I have a Vision

I have a Vision of a new reality. One where people choose their path for realizing their own dreams, the true fulfillment of the desires of the love in their hearts placed there by the One Infinite Creator.

Non-resistance is the means by which this will be created. People simply do what they want to do, without focusing on that which might oppose or prevent them from accomplishing their aims. If their actions are guided by the principle of Reverence for Life (Albert Schweitzer), Service to Others (as opposed to service to self - as presented in the Law of One Series from Ra), and the Golden Way, "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise" (Luke 6:31), and opposition arises, it will be overcome by non-resistance as stated by Lao Tsu "The submissive and weak will overcome the hard and strong." (full passage below 1), or even active acquiescence as taught by Jesus, "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" Matthew 5:39.

So many messages through innumerable sources have presented this approach such as ancient teachings to modern day movies such as The Matrix or Star Wars. One wins simply through surrender, or letting go. This is the ultimate act of faith, or trust where a person puts their state of being in the hands of the One Infinite Creator, God or All That Is. A simple act of stopping resisting and yielding to the progressive or "dominant" force sets up nature to do her thing - re-create. In other words, allow love to do its most natural act to bring forth new "When the uncarved block shatters it becomes vessels, The sage make use of these and becomes the lord over officials." (Lau Tsu, full quote below 2).

"Evil", or the progressive force always speaks loudly, and claims that evil, or the devil is at work. Its primary tool, or motivator is fear. This is an ironic circumstance to observe in this world. Those most claiming the religious "high ground" are the agents of their own demise. Evil consumes itself, eventually. Love patiently waits knowing that storms always subside, resting in "this too shall pass". Always after threats of destruction and death, strong wind and billowing sails will be the peace, and calm seas, the eternal calm, the peace that reside within "All That Is" - that which does all, and yet nothing to obtain "I have not work to do in all the worlds, Arjuna - for these worlds are mine. I have nothing to obtain, because I have all. And yet I work" (Bhagavad Gita. 3:22).

When one situates oneself in a state of knowing and surrender, they need not question. Following Ones heart, which resides within, just doing the best that you can, even at your current station in life, prepared to "let go" and not fight, following honest intent to do Love's beckoning cannot fail. This will reveal itself as the True path of salvation.

There are no enemies that can defeat God, Source, Love - because there are no enemies. All That Is is One Love, the One Infinite Creator watching the "wheels go round' and round" through your eyes.

Residing in the Now, the Present, the only true place of power, a person can come to experience and know truly how powerful they are, and following the Vision placed in their heart, in love, they will observe the manifestation of One Divine Harmonic Symphonic Orchestration that has been in the Mind and Heart of the One Infinite Creator for Eternity. And You are part of it.

"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." John 14:10 KJV
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:12, KJV
"The Lord of the world is beyond the works of the world and their working, and beyond the results of these works; but the work of Nature rolls on." Bhagavad Gita 5: 14
"This body, Arjuna, is called the field. He who knows this is called the knower of the field. 13:2 Know that I am the knower in all fields of my creation: and that the wisdom which sees the field and the knower of the of the field is true wisdom. Bhagavad Gita 13: 1

One need not lament, worry or decry day to day observances. Just rest when confronted with the dancing shadows on the wall, in one conscious deep breath at a time, if needed, knowing that you too, are an important, beautiful living tapestry designed, managed, supported, sustained, guided and created by Divine Love.

Full verse as cited above.
1. XXXVI - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by D.C. Lau

If you have a thing shrink,
You must first stretch it;
If you would have a thing weakened,
You must first strengthen it;
If you would have a thing laid aside,
You must first set it up'
If you take from a thing,
You must first give to it.
This is called subtle discernment:
The submissive and weak will overcome the hard and strong.
The fist must not be allowed to leave the deep;
The instruments of power in a state must not be revealed to anyone.

2. XXVIII - Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, translated by D.C. Lau

Know the male
But keep to the role of the female
And be a ravine to the empire.
If you are a ravine to the empire,
Then the constant virtue will not desert you
And you will again return to being a babe.
Know the wite
But keep to the role of the black
And be a model to the empire.
If you are a model to the empire,
Then the constant virtue will not be wanting
And you will return to the infinite.
Know honor
But keep to the role of the disgraced
And be a valley to the empire.
If you are a valley to the empire,
Then the constant virture will be sufficient
And you will return to being the uncarved block.
When the uncarved block shatters it becomes vessels. The sage make use of these and becomes the lord over officials.
Hence the greatest cutting
Does not sever.

Andy's first interview - Voice of the People Radio

Spur of the moment I was invited to do a radio program the other day. It was spontaneous, but I Shared openly, which is all that I can do. I've decided to quit hiding. In this interview I Share some of the stuff going on with my work, but also some past experiences and my personal Vision and insights to the human, spiritual transformation that is taking place in our world.

Voice of the People Radio Guest - Dr. Andrew Skadberg Reverence for Life University

Here are some links mentioned in the program, and other links that may be of interest.

Working Hearts of the Quad Cities
Waterkeeper of the Quad Cities

Self Management Institute and Reverence for Life University - with Desmond Green

Here you can download my books, and some other powerful books for Free. Rural Innovation Institute, library

Here is what I call my "Vision" book, entitled "Vision, We ARE Re-Creating the World a Resource Manual "Tool-box" for Re-vitalization and Empowerment Through Grass-roots Strategies and Environmental Awareness".

Here are the blog posts, and poems that were read in the interview.

Do Good
Your Promise
Compassion

Finally, the core of my approaches, in as few a words a possible - the Regional Revitalization and Empowerment Strategy, adapted to Colombia, S.A.

Love Transcends, my most powerful half-channeled writing.

Thank You!

How do we simplify the model?

When one looks at all of the world´s situations they look so complex. So many complexities in our lives, in the world, and if taken as a complete seems overwhelming. The key is to take it one step at a time. The best analogy is that of a mountain climber. He doesn´t take the whole trip in his head before he starts, otherwise he wouldn´t do it. He makes up his mind to go, takes the right tools, adapts, makes adjustments, in process, and step by step, one foothold and handhold at a time makes his way to the peak.

But what is our guide for our metaphorical journey to some desired destination. We have gotten so far off track, or down a dead-end road, that it is difficult to know what tools we have at our disposal to guide us toward a more harmonious world. Even our thinking is skewed. The knowledge, or what we know that we are, and what All That Is is, is quite skewed. So how do we get out of this culdesac, this dead-end situation?

I think it is a matter of finding a principle by which we can guide our thinking and actions and move toward improvement of our situation on a day by day basis. As we look at the various systems that we have created, they do not work. The evidence is all around us.

Now we may envision a new reality, one that we might call perfect, but we are so far away from that reality that we lose all hope which we have seen is another obstacle for progress. We must not work against ourselves, we must not allow ourselves to create barriers for us to achieve what our desired outcomes are. So how we accomplish this is to develop ways by which we can move progressively out of our collective conundrum, but this only happens on an individual basis! So, by what principle can we guide ourselves? I believe it is the Golden Rule – but what I believe is actually the most important universal law of the Universe.

A digression might be to talk about how just using the Word “rule”, (very likely it was supposed to be law) has made us forget, or not comprehend the true importance of this. The ten commandments were described as “rules” to live by. But as Emmet Fox wrote about in his book 10 commandments is the fact that they are actually laws. People have been inclined to break rules, because they really don´t understand that by doing things against rules they are really mostly hurting themselves. ¨Rules are meant to be broken” is a tongue in cheek saying, but who of us does not secretly believe this to be true. This may be a case where all of the things that we aren´t supposed to do, actually become very attractive and we secretly do these things but pretend that we are not. We then begin to hide from ourselves, dishonesty sets in, and then we are down the slippery slope of how can a person base a life on lying to oneself. We can see the results of this erroneous thinking by what we see in the world.

So, back to the Golden Law. It is a law. If I hurt you, I hurt me and you. But likely more me, because in the end, since the universe cannot operate on “fuzzy”, happenstance, fickle, occasional, or non-solid principles, or “laws”. For every action there will be a reaction. So if I steal something from you, at some time in the future I will pay that price (if not in this life, then in a future life). Most of us do not really understand the Golden Law. And it is not the point to follow this principle for selfish purposes, because if I am being nice just to serve myself, not concerned about the impacts on others, that is another trap.
To move out of this “far from the desired situation” in the world, I believe the Golden Law is the foundation.

Let us continue with our analogy, and imagine that our collective being has truly taken a trip down a street and we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in a culdesac, or dead-end. And for several milennia we have been circling around in the cul-de-sac.

How do we get out?

The only way to get out of a dead end is to turn around and walk back out. We start to walk step by step out. But we need some sort of guide. How will we know if we have turned back around, and started to go back to the dead-end?

It is the Golden Law.

Albert Schweitzer called it reverence for life. This idea is that we do not harm any form of life. This includes other people, insects, plants, animals, the planet. This also very much relates to Free Will. If we impose our Will, on anothers Free Will, in the end, we are going to have to rectify, or deal with the repercussions.

But as one looks at the world, most of what we do ends up damaging something. This is the evidence of how far off track we have gotten. It seems that all of our “systems” hurt something. As we observe this situation we could become totally discouraged and not even want to start the journey back. But this is the wrong perspective. We must be like the mountain climber. Take the tools, how to think, common sense and the Golden Law and begin the journey step by step.

In essence the Golden Rule becomes our measuring stick, our guide in the process. We can measure each of our steps, thoughts, actions against this Universal principle which was given to us by Jesus, and step by step, day by day begin the journey back to create the new world. All that is required is the honest and sincere desire to take the journey. As we go along we can know, that in fact we are being guided by the perfect “program” – our feelings. Also circumstance, or repercussions are a guide. They have always been here, but this is evidence of how misinformed we have been. We have not even known that God had installed an operating system that guides us perfectly, constantly providing feedback in the form of “good” or “bad” feelings, or vibrational reactions showing us whether or not we are moving in the direction of what is in our best interest.

Self reflection is another key tool We have to be able to look back on what we do and evaluate whether or not we are making progress. This should be a continual, on going process.

Also, we need to be aware that our “knowledge base” and what we have to work with will be continually improving as we go along in this process. We will gain new insights, better understanding, better skills as we continually seek improvement and progress. We essentially tap into the Divine power of Love that will continually endow more of what we need to continue on our journey toward the perfect expression of the Golden Law. This is Law. And we cannot attempt to do something, with an honest and sincere desire to do good, and not be given, directly from Source the tools, education, resources, motivation, etc. to move toward our goal.

One of the most difficult issues is the principle of measuring, or judging our progress based upon the existing thinking and dualistic system that currently operates in our world, in our “human” thinking system. We have to be astute to watch ourselves from not beating ourselves up for not learning the lessons “we think” we should have learned. Feeling guilty, getting angry at ourselves, or others, again, is a huge sign that we are heading in the wrong direction. The key to the success of this process is to be gentle with ourselves and others as almost all of us have been battered by our own judgment of ourselves. We have become masters with a whip, constantly beating our own backs, having the mistaken belief that this might be an effective way to motívate ourselves, pushing ourselves along our journey in constant oppressive judgment of our progress. We are not pack animals (in fact this is not how we should treat animals either). This is the same method that was used to submit the slaves. If we are to become loving and kind to others, we must practice it first and foremost with ourselves. Of course, we must always practice this with others, the planet, and animals as well. For all really is just One. This is the great truth contained in the Golden Law. What we do to others we do to ourselves, the others, to the One, or to God.

But we need not become discouraged when we see how far off the track we have gotten. This, apparently, is the whole point of the journey. This is what God wanted. Rome was not built in a day. A 1000 mile journey starts with one step. And with the powerful, and all present One, guiding us, and loving us while we utilize the Golden Law as our guide, we will find ourselves on a joyous journey, day by day to our visión. Our destination. But the point is not about getting somewhere, but the journey.