About Five Minutes

  This is in response to a friends note on Muslims, I am just hoping to bring some extra information. Interesting to find that the first wave of Muslims to North America came through the slave trade, so Muslims have been on the lands of the Americas for a very long time. Many slaves were forced to be Christian, but about 13 years after the Civil War there was the Great Migration of humans with darker variances of skin tone to the north that brought a resurgence of the African-American Muslim Nationalist Movement. Muslims from the Middle East came in good number from 1878-1924, then again in the 50's, there are also Muslim people from Asia, Africa and South America. There are 5 Pillars of Islam; 1. a profession of faith, 2. prayer, 3. alms (giving to the less fortunate), 4. fasting (during Ramadan), 5. a pilgrimage (to Mecca). Studies have been done which show that somewhere between 76-78% of Muslims say killing civilians is not justified; in comparison about 59% of the U.S....

 It is where you are connected to this reality, it is your tool to experience such a powerfully created grouping of forms. The problem is that we become so wrapped up in this thing that we allow it to overwhelm our awareness of the conscious presence we are. You are a being able to be a form in energy and a formless flow of all possible thinking. As we become better acquainted with our presence as energy touching atoms, we will become better at experiencing what this reality brings. Our current loss of self that pulls us so deeply into the experience of the world outside, as a version of an all encompassing place, is feeding the chaos that interferes with the truth of being so much more than the body. We think our body as the only form that we need to feed, the only way to experience a life or dreams. I assure you that you are so much more than this one thing. It is true, we are wonderful bodies that we barely understand, because we live from the outside world in. There is so much ...

 Who do you follow? Do you accept who you are? Can you look in the mirror to see your entire history with all the wicked thoughts mingled with the good, and still love the human that is there? Can you accept that you are still wonderful and lovable despite all those actions that you think were not your best moments? You are a dynamic history of experiences and you may have done horrible things, or you may have just done a little bad; either way you should know that you are more than your actions in the past. Even if you have been a saint your whole life, it does not make up all that you are and once we each open our minds and hearts to the many layered and ever changing beings that we are, that is when you can start to live as a whole person.  Who do you follow? As a whole person you can recognize others who are not living as one within their own self. Because you have embraced every part of your self, you can see when someone is hiding part of their own being from themselves....

 We are such a multifaceted and multiexperiential presence in existence that it can be amazing to the point of complete awe. When you recognize the self as energy, the light touching into the folds of space, time, physical and mental awareness you may first see your self as one wrapped into a little human body. Your thinking and experiencing form will stay in that state until you open your senses to merge with everything around you. Then after time and perhaps multiple meditations on this process of change in perception using spiritual practices, you will find generations of self here and now within your awareness. As a needle pushed into many layers of fabric placed one atop another 5, 10 or 100 sheets thick, it causes the fabric to bend and wrap around it. The tip slips through each layer, touching all of them at once as each connection plays out a separate roll in a slightly altered reality of form in space and time; you are like a needle of light sharing it's life with all the ...