Where do we start?

Where do we start? I guess it can be said that we can start from anywhere, for everything is linked and must make sense overall.

The universe has many dimensions. We live here on Earth in one or two or three of those dimensions: plane, surface and volume. But that doesn't say much and we all know about those three dimensions. They also exists in other levels. So we can't count them so much as "dimensions". We thus live in the material world. We also live in other dimensions/planes most of us can't see while living in this material world, only feel. Anything we do here is "copied" at least in one other dimension/plane. In fact in all other dimensions/planes. We can't get away with whatever is happening to us down here whether of our own making or imposed upon us as it is the case with the other dimensions. We are quite responsible for what is happening to us. Why can't we see those other dimensions? For some reasons, among them to not influence our current situation.

Although we have our free will it does come not only with liberty but also responsibility. We can't get away with anything. It's copied elsewhere. So eventually we will have to answer for our behaviour out here or on any dimensions for that matter. How? Well not as 'punishments' or 'sins' but as infractions with sanctions that are consequencials to our deeds... whether "good" or "bad" and we can't escape from them. I will discuss about those aspects later on because the subject matter is vast! Let's say for now that the notion of "karma" is partially what it is about.

Our lives "down here" have some interesting aspects that we don't find as such in other dimensions... The material world makes converge all types of people. Our mandate has always been to make this place a... paradise. We have missed the point for sure. This interaction of all genres of people helps us determined where we fit in. On other plans we won't find ourselves with either the most illuminated mixed with the most criminals and everything in-between. Only here. And on other plans or dimensions we do not choose personally that we belong to one or the other. It is our level of "behaviour" that determines where we should be. We have no say as such in that regard. Our free will all along makes us be where we are at. If we want to be in the most etheral, pure, peaceful, etc. places we have to act in order to reach those areas. Otherwise we get stuck in where we are as long as we do not consciously wish to move on. In some instances it can take the equivalent of hundreds of earth years before we realize this and wish to move on because we think where we are is where we should be. It's a construct, a personal one. And we get along well with our fellows in where we are because we fit it. Not unlike what is going on down here, except that we are not evolving much by staying in one level for hundreds of years... Furthermore, we must move on at one point or the other because everything in the universe IS movement. If we do not wish to move on we will lose the right of being. It seems contradictory that we have no choice and that we do. More explanations about that later because it is another vast subject!

Nothing is new in what I advance here. Everything or almost everything I am going to write has already been said or written by the prophets of the past, whether he is called Lao Tseu, Mohamed, Jesus, Siddharta Gautama (Buddha), Moses, Zarathustra, etc. I only intend to be straightforward. It wants to be a guide. Many aspects of what I will write can be found in all the scriptures, dialogs, etc. Some of what I will write will just all of a sudden makes sense. I have a responsibility towards you here. I am not going to discuss things or advance ideas that I am uncertain about without letting you know. In fact, there are many aspects that I still struggle with. So you have to make your own decision concerning what I propose. As I wrote it is my perspective of things so far, after more than 40 years searching for plausible answers. I am just sharing for what it's worth. For me it is worth a lot! It is logical and plausible. For the last 40 years I encountered quite fluffy stuff and people that did not register on my scale... You are allowed to be skeptical ! I am a no nonsense guy.

Love, karma, energy

The best way to grow spiritually is through... love! Not necessarily love for one person, universal love. This is of course easier said than done. We are raised to mistrust. To love is not something "fluffy". Yet through love you will eventually feel "lighter".

The best way to express love is not to try to embrace the world but through your deeds. It has to do with compassion towards one another, that is helping others in any way possible. We only have to sincerely do as much as we can in a given circumstance.

It could only be holding the door to the next person! In that sense nowadays automatic door are taking away a simple gesture of courtesy! It might be convenient but it doesn't put into perspective your "precious" time. How long does it take in one's life to hold the door to the next person? That goes for any simple gesture. Are we so cheap as to not have the time to hold a door? It takes one or two seconds of one's "precious" time. We have to show humanity towards each other, individuals being on a journey down here as we are.

There is something karmic about simple gestures. Every time you do one simple gesture you partly redeem whatever bad karma you've accumulated, not unlike Air Miles™ :) This goes the other way as well. If you are doing things harmful to you or others, it's recorded somewhere, not the NSA... Our goal is to spiritually grow.

I understand pretty well that this seems far-fetched. I can't prove that in a test tube in a lab. Even though I can't prove it, it won't hurt me if I hold the door to the next person. Do to others what you would like others do for you. And don't calculate all the time. It won't work if you do things to redeem whatever it is you feel requires some expiation. The gestures that counts are the ones done with spontaneity, not through calculation.

Whatever we do or say creates energy. We determine what type of energy we want to make use of in our life. If you feel good about the gesture you just did it is a kind of energy that is used for you and for others.

Energy equals vibrations or frequencies or pulses, not unlike the frequency to distribute electricity to a house which in most countries is either 50 or 60 Hertz.or cycles or pulses per second. We could talk about radio frequencies which are also vibrations or pulses per second. The whole universe is made up of frequencies. That's the way the energy is transmitted in any world. Nikola Tesla invented a device to listen to the universe, called the teslascope. But it can go so far as the known universe. Same for radiotelescope that are listening to all sorts of frequencies emitted by all sorts of objects in the the material universe.

Anyone of us uses frequencies as well. When we say to someone "you got good vibes" we only recognize this. You can feel one person's frequencies and you may or may not feel comfortable with theirs compared to yours and vice versa. You feel a warmth next to this person or you are feeling a repulsion.

Languages are also using frequencies or vibration. The way we use our languages is building us as persons but also as communities. We are responsible for the way we use those frequencies. They determine a path. It is political. We choose to be either peaceful, engaging and cooperative or we choose otherwise. We then have to understand the consequences of our choice.

Good vibes attracts good vibes and bad ones attracks bad ones. Some people may be powerful in the material world but they might not be so powerful on the Other Side. It all depends on the way ones uses the energy. It's no brainer. In the other world if you even try to be powerful you'll be quickly put in your place by the forces out there, that is you might be powerful but to a very very low level, next to this material world. Further you climb the spiritual latter, less you are powerful because it doesn't exist as such on higher plans because relations are made of exchange, cooperation... and love.

Group of affinities and personal progression

To some extent things are no so different on the Other Side as here. Why should they be so weirdly different?

On the Other Side people form communities if they wish so. Like down here. People regroup by affinities according to their levels of "spirituality". Every way of the steps towards what we could call "enlightenment", one finds groups of affinities.

For example, if one is a flute player and plays with others there are flute players on the Other Side which you can join, always according to your level of spirituality. Your personal evolution determines that you can be with other flute players who have the same level of evolution as yours.

Same goes for any activity, except that some disappear as you climb up the ladder of spirituality. If you wish to stay a criminal, a gambler or whatever is of low level, you can. But then you won't be very high in the ladder. And you face the possibility of being annihilated...

The level of spirituality is in no way determined by wealth. Your notoriety as a drug dealer or a phlanthropist is irrelevant. It is the sum of your deeds that determines you level of spirituality. If on one hand you gave millions of dollars to arts but on the other hands unjustifiably exploited your workers, you are not to expect to be treated with deference. 

In fact some of your former workers might be way up in the spiritual scale compared to you and it might stay that way for a long long time. It is not a matter of revenge, only of spiritual levels. This is just an example. It serves the purpose of explaining how things work on the Other Side. After all it's a practical guide. No frills. If you wish to be rubbed in the right way or if you are looking for an ego-booster, there are literally hundred of books out there that will do so to please you.

The Other, My Mirror

It is not at all necessary to be part of any religion to reach spiritual heights. Religions are man-made institutions. One just has to follow the simple rules that are at its disposal, like the ones I give here or any wisdom they find, except that one has to remember that a great many people are just serving their own turfs, making things so easy that one might as well do without. There is indeed work to do to reach those spiritual heights, make no mistake about that.

One of the most difficult aspect of this willingness to reach spiritual heights is... oneself. Take for instance being surrounded by others. Whenever you are to complain about someone else behaviour, manners because they drive you nuts or just irritate you, make sure you are not talking about yourself. Most of the time what one is reproaching to someone else is also something one should look within oneself. It's there for sure. The other always acts as a mirror. It is shocking. It is unacceptable. Indeed! And yet there is no escape. Before (or at the same time as) changing the world one has to work on oneself and there are no better ways than confronting others which allows to react and act... upon oneself. First.

If we were or had to pay Jesus as an expert witness when he came around it would have cost around one million dollar per word he would pronounce. It's not every day we get to encounter someone coming from the highest of the highest spiritual lands visiting us. So before we killed him because we didn't like his line of thinking, he had the time to say a couple of things worth billions of dollars, because nowadays that seems to be all that counts: how much is it worth?

So check it for yourself and think about it for a moment. In Matthews 7.3 when it is reported Jesus said the following: "Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 4. How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?", he indeed gave us for free an incredible key to our spiritual endeavour. It didn't only mean: "Don't judge others", it meant and still means first and foremost we'd better check our own self THROUGH the reaction we trigger in ourselves while in the surrounding of others. The mirror. We are face to face with ourselves when we are with others. In a good way or in a bad way. If we feel comfortable with someone it is because we are alike and it pleases us. It is very easy to always stay surrounded by people just pleasing us but we don't learn much in terms of improving ourselves. Not that one should not see people pleasing them, but that one has to also encouter people not pleasing oneself if one is to learn something about oneself. 

Injustice and spirituality

In the material world and specifically here on Earth there is what we call injustice. Much injustice. Apparently. Although it is laudable to work to alleviate the worst of it and create the conditions for a better world, in the end the most important is the spiritual work on oneself.

We all know about the so-called 1%, the super-rich people of this world who have so much that they seem to be drowning in cash. This is obviously unfair and revolting. And few of them 'deserve' what they have. In most cases it has been obtained trough suspicious means that have no spiritual base for sure. The worst thing is to feel envy towards them. As I said it is important to work on social justice but it is not about the 1%. In a way I sometimes think it is good that this situation exists because people are relentless in consuming and wasting time and money on "things". The satisfaction of needs has become an obsession and creates a world of garbage. So at least the fact there is this 1% having it all limits the disaster that cunsumption is having on this very planet, because with the little left for the rest of us, pollution and garbage are piling up like crazy all over the world. The mad dog has to be on leash.

Life is not about money, consumption and work to achieve this cycle. Although it is only fair to live comfortably, the level of comfort we are looking for is fortunately unreachable by the majority of people on this planet. What we call the ecological footprint has its purpose. It shows exactly what I am talking about.

It seems very hard to grab yet if we do not have a sound spiritual base any economical, political, social system won't achieve much and it all start with oneself. Anyone who is stealing other's life will not go far in the spiritual world even though one might live in a castle with 10 cars at the door down here, it just shows the low level of spirituality. It has nothing to do with going to church every Sunday in a Mercedes. This is hypocritical.

It is what you do and think that counts. There are many ways of stealing from others. In today's world real estate speculation has become a real game to gain. It is destroying entire lives and neighbourhoods all over the world. It creates unrest. So are other forms of profiteering such as the stock market speculative nature. Retirement funds are made of these. So to achieve one's own so-called retirement one is stealing from others. The whole financial system is a world of theft. erything has to change to the core. The goals are totally unacceptable at any level of spirituality. I am not saying poverty is the road to high level of spirituality. Fairness is closer to what one can achieve it this life, here and elsewhere in the universe.

The whole history of man has been about conquest and envy. We don't have to be rich or a scholar to know that. Jesus and others have been warning about this for centuries and the message is not heard. Other people are also taking advantage of the ignorance of others by creating churches that are just giving false hope. Most churches are falsely using the scriptures of phophets to gain attention and increase their membership. Their base is to show an easy path towards spiritual achievement.

It took me decades to understand this and from the begining of my adult life I have been restless with the apparent injustice that exists in all manners in this world. Even though I had the opportunity to be 'initiated' at an early age, it took me a long time to accept what I was told as being just. It's amazing because I had to struggle with myself all the time, having a real hard time accepting that this world is the way it is because we make it the way it is. So I've decided to leave it there. To stop complaining about this apparent injustice and work on myself instead because I cannot force others to go my way. Just to try to be the best person I can be and maybe help others if they want it. People who are not asking for help don't need help. It is only fair to ask for it and to not offer free advice if not asked for. It is a pledge and a bet I am having. A pledge and a bet with myself and about what I was told a long time ago as being the way it works.