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The world needs YOU

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It’s not easy to be here at times. The world is in a pretty scary place right now. Climate change is upon us with full power, wars are raging and some nations seem to have lost their moral compass completely. In this world we are supposed to live our dreams and manifest a life from the soul. A challenge that many fail to reach, not only because of the state of the world but also due to personal trauma and lack of support from their surroundings.

Nevertheless, it is time to step into the body and stand up for what you truly believe in. The world needs YOU to be here, now. We desperately need more people to step away from superficial spirituality and dive deeper. Question, evolve and express, and then do it all again. It never ends, personal development. But during the process your soul can find moments to truly be here, fully, and that is so precious and so worth every step of the way.

In the spiritual community I see a lot of talk about abundance and money, which is completely natural. We are triggered into survival issues because of the state of the world. And of course all of us deserve a life in flow and prosperity. But it is worth nothing if the soul is not present in what you do.

Spirituality should be about opening the heart and being fully alive. This can be scary and difficult. But it is the only way to manifest the world that we want to live in and the life that we dream about. Life is relational and relations grow most powerful when based on something that is real. And when you are real, truly you, beyond the masks and the behavior patterns, love becomes the answer to almost every question.

In that love lies the answer to all of the challenges that we face. It is in the flow of compassion that we will find our way out of this mess. The more of us that step into this flow, the more the life of abundance that we dream of can come true for many. And since life is relational, we will feel better the more others feel safe to be who they truly are. From that dynamic, societies will rise that supports the dreams of its citizens. And it all starts with you.

If you read this, you are probably on the spiritual path and I challenge you, us, to take it deeper and to be more fully now. No matter the costs. The price for not doing so, now, will be higher. Abundance and a dream life can come to you in the process, but the focus needs to be love, compassion and complete presence first. From that, true power arises. From that, YOU can become.

Critique on the first Law of Attraction

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The so called Law of Attraction is widely popular these days, preaching that you can create the life that you want through changing your attitude and beliefs. Visualization is another feature, as well as affirmations and the like. Followed by action, changes in these areas are said to change your life, sometimes completely.

Although I do not deny that changes in these areas can deeply transform the way you live and bring magical transformation into your life, I am critical of the way that it’s being taught, as I’ve written about in two earlier posts – Love creates reality and I believe in magic but remain skeptical towards the Law of Attraction. Now I’m back to utter some thoughts and critique on the so called first Law of Attraction – “like attracts like”.

Like doesn’t always attract like

The “like attracts like” rule dictates that a certain vibration, for example positivity, will attract more positivity from the outside. While I believe that this is sometimes true, I don’t believe this to always be the case. To make it simple, let’s start with look at the opposite, a negative vibration, like sadness. A natural response to sadness is compassion, which is a positive vibration. Just like a human being, the Universe and your guides, ancestors and other beings as well as creatures are perfectly able and ready to react to for example sadness with compassion and comfort. Maybe even a happy surprise.

Sometimes love provokes a negative response

A person who is for example on a spiritual journey and through that deepens their capacity of loving, might actually trigger others around in their traumas and receive negative responses to their loving vibration. And the Universe or your guides, etc, can react with more difficult challenges as you deepen your spiritual journey. This is then not a punishment, but a challenge to grow.

So even if sometimes the “like attracts like” does apply, sometimes I think that it really doesn’t, and this is important to know when practicing manifestation and magic.

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Creating for the sake of creation itself

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About a year ago I started making collages out of words from newspapers, which turn into a sentence. I don’t follow a plan, I make them very quick and then I paint, which I’m terrible at. But nevertheless I do it, using all from acrylic paint to crayons, marker pens and loads of glitter glue.

I even got myself an Insta account for them, with like 11 followers. But neither how many followers there are, nor how it looks is the point for me.

Simply doing

The point is, on the contrary from my other forms of expression, film making, singing, dancing, performance, storytelling and writing poetry, these collages are something I do without any type of feeling of having to create something with high quality. In the other fields, I have experience and kinda feel some pressure that it has to be good. With the collages, I don’t feel this at all. I just make them.

Since I started making them, I really notice that my mood is even better than before (I’m generally a pretty happy person, but this is deeper). I also experience a greater flow in life, as well as in other creative endeavors. So grateful!

And I learned to value the process of simply doing, creating, being in the moment so much more than before. Furthermore, my subconscious is communicating with me on a whole new level. Great life lesson!

All of society must get some loving again
We lack the cohesion which fosters a safer neighborhood,
free from violence against women

Short comment on faith, science and Richard Dawkins

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I’m an evolution fan, although quite convinced of that we don’t yet know how evolution works. It’s such a complex process, and many factors might still be unknown. But the basic idea is convincing to me, and it’s one of my favourite spare time research topics. In that journey I have read some of the work of for example Richard Dawkins, and seen many of the films in which he explains Darwin’s ideas, the theory of evolution, different ideas on altruistic behaviour, etc. He has made so many interesting findings and delivered many fascinating ideas and concepts to the world – like memes (see below). A great mind indeed! Besides, he seems like such a nice person, especially when he holds a lecture for kids.

But even if he seems a really nice person, he can at times come over as a bit too sarcastic and too sure of the truth of his own world view. His atheism is  just as much faith-based as any other faith to me, and his failure to see that (or at least communicate that he realizes that if he does), is sad to see.

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