Vida Norris, Guest
Waking Times

The self-help and “mind-body-spirit” scenes are billion dollar industries, but how has the commodification of spirituality affected our ability to practice it? As sacred principles are co-opted and watered down to sell feel-good mass-market products, those unwilling to sellout spiritual principles are pushed further to the margins – where they are increasingly maligned as “cultist” for putting spirituality ahead of materialism.

Alternative spiritual teachings and groups that encourage a way of life outside of mainstream values are being marginalized and suppressed from all sides.

On one side, what is deceptively being presented to the general public as a viable and appealing alternative to mainstream religious institutions is largely owned by corporations and individuals looking to profit from people’s natural interest in spirituality, making it nothing more than a cleverly disguised offshoot of the mainstream itself.

by Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams

At the February 11 Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year old former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders berated Clinton for saying that she appreciated the foreign policy mentoring she got from Henry Kissinger. “I happen to believe,” said Sanders, “that Henry Kissinger was one of the most destructive secretaries of state in the modern history of this country.”

Dear Ones, if you run into a situation that the energies are very obviously not supporting, it is simply a means of redirection for you. It does not mean that you cannot effectively create, or that the universe is out to get you, or any of the other things you can reactively tell yourselves. It just means that you cannot get to your desired goal that way.

Let us give you an analogy that will make this very easy to understand. If you were in a maze, trying to get to the surprise at the end of it, you would not fall into despair the first dead end you experienced. You would not stand there and continue to push against a wall that would not budge. You would not crumple to the ground in despair. You would simply realize that was not the way to get to what you desired and you would redirect and keep moving. While it may have been momentarily frustrating, you realize it was not personal at all, and through the realization that was not the right way, you can then move in a direction that will support your desired end result.

You could make your life experience so much easier by adopting this approach! Your highest self, your guides, the entire universe, are all helping you get where you wish to be by lovingly not offering support to what cannot get you there. If you understand that, you can start to have fun, to enjoy the unfoldment, knowing each time you are turned around you are pointed in the right direction of the next phase of your journey, and embrace the divine perfection of it all. ~Archangel Gabriel

All was created to know itself in love!  Love is not to be meted out when the moment serves or when you have something to gain from it.  It is an all-encompassing creation of The Universe that reverberates through every cell of every being on your Earth-plane.  You may need to look more closely to see it, but it is always there…..always present….always willing to give when others have given up. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/love/

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