The unknown is prepared for by listening to and telling whimsical stories that talk about various issues of differences in magnitude of effect and the relationship of different things on or to other things (or people). My favorite are the stories of, "The Lost Years of Merlin" where a person's extraordinary abilities are explained as if they are a magician or wizard in a world that is otherwise unknown to them. For example, a young wizard, in this case Merlin before he knew he was Merlin and before he learned to live backwards in time, gradually learns about his cool powers which really end up being his own intuition and intellect that enable him to interact effectively with nature (physics). In other words, how do you prepare a child to understand their own psychology before they truly understand the biology of the human brain and its ability to interact with things outside of the brain? You tell them stories using references to things that they are already familiar with like people and animals. However, historically, it took humans a while to become friends or be friendly with animals so the stories mainly talked about inanimate things as if they were actually people like in the Bible. In the Merlin book, earthquakes were explained using a mountain as a sleeping giant gradually awakening and the various things that people did to awaken the giant which relate to things that people can actually do to cause earthquakes like undermining a mountain's structural integrity by over-mining the area beneath it or using walking trees to represent corporations or groups of people who acting as a group can have more power than the individuals acting alone as we saw in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Understanding this concept, how might you imaginatively represent the current globalization effort of the Catholic (Universalist) Church or so-called Illuminati?
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To be a Saint, for me, means that a person has demonstrated "divine" qualities which, for me, are qualities that demonstrate that the person was able to express wisdom that is free from reactive motivation and dysfunctional emotions such as greed, ego, anger, hate, fear, etc. Anyone who is depicted with a halo over their head was thought by the artist to be a person who could express divine wisdom. So-called God's Wisdom could be said to be such knowledge. So, for me, a Saint is a person who can do things in the human world that are an expression of God's Wisdom or metaphorically/symbolically speaking, God's Word made flesh.
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With all due respect to Martin Luther King who said, "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live," life is an ON-GOING learning process. Galileo Galilei said, "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Every person is a part and has a piece of the overall mystery-of-life puzzle and has something to offer OTHER THAN their own death.
Giving up your life is simply giving up. Even as much as a parent may love their own child there is absolutely no reason to EVER give up one's life. There is ALWAYS something that can be done to avert disaster and the potential need to give up your life. The human brain was given the so-called gift of abstract thought which means that no matter what you call your source of inspirational wisdom -- whether it be God, visions, higher conscious awareness, or whatever -- this source will speak to you somehow and give you another option. Like in the Celestine Prophecy what you REALLY need to pay attention to may "glow" or otherwise distinguish itself from everything else around you. You simply need to be open to the possibility that other options exist. You can call this openness-to-possibility words like faith, belief, or even knowingness but it is there.
There is NEVER any need to give up.
"The deeper the breath the better the outcome."
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