I’m not a big Shakespeare fan, but over the years one line from Hamlet has always stood out. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”  And, boy, ain’t that the truth?!   We are so superstitious. We are fed lies, over and and over and over again, until the lies become the truth. Even the liars come to believe their own lies. Hundreds of years ago, back around the the 2nd or 3rd century CE, or AD if you prefer,  those in charge decided that the only way they could have control over us was to fill us full with fear. They took out what they didn’t like in the bible and kept and/or added that which suited their ideology. In so doing, they robbed of us of our Power.  They told us that we were born with “original sin,”  and invented this really scary guy named Lucifer, or Satan, and a place called “hell,” where they assured us we’d certainly go there if we didn’t obey them, exactly — and give them our money, by the way. They also taught us that DEATH loomed on the horizon for all of us. I am amazed by the fact that many, many people still believe all of that.    How can that be???

I was taught that if I ate meat on Friday, I would go to hell! Of course, if I said a quick “Act of Contrition,” as I was dying,  my soul would be saved, but then I’d have to go to a place called purgatory for a few thousand years – give or take – and suffer a bunch  before I’d be let into a place called heaven. I was also taught that the same thing would happen to me if I took God’s name in vain.

I was taught to believe that saying, “God damn-it!,” was taking God’s name in vain. That’s not true! What’s REALLY taking God’s Name in vain is saying, “I AM,” followed by anything negative – such as “I AM stupid!”   “I AM,” is God’s Name. “I am That I AM,” is the Truth of our beings. God created each of us out of ITSELF! There was nothing else from which to create us and everything else in the universe! Each of us is God BEING each of us.  “I am That I AM,” is the absolute truth. It means I am God being me. God created us by BECOMING us!  I am what God is doing right now. That’s a really powerful statement. It’s a very wonderful realization. It takes all of the fear away, and gives us our Power back.  It lets us realize that we can never die. Ever! We are immortal God-Beings. Literally! We don’t need saving! There is nothing to be saved from.  There’s nothing here but God, Which IS Infinite Love. God forgives us BEFORE we’ve committed the act which needs forgiving.     AND    it takes all the power away from the liars who would  have control over us.   Please —  always — when you use the words, “I am,” follow them only with that which you want to manifest for yourself!

You are made of God-Stuff!  Everyone and everything is. In the beginning, there was God and nothing, and nothing’s changed. There’s nothing anywhere but God. There’s only one of us in the room. And by “God,” I don’t mean that pissed-off, nasty little guy-in-the-sky-god, who’s got it in for all of us. Forget that. That’s making God in our image, rather than the other way around.

I was taught as a child about the infallibility of the Pope.       Really?      I found the following online at  History.com:

On this day in 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculano da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo  was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.

This was the second time that Galileo was in the hot seat for refusing to accept Church orthodoxy that the Earth was the immovable center of the universe: In 1616, he had been forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. In the 1633 interrogation, Galileo denied that he “held” belief in the Copernican view but continued to write about the issue and evidence as a means of “discussion” rather than belief. The Church had decided the idea that the Sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

This time, Galileo’s technical argument didn’t win the day. On June 22, 1633, the Church handed down the following order: “We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world.”

Along with the order came the following penalty: “We order that by a public edict the book of Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.”

Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy.

Well, so much for papal infallibility.   And its not just on the Catholic church, although its track-record isn’t that great, considering the Inquisition and all. I mean, those so-called witches who were burned at the stake were nothing more than wise-women who were healers, which should be considered God’s Work, shouldn’t it? The rest of those butchered were just people who disagreed with the Holy See. There’s a view held by some today, and not by the Catholic, that the Universe is only about  6,000 years old. Forget science, fossil-evidence and carbon-dating and all that weird stuff.

Okay, I’ve made my point. Accuse me of heresy and blasphemy if you will, but this is MY blog and I’ll write what I feel to be true. If you want to argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. Good luck with that. How is that working out for you? If what I’ve written is upsetting to you, ask yourself, “Why?”  What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that a lot of what you’ve believed up until now could be wrong? Well if it is, consider adopting  a new belief-system — a more Self-empowering one. Set yourself free! Claim your Power!  You deserve it.  If you like what I’ve written here, or want to have a dialog with me, please comment. If you’re a spammer, please don’t. Thank you.

Love and Light . . . . .