Apr 7 2012

Self-Love

In order to connect with your spirit, self-love is essential.

Living in self-love allows you to improve your well-being at both the physical and spiritual levels.

A positively oriented spirit cannot easily engage with a body that is harboring a lot of negativity but, once you begin to love yourself, it can help you to remove that negativity.

Self-love begins with self-acceptance. You can start by looking at the things that you already like about yourself. Bring the Light* directly into those parts of you.

Then look at the things about you that you don’t really like or that you’re not particularly fond of. Begin to love each aspect of yourself and start bringing the Light into those areas.

The Light will flow freely to the areas that you love but will skirt around the areas that you don’t like so much, because the positive white Light will not remain in a negative energy zone. Keep loving each part of you until you feel the Light linger.

As you get used to bringing in the Light, you can help your spirit to actually remove the negativity that has been preventing you from loving yourself. Your spirit will effect this removal at the higher level as you continue to work with it and the Light.

Now imagine yourself as you truly are, with all the positive traits that you possess. As you bring this vision of ‘the positive you’ into focus, bring the Light in and allow it to fill you with its positive energy.

Once you get used to loving yourself completely, you’ll be able to connect properly with your spirit.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Apr 4 2012

Interactive Spirit

Did you know that you can actually interact with your spirit (soul) to improve your well-being?

When you work with your spirit, you’re connecting with the highest part of you.

Once you recognize that you can interact with your spirit, you can begin to fill it with love and Light.*

As you feel the love and Light grow within, you’ll begin to love yourself more and more.

Once you learn how to love yourself, you can then more easily love and be loved.

You’ll become more aware of how negativity affects your well-being, and your spirit will be help you to fight against it.

Interacting with your spirit takes a commitment and daily effort. No one can do it for you and no one can take it from you.

As you make that unique connection and get to know your spirit, you’ll begin to really know yourself!

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Apr 1 2012

I Forgive Myself!

The importance of self-forgiveness for survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Someone commented the other day that the hardest thing for her to do was to forgive herself. For those of us that were sexually abused as children, we bear the detrimental memories of those incomprehensible moments into adulthood. The negative memories and emotions build inside until they begin to manifest in ways that cause emotional, mental and physical illness. When I learned how to stop the momentum of the shame and guilt caused by early abuse events, I eventually emerged as the healthy balanced person I am today.

When I was really young, I really didn’t even understand what was happening to me, or that it was anything unusual, because I believe that I had been conditioned from a very early age to accept sexual abuse as a normal occurrence. After trying to report to my mother what had happened to me on one occasion and wasn’t believed, then being threatened into silence another time, I quickly learned that I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone. I continued to keep all of it a secret.

By the time I reached puberty, I was being molested by people close to me. I was so shy that I had trouble expressing any romantic interests with boys my own age, so I never had any meaningful relationships. When I had what I thought was my first sexual encounter at age 16, I was humiliated when the 21-year-old man practically laughed out loud because I had told him that I was a virgin. After that incident I was accosted and raped by several older teenagers. What I never realized throughout any of this was that all this was happening because I had been abused as a young child. It just never connected. I never knew how to fight back to stop the abuse and was still afraid to tell others, for fear of not being believed or being ostracized for being a victim.

Soon after these events, I moved away to try and start a new life. Within me was the inkling of knowledge that I would one day find harmony in my life. But there seemed to be no way to stop the pattern of abuse that I had accepted. By my mid-20’s I had become a battered woman as my life kept spiraling downward. When I reached a crisis point, I finally looked for and found help from someone who made me look at myself in a whole new perspective.

At that point I was in a similar position as the lady that prompted me to post this today. Years ago, when it was suggested that I should forgive myself, it seemed almost impossible. My approach was to review the different aspects of how the abuse had affected me. I realized that I felt great shame, loss of dignity and very little self-esteem. My shyness and lack of confidence had prevented me from having meaningful relationships. Somehow, I even felt guilty because I had allowed the abuse to continue until it was life threatening. I had to reconcile with myself in order to remove those destructive emotional memories from my being.

In order to begin to forgive myself, I had to acknowledge that I was unique, that I had purpose and that I was worthy of happiness. And I had to believe it. Then I could forgive myself for having accepted the abuse, even though I really couldn’t have prevented it as a very young child. The best way for me to fight back against that breach of my free will was to believe that I could become the person that I truly am inside, and to eliminate the fear, guilt and other negative emotions that lingered from the abuse events and their aftermath.

Once I was able to accept myself as I was at that moment, it began a ripple effect. I was then able to forgive myself, and that enabled me to start loving myself. That’s when I accepted that I could interact with my spirit (soul) and started to work with it. I have regained my dignity and, when I look in the mirror, I see my inner beauty reflected back.

I still continue to forgive myself whenever I think, react or behave in ways that trouble me, in order to create a fresh starting point that allows me to once again move forward in a positive direction.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Mar 28 2012

A Breath of Fresh Air

In my work I have the pleasure of helping people to restore their own lives in some of the most remarkable ways. There is no shortage of reasons why a person asks for help at the spiritual level to alleviate problems that otherwise have no apparent solutions. When a parent whose child is chronically ill comes to ask for a healing for their child, Leo Jean and I are always ready to help.

During the Northridge earthquake event Leo and I were living in Southern California and were already awake beginning our day just after 4:00 a.m. when the shaking took place. Since we were living on a large granite plateau, there was minimal shaking and damage in our area, but a few things fell off the walls. However, a few days later, we received a phone call from a distraught woman, ‘Mrs. B’, whose retail business had been devastated when part of the Northridge Mall collapsed. Notwithstanding the fact that she could have been killed if the earthquake had taken place later in the day, she had just been stripped of her livelihood. Earlier that day, Mrs. B had been watching our weekly TV series that was airing on Public Access throughout the LA basin at the time. She said that she had been crying her eyes out while she was ironing in her kitchen with the TV on. When she heard our message about how working with your spirit could change your life, she immediately made an appointment.

When Mrs. B arrived for her session, she told us about all the problems that she was facing in her life, in addition to the literal collapse of her business. One of her most trying problems was that her young daughter was suffering from severe asthma and had to sleep with an oxygen tank next to her bed at night. When she asked if there was anything we could do to help her, we asked her to bring her daughter in to see us, if she was willing. A few days later, Mrs. B brought her daughter to receive a healing and Leo removed the negativity that was responsible for causing the malfunction of the girl’s adrenal glands. Both of them were equally pleased when the asthma symptoms disappeared overnight.

Whenever Leo works successfully with a child, he calls it his ‘payday’. However, it is in the best interest of the child that one or both parents also work with their own spirit, so that their child has the best chance at continuing their physical and spiritual well-being into the future. As you can tell, I’m overjoyed to contribute to helping restore a child’s chance to live a healthy happy life. Even more exciting is that we now offer distant healing, so that children everywhere have access to this opportunity.

Since Mrs. B was so pleased about her daughter’s instantaneous recovery, when we moved into the Phoenix area around the same time, she contacted a local newspaper to announce our arrival. In the article she was quoted as saying:

B said Jean and Romlewski changed her life by curing her daughter’s asthma after conventional medicine failed to do so.

“I thought to myself, there has got to be a better way,” B said. “Somehow I knew there was something or someone out there with the most powerful positive force that would help me. When I met Leo and Gloria my life changed practically overnight with very positive results fast.”

In case you would like to read the rest, I’m posting below an image of the article in its entirety from the Ahwatukee Foothills News (December 1998) for your viewing.
Ahwatukee Foothills News Article, December 1998

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Mar 24 2012

Hallowed Hypocrisy

A recent episode of “Brad Melzer’s: Decoded” delved into the mysterious death of Pope John Paul I in 1978. The investigative crew opened up the suspicion that Vatican officials didn’t conduct a full and open investigation because the newly elected pope might have exposed some of the church’s secretive practices and corruption within its ranks. This topic always perks up my ears, since I’ve long been anticipating the unraveling of this hypocritical establishment that has recently faced the exposure of widespread sexual abuse of children by its clergy.

The team first looked into the fact that the Vatican is a sovereign state, so the pope’s death was subject only to an internal investigation. Some Italian prosecutors and at least one investigative journalist ended up murdered in the aftermath. Next they explored the fact that JPI was possibly a reformer and some speculated that he was about to out corruption inside the church. Before becoming pontiff, JPI had visited with the last remaining child who had witnessed the Fatima ‘miracle’ and had also been involved with the Vatican Bank in Venice. Apparently the well-meaning pontiff discovered that the prophecy was about his intention to reveal the infiltration of Freemasons into the church’s hierarchy, as well as corruption within the Vatican Bank.

In summary, Brad Melzer asked: “Who would’ve predicted the Vatican would end up laundering heroine money for the Mafia to cover up a Freemason banking scandal that ends up with the murder of the pope? Our Lady of Fatima.”

If the church is so corrupt, as has been proven beyond a doubt over the centuries, why do people continue their membership? The recent exposure of child abuse by the clergy makes it abundantly clear that no child is safe around their ‘celibate’ priests. Even with evidence of monetary corruption, people continue to contribute tax-free dollars to the Vatican’s ‘vow of poverty’. If it’s ever proven that Vatican officials murdered a pope and they used the ‘vow of obedience’ to cover it up, would people still believe in what this institution stands for? Does this make any sense?

Fear is the greatest tool of a negative regime and, while coercive practices are outlawed in most societies, they are at the root of most religious doctrines. From my perspective, as someone who broke away early in my life from the apparent hypocrisy of Catholicism, people are simply desperate for someone to look after their spirit (soul) after they die. As religious institutions are aware of this fateful fear, they offer it to anyone on this planet who is willing to accept that an organization could provide a secure position in the afterlife. Why would anyone trust the most precious part of their being to such a manmade institution?

When I see the billions of people that have lumped their spirits into the various religious organizations that divide our planet, I perceive an underlying spiritual battle that fuels their incessant demand for more members. Even the most seemingly benevolent religious organizations place spiritual impediments on their members to ensure that they will comply with the requirements of membership. The very notion of praying for someone else is a breach of the recipient’s free will.

The fact that the Catholic Church has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to suppress the public testimony of thousands of abuse victims is reason enough to avoid the church like the plague. I could express at length the contradictions, but I believe that anyone that has experienced such deliberate infractions of their free will already understands. I’m glad that the mainstream media is bringing to light such hypocrisy with such shows as “Decoded”, since so many are unable to believe it’s really true.

From my perspective, I had been searching for a way to fulfill my own spiritual needs, until I acknowledged that my spirit is a unique entity that is within me for my well-being and that I alone am responsible for its progress.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

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Mar 21 2012

Spring Beckons

I thought I’d post something today that reminds me of Spring:

An Introduction to the Light

At this time of year, when spring is beckoning us for renewal, most of us wish to take on a change that will make us feel good, that reaches out from within us, to become that person that can be realized only through our essence or spirit. My spirit is a highly evolved being of the Light* who has chosen to come to this planet to teach, along with the spirit of my associate who has taken on the challenge of bringing the teachings of the Light to those on this planet who wish to partake of this knowledge.

Today I would like to introduce those who are listening to the concept of what the Light means and how it can fulfill those inner desires for peace and a harmonious new beginning to your existence. At this time of the year, when the Earth is beautified by nature’s hand, it would be fitting for you to begin to think about beautifying yourself from within.

When a person comes to us for help or to learn about the Light, we instruct them in general terms about how they can refuse and fight the negativity that affects them. However, it is up to each individual to do the actual work of that refusal in order to heal their precious body and allow their spirit to progress to the Light. We fully respect an individual’s free will and do not impose any of our teachings on anyone. It is entirely up to the individual how much they desire to be healed and how much they desire the Light.

Most humans are highly conditioned by cultural traditions to give up that part of oneself that searches for peace within, or the Light, and form a habit of acceptance for all that occurs, rather than learn to discern what is appropriate for one’s own well-being. Basically, the human race has lost the all-important concept of self-love, which is the premise by which the Light is capable of existing within a person.

The Light is available to all who ask for it. However, if the person’s body is housing negativity, then the Light will only remain with them for a short period of time, as the Light itself accepts no negativity in any form. The question then arises: “How can a person with so much inherent negativity be capable of receiving the Light so that their spirit can progress toward being part of the Light?” This is another reason that my associate and I have come to bring the knowledge of the Light to those who desire it. We are able to remove negativity in all its forms from people, whether it is spiritual, mental or physical. Many people deny that they are housing negativity and, in this way, they are accepting it.

During this time of spring renewal, it would appear most appropriate for people to start preparing themselves for the removal of negativity from their forms, and for the cultivation of positive energy within them in the form of the Light. As everyone knows, negative energy negates positive energy, and it is imperative that the individual begin to refuse all negativity that acts upon them in order to benefit from the power of pure positive energy that is the Light. As experts in the field of the removal of negativity, my associate and I work daily in the art of removing negative spirits and curses that affect the well-being of the individual. Many people deny that this type of negativity could exist within them and, again, in this denial, they are accepting those negative forces that act upon them and that negate their efforts to absorb positive energy.

When a person’s spirit becomes of the Light, the manifestation of its beauty can be compared to the beauty that unfolds as the Earth spreads forth its new mantel in the spring. There is a transformation that occurs within the person that shines from them, and that actually alters their appearance. The glow that comes from within spreads throughout their body, and is especially apparent in the eyes. It is the true beauty of a person who has shed the negative residue of a long winter in darkness.

Spring brings to mind youth and longevity. When a person works with their spirit to bring it to the Light, they actually increase their lifespan and some immediately drop the gray color of aging. All children notice the effect that the Light brings to an individual, for children are still in the midst of the spiritual world and can perceive far better than any adult. The reality of the child is tied to both the physical and the spiritual realms, and too many adults ignore or refuse to listen to the children. A child is far more aware of what occurs within their reality than can be understood by the average adult.

The knowledge and beauty of the Light is for everyone. It brings total harmony to both the spirit and the body. In this beauteous time of spring, each and every one of you deserve to feel the love of the Light flowing through you so that you can appreciate its splendor.

~ Leo Jean 1991

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Mar 14 2012

Natural Renewal Option

Some people have asked why anyone would want to change the spirit that they were born with. It seems natural to question this newly presented option as a means to improve one’s well-being, but what if your spirit (or soul) had no knowledge about how it could help you to progress in your form?

At some point in our lives we question why some people are born into opportunities while others struggle continuously. Although the question can be somewhat answered in physical terms as to the opportunities afforded by genetic attributes, status of family or the country of origin, not all the criteria fits in every situation. When we consider the spiritual position of a person, however, it appears that some spirits are rewarded and others are punished within the bodies that they inhabit.

If we were to assume that all spirits were created equal and with the same opportunities, then we would have to assume that all would be living harmoniously together. That is obviously not the case. If all spirits were created to be positive, say a spark of light from a common origin, then we would expect that all spirits would remain positive and harmonious. However, like us, spirits have free will. If a group of spirits decided that there was a better way for them to exist than to remain in a constantly positive state, then they would fall away from the original group. Spirits are capable of creating and entering forms, so those that chose not to be positive would tend to create forms that pleased their tendencies of desiring what was not positive. Over extended periods of time the knowledge of their positive origins would be lost. Once lost, some might not even recognize what is positive anymore.

Unfortunately, we have found that most spirits on our planet have lost their positive knowledge and many have created forms to manifest their desire to experience or mete out such negativity as suffering, despair, greed and other destructive tendencies. These range from a child born into a poverty-stricken or war-torn region of the world where suffering is a daily occurrence to those born into wealth or privilege, whose physical journey is enhanced by monetary or social status. While you can more easily comprehend the spiritual implications of the child’s journey, the personal lives of the elite can be just as difficult as anyone else’s on this planet. Other considerations are the malicious intent of powerful dictators or the questionable practices of religious leaders who gain from undermining the free will of their followers. Some of the most difficult lives are lived in sickness and disease where there is nothing but hardship. So there is much ongoing struggle at the personal level of people everywhere, when ideally there should be happiness and harmony.

So how does an individual endure with little or no understanding of their own spiritual self? Too many lives begin in a childhood full of imagination, creativity and learning, but are impaired early on by the impact of abuse, neglect or unfortunate circumstances. Some spirits grow very weak as a result of these experiences and become incapable of participating in the livelihood of their form. Others become frustrated or bored and leave their form. It’s not unheard of to find that a person’s spirit has been overtaken by another stronger spirit. So, if someone’s original spirit is weak or too negative and, therefore, has no ability to provide help, why wouldn’t a positively oriented spirit be considered?

Without positive spiritual knowledge, a spirit will lose its ability to work with the light. If a spirit doesn’t recharge with the light, it will naturally grow more negative and be drawn into negative activities. Since a negatively oriented spirit resists energy from the light, it draws its energy from others, which is normal on our planet. However, when a spirit recharges with the light, it grows stronger as it replenishes its knowledge of the light. A spirit that is committed to the light is therefore able to help its body to resist and overcome the burden of negativity that it faces.

Leo Jean and I have worked with many people from all over the world who are, at some level, aware of their connection to their spiritual self, but realize that their spirit is non-functional. Like me, they had been searching for a way to fulfill a desire to be in touch with their spirit, in order to resolve their problems and live a more meaningful life. While everyone should accept responsibility for our own lives, there is a way to obtain an ideally suited spirit that will help. Leo uses his intact inherent spiritual knowledge to search for a willing spirit that is committed to regaining its positive knowledge and that has the correct vibration and frequency to work compatibly within a person’s form. When I present that anyone can improve their life by working with their spirit, I have to offer that often the best way to proceed is to ask for and accept a positively oriented spirit.

As one client across the globe reacted when she started working with her ‘new’ spirit:

“It’s fascinating as Leo’s work is absolute genius. I keep coming up with excuses though when all I need to do is refuse, call in my spirit and hit with the light. How more simple can it be!! It’s breaking habits as a part of me is saying here we go again. Memories of patterns when the essence is to change and go in a different direction. I know it’s just a question of being consistent until it’s automatic, even if it’s minute by minute!! I am so grateful to have found this work and appreciate the support.”

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Mar 7 2012

Why I Work With My Spirit

Somewhere within each of us there is the knowledge that there is more to our existence than the physical realm around us.

However, as we navigate through our lives there is increasing interference that prevents us from being able to focus on why we’re here in the first place. As our lives unfold in their complexity, the knowledge that our reason for being is spiritual becomes lost in the incessant physical demands that impact us.

In my search for a raison d’être, I’ve learned that my spirit is a distinct sentient being that has entered my form for the purpose of progressing in its own pursuit of knowledge and fulfillment. When a person combines forces with their spirit, they have the unique opportunity to interact with a being in a partnership that propels both toward a common goal.

Once I acknowledged that I am expected to actively participate in a mutually beneficial higher-level relationship with my spirit, I felt remarkably comforted. I find the guidelines to be elegantly simple:

Make a commitment to work with your spirit to progress.
Love and believe in yourself completely. If you don’t like something, then change it.
Bring in the pure white Light* often (pure positive energy freely available to all).
Keep your spiritual openings closed.
Refuse and remove negativity at its source and replace it with positive aims.
Don’t break free will or allow yours to be broken.
Perform a daily self-healing to improve your well-being.
Take full responsibility for your existence.

This plan that allows me to progress with my spirit requires daily attention. No one can do this work for me. If I forget to refuse negativity properly, that forgotten trickle can grow into a larger negative pool that can swamp me until I realize what’s affecting me. Until I ask my spirit to help me to use the light to remove the negativity, my spirit can’t act. I’m responsible for having allowed the negativity to affect me and I have to work to eliminate it. The work needed to rid myself of the negativity depends on the amount of time that I’ve allowed the negativity to increase in size, as well as my ability to use the light effectively to remove any large accumulation of negativity that I’ve allowed to impact me.

Sometimes it’s necessary for a person to change their spirit, that is, to get a new spirit. While it’s definitely a different approach, it’s often the best way to begin to work with your spirit. Your spirit is supposed to work with you. However, if your spirit resists the light and a positive approach, then you’re not going to be able to work with the light or know the difference, until you begin to work with a light-committed spirit. Leo Jean has been bringing light-committed spirits to people for many years, especially to children, who readily accept one. Once a child begins to work with their spirit and the light, they feel the harmony within and immediately start to progress.

As I choose to continue to work with my spirit, I fulfill my reason for being here. Not only do I get stronger at using the light to refuse, deflect and remove negativity, but I do all this within myself. Our common goal is to return my spirit to a perfect state of positive existence in the light. That will happen at the spiritual level, yet the implication of my choice has already been felt in my life. When I made a commitment to work with my spirit, it reciprocated in its commitment to me. At first, even though I was at what seemed to be an impasse in my life, my spirit helped me to break through and turn my life into the positive personal journey that I had anticipated as a child.

Not only is my spirit important to me, I am a fundamental part of my spirit’s journey since, without a body, my spirit is unable to progress. So I make a difference at the most essential part of my being. In my estimation, that is the most comforting feeling of all.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Feb 29 2012

A Refreshing Challenge

When you ask for the light and decide to work with a positively oriented spirit, you’ll experience a positive higher-level perspective to your life. As you choose to stand in the positive realm, you’ll gain the knowledge of how to deal with higher-level interference by using the pure white light. You’ll realize more positive outcomes to your efforts as you work with your spirit to improve your life. The benefits will be immediately evident:

1. Your resolve will be strengthened. When you work with your spirit, you’ll be equipped with the confidence of knowing that, when directed, your spirit will respond and assist you. Your fear of introducing change into your life will be diminished as you replace it with determination and confidence.

2. Your awareness of incoming sources of negativity will be heightened. As you work with your spirit and remain calmly vigilant, you’ll see improvements in how you recognize and assess negative conditions and spiritual assaults, so that you can act more quickly to diffuse them. By being able to identify the signals that you’re receiving negativity, you’ll be better prepared to deal with it as it hits you.

3. Your ability to refuse negativity will be increased. The combined efforts of you and your spirit to refuse and return negativity at the spiritual level will be immensely powerful, because the light will respond to you instantaneously. Refusal in a timely manner will curtail negative thoughts or emotions that could eventually snowball into anger, anxiety or sadness. When you have a spiritual means to refuse negativity, you’ll be less vulnerable to its impact.

4. There will be an improvement in your decision-making skills. You’ll be able to consider more clearly the consequences of how negatively or positively your decisions might affect you. It will be easier to detect negative trends and begin to counteract them to produce positive results. You’ll respect the free will of others and ensure that you don’t allow anyone to break yours.

5. You will enjoy increased energy as you properly refuse negativity. As you progress with your spirit, you’ll get better at eliminating the draw on your energy that results from absorbing negativity from others and from allowing others to drain your energy. In addition, when you refuse negativity at its source, you’ll decrease the accumulation of negative spirits that are drawn to and feed off of negativity. You’ll be more relaxed as you handle stress as negativity and your ability to recharge with the pure white light will mount as you progress.

6. You’ll take more responsibility for your actions. As you realize your spirit-body connection, your perception of who you are and how you conduct yourself at all levels will take on a new dimension. As you take responsibility for every experience in your life, whether negative or positive, you’ll take control of your existence.

7. You’ll learn to convert the negative aspects of your life into positive and productive elements. There are many ways to creatively change a negative atmosphere into a positive experience, whether at home, in the workplace or in public. There’s no better way to deal with negativity than to convert it into a positive element!

It all comes down to taking on the challenge of being positive in an increasingly negative world. With a light-committed spirit and the knowledge of how to work with it, you can rapidly refresh your life!

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Feb 22 2012

Imaginative Self-healing

One of the principles of working with my spirit and the Light is that: “Every problem has a solution at the spiritual level.” When someone is having difficulty in life, there is always a spiritual reason underlying the problem. A person’s spiritual orientation of being negative or positive affects their response to both external and internal spiritual influences.

When a person conducts a self-healing, they have to believe that what they’re doing will eliminate the problem they’re experiencing. Leo and I always enjoy working with children, because they believe in themselves; are able to actively use their imagination to effect real outcomes; and are not yet conditioned by past experiences with traditional or other medicines.

Although I realize that not everyone can effect this type of self-healing, and that this procedure is not effective in every case, some people are entirely capable of healing themselves. An example of a recent distant healing of an 8-year-old child, “Tommy”, indicates how our bodies are capable of self-healing, given an initial boost and, especially, when symptoms first appear. During our first phone conversation, Tommy’s father explained that he was devastated by his son’s recent diagnosis for Type-1 diabetes, and that he had already started an insulin program. I told him that we could help only if his son agreed. He said that he hoped that his son would participate and we set up a phone appointment for the next day after school.

When Tommy came to the phone, I asked him if he wanted to receive a healing and a new spirit that would help him overcome the diabetes. Tommy agreed. I asked Tommy to refuse as Leo proceeded to remove the negative spirits and negative energy from within him. We then asked him to close his spiritual openings (chakras) as we went to each of them with him, healing the ones that were damaged. Next we asked Tommy to go inside of himself and guided him to look at his pancreas. He asked what a pancreas was, and I explained that it was the part of him that wasn’t working and that was why he had diabetes. When he could see inside and look at his pancreas, I asked if he could see Leo’s spirit that was there to help him. He said he could see a bright light.

Then I asked Tommy to bring that same pure white Light* all around and inside of his pancreas, and then if he saw any areas where the Light wouldn’t go. He said there were some dark areas. I asked him to start removing all the cells that wouldn’t accept the Light and to bring in brand new cells that were all lit up. We asked him to continue to do this for a few minutes each day and that we would call him back in a week.

Ten days later, after Tommy’s first visit to the doctor’s since our initial healing, Tommy’s father exclaimed that there had already been an improvement in Tommy’s blood sugar analysis and his insulin dosage had been adjusted. Leo and I checked to see that he had not opened up to any negative spirits, and then went with him to look at his pancreas. He had been removing the cells that were dark and had been regularly bringing in more new cells with the light. Tommy was feeling better and was excited to tell us about his school and the bite-happy puppy that his parents had bought for him when he first got sick.

By the third phone session, Tommy’s father was really excited, because Tommy had again reduced his insulin dosage. He wanted to tell everyone he knew about how and why Tommy was getting better, but he was afraid that no one would understand about the distant healing. He admitted that he was listening in on his son’s conversation while on speakerphone and said that Tommy usually never talked with anyone as long as he talked with us, especially on the phone. It was getting harder for Tommy’s father to resist the urge to tell his doctor that Tommy was receiving an unorthodox style of treatment. He asked what he should do, and I suggested that he could always take Tommy to a different doctor, if he felt uncomfortable. In addition, Tommy’s father felt guilty about not being able to tell everyone the truth about what we were doing; he was unable to tell anyone else about his son’s healing, because of his ethnic and religious origins. I told him that he didn’t have to tell anyone; that he should just be pleased for his son.

Around the sixth week, Tommy had already reached the safe zone as his natural insulin levels reached normal. He was determined to train his puppy that was always nipping at his hands and feet, and was happily unconcerned about his health. He promised to keep on working with his spirit to stay free of diabetes. That’s how a child heals. Then they say: “Now let’s go play!”

In Tommy’s case, his illness might have been hereditary, but the malfunction of his pancreas was also enhanced by negative spiritual influences. Since his spirit was not positively-oriented, Tommy’s body had no defence against the onset of the malaise that was attacking his gland. Once his spirit was replaced by one that worked with the healing influence of the Light and responded to Leo’s initial and supportive healing, Tommy was able to work with the Light in an imaginative way to perform a daily self-healing.

Wouldn’t it be fantastic if it were that simple for everyone to work with their spirit and self-heal as needed? A child’s life is all about the future, even though they are completely content to immerse themselves in the present. Every time I work with a child, I learn so much more about how I can continue to improve my own existence.

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Feb 18 2012

Release the Secret

The other night I watched “Brad Meltzer’s Decoded” on the History Channel, which looked into the U. S. government’s cover up of UFO evidence. At the end of the show, one of the investigators divulged that, when he was eight years old, he had seen a UFO while traveling by car with his family. One of the other investigators said that, if they had known that at the beginning of their investigation, he would have thought that maybe his colleague was a little crazy. However, afterward he could just say: “That’s incredible!”

This response is indicative of how far we’ve come as human beings to respect the experiences of others without prejudgment. When someone reveals that they’ve seen a UFO, their credibility is immediately taken into question. Rather than just evaluating the details of the story, a person’s judgment and mental stability come into question.

When I was fifteen years old, I was contacted by a roomful of other-worldly beings who appeared on a small movie screen. Unlike the usual circumstances surrounding such events, such as when a lone person is traveling in a remote location, I was fully conscious in a public place full of adults and children. However, since I was the only subject of the communication, my friends advised me not to talk about it, or people would think I was crazy. So I remained silent for fifteen years, until I was able to tell someone that I trusted. Especially during my silence, I often wondered about the significance of being the object of the communication and if there would be any follow up. (See my post Early Flat Screen Presentation.)

Most people keep their alien contact or sightings secret, because of the skeptical reaction they anticipate. Over the ensuing years, they agonize over thoughts like: “Why me?” “Why was I selected as the recipient of that encounter?” “Does this have some significance in my life?” The investigator on “Decoded” stated that his UFO sighting stood out as one of the wonders of his childhood, yet he wouldn’t talk about it until after the show’s investigation had sufficiently backed up his credibility. Earlier on the show, Story Musgrave, a former NASA astronaut, pointed out the statistical certainty that intelligent life must exist on other planets and that some could be billions of years more technologically advanced than we are.

While living in California about fifteen years ago, I was also fortunate enough to be witness to a small group of craft passing over our property. Within a period of about two weeks Leo had called me outside several times to see some ships, but it took me too long to exit the house and courtyard to reach him on the hillside garden where he was working. Then, one day I threw down what I was doing and rushed outside, just in time to see three small craft moving westward about fifty feet above the house. They were rather small, about the size of small helicopters, but they were angular in shape and had small triangular wings. As I looked up at them flying in a v-shaped formation, they appeared to be made of a translucent material through which light passed, but I couldn’t see the interior or if they were manned. They passed by silently at no more than 20 mph. I was so excited as I watched them leave my field of vision over the hillside! Then, about thirty seconds later, a B-3 bomber came over us, and followed the path of the small crafts. The B-3’s engine was loud and it looked out of place compared to the advanced-looking crafts.

When I saw the UFO’s, I was with someone who wasn’t afraid to talk about what we had seen. The following day at the local coffee shop, Leo and I related our sighting to a couple of acquaintances, who had been pilots during World War II. The pilots asked questions about the structure, position, airspeed and heading of the craft. Although it felt strange to talk about what we had seen, we were talking to experts that understood the experience, and I’ve never questioned the event since.

Carrying the secret of childhood abuse is a similar burden to having witnessed a UFO event, although much more painful, of course. In both cases, you’re not supposed to tell or talk about your experience. You’re forced to carry around your secret, because of the fear that your story will trigger ridicule, reprisal or hurtful criticism. You might fear that, once your secret is revealed, you will be ostracized and that the skeptical reactions of even those closest to you might be too overwhelming and will ultimately change their perception of you as a person.

Just as the world is coming around to questioning the government cover up of UFO activity, the cover up practices of the abuse of children by religious organizations like the catholic church are finally being examined. When prestigious people like heads of state, military personnel or scientists state that they have witnessed UFO events, the public never questions their integrity; it was a remarkable experience. When celebrities reveal their childhood abuse, it’s seen as a factor in driving their success. For most of us, it’s a painful process of wondering if we’ll be perceived as dysfunctional or ‘damaged goods’. However, many more people are finally letting go of their fear of exposure.

As I’ve grown to love myself over the years, I’ve learned to talk about what happened to me, since withholding the information had been a negative impediment to my well-being. You are the product of your experiences so, if you keep events like a UFO sighting or childhood abuse a secret, the effects of not speaking out can be more harmful than just telling it like it is. Just pick your audience; there are some people out there who will listen without judging you. When you’re ready to let go, remember to refuse and release the negativity that you’ve been accepting. You’ll feel better, happier and much lighter!

NOTE: The illustrations posted here are only to suggest what the UFO that Leo and I saw looked like. It didn’t look like either sketch but more like a composite of both (the 2nd relating only to the translucency of the metal).

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Feb 11 2012

Optimized Childhood

When I think of how amazing childhood can be, I also reflect on the many children whose experience is less than what they deserve. Children are the product of not only their genetic traits, but also their physical and spiritual environment and experiences. When a child has a spiritual problem, the effects of spiritual negativity could ruin an otherwise wonderful childhood.

A few years ago Leo and I had the opportunity to help a young boy that lived in our neighborhood. When we moved into our new home on a cul-de-sac, a couple of the neighbors came by to greet us and then, in turn, to warn us about ‘Danny’, the five-year-old boy next door. According to the neighbors, Danny was notorious for hitting golf balls from his driveway in all directions. They told us that he had struck their parked cars and even broken a picture window in one of the houses. An older woman claimed that she was afraid to work in her garden whenever the boy was outside. She exclaimed that: “He just ruins our neighborhood.” It surprised me that everyone was complaining about such an innocuous little boy.

Later that day, Danny came around to meet us, accompanied by his mother and two brothers. When his mother, a nurse, learned that we did spiritual healing, she immediately started to tell us how difficult it was to deal with Danny. She said that she had taken him out of kindergarten, because there were already signs that he would have been prescribed Ritalin to control his ADD. She wasn’t sure if he would be able to start the 1^st grade in the same school system without succumbing to the drug requirement. On that first meeting she asked if there was anything we could do to help her son. Leo said that he would talk to him the next day, after we had finished moving our boxes inside.

The following day, Danny came by with his mother. Leo asked Danny if he liked the spirit that he had. Danny said that he didn’t like it, because it was always making him to do things that got him into trouble. Leo asked him if he wanted to have a new spirit, one that would help him. Danny broke out a huge smile and said that he would like that. He looked at his mother for approval and she nodded to him that it was okay. Leo removed a negatively-oriented spirit from Danny and brought him a positively-oriented one that was more suitable for his body.

Leo asked Danny how he felt and what kinds of things he liked to do. The little boy said that he felt better and that he didn’t like chasing golf balls around, like his father had taught him to do. He said that all he wanted to do was to learn to how to ride a skateboard like his older brother. Danny looked at his mother again for approval, and she told him that he could use his brother’s old skateboard. Danny said: “I don’t like that one. I want to get a new one, but I can put those wheels on it.”

The following weekend, Danny was out on the driveway with his father and brother, putting the wheels from his brother’s old skateboard onto a new frame. From then on, almost everyday we could see Danny out on his driveway, diligently concentrating on his technique and setting up jumps, such as his favorite one over his bicycle. His tireless efforts paid off, and soon his technique coupled agility with precision as he glided gracefully over his bike every time.

Whenever we saw Danny playing outside, he kept asking us to come and watch him practice at the skate park down the road. A few weeks later, when Leo and I finally stopped in to see how he was doing, the skate park attendant told us that Danny had organized the most difficult jump to give the younger kids a chance to use it. Whenever Danny was there, the children stood patiently in line, awaiting their turn. He was already showing leadership skills and had gained the respect and friendship of all the children at the park!

Not only had Danny become adept on his skateboard, but he began to believe in himself in other ways. He was doing so well in school that he was selected to move ahead halfway through the first grade to make early entry into the second grade. He had also begun to eat better and used to chide his brother for eating junk food. And he stopped hitting golf balls at available targets. Whenever I think of Danny, I see him working intently on his skateboard moves and grinning as he looks back triumphantly at each successful accomplishment.

The reason that I wanted to tell this particular story is because it exemplifies the plight of so many highly creative intelligent children whose problems are essentially spiritual. When a bright intuitive child like Danny is beleaguered by the impact of a spirit that is ill-suited for his body, the resulting chemical imbalance can adversely affect his behavior. However, when a suitable spirit can be properly matched with a child’s body, they work in harmony together. Fortunately, Danny’s mother believed enough in her child and his spiritual well-being to allow her son to enjoy a positively-oriented spirit and reclaim his childhood.

Leo says: “Show me a mischievous child and I see a creative genius.” Children always keep it simple and will readily respond to a positive spiritual experience.

Find out how to get started working with your spirit by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Feb 6 2012

Ways to Stay in Positive Mode

When you work with a positively-oriented spirit, your awareness of impending negativity will heighten. As you become more sensitive to the energy around you, you’ll notice how much negativity permeates our planet from the spiritual level. In order to be positive all the time, you will need to be able to identify and refuse incoming negativity so that you can return to a positive mode.

Here are some ways to help you maintain a positive stance:

Remain in the positive realm at all levels of your being. Think of a sine wave where everything above the x-axis is positive and everything below is negative. You can’t be both positive and negative at the same time. The more positive you are, the less negativity can affect you.

Positive thinking and activities are essential to keeping yourself in positive mode. The strength of your positive state will inhibit the entry of negativity. It’s important to let go of emotions or thoughts that drag you into a negative frame of mind. Know when to turn off the negative input and switch to something that elevates you into a positive state. Use your creative skills!

Remain in your body in the third dimension at all times. People are constantly wandering around in other dimensions, as they daydream, meditate and otherwise escape into higher realms and leave their body vulnerable. When a body is left open to the spiritual elements, it is susceptible to negative interference. Focused relaxation, such as self-healing, is recommended without the incorporation of any outside influence.

Remain in the present, even when planning your future. When you’re thinking about the past or future, your consciousness should remain in the present. In other words, if you’re bringing in energy from the past or the future, you could be inviting negativity from unknown origins.

Become an expert at refusing negativity. If you don’t refuse negativity you accept it. The better you refuse, the more completely you block unwanted negative energy. Whether you’re thinking, dreaming, talking, listening, reading or watching, you have to refuse the negative elements of those activities, so that you don’t attract negativity from related sources.

Adjust yourself electrically, chemically, vibrationally, dimensionally and spiritually throughout the day to spring back into balance as needed, especially after a negative experience.

Bring in the Light as often as you like to keep yourself recharged. The more positive you become, the more the Light will linger within you.

Working with your spirit is a lifestyle. As you work together to progress, you’ll be invigorated by the challenges of being positive in a negative world. As you detach yourself from the negative realm, you’ll be better able to refresh yourself at all levels with limitless positive energy from the Light. The amount of progress that you make depends on your commitment to working with your spirit and how quickly you’re willing to let go of the negativity that you’ve been harboring.

Find out how to get started by visiting my website at OnlyPositiveKnowledge.com !

I welcome and value your input~Please feel free to comment!

*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Jan 29 2012

How We Heal Across Distance

I find this scientific explanation of how distant healing works fascinating … Recently I came across an article by Srinivasan Pillay, a psychiatrist and speaker, who has conducted a study on distant healing. It was interesting to read the results of Dr. Pillay’s study, as it explains some of the science behind our distant healing work. In his article, “The Science of Distant Healing”, Dr. Pillay writes:

“Within the scientific community, there are a group of people who believe in distant healing and a group of people who do not. Those who believe in distant healing do not believe that it is just some “spooky” phenomenon. There are four principles of physics underlying intention that have been described in the literature: (1) that intention is transmitted by an as yet unknown energy signal; (2) that intention warps space-time much like gravity, creating pathways for connection; (3) that people, like particles are described in quantum physics, have instantaneous correlations across distance; (4) that intention is much like measurement in quantum physics. It organizes random possibilities much like how wave functions can be collapsed into a single function.

So, as of now, it appears that distant healing works in some situations but not in others. But what does this mean? I believe that the healing is not always effective for several reasons: (1) the quality of the intention is not high enough; (2) different intenders have different capacities; (3) different illnesses may require higher levels of intention; (4) there may be other intentions coming from elsewhere that disrupt the intention being measured. I am less inclined to believe that “distant healing” is all nonsense, because the data we have so far illustrates that there is definitely the possibility that the effect can be felt. It is just not ubiquitous or uniform.

I would caution against believing that all people are equally able to perform distant healing, but where there is expectation and faith, the chances of success are higher. In fact, in the study that showed that distant healing had no effect on chronic fatigue, the expectation that one would get better did have an effect. I wonder if this implies that intention works best when we believe in our own capacities to get better.” ¹

Dr. Pillay has appropriately described the underlying principles of the intention of distant healing. Here’s how they relate to our work:

(1) that intention is transmitted by an as yet unknown energy signal

To my knowledge spiritual/psychic/quantum healing energy has not yet been quantified. In my recent post, “What’s In Healing Energy?” I described how the energy signal that Leo was emitting while he focused to bring in the universal white light to perform a healing was measured in gamma wavelengths, as indicated on a Roentgen scale.

(2) that intention warps space-time much like gravity, creating pathways for connection

After we determine that a recipient freely accepts the healing, we can make a connection at what we call the spiritual/psychic/quantum level, so that the healing energy can be instantly conveyed to the recipient across any distance.

(3) that people, like particles are described in quantum physics, have instantaneous correlations across distance. It organizes random possibilities much like how wave functions can be collapsed into a single function.

The connection that we create with a willing recipient is done at the spiritual/psychic/quantum level. We ‘read’ a person through the vibrations present in their spiritual openings, known as the ‘chakras’. Our reading of their chakras during a healing is how we instantaneously connect across distance.

(4) that intention is much like measurement in quantum physics

In quantum physics the measurement would create the connection. Similarly, our reading of the negative vibrations present in a person’s chakras at a given instant provides the basis for their removal. Once we connect with the negativity, we simultaneously send pure white Light to surround and extract it from each of the recipient’s spiritual openings.

Dr. Pillay further describes the reasons for impediments to the effectiveness of distant healing energy:

(1) the quality of the intention is not high enough

It requires years of dedicated practice to accurately receive and deliver focused information during the process of a distant healing. Leo practiced healing for over 60 years, while I have trained and practiced for over 25 years.

(2) different intenders have different capacities

Through practical experience we have sharpened our inherent abilities to work toward higher levels of competence, so that we can remove the confluence of powerful negative influences from willing recipients.

(3) different illnesses may require higher levels of intention

When a recipient houses a large conglomerate of spiritual negativity, the intender has to be more powerful than the influences that require removal. Otherwise, the recipient could continue to suffer from the effects of any influences left behind. To activate the self-healing mechanism inherent in a recipient, it is sometimes necessary to repeat the intention at one- or two-week intervals.

(4) there may be other intentions coming from elsewhere that disrupt the intention being measured

External influences from a variety of sources can obstruct the connection to targeted negative influences within a recipient. In order to complete the intended healing, we must at the same time remove potentially harmful external interference. The recipient must help to prevent such interference by concentrated refusal.

As further scientific studies are conducted on distant healing, more people will be open to the benefits that it presents. When I perform distant healing, I extend the knowledge and benefits of the positive energy of the pure white Light to others.

You can read Dr. Pillay’s entire article online at the link below:

¹ Srinivasan Pillay, “The Science of Distant Healing ,” Huffington Post 24 Mar 2009 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/srinivasan-pillay/the-science-of-distant-he_b_177986.html

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe

Jan 27 2012

New Aurora Pictures: Solar Storms Trigger Northern Lights

New Aurora Pictures: Solar Storms Trigger Northern Lights.

Jan 26 2012

The Universe in a Windowpane « NOVAs Physics Blog: The Nature of Reality

The Universe in a Windowpane « NOVAs Physics Blog: The Nature of Reality.

Jan 24 2012

Welcome to the Multiverse

The Wizard nebula, a star-forming region 7,000 light-years away. If our universe is part of a multiverse, it might have near-twins out there, along with other drastically different universes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
by Sean Carroll
From the October 2011 issue; Discover Magazine; published online October 18, 2011

Could our universe be just one of a multitude, each with its own reality? It may sound like fiction, but there is hard science behind this outlandish idea.

Theoretical cosmologist isn’t one of the more hazardous occupations of the modern world. The big risks include jet lag, caffeine overdose, and possibly carpal tunnel syndrome. It wasn’t always so. On February 17, 1600, Giordano Bruno, a mathematician and Dominican friar, was stripped naked and driven through the streets of Rome. Then he was tied to a stake in the Campo de’ Fiori and burned to death. The records of Bruno’s long prosecution by the Inquisition have been lost, but one of his major heresies was cosmological. He advocated that other stars were like our sun, and that they could each support planets teeming with life. Orthodox thought of the time preferred to think that Earth and humanity were unique.

These days, cosmologists like me may be safer, but our ideas have grown only more radical. One of the most controversial but widely discussed concepts in the field resembles a hugely amplified version of Bruno’s cosmology: the idea that the thing we call “the universe” is just one of an infinite number of regions in a much larger universe of universes, or multiverse. A big focus of my own research asks whether a multiverse can help explain the arrow of time.

Also like Bruno, cosmologists are reaching far beyond what observational evidence can tell them. At the time of Bruno’s death, Galileo had not yet turned the very first telescope upward to the stars. Today, nobody has looked beyond the boundaries of the known universe. In fact, such a far-reaching vision seems impossible by definition.

The extent of what astronomers can see is frustratingly limited by the speed of light: one light-year (about six trillion miles) per year. When we look far away, we are looking into the past, and that past doesn’t stretch forever. Everything we see emerged 13.7 billion years ago from the hot, dense state known as the Big Bang, so we cannot observe anything more than 13.7 billion light-years away. If there is something so far away that its light couldn’t have traveled from there to here in the time since the Big Bang, we cannot observe it.

Obviously, we don’t know what the unobservable part of the universe looks like. It is conceivable that the universe as a whole is finite, closed in on itself like a sphere. It is also possible that it extends infinitely far in space but remains more or less the same no matter how far you go. And finally, it’s possible that the universe extends infinitely far, but conditions vary wildly from place to place. That would be a multiverse.

Here we are not talking about disconnected universes, but rather what we cosmologists call pocket universes. Conditions are fairly uniform within any region but vary greatly from region to region. One pocket far away might be similar to our universe, but the mass of the electron might be a bit different. Even such a small change could scramble the rules of chemistry, not to mention biology. Another region might be utterly strange, with seven dimensions of space, say, and 29 forces of nature. All together, a bewildering variety of universes, each with its own laws of physics.

For all the parallels, modern physicists are quite unlike Bruno in one crucial way. They weren’t led to this picture by pantheistic mystical philosophizing. Rather, they have been forced into it—kicking and screaming, in many cases—by other theoretical ideas, especially cosmic inflation and string theory.

Inflation was conceived in 1980 by MIT physicist Alan Guth to explain why the observable universe is so flat and smooth, with galaxies distributed evenly throughout space and with almost exactly the right amount of mass to balance out its expansion. The idea is that immediately after the Big Bang, the universe was trapped in a state called a false vacuum, in which empty space was filled with an incredible amount of energy. The false vacuum was unstable, like a radioactive atom waiting to decay. Eventually it broke down into the ordinary vacuum of space as we know it, releasing tremendous amounts of matter and radiation. In the process, an extremely small patch of space inflated to enormous size, evening out any irregularities and giving rise to the universe we see today.

But unlike a radioactive atom, which either decays or doesn’t, the false vacuum can decay in some places but not in others. That means there can be regions where inflation continues forever. Suppose a tiny inflating region grows to tremendous size, and 90 percent of it converts into matter and radiation. The remaining 10 percent then grows to an even bigger size; 90 percent of that decays, and the cycle repeats indefinitely. There are regions like our own, where inflation has long since ended, but also places where inflation is still going on, creating yet more regions, each forming a pocket universe.

That’s where the multiverse comes from. It is not that cosmologists are so fond of all those universes; it’s that we are fond of inflation, because inflation explains the observed properties of the cosmos with great precision. But many versions of inflation theory also predict an infinite number of universes, like it or not.

Things get still more interesting when we add string theory to the mix. String theory is currently the most promising way to explain the fundamental properties of all the particles and forces in our universe. But ours are not the only possible properties. String theory allows a boggling 10⁵⁰⁰ solutions—that’s a 1 followed by 500 zeros—each corresponding to a different type of universe with its own kinds of particles and forces.

In short, string theory predicts that the laws of physics can take on an enormous variety of forms, and inflation can create an infinite number of pocket universes. So the different laws of physics predicted by string theory might not be just hypothetical. They might really be out there somewhere among the countless parts of the multiverse. This is not a situation that cosmologists dreamed up in a flight of fancy; it is something we were led to by trying to solve problems right here in the universe we observe. The question is, now that the multiverse is here, what are we going to do about it?

A lot of people, both inside and outside the scientific community, are viscerally opposed to the idea of other universes, for the simple reason that we can’t observe them—at least as far as we know. It’s possible that another universe bumped into ours early on and left a detectable signature in the cosmic background radiation; cosmologists are actively looking. But the multiverse might be impossible to test directly. Even if such a theory were true, the worry goes, how would we ever know? Is it scientific to even talk about it?

Jan 20 2012

Religion Can Strike a Sour Chord

For most of my life I’ve quietly been a non-believer and it always amazes me how adults continue to believe in the creation and other stories that their religions narrate. While I still respect the choice that religious people make to believe in something as intangible, abstract and incredible as an omnipotent being that created everything from scratch, it would be less farfetched to worship the big bang. However, when you think about how children are conditioned and encouraged in very clever ways to follow the footsteps of their parents or government into a given religion, it’s not hard to understand why religious beliefs are so embedded into the minds of almost all human beings.

Recently a client mentioned to me how fortunate she felt because she had never been indoctrinated into any religious belief system as a child. I felt so pleased for her, because she had never been forced to participate in such an incarceration of the mind. I reflected on my own catholic upbringing that was filled with conditioning by experts. My earliest memory of being punished was when I was three years old. I had just returned from having attended church for the first time without my mother. Our neighbor, a staunch religious woman, had caught me “sweeping the floor” with my nose, and advised my mother to punish me immediately with a spanking. My mother questioned this advice but, because she was being pressured by one of her peers, duly spanked me for my irreverence. Even though I protested that all I had been doing was counting the boots of the people in the row in front of us!

After learning that I was to do everything exactly as everyone else did while in the house of cards, I became an observer. I used to watch everyone as they entered the church: walking up to the basin of holy water, dipping their finger in and genuflecting down on one knee as they crossed themselves with the blessed liquid. Everyone was so serious, all dressed up in their finery. If a young girl forgot to wear a hat or scarf over her head, a helpful mother would kindly provide her with a Kleenex and bobby pin to ensure her respectful appearance.

One Sunday there was an unexpected transition from the normal solemn mood of the mass. The organist, who happened to have been my first grade teacher, suddenly stood up while playing one of the livelier tunes that she usually played with such reverence. As she stood up, she looked around as though she was expecting everyone’s admiration. My mother who led the choir looked at her with some surprise. As the weeks went by, the organist continued to stand, then even smile and move in rhythm with the music as the pressure for attention mounted. To everyone’s relief, the poor woman was soon replaced, so that the somber monotony could resume.

It was around that time, when I was about 12 years old, that my mother announced that I was going to be able to take piano lessons. I was ecstatic at the prospect of finally learning to play the big old upright that stood in our dining room. Some of my older five sisters had started lessons, but never seemed to stay with it. For two and a half years, I was the happiest person around. I practiced piano every day before dinner, but was among the shiest of all pianists. When my mother brought company over and asked me to play, I would agree only if they all sat in the other room. I was so happy that I didn’t have to take lessons at the convent, where tales of yardsticks as weapons were wielded on faulty fingers. When I won first place at a regional piano competition, I was both proud and relieved because they had allowed me to focus while I played facing a wall.

However, soon my musical elation would be thoroughly quashed as religion interfered. One day as I was getting money for the bus to go to my weekly lesson, my mother mentioned that I could soon start learning to play the organ at the church. I looked at her with incredulity. My immediate response was: “Then I’ll quit!” To which my mother responded: “You’ll regret it!” I felt threatened and came back with: “I might regret it, but I’ll never play the organ at church!” I knew only too well how many hours had to be spent playing at the church while the choir practiced. And who would always be popping in to see the ladies but the depraved priest that had raped me a few years earlier! Even more troubling was when the priest accepted my mother’s invitation to dinner that Easter. It was difficult to sit across the table from that man, knowing that he was held under such esteem by my mother, while I was still under his threat not to tell or my family would be punished.

Although music and religion have intertwined since ancient times, from when temples were built to maximize the impact of sounds and song to when many musical artists attribute their talents to early song worship, religion always strikes a sour chord for me. It brought me nothing but grief as a child and continuously presents divisiveness on our planet. In a world where freedom is of concern to us all, what about the religious freedom of children? Despite all the physical and psychological efforts by the religious conditioners in my early life, I’m glad that I was able to see through the hypocrisy and rationally decide for myself about the notion of God.

On the positive side, my experience set me on a spiritual search for meaning in my life. It wasn’t until I started working with my spirit that I finally understood that the ultimate goal of every human should be to personally attain harmony with their spirit.

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity; I work spiritually with people from every background from around the globe