Ok, I guess my blogging mood is back after a 4 months off. Yeah, a lot of things happened in my life lately, nothing painful than the demise of my beloved granny. She was a kind old lady who dotted on me since I was a kid. In the end, I was just pleased she led a riped eventful life. On a personal note, things are moving well too, thanks Marie Callas for her powerful talisman I been carrying around in my wallet.
Yesterday I had an inspiration to write about a few famous people and how they relate to my learning of spirituality and Marie Callas’ knowledge about it.
The first one in my mind is “Terminator” – none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now the Governor of California and previously one of my favourite action stars. He was also an Olympian and a great bodybuilder.
I read in a book about him. Why and how could he rise from an obscure kid in Austria to one of the most famous faces in the world?
Yea, he has his own set of life philosophy and this results in success in things he embarked on.
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as long as you really believe 100%.”
Yes, I type that out in my computer and printed it. Yes, I will hang that phrase on my wall until the paper turns yellow and deteriorated. Read that many times each day. And so should you.
From my read, i learn that Arnold always is a great visualiser. Is this the really the key to life success? The seed of any success in life? Marie Callas teaches me that we need to visualise being exactly where you want to be. I said EXACTLY. See it, feel it, smell it, dream it. And then one day you’ll really get to touch it, hold it, be it, and have it. Be as real as possible, just like yourself in a vivid dream while sleeping.
Dreams always beget action. I guess the action bit is usually the stumbling block for most folks. But you know, it doesn’t have to be. You just have to learn to break huge tasks down into very small doable pieces and start. Simple really.
Last but not least, another famous quote from Arnold: “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
Life After Death Some of the Best Evidence
Author: Jan W. Vandersande Ph.D.
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2549-5
Price: $14.95 US
Publisher: Outskirts Press (2008)
Is there really life after death? It sure seems that way. Even before reading this book, I believed life continues in the spiritual world. After reading it, I feel less inhibited to talk about my own experiences. I’ve never been in a séance, much less have I seen trumpets flying around the séance room, but I have seen ghosts, angels, and other bodiless energy forms.
Do you ever feel as though you are being watched? What if you actually saw or heard the entity? Vandersande’s book, Life After Death, gives many accounts of his sessions over an eight-year period where he personally witnessed such things as ectoplasm and direct voice through trance mediums and channelers. All his experiences are described in detail and with supporting strange-but-true photos. Materializations of deceased entities are probably the most impressive evidence for life after death. He talks about materialization during sessions he calls sittings or séances in which the medium is usually in trance.
This is not hard for me to believe, and probably a pretty acceptable idea to those who have lost a loved one and felt their presence near them thereafter. I have awakened during the night on more than one account to see a bluish-grey figure hovering over my bed. Things have been known to move from one place to another in my house. Thanks to Jan, I now know that these phenomena are due to spirit entities manifesting themselves. Such occurrences were so common in my life that I wrote and published a book about it in 2005. Vandersande’s book is appropriately subtitled Some of the Best Evidence for life after death.
The thing that captivated me about this book is how the medium or channeler was able to give exact details about a person or situation that let the seeker know that their deceased loved one was indeed speaking or communicating (in the case of a channeler) through them. There was no other way such intimate things could be revealed. The author considers alternative explanations for these psychic phenomena such as telepathy and ESP but to me, it would be just as hard (if not harder) to believe in telepathy or ESP as it would be in life after death. I’ve had readings/prophecies that were as effectively true. He talks about a few frauds in this field, but there can be a fraud in any walk of life.
Fortunately, this did not keep Dr. Vandersande from investigating the topic in depth and forming his own opinions. His beliefs are supported by his experience, which I would expect from a scientist such as Vandersande. We all want proof that our experiences are real, but we don’t to be rejected by those whose beliefs are different than ours. I think that is where many religions lead people astray; they tell people what to believe rather than teaching them to explore and accept their own truth.
I enjoyed this book and found the stories fascinating especially the ones where the medium was able to give personal details that he or she could not have known in the natural realm. I think that one of the most helpful spiritual gifts a person can have is to be able to provide comfort and emotional healing through prophecy or by providing readings that give specific and accurate information to let the inquirer know it truly was the spirit of their deceased loved one speaking. Is this book and psychic phenomena proof or spoof? You must decide for yourself. Read more or purchase Dr. Vandersande’s book at www.outskirtspress.com/bestevidence
Reviewer: Yvonne Perry
I enjoyed this book and found the stories fascinating especially the ones where the medium was able to give personal details that he or she could not have known in the natural realm. I think that one of the most helpful spiritual gifts a person can have is to be able to provide comfort and emotional healing through prophecy or by providing readings that give specific and accurate information to let the inquirer know it truly was the spirit of their deceased loved one speaking. Is this book and psychic phenomena proof or spoof? You must decide for yourself. Read more or purchase Dr. Vandersande’s book at www.outskirtspress.com/bestevidence
While I was reading a Marie Callas book, an old lady friend called me last week to catch up. I am surprised she had moved to the capital and has found quite a well paid job much to my delight. I am always happy for her for all the achievements she has. It was just too bad that she and I were not destined to be together. But that’s another issue totally..
She told me in the phone that she was very mad with her mom which openly humiliated her boyfriend over a family dinner. She was very mad with her mom and only cared about money and she was not the kind of mom she has hoped for.
“That I need to move out.”
“That’s right, and what have I told you about being able to change people?”
“I can’t change people; I can only change myself.”
“And what have I told you about focus?”
“That when I focus on things I can’t control, I get angry.”
“Yes, and you also lose your perspective.”
So I spent some minutes doing my best to talk to her. I reminded her about how far she’d come in the past two years. She’d gotten his college diploma; she’d found a job she loved; she’d found a boyfriend who seemed to care as much about her as she cared about him. We talked about how some people can push our buttons, but how we can always choose how to react when our buttons are pushed.
In the end, my objective was to help her focus and take control of life again. We talked about the events that got her into trouble with mom and that she still hang on to the belief that if she is always right, everything would one day be perfect. I replied that nothing was ever perfect because she viewed her mom in negative thought now. I reminded her that people learn how to love from those who have loved them. Perhaps, her mom loved her in the only way she knew.
A clever man never expects anyone to view love the same way they do. Finally, I helped her to plan a strategy to help her though the next time she felt her buttons being pushed, using methods I had taught her before.
I am pleasantly surprised at the changes in me in able to analyse the situation better than before. It must have due to the spiritual teachings of Marie Callas. Thanks God!
As I’ve said before, the most fundamental changes in life happen when we “review” who we are. When we see ourselves differently, we think differently. When we think differently, we feel differently. When we feel differently, we behave differently.
So open your mind and explore your objectives. Your life will expand indefintely…
