Worlds Ascension

  Healing the Past: Karma, Trauma, and What Real Growth Actually Requires This post came after I went to a psychic for a tarot reading. She suggested I had karmic debt from past lives and unresolved childhood trauma that was blocking my growth. She also offered to “cut the cord” of this karmic energy—for a significant fee. Whether she was right or not isn’t the point. The point is something deeper: how we understand the past, and how we attempt to heal it. Karma: Action, Consequence, and Continuity Karma is often described as action—and through action, we accumulate consequence. In many spiritual frameworks, karma follows a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. Unresolved actions carry forward until they are addressed. The idea presented to me was simple: cut the karmic cord and start fresh. But that raises a serious question. If karma is about balance, what happens when you “remove” it? Can You Actually “Cut” Karma? If karma represents unresolved consequence, then severing it impli...

Sex vs Gender: Understanding Identity, Science, and Social Meaning There is a lot of confusion and emotion surrounding the topic of gender in today’s cultural climate. This post is not about winning arguments. It is about clarifying definitions—so discussions about identity, biology, and behavior can happen with more accuracy and less misunderstanding. Sex and Gender Are Not the Same Thing One of the most common misconceptions is that sex and gender are interchangeable. They are not. Biological Sex Biological sex refers to physical and reproductive characteristics, including: Chromosomes (commonly XX and XY, though variations exist) Hormonal profiles (testosterone, estrogen, etc.) Reproductive anatomy In most cases, sex is categorized as male or female based on these traits, though biological variation does exist. Gender Gender refers to the social, psychological, and cultural meanings attached to being male or female. This includes: Roles Expectations Behaviors Identi...

The Awakening: From Religion to Spirituality, Karma, and Self-Realization I grew up believing in the stories of the Bible. A vengeful God. A fallen humanity. A heaven and hell separated by obedience and sin. For much of my early life, I accepted this framework as truth. Until I didn’t. Questioning What I Was Taught In my early 30s, something shifted. I began to question my beliefs—not from rebellion, but from reflection. I compared scripture with lived reality and found myself struggling with one core contradiction: How could a loving, merciful God allow so much suffering across generations? Eventually, I reached a conclusion I couldn’t avoid. I no longer believed. I became an atheist. When Meaning Disappears At first, it felt like clarity. But what followed was something I didn’t expect. A deep sense of emptiness. If life is only: survival work relationships and death then what is the point of any of it? Everything began to feel temporary, mechani...

  What did Alan Watts mean when he said "man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun"? Initially, I believed his words to be a reference to life. But today it means something more specific to me. I believe that Mr. Watts was referring to the mind. The mind is the cause of all our sufferings. Anxiety, depression, addiction, and worry, are all afflictions of the mind. So are the feelings of lack, desire, impatience, doubt, and fear. They are all manifestations of the mind that  keep us from progressing .  Conversely, the mind is a powerfully useful force. It creates, encourages, imagines, reflects, allows us to feel, interprets emotions, and does a myriad of other constructive things. It is a great gift! The mind is a useful aid, but make no mistake -  the mind is not our true self!   We cannot be the mind because the mind is too fragmented. If we were the mind we would cease to function. The mind can be in any one direction at...

  What Is Scientology A fusion of science and spirituality, Scientology prides itself as the worlds youngest major religion. It was founded by L Ron Hubbard (LRH) in the early 1950s. It posits that human beings are incarnations of a more powerful spiritual beings called Thetans  whom through the sufferings of passing through to the material realm forgot who they really were. The point of scientology then becomes to purge individuals of engrams  or traumatic experiences and memories so that they may become more Thetan-like here on earth.  Although scientology does not revolve around a mono or polytheistic God figure, it would seem that its creator Mr. Hubbard, is revered by followers of scientology as a deity in as much as his word is gospel and uncontested as truth. Scientology's lack of a God figure and the melding of pseudoscience and new-age spiritual theories is where scientology as a religion gets sketchy.  To learn more about scientology, you can check out...

Donald Trump claims that he has done more for the black community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. This is a very bold statement; but whether you agree or disagree the one thing that is certain is that since Lincoln's Presidency, never has the nation been as divided as it is now under the Trump administration.   What this Presidency has done is test the resolve of human decency. What is at stake in America is not so much about policies but how we as individuals see our fellow man. This presidency has done away with the middle ground. It has evolved into a world of extremes where one is either part of one viewpoint or the other with very little room for an in between. The support of Trump is viewed by its opposition as a negation of human rights, of bigotry, and of discord. Yet for those who support Trump, anyone who does not is un-American, weak, a communist or socialist. For his supporters, Trump soon stopped being a person and fast became an ideology. He is the...

What we call the self, is a collection of emotions floating within the life force we call consciousness, cocooned in the vessel of our mind-body. These collections of emotions are to consciousness what seasoning is to water: IT GIVES IT FLAVOR . Without the flavor of emotion, our connection with the world would be completely impersonal. Our bodies are a physical barrier which convinces us of the uniqueness of our existence and creates the illusion that our feelings and thoughts are unique to ourselves. Because we think our emotions are unique, we hold on to our hurts, fears, and insecurities in a belief that no one else would understand them. The visual illusion of separation that our bodies create is so strong that we neglect to see our connection to one another even when we see our emotions reflected in others. The reality is that our thoughts and feelings, both good and bad, are shared by every single human in existence. They were here before us, and they will remain in the col...

For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of Karen, I will give you the definition of Karen according to Dictionary.com. Here is what it says: Karen  is a  pejorative  slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people's behaviors. I would say that this is a very accurate descriptive of Karen if you take her at face value; but in digging deeper, this is what I discovered: I recently had a run in with Karen. The funny thing about it is that although I was minding my own business, when I saw her, I knew something was going to happen. And it did. I am not going to go into what happened because it is not of any importance. What is important to digest from the encounter is my realization that Karen is an energy that resides within a person, but not the person themselves. That is why I felt the incident before it happened. I know Karen is an...

A few nights ago I was privy to this wonderful tale of the two wolves. It is a Native American tale that depicts the struggle within man. For those of you who have not heard of this tale, read below: ONE EVENING, AN ELDERLY CHEROKEE BRAVE TOLD HIS GRANDSON ABOUT A BATTLE THAT GOES ON INSIDE PEOPLE. HE SAID "MY SON, THE BATTLE IS BETWEEN TWO 'WOLVES' INSIDE US ALL. ONE IS EVIL. IT IS ANGER, ENVY, JEALOUSY, SORROW, REGRET, GREED, ARROGANCE, SELF-PITY, GUILT, RESENTMENT, INFERIORITY, LIES, FALSE PRIDE, SUPERIORITY, AND EGO. THE OTHER IS GOOD. IT IS JOY, PEACE LOVE, HOPE SERENITY, HUMILITY, KINDNESS, BENEVOLENCE, EMPATHY, GENEROSITY, TRUTH, COMPASSION AND FAITH." THE GRANDSON THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE AND THEN ASKED HIS GRANDFATHER: "WHICH WOLF WINS?..." THE OLD CHEROKEE SIMPLY REPLIED, "THE ONE THAT YOU FEED" I find this tale very intriguing. I believe t...

Let me introduce you to something I call God-self. God-self is the knowing that you are an all powerful, magnificent force in the world. That you were created in the image of God and that nothing is out of your reach. Jesus Christ and the Buddha are just two of those who knew and embodied God-self. Their knowledge allowed them to be great and create miracles within themselves and others. The problem with mainstream religion is that it teaches you that you are weak.   Religion teaches you that in order to elevate God you must diminish yourself to him. However, the nature of God being all powerful means he does not need elevation. Secondly, if you are truly as weak as religion makes you out to be, how can you elevate anyone? let alone God. What religion asks for is the subjugation of people. In this way we are better controlled. God created us as his children.   That we are God's children is in itself is the most powerful thing in the universe. Think of it like this: we ar...

The Trouble with Diagnosis Mental health exists on a spectrum, from mild anxiety to severe psychosis. Yet an important question often goes unexamined, especially when diagnoses are made to meet third-party payer requirements: how much of what we call “mental illness” is truly a disorder? How much of it warrants a true diagnosis or medication? For a condition to be labeled a disorder, it must first be judged as an unacceptable human experience. That judgment is made by authorities in medicine and psychology, groups that determine which thoughts, emotions, and behaviors fall outside the bounds of what is considered normal. The problem is that normality is not fixed. It is shaped by social context, by the zeitgeist , or cultural climate of a given era. History makes this clear. The use of marijuana was once criminalized. Today, in many places, it is legal and even prescribed medically. The behavior did not change. Our interpretation of it did. Similarly, homosexuality was classified as...