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	<title>JP Danna's Blog &#187; spiritual confusion</title>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Nothing &#8220;Out There&#8221;; The Great Shift and Spiritual Confusion on the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[life of belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual confusion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While cruising the &#8220;new thought&#8221; sites on the web, I found a repetitive phenomenon. There are people, most rather young, who are exasperating themselves while waiting for a &#8220;great shift&#8221; to occur in the world to lift them into a higher realm. It hasn&#8217;t happened and they&#8217;ve grown weary, depressed, and lost the will to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While cruising the &#8220;new thought&#8221; sites on the web, I found a  repetitive phenomenon. There are people, most rather young, who are  exasperating themselves while waiting for a &#8220;<strong>great shift</strong>&#8221; to occur in  the world to lift them into a higher realm. It hasn&#8217;t happened and  they&#8217;ve grown weary, depressed, and lost the will to carry on. These  people are looking &#8220;out there&#8221; for something to happen, but nothing  happens and disappointment grows to futility. My response to one young  girl who stopped eating was as follows:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a professional.  But if you&#8217;re depressed then maybe it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to get some  counseling. Also, allow for this time to happen. Listen to it. Flow with  it. It&#8217;s there to tell you  something. But you may need to have someone  listen with you. In the meantime, if you don&#8217;t feel like eating at  least have  some kind of meal replacement.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m curious to know  what you&#8217;ve been  internalizing in regard to spiritual things. I keep  finding some kind  of panicky exodus in people like you on these  sites&#8211;folks in a mad rush to jump onto the  &#8220;transformation/ascension  bus&#8221;.   There are so many paths, methods, and religions, which say they  lead to  higher awareness that I think many folks have been misled  into  <strong>spiritual confusion</strong>. Don&#8217;t think about leaving the planet anymore. You owe  it to yourself to take the responsibility of examining what you&#8217;ve  allowed  into your psyche. There are many who understand basic   spiritual psychology waiting to assist you.</p>
<p>Do you believe in  things you don&#8217;t  truly understand? Maybe you need to slow down and  bring it all to light.  Time doesn&#8217;t run out. Time is directly  synchronized to your awakening.  When people hear about spiritual gifts  and try to force a way to get  &#8220;there&#8221; and then end up disappointed, it  is best taken as a lesson in the  classroom of life. We live in an  instant gratification society. But the  shift you speak of happens at  the level of one&#8217;s consciousness and requires an integrative period for  higher knowledge; a period of equalization unique to each  person&#8217;s  focus on this transforming thought energy.</p>
<p>People who&#8217;ve  stopped taking care of themselves while waiting for this ascension are  missing a major chunk in the process. The work happens &#8220;in here&#8221; not  &#8220;out there&#8221;.  We need to  acknowledge and love ourselves for one thing,  and I&#8217;m not talking about selfish conceit.  We need to come away from  <strong>self denial</strong> and love the essence of life coursing through our veins.  NOW!  Wherever we are in our evolution. Not at some point in the future  when  we are &#8220;there&#8221;.</p>
<p>You say you feel lifeless over this. It  sounds like you&#8217;ve given your power away  and distanced  from yourself.  Accept it as but a lesson. I&#8217;ve got news that you may not  have heard.  You are very strong  because you are created from Omnipotence. Now TURN  AROUND and take back  your power. Accept yourself with all of your  perceived flaws,  blues and all. The old metaphysical acronym KISS goes a  long way. Look  it up. You are loved and people really do care about  you.</p>
<p>Yes, I know letting go  of hand-me-down beliefs can be  disorienting (for a time), but we have to  remember beliefs have no life  of their own. It is we who are the <strong>life  of belief</strong>.</p>
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