Don't Stop Believing

There's a few things that I don't talk about much.  There's really no reason why I don't mention it.  Maybe I just don't think about mentioning these things.  Here's some things you probably don't know about me:  One, I have an identical twin brother and two, English is my second language.  Well, maybe I'll go into more detail in a later blog.  That is, if I remember!

Last Thursday night while at the local chess club I was briefing discussing with my friend's wife that I had an identical twin and I briefly mentioned our "twin experiences."  It seems that just mentioning it "kicked it off again."  I briefly left the club to drive to Border's Book Store.  I picked up a book on religion by Timothy Freke.  The very next day my brother called me to tell me he also brought a book by Timothy Freke.  In fact, we almost purchased the same book.  I had a strong compulsion to buy the book my brother purchased:  "The Laughing Jesus."  Anyway, it was strange enough that we purchased a book by the same author.  I changed my mind at the last minute and purchased a different book from my brother.

Some say that twins have a special connection.  I say, "Yes, that's true, but my belief is there is nothing special about twins."  So, you might ask, what makes this happen?  I believe that simply believing or acknowledging it creates or allows for this to happen.  It appears to me that my simply mentioning it the other night allowed that connection to happen again.  It's happened probably hundreds of times between us.  That's just my guess.  I remember one time in 1989 when I walked into a music store and purchased a Brazilian record, sung in Portuguese of course.  Shortly afterwards I found out my brother purchased the same record.  The odds against that must be astronomical.  Then, there's the time he felt my pain after I was hit by a truck.  He must have taken my pain because I really didn't hurt as much as I should have.  Then there was the time someone spiked his drink and I received what I thought at the time was a spiritual feeling that my brother's life was in danger.  So, I said a prayer and only a miracle saved his life.  I looked at my watch when I prayed and found out it was the exact same time my brother's life was saved by a man.  Now, I believe that prayer created this miracle not allowed it.

I'm sure you've all heard about the Law of Attraction.  Truthfully I don't know much about it, but I believe it's mostly mentioned as a means of creating wealth.  I would prefer to call it the Law of Creation, because we all have the power of creating our own reality.  In fact, we are co-creators in this universe.  So, what does it take to realize our powers of creation?  First, I believe we must believe in it.  Just believing seems to open doors for the impossible to happen. 

Here's a story that I don't expect for you to believe.  Back in the early 1980s my friend and I were walking across town and on our journey we were stopped by a large thunderstorm.  We took shelter in a small convenience store waiting for it to stop, but it was raining really hard with thunder and lighting with no end in sight.  At that time I decided to test my faith.  I told my friend that we must walk again.  He said, "Are you crazy?  Look at the rain."  I said, "Don't worry, it will stop."  So we both left and my intention was to make it stop and it did stop only a short distance away.  I know you're probably thinking, "Yes, he was lucky."  But my friend, if only you were there.  My friend asked me, "How do you know these things?"  Well, it was my simply believing.

I remember hearing a similar story about Elvis Prestly.  Elvis and his bodyguards were driving down the interstate in the rain when Elvis said, "I'm tried of driving in this rain."  According to Elvis' bodyguard, Elvis raised his hand to the sky and the clouds parted all the way down the interstate.  Hey, they don't call him the King for nothing!

I'm not saying it works all the time.  Sometimes it just doesn't work.  Maybe something prevents it from happening like lack of forgiveness.  I'm not sure.  Maybe it's prevented by other reasons.

I believe that I lost 30 pounds last year simply because I said, "I want to lose this weight."  Sure, I dieted and became a little more active but without my mind wanting this I believe it never would have happened.  

Sometimes our belief allows for strange things to happen.  In France, they eat bad food and the people are slim.  Is it the wine?  That possibly has something to do with it. But I think it's the power of intention.  They don't look at the food as bad.  I've heard of studies being done on food with two groups of people.  They were given bad food to eat.  In group one they were told to believe that the food was good for them.  In group two they were told to believe the food was bad for them.  It was shown that in group one, that the food actually improved their immune system!  Could one of the reasons for the large rate of obesity in our nation is we are told that everything is bad?  That may be part of the problem, but these people eat like horses.  Oh my God!  I cringe when thinking about it.  What will collapse first our health care system or our nations's weight scales?

I'm sure some of you have heard about the power of intention and water crystals.  The Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, has accomplished some interesting experiments on the effect of intention on water crystals.  When emotions such as compassion and love are used on the water, a beautiful crystal forms.  However, when hate is used, an extremely ugly crystal occurs.  It's wierd but documented.  Now, we're really getting somewhere!  Here's his page if you are interested:  http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/e_ome_home.html

My grandmother was a very spiritual woman.  It seemed everything she touched turned into "gold."  Our only explanation was that it was God's blessing.  She even had what is referred to as a "green thumb."  I remember hearing her talk to her plants.  My brother and I used to laugh and thought, "She's losing it!"  But her plants grew into a thing of beauty, while everything I touched seemed to die.  Heck, I couldn't even watch someones goldfish for a few days without all of them dying!  My grandmother used to have a garden and it always looked like the Garden of Eden, while only a few yards away the neighbor's garden looked dead in comparison.  The soil couldn't have been that much different since it was only a few yards away.  She didn't use fertilizer and watered it with fresh rainwater stored in large buckets.  Now, I believe it was my grandmother's intention that allowed for this to happen. 

I believe the government is really doing our society a disservice by making victims out of everybody.  When you accept a victim mentality you are suddenly powerless.  You stop accepting responsbility for yourself and become powerless.  Maybe that's what the government wants.  It's easier to control victims and politics is all about control and power.  The Government wants you to rely on it instead of yourself.  The secret is:  we have the power ourselves.  Government isn't God although some talk as if it is.  Some politican promising hope and change is nothing more than rhetoric.  The real hope and change comes from within us.  That's the secret they seem to want to supress. 

There currently is a wakening up occurring across the world.  Once we begin to wake up, the impossible becomes the possible.  It's not only twins and mothers.  It's a power within all of us.  All it takes is just believing and "miracles" begin to flood through.  It's amazing.  Give it a try!

I certainly don't have all the answers.  Here's one that maybe you can help me with.  Why doesn't it work all the time?  Is it lack of forgiveness, hatred, or what could be the reason?

Cheers

Paul