From: lmone12@hotmail.com
To:kwsi708@aol.com
Kwasi, are you saying that if we stop killing flies, we will go to heaven with God?
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No, I didn't say that at all. Listen, sister or brother, I'm not dealing with "religion" at all. "God" is basically a western religious term which has nothing to do with what I'm saying. And further, it's not the "flies" per se, that I'm referring to, it is the concept of moving closer to the ONE life force thru an elevated/higher state of consciousness that is at the heart of what I'm saying.
Let me try to make this clearer by giving you an analogy. Having said that ALL life comes from the LIFE giver, then essentially all of those life forms- flies, ants, cows, as well as humans can be seen as being "siblings", just as you and your sister or brother are siblings who come from your parents. Now, if your younger sibling (brother or sister) acts up, or becomes a "pest", a nuisance, you wouldn't kill him or her to stop their annoyance, would you? Well similarly, you shouldn't kill your insect or animal siblings (flies for instance) just because it is buzzing your head, becoming a "pest".
Continued elevation of your consciousness via an increased respect for all life forms which only come from the ONE life source moves you closer to that ONE life source-the Creator. The above can also be viewed as an "exercise" in advancing one's consciousness. (This is why many people use drugs, to get "high", or to elevate their consciousness. But that is a de-spirited , artificial method). Recognizing and respecting the Creators life force (or spirit) in all thing as we said before, is the essence of spirituality, for by doing so we come into harmony with the Creator and then can potentially access the eternal stream of the ONE life giver when our physical bodies transition, upon physical death, into pure spirit forms.
Now, I didn't get this concept from any book, just as the TWA people didn't get their spirituality from some ones book. But they were taught by the etenal life force that they lived with in the natural world. Their culture is so profound and their reverence for the ONE life force in all things is so intense that, when they needed to take the life force away from an animal in order for them to survive, it is said that they performed rituals in which they would aploogize to, ans ask forgiveness of the animal and to the ONE life giver for the necessity of having to take the animals life so that they could nourish their bodies therefrom. Many other indigenous, earth-based, cultures in the world have held similar views.
Contrats this to the de-spirited western culture that kills many life forms simply for economic greed, or "sport", or kill just because they can kill. And their mass killings extend to the living environment and to humans as well as the animals and plant worlds. They obviously don't see the animals or people as their siblings, but as objects to be dominated, subjugated,controlled, or destroyed. One would think that their chances of accessing the eternal life stream (no matter how "religious" they may be) of the ONE life source would be miniscule since they don't acknowledge or respect the replications of the ONE life source in all living things.
I hope this helps.
Kwasi
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To:kwsi708@aol.com
Kwasi, are you saying that if we stop killing flies, we will go to heaven with God?
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No, I didn't say that at all. Listen, sister or brother, I'm not dealing with "religion" at all. "God" is basically a western religious term which has nothing to do with what I'm saying. And further, it's not the "flies" per se, that I'm referring to, it is the concept of moving closer to the ONE life force thru an elevated/higher state of consciousness that is at the heart of what I'm saying.
Let me try to make this clearer by giving you an analogy. Having said that ALL life comes from the LIFE giver, then essentially all of those life forms- flies, ants, cows, as well as humans can be seen as being "siblings", just as you and your sister or brother are siblings who come from your parents. Now, if your younger sibling (brother or sister) acts up, or becomes a "pest", a nuisance, you wouldn't kill him or her to stop their annoyance, would you? Well similarly, you shouldn't kill your insect or animal siblings (flies for instance) just because it is buzzing your head, becoming a "pest".
Continued elevation of your consciousness via an increased respect for all life forms which only come from the ONE life source moves you closer to that ONE life source-the Creator. The above can also be viewed as an "exercise" in advancing one's consciousness. (This is why many people use drugs, to get "high", or to elevate their consciousness. But that is a de-spirited , artificial method). Recognizing and respecting the Creators life force (or spirit) in all thing as we said before, is the essence of spirituality, for by doing so we come into harmony with the Creator and then can potentially access the eternal stream of the ONE life giver when our physical bodies transition, upon physical death, into pure spirit forms.
Now, I didn't get this concept from any book, just as the TWA people didn't get their spirituality from some ones book. But they were taught by the etenal life force that they lived with in the natural world. Their culture is so profound and their reverence for the ONE life force in all things is so intense that, when they needed to take the life force away from an animal in order for them to survive, it is said that they performed rituals in which they would aploogize to, ans ask forgiveness of the animal and to the ONE life giver for the necessity of having to take the animals life so that they could nourish their bodies therefrom. Many other indigenous, earth-based, cultures in the world have held similar views.
Contrats this to the de-spirited western culture that kills many life forms simply for economic greed, or "sport", or kill just because they can kill. And their mass killings extend to the living environment and to humans as well as the animals and plant worlds. They obviously don't see the animals or people as their siblings, but as objects to be dominated, subjugated,controlled, or destroyed. One would think that their chances of accessing the eternal life stream (no matter how "religious" they may be) of the ONE life source would be miniscule since they don't acknowledge or respect the replications of the ONE life source in all living things.
I hope this helps.
Kwasi
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LIFE! Pro-Life political advocates seem to insist that they revere life. That is, ,the life of the unborn child, but not the life that otherwise exists, since so many of them are also pro-war, pro-death penalty, pro-racism, etc. This cavalier attitude about LIFE also tends to permeate into our life styles.
On the one hand many of us would never deliberately take away the life of another person. But, we wouldn't think twice about killing, say, a FLY. Does the fly's LIFE matter? Or is it just a pest that's buzzing your face, or your food? The religious person has likely never once thought about taking the life of a bug, rationalizing them away as just nuisances . The person seeking a spiritual existence though (via an enlightened/elevated state of consciousness), comes to understand that ALL life comes from a LIFE giver and that to respect the life in that ant crawling on your leg is to respect the LIFE giver as well.
The TWA people of southern Afrika, who are considered to be the world first-homo sapiens sapiens, developed an appreciation for LIFE that they depicted in what we call the Ankh-their symbol for Divine Life. (This symbol-Ankh, much later migrated into KMT) The TWA live in harmony with the natural world, thus being in balance with it, learning from its spirit teachers, they inaugurated a culture that replicated this harmonic balance that became known as the Just society of male-female equality, all without a book!
Taking a cue from them, we can similarly come into balance with the Creative Forces via developing a respect for LIFE that emanates from the Creator. Learning to be in balance with the natural world, which ostensibly is in balance with the Creator, we similarly gain harmony with the Creator. (Please don't accuse me of saying that the taking of a life is never appropriate.) A geometrical law states "things that are equal to the same thing, are equal to each other." Conversely, things that are equal l to each other are equal to the same thing. Thus, if we come into harmony with the natural world which is in harmony with the Creator, we similarly become in harmony with the Creator. We can star by not killing that fly whose life-force came from the Creator just as ours does.
This is the essence of spirituality, to become in harmony with the ONE life force that all things are a small differentiation of. By respecting life in all of its dimensions, we can access the eternal stream of the ONE life giver. And we don't need any one's religious book to do it!
Free you mind, return to the source, Afrikan origins.
Kwasi
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