“I don’t always agree with myself.” —Marshall MacLuhan This morning I posted this piece, and I have since gotten an answer, or rejoinder to my own question; I’m writing it now even though I’ve got a bus to catch. Thanks in part to a second listening to a Fulton Sheen sermon, posted below, I now see that “functional despair” is a state of being that may be fully understandable, but should still be avoided at all costs.
Everyone will help our situation by continuing to do actions of positivity and love. I know from experience that even if there is no immediate result if one perseveres there will be rewards of love coming back to one. Since love is a higher vibration it will win over the negativity that Satan is attempting to foment.
There are two rules I seem to be seeing in the supernatural realm. One being we have to give our consent to these attacks on us, which confirms free will. Second being that negative energy feeds the demonic, while positive energy repels it.
Yes, thoughts and emotions carry frequency, vibration, and energy. We must practice feeling the elevated emotions of love, gratitude, wholeness, joy. It's so easy to succumb to feeling hopeless with all that's going on out there. But the truth is that we give away our power to someone or something outside of us when we allow external conditions to control how we think and feel. Our thoughts create our reality, so let's choose the ones we want to experience and weed out the negative ones. I highly recommend Dr. Joe Dispenza's work; Becoming Supernatural is my favorite book of his. Also, You are the Placebo and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. We can turn things around. Consciousness is awakening across the planet.
Yes! Eschew despair. Embrace faith, courage, and integrity. Victory favors the brave and fortune favors the bold may be cliches, but useful nonetheless. Thank you for the sermon link!
Dec 30, 2022·edited Dec 30, 2022Liked by Celia Farber
Thank you, Celia, for both of your posts yesterday and today. I needed both messages. I read them over again and felt the call to refine my post because I want writers to know their reach is facilitated in their willingness to be vulnerable. Yesterday's message, the first message, helped me feel I am not alone in my everyday confusing reactions, so similar to yours. The second post with link to Fulton Sheen's sermon on evil and how satan wants us to be in despair, separated, alone, has prompted me remember to think I do have a choice, always, about how I react and what steps I can choose to take to live a more disciplined life and in doing so spite satan, moment by moment, not giving into nagging negativity. (I am reminded that my beloved grandmother, the most positive person I have ever known, gave me the well-loved book, As a Man Thinketh, the Christmas before she passed.) Celia, in your posts I often feel a fellow sojourner who has considered and wrestled with allowing the emergence of a sacred image in what would seem to be only a picture of dots on a page. Your authentic voice so often diminishes a loneliness accumulated during these three years. No matter how much a satan-conjured world may want to separate and confine us, it cannot unless we consent. I want to remember both of these posts whenever entropy creeps in again. And it will. I have to practice over and over. I can choose to drop my bone of despair and in doing so dash satan's agenda. Celia, your questions just plain help. By stirring the embers. Ineffable gratitude and love to you, my friend.
Tripling down on practices that uplift my spirit, mind, feelings & body. ☀️🌷 The field of ennui & fear is fertilized daily by poor souls trapped in darkness.. I will not succumb to that malaise. No one gets my fear for their fuel. Onwards & upwards! 🌱
Dec 30, 2022·edited Dec 30, 2022Liked by Celia Farber
Have you listened to the James Delingpole's podcast with Jerry Marzinsky? He is a psychotherapist and has a very interesting view on demonic possession and mental illness. https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/jerry-marzinsky/
paraphrasing the third temptation: Was Satan once in his life telling the truth when Satan said why bother with theology, the only thing that matters is politics; all these kingdoms of the world are mine. 19:55-21:30
Kingdoms being political states (and leaders) doing service to Satan.
That we are seeing the “dim beginnings” is an optimistic view.
The Bishop is speaking from a tradition that is alien to me, as is the very concept of Satan. I heard him say something, nonetheless, that really spoke to me: The outstanding characteristic of the devil is hatred of the Cross. Coming from a humanistic psychological perspective, I hear that as the refusal to undergo the profundity of releasing psychological pain/trauma, which I understand to be the inner meaning of Crucifixion.
Our society avoids pain--just look at the prescriptions for pain killers, as well as the over-the-counter sales. Look at the escapism offered by entertainment media.
I heard a reading today of a Charles Eisenstein piece called Mutiny of the Soul that really hit the spot for me, in these darkest days of the year. Perhaps others here will take sustenance from it:
Everyone will help our situation by continuing to do actions of positivity and love. I know from experience that even if there is no immediate result if one perseveres there will be rewards of love coming back to one. Since love is a higher vibration it will win over the negativity that Satan is attempting to foment.
John 10:10
King James Version
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
There are two rules I seem to be seeing in the supernatural realm. One being we have to give our consent to these attacks on us, which confirms free will. Second being that negative energy feeds the demonic, while positive energy repels it.
Yes, thoughts and emotions carry frequency, vibration, and energy. We must practice feeling the elevated emotions of love, gratitude, wholeness, joy. It's so easy to succumb to feeling hopeless with all that's going on out there. But the truth is that we give away our power to someone or something outside of us when we allow external conditions to control how we think and feel. Our thoughts create our reality, so let's choose the ones we want to experience and weed out the negative ones. I highly recommend Dr. Joe Dispenza's work; Becoming Supernatural is my favorite book of his. Also, You are the Placebo and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. We can turn things around. Consciousness is awakening across the planet.
Yes! Eschew despair. Embrace faith, courage, and integrity. Victory favors the brave and fortune favors the bold may be cliches, but useful nonetheless. Thank you for the sermon link!
Oh yeah--definitely--Fear and Despair are marketed wholesale throughout the realm. No doubt about it.
Thank you, Celia, for both of your posts yesterday and today. I needed both messages. I read them over again and felt the call to refine my post because I want writers to know their reach is facilitated in their willingness to be vulnerable. Yesterday's message, the first message, helped me feel I am not alone in my everyday confusing reactions, so similar to yours. The second post with link to Fulton Sheen's sermon on evil and how satan wants us to be in despair, separated, alone, has prompted me remember to think I do have a choice, always, about how I react and what steps I can choose to take to live a more disciplined life and in doing so spite satan, moment by moment, not giving into nagging negativity. (I am reminded that my beloved grandmother, the most positive person I have ever known, gave me the well-loved book, As a Man Thinketh, the Christmas before she passed.) Celia, in your posts I often feel a fellow sojourner who has considered and wrestled with allowing the emergence of a sacred image in what would seem to be only a picture of dots on a page. Your authentic voice so often diminishes a loneliness accumulated during these three years. No matter how much a satan-conjured world may want to separate and confine us, it cannot unless we consent. I want to remember both of these posts whenever entropy creeps in again. And it will. I have to practice over and over. I can choose to drop my bone of despair and in doing so dash satan's agenda. Celia, your questions just plain help. By stirring the embers. Ineffable gratitude and love to you, my friend.
Tripling down on practices that uplift my spirit, mind, feelings & body. ☀️🌷 The field of ennui & fear is fertilized daily by poor souls trapped in darkness.. I will not succumb to that malaise. No one gets my fear for their fuel. Onwards & upwards! 🌱
So true Celia every time I find myself down in the dumps I think to myself, the devil is laughing, so I pull myself up
Want some Schadenfreude? Check this out https://twitter.com/THEJamesWhale/status/1433154541038542854
Have you listened to the James Delingpole's podcast with Jerry Marzinsky? He is a psychotherapist and has a very interesting view on demonic possession and mental illness. https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/jerry-marzinsky/
paraphrasing the third temptation: Was Satan once in his life telling the truth when Satan said why bother with theology, the only thing that matters is politics; all these kingdoms of the world are mine. 19:55-21:30
Kingdoms being political states (and leaders) doing service to Satan.
That we are seeing the “dim beginnings” is an optimistic view.
Thankyou for this, love Fulton Sheen!
I needed to see this today, thank you Celia!
Thank You for the video & Your analysis & commentary.
& Happy New Year !!
The Bishop is speaking from a tradition that is alien to me, as is the very concept of Satan. I heard him say something, nonetheless, that really spoke to me: The outstanding characteristic of the devil is hatred of the Cross. Coming from a humanistic psychological perspective, I hear that as the refusal to undergo the profundity of releasing psychological pain/trauma, which I understand to be the inner meaning of Crucifixion.
Our society avoids pain--just look at the prescriptions for pain killers, as well as the over-the-counter sales. Look at the escapism offered by entertainment media.
I heard a reading today of a Charles Eisenstein piece called Mutiny of the Soul that really hit the spot for me, in these darkest days of the year. Perhaps others here will take sustenance from it:
https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/mutiny-of-the-soul