Unity is a very important theme. It is critical to the resolution of the many problems facing our nation and our world today because without it we will never be able to engage the necessary solutions.

In this election year it’s painfully clear that there are many people with many differences. Many needs. Many perspectives. Many polarities.  Many grievances. Many resentments. Many biases. Many prejudices.  A great deal of intolerance. A great deal of hostility. A great deal of rage and aggression.

We have forgotten who we are. We have forgotten that we originally all came from one Source. We all came from a place of Unity, a place of Universal Acceptance and Love. And then we fell into a dream of separation, a dream of selfish egos competing with each other rather than cooperating, attacking each other rather than living in harmony.

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All the candidates on both sides of the aisle tell us what they’re going to do for us. They’re going to lower taxes, and they’re going to create new jobs, and they’re going to… blah blah blah… but what they don’t tell us is what we need to do for ourselves, and what they, as leaders, should be doing as well: stop all the fear-mongering, stop all the demonizing, stop all the rageful, hate speech about those who don’t share the same beliefs. All this divisiveness is what will defeat us in the long run, not global warming, nuclear weapons, or terrorists. We are the enemy of the people when we lack tolerance and compassion, and lash out at those we disagree with. True patriotism means respecting our fellow citizens regardless of their viewpoints and beliefs.

Forgive To Win!

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I’ve been asked why I’m passionate about teaching forgiveness. It’s because all religious, spiritual and metaphysical roads I’ve traveled have led me here, to this one Truth borrowed from A Course In Miracles: I forgive others for my own peace of mind.

In my late twenties I read the Bible, the Old and New Testament, for the first time. Although I was impressed with the transformation of God’s consciousness from the Old Testament God of anger, judgment, vengeance and war to the New Testament God of peace, love, acceptance, charity and forgiveness, I was more impressed with the implications of several thought-provoking Biblical comments:

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Forgiveness is a gift you can give to everyone. It costs nothing and it is worth everything. It is a form of acceptance and compassion which transforms others and makes the world a more loving and harmonious place. And it lightens the emotional baggage you carry on a daily basis, usually below the surface of your consciousness, which interferes with your potential to attain the highest levels of love, happiness and self-fulfillment. http://bit.ly/uOkGv9

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Albert Einstein once wrote, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” In his book, “The World Peace Diet,” Dr. Will Tuttle illuminates and expands on this concept.

“The World Peace Diet” is a book that, if you have the willingness and the courage to read, will elevate your consciousness, change your perceptions about the world and its confused and conflicted understanding of morality, open your heart to a greater appreciation of nature, God and spirit, change the choices that you make on a daily basis, and in so doing change the universe for the greater good of all concerned.

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Glenn Beck has the right idea about focusing on God. Unfortunately, he is going about it the wrong way.

By that I mean: Yesterday at his Restoring Honor rally he spoke of uniting people in God. Tomorrow, however, he will broadcast on radio and TV a message of judgment and attack, utilizing labels that diminish those he disagrees with, encourage divisiveness and generate anger and aggression in his followers.

This is counterproductive to what he says his God intention is.

YOU CAN’T SERVE TWO MASTERS

Rather than judging and attacking his brothers and sisters who he believes are misguided and/or evil, if he truly wants to unite rather than divide, and welcome God into everyone’s mind, then he needs to find a way to see the good in everyone despite how they’re behaving.

He needs to tailor his message so as to gently guide people to the truth of God and Love, and in so doing help them make better choices.

God is Love. Love is unconditional. There can be no exclusions or exceptions.

Contrary to what many people think, God does not take sides. This is an interpretation of the ego. It is not the reality of God.

God does not love some people and hate others. God does not welcome some people into heaven and banish others to hell. We must discard these old, tired concepts of an angry, vengeful God who smites enemies and curses people with plagues and misfortune.

This God is not real. There is but one God and he loves us all, even those who are deeply disturbed and degenerate.

Glenn Beck said that his Restoring Honor rally was about God and not politics. That’s good. Honor and God go together. Honor and politics do not. People may think they do, but that is another con of the ego mind that wants to keep this world inflamed and confused.

Bottom line: It’s not going to be particularly effective to have one symbolic day devoted to rallying behind God, if the rest of the time we are in a judgment and attack mode.

If Glenn Beck wants his vision of God and the restoration of honor to take hold in this country it would be best that he put aside his politics of fear and hate.

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I was asked by a Facebook friend to offer advice as to how to cope with the loss of his father. This is what I wrote to him: (IF YOU WISH THE PODCAST VERSION, CLICK ON THE AUDIO MP3 BUTTON BELOW)

Regrettably, a loss of this nature is not a simple thing to cope with. We must accept the passing of our loved ones, appreciating that the pain will get less over time.

Instead of focusing on mourning the loss, we turn our attention to celebrating the person’s humanity and spirit, appreciating what a blessing it was to have that person in our life.

We focus on emulating their goodness so that they live on in us and in our good deeds and in all the people whose lives we touch.

Life After Death?

People have their own beliefs about life after death. I personally believe that the spirit is eternal, that the body dies but the spirit lives on forever in eternal peace and joy.

I believe that when we die we are reunited with our loved ones, if that is what we desire, and that leaving this earthly plane is not the end of the story but is actually the continuation of an eternal, spiritual dance of love, light, joy and harmony. These perspectives help ease my pain.

That being said, the bottom line is this: Regardless of whether there is an eternal heaven we all will one day enter or not, when our loved ones leave us, we must mourn their loss, cherish their memory, and then move forward in our lives rather than dwell on our sadness.

We must accept the way of things without anger, bitterness, guilt or shame, attend to our responsibilities, and nurture those who are alive who we dearly care for.

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It is extremely difficult to not be judgmental. It is extremely difficult to let go of resentments and grievances. It is extremely difficult to turn the other cheek. It is extremely difficult to forgive.

Nonetheless, these are the things we must do. These are the principles we must stand for. These are the behaviors we must role model for our family and our peers.

Indeed, if we perceive ourselves to be religious people, and our religious doctrines espouse forgiveness, acceptance and love, it is critical that we do the best we can to practice what our religions preach.

If we fail to do this, if we speak of God on Sunday and war on Monday, we can count on further conflict and confusion in our lives, and we can expect further failure rather than success.

The only way out of this war game we have created from our fear is to place no conditions on who we accept and forgive. On the contrary, we must accept and forgive everyone, no matter how badly they are behaving. We must exclude no one from our love.

If we think this is an unrealistic, Pollyanna approach and that anger, vengeance and attack will protect us and make us secure, we aren’t really thinking. We should forgive ourselves for we know not what we do.

Although, in the short run, judgment and aggression may seem to be practical and pragmatic methods for survival, in the long run they are forms of madness that will forever keep us from the enduring peace and prosperity that we desire for ourselves and our children.

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Does God really pick and choose who lives and who dies? Is He “up there” somewhere with a huge tote board keeping score of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice? Does He really decide to give one person brain cancer, to have another person get hit by a bus, to have a third person get mauled by a lion or raped by a psychopath? Is that what God does?

Does God really listen to everyone’s prayers and decide which ones to act on and which ones to ignore?: “Sorry, Mr. Franklin. I feel for you, but I’m not going to cure your prostate cancer because I’ve already met my prostate cancer prayer quota, you’ll need to exit stage left.” Is this what God is all about?

Does God really send some of his children to hell, to suffer for all eternity? As a father who has been upset at times with my daughter, it never once occurred to me, no matter how badly she behaved, that she should be punished and made to feel miserable forever. Could God be a Father that unmerciful and unloving?

None of these scenarios involving God make any sense to me, which leads me to believe that we have seriously distorted the truth of what God is. We have projected behaviors and judgments onto God from our ego mind, which is full of fear and attack thoughts, that have nothing whatsoever to do with Him.

It is my belief that God is not vengeful. God is not petty. God does not attack, punish, hurt or kill. God is unconditionally loving, forgiving, and accepting.

When we use the concept of God to attack other people, we are not honoring God, we are actually attacking him, because it is not His will that anyone suffer or be harmed. It is His will for us that we all be happy, prosperous and at peace. That is His will for each and every one of us, regardless of what country we belong to, what faith we follow or how well or poorly we behave.

When we engage in judgment, hatred and attack in God’s name, justifying our bad behavior by claiming we are doing God’s work, we are actually doing the opposite of God’s work, fueling our ego and our insanity,

Want to love God and want God to love you? Love your fellow man. Stop judging. Stop looking for reasons to hate and attack. Find the similarities rather than the differences between us and others so that we can overcome any differences and live in love and harmony as God would wish us to.

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