their personal integrity. The way that we get closer to what is really going on is by direct in person communication with someone or something.. The more that we are conscious of our objective/subjective awareness in coming to our tentative conclusions the more we will get closer to what is going on. Direct in person communication is the most efficient way for our senses to pierce the veils of illusion and get to the bottom of things. What we are dealing with when we believe through hearsay is often a fragmented or incomplete language illusion – WORDS ARE TRAPS. We never know the hidden motives and behaviors involved in reports. Indian philosophy calls this type of second hand perception Maya, that is, illusion.

The field of Speech Communication reminds us that we become more conscious of what is really going on by auditing speakers, or people, in person. This type of in person auditing makes us more conscious in general. This is why we go and listen to speakers and talk to people in person. In person perception assists us in decoding what is going on for anything better. This is the idea behind a live in person interview and/also just getting to know others in general. We are able to better tell through all of our senses if a person is telling the truth or giving us information to the best of their ability by direct perception of them. We understand speaking, theater, music, nature and everything better when we are in person. The stronger and more sure of ourselves that we become the less fear we have in communicating in the presence of others. Direct perception gives us a better chance to notice through our senses if someone has hidden motives (Maya) involved in the words and demonstrations that they are employing. The better we know ourselves the better we will notice when others are artistically attempting to slickly slip secret messages through speaking, videos and to a lesser extent through writing.

The truth of our collective soul is universal. When we just do not understand or get a bad feeling about something there is likely “a fly in the ointment.”

Why did you place your wife on Comfort Care right away after it was explained to you that she had a 50/50 chance of recovery and could live for a long time? I thought that Dr. Jones might not renew my prescription if I didn’t.

The aforementioned question followed by the answer went on in a nursing home between a man and his friend after the man decided it was necessary to let his wife die. The husband and wife had power of attorney for each other. Comfort Care is administered when it is decided that a person will be kept comfortable while being left to die. The husband was addicted to a prescription substance that was prescribed for him by the couples’ doctor. The substance helped to alleviate the man’s anxiety. The man could have gotten along without the substance and later did.

It appears that the husband was firstly married to the addictive substance and secondly married to his wife. This man’s body was polluted by the substance and consequently this clouded his judgment to the point that he was emotionally and psychologically blocked to the health needs of his wife. These types of distorted decisions go on more than we realize. Many of the obituaries that we read are fantasy tales.

It is extremely uncommon for a person to undergo a bodily cleanse for months with the person not ingesting any habit forming substances. I am referring to caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, sugar and excessive other carbohydrates, marijuana, cocaine, prescription drugs and other addictive and habit forming substances. I have undergone numerous elongated cleanses. This type of health adventure is considered unworldly. Complete abstinence of this ilk is an esoteric undertaking of an ascetic, spiritual student, spiritual seeker or religious person. When a person intentionally takes on an extreme elongated cleanse of this type the self-love of the person becomes highly realized. Other people and animals sense the love emanating from this type of person and are attracted to it. It is self-nurturing through love that provokes the behavior in the beginning. The willpower of the person progressively becomes tremendously strengthened. The Self Realization and/or the mind and body awareness that a person who has understood this type of discipline greatly aids in the development of the person in many ways. Being extremely determined with a never giving up attitude is mandatory.

Everybody’s life is different. Whatever arrives a person to this point of self-discovery gets them there. It is only for a few months. The self-confidence of a person who has put their self through this type of arduous discipline is ever growing for the rest of the person’s life. The person learns that they can get by with the bare essentials of life and this stems into everything about their life. People who have not undergone this type of discipline, and this is most people, can only imagine what this is like

You do not delude and fantasize by telling your self that you could control your self if you so desired. YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE IT. This makes you deeply understand your self among others. This makes you a powerful presence.. This type of discipline greatly aids in understanding the seeing and feeling that we all share one soul that is in all our bodies. We realize that we are the same as others. We see it. We feel it. We know it. Hello God.

Health legend Paul Bragg called the diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds The Garden of Eden Diet. A diet like this aids in a cleansing regimen. Juices and herbs are also helpful cleansing aids. Read about cleansing. Sweating through work or exercise or however you can manage to repeatedly sweat aids in cleansing especially in the beginning of the cleanse. Toxins leave our bodies through sweating. If you can make it for at least a few weeks you will feel much healthier and you will realize your self and others much more deeply. Most people have to work but we can also be creative and do shorter cleanses. All cleansing done properly helps us.

You have straitened your self out and this extremely valuable knowledge is with you for the rest of your life. You know that you can make basic sane decisions because you know that you are sane. You know what extremely strong willpower is like and you have it. You know that you can enact your strong willpower. There is no guessing. The more honest you are with you self the more you see how others are not. Many people pretend that they are sane to others while they secretly think that they are not. All people in a group labor at different levels of interpersonal honesty and exist at different levels of sanity. Control and dominance issues go on in all groups. A truly Self Realized person understands what is going on. A truly Self Realized person breaks away and then comes back.

YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO IT and the love that you invested will help others do it. This type of discipline leads us to deep realization of our self. You learn what you need to do for you and not what others guess what you need to do for you. We learn to listen to our self and not let others control our thoughts and feelings. We make good decisions for others.

Taken from the classic on juggling, THE COMPLETE JUGGLER, 518, BY Dave Finnigan, 1992, Third Edition, by Jugglebug, Inc.

IF YOU PRACTICE MEDITATION

Some jugglers experience what Zen novices and yoga students struggle for years to acquire. I know. For one full year I chanted a mantra day and night, working my way toward the condition of Samadhi, where the senses are disconnected and only one thing exists, your connection with the infinite. Then I discovered that once I could juggle smoothly and without trying, I achieved Samadhi. Now to go to that peaceful place, I need only get out three beanbags and start weaving infinity signs in the air.

Unlike the martial arts, which are linear and outer directed, juggling is curvilinear and directed inward. I call it an “impartial art” because it is not aggressive or intrusive. It is a peaceful, nonverbal prayer that you perform and in the process you may find yourself gaining focus.

The juggler enters a state of non-duality where she becomes one with the activity. Juggling is motion meditation. It is concentration with SOURCE looking on. SOURCE is also referred to as the SUPREME SELF. The same SOURCE is in everybody. The juggler merges with the activity. Language ceases. WORDS ARE TRAPS. When the juggler starts to think or speak in language is when the juggler is prone to drop a ball or whatever she is juggling – duality. The noisy mind is observed by SOURCE. We also enter the state of Yoga in other sports because of merging with the activity. If we become conscious of the fact that we are merging, we eventually return to our natural state of non-duality in everyday life.