My clan's ancestral home built in the fourteenth century
Who or what I am is something I have never thought too much about. I always thought of me as a fairly regular guy. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian family. I had a rebellious childhood, married at seventeen and raised four children. None are in jail or on the run, so I guess I was a success as a parent. I maintained a marriage for forty eight years (only by the grace of my wife), swam with the sharks and made a little money. Looking back on it all, it has been a good life.
Along the way I met Alex, (1973), and we have had some stormy times in the past, but I want you to know one thing. She is as real as the sun rising in the East. What she says is what she knows to be true, it has worked for her or she would not advise you to try that path.
To be asked to share some of my experiences with her readers is an honor and makes me pose and consider the other part of my life she asks me to share.
The part I keep mostly to myself. The part of my life where the abnormal is the normal, where hope rules over logic and intent is reality. A place where all things are possible and you are the limiting factor. You are probably thinking, it sounds like prayer but its not. It could be Pagan but its not. How about Devil worship? No, I would never go there.
As for me, I think I’m blessed with something I don’t fully understand, and probably never will. The best way to explain it is I use whatever will work at the time. How do I know what will work? The Power tells me. All I have to do is pay attention. It can come from a conversation, dream, TV show (if your not watching Dobie Gillis) or your own past experiences. Trust me in this, The Power will guide you.
The other way is to throw caution to the wind and use pure emotion, as I did in the healing of my daughter. I would have opened the gates of heaven or hell to heal her, as I would for any of my children, but this is very dangerous because raw heart felt emotion can’t be controlled. It knows only purpose and ramifications be damned, whatever is in its way, will be removed.
Art is also a big part of me. I love to draw and sculpture. I prefer wood and stone as a medium for my sculptures, and pencil and paper for my drawings. I have had no formal training in either but I was asked by an art gallery if they could show my sculptures. I sold all I could make from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, but after a while I became frustrated. The inspirations (and the sculptures) didn’t come as fast as they wanted, so I quit. Now I do only what I want when I want, and most of it pertains to The Art. You have seen most of them in the photographs that accompany some of my articles.
As for as education I was kicked out of school in the ninth grade and had to go to another school, where I met my future wife. I went half way through the eleventh grade there and joined the Navy in 1960, married my one and only wife in '61 and all has been good (she’s looking over my shoulder), since then.
I would like to give thanks to spell check. Without it you wouldn’t be able to understand a thing I have written.
So now you know I’m an average guy with a less than average education, with two very uncommon talents. Art and The Art and they fit together seamlessly. In either case you only get out what you put in.
In sculpture you must be able to see what you want to create inside the stone from every angle. You have to study the rock, find its flaws so they won’t interfere with what you want to create. Only then will you know what to remove to bring your creation to life.
In The Art you need only substitute objective for create. You know your objective; you study the task and decide the best way to achieve it. In both cases you proceed with certainty, for doubt is the first step on the road to failure.
Thomas
NOTE:
I have known Thomas since 1973. He is the best friend of my ex-husband that I was married to for 18 years and am still close friends with him and his entire family. Some people you never divorce because they are your family, even without a marriage.
Thomas and I would get into red hot GOD arguments or rather discussions of our opinions over and over again for years. I was just so Pentecostal judgmental, and so narrow-minded on my GOD STUFF at the time. I believed at that time exactly what I was taught. I did not question it. Once I journeyed outside of what is the Pentecostal "Oneness" GOD I learned so much more and it changed everything I knew and felt about God. I only wish I had known sooner. It would have saved me lots of misunderstanding my God and my relationship with Him.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are my GODHEAD and where I place my beliefs but I learned so much more by visiting and studying other faiths, especially the Kabbalah with Rabbi Solomon in 2001. There I learned about past life connections and "The Deal" we make with God, in Heaven, as an adult soul to come to earth and love each person in our life and bring the "LIGHT OF GOD" to them with our unconditional love.
Studying Kabbalah made me understand why I had been collecting books about it for ten years and never understood why. It had to do with being a Kabbalist in a past life time and my soul kept insisting that I buy books to study it. Until I went to that first meeting I never felt a connection. After that I understood.
I encourage you to seek God for yourself. Let your soul lead you and be free to follow it. It will not betray you, only take you to a higher level of wisdom to understand God, The Universe and yourself and others around you. Follow where you are led to visit and seek God with "like kind" believers so you will be welcome and "at peace" and fulfilled in your own life. You will not go wrong if you follow your own personal Holy Spirit Ch'i (the Cosmic Breath of God), within you, as it leads you to your higher self, and a greater destiny than you thought possible.
God will, with your help and pure intention for change and ability to manifest, bring you to a new and better life. Many say "This is Heaven on Earth." They believe we create ALL things in our life. Why not have a Heavenly atmosphere surrounding you? It is all up to you.
This is exactly what Thomas did when he manifested a new part for his daughter's spine so she would be healed and have a life that was better than all of the pain her condition had caused her. See his article on Healing he created for his daughter at http://www.powerfengshui.info/EZine/Thomas%27s%20Corner.shtml#Thomas5
Please read many other articles Thomas shares at his pages here at www.PowerFengShui.info http://www.powerfengshui.info/EZine/Thomas%27s%20Corner.shtml
You will learn from each of them. We invite you back to visit us always.
Alex