Showing posts with label likeness. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Day 551: Investigating the Image and Likeness of God

 Continuing from Day 550: Demons don't Exist


So we continue.


My parents were very concerned because I was not willing to accept the Devil or Satan or Demons. And to me God was everything, that was the point I was living, finding out practically what it means to be the Image and Likeness of God.

But at the same time I was exposed to the forces of this world, which includes seeking of pleasure and happiness. This would entail partying hard and exploring sexuality - both of which I did extensively in the endeavour of understanding ‘Why does that feel good’, and ‘What is wrong with it if it feels good’. Isn’t that the whole story of the pursuit of happiness and then if that is what makes you happy, how can what makes you happy, be wrong?

That is a contradiction to the whole idea of being placed here and to explore life within the context of the Image and Likeness of God.

I was quite naive though.

And progressively I found more and more people that would be quite aggressive towards my approach. They did not like the idea of ‘embracing life’ and finding out ‘what’ and ‘how’ happiness truly works. What is the worst that can happen? You are here embracing life. Obviously the worst that could happen is that you could lose everything, everything taken away.
Which is what happened.

So in this endeavour, first points after I studied law was going to the police and even there, the pastoral officers would take me into their offices and discuss, trying to prove to me that Demons and Satan and the Devil exist and they would use the Bible to show that ‘it is written there, therefore it must exist’.

I disagree.

Because obviously the Bible was not written by God, anyone can see that.
And obviously, God being perfect, the origin of all things – God would not create something evil. It must have a different answer.

But according to the Bible there was no different answer, the answer was that according to the Bible and to the people that studied the Bible, the answer was that God created evil as well. Not that it is impossible but, it was improbable because absolute perfection, greatness... hardly the road to evil.
So, by the time I finished with the police and went on to giving myself direction in life, finding a way in which we could change the world forever more to be what God intended. I was very much clearly convinced; in spite of what I saw in the police which was murders and violence and all kinds of things. I saw that more than just an outflow, more just an outflow from the social condition and the lack of resources, the lack of money that caused most of the conditions that I have witnessed in the police. People simply did many of the things out of desperation.

So that wasn’t in their nature, it was just the nature of their situation rather than their own nature. And if they would have had the opportunity and have seen that to have all the resources necessary, they will profoundly change.

The question was ‘Why don’t they have all the resources’, and I was never satisfied with any of the explanations given to me or explaining to me that they have to work and make a profit in business and all kinds of things. Because none of the things really made sense. Having grown up in a business, having worked in it and then later on starting my own businesses, it was very clear that the profit motive was nothing else but making a decision about how much money you want to make, adding it onto the product and then presenting it to the buyer and they either buy it or they don’t. And then you present it to the buyer in such a way that they have no option but to buy it. Or they have no option but to question – they’d have to accept the price.
And then in that way you make money.

We really experimented with that in pricing goods from the very low to the very high. And strange enough, the higher the price, the more valuable it is seen to be accepted by the purchaser and we experimented with extremes situations. Which we became clear, if one, it’s like a predisposition that the human has. They like to pay a lot for things they feel is valuable and therefore all you have to do is to make sure that what happens is that they end up feeling that what they’re buying is valuable. If that feeling exists, they will pay the price because they are satisfying their feeling of value. Fascinating! Highly Effective! Incredible!

Was it actually applied in our Capitalistic System? Unfortunately not.
Because that would have already made the world quite a different place because a lot more money would have moved, a lot less suffering would have occurred. But maybe on the other side with the odds turning against everyone and the world becoming one giant casino where there’s only a few punters making the big bucks while most end up losing everything, that’s maybe the only way we will a better world. We will see.

to be continued

Saturday, 16 August 2014

Day 550: Demons don't Exist


Continuing from Day 549: Demons Taught me the Secrets of Jesus - Introduction 
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Day 549: Demons Taught me the Secrets of Jesus - Introduction - See more at: http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/#sthash.6MnEC0pY.dpuf
Day 549: Demons Taught me the Secrets of Jesus - Introduction - See more at: http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/#sthash.6MnEC0pY.dpuf
Day 549: Demons Taught me the Secrets of Jesus - Introduction - See more at: http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/#sthash.6MnEC0pY.dpuf


Now, I never believed that demons existed. To me, in spite of many that tried to prove it to me, going as far as using the Bible as to prove that apparently Demons existed, I simply could not understand that being possible.

Because to me, everything existing was of God. God, the Father, was everything. I didn’t necessarily consider Jesus as God’s Equal. I more considered God as the Equal, as the Answer, as the Way; and that all come from God.

Thus by virtue of its origin, Perfect, and therefore I was embracing the principle of the Image and Likeness of God, within which I understood the way that Jesus walked, must have been similar. And that what Jesus presented, was the Principle of Forgiveness.

Now, initially I entered a world that was strange.

First studying at the Potchefstroom University, studying initially Engineering and then Law. And then in that single year finding out that in spite of my prolific ability to read, I was in fact not reading, I was in fact taking in information without understanding it. And therefore, in spite of reading, I was not processing the information. I did a course at the University which changed my life forever. Where I developed the ability to process information, something I’ve never had. And I became quite convinced, that if the World could read and process information, we would have a New World. Yet, it wasn’t forthcoming.

So, having that in the so called ‘back of my mind’, I walked the journey to find out ‘Why is it, that in spite of the examples of we had and despite the message of God, the world is in fact nowhere close to the Teaching of Jesus or God and there seems to be no progression happening in fact. We’re going backwards very fast. And this going backwards is certainly, causing a lot of harm to a lot of people.’
At the time, although I was embracing animals and bugs and plants and so on from young, and they were always very much part of my life – my primary focus was not on that, but on the Human Being.
And me not accepting that Demons existed and I have not been able to find any proof that Demons existed. To me the only point is Demon that exited was that the person itself was creating it.


Saturday, 10 August 2013

Day 475: Reflections and the Mind

altered.state_.of_.mind_ If you Slow Down and you Look at How you Use your Mind, especially within Communication and in establishing Relationships, you’ll notice that you Do something you call ‘Putting your Best Foot Forward’ where you Reflect a Particular Personality to Another Person through a series of Words that Tell a Story. With that you’ll use Body Language and Facial Language and you’ll use your Eyes as well to Communicate a Particular Reflection and say with it “This is Me.” Then you’ll Wait for the Other Person to Reflect Back upon the Image and Likeness they Received from You, if the Other Person responds Favorably to the Image and Likeness they Received from you, you will Engage in investigating the Possibility of a Relationship – short-term, medium-term or long-term. There are Obviously many, many, many Dimensions of Reflections that are Used in Many Different Associations – these Associations are also Stored within the Memory System where a Person will have a Record of their Successes and Failures with the Previous Use of Reflections and from that the Person will Develop and Evolve their Approach to Relationships and even have an Early Warning Detection System of Which people are probably Not within the Image and Likeness that They would Like to Connect with just Due to the way they Dress, the Colors they choose, the way they use their Facial Expressions, the way they use their Words or the length of time it takes to Respond to a Question for instance. There are a multitude of Mechanisms Used within this Game of Fakery where the Illusions are Reflected to each other and the Relationships are built on Complete illusions, while the Truth of the Person which is the Real Secrets of the Person, the Real Image and Likeness, the Real Evidence of the Person is Always Hidden from View.

You only find the True Nature of a person through Time and sometimes it may Take Years before you have All of the Truth Revealed which will come out under Pressured Situations. That is Why it’s so Important to go and actually Live with somebody because when you are for instance Listening to a ‘Great Speaker’ or a ‘Law of Attraction Guru,’ you’re Getting a Reflection which is deliberately Reflected towards your Image and Likeness and you are looking at creating a more Positive Image and Likeness because you have certain Goals that you would like to Achieve in terms of your Relationships either with People and/or with Money and/or with Success – all kinds of Image and Likenesses you are Attempting to ‘Make Real’ in your life you will use the Various Techniques that you are Learning.

If you obviously go and Live with the person for three months or six months you’re going to get a Complete Real Picture: is the Person Really Actually Living according to Principles or Not? That’s why it’s So Important that one does Not Take a Person on the Reflection they Give you, but that You Actually get to Know Somebody Before you Engage especially in Long-Term Relationships, so that You See what you’re Really Dealing with which is the whole point of the Agreement Course and the DIP Lite so that one can First Establish ‘Who the Person Really is’ BEFORE you Start the Relationship, you are Preventing all the Heartache when you have Engaged in a Relationship and you found out eventually that your Intimacy is going to be Abused because there was never actually a Real Person that you Connected with, you connected only with the Reflection that was Projected and you also only Projected the Reflection Back so the Total Relationship is an Illusion and you Only get to Know the person Later.

Our Whole Society functions like these Reflections in the Mind, which create virtually Multiple Personalities. Obviously we now have Psychology actually Feeding these Reflections and even teach people How to Reflect more Effectively without ever actually getting down to the Real Person. The Real Issues inside just get Suppressed and that Only Emerged under Conditions of Pressure, then the Truth Reveals, the Real Nature of the Being, that which is ‘Hidden from View’ because that is the Physical Truth of the Being while the Mind Reflection is used to Present an Image and Likeness that says ‘Please Like me, I’m so Alone!’

Now, this Image and Likeness thing is very Effectively used by the Public Relations Officers of the Corporations and Companies that Promote their Products, they Create Products in the Image and Likeness that they Research according to what the Latest Trend is Within the Reflections of the Mind of the masses and how they are Engaging within Relationships of ‘Like and Dislike.’ So if you are Able to Pin-point the specific Image and Likeness that is Currently being projected by the Mind you will have a Successful Product Launch and lots of people will Buy the Product because They can ‘Relate to the Product’ – but that’s Not Really that they are Relating to the Product, the Illusionary Image and Likeness they are Projecting through which they are Engaging Other Illusions in the Reality in Search of Happiness, Pleasure, Success and so on, the particular product Enhances the Image and Likeness they are Projecting so whether it’s Clothes or a Perfume or a particular Color they will now Use that to Enhance the Image and Likeness that’s being Projected to Find People with which to Associate-with and these Associations obviously are the result of Memory Mutations. And these Memory Mutations then eventually Influence the Vocabulary so that the Vocabulary is No Longer Reflecting a True Value of True Meaning but is Reflecting an Image and Likeness meaning that is Personality Based and that has got a particular Energetic Bias – Positive and Negative – which determines the way Relationships are Formed. It also Determines the way one will Protect What you Possess and you Believe you Possess a Certain Value through your Image and Likeness “I am an Image that I Must Protect” are the words used many times by Those that have Managed to create an Effective image – you’ll have these Images especially with your Celebrities and they will Create an Image and then even have ‘Image Consultants’ where they would for instance Present a Particular Image and Likeness and then Make Money out of it – Lady Gaga for instance is One of them that has Exploited this Extensively. And those Psychologists and Image Consultants that Assist on doing this are obviously Doing Humanity a Great Dishonor because deliberately, especially the Teens and the Young Children, are Sucked into this game of Image and Likeness Creation, which is a form of Consumerism because they’re Consumed by the whole Popularity Competition Without Understanding the Damage they’re doing to Themselves and How Difficult it will be to one Day Get out of the Lie when they Realize It’s all been a Lie because All they have Ever Known is a Lie. And they have Relied on this Lie, they’ve Relied on this Reflection through the Mind as the Mechanism through which to Get Ahead in Society and which to use to Make Money.

As the money system is collapsing more and more, it’s becoming more and more Difficult to Find good Employment, People are Forced into more Reflections on What’s Really Going on. And the First Step that is busy Happening is that obviously people will Enhance their Image and Likeness they’re Reflecting to try and Get the Best Position, try and Win the Competition for the Ever Decreasing Job Market to Have an Income and Have a Better Life because Everyone Understands one thing: In this world, Money determines Lifestyle. This situation is going to Progressively get Worse and therefore if you can Hear me it is time to study your mind so you can Master your Mind so you don’t get Sucked into these Games. Obviously the problem is that the Whole Economic System is Collapsing at the same time, so we also Need a New Economic System therefore we are not only presenting a Solution in terms of Your Own Image and Likeness as Life but also the Support Systems Necessary which is for instance an Economic System where we are Showing how a Living Income is Necessary for Each One, so that You Do Not have to Compete through this game of Image and Likeness Reflections and Cause More Harm to the World.

The Harmony is rather what one Strives for. Unfortunately it will still be Slow-going for some years because the Desperation to Find the Next Product that will be In-Tune with the Current Trend of Image and Likeness Projections within the Mind and the Group of Humanity will be using in their Social Interaction, in their Competition for jobs which is heating up. It’s Not so Easy to Always have a ‘Winner’ that will become the Next Trend, the Next Gadget, the next ‘In’-thing that Everybody Buys simply because it Enhances their Image and Likeness Projections. Obviously the people Buying it Don’t Understand what they’re doing, they’re just the End Result of a Reflection of the Mind, a Complete Illusion, a Complete Lie.
Realize that Life does not Need to be this and that obviously in Separating Yourself from this World and That which truly Gives life, you will Cause More Harm by using Image and Likenesses in your Reflections that are Not Based on the Integrity Necessary to preserve Life and to Give to Another as You would like to Receive or to Do Onto Another as You would like to be Done Onto.

Unfortunately these things are Still Used but under the illusionary concept of Reflections where it is thus Useless because it’s just based in Self-Interest. It’s just based on trying to Acquire a Predetermined Feeling within which you would say: “If I Feel that -- then = I am Successful” so you have Preprogrammed yourself to have only Certain things that you Accept as Valid because Those Points or Feelings Confirm that your Image and Likeness is getting some form of Result and you are Reaching a point where you have some Followers of your Excellent Image and Likeness Projection so you’re kind of for a moment a Movie Star in your own Small World. The fact that there is just like maybe one or two or three people that Fall for your Image and Likeness Projection seems to Not Bother one As Long as you have the Attention of at least One or Two People ‘You are Not Alone.’ But Understand that You are In Fact Alone because the Reflection of those Images and Likenesses that you are Using to Engage people within this world are Just Illusions, the Real Self Does Not Actually Exist yet, the Real Self as Life would Never do such Stupid things to Exist just as a Projection, Basing it on a Feeling to have that as your Mechanism of Integrity.

Feelings are Never Valid as an Integrity Assessment, Feelings are Always Dishonest because they are Done from the perspective of Enhancing one’s illusionary Reflections of the mind. Obviously those that are Using it still within their Engagement within How they are Getting Ahead in this world will Defend Feelings because they’re still Making Money, they’re still Able to Mislead People because that’s Really what you’re doing, you are Misleading Others to Believe that you are Good, to Believe that you are Trustworthy, to Believe all kinds of stuff that Makes Sure that You have some form of Income. We see a lot of that on Facebook and Twitter where all kinds of Reflections are Used. In Spirituality this has become the Fundamental Disease Why Spirituality Failed in its Initial Objective to Bring About a World that is Best for All. And now it’s just about Creating ‘Happiness’ and ‘You’re Finding Your Own Place’ and ‘Restoring your Inner Child’ – all kinds of things but Really what you’re busy with is Enhancing your Reflection Mechanism and the Image and Likenesses that You are Using to Project and Engage and Control Others in your world so that You can Survive. It’s Really Just a Survival Mechanism, it’s Taught at Home, that’s How the Child learned to eventually Handle the Parent because the Parent is quite a Threat in a Child’s Life, the Parent is trying to Impose Their Image and Likeness Reflections on the Child, the Child realizes that it’s just a Fake but then in the End they Don’t Learn How to Do it Correctly so they end up Copying the Parent and so the Child ends up doing exactly What the Parent Did and therefore, the Child ends up as Being the Parent inevitably, because the Parent Becomes the Evidence that the Image and Likeness ‘kind of works’ because they have a House and a Car and a Job and some Money, At Least – that is At Least – ‘They could Make a Life’ and so the Child will End up Accepting the Fake Projections of Image and Likeness of the Parent – such a Strange World we’re Living in, an Illusion Created through the Mind.
Now obviously some of it You End up actually Creating in the World as Physical Reality because You’re Enhancing a Particular Point which You use within Your Reflection in the Mind, that means you’ll for instance have a Particular Product that You Buy and that has Created the World and you will Spend your Money and Your Labor to Buy it, so you’ll Create the Illusion even into the Physical. But the Original Illusion started in the Mind and is the Feelings you Have, the Actual Fear you have in the back of it all that: If You Don’t Succeed in the Projection of your Image and Likeness = You’re going to be Alone, you’re Not going to be Able to Survive because Nobody’s going to Like you and thus You’re going to be a Failures And Being a Failure Will Mean that You have No Support in this Reality – so the Fear behind it all is Extensive. These are the things that Should have been Taught at School so that the Mind could be Understood so that one does not End up Making up your World as a Series of Lies, of Projections – but We are Not There yet, One Day We Will.

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Monday, 18 February 2013

Day 302: The Encryption of Systems (Part Three)

For Context from the previous post:
Taking out a System in the Physical, is like walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It is absolutely Hell, because - the Physical Body Believe itself to be the System. So, you have to get it to See, and Realize that it is Not and that it can be something else, because it’s Complete Image and Likeness, it is the Physical. And then, you have to take it out - and its got to then Willingly Release the System and itself from the Ideas and the Ideologies that the System Represents…and only then, can the System be Removed.

Unsure, Uncertain at what Point we would have Removed Enough Systems to bring about the Desire to Change, from the perspective that - the Human will be Able to See what they have Accepted and Allowed.
At the moment, obviously - the Human is also Creating New Systems. These New Systems are also Encrypted. They’re Encrypted in all kinds of Images and Likeness’s that the Human ‘Like’, which is like – Feelings, it’s very Big in Consumption, it’s very Big in how one Set-up the System, as how one Protect your Money, your Elitism, Education. I mean, Imagine that - going into University, getting a Degree and becoming a Professional Doctor or a Surgeon: is in fact an Encryption Code, within which you Protect your Image and Likeness; through which you then Accumulate your Good which is Money, Status, Position, Property and through which you then Allow Abuse on Earth…A Complete System Encrypted - How difficult does that to Break? It is virtually impossible, because: the one that has Encrypted it, Believe themselves to be the Image and Likeness of the Surgeon. They cannot Comprehend, that: what they have Created is of Value to Only Themselves and actually Creates Massive Harm, and is Causing Existence and Life to be Separated in Multi-dimensions of Massive Suffering and Abuse.

So – Understand, that: what we can Assist you with at Desteni are Only, approximately, 1% of the Task YOU have to do. We Assist you with the Important Points that you cannot find yourself. We have already Proven that no one on Earth can find it themselves. So, if you do not come and Walk with Desteni – you’re Not going to get through. That is part of your Encryption. You don’t want to be Part of a Group, because - that would Compromise your Ego, your own Encryption, your Self-Image; the fact that You Claim, in your Image and Likeness “YOU know what’s best for YOU”…Holy Mother. Do You have any idea what you say? You are Completely Programmed, and you Believe your Program So Completely that you Believe that that is ‘the Answer’, and that through the Program that Controls you - is the only way you can Find your Resolution that you can Redeem yourself? Do you Understand how Effective that Encryption is? That it is Impossible to break? Do you Understand What will Need to Happen in your Existence before you’ll Give-up your Encryption: It is Horror Beyond Horror.

Do you Really want to do this to yourself? Or do you want to Consider that there is a Way Out of the Encryption, which is to Base your Decisions on a Principle. A Principle to Always Act in a Way that is Best for All Life, to Always ‘Give as you would like to Receive’, to Ensure that the World System is Decrypted and to Become a System that Support All Life from Birth ‘till Death. It is that simple.
The Message of Jesus is an Decryption Code. He left it, 2000 years ago - but nobody could Decrypt it at that stage, because we had to Wait. “Three Days”, he said. We have done Two Days now. We are into the Third Day now, because each day is a 1000 years. Is it going to take us a 1000 years to Do this? Or are we going to be able to do this Faster? I say, we can do it Faster. We don’t have to take a 1000 years to do this, but - by all Technicalities, the Assessment of Jesus was that it will take 3000 years. After the Third Day, he has Risen from the Dead, and the Dead will walk amongst the Living. It’s Interesting Codes.

You better start Studying some Encryption. Have a look at all the Gurus and Masters of Spirituality and Consciousness: they have No Clue. They are simply Representing Encryption Codes of Images and Likeness’s to make sure - YOU Never Change, and you Serve their Self Interest. They do Not Present a New World System that is Best for All Life.
Understand - the Only Real Value is: Life. If you can’t Comprehend that and make sure that That becomes the Only Respected and Honoured and Protected thing on Earth: you are in Severe Trouble. And you are the Cause of All Harm that exist in every way and that has Always Existed. You are then, in fact, Evil - because you are against Life.

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Friday, 4 May 2012

Day 20: Rotten Souls

 For context read the blogs – Rotten Child, Rotten Love and Heaven’s Journey to Life as well as the Adam Curtis series – The Trap. 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fall in the trap of self-interest that that promised me a soul of eternal life if I live a life of love and kindness, without doing anything to change the world, because that would screw with God’s plan for the world and each individual.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept the reward of the soul as the body of eternal life based on the self-interest of the inner-self, without having to take action in the outer-self as the world to manifest a reality that, in the flesh, in fact is the evidence of the inner-self.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept the world as rotten as it is without realizing that this is only possible if the inner-self as my soul is equally as rotten as the world I allow and accept.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to never question how the world is in fact created through my living participation as I have allowed myself to be convinced that the physical reality is an illusion in spite of the evidence through pain and suffering that it is not an illusion, but I allowed my greed for the reward of eternal life and my fear of death to overshadow the evidence of deductive common sense reasoning in the madness of my inner secret mind of dishonesty and judgment of others.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to refuse to take responsibility for my allowed creation by calling it an illusion, yet I confirmed that I actually accept the world as reality through accepting the need of a saviour or the need for me to be right and loved, without seeing the insanity of the illusion I created as love and light, in total contradiction to the proof as the living flesh and the living world that is here to serve as the MIRROR to reveal the nature of the ego of self-interest.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to be able to judge all those that do not support my illusion of love and light by ignoring the evidence of the living world and allowing that which is really actually alive to suffer to the extent that hell is now the only reality for the world with only those that believe they are first in realization, not suffering, in spite of the written warning that those that are fist will be LAST to reality what is really real.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use faith in the promised reward of the soul to be a false image in front of the real image and likeness of life as the living word as flesh.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the soul to become my sole purpose to the extent that all life is denied in spite of the common sense that I only exist because of the living flesh.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to refuse to see that I created the soul as image and likeness of my personal illusion through thought that I was not born with, yet I gave the power of God to my thought as I have no challenge to be self-honest in my mind and allow myself to always be the righteous one in my mind, while the real power is not the mind, but is the living flesh.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to refuse to realize that I have become not only less than the living body, but also less than the mind, which is only a machine in great limitation  that creates patterns like pathways that are either illusions of self-interest or could be the ONE path that create the path of life as what is best for all life in all ways.


I commit myself to reveal the soul as the Trap of self-interest that it really is in all ways till the soul is stopped as the illusion it is.

I commit myself to only accept as reward a world of the living flesh as what is best for all life.

I commit myself to demonstrate the nature of the rotten soul until the soul is no more part of the abuse of life on Earth.

I commit myself to demonstrate how the greed of self-interest forms the foundation of the philosophy of the soul.

I commit myself to demonstrate that light and love do not produce a physical world as what is best for all life in all ways, and is in fact the Illusion.

I commit myself to share the common sense through the ages that explain the nature of true reality as that which is life in fact, as dust to dust.

I commit myself to reveal all false images made up by the mind as the birthplace of self-interest to set life free, till all life is all that remain on Earth.

I commit myself to honour the living flesh as living words that measurably produce, breath by breath, a reality that is best for all life in every way.

I commit myself to demonstrate that the image and likeness of creator is the living world as living flesh as what is best for all life.

I commit myself to demonstrate that the mind has NO power but the power we give it and as such we are responsible and NOT the MIND