Hurray the Book "And lead us into tremptation or The Benefits of a 'false' Prophet" is out"

The new book by Eugen Grathwohl "And Lead us into
Temptation or the Benefits of a 'false' Prophet

Part of my new year's resolution was to become a renowned writer. I know I have to work on my skills. This is my part on the learning process or better one of my parts. I am not sure if you know, but every year more than 1.000.000 books are published but you only read fb and maybe give away one or two books as a gift. No, I do not blame you!

One of the reasons I write is that I think some of my thoughts are worth to be known. In a way you could say I lived about 60 years I made people happy and hurt them, I went through joy and suffering"!

For what?

Mainly for me!

I have grown and in my bright moments I look back and wonder how this is possible.

I am not a people pleaser; I leave this to the actors and politicians.

Most constitutions claim that we are equal. We are not! Maybe we are born with equal rights - maybe in some countries. But for sure we are all born to live!

And we are all born to die - sorry if it scares you, but this is the truth! Most of us do not leave a footprint in history or a legacy. This means we do not need to worry about it and we can focus on the important thing: The NOW.

I wrote this book because again I am confronted with a false prophet, a false master. Once in my early days of an almost adult, God expelled me from paradise. It was the paradise of my childhood faith. Yes there is a world outside the paradise. I learnt a lot from it. In my new book And lead us into Temptation or The Benefits of a 'false' Prophet  I write about the fears a person may face when going through this process. And I speculate about God and I assume that there is a purpose behind this process!

If your faith is strong you may not need this book! If your faith is fragile it can give you your peace of mind back or it might be this drop that makes a glass overflow. I could say sorry for that, but sooner or later it would happen anyway.

If you have left already, this book  And lead us into temptation or the benefits of a 'false' Prophet  might take away your fear and give you a new direction on your spiritual path.

If you like nice, crazy or great ideas, you might enjoy this book. It will not kick you out of faith! No book can and for sure not And lead us into Temptation or The Benefits of a 'false' Prophet, at least not if you did not already start this process inside you.

It is an eBook (only) 7.99 US$ and can be downloaded from here

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Is Soul forced to be sequential?

Are you?
No, it is ok!
And it definitely is, if you are happy and content where you are.
 In my new book "And lead us into temptation or the benefits of a false prophet" I describe a development of beings of being basically not interested in the Life after or the question"Why are we here?"

Bad karma for the bamboo or its purpose?

I am not so sure if it is a linear development. If Soul exists outside of time maybe it is not a sequential process. In Germany we have an education system that basically is like a stack where one builds on the previous step. At least with me I observe a tendency to see things sequential.
How do you see it?
I easily can image that Soul passes through a sequence of OJTs (on job trainings)
Maybe there is a basic training which is sequential like high school. But then God places us in a "working environment" and gives us a challenge. At the end of the assignment we evaluate ourselves or are evaluated and get a new assignment or are sent to a special training that helps us to get more qualified. Then we go back to this job and do better now.
I can imagine this applied to priests who abuse woman or children in their flog or politicians who misused their power.
Did you hear about reincarnation therapy? It is a method where people with problems are guided backwards to the source of this problem, which often originates in one or several former lifetimes. Of course this technique also was ans is used by curious people who want to know about their karmic history. For me surprisingly often the people were kings, queens, knight, warriors but seldom was there a recall of a simple person a maid, a thief or more general a member of the lower class.
I agree it is easier to remember if it was a "big thing" than something small way back.
But what if we were a king or a barangay captain, a chief or maybe only a respected elder who misused his power and now came back to see the other side of the experience.
For me the universe does not act on wishes and karma is not for punishment.
When I was in training to become a craftsman we had to hone a flat area and had to do it again and again until it was flat and not slanting.
Yes, sometimes it felt like punishment, but that was how I felt. My master only wanted a nicely honed piece of work,
I really like the example of karma being a stick! We enjoy it when we can use it to beat someone and we call it "bad karma" when we experience the other side of the stick - the being beaten.
Maybe we start as little rulers, as the head of our family, If we do well we come back as the chief of a village, go back for a training and become head of a tribe.
Of course you can say this is sequential one life time after the other but it is not a steady spiritual evolvement reflected by a social status. maybe it is better to say for sure more comforting: Our social status not necessarily reflects our spiritual status!

Is being sick spiritual?

I was sick for about one week with the peek on day two and three. With some people I chat almost daily or they chat with me. The first day the infect hit me I told a few people that I am sick and will be sick.
Believe it or not two of them seemed surprised the next day when I told them I am still sick. Of course I know there are drugs which suppress the symptoms, but aside from that I think if we are sick, there is a reason for it.
I once had a friend who constantly was on the move and even complained not to have time to sit down and think things over. When she was sick she took some drugs and went to work anyway. Then one day she had a fairly serious car accident and broke both legs. Now she had time.

You know the flu short for  influenza a serious viral infection and other viral infections spread by droplet infection. Sometimes we get it even if no infected person is close to us and sometimes we are in a room full of sneezing and coughing people or we even kiss our sick spouse but seem to be immune.
So there seems to be an effect aside from the epidemiological aspects.
I like to think and call it the spiritual side of live. The things running in the background in our life, the things we are commonly not aware of.
If I get sick, I know it is time to rest. It may be a time to pause and it might be a time to re-think what I am doing.
As I told  currently my life goes through changes and I am not very happy with them. But aging is something we may be able to delay a little but not for good. This and my other situation gave me quite a stress, especially since my plans seemed not to take effect or work. Maybe this already weakened my defense system. Then we had a cold spell here in the Philippines, actually the longest and coldest since I am here. In short I got sick.
I was laying in bed for almost 2 days and had at least 2 more day I spend in front of the Computer but not doing any serious work or learning.
And then the next morning I got up and felt happy and confident!
It felt good!
But nothing in the outer had changed and nothing in the inner had happened.
Stop!
That cannot be true!
Nothing I can remember or recall or put my finger on had happened!

Next time you feel you are about to get sick maybe you ask yourself if you need to suppress it or if you can afford to let it happen, maybe there is a gift in it for you!

Another false master or False Masters II

I started to write and the thoughts flew and I wrote enough to make it a book - probably an eBook again.

Where does this lead too?

It is a fascinating theme and to write what is in my mind and already came out is about the quantity I would need to fill a weekly block for half a year. And I am sure if this is a burning issue now, it no longer will be in 5 month or so.
I let my thought flow and in the end I found words on my paper (computer screen) which bring me into the corner of the heretics or also in the corners of the false masters.
It is tempting!
But as I wrote in my last post, I personally find it more interesting to explore the unknown than to train sheep to fly. Kindly do not feel insulted. I tend to think that a false master of course is a "master" or not, but for sure he is unwanted by the established path. These authorities may claim the "new false faster" leads people into the wrong direction.
But is this the fault of the false master? If the leaders would give people a compass and a map and teach them to read the map and use the compass, the people would know if the false master leads them astray! Don’t you agree?
I know it is a controversial subject.  I am aware that some of the false masters do it for egoistic reasons. They want to feel the power of being famous, of having followers, some even do it for getting easy lays, but I am talking about the honest ones.
In our times, we tend to call it the information age, but we also could call it the legal or advocate time, even an honest person can get into problems if he trusts a handshake honestly given. Hence each path needs to act legally correct, to protect its "intellectual rights".
Of course things get complicated when you legally can claim a word like "apple" or a color like yellow for yellow pages or magenta for T-Online in Germany.
But aside from this, I understand that any established path is afraid to lose followers, because this means losing influence and money.
This of course means that most path' are managed and not lead by a spiritual leader. This is sad in a way, but also understandable. In the world today we specialize and Jesus only had 12 followers and in a way problems to keep them in line. I do not say being the administrator of a (big) group is not a spiritual task, but I think the spiritual experience of this administrator might not be the  spiritual stories it followers need to hear.
So any spiritual master is a thread to the establishment of this path. The Catholic Church was smart! They declared them as Saints. And not to put them into a different class of  demi gods they also labeled some respected administrators as saints too.

False masters

The Xmas legend

Sometimes I wonder if there is something like a false master.

In the bible there is the devil, Satan who tempts the people and leads them astray. But at a closer look and I do not recall having it read in the bible, the devil is a fallen angel. Actually he is the second in command of the creation. Its Latin name is Lucifer often translated as the light giver, light bringer or similar translations.

Of course this was its angelic name!

Let us leave the mystic aside and have a closer look and modern times. Almost any church, sect or cult has either a bad "guy" who tries to mislead the followers, or the followers are warned not to leave the proper way or they would pay with damnation. For some time I was thinking that this is necessary to have followers or else no one would follow a "master" who says "I only can guide you on a short way".

On the other side in business and crafts/vocations we know that we need different masters to really learn a craft. In school we find it normal to have several teachers until we reach a certain level of knowledge.

But look at our religious options. What is offered to us? Ask yourself!

No modern sanitation, not modern transportation, no modern communication. We follow a path where the Promised Land is less developed that the least of our least developed countries in this world. (No wonder we all are scared to die).

We follow a teaching which teaches us to be meek to be like sheeps, following the one in front of us.

I understand that a religion, cult or sect has to be for the people, the teaching has to be understood! I also understand that this could mean that a religion only covers one page in the big book of life.

This is not necessarily bad. If we learn a craft we start by learning one technique a time. This is more or less also how I see our spiritual education. I am not a master and I understand that I am not ready to serve as a master. But I also can see that our ego likes to think it is ready and that it deserves to be recognized.

I admit to be able to gather followers is a step on the way to mastership, and everybody who runs a facebook or Google+ page knows that is not an easy step.

But should we be busy finding followers or should we be busy exploring the fastness of the spiritual reality?

To be continued...

It is none of my concern?

Bingo player in a Bingo hall

This morning I came across an interesting article and here is the opening:

Consumers today are incredibly visual. Most would rather look at an image or chart than read an entire article or report. Luckily, there are now ways to fit just as much information into an image as there would normally be in a text article.

In my early ages more than once I read that the dawn of modern times started with Gutenberg who invented the book printing. This makes perfect sense because an idea could be spread to a big audience.

Radio made this process cheaper and faster. The next step was TV. Funny it just crossed my mind that in the early days of TV the program was limited to a few hours per day normally in the evening. Of course because people were busy with their work, even the house wives did not have all the modern machinery to safe them time.

Then the internet came into our lives and at first it was letters and words. With Windows© and better bandwidth pictures became more common and so not long after there was sound and videos. For a long time I was wondering what is YouTube good for and actually held a crutch against it, because I felt it eats up the gain in transmission speed.

In Germany we have a saying: "A picture tells more than 1 thousand words!" And did you observe in yourself that we have less and less time to do what we want to do in the Net? So the trend in us is to spend as little time for one information as possible just to be able to get more information. The webmasters know this and put more and more pictures on a page and make the letters bigger.

The net changes us!

I invite you to an experiment: after you have been browsing or facebooking - is this really a word yes? Take a few minutes and remember what you did the last two hours or so. Not like I was in facebook, but: I learn that…. I was informed of…. I talked with ….

I find it shocking that there is little left of what we remember as essential.

But if it is not essential what do we use to build our personality? Will we stay or become shallow?

The Romans used to give the plebs "Panem et circensis"  (bread and games) we are given facebook and YouTube.

Maybe we are at the dusk of modern times.

Ave Cesar…

Ave Zuckerberg …

This blog is about having or living a spiritual life. Do you remember in my blog from the Dec 11. I had a picture which states that a religious life is following the experience of another person and a Spiritual Life if is following yours own spiritual experiences.
This blog is about my spiritual life. I still like this statement and I think it is a really nice way to explain the two terms or to differentiate them
As a spiritual person I like to be good. No, not so good that I can walk over the water, but so good that I do not hurt other people willingly.
Last week I published a book (How to Find a Foreigner Husband) and published it as a live event in my facebook page.
I got a fancy remark and answered in a similar way, which I found quite funny. After all a spiritual life does not need to be a dull life or as my father used to put it: "No need to show off by wearing sack and ashes."
A short time after that I got a private messages from a dear friend telling my that people might think I am a human trafficker because I used the term "importing"! Have a look yourself if you like. (you need to scroll down a little!)
I am know to be overly frank and direct and I am sure my friend only had the best intention.

Living a spiritual life, does it mean I do only what I like?  I am not sure. But I am sure doing what I love to do is nice. I like to write and if I write I sit at my computers for days and weeks . Some years back I liked to do programming, and as a Programmer I was sitting at my computer for days and weeks, sometimes month. Don't get me wrong like that, I am perfectly happy - being alone. And for me not to forget that me too are part of the human race I do some chatting. And to grow spiritually, aside from my spiritual exercises for 30 min a day, I watch films to see patterns of human behavior and I like movies when the character is confronted with a dilemma.

But by living a spiritual life I cannot ignore truth! And truth can be painful. At least for me here and now. I live in my perfect writing universe and truth is knocking at my universe telling me !Pay the bills" and the universal quake re-vibrates and tells me I am an "Escapist"

Maybe it would be easier to live a normal life?

But ---- do I have a chance?