The Soul thrives on truth,
kindness, peace and love.
Pollution of the mind and body often overshadow the Soul.
The truth allows the mind the peace and love to unite with the Soul.
A journal of one man's path toward spiritual enlightenment by physical
and mental purity, fasting, raw food diet, few words, natural living,
good works, right thinking, and exhilaration of the mind
by following the guidance of the Inner Voice.
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PETE'S JOURNAL, JULY 2001
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7-2-01
Family planning is a big thing today. There is an abundance of literature available. I think a good period of physical cleansing of short fasts and a strict vegetarian diet before conception (and after, until birth) would be a very good thing. Some people consult an astrologer to order their signs and the child's. I don't know much about astrology, but it does seem reasonable.
My first wife and I had four children with no planning. The youngest boy and the youngest girl were conceived in our sleep. Both of these children were interested in spiritual things, while the other two children were not. I'm sure there was some angelic intervention in the conception of the two younger children.
7-04-01
Picked Juanita up from the airport yesterday morning at 1PM. Long sleepy 200 mile drive home. Happy to be together again.
7-05-01
I just got the word today from my Voice to start back to work: cleansing, upgrading my diet and lifestyle. So Monday, I will begin again, "have patience, fast and exercise." I still feel lousy, but I look forward to it.
I believe that every person that can, should work several hours a week helping/serving other people. It should be a quiet endeavor, without fanfare, befitting your spiritual path. There are good ideas under the heading of, "kindness" and "charity" on the internet.
7-07-01
The seeker of truth works alone, even if they live in a house full of people, because the work is mostly internal. Only those in the unseen can help; the Holy Spirit, Guardian Angels and God .As the truths are learned and tested and applied to daily life they can be shared with other seekers. Each one helping his/her brothers and sisters to enter the kingdom of heaven.
What anyone of us can do, we all can do. And if a seeker should stumble and fall or wander from their path, others can be communicated with to help restore the fallen This is my path in seeking the truth; to study, test, share and support. And to help build a leaderless network of truth seekers with no formal organization, institution or authority.
Walked a mile with Juanita this morning. Fasting today. Will have a raw vegetable salad for dinner tonight. Failed, fast and diet.
We were sitting around the house this morning and I thought it would be nice to do something fun, and what came to mind was going out for breakfast. So we did, it was great, but completely blew my physical upgrading for the day.
My family, maternal Grandmother, step-Grandfather and Mother, were all 19th century in there thinking and lifestyle. Work hard from sun up till sundown, then after sundown do things around the house for two or three hours until bed time. And in between, eat these enormous delicious meals served by the women at exactly 6:30, 12 noon and 5 o'clock.
My families idea of having fun was to go out to eat, which they seldom did, but when they wanted to be entertained, that was what they did. So, I guess I get my idea of, eating out, as fun and entertaining naturally. Hard conditioning to break.
7-08-01
Things I am working on now to remember every minute of the day:
Who I am.
To live in the here and now.
That everything is spirit.
That I am perfect in God's mind, I just need to realize it.
The goal, union with my Soul.
To stay on my spiritual path.
Things that I try to do every day:
Say prayers and affirmations.
Do good, be good.
Study and meditate.
Write in journal.
Deep breathing.
Walk barefoot.
Sun bathing
Exercise
Work to purify mind and body.
Hold to good diet.
Things I try and do every week:
Steam bath.
Swim.
Work several hours serving others.
Computer class.
Fast.
7-09-01
Walked a mile with Juanita this morning. Today I am going to try and establish a raw food diet. We had watermelon for breakfast. I ate three bananas during the day and at 4PM had a tomato, cucumber, avocado salad with no dressing. Didn't feel satisfied and an hour later ate two barbecued turkey sandwiches. I have to get all that kind of stuff out of the house.
7-10-01
There have been a number of interesting spiritual experiences in my family. The following was told to me by my Great Aunt about the passing of my Great Uncle. My uncle was a very dignified tall thin Scotsman, a sheep rancher, and a fine man.
In his later years, he used to sit in his rocking chair with his cat on his lap and look out at the happenings in their front yard. One evening he told my Aunt," don't cry or mourn for me; tomorrow I am going to pass from this world." "I was gone for several hours today to a very beautiful place." The next afternoon my Aunt found him sitting in his rocking chair, dead, with his cat on his lap.
I loved that elderly couple a lot. Still do. One day, when I was a teenager, I was sitting on a horse with my leg wrapped around the saddle horn talking to my Great Uncle in his yard. He was quite elderly at the time. All of a sudden he said," you wait right here a minute, I have some thing I want to give you."
A bit later he came out of the house and handed me a pair of beautiful silver inlaid spurs. I thanked him a lot and a little later asked him where he got them. "Oh," he said, "I rode a horse in a rodeo once, and they said I did pretty good, and handed me those spurs."
I found out later that my Great Uncle was quite a hand at riding bucking horses when he was a young man. I never wore those spurs, but handled them often, thinking of my Uncle and the day that he gave them to me. I'll always remember him smiling and handing me those spurs.
7-17-01
I have been having a lot of problems with my computer. The word processor program, Corel Word Perfect Suite 8, came on the machine when I bought it and has developed a lot of glitches. The final straw was when I "saved" the above work (7-11-01), and it didn't save it.
My friend, the computer wizard, said that I was using about 2% of what Word Perfect was capable of, and the other 98% was continually conspiring to glitch my 2% with all it's automatic features. So, he loaded Works for Windows 3.0, an old tried and true word processor program, for me and it seems to work fine. I like it.
7-25-01
Had a dream about my mercury poisoning problem last night in which I saw the mercury flowing down and out of my body. The only thing I can think of is to go barefoot more. Sure hope it works because the symptoms are getting worse as time goes on. The muscles in my arms hurt so much that it is hard to type, and leg muscles feel all puffed up and pressing outward against my skin.
I've had a chance to have a steam bath and swim the last two Sundays and that seems to ease the affects of the poisoning somewhat. My weight is 273, bloated from water retention; my body trying to dilute and suspend the poison away from the vital organs. Just after finishing my 40 day fast in February I gained 30 pounds in 22 days. Making gains on my raw food diet.
7-26-01
After a while, as a person goes along their path seeking the truth, they will notice that there are long periods of time that nothing seems to happen. And then all of a sudden there may be lightning fast periods of acceleration. When nothing is happening, some people become bored and lax in their dedication. The problem with that is they will not be prepared when a period of light descends on them.
"Steadfast," is the keyword to making the most out of the cycles of inactivity and progress. These cycles are real and appear at various intervals in time. A seeker should try to live to their, "highest light," all the time, so that when a period of, "advancement," appears they can make the most of it.
What this means is to continually upgrade your physically and mental purity, work hard at doing good and being good, love yourself and others, and if you are bored, you are doing something wrong. Remember who you are.
7-27-01
Had a steam bath and swim Sunday. I have been soaking in an Epsom salts bath daily to pull toxins out of my body. Going barefoot as much as I can. Juanita and I walked a mile this morning. Eating a raw food diet. Yesterday I had a piece of watermelon for breakfast; peaches, raspberries w/honey for lunch; and a tomato, cucumber, onion, avocado salad with no dressing for supper.
I have read that spirituality grows within a person very slowly at first but exponentially like the cells dividing and growing into a newly conceived baby. One cell divides into two, then two cells divides into four, and four into eight, and so on.
We help in the growth of our spiritual being by maintaining the proper inner and outer environment which allows our spirituality to develop naturally. We nurture our growing spirituality with a constant attitude of Love toward all things within and without.
We strive for inner simplicity which allows our mind to remain at peace, and develop a lifestyle of non-offensive outer simplicity which allows us to remain at peace with the world. Put aside all things that offend, either yourself or others. Live quietly and simply, stay on the path.
7-28-01
The body is the symbol of the Soul or the person that lives within. The Soul enters the body at conception. The Soul is bestowed upon the fetus through the natural union of a man and woman. The body is a temporary dwelling for the Soul, so that the Soul can experience the material environment of the earth. The body is transitory, the Soul is sacred and eternal.
The body can be altered to meet the conditions of the environment, the Soul is the providence of Almighty God and unchangeable. The Soul cannot be affected by any science of man or other Angels no matter how advanced. Advanced beings may be able to help create an animal to fit a particular environment, but they cannot create a Soul or alter it.
In the ordinary world after a baby is born the family and friends begin to teach the newborn their "world view" of things. This world view usually indicates that a person is a body and personality with a mind and that the goal in life is to "get ahead" and collect as much material wealth as possible and enjoy ones self to the fullest. And they will also probably teach the child the virtue of being good and the undesirability of vice.
As for the baby, when they become conscious of the world and they begin to build a personality by a hit and miss fashion to deal with their new environment. And all through their life they will identify with this personality and their body as being themselves. Very few people learn any different.
The above is, of course, an over simplification of what most ordinary human beings think and feel and how they live. And most people do feel there is something that they are missing and that there must be a higher calling than that which they are living.
People go through life thinking that they are the personality that they themselves have created. This is a complete illusion because if events in their life had been different. they would have created a different personality to meet those events or conditions. We are not a changeable fabricated personality or a transitory body. We are a Soul, an eternal unchangeable self-conscious individualized part of Almighty God. Our Soul is part of Almighty God, and is the same Soul that is in every other human being. We are--One--Being.
A human being is created by the Almighty and has three aspects, a body, mind and a Soul. The body and mind, as we know them today, are transitory. Our mind today is involved with thinking and this will pass away as we begin to realize our ability to access pure knowledge. We will never lose our self-consciousness, but will learn to use it in other ways as we ascend.
The Soul in a newborn baby is holy, divine and eternal. How should we treat this Divine Being that has come into our midst, what should we say, what should we teach him/her about life here on earth and their place in it. The parents should remember that they are just caretakers of this new and wonderful being and they should be careful to teach the child appropriate things at the appropriate time.
For instance, it would only be appropriate to talk about or explain death of the body and the passing of the Soul to a higher plain, when the child is old enough to understand, and when a friend or family member has died. With young children it is a good idea to link a lesson with an actual event, because abstractions are hard to grasp.
The most important thing is to teach the child about God and their relationship to that Supreme Being. Teach the child that they are a Soul, living in a material environment, but that the Soul is not limited by that environment, but is free. As the child grows and can understand, they should be taught spiritual values, and how to keep the body and mind pure, and be introduced to different vocations so they can learn to use their hands as well as their head.
As the child continues to grow various talents may appear, music, painting, dance; and certain spiritual powers may appear as well, being able to see and hear Angels and be able to talk to them. Parents should make every effort to help the child to develop and understand these talents, and find appropriate teachers if they cannot teach the child themselves.
Parents are the producers and directors of the world environment of the child they were given to care for and they should help to open and expand the child's understanding of that world, rather than closing the child down to things, they themselves as parent guardians do not understand. Parents are guardians of the childs body, mind and Soul.
God bless all children
Because they are the creators
Of a new and better world
Every day of their lives
If adults would just allow
That world to be.
