I’m sure you’ve heard it before: Live in the NOW. That is it. We have learned that things that get more attention, like cars, furniture, flowers, seem to last longer. Our friends Mike & Susan have conducted tests, where they took leaves, put one away somewhere, and had one under their constant attention (not physical care, but prayer and focus) and that one lasted longer. I think they said it was still alive. I have noticed this phenomenon myself. Anyway when that was confirmed with me, I was curious, I wondered how that would apply to everything else we’ve learned about attention and time.

I’ve been reading this awesome book, “The Tao of Now” by Josh Baran. You should definitely check this book out. It is helping me to learn how to live in the Now. It’s not that easy, but when it can be achieved, it is joyful. You can always tell you are not in the now if you’re overwhelmed. People who have grudges (even riteous ones) have terrible health problems. That’s because they dwell in the past. A place that doesn’t exist. That’s right it doesn’t. The future doesn’t either. It’s your imagination of what you think the next now will be.

So anyway I think that the reason people age is because it’s nearly impossible to spend 100% of the time in the now, but if you practice, you would live a lot longer. You know why we can never be exactly in the now? Our minds are only remembering what now is. What I mean is (something we’ve learned through remote viewing) reality is just lots and lots of sensory input. Our mind puts it all together and makes an image that we can understand. It also discards a large percentage of the reality around us.

This whole metaphysics thing has bothered us, because it means it’s a reality “separate” from us. What is really happening, is that WE are separate from reality. Everything is just one whole universe, and we take in what we can of it with our human brain and make up something we can all agree on. So, God and everything is all right around us, most of us are just not tuned in. It’s in the Bible, Jesus said “You search for God through heaven and earth, but you don’t know the one who is right before your eyes, because you don’t know to search into this very moment.”

Well that’s all I can say for now, thanks for listening! Please leave a comment or two!

Lance is grieving the loss of his daughter. Melvin is writing an essay about it, and it will be in the articles to download section. Lance shared a spiritual experience he had recently: (Lance, I’m going to just summarize, let me know if it is inaccurate)

He had fallen asleep on the couch one night and was alone. He heard a voice that sounded like his daughter but not at an age he ever heard, and she sounded happy. He woke up, but fell asleep later, and was in that sort of barely asleep stage (I am familiar with it and I believe I once had an out-of-body experience during that time- I’ll explain it in another post maybe). So anyway he saw a light on and there was a young woman, not his daughter, and she sort of “brought out” his dog who died 3 weeks before his daughter. He was alive and licked him and Lance could smell him. When it was over, he could still smell his dog.

The smell is a very good sign. Melvin will tell a story about spiritual smells, when he comments on my blog. I have a very sensitive nose too, and I smell spiritual things. Often times I smell flowers when there is a good spirit or maybe an angel nearby. I smell my grandma’s house sometimes (I actually thought once that our house smelled like hers, but her house was very old, from the 1800’s and our house is only 5 years old) and then I got a message from her. This is kind of a side story, but I must share it. Melvin and I and our kids went to a Spiritist Conference in Florida, and there was a woman I never met before, who was walking by, coming out of the conference room and I was just standing outside the door. She just stopped and told me my Grandma said that everything was alright and (the woman pointed at my toddler Melody) said that I now have what I lost. Another woman walked up to me and said she had a vision that I had a miscarriage in the past. I had, it was the pregnancy before I had Melody. She said that Melody was the same child.

So to make a long story short, I’ve learned a lot of spiritual things that are very good evidence of the reality of it, one of them is that smell is a very good indicator.

Okay one more story. We used to have like 7 or 8 smoke alarms all through the house. We also have a heat detecting fire alarm connected to our alarm system, and we also have a plug in carbon monoxide detector that came with the house (I suppose because we have gas heat). Anyway we have taken down all of the smoke alarms except the one connected to our alarm system and the CO detector. When I was a child there was a fire in our apartments. Half of our building was burnt down completely, we were the second from the end that didn’t burn. The very next apartment towards the burnt half had to be evacuated because of smoke and water damage. We didn’t have to move, but for a long time you could smell that wet burnt smell and it haunted me. I was very young, but I think someone died in the fire. Our apartments had the kind of fire alarms that were big red bells in each stairwell. There was one just on the other side of my bedroom wall. That one had a short in it, and sometimes it would just go off for no reason. It became the object of a lot of anxiety when I was a kid. My mom still lives in that apartment, 30 years later. They have fixed that bell and replaced parts, and even changed the whole system to where you have to call the fire department (It used to be automatic, but there were too many false alarms). And to this day it still shorts out sometimes. Anyway back to our smoke alarms in our house. One night I had some kind of dream, I can’t remember now, but I smelled smoke, and that old burnt smell. Then we were woke up by all of the alarms going off, and there was no fire. They weren’t steady going off, they were all just beeping and beeping. The last one Melvin took down, still beeped after he took the battery out! After I got over being so shaken by it all, we talked about it and I realized there really was a boy that died in the fire. I even wonder if he was around, or with me for all these years. I can almost say I know what it feels like to die in a fire. It seemed like he was satisfied after that day and I haven’t felt him around anymore.

I hope this isn’t too much. I have had a lot of spiritual experiences in my life. I guess that might have something to do with my soul mate ending up to be the leader in near-death studies, and spiritual science.