BACKWARDS WALKING: PHYSICAL AND MYSTICAL EFFECTS

Introduction:
In my post, “The Importance of Dreams”, I wrote that sometimes, it may be necessary for one to go backwards, after discovering that one has missed the way. I gave an example with manual `tracing and retracing of images’, without the magic tool, which is, sometimes, done by graphic designers. But all things being equall, you must be `in control’ of the direction and activities, to be able to make that decision. Furthermore, walking backwards is neither always, a physical activity, nor often proves to be, within general human control.

But the purpose of this article is not to `play’ mind games or to brain train anyone. There is no attempt to indulge in a retro exercise of any kind. Nothing like retro walking or whatever. I am simply in an honest quest for ways that people like me, can move their lives forward, especially, after experiencing years of spiritual plundering and devastation by the evil handiworks of manipulative spiritualists, Mystics and cultic people.
As I have attempted to explain before, the universe is `you and me and everything and everyone that is in it’. But as in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, `you and me’ may be too unequal personalities, so that the more `influential’ between us dictates the order and direction of the universe.

The Big Questions really is “why would anyone want to walk backwards, when the road ahead is seemingly or obviously clear?” I asked the Library officer the same question. It was an `intriguing’ question, he told me. Especially because, all they have and, talk of within the library, is `about walking forward’. Obviously this, by any shred of imagination, should be relatively easy, or so it seems. After all, that is what everybody does every time,especially when you embrace that much hyped “forward ever, backward never” slogan, used by some fraternities.

BACKWARDS WALKING:PHYSICAL EFFECTS:
“Walking backwards can be defined as a retro physical activity of taking backward steps while keeping your legs, eyes and face forwards - 180 degrees on the opposite direction”. Retro exercises and runnings are used for games or training programmes for the mind and brain. Experts say that backwards walking exerts more energy on the muscles and makes it beneficial for the treatment of sportsmen and control of weight. However, for exactly the same reason, extreme caution is usually advised for participants trying to engage on backwards walking.

Managing Physical Backwards Walking
Physically speaking, backwards walking must be handled by experienced personnel, as a training programme for patients. Experts say that this may be good for your brain because `it fits the criteria of neurobic activity’. According to brain health and fitness experts, `neurobic activities can even cause new neural connections to grow in your brain, which is a good thing’. But `dos and don’ts’ must be strictly followed to avoid hazards inherent in this form of exercise. The benefits of backwards walking have encouraged sporting bodies to include it in sprints and marathons and this is love for the exercise cuts across national boundaries.

In “Backwards Walking for Rehabilitation of Lower Extremities” (http://www.bodyresults.com/e2backwardswalking.asp), Courtenay Schurman writes that backward walking can be used by sports men and women to:

 Control weight by burning off more calories than traditional jobbing
 Increase balance and hearing
 Increase peripheral vision
 Helps faster recovery from knee or ankle injuries and surgeries
 Helps recovery from pains where ibuprofen and ice/heat treatments have failed

In the majority of cases, the main drawback is lack of hindsight which makes it impossible to avoid collision. For this reason also, retro exercises are carried out on flat tracks or plain fields or surfaces to ensure the avoidance of hazards. Appropriate `Caution Notices’ must be issued and new-comers are closely monitored.

* Physical Backwards Walking (Courtesy: PhysicalBenefits of Backward Running and Walking by Junji Takano - (http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles/backward-running.htm))

Backwards walking can also be, and is often, undertaken for fun these days by sportsmen and children. In all of this, however, the individual is urged to maintain control by being careful.

*Physical Backwards Walking (Courtesy: Physical Benefits of Backward Running and Walking by Junji Takano - (http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles/backward-running.htm))

But backwards walking is not always an inherently physical activity, nor usually within general human control.

BACKWARDS WALKING - MYSTICAL EFFECTS:
`Walking backwards’ is not limited to physical exercises alone. Spiritualists and Authority Figures sometimes command retrogrades for purely selfish reasons, which forces the lives and experiences of their targets into reverse motion.

In this instance, “Walking Backwards is a spiritual or mystical action of, annoyingly replaying your `lived' life so that you experience, in your normal daily routines, the same people, events and activities you have already passed before, all over again, as if you have unfinished business to sort out. It is the time that an individual experiences first, stagnation and then, a reversal of or replay of experience”. Unlike its physical counterpart, the mystical dimension of walking backwards is usually outside the control of the individual. In this case, you can say, after observation, that your life is moving backwards, even though you sleep and wake up like everybody else.

Most times, the individual realises that he has had a `replay of previous experience’ only after it has occurred, even if he made the decisions that led to its occurrence, he must have been impulsively led by extraneous forces and, would find himself asking, `why did I do this?’ No matter, you will still find yourself counting your days in `forward order’, sleeping and waking up into the `next day’ as dated in lunar calendars.
Like everyone else also, each new day you walk into `today’, becomes your `previous day’, the next Morning.

Mystically speaking, walking backwards is not about dream-walking, not about sleep-walking. Backward Walking is about witnessing your life in reverse motion. Re-experiencing physically, events, issues and people you thought you had conveniently left behind. Physically speaking, mystical backward walking occurs when:

 Yourlife switches into reverse motion and apparently throws up issues you thought you had thrashed and passed over, whether settled or not.
 You begin to manifestly,repeat or redo things you thought you would never have to wish for.
 You desire to meet and now interact with people you, actually no longer, wished to meet again. Or would rather move away from or, whom, from available evidence, the universe no longer allows or permits such interaction.
 Your daily activities seem like a replay from your past and since the universe is `you and me and all that there is in it’,
 you find that the universe is opposed to any form of contact or mingling with a particular individual or group by creating frictions, upheavals and objections to every move you make in that direction.

Managing Mystical Backwards Walking
Although it is the mystical effect of backwards walking that pulls life into reverse, its management is through a physical and conscious effort. Speaking in Mystical terms, backwards walking appears to be outside of general human control simply because not everyone that can command retrogrades. This is often done only by Authority figures with huge mystical capabilities. Although this is sadly true, the product of backwards walking can, certainly, be managed. Here is how. The moment you realise that your life appears to have switched into a reverse motion:

 Turn on your alert mode
 Do a self-analysis to identify what stage you are now and where the next stage is headed (that is find out what experience you have just had and compare it with a previous occurrence. Did you like it then?
 Decide whether to allow the next stage to play out or not – like artificial destiny, you certainly can deviate from it.
 Move into the next stage with that level of awareness and determination.
 Continue your alert mode till your universe switches into forward motion again, in order words till you notice that you are forwards walking again.

Has this ever happened to you? What did it feel like and when did you realise that your `life appears to be in reverse motion?’ Please feel free to write in and tell me your own experience.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAMS - by Benson Agoha

"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act" - Anatole France the French novelist (1844–1924)

“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.” - Janet Jackson

Meaning of Dreams:
Dreams are visualisations or imaginings inside of the human brain, of things, or ideas, or a situation, which we think, is or will turn out to be, as expected. Dreams are also called visions of things as we think they should be or would like them to be. Sometimes, during our sleep, these imagings begin to form as pictures that we see and wake up with, or which we take back to reality. Dreams maybe clear or blurred.

The Importance of Dreams:
Dreams help us achieve our goals because it is, often, the first layout of our plans. When we visualise who, what, how, when and where we are headed, we are encouraged to put them down on paper for subsequent consultation.

Whenever you find yourself in a labyrinth in life, go backwards and remember your original dream. Are you still following through to your original plan? If not, where have you deviated? Be prepared to, if necessary, retrace your steps and start all over again. As a graphic designer, I sometimes have to do this. Sometimes while tracing an image, I find that I have deviated from the correct edge. The solution is either to start all over again or go backwards and retrace from the point of deviation.

Reality:
We cannot talk about dreams without reality. Reality is what becomes of our dreams after we wake up. Sometimes, dreams are so clear that we wish it was real only to wake up and realise, it was all a dream. Did it seem too good to be true? It probably is. At other times, dreams are not clear at all. But no matter, turning a dream into reality depends on our own actions. Ones we wake up from our dream, what we do in our conscious state determine our post dream reality.

Gap between Dreams and Reality:
If dreamers can become models, what is the gap between dreams and reality? How distant is your dream from your success point? Dreams and reality maybe extremes apart, but what is the distance between the two? This is where continuous self-evaluation comes in handy

Many years ago, I asked my friend Ken Ambrose Korie, to tell me just how far he thought our dreams were from realisation. Of course, the distance is relative and usually varies. But once we succeed, our success often, quickly reduces our perceived distance, by finally cushioning the effects of our suffering during our building period. In some cases, it creates an optical illusion for observers. Don’t be surprised if varying stories about how you achieved success emerge at this point.

Dreams and Expectations:
While dreams and expectations go hand in hand, they are not the same. Expectations are also known as hopes, potential or outlook, but dreams come before expectations. Expectations come during the interval after our dreams. When we are almost certain that our dreams will become a reality, we have a `great expectation’. What was your last great expectation? Sometimes, however, there has to be an `action’ after our dream before our expectation can be great. In this case, the quality of our post dream action determines our `great expectation’.

Dreams and Models: Models are figures for emulation. Sometimes they are examples of dream successes. They are icons. Models can be individuals. They can also be representation of our expectation.

Like expectations, models come in the interval between, dream and reality. It is the `mini version’ of our great expectation. Models are present all around us. In civil engineering, models are often constructed, to show the public what to expect. In automobile engineering, they are mini versions of vehicles in production or work in progress. They are also used for presentations or demonstrations, where computer simulations are not available. Models are also used in genetic engineering to show what is expected after due procedures have been followed in an attempt to alter the nature of an object. Models are sometimes called `prototypes’.

Anyone can actually be a model. In other words, when an individual has succeeded in translating their dreams into realities, they become models and lovable icons. Theirs become typical of examples worthy of emulation.

Types of Dreams:
There are different types of dreams. As pointed out above, dreams maybe ideas generated in our ruminations. But dreams can also represent pictures we see in our sleep. Below are some types of dreams as we know and experience them.

Corporate Dreams: Or as sometimes called company’s community dreams, represents an organisation’s visualisations of its aims and directions. It is around corporate dreams that corporate policy is formed to guide the organisational members towards the attainment of the company’s goals.

Daydreams: These are pictures we see in our sleep while taking our midday rest or, as also called, siesta. For some people, daydreams are just entertainment to the brain during their sleep. These dreams are soon forgotten. But for others, daydreams can be a vision, an advance premonition or revelation of a future occurrence.

Hallucinations:
When we attach too much expectation into our dreams, we stand in danger of a hallucination. Hallucinations are sometimes just a mirage, phantasies or delusions. They never become real, no matter how intense our expectation. And even if we take steps, physical action, to make it real, they don’t become what we expect. Hallucination maybe a symptom of stress.

Nightmares:
Nightmares are horrifying pictures seen in our sleep. Nightmares do not necessarily occur at night but also can occur during the day

Sharing Your Dreams:
Share your dreams, if you must, but don’t expect everyone to like it. In this regard, it is expedient to decide who is the right person to share your dreams with. Sharing your dreams with everyone is not wise. Some people are, simply, dream killers, while others are dream supporters. Develop a sense of self-worth and please do filter your contacts and friends, ensuring that you separate the `men from the boys’. This takes a strong determination and self-will, to do. Filtering your contacts means leaving out sentiments and doing what benefits you with whomever you stand best to benefit from. Yes, in this regard, I suggest, it is ok to be a little selfish.

I was, and still am, dare I hope, a dreamer and, an achiever. That was until I came in contact with, and actually shared my dreams, with my former Pastor. It was the worst mistake I ever made in my life. It was also the worst mistake most other members ever made in their lives too. In this sense, I didn’t feel alone but, being one who often likes to stand out; I would, rather, not have blended with this kind of group.

If you are like me, who slowly but surely lays his bricks, sharing your dreams with or aligning yourself with people whose mentality is different, like the `get rich quick’ groups, will be counterproductive.

Until I met this pastor, whom I later found out, enjoys `zooming out and right back into earth at will, much like Clark Kent of Smallville*, I had always been a go-getter who always shared his dreams and then relished as the listener watched me achieve them. I remember my friend Silas Odiketa once telling me I was a marvel to him. I asked him `how?’ and he said because I always talked about my dreams and then, against all odds, still go ahead and achieve them. He said he couldn’t talk about his because of fear that he would fail. How wise of him. But not everyone is the same, for had I not come across this Pastor, I would have been unstoppable. I was not rising with speed of light, but I was surely following an earlier advice by a mentor to, `if necessary, slowly but incrementally add to whatever I had already’, and move ahead.

Failing And Rising Again:
Sometimes, results deviate from our expectations and even from our dreams. When this happens, we must re-evaluate to determine whether we actually met and surpassed our expectation or not. If the answer is yes, we have a fantastic result. On the other hand, if the answer is that we did not meet our expectation, we say our dreams have failed.

But it is not so much about our dreams failing, as it is about us rising again. As Yaphathainment International say in their `Graceland’ project says, “when the chips are down, it is time to look up”. So when we discover that our dreams have failed, we must re-evaluate and go back to the drawing board. In this regard, quitting is not an option

Keep Walking:
So be resilient and keep at it and hang in there. And as `Johnny Walker’ would say: “Keep Walking!”

• Smallville (TV Series (2001 - 2011): is a movie about a cult group with extra-ordinary superhuman capabilities, often aired by E4.

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RACISM, MATURITY AND PROFESIONALISM: WHAT EVERY BLACKMAN (OR WOMAN) SHOULD KNOW

"It Is Time To Rise Above Racism And Self Interest" Rachel Farris (2008)

Introduction:
Recently an on-the-pitch encounter snowballed into something bigger and triggered debates about `racism' in football. It even led to calls for the resignation of FIFA President, Mr. Sepp Blatter. But just what is the best way to harness and hone inate(raw) skills of footballers,to make them adaptable and capable of withstanding relative professional stress and associated experiences?

Roussilon, Southern France August 2004:
It was atop bridge `St. Julien', or so it is called, a single lane strip of motorable, carefully layered heavy stones, said to have been built by the Romans more than 2000 years ago linking the Southern town of Roussillon in the Provence region of France, with Northern Spain, that my German host told me it was time for Africans to move away from self-pity, with determination, not looking back on the dark years of colonisation, because, `we too, were colonised and we overcame it and moved away from self-pity’. He pointed at St. Julien as a legacy of their former colonial powers.

Back in the penthouse room I was lodged in that sunny day in August 2004, I ruminated over what I had seen and heard, and saw therein a point too strong, to be ignored. I did not think that I would be forced to remember the events after six years, but the current racism row has led to a `convulsion’ of memories, forcing out already archived experiences.

Why does Racism Always Have To Be Associated With Blacks?
The big question is, why does racism almost always have to be associated with blacks? Why can't blacks rise above self condemnation and pity anchored on racial abuse? Blacks have married to and been married by every other race, with adorable legacies. Blacks have produced a Formula1 Champion, a President of the USA, Mayors in UK cities and many more.. You see, I support Rachel Farris when she said "It is time to rise above racism and self interest"

It must be acknowledged that, indeed, black people (and maybe many others) may have suffered a lot of insults and degradation, at one point or the other in their history, but racism should not always be blamed. Race and the skin colour which, we have all accepted can be called ‘Black’, `White’, `Asian’, `Australian’ and so on, is actually a natural and continental heritage, and it applies to all peoples of the world. But we must recognise when we have suffered abuse, as a result of the colour of our skin and when we have so suffered because our tormentor is inherently wicked. A Test is, if he can do to his brother, kinsmen or child, what he has done to you, he may be anything but `racist’. So that other underlying reasons must be discovered.

And I think that Racism must be further differentiated and weighted, to avoid abuse.
1) If a person beats up or inflicts injury on another, solely on the basis of the colour of his skin, the perpetrator should not be ignored.
2) If a child is deprived placement in a University slot or denied education, on the basis of the colour of his skin, this should not be swept under the carpet.
3) If an applicant is denied a job, despite passing through relevant tests and being qualified, solely on the basis of the colour of his skin, it must be jointly and severally condemned.
4) If a child is manifestly able to pursue a course of study at university, but is being manipulated by others to drop his/her ambition, solely on the basis of the colour of his skin, the perpetrators must be recognised as racists and guilty of causing educational obstruction to the child.

If we don’t mind being classified on other basis like country, profession, intellectual ability, wealth, height, weight and so on, why do we care when called names that refer to our skin colour? What every Blackman, or woman, requires is to develop a strong character and an admirable personality. These help you overcome your inhibitions.

Looking at ourselves in our mirrors every morning, and telling ourselves, very emphatically that `we are black, and we are proud’ maybe the tonic we need.
We must ask ourselves where we are lacking. Is it in income, education, height or weight? The presence or the lack of each of these variables is capable of resulting in a feeling of low esteem. Other than this, it is incomprehensible why a grown man, who has made it to a Professional status - easily the best league in the world – or indeed any other respectable professional hierarchy, will still lack the strength of character to deal with such issues, as name calling.

But in truth, we are all forged through different crucibles, probably making us professionals only in selected fields, but not in all. These days are no longer the time for the likes of Wolfgang von Goethe who combined poetry with politics, science and religion and made a success of all.

Two of the racial issues in recent news feeds, that have refused to die down, occurred in the Premier league and involve at least four big names. Like most others, I am curious particularly because, all the names involved are mature footballers, with several years of experience.

Now, I keep asking myself, are blacks the best behaved at the work place? I can’t help wondering if there have been occasions when the situation was reversed and a black footballer became the offending party. What was the reaction of the offended?

And what colour is our skins, really? Here is one real life, direct source, story: A seven year old Black pupil (who had just migrated, with his family, into the UK from Belgium) enrolled into Abbey Wood Primary School, had an argument with his White classmate, who had called him `black’. The black boy asked `are you white? Look at your skin and look at this book, do they match?’ His classmate said `well, that’s what my parents told me’ and the boy said `then, they lied to you’. While the argument was witnessed by their teacher and related to the mother of the black pupil, I kept wondering what the parents of the white boy would have told him when he returned from school and confronted them with his experience.

With this kind of self-awareness, at the age of seven, I don’t see how the black boy will make his way to professional life and then relapse into walloping in self-pity, over name calling. And, in which areas are parents, especially black parents, failing their kids by not providing the right training to them during their formative years?

We read about exceptionally beautiful and fashionable ladies who fall over themselves, just to identify and possibly be a WAG to these footballers, without a care in the world about the colour of their skin. For this reason, I think that any beneficiary of, and indeed anyone capable of benefiting from, this kind of attention does not have an excuse to cry racism. And I suspect that Sepp Blatter’s initial reaction might have been in line with the view that it takes more than `raw skill’ to be a professional footballer.

It is one thing to discover desirable talent and yet another to harness and adapt the skill to fit various potential situations. A child who possesses football skill or similar must not just be trained to play football but also, must be exposed to various simulated situations during his training prior to going professional. Footballers, actors and actresses, dancers and singers are some of the professional areas that definitely fall into this group. As the book of Proverbs said in Chapter 22:6 `train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it’

Appropriate Child Skill training will go a long way in helping to reduce the number of potential questions that bothers on professional ethics. These include:

A) When a lawyer abandons and betrays his client to align with and serve his client’s rivals instead of handing over to another lawyer as he would have been prejudiced.
B) When a medical doctor refuses to save a life because no one has paid the appropriate fees in advance.
C) And when a Pastor or spiritual leader ignores the very messages he stood on the pulpit and preached to an eager congregation, to declare spiritual warfare and spiritually suppress the very congregation he pastors.

We may never really know exactly what transpired recently between some footballers on the pitch, but I think that while we must not encourage people to behave irrational and out of character when they are under stress, as might have been the case, we should know how seriously we should take them, because otherwise, we simply blow the situation out of proportion and, often, result in more and longer argument, than the perpetrator intended.

There has been a call for FIFA President, Mr. Sepp Blatter, to resign in the face of a current gaffe. Well, I do have my reservations over that call. But as an administrator with a good degree of modesty, the Soccer Chief has apologised and we must, in the spirit of sportsmanship and fairplay, accept that apology. Mr. Blatter is an Administrator and not a politician, even though football has gone greatly political. And his refusal to go should even be a lesson to all other `cry baby’ footballers that it takes modesty and self-confidence to accept and apologise for ones mistakes, and still retain your integrity, assertiveness and self-belief.

Black professionals, including footballers, should allow themselves the luxury of a little more self-belief. It will even enable them to adhere to the tenets of their respective professions.

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THE IMPACT OF SPIRITUAL CONTROL ON HUMANS, UNMASKED by Benson Agoha

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." - Article 1 of United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

`Control’ is often very loosely used by all and sundry to describe various restrictive situations. Being a restraining tool, control pops up in almost every aspect of human experience and cuts across diverse disciplines. It can be found in such areas as Medicine, Law, Finance, Management and strangely, but albeit most importantly, spirituality.

In general terms, `control’ refers to an `action of restraining, restricting or prohibiting’ the occurrence of an event’, the key words being on `restraining, restricting or prohibiting’. Control can also be used as a `guide’, for example, to regulate a process or an on-going activity. This is otherwise known as `steering control’. Can we then infer, from the above, that ‘Policy’, being a guide to managerial action, is a technique of ‘control’?

As a prevention mechanism, control can, in medicine, be used to stop the spread of a disease or similar. In finance, to reduce the flow of funds, in and out of an organisation, within a given period. When used as a power wielding mechanism, as often the case in politics, control can be used to exercise authority or dominance over subjects or given targets or territories.

Used in this instance, `control’ can often, be intoxicating. It is in-fact, the ‘control’ lever in `power’ that makes it intoxicating. Yet, for all its adverse implications, control can be advantageous in almost every discipline. For this reason, continuous efforts are being dedicated to its further understanding and the scientific development of technics and mechanisms for its effective application.

Despite the importance of control, some aspects of it are still poorly understood. And a thorough understanding of Human Control Strategy (HCS) is essential to the development of robotics. Furthermore, scientists are faced with an arduous task of understanding it better, to assist them in 'modelling'.

What is rather regrettable is that we have not learnt to dedicate, even a fraction of that to studying and understanding the techniques for ‘human spiritual control’ with the hope of making the knowledge available to all and sundry.

As a result, the purpose of this Article will be to discuss `spiritual control’ as a weapon of `spiritual terrorism’, which, as I have always insisted, is an action of man.

Scope and Limitation of Study:

I must, therefore, warn you that this Article will, no doubt, be limited in scope, on the one hand, by inadequacy of knowledge and on the other, by lack of money and material for further research.

Cyclomancy and Psychic Power Control:

“Deep down” writes Alfred Armstrong as he prepared to upload Frank Rudolph Young’s book on Cyclomancy, ““isn’t that what we all want? Power over others, power to induce them to do our bidding, power to get what we want, when we want it”. See `Cyclomancy: The Secret of Psychic Power Control’ in `Odd Books - A Safe House For Literary Misfits (Odd Books: http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/young.html)’. Imagine possessing the power to ‘arouse intense desire in the opposite sex by your mere presence..’, Apart from the fact that Fred Amstrong’s reassured confidence would mean he may no longer worry about his waistline, wouldn’t it be right to make it criminal for anyone to remain single after a given agreed age? But that, would not be `freedom’ or would it? Still the book promised to do just that.

Control `negates’ freedom – in all the ramifications of the word. But while some forms of control come with a little consolation and advantage, spiritual or psychic control is often intractable and renders their victim helpless.

Spiritual control is a `remote control’ without the physical ‘hand piece’, so that the fact that Mr. A, of a given location, has done it does not necessarily mean that Mr. B in another location can do it – even when following a sequential guideline. This is notwithstanding the many books that discuss the sequences and steps to developing Psychic Powers and Psychic Energy Control, like Frank Rudolph Young’s book on Cyclomancy.

So if control is so important, who then controls or regulates the activities of psychics and spiritualists? In truth, no one! The SAGB (Spiritualist Association of Great Britain), whose membership is open to spiritualists within and outside the UK, says its primary purpose is `to offer evidence through Mediumship of the continuation of the personality after physical death, and to relieve suffering through Spiritual Healing’.

Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. This Declaration is readily sited by spiritualist associations.

In my `Definition Of Freedom’, I have since identified `spiritual freedom’ as a necessary ingredient to human freedom, without which, `freedom’ is actually illusive. But spiritual freedom itself, appears to be a `utopian’, in that spiritualists and psychics are themselves, apparently uncontrollable. How then, can we be free when those with the knowledge and ability to limit our freedom are left unregulated?

Some adherents have been taught that `the spiritual controls the physical’. Supporters of this school of thought insist that everything that takes place on earth first happens in the spirit. But is this true? I asked around and the result was as confusing as the faces of the respondents.

Does the Spiritual Really Control The Physical?
I physically sampled opinion as to whether `thought is physical or spiritual’, after internet research was not much help. Majority of my respondents said that `thought is physical’, being an action of man, made with a conscious state of mind.

I have always thought the same. And on that premise, after a careful study, I have since come, as already shown in earlier posts, to the conclusion that, against popular belief, the physical actually controls the spiritual. It is observable that nearly everything that happens on earth is motivated by human action, some of them deliberate and premeditatedly. Thoughts, like most things we do, fall within that range.

* How The Physical Controls The Spiritual.

Writing in `Scientific Background’ on March 2, 2007, Thomas Harold concluded that “Physical reality is a manifestation of thought”. (http://www.dreammanifesto.com/physical-reality is a manifestation of thoughts.html).

This goes to confirm that every thought we experience is real. So, when we think of how to engage others, and then go ahead to use spiritual means to achieve our desires, we have physically decided to cause a change on the spirit realm, which then manifests physically.

Spiritual Control As An Agent Of Demobilisation:
Whereas physical control techniques and mechanism are observable, spiritual control techniques are, often times, intractable. Therein lies the danger. If you do not see a person ‘praying’ or performing the service, you may not be able to ascribe an experience to them. Perhaps, this is the reason why it is difficult to track down and prosecute `spiritual terrorists’.

Article 3 of the UN Charter states that "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person"

Article 5, states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".

If this is so, why then do spiritualists abuse, torture or terrorise people? And worse, why are they still left unregulated?

Aside from it being deployed as a 'guide', which seems to be, on the surface, positive, except the victim is being intentionally misled, spiritual control is both restrictive and demobilising. Therefore, we can infer the following:

• Spiritual Control can be used by spiritualists and authority figures to give instruction to their human targets.
• To create confusion, by constant transmission of clear, muddled or conflicting messages. Through this means, they can also create confusion in the mind of the individual.
• When used to give instruction, spiritual control can be a guide to the individual. But then, he is always at the mercy of the transmitter. A wicked Authority figure can issue messages that can only lead the target to his doom.
• As a demobiliser, spiritual control can put the target out of action, through the destruction of the vital spiritual pillars, such as finance or source of income, that serve as a support to his life.
• It can also be used to afflict individuals with sickness and disease, putting them out of action and, maybe, force them to leave a given environment.
• It can be used to `push’ an individual to cause the performance of a task, especially unsuspecting individuals, some of whom can easily misconstrue the dreams for the real ones.
* To code messages. This can be very dangerous when an authority figure 'codes' his messages, such that they cannot be easily and properly decoded. He creates confusion and messes up communication. Sometimes this leads victims straight into madness.

As important as the actions of spiritualists are, it is surprising that spiritual control is still little well understood and, very often, avoided. And unless, more attention is paid by the relevant authorities in this regard, spiritualists and spiritual terrorists will continue to wreak more havoc in the lives of their tormented targets.

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AUTHORITY FIGURES, THE UNIVERSE AND HOW PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED

"He who makes no effort to grasp the Word of the Lord aright, burdens himself with guilt". ~Ab-du-Rusheen

Recently a friend asked "Just how are prayers answered?"

Before I attempt to answer this question, I would like to remind us of some of the terms likely to be used and there connotational meanings.

"Services" will be used to refer to all appeals, requests, prayers, sacrifices, decrees and ablutions, and indeed all other means, used and directed to higher authorities, by individuals or groups in their various attempts to alter the course of the universe, to achieve a desired end. It is noteworthy that 'services', as used in this article, is not restricted to any faith.

For example,'ablution' according to WordiQ.com(http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Ablution), "may refer to the practice of removing sins or diseases through the use of ritual washing, or the practice of using ritual washing as one part of a ceremony to remove sin or disease". But 'Ablution' is common among Jews, Israelites, Christians and Muslims alike. It is possible that it is practiced by other faiths as well, even if more or less meanings are attached.

That said, we know that Christians believe in God, Muslims in Allah,

"THE IRONY OF SEPERATION" - AND MORE...

People talk about the illusion of segregation, I like to talk of its irony. Despite aparent negatives, one positive is remarkably glaring. And so, the irony of seperation is that it teaches togetherness - of a different nature. Togetherness of likemindedness, of ideas, of height, and sizes, and pedigree, perhaps even of colour. Birds of identical plumage flocking together.

Everything has a duplicate and a Price. Don't, therefore, be moved if the fake is glossier than the original. It's only time that tells, only time verifies and vindicates. Two skills are however required from you. 'Patience' and 'discerning' ability.

Its our world, lets unify in peace:

How many of us have noticed that When people can neither beat nor analyse others, they settle for presumptions that engenders character defamation. Success is very difficult because focussing is even more difficult..he who concentrates, succeeds - eventually. Therefore, success comes to those who keep knocking at its door..keep knocking!

A man who gets his value system right, can always be in a position to rationalise his actions, based on his personal conviction.

Always make decisions based on what you think is right, believe is right and know enough of the situation to act right and defend right.

Have we noticed that falling in love is a good thing, especially if you are doing it the right way and with someone who allows you to enjoy that feeling.

So lets stay connected. If your spirit is not rightly connected to your mission, you stand little chance of success.