New Blog Series/Getting what we want! (1)

O.K., I said that if we got at least 3 of my regular blog followers interested in a new blog interest series (Getting what we want!) I’d add it to the regular blog so that more people can see it and decide it they want to follow. Well, we got the 3+ almost instantaneously! So this will be the beginning………….this is #1 and each will be numbered and titled, Getting What We Want!

Actually, “getting what we want” is a GROWING IN SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING and “growing in spiritual understanding requires ongoing practice….it is a lifetime journey that never ends” Daily Word……as the Universe is forever expanding………so is the need  for learning new things.

In order to learn how to get what you want you must know how to do it! And you have to believe that you can do it.  (The old saying, If you think you can or can’t do something you’re right.) It really is almost that simple.

RIGHT NOW YOU NEED TO DECLARE, “I AM A QUANTUM THINKER!”……….don’t worry about what that means right now…………..that’s what we’re going to be learning:

How to leave the old physics (Newtonian, apple falling from the tree) behind and learn the new physics, Quantum Theory (Everything is connected (like a web or matrix) and we live in a world of infinite possibilities!)

Using the old physics (to lose weight) you would rely on cutting down on calories, exercising more, taking pills to reduce water content, etc. surgery………..usually takes a long time. Using the new (quantum theory) you would picture yourself as you want to be, define exactly what you want to be, believe that you can achieve it, bless the process and be thankful for it taking place.(The whole universe will start working on getting you what you want.) This way actually can be quicker because you don’t limit the many different forces that can work in your favor to bring you what you want. I can hear you know………….WHAT! ?   BUT be patient…………Remember you have to collect the bricks before you can build that brick building.  WE ARE GOING TO LEARN THE PROCESS BY LEARNING THE BASICS FIRST.

ONE of the first bricks is:  Define exactly what you want? Do you want a car, or do you want a RED car. Do you want air conditioning? How about a really neat sound system? What about the type of tires? And on and on……….BE SPECIFIC!

Do you want a new love in your life? How about a new job? Remember, we live in a Universe of infinite possibilities.

The First assignment is to decide and define exactly what you want to change in your life.

Send questions to ralawson@knology.net ( I will answer questons individually and private unless the asker doesn’t mind me using their question as an example without using their name.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HOW DO YOU LEARN? Do you really have to physically experience it?

Said the Mother to the  2-year-old child, “Don’t touch that stove! It will burn you!”

Of course that is the first thing the child did as soon as the mother turned her head!!!!! And YES, it burned the child’s hand…………..

  1. Why couldn’t the child just take the mother’s advice?  immaturity, psychology, the child figures that if it is that important it must really be fun and exciting!

But as we get older and hopefully more mature…….we can read about things, actually observe situations taking place in society and see what happens when certain actions/reactions take place.

We can listen to those who are older and more experienced than we are who have personally been in certain situations and know what the consequences are.

BUT DEPENDING ON THE METHOD THAT WE  LEARN from the BEST……….WE MAY HAVE to “LIVE” THE SITUATION OURSELVES TO GET THE FULL IMPACT OF OUR ACTIONS.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:

The last man on earth was desperate for water and refuge. He came to an open desert and saw beyond the desert a beautiful oasis. When he got half way across the desert a huge vulture swooped down from the sky and stood directly in front of him and said…….”I have 2 young chicks to feed or they will die and we are the last of the animals on this earth so I’m going to wait for you die and make you a sacrifice to the save the  animal kingdom.”

What do you think should happen in this situation? Should the man try to kill the vulture and eat it to give him strength to make it to the oasis………….OR should the vulture fly away and wait until the man dies in the desert trying to get to the oasis and eat the man to try to save the animal species?

 

 

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Don’t Like What You Have? Change it!

The “old physics” versus the “new physics”…….. “Newton’s gravity” / “Quantum Theory”

Do any of my Blogger reader’s want to learn more about the way to change things in their lives by the “new physics”………..and answer a lot of questions about how things work in the new world…………..?

If I get 3 people who are interested in “growing” their minds…………we’ll do it as an addition to this blog. If I don’t get but one person interested in the quest………….we’ll do it by e-mail so as to not force our other readers to join us.

STEP out of your comfort zone……………live a better life!

Send me an e-mail……………ralawson@knology.net

 

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Update: Scandinavian Writers

As the saying goes…………..”You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the Prince/Princess”……..well, it holds true also for reading, “You have to read a lot of books to find the ones that make life worth reading!”

Scandinavian writers have always appealed to me…………through DNA testing I have found out that I’m %30 Scandinavian (mostly Norwegian)!  That explains a lot I guess about my reading interest………..

2 NEW (to me) Scandinavian Authors have made it to my reading list, Hakan Nesser’s Mind’s Eye and Ragnar Johanson’s first 2 books of the Dark Iceland Series…………Snow Blind and Black Out (Night Blind) note: books from other countries sometimes change titles before that are printed for English-speaking readers……….you have to be careful to read the review to be sure you’re not buying the same book by another title!  JUST SO YOU KNOW!

MIND’S EYE……………HAKAN NESSER..…………….an Inspector VAn Veeteren Mystery (1st book in that series). It is extremely well written, but I didn’t like the main characters……..so although I enjoyed the book………..really a great page turner, I don’t plan on reading any more of the series!

SNOW BLIND…and…BLACK OUT……….RAGNAR JONASSON…………. The first 2 books in the Dark Iceland Series…….When I got BLACK OUT, the title surprised me because in SNOW BLIND the cover story said that book 2 would be NIGHT BLIND………so I went back to book one and realized that I had read it earlier and really like it. Book 2 starts 1 1/2 years after book 1. And I can’t wait for book 3, RUPTURE coming out in 2017!

The difference between MIND’S EYE and Ragnar’s series is the cast of characters!!!  By the time you get half way into book 1 you are drawn up into the storyline and you are beginning to really care about what happens to the characters! There is a wonderful love story that is part of the mystery and a couple of murders and much details about the landscapes in Iceland. Iceland in the summertime is a place I want to go! I feel like I already know what to expect!

BUY SNOW BLIND AND READ IT AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, I’LL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK! (HA! Just kidding………I won’t because you’re gonna love it anyway!

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Book Alert, series by Justin Cronin

The final book in the 3 book series has finally been published!

The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors. Book one was published in 2010………so it took about 5 years for the series to be completed. Each book is 500+ pages………so it is a challenge to tackle them BUT the journey will be well worth it! I’ve heard that a movie is being made of the first book, The Passage!

“The series is both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger.” (Taken from the book jacket of The Passage. Justin Cronin

Has anybody out there finished all three books yet? I’d like to hear from you!

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Why Are You Here?

Why are you here? Why am I here? WHY ARE WE HERE?

These questions come from one of the BIG ONES LIST! It is one of those universal questions that always come up in phylosophy  classes and churches and socials. There is no correct or wrong answer…………..just personal opinions!

Closely related to the BIG one, is: What is your purpose in life? And this is what most people think the question, Why Are You Here? “means.

So take a minute and think about it………….are you here to help somebody, something/or cause, all of mankind, or just yourself? After you have that question answered go back to

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

  1. PBS TV is presenting some really great episodes of Steven Hawkins Genius! One of the 1st episodes asks the question above. A series of experiments explain that because of the way the universe is designed opportunities for life on this planet was and is possible. SO IN A SENSE, THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE! From that fact other questions arise; are we here by evolution or creation or both?
  2. ASK MARILYN (Parade Magazine/Sunday papers). Marilyn vos Savant is a renown “very smart person” whose opinions are regarded highly as not only being logical and ethical but also probable, says this: “It depends on your spiritual beliefs. If you have a religion, it provides the answer, But if you don’t believe in a god, the question contradicts your thinking.

Let’s say you are spiritual, you belive in a supreme being who made everything happen, including you and me. If you are not spiritual and don’t believe there is a god, then you must believe that we and everything else got here by some natural process such as evolution. If you are spiritual, that implies that you are here for a reason……..and then back to the question, “Why are you here?”.

It is something to think about…………..don’t worry whether or not your opinion is right or wrong…………..it is your right to think and opinion whatever you feel is right for you.

3. LET’S SAY THAT YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOUR GOD MADE YOU AND PUT YOU HERE. For what purpose are you here? Why did HE/She/They do that? Put you here now. What are you supposed to be doing here? What are two of the most important things that you must have to survive and thrive in this life to fulfill your purpose? Love and Hope.

HBO has produced a series for TV based on a story that shows what could happen after a situation like the RAPTURE takes place where thousands of people all over the world disappear one day ( THE LEFTOVERS)…now in its 3rd season. Not just “good” people are gone……………really bad and really good alike …………just gone.  It is a wonderful study of how the absence of HOPE AND LOVE can cause universal chaos. It is a little hard to watch. It might make you feel uncomfortable………..but it certainly will make you think about all of the above!!!!!!!!!  AND perhaps, that’s what the whole thing is about!

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

 

 

 

 

 

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Where Are You Going When You Die?

Texas! Tanya Tucker has a great record out, “When I die, I may not go to Heaven, so take me back to Texas. That’s as close as I’ve ever been”…………….or something like that anyway……but it does raise some questions!

 

UPDATE…..July 8th 2016……………..Just found out from DNA testing that I’m 99% European……..52 % British Isles/ 30% Scandinavia (mainly Norway) and 17% Southern Europe( Spain, Italy and Greece)…………SO, Looks like I’m just going home! I posted the rest of this post back in June!!!!!!!!

 

As for me, I’m going to Scandinavia……….Norway or Sweden…………and settled down there to the bottom of the ocean. Long journey but for the material part of me that just might be the location of my most recent incarnation……before this one.

Burial rituals have been different since the beginning of time. The most common being to just bury the remains somehow/somewhere. It deteriorates there and goes back to dust OR just to matter until it is needed to create something else. It doesn’t really make a difference what happens to it, I won’t be there. So I’ve decided to trust my instincts and take a trip abroad.

How will I get there? By lands and seas of course! You see when the material part of me dies,  it will be cremated and my ashes will be taken to NC, USA and put into the  River. The course from there goes over to the Mississippi River and down to New Orleans and into the Gulf of Mexico. From there it will go down and around the tip of Florida and on up with the currents toward England and somehow manage to get to Norway/Sweden and then settle down there to rest….forever.

Now that the material part of me has been taken care of what about the “real me”…..the spiritual (soul) of me? Where will that be? Where does that part of me go and why?

I wish I knew! To my knowledge no one has gone there and stayed long enough to get much information and come back to relate it except that where we supposedly go is a good place to be…………yeah, and if it is so good why did they come back, etc. (to be with loved ones or complete a special project). After reading many books…………the truth is nobody really knows the how and what of the trip or what exactly we do when we get there.

Does it really matter anyway? Should we worry about it? I’m not. Being on this earth is a great experience and I believe we are here to learn, live, love and do the very best we can to make a difference (hopefully good)…………of course.

In the meantime…………Burials……………..those are for the living……….the dead are gone. Personally I’m not going to hang around to see who comes to see me after I’m dead. I probably won’t look my best anyway. And the best policy is to “send the flowers to the living………the dead won’t be able to smell them”! Do for those you love BEFORE they die…………after is too late.

O.K. so we don’t know what happens after death…………..we don’t want to think about maybe there is just nothing! That seems so final! So let’s believe that whatever is after is a really good experience and hinge our bets by being as good as we possibly can just in case it really makes a difference!

P.S. this message is not satirical  or a joke or a ploy……….a lot of ideas run around in my head all of the time….some from reading books, some from watch TV stories, some from ideas from friends/neighbors and along comes a song that triggers my mind to say, Hey, write this stuff down…………it might make somebody else think!

So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

 

 

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Author,W.K Kruger…update

Highly recommended! I’ve finished book 2 in the series of 14 (to date). I plan on reading all in the series.

Character development, descriptions of the land and surroundings ( Minnesota,  Land of 10,000 lakes), American Indian (Anishinaabe) history and folklore is superb!!

If you like Louise Penny and The 3 Pines saga, you’ll love the Kruger series.

Start with Iron Lake and Boundary Waters ( books 1 &2 )…………and read them in order for the best understanding of the continuing story of the O’Connor family story.

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Saying Goodbye, The Circle of Life

When a life ends what happens to what was? Do they/it go to Heaven, Hell or In-between or just stop being?

On a lighter note, while doing research for a play I was writing we did some research as to how many different ways the newspaper obituaries tell how the dear dead person died. Well, there are at least 50 different ways, my favorite is “died”…………but the variation goes on from that to “danced into the arms of Jesus”, “passed away”, “went to be with their Lord and Savior”. My point here is not to make fun of these sayings, but to lead  to what do they really say about what happened and where did they go?

“Miss Pearl” : our dear cat was found 2 days after she was missed in the North Garden (what was left of her that is!) Only the back two legs were there. She was 14 years old and had lived at least 5 lives that we know about, but this time there was no doubt….she wasn’t just under the shed recovering from some illness or encounter with a bad squirrel or another cat this time.

“Miss Pearl” was just a kitten when her mother and sister/brother came wandering through the yard one morning on their way to the other side of the back fence. They would be gone for about 2 hours and then would come lazily wandering back under the fence on their way back home. For a couple of weeks I’d talk to her (she hung back several times and looked like she was interested in staying)………..then I offered treats! And then one morning I went out on the sun deck  and there she was curled up on one of the chair pillows under the umbrella! And from that day on she was part of the family!

She “got me through” 2 family deaths and many trials and tribulations over the past 14 years. She always kept that “hey, look I’m a feral kitten! Don’t expect me to let you pick me up or sit in your lap!” BUT this past year…………she would come in the house and learned how to lay down and get treats for doing so! Outside was her world. She enjoyed everyday! Anything was game! If you moved………….you were it! We know she was happy!

But something “got her” and she died. I haven’t cried. I’m sad and I miss her but at this point in my life I believe in The Circle of Life! Miss Pearl’s body was used to make sure some owl or hawk or coyote youngling makes it to adulthood. Her dying like that is better to me than having cat lukemia and suffering weeks in pain and discomfort. Her spirit has gone to wherever all of our spirits go when they leave our bodies! The essence of what we are lives on. Exactly what we are then and where we go………….we don’t know but I believe we continue (all of us, the people, the animals, the plants……absolutely everything goes on………….in some form and fashion!)

When something in our lives leaves, it leaves a vacuum. Into that vacuum something new and different will come in. This creates the change that makes our lives interesting and a continuous line of lessons that we are supposed to learn.

We are all blessed that this is the way of The Circle of Life….and our duty is to seek HAPPY in every road and byway that leads us there!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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COLD COUNTRY MURDER MYSTERIES

2 GREAT books (1st in a series each)………locations:  Minnesota and Iceland!

Iron Lake/ William Kent Krueger        Snow Blind/ Ragnar Jonasson

Both books will educate you about the location where the stories take place. Both are in cold places in winter that have magnificent summer seasons!

The reason I like to read “series books” is that from the first book  character development starts out and carries  on throughout the whole series!

It is rare find two different authors/series at a time but this time I hit the jackpot! I really like the characters and the locations and method of mystery writing of these two authors!

I highly recommend them and plan on reading book 2, 3, 4 and on and on!

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