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Self Empowerment by Michael Phelan - December 2001 What was that saying…. “the truth will set you free”? It sounded pretty good at the time I first heard it. But at the time I did not have a good idea of what the word truth meant. Fortunately I did have a thorough response from my "higher self" in answer to my query. But getting a good definition for the word is not exactly the same as knowing and experiencing the truth. In our everyday interaction with society, it is rather questionable if we are ever exposed to much of the truth. Or are we? There is little incentive for social or political organizations to give us a complete version of their portion of the truth. Most of what we are offered is designed to foster the belief that we are powerless and dependent. Powerless to do anything for ourselves and dependent on outside sources for the services or products they provide. Then we find ourselves giving away more of our power to these people and organizations, fostering even more dependence. This is the current state of our economic and social interaction on this planet. Most organizations feel they could no longer exist without creating a specialized group of mindless followers who are totally dependent on their services and products. These include political groups, medical institutions, organized religions, prescription & non-prescription drug cartels, schools, etc. Perhaps if we knew the truths our governments keep from us we could make our own choices concerning our own well-being, perhaps even wise choices. Is there a technology of free energy machines, but is not being released so the oil cartels can continue to make billions? Is it possible our government agreed to alien abduction of it’s citizenry in exchange for alien technology? Is unrest perhaps created and publicized to promote our dependence on our government’s version of law and order? Or do we believe our government already tells us everything we should know? A government interested only in control has no incentive to release the truth. Do we believe our sick care industry and medical institutions (formerly known as the health care industry) when they say there is no cure for cancer or diabetes. If we knew the cause of our illnesses, would we still be interested in treating just the symptoms, like all doctors currently do? Are the causes of illness perpetuated for the sake of the economy? Was there a cure for AIDS before it was intentionally released as a remedy for over population? Drugs, both prescription and non prescription, are designed to foster dependence and addiction, and the prices soar. Perhaps we need to be more responsible for our own health care when we can, and not look to the outside for the fix. An industry based on dealing only with symptoms has no incentive to find and remove the cause of disease. Why do religious organizations still foster the belief that we need them as the go-between for us to speak with God. Do we still believe that they have the hot line to God? I remember when Oral Roberts said that God told him to raise $7,000,000 by the end of the year or God would call him back to heaven. I was more than a little skeptical. But was I skeptical because the God I knew would not say such a thing, or was it because I was told by society that no sane person in the last 500 years has had a two way conversation with God. Do you talk to God, and does God talk back to you? When we attend church, chanting group or global meditations, are we having a religious experience or is it often just spiritual entertainment? We often give away our spiritual authority to the latest guru or religious prophet. Religious organizations are necessarily political in nature and have no incentive to allow us to realize our connection with God. Spiritual leaders need followers and have no incentive to actually set you free. I won’t even go into the subject schools and the mind numbing approach they offer to create non-thinkers, and prefect cogs in the wheels of society and corporate enterprise. The point is….self empowerment or the lack there of. Do we ever hear the truth and would we recognize it if we did? We hear a lot of things. We have access to alternative medical approaches, unlimited new age internet information on every subject. But sometimes it seems that we need hip boots to wade through it all. In this age of unlimited information, our logical, linear mind is incapable of discerning truth from fiction. Perhaps that’s a good thing, because there is another way of looking at the universe. We have an intuitive nature, under the guidance of our higher self. Unfortunately this side of our nature has been beat out of us over the past 2,000 years by a constant assault from people and organizations with extreme control issues. Witches were burned at the stake for speaking with nature spirits, using herbal remedies and merging with the cycles of the universe. The masculine, logical mind is now king and worshiped as a god. The feminine intuitive mind is shunned, laughed at or attributed to the work of the devil. Are we brave enough to cultivate this feminine intuitive side of our nature, and allow it to be the guiding force in our lives, as it was meant to be? We have no chance to change the momentum of deception in the world unless we bypass deception by way of intuition. When we know what is in someone’s heart (and in our own heart), we cannot be lied to. As we develop our psychic connection, experience our communion with our brothers and sisters, deception will vanish from our lives. We must be wise enough to seek those who promote self empowerment, whether they are healers, philosophers, partners or spiritual examples. If you are a new age professional, you must be moral enough to empower those who come to you, rather than promoting dependence for the sake of money. You are it. You can do it. You are the center of the universe. You have all the answers. There is no authority outside of yourself. If you need something, look inside and there it is. If you can formulate the question, there is the answer. If you need healing energy, you can channel it through your hands and fingers. Of course it is important to remember that if you are “It”, then so is everyone else. Are you brave enough to seek the truth, are you intuitive enough to discern it, and are you wise enough, and empowered enough to serve it?
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