God Doesn't Use Good Looks To Convey His Message

Companies often use good looks and sex appeal to sell their products. God doesn't use good looks or sex appeal to convey his message. Here are some notes:

1. How Companies Sell Their Products:
• Companies often use good looking people and sex appeal to sell their products. Many advertising campaigns feature a beautiful woman and/or a handsome man to sell their products, even though the good looking person has nothing to do with the product being sold. For example, you might see a beautiful woman responding orgasmically to a piece of chocolate she's just eaten.
• This does two things:
• It makes people believe that if they buy the product, they'll be just as good looking and sexually desirable as the person in the ad, and
• It makes people believe that the product is 'good looking' and 'sexually desirable', and if they buy the product it will fulfill them in more ways than it actually will. The product is offered as a sexually fulfilling relationship. Who needs anything else, when you have the product, right? All lies. People buy the product, it doesn't fulfill them as they expected and they're left feeling even more empty than before.
2. How God Conveys His Message:
• God doesn't use good looks or sex appeal to convey his message:
• Of God's servant it is written, "... his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness ..." (Isaiah 52:14, NIV)
• It is also written, "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem." (Isaiah 53:2-3, NIV)
• God's message stands on its own, without the focus being on the person delivering the message. It's not about the person delivering the message, it's about the message itself.
3. A Mother's Love For Her Children:
• A mother's love for her children or a father's love for his children has nothing to do with the parent's good looks or the children's good looks. Looks has nothing to do with how much a parent loves their children. Love is love and looks has nothing to do with it.

Companies often use aggressive advertising campaigns to brainwash us to believe that their products are more desirable than they actually are because they use good looking people and sex appeal to sell their products. By contrast, God doesn't use good looks or sex appeal to convey his message because God's message stands alone.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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Perception Of Reality

Updated Jun 28, 2015

WORK IN PROGRESS:

This post is a work in progress and is subject to changes, revisions, edits and deletions.

Perception of reality is how a person perceives reality.

When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, it means that the way they perceive reality changes from perceiving reality one way to perceiving reality in another way.

Here are some notes:

1. Phenomenon Of The Quality Of Bestowal:
• A person who goes through a change in the perception of their reality does so from the quality of bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature). A person can't go through a change in the perception of their reality from the quality of selfishness (seeking to benefit themselves). Today, we're all immersed in the quality of selfishness. We have to change from selfishness to bestowal. Once we're in bestowal, we'll experience phenomenon of the quality of bestowal, such as going through a change in the perception of our reality.
2. The Creator Changes Our Perception Of Reality:
• The Creator is the one who changes our perception of reality. A person can't change his/her own perception of reality. Also, it's not something that happens by chance, by coincidence or by some unknown trigger in Nature. It's The Creator who does it, it's almost as though we're asleep and He wakes us up. Cry out to The Creator for help and ask Him to bring you to the quality of bestowal.
3. Revelation:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, it's not that a new reality is created, but that a new reality is revealed. That new reality already exists, even now, but it's concealed from us. Going through a change in the perception of one's reality reveals that concealed reality to us.
4. The Truth:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, they see The Truth. A person can only come to The Truth through bestowal. The Truth already exists, even now, but it's concealed from us. In our old perception of reality, The Truth is concealed. In our new perception of reality, The Truth is revealed.
5. Two Internal Qualities - Selfishness And Bestowal:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, they see The Truth. For the first time they see two internal qualities:
• They see the quality of selfishness (in themselves)
• Initially, they feel really bad about the way they've treated others but this passes once they realize that nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or Nature, we're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it.
• They see the quality of bestowal (in others and all of Nature)
• Initially, they don't know how to react and relate to people in their social environment (family, friends etc.) and they may feel compelled to leave their social environment. Eventually, as they grow, they come to treat people in their social environment (family, friends etc.) as they would everyone else, through love of friends, seeking to benefit others instead of themselves.
6. Two Realities:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, it doesn't mean that they leave their old perception of reality behind and enter into a new perception of reality. They're born into a new perception of reality, but they're able to perceive two realities at once:
• Their old perception of reality, where they felt isolated, alone and disconnected from others and Nature, and
• A new additional perception of reality, where they feel connected and integrated with others and Nature.
• Perhaps in time, the old perception of reality will disappear and all that will be left will be the new perception of reality. Perhaps.
7. Changing Perception Of Reality:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, their perception of reality may keep changing:
• Sometimes they may feel as though they're the only person in selfishness, everyone else is in bestowal (seeking to benefit them). This makes them want to change from selfishness to bestowal, to be like everyone else.
• Sometimes they may feel as though they're the only person in bestowal, everyone else is in selfishness. This makes them feel as though the whole world depends on them.
• Eventually they come to realize that they've always been in bestowal and that nothing bad has ever happened to them, others or all of Nature, that we're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it.
• Sometimes they may feel The Mirror Effect, that the world outside of them is a reflection of their internal qualities, that they and the world are one and the same.
• Sometimes they may feel as though they're a creator, influencing the events of the world around them.
• Sometimes they may feel as through others/Nature and The Creator are one and the same.
8. New Perceptions:
• When a person goes through a change in the perception of their reality, over time, they continue to experience new, subtle, additional changes in the perception of their reality, new things that they hadn't initially perceived before.
• As they grow within the quality of bestowal, their perception of reality also 'grows'.
9. Shocking Event:
• Going through a change in the perception of one's reality can be a shocking event. At first, a person may not be able to speak about the event (even for years) because they're trying to come to terms with what they're perceiving and what they're going through. It takes time to adjust. (Just as a baby born in this world can't speak when it's first born).

Going through a change in the perception of one's reality is a phenomenon that a person experiences from the quality of bestowal. Ask the creator to bring you to bestowal.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

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A Warning To My Critics

This is a warning to my critics:

• Read and keep up with what I'm writing about because when you go through a change in the perception of your reality, you'll feel bad about the way you've criticized me, but at least you'll be informed, which will make it easier for you to go through the change.
• If you don't read and keep up with what I'm writing about, when you go through a change in the perception of your reality, you'll feel bad about the way you've criticized me and you won't be informed, which will make it harder for you to go through the change.

When your perception of reality changes, please don't feel bad about the way you've criticized me. It will hurt me to know that you suffer as a result. Please know that there's nothing to forgive and that I love you.

These words may seem patronizing at the moment, but a time will come when they will be your comfort.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

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Love Your Friend As Yourself

What does "love your friend as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18) mean?

1. Self-Love:
• Does it mean you have to love yourself before you can love others?
• No, it doesn't mean this.
• Does it mean that the same way you love yourself is the same way you should love others?
• This is still focused on self-love because you're still thinking about yourself.
2. Perception Of Reality:
• Does it mean that others are you, that when you love others you actually love yourself  - because of The Mirror Effect (what's outside of us is a reflection of what's inside of us)?
• This has to do with perception of reality.
3. Love Of Friends:
• Does it mean you have to love others instead of yourself?
• This is changing from self-love (selfishness) to love of friends (bestowal).
• When you love others it doesn't mean you hate yourself, not at all. It simply means you give all your love to others and have nothing left for yourself.
• Does it mean that when you seek to benefit others, you adopt their desires as your own, you become them?
• When you adopt your friend's desires as your own, you become them.
• Does it mean to love The Creator within your own quality of reception, to be in a state called receiving to bestow?
• There are only two forces in Nature, the force of giving (The Creator) and the force of receiving (The Creature). When we receive, we're ourselves, it's who we are; however, when we receive in a degree called LOVE, we receive not for our sake, but for the sake of The Creator, to bring contentment to The Creator.
• Does it mean being connected with others as one?
• Being connected in mutual bestowal.
• Does it mean being connected with The Creator as one?
• Being connected through equivalence of form.

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Animals: Intelligence In Nature

Updated Jul 1, 2015.

In our arrogance, we think we're the only intelligent species on earth, we're not. Nature has given all her species the intelligence they need to live and survive.

Intelligence in Nature takes many forms:

• Animal Architects: 
• Beavers build dams.
• Spiders build cob webs.
• Birds build nests.
• Animal Navigators:
• Some animals such as some birds, butterflies, fish etc., can travel hundreds, even thousands of miles on migration routes, using their God-given internal navigation systems.
• Animal Communication:
• Animals communicate in many ways - using sounds, body language, scents, hormones, touch etc.
• In this YouTube video [1] starling murmurations shows how starlings communicate so seamlessly, they operate as one entity.

While animals take only what they need from Nature, we not only take what we need, but also, we take more than we need, and we intentionally destroy Nature for our own selfish purposes. Is destroying one's home a sign of intelligence?

Animals don't have weapons of mass destruction. We do. Is this a sign of intelligence?

You may think our technological advancement is a sign of intelligence, but we've built magnificent cities where people are isolate, alone and unhappy. For all our advancements in science, are we any happier? No. We're empty, lonely and unfulfilled.

Today, we're all immersed in selfishness, seeking to benefit ourselves with no regard for others. We have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature).

When we enter into bestowal, we'll become aligned with the integral laws of Nature. When we connect in mutual bestowal, and begin to cooperate and collaborate, we'll find our true potential - benevolent intelligence - realized through the wisdom of the crowds [2].

Nature is an integral system that's interconnected and interdependent. We're a part of that system, not above it, not outside of it. The intelligence in Nature takes many shapes, forms, sizes and forms. When we enter into bestowal, we'll truly appreciate that.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others, animals and all of Nature instead of ourselves.
___________
References:

1. Gretna Green Starling Murmurations. www.youtube.com. Retrieved Jul 1, 2015.
2. Wisdom of the crowd. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Jul 1, 2015.

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First Places To Enter Bestowal: Israel & Michigan, USA

There are two places in the world (that I know of) that will be the first to enter into the quality of bestowal (seeking to benefit others/Nature instead of themselves):

1. Israel
2. Michigan, USA

On April 20, 2013, in a vision, an angel took me to the future. We appeared to be in a house, and we were creeping down what appeared to be a hallway, crouching, walking slowly, and the angel was signaling to me to be quiet, to not make any noise. We crept quietly down this hall staying close to the wall. It was at night and the lights were off, except for the illumination coming from the next room. We stopped near the open door, listening in. From that room I could hear a voice coming from the TV or radio, of what sounded like a talk show, and the host was saying something about goodbye Israel and goodbye Michigan, but he was saying it in a joking manner, casually, he wasn't alarmed or distressed, almost as if it were a comedy show, perhaps a late night talk show on TV. That was it.

At the time I didn't understand it, but now I do.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others/Nature instead of ourselves.

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The USA Is Headed Towards A Transformative Event

Updated May 8, 2015

(NOTE: For the purposes of simple expression, I've used the terms black or black people and white or white people. No disrespect or offence is intended.)

The United States of America (USA) is headed towards a major transformative event that will take place sometime in the near future. The event will be a violent one, the injustice so grievous, it will shake the foundations of the entire country.

The USA is experiencing birth pains. One of the manifestations of the birth pains is the racial tension and injustice occurring in the USA today. The birth pains are taking place because we're about to give birth to the quality of bestowal (seeking to benefit others/Nature instead of ourselves). The event that will take place in the near future will be one of the things that will bring the USA to bestowal.

We have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature). The ultimate goal is to bring contentment to The Creator by seeking to benefit others and all of Nature.

Today, black people are protesting because black men are dying unnecessarily at the hands of police. Most recently, Freddie Gray [1] died while in police custody.

While many white people have taken part in the protests, for the most part, the majority of the protesters have been black.

The reason why more white people haven't been MOVED en masse to help black people is because white people are complacent. They know there's a problem but they're too busy with their own lives, distracted with other things, including many meaningless things. Also, they think it's a black issue that will eventually get resolved.

The USA is a country that's sensitive to social injustice and inequality, in fact, it was built on its sensitivity to these issues:

• The American Revolution [2] occurred because of the injustice of the British taxation system and its aristocratic governance,
• The American Civil War [3] occurred because of the injustice of slavery,
• Soon, a social revolution will take place because of the injustice of the quality of selfishness.

White people have fought for black people before. The American Civil War was fought over black people. White people fought other white people for the freedom of black slaves.

When the black slaves were freed, they became a part of American society, and most white people expected them to create their own lives under their newfound freedom.

Unfortunately, things haven't worked out quite so well for most black people because many black communities remain marginalized, subjected to racism, inequality, abuse, police brutality, social neglect etc. Black people are among the poorest people in the country.

White people KNOW this, but they haven't been MOVED en masse to do anything about it. The recent injustices against black people at the hands of police has made that issue more transparent, and it's touched the consciousness of white people.

However, it will take a specific event to MOVE white people to action. 

At some point in the near future, a violent, unjust event will take place that will ignite such anger and fury in both blacks and whites, that the entire nation will erupt in protests. The protesters won't necessarily be violent, but their response will be swift and decisive, and the consequences will result in real change.

That is the event that will MOVE white people en masse to do something about the way black people, poor people and other minorities are treated.

In fact, black people won't have to do much because white people will fight for them, just as they did during the civil war. Realizing that they're all one family, white people will see that some of their family members (blacks and others) have been neglected, abused, bullied, mocked and even killed, while the rest of the family has been sitting around doing very little about it.

And that will be the beginning of real change in the United States. For the first time since it was created, The United States will become a united people, one family.

For the first time since it was written, The Declaration Of Independence [4] will ring true, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

• "Life" - being the quality of bestowal, when we seek to benefit other and Nature instead or ourselves
• "Liberty" - means being free of the quality of selfishness
• "pursuit of Happiness" - means realizing that connection makes us happy, that being connected with each other in mutual bestowal, that being aligned with the integral laws of Nature, and that being connected with The Creator in equivalence of form, brings true joy and happiness.
• (See this separate post about independence in selfishness and bestowal.)

For the first time, the words of Abraham Lincoln from the Gettysburg Address [5] will ring true, " ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people and for the people ..."

• "that this nation" - means people united under one ideology, seeking to benefit others and Nature instead of themselves
• "under God" - means operating under God's quality, the quality of bestowal
• "shall have a new birth of freedom" - means being free of the quality of selfishness
• "and that government of the people, by the people and for the people" - means people united in mutual bestowal, seeking to benefit others and Nature instead of themselves.

For the first time, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the I Have A Dream [6] speech will ring true: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

• "free" - means being free of the quality of selfishness

Labour is a process that involves contractions, blows that push us to give birth. We are about to give birth to the quality of bestowal and the USA is experiencing birth pains.

Among other things, it will take one major event (a blow, a contraction) that will bring the USA to bestowal.

We have to change. Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature), with the ultimate goal of bringing contentment to The Creator by seeking to benefit others and Nature.

Do not be afraid. God is with us.
___________
References:

1. Death of Freddie Gray. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
2. American Revolution. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
3. American Civil War. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
4. The Declaration Of Independence. www.archives.gov. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
5. Gettysburg Address. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
6. I Have A Dream. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved May 2, 2015.

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Taking A Stand Against The Quality Of Selfishness

Edited May 1, 2015

We should all unite against our internal quality of selfishness, which makes us seek to benefit ourselves with no regard for others or Nature. We have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature).

The ultimate goal is to bring contentment to The Creator by seeking to benefit others and all of Nature.

We don't do anything on our own, The Creator does everything:
      - He changes our internal qualities from selfishness to bestowal.
      - He changes our perception of reality.
      - He reveals The Truth.

The only thing we have to do is WANT (desire) to be in bestowal and ASK Him for help.

We enter the quality of bestowal by taking a stand against the quality of selfishness. This happens in two ways: By deciding that we don't want to harm others and Nature anymore, and by acknowledging that we're unfulfilled in our current system of selfishness:

1. Not Wanting To Harm Others And Nature:
• While we're immersed in the quality of selfishness, we harm others and all of Nature.
• At some point, the horror of it reaches a breaking point, and we decided that we don't want to harm others and Nature anymore.
• By deciding that we don't want to harm others and Nature anymore, we take a stand against the quality of selfishness, which brings us to bestowal.
• Be brave and don't be afraid to go against your selfish inclinations. Cry out to The Creator and ask Him for help.
2. Acknowledging That We're Unfulfilled:
• All the systems of this world have been built on the quality of selfishness - family, school, work, countries, politics, religion, science etc.
• All the pleasures that we feel - food, sex, family, money, honour, knowledge, power - are pleasures that we feel within the quality of selfishness.
• At some point, we begin to despair because the pleasures of the quality of selfishness are fleeting, and no matter how hard we try, we remain empty and unfulfilled. Nothing fulfills us anymore, meaning, nothing of the quality of selfishness fulfills us anymore.
• By acknowledging that we're unfulfilled by the quality of selfishness, that we remain empty and that something is still missing, we take a stand against the quality of selfishness, which brings us to bestowal.
• Be brave and don't be afraid to admit that you're unfulfilled. There's a hole in our heart that only God can fill. Cry out to The Creator and ask Him for help.

We should all unite against our internal quality of selfishness. When we decide that we don't want to harm others and Nature anymore, and when we acknowledge that we're empty and unfulfilled, we take a stand against the quality of selfishness, which brings us to bestowal.

The ultimate goal is to bring contentment to The Creator.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and all of Nature in order to bring contentment to The Creator.

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The Meaning Of The Fires In Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The meaning of the fires that erupted on Monday April 27, 2015 during the Baltimore protests in Baltimore, Maryland, USA [1]:

1. Police Cars Burn:
• At some point in the future, police, prisons and crime will disappear.
2. CVS Pharmacy Burns:
• At some point in the future, we won't need medication because disease will end.
3. Facility For Seniors Burns:
• Seniors shouldn't live in seniors homes, they should live at home with their families where they belong. At some point in the future, senior homes will disappear and all seniors will live at home with their families where they belong.

This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, or burn down whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

Do not be afraid. God is with us.
__________
References:

1. Gorta, William J. (Apr 28, 2015). Baltimore burns: Buildings, police cars set on fire. www.cnbc.com. Retrieved Apr 29, 2015. 

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A Warning To Police Officers In The USA

This is a warning to police officers in the United States of America (USA):

"Your days are numbered.
You will be held accountable for everything that you do.
You're not answerable to man, you're answerable to The One True God."

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There Are Two Kinds Of Bestowal

Edited Apr 27, 2015

WORK IN PROGRESS:
This post is a work in progress and is subject to changes, revisions, edits and deletions. I've presented it here to give you an idea of a general concept; however, I'm not sure I've done a very good job explaining it. Please bear with me as I continue to work through this.

Some people may ask, "If we're already in bestowal, surrounded by love, why should we change? Why not just continue to live our lives as we do today?"

The answer is because there are two kinds of bestowal - bestowal above selfishness, and bestowal of bestowal. They're actually the same thing, they're both bestowal, but for the purposes of understanding them, let's split them up:

1. Bestowal Above Selfishness:
• Today, we're all immersed in selfishness, seeking to benefit ourselves with no regard for others.
• In this state, we harm ourselves, others and all of Nature, which is the world that we see today.
• All the systems that exist in the world today have been built on the quality of selfishness.
• While we're in selfishness, we're oblivious to a number of things:
• We don't know that we're in selfishness, and 
• We don't know about bestowal.
• We come to know bestowal (and specifically the bestowal above selfishness) only after we change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature). (Eventually, the negative aspects associated with the quality of selfishness change and become something positive. The negative aspects disappear and all that's left is bestowal and love.)
2. Bestowal Of Bestowal:
• Once our intention, our internal qualities change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature), we go through a change in the perception of our reality and we 'see' a number of things:
• For the first time, we 'see' the quality of selfishness
• For the first time, we 'see' the quality of bestowal
• Eventually, we come to 'see' bestowal above selfishness.
• While we're in bestowal, we seek to do good to others (and Nature), to benefit them in a positive and constructive way.
• This means that we create new systems, a new world built on the quality of bestowal. The world that we build with the quality of bestowal will look very different from the world that exists today.
• When we build that world, we'll see bestowal of bestowal, a world of bestowal that's been built by the quality of bestowal.

It's absolutely necessary for our internal qualities to change from selfishness to bestowal because there are two kinds of bestowal - bestowal above selfishness, and bestowal of bestowal. 

When we change from selfishness to bestowal, we move from one operating system to another, and we'll build a new world based on the quality of bestowal, a world that will look very different from the world that exists today.

Knowing that we're surrounded by love doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

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Why Current Governments Are Part Of The Problem

Edited Apr 24, 2015

How can a divided government unite people?

How can a government that divides people, unite people?

Today, the world is made up of various forms of governments, but they're part of the problem because they divide people, instead of unite them:

1. Political Parties:
• Having various political parties to choose from gives people a sense of freedom of choice, but what it actually does is divide people into political parties. The government is divided into political parties and the people are divided into political affiliations.
• People who are divided, can't stand together.
• In bestowal (for others), we're united under one ideology - to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves. (More specifically, to bring contentment to The Creator by seeking to benefiting others and all of Nature.)
2. Rich Rulers:
• In some cases, the people who rule are extremely wealthy, whereas the rest of the population is middle class or poor. This divides people into social economic classes, the governing class that is rich and the rest of the people who are middle class or poor.
• People who are divided, can't stand together.
• In bestowal (for others), the wealth gap between the rich and others disappears. The focus is on meeting our basic needs - food, water, clothing, shelter etc., ensuring that everyone has what they need.
3. Powerful Rulers:
• In some cases, the people who rule exert a tremendous amount of power, control and domination over the rest of the population. This divides people into power classes, those with power and those without.
• People who are divided, can't stand together.
• In bestowal (for others), everyone contributes their piece to the puzzle, to society, because everyone is seeking to benefit others and Nature. As such, everyone is valuable.
4. Rulers With Privileges:
• In some cases, the people who rule grant themselves certain rights and privileges that aren't available to the rest of the population. This divides people into classes, those with privileges and those without.
• People who are divided, can't stand together.
• In bestowal (for others), based on their role in society, people are granted the resources they need to benefit others and Nature. We're all different and we have different roles to play, but we're all equal.

The only solution is connection. We have to change from selfishness to bestowal. Instead of seeking to benefit ourselves, we should seek to benefit others and all of Nature.

When we seek to benefit other and Nature, we become blind to nationality, politics, religion, race, gender, social status, wealth etc.

Bestowal unites people in mutual responsibility, where everyone is seeking to do good to others and Nature, to benefit others and Nature in a positive and constructive way. Everyone is equal and eventually all become united as one.

Connection is the answer.

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Independence in Selfishness And Bestowal

Edited Apr 21, 2015

In selfishness, being independent means being separated; whereas, in bestowal it means being connected:

1. Independence In Selfishness:
• In selfishness, independence means being separated, isolated, alone and unhappy.
• Independence From Family:
• As children grow and develop in their individual families, they learn how to do things for themselves, which means they become increasingly less reliant on their parents for help and support. Eventually, they gain full autonomy, move out of the house and begin a life of their own, completely separate from their parents. This leaves parents and children separated, isolated, alone and unhappy.
• Also, to be independent, people get divorced, separated etc., which doesn't necessarily lead to lasting happiness.
• Independence From Bestowal:
• When we become independent from bestowal, it means we become free of bestowal and immersed in selfishness - seeking to benefit ourselves with no regard for others. This leaves us separated, isolated, alone and unhappy.
2. Independence In Bestowal:
• In bestowal, independence means being connected, united, in dependence (dependent upon, interdependent) and happy.
• A Jigsaw Puzzle:
• If we think of ourselves as a single piece of a jigsaw puzzle, we're each unique and independent and we independently contribute our piece to the whole.
• At the same time, when we contribute our piece to the whole, we lose ourselves to the whole, we lose our independence and become connected as one. When you look at a completed jigsaw puzzle, you look at the whole picture, not the individual pieces. The individual pieces 'disappear' and become united into one picture.
• When we connect in mutual bestowal, we're both independent (contributing our piece to the whole) and not independent (losing ourselves to the whole), our connection is so complete that we become united as one.
• Independence From Family:
• The whole world is one family. As we grow and develop in bestowal, we learn how to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves. We become independent in that we can benefit others and Nature on our own, once we've learned how to do it. However, when we benefit others and Nature, we adopt their desires as our own and seek to benefit them, which means we become increasingly more connected to them.
• We become connected to others in mutual bestowal, and we become connected to The Creator through equivalence of form. This connection makes us really happy. 
• Independent From Selfishness:
• When we become independent from selfishness, it means we become free of selfishness and immersed in bestowal - seeking to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves. Connection makes us happy.

Connection is the answer. In selfishness, independence means being separated, isolated, alone and unhappy; whereas, in bestowal, independence means being connected, united and happy.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

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The Reason Why The Rich Exist

The rich exist by design and for a number of reasons:

1. Tells A Story:
• The discrepancy between the rich and others tells a story, where the rich represent the head of a body and the rest of the people represent the rest of the body.
• This doesn't mean that the rich are our leaders, or that they're the head of society, not at all. It simply means that a story needs to be told, and the discrepancy between the rich and others tells that story.
• Eventually, this discrepancy will disappear and we'll all be united as one.
2. A Learning Opportunity:
• Experience is a big part of learning, there's none so wise as the experienced.
• In selfishness, we're given an example of what doesn't work - how the rich (the head), even though they're in a position of bestowal to help others (the rest of the body), they don't because they're selfishly seeking to benefit themselves. (We're all immersed in selfishness, selfishly seeking to benefit ourselves and we all have to change from selfishness to bestowal.) 
• By contrast (and because we learn from opposites), in bestowal, we'll be given an example of what does work - how the head, in a position of bestowal, seeks only to benefit the rest of the body.

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The Truth, Our Internal Qualities And Causality (Karma)

Edited Apr 27, 2015

WORK IN PROGRESS:
This post is a work in progress and is subject to changes, revisions, edits and deletions. I've presented it here to give you an idea of a general concept; however, I'm not sure I've done a very good job explaining it. Please bear with me as I continue to work through this.

Imagine that there are three systems that operate separately: The Truth, our internal qualities (our intention - selfishness and bestowal) and causality (karma). They're actually all interconnected, but for the purposes of understanding them, let's split them up:

1. The Truth:
• We can only perceive The Truth through bestowal, it has to do with perception of reality.
• The Truth is that nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or all of Nature. We're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it. (This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.)
• We perceive that all negative things (associated with selfishness and 'negative' causality) change and become something positive. Eventually the negative aspects disappear and all that's left is love.
2. Our Internal Qualities (Intention - Selfishness and Bestowal):
• Our internal qualities are our intention, and our intention determines our connection with others and The Creator. While we're immersed in the intention of selfishness, we're disconnected from others and The Creator; whereas, while we're in the intention of bestowal, we're connected to others and The Creator.
• Selfishness:
• This is where we are today, but we don't know we're immersed in selfishness, because we have nothing to compare it to. Jesus said, "... they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34, NIV) 
• In selfishness, we seek to benefit ourselves with no regard for others. We harm ourselves, others and all of Nature, which means we operate within 'negative' causality.
• While we're immersed in selfishness, we're disconnected from others and The Creator, which leaves us isolated, alone and unhappy.
• Selfishness has to do with the 'bad' things we do to others and Nature, and the good things we could have done, but didn't.
• We sense the pleasures of our 5 senses - food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge, power.
• When our intention, our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we stop being immersed in selfishness.
• Once we're in bestowal, we perceive The Truth, that nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or all of Nature. We're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it.
• We perceive that the negative aspects of selfishness change and become something positive and constructive.
• Eventually, all negative aspects of selfishness disappear and all that's left is love.
• This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.
• Bestowal:
• This is where we need to be. Our intention, our internal qualities have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature).
• When we first enter bestowal, we go through a change in the perception of our reality - we 'see' selfishness for the first time, and we also 'see' bestowal for the first time. We have the ability to compare our two internal qualities, selfishness and bestowal. (Eventually, all negative aspects of selfishness change and become something positive and constructive, and all that's left is love.)
• In bestowal:
• We rise above our selfishness,
• We stop harming others and Nature,
• We adopt other people's desires as our own (we 'feel' them, sense them and connect with them), and
• We seek to benefit them instead of ourselves.
• While we're in bestowal, we're connected to others in mutual bestowal and we're connected to The Creator through equivalence of form. This connection makes us really happy.
• Bestowal has to do with the good things we do to others and Nature, not for our sake but for theirs, and specifically to bring contentment to The Creator.
• When we're born into bestowal, we need to grow and develop, just as a baby grows and develops into an adult.
• In our new perception of reality, eventually we come to perceive The Truth, that nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or all of Nature. We're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it. This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.
• We sense a new intense pleasure, which is a direct stream from God.
• While we're in bestowal, we do good to others, which means we operate within positive causality.
3. Causality (Karma):
• Causality [1] (karma [2]) is a law in nature, just like gravity. This law of reciprocity is also known as The Golden Rule.
• Causality isn't specifically about our intention, our internal qualities, because we can do 'bad' while immersed in the intention of selfishness, but we can also do 'good' while immersed in the intention of selfishness.
• What you do, happens to you:
• Causality has to do with what we do, and the consequences we face as a result of the things we do. Causality isn't just about what we do, but also, what comes back to us as a result of what we do.
• For example, if I slap someone and years later I get slapped, there are two events to contend with - the slap I give and the slap I get, and both are related.
• The question is: Why isn't causality instant? Why does it sometimes take so long for the consequences of our actions to come back to us? How can a person learn if there's a delayed response to the consequences of our actions?
• The answer is love:
• There's an arc-story being told in all creation that uses many facets of our experiences (both good and 'bad'), and that arc-story is a positive story of our relationship with God.
• If we did 'bad' things and immediately 'bad' things happened to us, we'd become paranoid and afraid to live. Whereas, if we just live our lives, we learn through experience, and there's none so wise as the experienced.
• Also, if we did good things and immediately good things happened to us, we'd do good things for selfish purposes, not for the sake of others, which wouldn't connect us to bestowal, The Truth or the purpose of creation.
• 'Negative' Causality ('Negative' Karma):
• If you do bad, you get bad. Meaning, if we do 'bad' things, 'bad' things happen to us.
• While we're immersed in selfishness, we tend to harm ourselves, others and Nature. So we operate within 'negative' causality.
• When our intention, our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we stop being in 'negative' causality.
• Once we're in bestowal, we perceive The Truth, that nothing bad has ever happened to us, others or all of Nature. We're surrounded by love, we just have to realize it.
• We perceive that the negative aspects of 'negative' causality change and become something positive and constructive.
• Eventually, all negative aspects of 'negative' causality disappear and all that's left is love.
• This doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.
• Positive Causality (Positive Karma):
• If you do good, you get good. Meaning, if we do good things, good things happen to us.
• From Selfishness:
• We can 'do good' to others while still immersed in selfishness, but we don't do it for their sake, we do it for our sake. We may want to be seen as do-gooders, gain favour in the eyes of others, receive a reward etc. Because we're still immersed in selfishness, we don't connect to the next world of bestowal. We don't experience any of the phenomenon of bestowal - The Truth, a new perception of reality, a new sensation of pleasure etc.
• However, by 'doing good' to others, we operate within positive causality.
• From Bestowal:
• When our intention, our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, and we seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves, we do good to others, not for our sake, but theirs.
• By doing good to others, we operate within positive causality. Plus, our intention, our internal qualities are in bestowal, which means we reveal phenomenon of bestowal - The Truth, a new perception of reality, a new sensation of pleasure etc.

The Truth, our internal qualities (intention - selfishness and bestowal) and causality (karma) are all interconnected, but they're also separate systems. Once we understand them, it will help us operate safely within them, not for our sake, but for the sake of others and Nature, in order to bring contentment to The Creator.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

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References:

1. Causality. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Apr 12, 2015.
2. Karma. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Apr 12, 2015.

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Mixed Messages In Society About How To Make Money

Society sends mixed messages about how it's okay and not okay to make money, even though they're all selfish:

1. What's Okay:
• It's okay to sell overpriced products to make as much money as possible.
• It's okay to lower product quality to reduce costs to make as much money as possible.
• It's okay to engage in aggressive and manipulative marketing practices to make as much money as possible.
• Justification: It's legal, it's called competition, capitalism, business, strategy, trade, commerce etc.
• Consequences: You're a winner, a star, a hero etc.
• The Truth: It's harmful selfishness cloaked in excuses.
2. What's Not Okay:
• It's not okay to steal money from others.
• Justification: It's illegal, it's called theft, punishable by the law.
• Consequences: Jail.
• The Truth: It's harmful selfishness that's transparent.

We have to change from selfishness to bestowal. Instead of seeking to benefit ourselves, we should seek to benefit others and all of Nature.

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We Have Different Capacities Of Output

We're all different, we're born with different God-given talents, traits and attributes, and we have different capacities of output. Here's a comparison of two people who have different capacities of output:

1. Dave:
• Dave was born with a natural capacity of output of let's say 100 units.
• If he produces 80 units, he's slacking off.
• If he produces 100 units, he's operating at his natural capacity of output.
• If he produces 120 units, he's working really hard.
• He doesn't have to work extra hard to produce 100 units, it comes to him naturally.
• SELFISHNESS:
• In selfishness, we only measure people's output, not how easily it comes to them.
• Because Dave's capacity of output is high, he's paid really well, let's say $100,000. It doesn't mean that Dave is working extra hard, not at all, he may not be exerting himself at all because it comes to him naturally.
• In selfishness, Dave uses his 100 unit capacity of output to TAKE FROM others and Nature instead of to GIVE TO others and Nature. By using his 100 unit capacity of output selfishly, he deprives others and Nature of the benefit they would have otherwise gotten had he used it benevolently. Basically, he steals 100 units of output from others and Nature.
• BESTOWAL:
• In bestowal, when Dave operates at his natural capacity of output of 100 units, he's equal to everyone else who operates at their natural capacity of output, even if their natural capacity of output is higher or lower.
• How is Dave's natural capacity of output measured? Love.
• In bestowal, Dave is driven to benefit others and Nature. He has no hidden agendas, no selfish calculations, and no concerns that others may not be doing their fair share - this is a calculation that comes from the quality of selfishness. Plus, if others are also in bestowal, they'll be doing everything they can to benefit others and Nature. In this way, Dave will be connected with them in mutual bestowal.
• The only thing Dave is focused on is benefiting others and Nature and he'll intuitively give everything he can, using his 100 unit capacity of output (if not more) to GIVE TO society, to benefit others and Nature.
2. Pete:
• Pete was born with a natural capacity of output of let's say 10 units.
• If he produces 8 units, he's slacking off.
• If he produces 10 units, he's operating at his natural capacity of output.
• If he produces 12 units, he's working really hard.
• When Pete is working really hard (at 12 units) it's still lower than what Dave produces when he's slacking off (at 80 units). Just because Pete's capacity of output is less than Dave's, doesn't mean Pete's not working really hard.
• SELFISHNESS: 
• In selfishness, we only measure people's output, not how easily it comes to them.
• Because Pete's capacity of output is low, he's paid poorly, let's say $10,000. It doesn't mean that Pete is slacking off, not at all, he may be working really hard.
• In selfishness, Pete uses his 10 unit capacity of output to TAKE FROM others and Nature instead of to GIVE TO others and Nature. By using his 10 unit capacity of output selfishly, he deprives others and Nature of the benefit they would have otherwise gotten had he used it benevolently. Basically, he steals 10 units of output from others and Nature, which is less than what Dave steals.
• BESTOWAL: 
• In bestowal, when Pete operates at his natural capacity of output of 10 units, he's equal to everyone else who operates at their natural capacity of output, even if their natural capacity of output is higher or lower.
• How is Pete's natural capacity of output measured? Love.
• In bestowal, Pete is driven to benefit others and Nature. He has no hidden agendas, no selfish calculations, and no concerns that others may not be doing their fair share - this is a calculation that comes from the quality of selfishness. Plus, if others are also in bestowal, they'll be doing everything they can to benefit others and Nature. In this way, Pete will be connected with them in mutual bestowal.
• The only thing Pete is focused on is benefiting others and Nature and he'll intuitively give everything he can, using his 10 unit capacity of output (if not more) to GIVE TO society, to benefit others and Nature.

Just because a person has a HIGH capacity of output, doesn't mean they're working hard. Just because a person has a LOW capacity of output, doesn't mean they're not working hard. We're all different and we have different capacities of output.

We may think that because Dave has a higher capacity of output that he's greater than, better than and more important than others, not at all. When we operate at our natural capacity of output, we're all equal. Plus, we have different roles to play.

Instead of expecting everyone to operate at the same capacity of output, we should acknowledge that we're different and we have different capacities of output.

We have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and all of Nature). We should use our natural capacities of output to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.

How do we measure our natural capacities of output? Love.

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The Poor Are The Most Vulnerable In Society

The poor, who have very little, feel left out and vulnerable, especially compared to the rich, who have all the means and resources to take care of themselves. Here's a comparison:

1. The Rich:
• If the rich get into trouble, they can afford expensive lawyers to defend them.
• If the rich are oppressed, they have the means to fight back.
• The rich have friends in high places and important contacts in society.
• The rich have the ability to influence others through their 'high' status in society.
• The rich feel secure and confident because they have the means and resources to take care of themselves.
2. The Poor:
• If the poor get into trouble, they can't afford expensive lawyers to defend them.
• If the poor are oppressed, they don't have the means to fight back.
• The poor often don't have friends in high places or important contacts in society.
• The poor don't have the ability to influence others because of their 'low' status in society.
• The poor feel left out and vulnerable because they don't have the means and resources to take care of themselves.
• Yet God Himself is the protector of the poor and weak. God protects everyone, but especially the poor and weak because they are the most vulnerable in society. With God (The God Of Israel), you have everything you need. Ask Him to help you and He will.
• If you're poor, weak and/or vulnerable, don't feel left out. You belong and are very much a part of God's plan.

We all have to change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and all of Nature.) 

We have to build a new society that's based on bestowal. If we connect in mutual bestowal, we'll transform society for the better. All we need is each other.

The true measure of a society isn't how it treats its rich, but how it treats its most vulnerable members.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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