My Diary…
April…
18th –
Falkirk Spiritualist Church (SNU) Burghhead Road FK. Even on a Saturday
night, our churches can attract a good attendance. It was a pleasure to
see two little ones in the congregation, one under a year and the other would
not have reached their second birthday. They helped raise the atmosphere
and as I was working, I was amazed at the older lad’s eyes looking all around
and sometimes pointing as if he saw something that was invisible to the rest of
us.
20th – It is
always a pleasure to take the trip north to the Inverness Spiritual Church.
(SNU). I have been serving this church for thirteen years and
always receive a great Highland welcome.
22nd – The
first of my four classes on “Understanding Your
Psychic Abilities” at the Glasgow Association.
23rd – A
short trip to ASK Dreghorn. A friendly little church where the always
smiling Caroline Blair President and Medium make everyone feel so welcome.
26th – Perth
Spiritualist Church (SNU). President Ivy Campbell’s great enthusiasm in
Spiritualism rubs off on all who attend the church. Ivy who has been
active in the administration side of our religion for many years now and
is starting to blossom as a Spiritual medium in her own right.
28th – The
Ascension Christian Spiritualist Church has now moved premises to The Maryhill,
Central Community Centre, Maryhill Road, Glasgow, G20 7YE. Service on a Tuesday
evening at 7.30pm.
May…
3rd – It is
always a pleasure to serve the Ayr Spiritualist Centre.
6th – Understanding Your
Psychic Abilities” at the Glasgow Association.
7th – The
Pyramid Spiritualist Church, Pollock, Glasgow.
Spiritualism is a religion, a
philosophy and a science that celebrates Eternal Life and recognizes that our
true nature is spirit. As such, we continue to live after physical death
in a higher dimension known as the Spirit World. As Spirit, we can
communicate with those in the Spirit World through the link of love.
Spirit communication is not
unique to Spiritualism. It has existed since human beings first walked on
the planet and will exist long after our own steps are no longer imprinted in
the sands of time. Spiritualism is life itself, here and hereafter, and
it exists naturally whether we call it a religion or not.
Spiritualism has its 7
Principles; –
The Fatherhood of God.
The
Brotherhood of Man.
Communion of
Spirits and the Ministry of Angels.
Continuous Existence of the
Human Soul.
Personal Responsibility.
Compensation and Retribution hereafter for all Good and Evil Deeds done on
Earth.
Eternal Progress open to every Human Soul.
I always
feel that an 8th Principle should be added “Common Sense”.
After the
reading of the 7 Principles at our services we should continue with; –
We believe…
“All men are
my brothers, all women are my sisters, all children are my children”.
and
“My country is the universe,
My home the world,
My religion is to do good,
My heaven wherever a human heart beats in harmony with
mine.”
Then maybe we should start a clean-up of our
religion by putting it before ego.
Stop the infighting which dogs our religion.
Looking
through facebook the other day I was appalled at comments concerning a tragic
incident. A 70-year-old man died when he was hit at Chatham station
trying to pull a woman off the rails. (The lady survived)
Yes,
Thousands of train users were delayed as trains were held up for more than an
hour.
Yes,
Rail workers cleared up the mess – not a nice job for anyone. The
driver of the train who will have to live with this incident for the rest of
his life.
But
I am appalled at the accompanying comments; –
“I find
this highly fashionable and public form of suicide to be tiresome and attention
seeking”.
“Everyone
has the right to end their life but not to inconvenience others in this
apparently self-centred way”.
I
was surprised that the person making these comments would have written such a
thing and then made them on public on facebook. To be fair, I emailed
them and asked if their facebook account had been hacked. I have received
no reply and have been taken of their fb friend list like others who
complained.
The
comments lack compassion and understanding on what drives people to suicide.
I say no more on the matter as my blood pressure is on the rise.
I received several emails on my comments on this blog on 29th
March “Cashing in on Grief”. I was surprised that commercialism has found
a niche in making human ashes into all sorts of products. Here are a few;
–
Dan – “When I heard of this I felt this was a great idea and thought
not only of part of my grandfather living on, but living on connected with his
great interest, betting on the horses. I would write my
daily bet out with a pencil made up of my granddad’s ashes after
cremation. I read that ashes from an average human body can produce up to
240 pencils. Granddad would be involved in betting on the horses for
evermore.
family. The look of horror on their faces was frightening. I was in the
dog’s house after that and I still am as far as some members of the family are
concerned. On hindsight it was not as good an idea as I first thought”.
decided to go in this direction with her mother’s and gran’s ashes. But,
she put a lot of thought into it and decided on hand blown glass vases for both
her loved one. She has placed both in a window that looks out onto the
garden they both loved so in this case such a thing has my approval. An
extra plus is that the window that gets a lot of sun and it is as if the
brightly colours vases come to life”.
approach. I have always remembered a quote that my Yoga teacher gave us to
think about.
“How different our life would
have been if we had been born into another body,”.
if there is truth in this statement. Who would choose to be born into a
family, only to suffer abuse whether it be physical or emotional, to suffer
hunger and starvation not only of food, but of love? It seems a strange
choice. Yes, I can see that it may be a path on the road to redemption,
to suffer and therefore grow more spiritually pure, but that is not necessarily
the case. Suffering often leads to hatred and acts of terror. Do unto
others as they have done to you? Perhaps it is the idea that if/when we return
to earthly life we are better equipped to deal with certain situations we did
not cope well with the last time round. Who knows? Maybe at some
point after death we are given the choice to redeem ourselves, to move up to a
higher spiritual plane, equipped with the knowledge of how to succeed this time.
Would we then, as human beings with our own free will, make use of such
knowledge? Perhaps that is the test.
Karma is an interesting theory. What goes around comes
around. Good Karma, bad karma. I liked your theory that if you
lived a good life you did not need to come back to prove yourself, if you did
come back, then you suffered the same fate as those you’d wronged in a past
life. For some things that makes sense, but when I think about those poor
children, babies, you mentioned in your blog I find it hard to believe anyone
would volunteer for such a fate. The little lost boy, known only unto
God, and the day old baby savagely attacked by a paedophile. (most
distressing, I hadn’t even heard about that) I remember hearing
about someone who had given Healing to patient a long time ago. This
person had a club foot and according to the Spirit Guide who was helping , he
had this impediment because in a past life he had caused someone to lose their
foot by running them over in a carriage! There is perhaps truth in both
versions. Those coming back to ‘suffer’ karma, may in fact be able to
choose their parents”