Regarding A Few Posts from Readers…

Hi I got one comment from JoJo who was mad at me for talking to much about other things like religion. Oh, well, in my opinion all things are related and I like to push the envelope in regards to our assumptions about religion especially because it is often used as a crutch to do horrible things. It is also something most people are afraid to examine because of the “FEAR OF GOD!” which is a terrible ridiculous idea. One that serves organized religion well, keeps their 10% coming in and people’s minds shut off from having a relationship with God which is very sad.

Religion is also so often used to destroy others with, to invade countries, to feel righteous – all very bad things that lead to suffering and are the antithesis of spirituality. I think it’s sort of funny that people want me to just be a psychic and predict things. Where do these people think I get my information? I was given the gift because I have spent most of my lifetimes trained in different religious traditions. If anyone spends the vast majority of even one lifetime meditating and doing trance work they will get psychic information. I have memories of my past lives and believe me I earned these abilities both in other lifetimes and in the circumstances of this lifetime.

In this lifetime I have been trained in a religious tradition and have a ministerial credential. I have performed quite a few marriages in my years. It’s a strange idea that some people separate spirituality from psychic ability. It is impossible to have the “gift” and not connect with spirits, inter-dimensional beings (angels, fairies, guides, the higher self or whatever one wants to call it) and have flashes of God/Goddess’s love. Being a psychic is a modern form of shamanism. And shamans are in direct connection with the divine. Seriously, where else would the info come from? I guess that’s why some super right wing Christians think psychics are in league with the devil because their preachers tell them they are the only ones who can spread the TRUTH, while they misquote and misunderstood the bible (mostly Christ’s message, they seem to do well with the damnation part aka the Old Testament aka the Torah which isn’t supposed to be the Christian part but I guess I’m just getting fussy) and it’s perfectly fine to be like a lame parent and “Do as I say not as I do,” for many of these leaders, being major hypocrites (to say the least in many cases). Many of these “preachers” have the energy of a used car salesman on meth like Ted Haggard. Jeez, way before he came out he seemed strung out on coke and I would have better the deed to my house that he was getting some man action. Not that there would be anything wrong with him being gay or even having drug problems if he wasn’t running around damning everyone else to hell for having the same problems. It’s just disgusting the things these people do in the name of religion. They are so hateful to gay people and people with drug problems or any sort of problems which is so NOT CHRISTIAN! I know there are many really great Christan people who follow the words of Christ and who are loving and kind and pure. I wish they would speak up against these nut-jobbers who seem to be using the religion to just get rich and take advantage of people by dignifying the lowest human traits like racism, anger, hatred, war mongering, fear, etc. and find these bizarre ways to elevate this low level behavior to a spiritual club (this behavior is anything but spiritual or God-like unless one’s conception of God is that he’s a jealous, evil, mean-spirited, blood thirsty father figure who likes to create people to have sexual desire only to punish them for it, talk about Sadistic!) Christ said things like “He who is without sin cast the first stone, love thy neighbor as thyself, etc.” I mean we all know his teachings, they were not my Dad in heaven’s gonna kick your ass with his oozy if you don’t do what I say!

And anyone can be psychic if they want to spend a few lifetimes meditating and praying all the time. Or even if they want to devote  a big chunk of this life to knowing and understanding God/Goddess through meditation and trance work.

In modern organized religions God is often so formalized, intellectualized and distant that many priests and preachers don’t get to actually experience God directly but rather go through the prescription of the bible or other holy books. I have met priests and nuns who have a beatific quality, it’s obvious they are very connected to Spirit (most Buddhist monks and nuns are like this, they spend the vast majority of their time meditating). But western religions are not big on shamanistic practices or on forging ones own connection to the divine, but rather we are taught to blindly believe the bible and those religious figures who teach it. History has proven this to be problematic from the burning times of Europe when 25% of all women were murdered to our current crisis of Christian Crusaders blowing up abortion clinics, terrorizing doctors and building Mega Churches with our tax dollars for the military so they can get pumped up in their fight against Muslim extremists. Does anyone see the problem here? I’m sure 99.9% of you do.

So for those who don’t like the theological side of me, well, I’ll just have to say I’m given information by a greater force than myself and that includes where my spiritual beliefs come from, they come from a lifetime of connecting and praying, meditating and giving myself over to the Great Spirit to channel the truth. If it doesn’t jive with a book written more than 2,000 years ago, oh, well. And if it you’ve meditated on your own connection and what I say doesn’t feel right to you, I completely respect that as we all have our own spiritual paths. But the one thing I will never respect is paying someone else to do your spiritual work for you because not only does it not work, it actually causes spiritual devolvement. It is the most dangerous thing about organized religion which is why, ironically, I have more in common with most atheists and agnostics, in this regard, than I do people who blindly follow a specific faith without using their own higher self to guide them on that path.

All religions are the truth. It’s just the truth is buried inside the faith, and one must do the digging on his or her own to progress down the path. This is because religions become like a millennium long game of telephone, and by the time the information is given to you via multiple interpretations of the scriptures and political events that color or even edit either the meaning/tone or actual information in the scripture. Try reading all the different versions of the bible. Now imagine all those versions came from early translations that were translated from early translations that were passed down through oral tradition for thousands of years. As you can see the truth soon becomes a needle inside hundreds of tangled haystacks. Many of these haystacks manipulated (say sprayed different colors or covered in chemicals or whatever) by the culture and those in power at different points in history. The only way to find that needle is to close your eyes, meditate upon it and plug into the part of you that is one with God. If you do, you walk right through all the thousands of haystacks, right to the center of the one that has the needle inside it, as if it was never lost.

Many Blessings,

Denise

Oh, and to John who posted about Lincoln,

I’m from Illinois so I’m sure I didn’t get the whole story of Lincoln. I don’t know enough so I can’t argue with your information. I’m sure he was corrupt in some ways. But he did end slavery and that took some pretty big balls.

I had heard someone in passing say he was racist, but I think everyone was back then. People were segregated and whites had no real contact with African Americans and those who did would have had contact with either slaves or extremely poor and/or undereducated African Americans thus adding to people’s stupid assumptions.

The moral argument against slavery wasn’t that they believed in the equality of the African Americans, it was about the immorality of slavery itself. I think it’s a bit much to believe anyone back then was really that advanced in regards to their understanding of race or gender. I’m sure Lincoln was a total sexist, too. As the vast majority (99.99999999%)  would have been because it was the culture they were raised in where women and minorities were not given the same opportunities and of course if you limit people then they can’t help but live up to their culture’s limited expectations. It is only the rare few that are able to rise and then they are considered the “exceptions.”

There’s always a way for people to protect their ignorance. I thank you for your information about Lincoln. I’ll have to do more research about him.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Here is the first question:

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Did the Bush-Cheney campaign engage in electronic vote fraud in 2004 on Ohio to ensure that George W. Bush would be president for another four years?

The tarot says: Yes.

It looked like they knew if they didn’t Bush/Cheney would loose and it was a close enough and they had the people in place to get away with voter fraud. They also knew that a court case would be eminent but it would be of little consequence to them as the presumptive winners.

And the next two come from Tckal:

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Hi Denise: I’m really curious as to whether Obama will win Arizona and Alaska, the McCain and Palin home states. Do you see Obama turning those states blue? Thanks!

Will Obama win Arizona? 

The cards say: Yes. But I find it hard to believe as this is McCain’s home state and traditionally red. But according to the cards, it’s a pretty strong yes. It looks like it could be because of the hispanic vote which is really going for Obama. And McCain is seen as married to the establishment, also to the problems going on in the world right now and the Bush administration.

Will Obama win Alaska?

They don’t trust Obama.

But it looks like they don’t really like McCain much. The people of Alaska like their bigger oil checks (some would call this welfare and re-distributing the wealth.) So the majority are really voting for Palin partially because of the notoriety she has brought to their state, and because of those fat oil checks. She actually has more in common with the socialism of oil rich Scandinavian countries then Obama does with his rich people should pay higher taxes scheme. Wow, that’s so radical. It’s only been the income tax code since its inception about a hundred years ago. Anyway, her painting Obama as a Socialist or a Marxist is about as ludicrous as calling Palin Einstein.

tckal

…and also those currently tied states (Montana and North Dakota) that were always red until recently. Thanks Denise!

Will Obama/Biden win Montana?

The tarot says: Yes.

I was a bit shocked by this. It looks like a pretty amazing victory there. It looks very good for Obama where I wouldn’t think it possible.

Will Obama/Biden win North Dakota:

The cards say that’s still a toss up. Right now it is too close to call and it looks like it could go either way. The hearts and minds of the people there are still undecided. They are very nervous, anxious and afraid and want a change but they aren’t sure which way to go just yet.

The last question is from Tjuania:

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

THANK YOU,,,,,,,, I am getting so nervous about this election. There is a higher power looking over this election. I was wondering there was a report yesterday about “two skin-heads”, who were plotting the assasination of Barack Obama and killing at least 70 African- American students.

Will we as African- American parents have to be worried about these types of incidents in the next 4 years?

Yes, there is a higher power protecting this election. And something much more powerful going on then I have ever seen in my lifetime. I believe we are at a crossroads. It is a time of reckoning. Not the kind Evangelic’s are trying to usher in, but a true reckoning where karma will be wrought. And no amount of phony contrition will be accepted. Remember in the New Testament it says: And the meek shall inherit the earth. Well, we will see the fall of those who abused their power to control and pervert others. We’ve already seen many of these Evangelic preachers fall and many wall street big wigs, too. And this trend will continue. Many probably will loose their faith in Christianity as well they should. Because they have been mislead.  

I’m sorry to say the answer to your question is, yes.

We will see those who have nothing to fuel their sense of superiority and entitlement except hatred get very angry over Obama’s win. We will see a rise in all forms of xenophobia, all sorts of hate crimes not just against African-American people, but against, gay people, Jewish people, Hispanic people, Muslim’s, Indian/Pakistanis, you name it, anyone and everyone who is a minority or seen as the other. This is because there are those who have a sense of entitlement linked to their race. Most of these people have nothing else to feel superior about, they lack education are not very intelligent and often live cloistered lives without any real interaction with people who look different then they do. 

However, this will be brewing for the next few years, but we won’t actually see the real trouble burst out until about 2011 when Uranus will go into Aries. I fear we will see some really bad stuff then. More organized hate groups doing things like bombing black churches, mosques and Jewish temples. I really hope I’m wrong, but I do feel this incredible divide happening in this country. Those who wish to move forward and are open, compassionate and all inclusive (in the old days what was called liberal) and those who are full of venom, and I’ll just say it because it is what it is, as ignorant as some of these people are their leaders are evil and these people are choosing to go toward fear, intolerance and hatred instead of love, kindness and compassion. We are in a very karmic time. 

I find it ironic that many of those who call themselves Christian seem to be more infatuated with the old testament rather then Christ’s teachings which were meant to supersede the old testament, you know that book called, the New testament. Christ would never have condoned gay bashing, hatred toward other people because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or for anything this current crop of Christians demonize. As a matter of fact these Christian ministers getting rich, living high on the hog, speaking to stadiums full of followers and flying around in private jets would make Christ sick. It was Christ who freaked out on the money changers in front of the temple and said, “It is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to get into heaven.” The reason being, wealth and power often corrupt the spirit with greed and selfishness. These are not qualities befitting a spiritual leader. But yet, these people call themselves Christian.