Other Famous Folk Feeling Like I Do : )

"Following Christ Does Not Mean Following His Followers"

Anne Rice leaves Christianity

Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity.

The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist," “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.”

Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian ... It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”

Rice then added another post explaining her decision on Thursday:

“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me," Rice wrote. "But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been or might become.”

Source:  CNN Entertainment http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/30/anne-rice-leaves-christianity/?hpt=T2

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STAND and BREAK ~ or ~ BEND and LIVE?

It's not really profound, and it's been said or asked before, but...

There is a HUGE cost to being right, strong, rigid and inflexible, and a HUGE Benefit to being flexible, adaptable?

You know the story of the Oak Tree and The Willow.

In a fierce storm, the oak tree is strong, rigid, inflexible.  It gets broken by the wind, and dies.  In this same kind of storm, the flexible willow bends, and survives.

What question in your life can this be applied to - TODAY?  What's stopping you?

In the middle of the storm, it will be too late to change.  Choose now!

More Power To YOU!

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TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING?

Trying to do right leaves you with two problems.

The first issue is that TRYING doesn't work.

In star wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda said:  "Do... or do not. There is no try.

The second issue is illustrated in the Aesop Fable, "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey, (retold in my own words).

The moral of the story is that many people will tell you what is "right" but if you listen to them then you may lose your very purpose in all the DOING RIGHT.

Consider, a man and boy are walking the donkey to market to sell.  A passerby says, "donkeys are for riding, so at least one of you should ride."  The man loved his son so he put the boy on the donkey and continued along.  Soon, another man says, "look at that lazy boy, riding while making his father walk."  So the man sets the boy down and gets on the donkey himself.  Soon, somebody remarks that the mean man is making his boy walk.  So now the right thing seems to be for them both to ride.  That's when somebody criticizes him for overloading the poor donkey.  To please everybody, and irritate none, the man and boy tie the donkey to a pole and carry it.  Now everybody laughs...  but there seems no other way to avoid criticism, so they continue until the uncomfortable donkey kicks the boy, while crossing a swaying bridge.  The kick knocks loose the boys grip on the pole,  and the donkey falls into the river below, and dies.  In the end, for trying to please everybody, they all lose.

BEing right by following your own sense of calling and purpose or mission is more important than DOing right.  Don't Lose Your Purpose, Squander Opportunity, or Live Without Joy - just to please others.

Live the life called for in your Spirit - then, instead of losing your treasure, you will have riches to share with others!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach www.SpiritWordToday.com

WRITERS - TRY THIS ~ "I WRITE LIKE"

A web site will analyze a sample of your writing, looking at sentence structure and such, then give a report that compares your work to the work of other authors, both current and classic! Try it for your blog, your business web copy, or your favorite personal prose.

Test your own writing at this link >  IWriteLike.me

HOW IT WORKS (By the program author) 
“Actually, the algorithm is not a rocket science, and you can find it on every computer today. It’s a Bayesian classifier, which is widely used to fight spam on the Internet. Take for example the “Mark as spam” button in Gmail or Outlook. When you receive a message that you think is spam, you click this button, and the internal database gets trained to recognize future messages similar to this one as spam. This is basically how “I Write Like” works on my side: I feed it with “Frankenstein” and tell it, “This is Mary Shelley. Recognize works similar to this as Mary Shelley.” Of course, the algorithm is slightly different from the one used to detect spam, because it takes into account more stylistic features of the text, such as the number of words in sentences, the number of commas, semicolons, and whether the sentence is a direct speech or a quotation.”

Here is my result:

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

More Power To YOU!

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If You THINK You Can - You're Right?

Henry Ford is famously quoted as saying, "Whether you think you can or think you can't - You're Right!"

In the childhood rhyme, 'The Little Engine That Could', we seem to find agreement with this idea when the little engine manages to climb the tall hill by saying, over and over "I think I can, I think I can."

From wikipedia.org:  In the tale, a long train must be pulled over a high mountain. Various larger engines, treated anthropomorphically, are asked to pull the train; for various reasons they refuse. The request is sent to a small engine, who agrees to try.(emphasis added)  The engine succeeds in pulling the train over the mountain while repeating its motto: "I-think-I-can"

However, we have a clarification in Star Wars, Episode Five, "The Empire Strikes Back" - Yoda tells Master Luke "Do or Do Not Do.  There is no Try."  Along the same line, Napolean Hill teaches, "The human mind can achieve whatever it can conceive and BELIEVE."  (emphasis added).  All these sayings ring true - but merely 'thinking' may be a lot like 'trying'.  Thinking is not ENOUGH!  To rouse the power of the spirit, we must BELIEVE.  When you BELIEVE you unleash your creative power!  What are you believing today?  Aim high and go far!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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PS Real more Napolean Hill Quotes > http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/napoleon_hill.html 

MOTIVATIONAL ARTICLES

Sample Motivational Article for Employee Newsletter:
I Can Write Like This For Your Team, Group, or Organization.
 
YES - WE HAD A ROUGH YEAR...
    ...BUT RECOVERY IS NOW IN PLAY!

Yes, we had a rough year here at XYZ Company.  It wasn't fun.  


Some people see years like this as "PROBLEMS" or "TRIALS".  However, we at XYZ Company choose to see these events as learning opportunities. 


It may be true that we learned more than we wanted to last year.  But by learning instead of complaining, we open the door for successful change.  


You can be sure that we have taken the steps needed.  The foundation has been laid for a recovery to our former glory!  


We are excited to share the steps taken, including Employee and Customer Suggestions Such As:  xasdfdf  df af adf asd fa sdfasdfasdfsd fasd f dsf asd f asd fasd f asdf fasd f asdf ad f asdf asdf sd f asdf as f asdf asd fasd f asd fasd f asd fas f a df a ff  da fasd f asdfasdfasdfsd fasd fasd fasdfasd f asdf asdfasdf


Our employees are our greatest asset.  We think the world of you and look forward to stepping into a brighter future.   LET'S DO IT TOGETHER!


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More Power To YOU!


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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Coaching Means What ?

A good personal coach helps
you look deeper, see clearer, 
make changes in blocking 
beliefs, replace self limiting 
attitudes, unhook dysfunctional 
patterns - until you can overcome 
obstacles, finish projects, or 
improve your quality of life in the 
way you want.
(according to YOUR desires). 


BUSINESS OR PERSONAL? 


Coaching practices are actually fairly similar in each arena.  Business coaching is usually more task and goal oriented - but success still comes from clarity about priorities, passions, drives, and deep desires, which are ALL spirit issues.  

A good business coach can help improve executive or corporate performance results in the same way that a good sports coach helps an athlete.  The coach needs to be experienced in the arenas in play, but not necessarily a technical expert.  If technical skills are what needed, I can help you find the right classes or trainers.  Usually, obstacles come more from unclear thinking, blocking beliefs or un-prioritized desires.  Success naturally flows from skills you already have when you are coached to fix the root problem.  


A good personal coach can help you with more personal goals including handling family or relational challenges or opportunities. 


Professional Coaches help you dig deeper, push further, reach higher.  This is done by helping you clarify desires, prioritize, set appropriate goals, locate the right tools, use the best techniques, make good plans, and stick to them! 


One thing a Coach does not do is tell you WHAT to DO.  Your questions, goals, even answers come from within.  Your right path comes from within.  I don't judge or try to talk you out of anything.  If accomplishment of your goal or objective seems unlikely due to lack of good information, naiveté, or missing skills, I will have an obligation to share thoughts from experience and spirit.  Then, if you choose to proceed, I join in, 100% - coaching you step by step until you get the result you seek.


More Power To YOU! 


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power 
Your Spirit Word Coach 
www.SpiritWordToday.com

Work Life ~ On The Edge ?

WORKING ~ LIVING
ON THE EDGE OF OUR DEEP PLACES

What on earth does that mean?

Consider:  A deep lake or ocean has more LIFE at it's edges than in it's depths.  We see the dragonfly soar, hear the bird sing, watch the fish swim, and observe the rich plant life... "on the edge" of the lake.   

Very little of this would be possible at the edge of a shallow mud puddle.  Men of science tell us there is not much life in the middle of the deep either - but that the deep is necessary to support the life on the edge.   

Look at our own lives now.  We too spend most of our life, and work life AT THE EDGE.  We work and play, build, organize, intend, and DO THINGS at a sort of surface level.  We interact with others through a 'mask', persona or personality.  These things are not WHO we are but they are expressions of life made possible by what is in our deep.

Our DEEP is our BEING, OUR TRUE SELF.  It's hard to share our DEEP PLACES with others, but it makes many wonderful things possible.  If you have lost touch with the power of your own deep, revisit it by taking time to be still and dream, to play, and to follow your bliss.  

By DEEP WATER I mean that "LIFE" and "SPIRIT" are very deep and sacred things that underpin all that we do.  I share MY own deep water here, pulling back the cover most people wrap around their deeper selves, so that you may better understand the life assembled at the edge of my being.  These things INFORM me, and power me, underlie me, and give me a strong foundation.  

I am not a kook or a preacher, not a doctor nor psychotherapist, but I can write with wild abandon, discern truth and teach ways of seeing and being that restore your deep.     

I am a COACH - A HEALER - A CREATOR able to hlep you gain more Personal Power, Spiritual Power (PPSP) .  You too can be supported by my depth - develop deeper places in yourself, so that there will be more life on your edge : )

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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INSPIRE DESIRE!

SPIRIT wins over REASON.

10 Good logical reasons NOT to act won't stop 1 Case of DESIRE.

Before something gets done there must be DESIRE.

If you want something done, don't give people REASONS, but Inspire DESIRE!

For best results, choose to honor the HEART over the HEAD!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE ?

IF you are amazingly intelligent, extremely experienced, and very powerful....

YOU REALLY CAN BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE.


However, you probably will not be able to convince very many people that this is true ; )  It's a fact most won't trust anybody who is quite that colorful... 


Far more will be gained if you can limit yourself to your best game...

FOCUS, CHOOSE, EXECUTE, HELP SOMEBODY SCORE A BIG WIN.

Then do it again!  That's The Spirit!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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Tell Somebody!

If you like what you see here...

HELP US SHARE THIS AROUND THE WORLD!

Help Us Spread the JOY and POWER of Spirit Word Today

Tell somebody!  Copy a Post and include a link.  Send a post with a link to your email list.  Say something nice on Facebook or Blogger or, well anywhere you go!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach

www.SpiritWordToday.com

HAPPINESS OR POWER

Happiness or Power?  

Permalink To Original Post By DR. ANGELO SUBIDA
(ORIGINAL TITLE HAPPINESS OR COMPETENCE)
The Illustration Concept is Original To This Post

A lot of people misunderstand the nature and process of psychotherapy. Psychiatrist Dr. M. Scott Peck explains it this way: "Psychotherapy is not about happiness; it is about power. If you go the whole route here, I cannot guarantee you that you'll leave one jot happier. What I can guarantee you is that you will leave more competent."

In This Blog Post Found Elsewhere, (permalink above) we find Dr. M. Scott Peck explaining the FACT of PERSONAL POWER being the RESULT of at least one aspect of holistic health and well being (Psychological Health).


It is quite possible to be happy and not be healthy.  However, it is fairly impossible to POWERFUL in a GENERATIVE WAY when unhealthy in mind or spirit.  


I take Dr. M. Scott Peck's statement as a sort of celebrity support of my proposal that SPIRIT HEALTH produces PERSONAL POWER.


More Power To YOU!


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
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IF IT REALLY MATTERS TO YOU... I AM...

Some people really want to know where I am coming from.


What do I mean when I refer to UNIVERSE or GOD or THE GREAT SPIRIT...    


By now I hope you know I make a large distinction between SPIRITUAL and RELIGIOUS.  I AM NOT RELIGIOUS. I am NOT  much interested in CHURCHY things.   


I AM, a follower of Jesus Christ  - but probably not the Christ you have been told about...  


The Christ presented in most churches was created by years and years of intellectualized explanation to serve control oriented and manipulative agendas (IMHO). 


Yes, I was powerfully shaped by a non-denominational Judeo-Christian upbringing, and the basic underpinnings of that work for me.  But the wisdom teaching and HOLY BLUEPRINT of the Christian Bible have been explained into something by organized religion that is just not my cup of tea.


I am also informed by at least some concepts and teachings and theories of Alan W Watts, Abraham Maslow, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Several Catholic Saints, including St John of the Cross, other Christian Mystics and Protestant Teachers, as well as MANY other great thinkers, explorers, and explainers from inside and outside more traditional realms of  spirit, divinity, psychology, science, and the study of leadership.  


I KNOW a LIVING Christ, who is confined to neither musty old buildings, nor found in grand mega churches, nor seen in dead traditions, nor honored by empty works of good service for the purpose of doing good (ego competition).  


My Christ builds a church of Living Stones.  The Family of Christ IS The Church.  We are a royal priesthood, called to love one another and serve one another according to our gifts.  I can do that without getting hung up on one group or building.   


I am a VERY disenchanted "Christian" if you take that word to mean what it mostly means in the media and popular culture today.   I have no use for dead tradition, dysfunctional groups, or narcissistic leaders.  Nor do I think much of how politicized the idea of "Christianity" has become.  But I do think spirit aware people should definitely live out their faith in the offices of political service!  But never mind - that is another whole discussion...


Where that leaves me is what you read here...  I am a powerful spiritual being who has a personal relationship with GOD as I understand him.  I am not confused, nor lost.  I have such a powerful and personal relationship with Christ that I can claim the divinity he offers to me and to you.  I AM transformed into A CHRIST, who can forgive others.  I can bring love to bear to transform others from a condition of defeat to a position of CREATIVE POWER.  


It is CHRIST, who is part of the TRIUNE GODHEAD, who informs, fuels, teaches truths that power all that I do.  It is the person of the Holy Spirit I look to for wisdom and help in my work.  I AM - filled with spirit and primed for service!    


I won't force my God on you - but once you know me, you might want to hear more about my "compact with God" as Norman Lear phrased it.  

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
www.SpiritWordToday.com

SPIRIT TOPICS ~ APPROPRIATE IN THE WORKPLACE?

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"Spirit" Talk Appropriate In The Workplace?

Many people think that talk of "SPIRIT", "SPIRIT POWER" and "SPIRITUAL PRACTICE"  is simply not suitable discussion in the workplace.  


This view ignores the most important resource of all human resources! 


Without DESIRE (a matter of spirit and not reason) and COMMITMENT (a matter of spirit and  not reason) and PASSION (again, a spirit matter) our efforts at work to conceive and implement change would be flat and lifeless.  


However, it is absolutely true that employers, employees, managers, laborers, administrators, even C-Level folks and CEO's bring their spirit with them when they come to work.  And I PROMISE YOU that the mood of that spirit, the strength of that spirit, the health of that spirit will make or break the productivity, ingenuity, and creativity - every single day.


Much has been made of the "ATTRACTION PRINCIPLE" and even the book, THE SECRET in recent years.  The book covers too much ground for me, but - it does shed a light in an important direction.  It points us to SPIRIT.  


The thing is, WE ARE ALL IN SALES.  Whether you are selling a product, service, team project, hope for change, a little idea or a big dream, or any other plan or idea - you are selling.  The first thing you have to sell is YOURSELF.  (The Kingdom is Within!) It is UNDENIABLE that it is with your SPIRIT and the INTENTIONS of Your Spirit that you either MAKE THE SALE or fail to make a sale.  When you bring the right SPIRIT, then the universe and all within it, including the participants in the human realm will respond in the direction you wish  


In professional sales, the real pro's selling high ticket products or personal services understand that it is not technical skill that wins the day.  It is emotion.  Empathy.  Caring.  A good mantra in sales is:  "Nobody knows how much you know until they know how much you care".  If they know you CARE they will like you and TRUST.  And if they TRUST then they will let you lead.  And if they let you lead, you can lead them to a SALE.


Perhaps the only sale you need to make is to get your team to BUY your latest productivity idea or marketing plan?  Perhaps you need your group or organization or community to BUY INTO greater cooperation and leave old conflicts or turf warss behind.  This is ALL going to go according to the SPIRIT of the people involved - starting with YOURS.


POWER UP your PERSONAL POWER ~ SPIRIT POWER with reading, practices, and coaching that is conducive and you will have more wins at work! 


More Power to You!


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power

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Conflict Resolution vs Creation Meetings?

Some companies or groups need a service that used to be called a Conflict Resolution Meeting.

Spirit Word Today taps into the Spirit of Man, and comes up a whole new approach.  I call it a Creation Meeting.  We create new, workable answers where there has been something more formless and void, or even something stuck, blocked, opposed, self limited, or conflicted.

I don't fix the old form.  It's not the things we fight about that are the problem, it's that we feel a need to fight.

We, together, do the work needed to engage the SPIRITS of the participants to create a new form that unleashes power and change for the better.

Look at the guys in the photo above.  No self respecting SPIRIT would take it's body to work acting like or looking like that, nor tolerate a workplace that looked like this one.  We can HEAL this...

Instead of fighting until somebody wins, or compromising until all passion is crushed, lets change the whole approach and CREATE something that works!

More Power to YOU
Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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Baseline Position

This Spirit That I write about, and teach is The Human Spirit, and the Spiritual Life I Refer to is The Spirit Life of a Human Being. 

This is not about religion or institutionalized religious faith.  Though these things may play a role in the development or practice of our own personal spirit life.

More Power to YOU!
Your Spirit Power Coach
Personal Power ~ Spirit Power 

www.SpiritWord.com 

It's Quite Simple ~ And Yet PROFOUND!

Nearly everything I teach can be summed up in Henry Ford's famous statement:


    Whether you think you can, or think you cannot, you are right.


Napoleon Hill Gave us the gem:


   The human mind can achieve whatever the human mind can conceive and believe!


These are profound sayings along the same vein.  But every would be practitioner of a Positive Mental Attitude knows it's not nearly as simple as it looks.  If it were that simple, we would not be here, you and I, looking for or promising to deliver that "something more".


It is the MORE that I deal with, explore, teach, and bring to bear to transform individuals and organizations.  MORE gives us HOW.  And HOW is Magic indeed!


An idea you can think about won't change the world.  One that you can LIVE, now that will change the world!  


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power To You! 
Your Spirit Word Coach

The Usual Questions, and The Unusual Answers

WHO ARE YOU?  HOW ARE YOU QUALIFIED?  HOW DARE YOU?


This blog springs from answering the question, in the 50th year of my life, "WHAT DO I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP?"

The answer that comes, from deep in my spirit, has been the same for the last 10+ years.  But this time I am going to do something about it.  You are reading the beginning of this effort to live my dream.


I have been a puppet, a pauper, a poet and a king.  A family leader, a business leader, a small group leader, a servant of the church, a happily married, man, a divorcee, and a single father.  I have been the CEO of a world dominating company and the CEO of a failed dotcom business.  I know the joy of success and the agony of defeat.  My experiences may be offputting to some, but they have prepared me to share wise counsel and overpower negative spirits in many parts of life and business.  I can use all of these experiences to help you avoid pain and accomplish more success.

What I will BE in this second life is a world changing motivational writer and speaker.  That would not be simply a motivational speaker in the traditional business sense.

Inside of me there is a writer and teacher who wants to transform the world by sharing what I have learned about SPIRIT.  Spirit Word LLC will be a labor of love all about the beauty and power and magnificence of the human spirit when fully empowered, prepared, and engaged in the work it was born to do.  This is to say I would be a writer, speaker, and teacher on spiritual matters.

When I say spiritual matters, I don't mean matters of church, faith, or religion.  I work with the FACTS of the human spirit and no faith is required.  There are many theologies and religions, but only one set of common threads that can be explored and empowered until the 'dream' that you were born to live and share with others becomes your reality.

The challenge is that most of us tend to have those components of the Spirit broken along the way by otherwise well meaning parents, teachers, schools, workplace dynamics, "movements" in fields of psychology and faith, Religion and even Christianity.  My work is not about religion, or even about Christianity, although I have been tremendously shaped by having come to where I am by a road that includes a deep immersion into what is called the Christian Church.  But please note, I can't call myself a Christian, based on what that has come to mean in today's world of hollywood style churches, power seeking ministries, or politicized faith movements.

I will call myself "A Christ" - or "a god" (demi-god in part and part of THE GOD).

PLEASE HOLD THE CRITICISM!  

I did not say I am THE GOD, though I fully argue that I participate in that BEing too.  I am a student of the Holy Bible, and many other holiness or sacred teachings, which I will collectively refer to as HOLY BLUEPRINTS.  I am personally a follower of the teachings of Christ, and am elevated to my own godhood by his teachings.  Jesus said we are no longer servants, but brothers - joint heirs in the kingdom.  I did not seek to be his equal but he made it so.  The brother of a God is a God, no?  Can there be anything simpler to understand?  If no doubt, note that Paul said I no longer live but Christ lives in me.  The Bible itself says, "Do you not know that you are gods?"  Other masters have taught similarly, and I could go on, but I am saving all that.  .

What I have to share is not just for Christians, nor is it about Christianity.  


Throughout my work I will refer to those who are coming to their own godhood via ANY systematic religion as THE FAITHFUL.  And I will refer to the power bliinded - or misguided leaders of ANY systematic religion as The RELIGION-PUSHERS.  Finally, I will refer to the naive but earnestly growing and developing members of the Priesthood of ANY systematic religion - the ones who may yet arrive at their own godhood, as the CANDIDATE-HOPEFUL.

THE FAITHFUL may be the closest to realizing their uncreated potential.  Or they may be so stigmatized and blinded by the generations of explanations and rationalizations that they are the furtherest away.  Funny how that works.

The RELIGION-PUSHERS mostly know that it is a power and ego game, and they mostly want to be on top - just to be on top.  They will fight to stay there, and they may fight with a fairly advanced spirit power.  There is no greater truth than the one that says power is power - it's what you do with it that makes it good or evil.

The CANDIDATE-HOPEFUL may or may not be close to getting it - BUT THEY WILL.  Their spirits are pure.  The ego is not driving.  The motivation is not money or power or fame.  They hear a call to serve their fellow man in his or her growth toward the light.  They will arrive.  I hope to meet a great many of you through this work!

For my own theology, I suggest that GOD IS.  I believe there is a CREATOR, a mastermind being desiring nothing but good.  AND I believe THE CREATOR is beyond understanding.  I believe it is an error to attempt it.  He won't fit within our heads.  He is too big.

We can do well to observe THE CREATOR and enjoy THE CREATOR.  The existence of such a BEing is evident in both the order of things, and in the obvious miraculous.

It has been said that the ideal that our physical and material world coming into being as a result of millions of years of random events is about as likely as a Swiss Watch coming into being as a result of an explosion in a watch factory.  We may well have begun with a Big Bang, and there might have been some Primordial Soup.  A bolt of lighting may have triggered something, just a gamma ray can trigger a mutation today.  But there are no accidents that have ever created something without there BEing a CREATOR.  Things happen that make no sense, cannot be explained away by logic nor any 'sensibility' other than Spirit. These things are measurable, demonstrable.  X-rays have been taken.  Photos exist.  People KNOW that this is true.  Even scientists in disciplines that once ridiculed the idea of a CREATOR have now progressed until they have exhausted the explanations offered for their disciplines.  In many of the most advanced fields of science, the high priests of logic are now speaking about a CREATOR, an intelligent force, a POWER that is not explainable but just is.

You may demand that I PROVE IT.  I submit that I just have.  Anything else takes more faith IN SCIENCE than the amount of faith needed to believe in a CREATOR. More than this is hard to say in only a few words.  This is why there are so many words, so many books, purporting to explain God.  There is also a villian.  The spirit is one spirit, and there really is but one set of Spirit Powers.  These can serve the Light or they can serve the Dark Side of human experience.  There is A Devil or Great Satan.  This EVIL ONE was created by the CREATOR for another purpose, but he got lost along the way when fame and power went to his head.  He fell victim to his own ego drive and desire for fame.  The CREATOR allows him to exist out of mercy - for him individually - and for us - the human race collectively.  It is true that many are led astray and become servants of EVIL.  This same EVIL ONE is allowed to exist, and even to teach spirit power to others with broken intent, for a simple reason.  The visibility of naked evil in our world actually drives more seeking spirits TOWARD the CREATOR than the ones it lures into powerful practice of evil.

As you know, many atheists, agnostics, and skeptics have said that there is no God.  They say man has created God in his own image, to explain what man does not understand.  Further they say that we have subconsciously endowed THE CREATOR with magic powers so that we can relieve our fears and maintain illusions about safety, fairness, or some other silly ideal.  You may guess that I disagree - but my work is not to fight these misguided.  I am not here as a warrior, but as a mage, a spirit teacher, a healer.   Finally, it has been said that the power hungry and controlling spirits have used what they present as a higher understanding of God to maintain political or economic control.  They "explain" God to the masses and demand a conformity of belief and action, as well as a financial support, that keeps men and women from becoming what they were born to be.  Jesus said that their lives are like dead men's tombs - they look good on the outside but inside they are full of dead men's bones.  Yes.

My position is that GOD or the CREATOR does not need to be explained.  Our minds are not capable of apprehending, and therefore, nobody can explain THE CREATOR.  We are each like blind men, who upon meeting an elephant, promptly end up arguing over whether the beast is like a rope, a snake, a tree, or a wall.  If you have gotten ahold of God's tail, he may seem like a rope.  If you have managed to grab him by the trunk, you may argue that he is like a snake.  Perhaps you have found one of God's legs - and he seems quite like a tree.  Or maybe you have walked into an impenetrable aspect of God, from the side, and he seems quite like a wall.  It really matters not - unless you become a RELIGION PUSHER and try to force your understanding of God onto others.  This road generally does not end well and I hope for you that you either avoid it or get off of the misguided way.

What we need to understand, explain, and tap into so as to change the world is NOT THE CREATOR.  He has his agenda, his work, which we cannot truly fathom.  In season he wishes to feed and provide drink for his children.  In other seasons he wishes to instruct them or allow development assisted by desert experiences, famines, even slavery to kingdoms or substances or persons of evil intent.  Divinig right from wrong, and explaining God is beyond my scope of work.

I will not explain GOD in my work, but I will reveal the power of the Human SPIRIT.  This power is given by our CREATOR - but few have learned to master and use it.  I acknowledge that THE CREATOR is the architect of this faculty, this power available to the human Spirit.  I depend on THE CREATOR to continue to function for good.  (This means I depend on Him to continue to do good, and it also means I depend on him to help me function for good as well)   But I do not teach religion.

My work is to help you develop Personal Power, Spirit Power by helping you become the spirit you were created to be.  The Secret To Living Out Our Own Divinity comes from this.

In the highest and best use of the words, I intend for you to develop spiritual power.  This is because I AM and YOU ARE.  My God + Your God = Our God.  There is only one.


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"ALL of the beauty and power of a human being comes from SPIRIT and not reason."
Copyright 2010 Spirit Word Today


"Reason is necessary in a balanced measure, but too much reason may convert a Human Being into a Human Doing, and much will be lost."
Copyright 2010 Spirit Word Today


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In case you missed it

This is about Spirit, and the Spiritual Life, but is not about religion or institutionalized religious faith.


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A Working Theology

Everybody wants to know, as soon as you start talking about SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, and SPIRITUALITY, what that means.


These things mean many things to many people.   I will work with most any of the meanings, in a conversation, but just for the record, here is my core approach to theology:


I may use the words God, CREATOR, THE CREATOR, GREAT SPIRIT interchangably.  I may tend to use masculine pronouns from habit, but I know absolutely and beyond a shadow of a doubt that the feminine is a component of God whose expression is different, but whose value is equal to the masculine components in EVERY way.

I KNOW that GOD IS.   There is a CREATOR, an intelligent, loving mastermind being desiring nothing but good and in complete control except where he has delegated free will to the Human Spirit.  Can you comprehend how much ground the idea of free will covers?  Most humans cannot, and yet they think they can explain God.  This is the absurdity that drives religion, and at the same time, the flaw that wrecks it.


Since I believe THE CREATOR is beyond understanding, I also believe it is an error to attempt it.  He won't fit within our heads.  He is too big.  I won't explain GOD.


What I will do is observe and comment on THE ACTS OF THE CREATOR and enjoy THE PERSON OF THE CREATOR AS REVEALED BY OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HIS INTENT.  The existence of such a BEing is evident in both the order of things, and in the obviously miraculous.


Everything else that can be said about God is probably true in part, or at times, but is also most likely a partial picture due to the limitation of the human mind to understand these things.



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A Central Thesis

I cannot and will not teach you about GOD, or good or evil, in a religious way.


Everybody has their own contract with God. 

I might be interested in hearing about 

yours, but

 I don't want it forced upon me"  

...Norman Lear

What we need to understand, explain, and tap into so as to change the world for good in the course of our time on it as individuals is NOT THE CREATOR.

GOD has his agenda, his work, which we cannot truly fathom.  In one season he wishes to feed and provide drink for his children.  In another season he wishes to instruct them or foster development of certain strengths by allowing desert experiences or famines.  He may save his children from slavery to people or ideas or substances, at one moment in history, because independence is good for them, and He may lead them into such slavery when it serves his unseen purpose for long term good.  He may save them from the error of bad choices, before or after they are made, or he may allow them to walk into the pain and consequence of bad choices  by their own headstrong or misguided exercise of free will.

The ideas of divinig right from wrong, and explaining God are beyond my scope of work, except to say that he lets us make choices. The exercise of choice is the beginning of power.

What I can do with you, for you, to help you, is explore and reveal the power of the Human SPIRIT inside you, in a way that helps you change your personal world for the better, which will in fact change the outer world for the better.

If the "the kingdom is within" (Jesus of Nazareth) then all outward change begins within.  When you change the kingdom within, you also change the world of your 'neighbors' or 'family' no matter how large or small that world may be.  Your family may number 2, 3, 5, or more.  If you are a community leader, small business owner, philanthropist, or social activist, your family may number in the dozens or hundreds.  Your family may number into the thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions, or more if you are a government or religious leader.

This power I teach you to master is given by our CREATOR (Your God and My God However We May Describe Him).

Few have learned to master and use this power completely.  When you do, you can CREATE a world where you are a magical force for good, a powerful warrior, a loving ruler, or a great entertainer. (ideas derived from teaching on archetypes by Carl Jung)

Whatever your calling, or purpose, or intent, or desire, I can help manifest that by working from the Divinity within you!


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A Powerful Spirit with a Powerful Idea - Unstoppable!

A POWERFUL IDEA and a POWERFUL SPIRIT are UNSTOPPABLE

I am becoming.  You are becoming.  We are not done yet.  If you have become stuck or need a hand, I am well enough along to lend a spice, a flavor to your experience that can change the way you approach the opportunities in your world.  This change IN YOU will help you change the world around you.    With my help, you can change your world faster and further than without. This is my premise, my promise, and my new vocation. I have worked at many other things in my 50 years, yet all along there was inside of me the spirit of a writer and teacher and a coach.  This spirit can transform the world by sharing what I have learned in my journeys through the pathways of family experience, psychology, religious immersion, and business accomplishment.  I will do this by living out my love for all who are fellow travelers in a way that helps them become more powerful by developing awareness and understanding of spirit an spirit power.   Spirit Word LLC will be a labor of love all about the beauty and power and magnificence of the human spirit when fully empowered, prepared, and engaged in the work it was born to do.  This is to say I would be a writer, speaker, and teacher on spiritual matters. This is NOT about RELIGION or even FAITH.  I work with the FACTS of the human spirit and no faith is required.  There are many theologies and religions, but only one set of common threads that can be explored and empowered until the 'dream' that you were born to live and share with others becomes an unstoppable reality. This is not a theory.  It actually has happened and will continue to happen. My work is to help you develop Personal Power, Spirit Power by helping you become the spirit you were created to be.  It's easy when you tap into your Divine Calling, Purpose, and Power.  The Secret To Living Out Our Own Divinity comes from these three things. In the highest and best use of the words, I intend for you to develop spiritual power. Because I AM and Because YOU ARE, it can be said that My God + Your God = Our God.  There is only one.  Individually, we are an expression of THE CREATOR.  Together, we are a more complete expression.  Because we are more completely GOD when working together, our individual spirits can magnify each other's efforts for a better outcome than when either of us works alone. LETS DO THIS!

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