A Single Christian Woman, Open Memoir, Allowing Ourselves to Hear God... Reading Stan I. S. Law's SELF EGO VIRUS Helps

 Some managed to unify the Ego with their Self. “I and the Father are one." (John 10:30) comes to mind.

The Self has left signposts all along our history to guide us on the “Straight and Narrow.” This expression refers to the state of balance, which we must sustain to preserve the relationship between the Self and the Ego. As for this relationship, it simply refers to the balance between what is good for one, and what is good for all. 

Ego — is intended to protect the advantages that our reality offers to each individual, human or otherwise, to each living creature that can create diversity. It deals with building blocks of our phenomenal reality. 

Self — is the guiding light that leads the Ego to conduct itself in a manner that will result in good for all. Both sentiments are necessary for the preservation of the phenomenal reality. For the world that Ego recognizes as real. 

At an individual level, this is superbly expressed in King David’s Psalm 23, which I offered at the beginning of this series “In Search of Secular Ethics,” inspired by Dalai Lama. (3)

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Stanislaw Kapuscinski is, I am sure, the most brilliant of the authors with whom I've become friends, through his words--sharing words that were, often, so above my level of comprehension that I had to sometimes read over and over until I understood. Of course, a total new lexicon, at least to me, didn't help the absorption of the knowledge being shared... I have found, when dealing with a potential "advancement" in our world of knowledge, I, and many writers, want to "create" words to differentiate, to ensure the reader knows that this may be something new to the reader. Working on a university campus, I had met and interacted with many of those whose brilliance was brought to the realm of instructing our future leaders. But reading the words of an individual through a book allows readers to really begin to actually know an individual. 

Stan, for instance, is a man who wants to share what he has learned. He wants to have you feel comfortable with him even though he will be talking about things that, at first, you may not comprehend. So, he writes by simply breaking his real name down so that you will be more comfortable with your new teacher--Stan I.S. Law. To me, he set the tone for his many books, some written under his own name, other with just Stan as the author name. Stan is an approachable man, even though he writes of things unknown, at first glance... But, there is, oh, so much to learn! 

I believe that I was led to move to Stan immediately after introducing Tim Speiss, to illustrate what I think God wants us to immediately realize. We are a specis created in His image and as such, there is so very much potential for growth, for knowing more and more of God, of the universe, ever striving to expand and move upward, forward...grasping a bit of new knowledge from this purpose or advancement in life, absorbing that information into our "Ego," and allowing it to influence our very own set of accumulated experiences, to, in turn, create new thoughts as a means to expand and grow our contribution to the phenomenal reality... 

Consider, this, as somewhat of an example of how my Ego has responded... For example, Psalm 23, for me, is a song, a song that can be sung together with many different notes to create an entirely new song. I remember that my choir director said she knew 22 different versions of the song. I sang a little of the one I had learned different from the one we were practicing, and she immediately laughed, 23... Yes, there are at least 23 different versions of the 23rd Psalm as it has been set to music. And, as found in the video, many words can be updated or emphasized by the individual singer who creatively has heard the original and wanted to share them more passionately and with words he or she preferred... Sometimes at night, when I sing on my way to sleep, I will sing one version and then another that I've learned... Different, yet the same words because of course I had sung them so often I had them memorized... So, we, in turn create our living Ego and contribute to God's world, gaining a bit of learning, merging, adding perhaps, or changing the words, or, also the ingredients to a recipe--all for the betterment of mankind. 

So, that, during my own life experiences, when I read Black Hole in Stan's book, I immediately thought--Star Trek! Yes, I am a Trekkie from way back and I was always captivated by what the future held as created by Gene Roddenberry... So, now, of course, my Ego began to immediately merge Stan's words into a vision of a Black Hole, which, by the way, the Captains of The Enterprise always escaped... now being used to, perhaps, speak of...Hell???

I was led to Stan and this specific book, after I had written the latest page of my open memoir. I've read several of his books, although, I know I should read more...especially after having read Self Ego Virus. Stan is one of the most well-read men in the world, honing in on the sciences and religion--the latter words used is my attempt to make this understandable for me and those of us who have no background in the study of either.

You see, folks, I realized as I was reading that what I had written yesterday was not totally accurate. It was accurate for that moment in time as I wrote it. Which then changed as soon as I had read Stan's book. I learned a major key for understanding "me." How can I say it to make sense of it? What I was being  reminded of was that there would not be any one book, or any one author that would have all the answers I've been seeking as a Christian. I would always need to continue to read...and...learn.

On the other hand, Stan's book explained why... But to do that, I think I must translate Stan's words into my own... and, of course, add music, book and movie references from my own "Ego..." In the book, the person I think of as Me, Glenda, would be that part of my body called Ego. More importantly, that part of my body in which His spirit resides is called Self... For me, I've normally used the words "Holy Spirit" from my understanding of the Holy Trinity... It's exciting to me to learn that we are all, really, scientifically, pure energy and that the Ego, me, is free to act as I choose, but with a constant monitoring by Self. I think of the Star Trek era movies which included a large flying ship controlled centrally, while people were "absorbed" into the ship from other ships and tied into a central consciousness. The Borg! Of course, in the movies, that was always fought against because we humans wanted to retain ourselves as individuals... But what if we could do both? Stan explained about vibrations--yada, yada, yada (a scientific explanation)... I did finally get the gist of it and immediately thought of a song! Of Course!

Self, that is, would be good vibrations--all those creative thoughts, dreams, actions which my Ego produces which helps, self, others, the earth, the universe...

But Stan points out that, while Ego does indeed retain my own individuality, sooner or later, if I, as part of the whole (Love Thy Neighbor as Ourselves), do not creatively add to the total body of energy that makes up "Earth..." that's when our bodies will begin to deteriorate sometimes pushing the Ego's "bad vibrations" to the point when we are no longer using our energy toward the betterment of mankind. Think climate control and those who refuse to believe and do anything about it! They'll be going into...a Black Hole... (again, version of Hell?)

Notice Virus as part of the Title... Egotistically, we hated to think about the loss of life during the Covid Pandemic. However, when you are looking at it in a good way, we find that families were brought home, brought together to protect each other. It allowed our bodies to regenerate, even if our minds and hearts were concerned, we acted, to the best of our ability to ensure the virus was stopped! Or did we?

It has been too recent that the pandemic was in full growth and spreading. In fact, I got my latest shot just this week! And, immediately, we had learned that there were many in America who refused to be vaccinated. First, I'm not talking about those who decided for specific scientific or health reasons that they did not agree to take them. In my mind, that decision did not lead to the common good for all that I totally believe in at this point in my life. No, what I am talking about was the incitement of a president who, while, at least, moving ahead to get pharmacies working on a vaccine (even to the extent to also admit to Bob Woodward, for his book, that he chose not to share all information needed to make good decisions... or whatever rationale he thought of at that time). What he did do was use it as a campaign prop! And most of his followers refused to even consider vaccinating! How very cruel...

And then Stan provided the "twist to the plot," the answer to the mystery! Could it be--could it really be that while those religious leaders who were making a deal with the devil, which resulted in complete chaos for America, with the incitement of hate, bias, prejudice, that God really also had a plan? I have to admit I've been smiling ever since I read it... And I'm confident that Stan will not mind my sharing that twist, while also highly recommending that you use this particular book to read now, even if you've not read this author before. I truly believe that if you are a concerned citizen, you need to begin to understand your own role in that grand scheme we call...living in America.

Ask not what America will do for you, 

but what together we can do

 for the freedom of man. 

--John Kennedy

You see, the key to this short book, just 44 pages, for less than a dollar(!) was reading the book in relation to what has been occurring... Consider, for instance, that much of what the past president ultimately did was to move us backward in knowledge, advancement and NOT for the good of mankind... 

In fact, it was the wishes of the conservative republican religious leaders to place judges that would do harm to many. Because of course, nothing could be done except for it to be completely radical. Don't say gay, Ignore being woke, put women back into the kitchen having babies, climate is not a problem that we could heal, and most of all, don't even talk about taking guns away, even if babies, school children, and innocent adults are being killed on an ongoing basis!

Well, this single Christian woman has been woke all of my life, it seems, and every single thing that the past president was doing, I was watching, knowing, wondering what to do... Because, I knew what was happening was not by God's guidance. I've recognized Self within me for over 50 years, even when I may have chosen my own will of Ego.... 

And, thankfully, I am no longer wondering...

Imagine a man who, practically singlehandedly, exposed the iniquity of a corrupt government; who exposed the selfishness of all members of the ruling classes that worshiped money above all else? Wouldn’t people hate such a man? Or at least most people? And yet... he isn’t hated. He’s still admired by many. Has he done so on purpose... or accidentally? Although the vast majority of people would have no idea what he was attempting to do. Perhaps he is no more than an instrument, completely unaware of the import of his mission. It often looks like that. Perhaps his mission is too great, far too great, for an ordinary man to comprehend. Surely nature, let alone the Omnipresent Consciousness, would be very selective in choosing the instrument for such a mission. Perhaps, a suitable man would be so involved in his own Ego as to be completely unaware of the true reality? And yet, possibly due to such an instrument’s inadequacy, yet to help him in his titanic endeavor, the Omnipresent Consciousness invaded his unconscious and, in Its infinite wisdom, planted a pernicious virus, somewhere, far away, that could assist him in destroying the “disease of materiality” that denied the intent of the evolution of the whole world. He needed help in his seemingly Sisyphean commission. He’d have to destroy the mindset anchored in material reality, reduce the overpopulation of the whole world, get rid of the most inept members of our species, members who never contributed, nor were likely to contribute, to the wondrous miracle of the phenomenal reality. The list goes on... With luck, unbeknownst to him, humanity might realize that we are no more than visitors in this illusory reality. That this world isn’t real... unless we make it so. That we are not placed in the magnificent constructs of our bodies to make money, but to restore the Paradise that this world once was. By the time such a man carries out his task people will realize that unless they learn to think for themselves, their lives would continue to be governed by idiots; by ignorant, self-centered sycophants. This is what the Age of Aquarius is all about. Those who survive the Pluto Effect must learn to enhance their own states of consciousness. They must at least try to raise the rate of vibrations of their Ego to get closer to the Self that supplies them with the wondrous experience of life; the experience of Becoming. Perhaps, once again, we shall recognize that we are not only our physical selves but merely visitors of these magnificent bodies engineered over billions of years, which might, just might, generate ideas, which would add to the diversity of the reality we call our world. Our phenomenal world. Our Garden of Eden.

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Hopefully, before we, too, get kicked out of the Garden of Eden for something that does not improve our world, we will begin to see and respond. The above video may or may not be true about Trump being kicked out of a church. I didn't take the time to double check. Because it is not the only example of what is NOW happening where women, it seems, in particular, are speaking out against Donald Trump.... Think very, very, very bad vibrations moving toward his part of the Black Hole...

Dare we recognize that the United States has indeed become too materialistic, even while also saying that this is perhaps a symptom that could be avoided quickly. I think of people, for example, going overboard in Christmas shopping. While doing little, if anything, to celebrate the birth of our Lord... For, after all, Christmas was a purely Christian Holiday, until Santa Claus was added... Can it be both religious and secular?

I remember when Christmas came in my home during my early years, there was little money to even consider buying gifts. Yet my mother would work, skrimp and save so that she would get, perhaps, one big gift for her four children. I remember one year it was a croquet set that, even though it was December, we all went out, set it up in our big yard, and played most of the day. My Mom, by the way, gave me the most precious gift--ensuring I learned of Jesus.

Will the movement of Donald Trump into the Black Hole be the solution? Of course not, but the impact of what has happened to the "religious" world as a result of his presidency and subsequent actions, will certainly continue to be part of the knowledge, the awareness, within our combined Egos, that just may result, if Stan is right in his assessment, his proclamation, that America will slowly move forward again--toward Becoming what we were intended to be.

Perhaps by Stan's books, by Tim Speiss' books, or by all of the other writers who are speaking creatively to the world, expanding awareness, knowledge, and passions, we can work to positively support our phenomenal reality.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." 

(Neil Armstrong)

Popped up when I was looking for a specific video;

Instead I diverted. These men are also ones working to serve mankind...

One final note: I woke up around 5 and was going to continue to read, but "write" was clearly in my mind. Now, I was going to end with Awesome God, but my eyes were drawn to this song...

Readers, this is your/my time. We are all being called by God to, figuratively, lay our bodies down for our nation, our world. Forget about thinking whether Biden is too old, forget about your chosen political party, we are nearing a black hole caused by soooooooo many egos expelling bad vibrations of hate, evil, murder, prejudice, and, lies declaring "god" as being served by these horrendous actions...

Let me ask you... do you feel good vibrations about what is happening in this world today? Then consider what Stanislaw, Tim, and Frank have been talking about! Open your mind, instead of listening and following. Think, Think, Think... Look for Truth, Truth, Truth. Truth will lead us forward. We are merely "Egos that have been given total free Will. It is up to each of us to live because... (now His selection)

This has been a presentation of my creative ego

to serve self...Merging information acquired over decades with a desire to improve...mankind...

And isn't it fun to do so?! LOL

Creatively Start Living Again! What is Your Passion?

Start today to use it your life for ALL!

Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations!