Posted by Raul on August 31, 2010
While using the Netbook in the kitchen I caught a sudden movement of one of the plants spending time in a corner of the room.
The plant was just standing there when several leaves quickly moved like if being pushed by an invisible hand. No words came out of my mouth but they did form in my mind (what the f…!) then immediately I remembered those videos in YouTube about ghosts…you know, those where someone claims to forgot to turn off the camera and later, when checking the video, found that things moved in the room on their own, then go on to say “you decide” although the title of the video usually is something like “definite proof that ghost exist” (yes, from time to time I like to watch YouTube videos; you can learn something with the video and laugh with the comments)
I don’t believe in ghosts, even though I am one (Alien Ghost remember?) so trying to find an explanation I checked for air currents in the room…none; then I thought: plants grow and we don’t see any movement…being this plant one of those that hang from a basket maybe the leaves grow until they touch with each other, then start applying pressure and then at some point the leaves just “jump” to a new position when the growth has reached a certain point.
Or something like that.
My only experience with ghosts was several years ago back in my country. When my wife’s father died we were living in the US and couldn’t go to the funeral. About a year later we travel and stayed in my wife’s parent’s house
I used to spend lots of time at the living room doing drawings and usually got there up to 3 or 4 in the morning, when everyone was sleeping in the house.
A couple of times I was concentrated in the drawings when I heard steps in front of me and felt the presence of someone just standing there, watching me; I looked up and saw no one else in the room. The way of walking was the same of my wife’s father.
Later, talking with family members, the only other person feeling the presence of this ghost was his wife, the widow.
Why only the two of us? And especially why me one of them? I know he didn’t like me…after all in his eyes I stole his daughter
Disclaimer: I didn’t steal her, I was just passing by minding my own business when she grabbed me and forced me to marry her! (I hope she doesn’t read this) J
I suppose those “encounters” were nothing more that the contraction of the wooden floor with the temperature changes at night.
But those thoughts and memories got me thinking…how many stories and beliefs start with the jump into a conclusion without the search for a more logical explanation?
Do you believe in ghosts? Do you have a story to share with us in the comment section? Maybe after several different stories and approaches we can come to a different conclusion. Please share with us your memories.
Raul
Posted by Raul on August 19, 2010
The canoe is gliding over the fresh, cold waters of this magnificent morning; the quiet lake surrounded by beautiful trees while the sun shines by the side letting the natural colors bright with their maximum intensity.
I can hear the gentle noise of the water as I slowly paddle my way through the center of the lake. Some birds I cannot see let me have their morning songs that go in perfect synchronicity with the air, the smell of fresh grass and new flowers in the distance.
Some brownish leaves floating in the lake, waving with the gentle movements of the waters that hold them and let them be a different kind of shining spots to complement the beauty of the place.
My heart is complete with joy as I experience the beauty of nature and the simplicity of being. No complex thoughts, no worries about civilian life, just a human being in nature, as part of nature, being connected with the whole, the universe
My spirit finally free so I can be, instead of the struggles we self impose by our built society. Free to be, free to climb, free to experience the moment as it should always be. At this point I am one with nature and the universe!
Finding the connection of an intelligent and sensitive being, born out of a powerful specie among the many that conform life in this beautiful planet, among the many that conform the universe, with the universe itself.
Connections that present us with the truth of a master plan, a purpose, a reason to be here, to be born; nature and a human being, synchronized, being part of each other, connected, to make the whole.
A piece of wood floating in the waters; I didn’t see it, I hit it and the sudden movement of my body by the surprise makes my canoe move quickly and tip to one side, I loose balance and fall to the waters.
Cold waters that shock me and cut off my breathing, I can’t breath and my arms and legs instinctively stretch instead of moving to swim back to the canoe; water reach my mouth, nose, ears and eyes; grasping for air I swallow the cold, bitter water while I can’t see anything and a rumbling noise surrounds me.
I fight, I start moving my arms and legs, but no air that I need, so it’s drowning instead of breathing and the more I try the worst it becomes, so the pain in my chest, that feeling of exploding from inside, my lungs burn and I completely loose any control over my body.
Then the pain recedes and my body calms down, stops moving, I float just a couple of inches under the waters, and I can see.
My family, my little child playing and laughing, my spouse’s face smiling, the house, the mountains close to where I lived; the ocean with the sunset that was part of my life so long ago. The struggles and dreams for so many years.
Then nature around, life itself and the universe that I learned to be part of; another magnificent creature connected that I came to be, now being absorbed and destroyed; all the memories, all the experiences, all the knowledge accumulated, the thoughts, the questioning, all that became a part of this human being, all being quietly destroyed by Mother Nature while some little birds sing their morning songs and the sun gives the colors around a vibrant shine.
The feeling of being disposed of, discarded, reduced to just new soil or dust, the nothingness, while all nature’s creatures and nature itself remain silent in complicity of the murdering
I was, or I thought I was; connections or pretensions? Vision or happy, ignorant blindness? No cold, no perceptions other than a vague vision of the waters and just floating in the nothingness.
I could, for a brief moment, convince myself of being in harmony with the whole, of being a part of the whole, under a controlled situation where I got to have the power, the decisions, the faith, until the whole claimed its power back and showed me how insignificant this physical body can be.
A brief moment, just a second of an entire life, from the powerful being to the disposable element, like a brownish leave in autumn, like the piece of dead wood floating lifeless by the lake, just like a dead bug on the ground…so is the time…to say good bye…
Raul
Posted by Raul on August 12, 2010
When you are in pain, confused, lost, or simply bored, go to God Google.
When you need to receive advice, directions, information or amusement, go to God Google.
Even if you have sexual desire to satisfy God Google will give you the information and connections you need to get the relief you seek.
Our new God Google is here to help us, protect us, guide us and even entertain us without imposing rules or commandments.
Do you remember the times before God Google?
You had to go all the way to the library for information; you had to ask around to countless people just to get a vague answer to your queries; you had to read books, newspapers and magazines to see if your specific question would be answered in one of those pages.
You had to invest so much time and effort to satisfy your needs of information or curiosity.
You had to go through so many tribulations in order to reach the desired wisdom of such information.
But no more!
God Google is here for us.
Forget all the previous gods taught by the older generations that gave you just the possibility to pray but no instant answer.
With God Google you get not only the answer to your questions in about 1.35 seconds, but you get alternatives to go thru if the first answer doesn’t satisfy you.
So don’t forget to pay your Monthly Contribution (bill) to your Chosen Church (internet provider company) so you can be connected to your God Google.
Fight for your God Google! Defend It from anything and anyone that try to destroy It.
There are countless Evil Search Engines that will try to tempt you into the wrong ways, so be on guard, become a Saint Soldier that’s willing to surrender his/her life to defend and protect our new God Google.
God Google is good and doesn’t try to be the only one for you and take your total attention making you forget about your own personality.
No matter what religion, belief or concept you have, God Google will let you connect with those personal beliefs because God Google is Mighty and Magnanimous and doesn’t need to capture and retain all your attention so to keep you under It’s only light and darkness around.
God Google knows that whatever your beliefs are now, you will recognize and accept It’s Mighty so doesn’t need to create Holly Wars to retain you.
What would it be to go back to the Dark Times before God Google?
Recognize that you’ll be lost if from this moment you loose the connection with God Google.
You wouldn’t know what to do or where to start when in need of information.
You’ll be lost in the dark, trying to remember how to live and do things in the very inefficient way it used to be.
Time has come to change the saying to: “Oh my Google!”
We live in the Information Era so the Information God is here!
Kneel in front of our new God Google!
Father Raul
Posted by Raul on January 22, 2010
For a long time I have been curious about the difference in feelings people have about eternal life or after life.
Many religions tell that there is life after death; some talk about good and bad places where you go depending on how you were in your life; some tell about an intermediate plane to stay for a while before coming back to life thru reincarnation, etc.
Many people follow a religion that teaches these concepts, and these people claim to be believers of those concepts, yet when it comes to feel by heart what they have been taught, the big majority reacts as if there was nothing after death, defying with this their own beliefs and the teachings they have received from their religions.
They are scared of death, even if they suppose to go to a better place where there’s no physical pain and suffering for physical things; a place of peace for the mind.
In everyday situations they tend to react more according to the feelings of the moment or the conveniences rather than based on the ways they suppose to react in order to ensure their place in this promised after life, as if in reality, opposed to the teachings from their religions, this after life didn’t exist.
So the concept of life after death is more like a fairy tale in the minds of people than a “confirmed reality” as taught by their own religions, the ones they follow their entire lives respecting and applying the customs required.
It seems that the entire religion becomes a custom to follow; more as a social element to get acceptance, than a real belief to live by. If you claim you don’t believe then you are segregated and tagged as selfish and arrogant by the others, so you have to comply with the customs and traditions extended thru generations in your family and follow the customs of their religion.
Easier said than done, of course; to be part of the custom and to follow the procedures that will ensure you a place in your community you just have to be present when service is provided and emulate the words and movements institutionalized throughout decades, hundreds or maybe thousands of years, then you are accepted as one more of the group and no questioning occurs.
That’s the easy part!
The complicated one is to acquire by heart the teachings to the point of reactions to many everyday situations are natural and spontaneous and according to the teachings received.
So the result is people following religions as a tradition; as a condition of their birth, like the place, country or language under which they grew up, with customs followed the same way the type of clothing is worn, more than a real belief as a concept learned throughout study and understanding of the teachings received and that were accepted by heart.
Raul
Posted by Raul on November 7, 2009
If I’m standing in the street facing the wind and snow from a blizzard I can feel its force in my face and my body trying to push me to make me fall. I can feel the cold and the noise. I feel like I am alone, facing a monster that keeps on attacking me, trying to destroy me and my surroundings. I fell helpless, like a lonely rebel in a war against a dictatorship.
If I turn one hundred and eighty (180) degrees and face to the same direction the wind is blowing I can feel that wind and snow hitting my back, pushing me forward, and can see the snow blowing by my side and going ahead of me. I feel like I am part of this monster, watching it attack everyone in its path, trying to destroy everything, and even that I don’t want to be part of it I can feel that I am its accomplice for not stopping it, even if I can’t, but at the same time I feel protected by this monster because I am in its side, not facing it coming to destroy but watching the destruction created. I could feel guilty, like a small puppet employee of a dictatorship.
If I turn another ninety (90) degrees to my right I can feel the wind and snow coming from the right trying to destroy everything that is in the left, like if I was a neutral country watching a war between two political ideologies where the Right believers destroy the evil of Left believers, but if I turn another one hundred and eighty (180) degrees, then the Left believers would be destroying the Right believers, and I would be a neutral bystander watching cruel destruction somewhere else while my life goes on.
The same situation have a different meaning depending on from which position we observe and participate, so cannot be called a fact or a truth, just an opinion. There is no such thing as a Universal Truth, just personal truths and believes, and there can be as many truths as people in the argument; it will all depend on the personal points of view.
From my perspective you are wrong and from your perspective I am wrong, and we both are correct from our points of view, so there are two truths over the same problem, at the same time.
Crazy!
Raul
