Tuesday, November 30, 2010

AGT Live 11/06/10 - Prince Poppycock - First Performance Part 2

AGT Final Four finalist John Quale as Prince Poppycock performing part of his first number in Atlanta on November 6, 2010. Sorry I missed a lot of it! Look for Part 1 as well! And I know it's HORRIBLE quality :( I also have the entirety of his second performance!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqsCqI5ju00&hl=en

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

celebs who rock!!

All my fave celebs! Leave a comment on saying which ones ur fave!!! These are all the celebs in order of appearance: -Bret Michaels -Dan Sperry -Dan Sperry -John Stamos/Jesse Katsopolis -Victoria(Twilight) -Prince Poppycock -Matthew Labyorteaux/Albert Ingalls -Miranda Cosgrove/Carly Shay -Jennette McCurdy/Sam Puckett -Nathan Kress/Freddie Benson -Jerry Trainor/Spencer Shay -Kelly Osbourne -Sharon osbourne -Melissa Gilbert/Laura Ingalls Wilder -Alison Arngrim/Nellie Oleson -Robert Pattinson -Kristen Stewart -Ashley Greene/Alice Cullen



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1VHGz6BUU&hl=en

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

3 Keys to Happiness

Most of us are content with our lives or often we feel we are "too busy" to really think about our own contentment or happiness. That's for tomorrow or if I get a raise, promotion, the guy, the girl, the right house, paycheck, kids and so on.

We all have examples of people who are less economically fortunate, physical ailments (maybe even major), who have very significant roadblocks in their lives and who are clearly happy people. We admire them and frankly are dumbfounded by them. The fact is that these people understand either consciously or intuitively that happiness is fully under each person's control and within everyone's reach no matter each person's circumstances.

The 3 Keys of Happiness are -


  • Direction

  • Society

  • Purpose

Many people that are happy may not have all 3 Keys. And that's ok. As long as there is true contentment/happiness and not some "hole" in their lives.

Let's talk about each of the 3 keys.

The first key is direction. We often talk about direction when we discuss goals and goal achievement. But the fact is we don't need to achieve that goal to gain that happiness, being on the path, having that direction, knowing where we are going will give us the excitement, pleasure and happiness we desire. It's because we can see the progress or improvement in our lives. Our lives aren't static (or in a rut) it's moving in a direction that we desire and control.

Let me give you an example from my own life.

A bunch of years ago, I was in a major rut. I was exceedingly unhappy in my job and even worse, I felt trapped. I was making good money and my perception was that I wouldn't be able to get the same salary anywhere else. My financially situation was that I was pretty much spending it as it came in. Trapped.

So I decided to start saving some money. The idea was to slowly build up some change in the bank, so that I would have the power to walk into my bosses office and quit (I had quite a melodramatic scenario in my mind!) if I chose to without fear of the economic consequences.
Since I WAS spending everything that I was making, I started out small 50 bucks a month. It would build as I moved forward.

About 6 months later, with a whopping 300 dollars in savings, I decided work wasn't so bad, things were looking up and I realized my attitude was just better. I'm sure everybody else saw it before I did, and relieved to see it!

Come on! With 300 bucks in the bank! It took me a while, but I realized that I had created a direction in my life and no longer felt trapped, even though it would take years to create the nest egg that I needed to make it happen.

We see this all the time. People in poor circumstances going back to school, seriously handicapped people using their therapy all creating a direction in their lives.

The second key is society. Not society as we know it, but each of our own society. Whether it's family, friends, extended family, church/school groups or other associations. Whatever works for each of us. It may fluctuate, loose someone that was part of your society and what happens, we are sad and unhappy. We see couples who are perfectly happy with just the two of them and nobody else. We see the mother or father who are happiest when their lives are surrounded by their children. Our society could be quite large or very small. It answers a need each of us has to be loved, liked, appreciated, joked with, taken seriously, respected, teased....belong. The famous line in a movie with Tom Cruise looking at the woman he realizes makes him quite happy is "You complete me." And when we have a society that will "complete us", we are more likely to have happiness in abundance!

The third key is purpose. There are a lot of books out there that make it clear purpose is payback time. That purpose is doing good works for the betterment of society (the big kahuna society, not as I defined it earlier). While it's a lovely thought, I do believe its poppycock.

Purpose IS what gets us going, what makes us feel good to do. Purpose could be your family. However, maybe not. This is where parents can go into the whole guilt thing. The love their kids and do all the right things, but they aren't completely content with that. It could be that they just need to spend time with adults (society) or it could be that to meet their purpose they need to be more involved whether its volunteer work, belonging to something like a Rotary Club that does service in the community.

Purpose doesn't need to be huge gestures. It's whatever makes you feel you are making a valid contribution to your world. It could be serving in a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving Day; it could be mentoring someone at work or helping neighbors with their needs.

Each of these three keys needs to be formed by you. Not other people, not you trying to impress or satisfy other people. Those routes are not likely to make you happy. But by you choosing your direction in life, gathering a society that you can enjoy and grow with and fulfilling a purpose as YOU define it, you produce the keys to a happy and contented life.

There is the old joke about money may not buy happiness, but I'd like to give it a try! Yet it is true. Most of us have cool things that we all want. When we get them, we are happy for the moment or so, but pretty soon there is the next thing or toy or object. It's like a drug always needing a new "fix".

As mentioned, examples of happy people abound. And they're not happy because of their "things" (if they have them) they are happy because they have direction, society and purpose in their lives. And the cool thing is, is that it doesn't cost a dime!

So look at the 3 keys to happiness.

What direction would you like your life to be headed in?

Who do you enjoy being with, what individual, group "completes" you?

What could you be doing right now that would make you feel good, a contributor, something more?

If you can work towards those answers, you won't have to be looking for happiness. It will show up before you even know it!.  




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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

'America's Got Talent' - Episode 520 - Eliminations


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The opinion that Howie gave was more than enough to prove the intensity of this TV show. The show has won the hearts of many and raked up many talents, one after another. In this particular episode, Howie said that clearly there were more than just four people, who had a quite deserving chance to proceed towards the next level. Some highlights of this episode were the Murray's tiger act and Arc attack. As the performance folded up, there was something for the rejected ones to cheer about, as there was a wild card entry, wherein some of the rejected ones may get a chance.

However, one cannot totally rule out the chance of Chipps or Mary Allen coming in, if there is a change in Howie's mind. All waited in anticipation for the results of the YouTube week as well as this week to come out. First it was Doggie Horner's, Mary Allen's and Murray's chance to react on their results. Among them, Doggie and Mary were the ones to get the boot. It was Murray, who moved to the next level. Probably, the audience made the right decision.

Among the next three contestants, that is Taylor Mathews, Da Maniacs and Lindsey Sterling, first was Taylor's chance to rejoice. From the next group of Strikers All Stars, Nu Covenant and Prince Poppycock, it was Prince Poppycock's turn to get the invitation into the next round. Now after three groups, it was the chance of the last and the final group to announce their fate. Thus, after their performances, the judges' opinion made Arc attack move ahead to the next round after much hustle and bustle. Thus, now, all those moving ahead in this contest are Debra Romer, Nathaniel Kenyon, Christina & Ali, Alice Tan Ridley, Michael Grimm, Taylor Mathews, Prince Poppycock, Studio One Young Beast Society, Haspop, Future Funk, Antonio Restivo, Murray, Jeremy, AscenDance, Fighting Gravity and Arc attack.




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Saturday, November 20, 2010

WATCH THIS Prince PoppyCock America s Got Talent 2010 Semi Finals Show (Part 1)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb1sxUZbm70&hl=en

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Prince Poppycock Aug 3, 2010 The semi-finals

I am obsessed. Oh yeah folks I have a brand new obsession and his name is Prince Poppycock.He was Deff Best In Show....Many of us would have paid double to hear more of Prince Poppycock, i truly an in Lust with this man in or out of makeup He is truly fun fabulous Eyecandy



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqlU9ImkQs&hl=en

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Danger Ahead! The Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Free Thinking Spiritual Paths Like New Thought - Or Not!

To the Spiritual Seeker:

There is an energy out there just waiting for you to bite. It has a set of tricks that look so good. They're meant to lead you out of your old belief systems. You must watch this energy closely. It can be very easy to give into its wiles. You may not ever be able to return to your old ways of thinking if you capitulate, or even just investigate. Be careful. You just may like what you find.

Ten Reasons to Avoid Progressive Spirituality:

1. They do not believe in literal devils or demons. They teach that you are responsible for your choices. Now, how can you have religion without devils? Well, you just decide to let go of that belief and recognize that there is only One Power. Nothing is fighting for your soul. Hmmmm... No devils? Don't know if I can live without devils.

2. They accept everyone-male, female, black, brown, yellow, white, gay, straight, old, young, smart, not so smart-everyone! How can you have a good church with all that diversity? I mean, you have to draw the line somewhere, right? Wasn't America founded on religious divisions?

3. They say that compassion is the way you live out your spirituality. What does that mean, exactly? Simple. Do the least harm and the most good. That's how you practice God's love in the world. (Are they serious? Not everyone is loveable. You have to judge some of them, right?)

4. They bless all the religions of the world and your right to participate in them, as long as-and here's the Catch 22-those religions practice love. I mean, one of them has to be Ultimate Truth, right? They can't ALL have merit.

5. They don't believe in eternal damnation. Well, that's just silly. There are some people who need to be punished forever. And I don't just mean the Hitlers and Saddam Husseins of the world. I also mean anyone who doesn't believe like I do. After all, MY religion is the RIGHT religion. So there! (I hope...)

6. They teach that all life is sacred, that we need to be good stewards and take care of the planet. Yeah, right! The world is going to end soon. Why should I be concerned about ozone layers and global warming and polar bears going extinct? I'm going to heaven. No such nonsense there, by golly!

7. They say that giving and receiving is one principle, that what you put forth returns to you. Perhaps, but it has to be 10% or it won't work. And it has to be to the right church. (Mine, of course.)

8. They believe that we are all interconnected, not only with each other, but with everything in the universe. Poppycock! All you have to do is look at another object to see how separate everything is. The very idea that everything is connected borders on insanity as far as I'm concerned. Right? (Now, what are atoms again?)

9. They teach that you can create your own reality, that miracles are all around you, that you can attract into your life what you really want. Not so. Only God gives out the goodies. And you have to be really good and believe the right way in order to get any of those goodies. The Devil always blocks your attempts, too. Your bad luck is his fault. (Sounds interesting, though...)

10. Finally, these progressive paths like New Thought teach that Love is the only Reality. What the heck does that mean? They say it means that nothing is outside or apart from the Creative Source. Nothing is lost. No one goes to hell. That God lives within us, around us, everywhere. Naw. God is separate, distinct, and lives way out there, far away from this sinful, depraved world. Even though he created it to be just as it is. (I think.)

There you have it. Now, I'm not saying that any of this makes any sense, but I do know that if you want to learn more about this way of life called New Thought, connect with your local Center for Spiritual Living (Religious Science) or your closest Unity Church. Also, there are a bunch of independent centers and churches as well. Start asking around. You'll find one that suits your interests.

Y'know, after researching and writing this little treatise, the progressive path doesn't sound so bad. Maybe I'll check out one of the centers this Sunday. I'll keep you posted.

But believe as you will. It's always your call.




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Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Best is Yet to Come and the Time Has Come

Far too many people accept the belief that once you are over 40 or 50 years old, that you are over the hill. Whereas, it is true that you will not have your youthful figure, vitality, looks, and body, but in reality your age bears no relation to which decade is the best of your life. Many people don't realize this but some of the greatest successes have been achieved by those over 50.

Did you know that Ray Kroc was 55 before he ever started to franchise McDonald's? Did you know that Colonel Sanders was 70 years old before he got his first deal to license his chicken recipe? The Golden Years, truly are Golden, and the best is yet to come. Likewise, we often tell our youth that they are too young, that they don't have enough experience, or that they have to wait their turn to succeed. This is pure poppycock.

The reality is you can do whatever you set out to do no matter what age you are. Of course, you must believe that to achieve it. No one can tell "you" that you can't do something against your will. If you choose to believe them, you are right, if you choose to defy them and go for it anyway, and give it 100% of your efforts, drive, and perseverance chances are you will succeed in spite of what everyone else says.

Over the years I've had many people tell me I couldn't do this, that, or the other thing, as I'm sure you have. Fortunately, I always had the tenacity to prove them all wrong. And I'd like to see you do the same because the best is still yet to come; and the time to start is now.




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Friday, November 12, 2010

George Washington Costume Shopping Ideas

Halloween is coming soon and if you still wonder what costume to wear or just can make up your mind, below are some shopping idea for you to use for a wonderful Halloween event:-

Theme:

One of the most important starting point before you can decide what Halloween costume you take. Are you someone who like fancy stuffs? Or mere like something traditional or colonial like the George Washington Costume? or Like to dress like someone you admired? If you have no idea or preference, then visit some shopping website to search for ideas for such costumes.

Then the next question to ask is whether you do it for your own or together with your family members? If you do it for your own, it is easier to decide but not when you have to consider your family members when they have their own preference.

Make Up to Match the Costume

Sure, if you are not using any mask, then your need to do up your face to match with the theme and the occasion. As the Halloween event may last a couple of hours, you need to have a good make up that last for the time stay in the party. The last thing you want to happen is your make up fade away.

Wearing a Mask

If you prefer not to have make up on your face for some good reasons, you may choose to wear a mask. Keep in mind that wearing a mask has difference problem because you may have to hold in it for hours during the Halloween event. Likewise, if you have decided to pick George Washington Costume as your theme, surely, a good fit mask do a great job in matching it.

Accessories

To have a complete se to Halloween Costume, you can't do without accessories to match your costume. Example, if your pick George Washington Costume, you should pick a boot that used buy Washington and a hat too. If you wear Princess costume, surely you want to include a crown as one most important accessories. if you choose fancy costume, you need pick others accessories that most suitable for that fancy look.




If you want to save your headache for your Halloween Costume selection, why not pick the George Washington Costume at a bargain price.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

The God Enigma

As most of you now know, I like to approach some of our more difficult concepts from a slightly different perspective from time to time and since your world is so steeped in religious dogma and ancient, mostly wrong beliefs, I thought I would offer some thoughts on the God enigma. I have discussed this subject before and will do so again, hopefully inserting new information that tweaks some inner emotion within your self and helps you get a better feeling and understanding of that which cannot really be fully understood. Here is the secret that is important; the brain is limited in its ability to grasp and make sense of difficult concepts that originate outside of the physical system, but the more you subject the brain to these challenging concepts, new connections are formed and new pathways forged as the brain grows in its capacity to handle today what it could not understand yesterday. The secret is, of course, is to keep challenging the brain, feeding it new difficult to understand concepts, and eventually the brain will grow into them.

I try to stay away from discussing organized religion, simply because you are so defensive about your own religious beliefs and practices even though you may know that they are antiquated, outdated and in many ways very limiting to your spiritual growth. But, if you are ever going to understand some of the most difficult but rewarding knowledge about your universe and your God, you must understand who, what and when God is. Only a fool would presume that he understood the entire true nature of God, and in fact, no one will ever know all there is to know about the God Essence, but I will try to dance around the subject in a light hearted manner with some personal musings instead of rigid lessons about a subject that can never be fully known except by the most mature advanced and ancient entities. So lets begin with the dictionary definition of God, which can lead one astray, if not totally lost since it infers only one universe, which in turn infers only one earth and belief in a "one universe" concept alone can hinder any true understanding and growth .

"The one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe"

First and foremost, God is not in any sense of the imagination a Being and in fact, although God/All That Is the Source of all energy and all physical manifestations, He rules nothing and it is only your belief in ancient legends that you assume that God is an autocratic, angry, judging and punishing God. God is an Energy Essence Source, a knowing Prime Source of everything that is and does not know the meaning of judgement and punishment. God judges nothing and punishes no one.

You invoke God's name in a variety of ways which do not need to be included here, but God bless America, God willing, Thank God, God damn, God awful, God's will be done, God fearing people, God's chosen One, Pray to God and so on, and so on are just a few. But how many of you have ever stopped to think deeply about who or what God really is? That's a rhetorical question of course, so this article is not meant to demean or denigrate any ones beliefs, but to point you in the right direction, and as I have said many times, if I can just manage to make you become aware and make you think, then I have accomplished much of my original intent in these humble scribbles. Since any true understanding of the God concept escapes human intellect and at most levels of psychological development a true understanding must be attempted through the use of not only the intellect but through the use of inner awareness. At times it may be easier to tell you what God is not than to explain to you what He/It is. So with that in mind, it may help if I break this down into attempting to clarify by answering several pertinent questions.

What is God?
The dictionary states that God is the one Supreme Being and that is probably the most misleading statement in that God is not by any stretch of the imagination a being as you know beings, even if you are adventurous enough to include alien beings. God is an energy essence, a self aware, knowing repository of all knowledge and all experience, a creator of All That Is and all that will ever be. God is self aware, consciousness infused Energy that pervades everything, making itself known by expressing itself in as many forms as possible and if you can accept that statement, then you will know that this Energy Essence that spills out into everything could never be satisfied with the spilling out into just one paltry universe..

All energy is conscious of itself, even the smallest imaginable particle of energy is aware of its own being and is ever striving to Be known. Being is the goal, and this striving, this unimaginable desire for self expression never dissipates or diminishes and has always been the motivating force behind the first realization of self and the first breakthrough of this self aware force into the first minute physical particle. This was in a way the first miracle, the original psychic breakthrough of thought, desire and expectation into physical matter, but this miracle is as new today as it was eons ago as even now the earth and universe emerges new each moment. Some will understand the significance of this statement, some will not.

The Bible says that God always was and always will be, but energy always was and always will be and this energy that creates and permeates all universes is the essence of the Prime Energy Source that you refer to as God. I prefer the title of "All that Is" since it is less humanized and by now you all know that God is in no way human and you err when you project human type emotions or motivations on God/All That Is. Children and the less intelligent, still cling to age old tales of beginnings, endings and wrathful gods, jealous, judgmental and leaning toward eternal damnation and punishments and always appearing at the last moment to save the righteous civilizations from destruction. Those are human characteristics, and God is not human in any sense of the word. Most intelligent individuals have long known deep in their hearts that this is not the true nature of God, and have long sought knowledge that they sense exists, but do not know where to find it.

It is my intent to make known what I know, and there is much more that I don't know. The God enigma is structured so that it is constantly fragmenting itself and sending those self aware fragments (you and others like you) out into endless dimensions, re-creating itself exponentially and yet never becoming less but always increasing as it experiences everything that its fragments experience. In a remote, oversimplified way, you are a fragment of your soul, and your soul is a fragment of All That Is. In the exact same way, you create fragments of yourself in the dream universe every night when you sleep. I really don't like this analogy, but you could say that all universes, all worlds, all planes and dimensions are a VERY REAL DREAM of All That Is/God. Just as you do not consciously follow your dreaming self when you are awake, God does not consciously follow its creations either, but there is indeed not one sparrow that dies but that God is not aware.

I think most of you would agree that there is a touch of divinity in all living things, and that includes humans, flora and fauna. Here is something that you probably also sense though may not have thought about. All physical stuff, rocks, minerals, chemicals, tables, water and yes, even air you breathe has some kind of consciousness, minute as it may be in comparison to human consciousness. Everything that is, is composed of atoms and molecules and they also possess their own generalized type of consciousness. Everything that IS has been derived from and through the auspices of God and everything that is that is physically materialized, is composed of atoms which are the result of (basic energy with the intent to Be). So God/All That Is, is an energy gestalt, the prime source, the top of the energy pyramid, a divine process rather than some courtly old gentlemen. But this Prime Source knows itself not only as itself, but as all selves, all materializations and all that is not materialized (thoughts, ideas, imaginings). God has no face, but on the other hand, God is all faces. And for those slavishly following worn out dogma, God did not create mankind in His image, but mankind does create its God in their image.

Let's now talk briefly about forever. There is a duality involved here that makes much of what I want to explain so difficult to understand. There is the outer physical universe and all that it contains and there is the inner universe which is the source of its physically materialized counterpart. (That's where God can be found and cannot be found.) If you really want to understand, then you must know that nothing that exists to you outwardly would exist if it did not come from the inner incubator of all physical materializations, persons, objects and events. All OUTSIDE comes from INSIDE, and herein lies the difficulty that I must navigate through when attempting to explain concepts that are almost beyond explanation to the rational brain, but where the brain falters, the mind does not, so I talk as much to your mind as I do your brain. The INNER exists in a totally different medium than the OUTER and this is why I often use the dream universe as examples in many of our most difficult concepts. You are aware of the "Time Discrepancy" that makes itself evident in your dreams when you experience days, weeks and years in a matter of minutes. This in some important ways approximates that inner universe of the expansive present in which all things past, present and future already exist and are not touched of affected by your version of time or space.

In the expansive present, all things exist simultaneously, and the countless dimensions and planes of existence, all alien civilizations (and they are countless) are structured within this expansive present and achieve their own unique perspective of existence based on how they choose to structure and use this medium. ( Of course, the atomic structure of each world/universe must be in concert with the perception characteristics of the species doing the perceiving or nothing at all would be perceived.)

Your species chose a time/space perspective, choosing certain events and materializing them one at a time in a seemingly endless parade of events strung out over moments, hours, days, years and eons one before the other and expanding in space, growing in size and distance. But it doesn't have to be this way, it does for you of course, but it doesn't for other civilizations. Many worlds and civilizations choose to actualize and utilize multiple events at the same "time" and their consciousness is simply tuned differently than yours and is more advanced in that respect. I only mention these other civilizations, to help me explain the existence and the origin of God.

Now, you may think that it is presumptions that I would consider myself an authority on God and take on the responsibility of explaining that which we all know can never be explained, and believe me, there is much that will forever remain an enigma. We are talking here of a vast, massive intellect that has been evolving forever, sophisticated, complicated, expansive and mature beyond anything you or I can imagine. God, It, can never be adequately explained by anyone at your or my level of development, but it is better to try and understand than to sit idly in a pew listening to someone whose most stellar claim to fame is selling you holy water, prayer cloths, threatening you with eternal damnation while extorting you for money, molesting children and preaching doctrine that is so ludicrous that even as you sit and listen You KNOW deep in your heart that most of what is said is poppycock and the handiwork of charlatans and dignified con men wearing white robes and golden crowns. Expose! God herself does not own a crown or robe but is the crown and robe.

I told you up front in the beginning of these columns that I don't know everything, I don't even know much when compared to what is to be known. My information comes from other sources more evolved than myself, and it is my task to interpret this knowledge, put into words and concepts that can be more easily understood, but even then, many of these concepts are at the precipice of the cliff of the ability of the human brain to understand, but I do my best and I will not water them down for simplicities sake or to make them understandable to simple minds.

When did God begin?

I now want to attempt an answer to the question that most of you wonder about and it is the question that is the most difficult to grasp from your perspective within a "time oriented" physical system of reality such as your world. Time as you experience it is unique to your world, but is strange to other systems, some much more evolved than yours. Time and space are illusions that you must accept on your plane, but they are by no means universal. Even your universe is only "time structured" to your civilization and from your unique perspective. If you were born into a system of reality that did not recognize "time", then you would be amazed that anyone would choose to experience events one at a time, moving from present into the future and leaving already experienced events trailing behind in the past. This method of experiencing time seems perfectly normal to you so when I say that in other systems, the statement of "God always was and always will be" seems perfectly normal and would not be questioned. Only in a world of perceived beginnings and endings, cause and effect, is a formal beginning expected. Actually, the cause and the effect happen at once.

In the inner universe, the expansive present, everything exists simultaneously, yet is always increasing in psychological fulfillment and depth and is never finished. This kind of psychological expansion has nothing to do with time or space, just as the complexity and depth experience of a dream increases and expands. This kind of psychological expansion achieves duration through increasing inner fulfillment. In the same way the physical universe expands, but in actuality the physical expansion that you perceive as increasing distances, is but your perception of an inner psychological expansion in terms of inner gratifications and achievements of this universal consciousness. Bottom line, there is no such thing as real time and there is no real space, only a perception of time and space in your universe and this is actually your interpretation of psychological fulfillment and depth of inner experience.

In that respect, God is energy, and energy always was and always will be, so here we must conclude that God never had a beginning as you understand the necessity for beginnings. There was a time when an ever existing generalized energy began to become aware of itself and if you reach back far enough into your kind of time, which you must do at this "time", you could say that there was a period of original awakening when that "which always was" , this imprecise and unspecific energy, began to awaken and know itself as action and action creates identity.

Realizing its aloneness but also suspecting its vast potential, this initial action that you can call God or All That Is, knowing its need to BE, began to seek ways to further know itself through self expression and creativity. Action, energy in motion, enfolding back on itself always instigates the question, "Who am I?" and this initiates the spark of identity inherent in the answer, "I am I".

This aloneness, this original striving "to Be" provided the impetus for "realization of original identity" and expansion in multitudinous ways that we can only imagine. Finally, there is nothing inherently wrong with something existing forever if you were not been born into and slavishly indoctrinated in the time oriented system, which incidentally, is necessary for any personality in your "time system" in order to hold it's focus and manipulate in that system. Without this unyielding, intense focus on your earth time/space system, your essence would drift off into other systems and become hopeless lost

We can only touch on the tip of the iceberg in these discussions, but I will elaborate on this subject again and again as you have probably already suspected. There is only so much I can tell you at this time, but in the final analysis, the only true realization of the God Enigma must come from within. Hopefully, I can point you in the right direction. Try in remember this, when you dream, you almost totally escape the limitations of time and space, they become irrelevant. Why then would the existence of a similar but much more expansive inner universe seem so incomprehensible to you? If you only begin to get a glimpse of this endless, timeless expansive present which is the home of all worlds, realities and universes, and God itself, you can pat yourself on the back for you are beginning to peek into realities that most don't even know exist. There is much more to know.

The implications of this knowledge represents this truth; Everything that exists now, existed in the beginning in your terms. There is no new consciousness being created, only consciousness manifested in new ways. What this really means is that you, in different form existed then, but not in the same way you exist now. What you are, existed before your world was set in place and will exist even though your world may disappear and reappear as it has done before. You have always existed, but not as "self aware identity" and once that "self awareness" identity has been attained, it can never be destroyed. It will change as you will change, but it will never be diminished or destroyed.

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My name is W. Allan, single male 62, a resident of Naples Florida. I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and have in the past, written a column called SECRET REALITY which was carried by spiritual and metaphysical magazines. I have recently started a blog to publish my work with the intent of incorporating expanded versions of my blog in book form. You can contact me any at my e-mail address: w.allan@hotmail.com. You may also read other articles at my blog at: http://answersbygod.com

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Spiritual and All-Inclusive Concept of Oneness

We are all one. If you incorporate this one concept into your thinking and belief process you cannot help but serve your fellow man all the rest of your days.

When I say that we are all one, I am not saying that we are all the same. We are all individuals in the sense that the three-part being that we are in the realm of this physical world is unique and distinct from all the other three-part beings that occupy this planet. We are here with the same mission, which is to experience in the physical relative world all that we know conceptually from the world of the absolute. How we do that however, is completely up to us. We are given free reign as to how we wish to proceed and what we wish to create. We don't all have the same agenda, just the same mission. How we accomplish our mission is as diverse as the number of three part beings there are on this planet at any given time. It is entirely your choice on what your agenda is. Always has been and always will be.

When you walk down the street and you see another person, you don't tell yourself that you are that other mind, body and spirit. That other person has their mind, body and spirit and you have your mind, body and spirit. They are occupying their space and you are occupying your space.

What you can say to yourself as you see a person walking down the street is that the person you are seeing is another aspect of yourself. A view of yourself from a different perspective. A different snowflake. They all look the same from the macro-perspective but they are all individual and distinct from each other in the micro-perspective. Most of us view our lives from the micro-perspective, so it's easy to fall into the paradigm that we are separate from each other. From the micro-perspective we all look as if we are separate. From the macro perspective we all look alike, we all occupy the same space and we are all doing the same thing. We are all one.

It is the concept of oneness that is going to liberate us from the shackles we are tied to by subscribing to the mentality of 'separation and fear.' We have experienced the concept of separation for over 2,000 years of recorded history and what we have observed is that the idea that we are all separate does not serve us. In fact, it does us such a disservice that if we continue down this path we are in jeopardy of rendering this planet uninhabitable for human life. That alone should give us the impetus to choose another experience, such as living in oneness.

By living in the mentality of oneness we experience true freedom instead of the limited and conditional freedom that we experience now. By eliminating the fear factor that is inherent to the idea of separateness we release the judgments and conditions that require us to restrict freedom for all for the benefit of a few.

The oneness mentality is based in love. We know the outcome of our lives is never in doubt. The love we experience in the oneness mentality is an unconditional love-based love. True love.

We are not the cause of our immersion in the separation mentality. We were born into it and have been conditioned to believe that this is the way it is and there is nothing we can do about it. The inherent fear that dominates the concept that we are separate reinforces the idea that we can't do anything about it. We are separate from each other and 'survival of the fittest ' is considered the law of the land.

We used to believe this but now we are awake and we say 'poppycock.' Because now we know how it all happens. We know we are not here to learn the lessons of life. We know that we are here to create our lives.

Create your life from the paradigm that we are all one at the highest levels of consciousness. From this perspective you will not only serve yourself but you will serve all of humanity.




Richard Blackstone is an award winning author and international speaker on Love, Oneness & Creation. Journey into discovery of Self by reading this FREE report; "The 3 Simple Immutable Laws of the Universe" at: http://www.NutsandBoltsSpirituality.com

Monday, November 8, 2010

Haiti Disaster - Why?

The recent earthquake disaster in Haiti was and is a tragedy of epic proportions, especially for a country that has had so much misery and devastation in its history. On the outside it seems like fate is against this small country and you might wonder why Haiti seems to be destined to endure such calamities one after another. Some clerics, misguided and befuddled ministers to the down trodden have said that Haiti brought these disasters on itself because of its pact with the devil through its beliefs in and practice of voodoo. Other radio personalities steeped in anger, suggest the American president is using this event to garner sympathy for his cause by providing aid to the Haitians.

Meanwhile the pope is doing "photo Ops" to (in his words) "demonstrate his benevolence" toward a woman who knocked him down while he was busy passing out his blessings to the multitudes. As if that right was bestowed on him by some almighty God in Heaven. Sad thing is, that many believe it, even sadder, he believes it too. Terrorists are blowing them selves up and killing thousands of innocent men, women and children indiscriminately in the name of God. Ancient witch doctors had a better understanding of true spirituality and reality than any pope resplendent in his golden crown or terrorists wrapped in their distorted idea of sanctity..

Amidst all of the misconceptions of human reality, you might be tempted to think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so to speak. It isn't. I had planned another article for this week, but do to the total misunderstanding of these types of events in the history of the human race, I thought it might be better to clear up a few things, at least as much as possible in this allotted space. This particular subject in itself could take a whole book to explain, but then it would take a well balanced personality, exercising a healthy combination of the intellect and the intuitive characteristics in order to grasp what I will now discuss.

I am well aware that there are few who will understand these concepts without the necessary background and training, so in a way, I am not being fair with you asking you to grasp a concept that will never be understood with the intellect alone, but we must begin somewhere, so now seems to be as good a time as any. I am sure I will hear from detractors, that God punishes those who do not follow what they believe are God's laws. They will say that God punishes not only those individuals who stray from the righteous path, but punishes disobedient countries also. This is of course poppycock, only believable by those who have actual pictures of God with His long flowing beard, carrying his scale to judge you, painted on black velvet, hanging on their kitchen walls. They are so caught up in the crime and punishment dogma expounded by the uninformed that they can't get a real grip on the fact that you are right now, here and in this present moment, creating your own personal reality and contributing to the mass reality of the world.. So, now lets begin with some simple tenants that must be understood if you are ever going to understand the true reality that you create and experience.

There are interwoven fields of actuality, blending, mixing and combining. Invisible chemical reactions, activated and potent nerve impulses, electromagnetic energies impinging on these interacting fields, all natural emanations of consciousness, that eventually combine to produce something that you can all agree upon as the human Earth reality that is jointly perceived by all of humanity. In some respects, we must talk in generalities here since the reality that you all contribute to must be perceived, understood and agreed upon by all human consciousness if there is to be any complimentary awareness and continuity of the mass experience.

Your psychological specifics such as your thoughts, emotions and imaginations are then moderated, smoothed out, refined, so that they are in agreement with all people of all countries throughout the world to create the mass perceived reality. Having said that, there are separate areas, countries, towns and even families that come together to specialize in certain specific problems for the good of those involved and also the good of all humanity. There is then, a kaleidoscope of different problems being dealt with at any one time in any century in a variety of countries in your world, making up a tapestry of purposely involved consciousness working collectively for the good of all Above all, consciousness is co-operative, and that includes the consciousness of all living matter; flowers, trees, insects, animals and mankind.

Just as you have chosen your parents, your personal challenges and fields of experience before birth, you have also chosen the area or country in which you live the experience of your temporal life while in this body at this time. Many Western countries have chosen to deal with the challenges inherent in the objective advancements of industry, technologies, wealth and affluence while other less developed countries are learning the realities inherent in poverty, lacks, privation, wars, terror and political unrest. I have said many times that you choose your parents before birth, but now I also say that you choose your area (country) where you will spend at least a part of your physical life on Earth. That does not necessarily mean that you will be born in that country, but you will migrate there at the appropriate time in your life, for it is there where the most significant fertile field of experience lies that can best realize your life challenges.

Just as any competent general chooses his battlefield to face the enemy on his terms, you choose your own field of experience that offers you the best chance of success in facing your pre-selected set of difficulties, this being done, of course to facilitate your mental, emotional and physical growth. For those wondering if challenges eventually abate as you evolve through a series of reincarnational lives, the answer is NO. There is however an increasing inner knowledge that these challenges of which we speak are not thrust upon you by some outside agency or arbitrary god, but are actually created by you for your own betterment. Any lack infers a need and any need infers a problem to be dealt with, furthering creativity and upon being solved and satisfactions savored, new challenges will always emerge, no matter how evolved the personality.

You may ask, why would someone choose poverty in light of the other alternatives, but as much can be learned from lacks as from abundance, perhaps more. I will not dwell on this at this time, but it might make a good subject for discussion at another time. For the sake of the subject at hand, assume for the moment that people do choose the circumstances of their lives and in so doing, extend those challenges into families, cities, states and countries. You are probably aware the there is a commonly held belief that there exists an "Earth" consciousness and that is true, but further, there is an overall family gestalt consciousness and an overall gestalt consciousness of all such groupings including towns, villages and countries, representing the interests and proclivities of all involved in those groups.

You live in, are born into or join groups such as this because you desire the type of experience inherent in that grouping, region or country. There is no condition that is permanent, and as your goals, challenges and problems change, you will follow them to areas indicative to the particular challenge that you have chosen to deal with at that particular time of your life. For instance, if you originally chose to live in Des Moines Iowa in the United States because after a series of difficult lifetimes, you desired a life of relative tranquility, simple healthy and placid relationships, then this might be the ideal place for you to put down your roots.

On the other hand, if your interests changed so that you needed more physical confrontation with the harsh realities of life and death, the intimate confrontation with the most violent aspects of nature and the lessons that can be learned from that type of encounter, you would gravitate toward an area where those conditions are likely to prevail, like California earthquakes, Florida hurricanes, Haiti earthquakes or Bangladesh floods for example.

As I have said before, YOU create your own individual reality, but by now you should understand that YOU, meaning all of humanity, en masse, creates all of humanities reality across the globe. You create the personal events in your life. As an example, you and two other persons, each of the three creates a joint reality, agreed upon by all three parties when you join with them to create a fetus. It may seem to you that only two people are involved, but even before coitus takes place there is an inner involvement with the future fetus. This obviously infers that the incipient fetus yet to be born is also a party in this event of procreation, this impregnation is an agreement and includes the unborn infant.

I have said that identity exists before birth and after death, so you should not be surprised to learn that the fetus plays and important part in this creative act. Before birth then, the alive, but not yet physical fetus identity decides on the field of endeavor that it chooses to participate and on what levels of intensity it seeks in its next life. It chooses its parents, its future body, its foreordained handicaps, illnesses and future challenges and of course, by selecting a specific set of parents, in most cases, it has chosen by default the time and place of its birth.

You then can be assured that everyone who is alive in California, Florida and Haiti to name a few places, chose to be there and knew in advance the inherent possibilities of natural disasters. That is precisely why they are there, and by the way, I live in Florida. There is a most exhilarating experience of riding out a hurricane knowing the inherent life and death dangers involved. There is electrical energy saturating the air, and a certain magical feeling of vulnerability to the massive power of nature unleashed, yet trusting that your intuition would have alerted you if there were any real danger to you. Personally, I feel deprived when we don't experience a hurricane in a typical season. After all, its why many of us are here although most people don't realize it. Needless to say, no one likes the devastation or loss of life or limb from these natural disasters, but the satisfactions experienced from merely surviving nature unleashed is quite rewarding.

Having said that, it is a natural extrapolation to grasp that everyone in your particular village, town, city, country and continent, creates the mass reality of that particular area. Mass thoughts, emotions and expectations play just as an important part in the creation of the reality experience of "Mayberry, Ohio" as in the reality of the world. The mass reality of Haiti is created by the people that inhabit that country, and here my friends is where many of you may jump ship on me here.

I think you will acknowledge that at one time or another you have upon rising on a beautiful sunny morning, felt energized because of the sun's radiations. I know that many of you have also when rising to a storm, felt the awesome power of the lightning and thunder, but also felt a certain depression because of the dreary conditions. So, I'm trying to get you to realize that the "weather" influences your feelings and emotions, but how many would agree that your feelings and emotions actually influence the weather?

In a most real fashion, mass human emotions and feelings actually cause and influence not only the weather, but also cause other natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes. En masse then, you unknowingly perpetuate upon yourselves the very same disasters that you shake your fist the heavens and curse God or bemoan your bad luck. The weather patterns then follow the feeling and emotional patterns of entire societies projected outward into the psychic atmosphere, collecting, attracting other like feelings and coalescing into physical weather patterns. There are what you would consider normal weather currents, cycles and patterns, eruptions, floods, tsunamis and earth changes that fluctuate within the expected norms, but nature itself chooses no victims. Within those normal occurrences, dangers are sensed both by the animals and humans on a more unconscious level and those who choose not to be involved will leave the affected area beforehand not knowing the reason why.

Every last person living in Haiti at the time of the recent hurricane, inwardly knew of the impending disaster. Animals sense in advance of these impending calamities, and although you have long ago forgotten your similar abilities, these intuitive senses simply went underground in the human species and they are still operating in within your scope of sensual comprehension when you let them rise to the surface. You will find those who left the country for a variety of reasons beforehand, maybe to visit a sick grandmother and they will have no idea of the pre-cognitive information that caused them to leave. You will find those who stayed and died or suffered beyond comprehension from your standpoint, but from deep within the human psyche, each and every person knows why they chose to stay and challenge nature.

I know this is hard to understand, but not one person died in the Haiti earthquake who was not prepared to die and not one person stayed and rode the tide of natural forces and lived that did not understand inwardly that he had participated in the vast energy explosion unleashed by the creative forces of nature. It is good to remember, nature is neutral, but it is the way of nature to change, and sometimes the changes are violent, uplifting the earth or flooding the lands, but it is also good, because without the changes that nature demands, all worlds would cease to exist in a very short time. In trying to make some sense of what I am saying here, please try and remember, no one actually dies in your normal interpretation of the word "death" and everyone who was killed or buried alive in physical rocks of debris, is alive now, possibly in far better conditions that he/she was before the catastrophe. Life continues, even though you can't physically perceive that continuance from where you are today.

I will draw this article to a close in order not to alienate any further those who think some capricious, jealous, punitive God, causes natural catastrophes for some unknown purpose or reason. But in our next article I intend to point out similarities between what you call natural disasters and other calamities such as mass plagues, world wars and serious political uprisings. They all have a mental source deep within the feelings and emotions of and societies. The despair of an entire population, restrained from creativity, downtrodden and living with no hope of self expression are the seeds of upheaval, wars or floods that sweep over the land cleansing it of previous energy blockages and setting up new avenues for the free flow of creative energy and a new emerging reality.

Disasters, wars, calamities, epidemics and pestilence all have their inner meanings and are attracted to the areas that they affect. In many ways, these areas are seeking help that would not come without the unfortunate events. We will talk about these at another time

Remember this: Non physical psychic characteristics such as FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, IDEAS AND IMAGINATION are expressed in the physical world as CLIMATE and WEATHER. Under normal conditions, you might consider them benevolent and usually beneficial, but when fueled by continuing hate, anger, starvation or political repression they cause psychic energy upheavals of these normally passive fluctuations and can cause havoc and devastation on the physical landscape in whatever form they take. In the overall picture, all movement of energy is action and there is no bad action. Action is neutral, even though it may affect some more intimately than others.

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My name is W. Allan, single male 62, a resident of Naples Florida. I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and have in the past, written a column called SECRET REALITY which was carried by spiritual and metaphysical magazines. I have recently started a blog to publish my work with the intent of incorporating expanded versions of my blog in book form. You can contact me any at my e-mail address: w.allan@hotmail.com. You may also read other articles at my blog at: http://www.answersbygod.com

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Best Violin Tutorial For Beginners

A violin tutorial is very important to anyone learning how to play the instrument. With all the various methods out there, which violin tutorial is the best and most effective? You can use Suzuki or any other of the common and very effective methods out there to learn violin. However, I have found one of the best violin methods available on the web. It truly blows a lot of what's out there out of the water. And what's amazing is it is also a lot cheaper than that and most definitely cheaper than private lessons!

The violin tutorial I find to be the best is by a guy named Eric Lewis. Eric has been a member of the Manhattan String Quartet for many years and has taught at many reputable education establishments as a violin professor. He has trained too many violinists to name on a hundred sheets of paper! So if you are wondering if this violin tutorial is by someone who is weak on the violin or lacks experience, nothing could be further from the truth.

This violin tutorial is a lot different from Suzuki or other similar violin systems available on the market. The reason is because these are all video lessons with full demonstration of proper technique. Eric Lewis will show you step by step how to practice each of the different techniques he has and will give you powerful insight into how to practice each technique. So rather than reading about playing, you are going to watch and listen to everything that Eric does, which is a heck of a lot better violin tutorial than just taking a look at some sheet music and a diagram! A living example of what you need to do on the violin rather than one drawn on paper is an incredibly effective way of learning the violin.

You cannot get much better than that when it comes to violin lessons. And on top of that, if you were to pay 50 or 100 dollars for a full set of violin tutorials with any other system, Eric Lewis's full video course Violin Master Pro sells for only 30 dollars. Could you imagine having access to an amazing violinist like Eric for so cheap? The reality is that is as good as you can get for such a low price, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a quality violin tutorial.




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Friday, November 5, 2010

Singing Training Online - How You Talk Has a Lot to Do With How You Sing

I've been working with professionals who use their voices as an integral part of their daily routine for a lot of years...salesmen, singers, actors, lawyers, teachers, TV and movie personalities and many others; and I'm constantly amazed to find that most of these people do not know how to use their vocal instrument correctly, so it never gets tired or wears out no matter how often or how long they have to use it. And many of these students carry degrees from major universities, or have studied with reputable singing and speech teachers.

Tom, a TV anchorman was referred to me by his speech therapist because he was in danger of losing his highly lucrative position due to constant hoarseness. When I asked him what his university professors taught him about speaking with good vocal quality, he said: "I was told to "project my voice....to speak deeply from the diaphragm". Really? That's all? Here is a guy who holds two full degrees in speech and theatre from a major university, and he knows little or nothing about how to protect his voice from serious damage.

Singing and speech both require the use of the exact same physical equipment: the vocal chords, and lungs, diaphragm and other breathing muscles, plus the resonators. And... both singing and speech are communicated by the exact same elements of vowels, pitch, emphasis, or volume, and durations.

So, as a singer, you need to be very aware of how you are using your speaking voice. Let's face it, even though you consider yourself a "singer," you still use your speaking voice so much more. Most of the time you are a "speaker" who sings...not the other way around - and you may be damaging your singing voice when you speak.

THE SAME PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT WHICH MAKES THE SINGING VOICE ALSO MAKES THE SPEAKING VOICE. The only basic difference between speaking and singing is in the use of pitch and sustained vowels. Learn to speak well and your singing will greatly improve. Sessions one and two of my complete comprehensive course, THE SINGER'S BIBLE, will set you on the right track to good vocal quality, singing or speaking.




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Thursday, November 4, 2010

America's Got Talent 2010 results Christina & Ali ~ 1st Semi-finals [official video] HD

Which one will you vote for, Mathews Semi, Prince Poppycock, Anna & Patrick, or Michael Grimm or Christina and Ali? check out other videos on my channel to make the right judgment.



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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Beginners Guitar Lessons - What to Use, Tabs Or Sheets?

Guitar tabs are another form for sheets and notes, they are much easier to learn, and are written with numbers and lines, to show you where to hold the fingers. But they can't show the exact timings and rhythms, and that is why the notes are normally written above the tabs, so the guitar player can use them to know the rhythm and timings.

The strings are called either by their notes E-A-D-G-B-E starting with the deepest, or by numbers from one to six, with six being the deepest (thickest) string, each of the strings have a drawn line where the fret numbers are written to, the frets are shown as a 0 for a loose string, and 1 for fret one and so on.

I think that in these times, almost all guitar rookies start taking beginners guitar lessons with tabs, especially if they practice on their own, and that is most of the time okay to do, but it's very important to use some of the time to practice some sheet music to. That will also make it easier to understand the repeat signs, lower and higher notes, harmonics and such. There are also old songs that never have been translated to tabs, so with them you have to learn sheet music.

When I started with my beginners guitar lessons, I only practiced with guitar tabs, but I really regret that now. If I just had started practicing the sheet music at that time, I would had been able to play after a sheet much better now, but at this time I have to translate it to tabs first, before I can play it in one run.

So my advice would be, remember to learn sheets and notes when starting your beginners guitar lessons, it doesn't hurt to learn guitar tabs as well, but do not just stick to that.




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