True Meaning of Christmas

I know that is not the title of an entry that most people would expect to see on a spiritual blog. But I ask why not? One does not have to dig very deep to find that Christmas is not purely a Christian holiday. Christians merrily found it convenient to celebrate the birth of Jesus during this time as the rest of the world and other traditions where enjoying their various winter celebrations. But I am not going to go on and on about the history of Christmas.

That can be found very easily with the simple use of a search engine - History of Christmas.
This website has some good information on it as well - The Real Story of Christmas.

I think we should celebrate the season for our own reasons. It is a great time of the year to reflect on the self and on the god within all of us. In the northern hemisphere this time year we are receiving the least amount of energy and information from the universe. Being that our star, the Sun, is the most dominate source of energy for us. More information on the changes in energy and the seasons can be found in the module Unbond.

Just like Scandinavians celebrated the return of the sun this time of the year. We can celebrate the return of the source. What better way to prepare ourselves for the return then to reflect the self and maybe even renew our practices that may have been slipping. In preparation for the increased energy levels that are soon to come. Just like the Christians of old the best way to remember to celebrate this is to do it during an already established tradition. That way the whole world is your reminder.

Namaste and Merry Christmas Everyone,

Chris

Tin Man

I have gotten about half way through the mini series called Tin Man. So far I think it is a get movie for a person of spiritual interest to watch. It was aired in the SciFi channel a couple of weeks ago. I recorded it on my DVR and I am just getting to it. I am not sure when or if it is going to be rebroadcast but I have found out that it is going to be released in DVD in March 2008.

The mini series is based off of "The Wizard of OZ", as far as I can tell so far it seems to take place after the original. It contains a lot of good themes that a person studying the Higher Balance materials can really get into. I am going to hold off doing a full review until I have finished watching it but so far so good. Check it out if you can. I am sure if someone looked hard enough they could find it on the Internet somewhere. It is 6 hours long in broadcast time so even minus the commercials it is still pretty long.

My Navigator & Time Stepping

This past weekend I was outside putting up Christmas lights along the roof of my garage. After all the strings were put up I plug them in to find the one of strings was only partly working. It had worked just fine until I put it up.

Well first thing to check is to see if one of the bulbs is out. Not really that fun to do hanging over the edge of the roof. I grabbed an extra bulb and climbed back on to the roof and started to check the bulbs one by one. This is a good time to mention that this string of lights are colored. I cycle of four different colors down the length of the string. I got tried of this process very quickly then I notice this. Crap now I am going to have to go back down and grab the right colored bulb once I find the bad light.

I looked at the extra bulb I had to see that it was a red one. I had the thought that I should just trust myself that I grabbed the right bulb and just check the red bulbs.

So I did.

I was right! Another 4 or 5 red bulbs down the string I switched out a red bulb for the new one and the whole string lit up! I managed to turn checking 16 to 20 bulbs into 4 or 5. I wish I would have thought to feel this out earlier.

When I got off the roof time stepping popped into my head so I sat down and quickly sent back to grab a red bulb and only check the red ones to myself.

I definately think that by listening to my navigator and receiving a little information from my my future self was at play in those events.