THE END OF THE
WORLD REVISITED

Some have sincerely voiced their concerns over the recent calamities occurring in the world. I have heard from others the following: It’s what Nostradamus said; it’s the Revelation; it’s the Mayan prophecy of 2012. According to some scholars, the Earth will come to an end December 21, 2012. Hogwash!!!

The Earth will come into alignment with the galactic plane which occurs every 26,000 years. For 8 minutes total, we will receive a greater than average pull for the Super Massive Black Hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. After the 8 minutes of excessive pull, this is what will happen: the earth just keep doing what it has been doing for millions of years before we graced it with our presence.

We, as a civilization, have become so comfortable in our arrogance of our supposed dominion over the earth. Here’s a FACT; the earth survived much longer than we have even existed. We have been around for about 10,000 years give or take a few thousand years. Yet, in our ‘dominion’ over the earth we have gutted, raped and pillaged it as well as utilized its natural order to grow and expand. We have used and abused our Mother Earth to the point that it has reacted with changes that we simply don’t want to face.

Yet, it existed and SURVIVED through many cataclysmic changes before we even existed on this planet. What does that say? To me, no matter what ‘prophecies’, ‘predictions’ or ‘conclusions’ that anyone claims are transpiring are not as valid as the scientific research that reveals our current dilemma of climate change. Our perspective of the timeline of this earth is like comparing a step to walking around the globe several thousand times. We have been here for a small slice of the time as the earth has existed.

Yet when faced with the FACTS supporting climate change (‘global warming’) many deny the facts in favor of a myopic viewpoint that supports human arrogance. The collective egos of the nay-sayers reinforce and supply the corporate news media to reveal to us what ‘they’ want us to know and NOT what the facts are.

Be the being that you were created to be and think for yourself. Gather the facts, research the facts and come to informed decisions based on the facts. Don’t buy into someone else’s conclusions based on ‘their’ facts. Use the brain that God has given you and THINK! If what you think about confuses you or makes you feel uncomfortable then ask God to guide your steps and lead you to the truth. His infinite spirit always points the way to the best solution for all concerned. But some will still live in fear and deny the truth that is being revealed all around them.

Many people talk about the end times; whether it be the Mayan Calendar misreading or the Christian ‘second coming’. They will instill fear in many by asking the same old questions. Are your bags packed? Have you gotten your house in order? Do you need to bring cash, a change of clothes or your toothbrush? What are they referring to? The Rapture, of course. The Christian myth that is repeatedly perpetrated by so-called Biblical scholars. There is reference to such an occurrence as an allegory in the Bible but not an actual occurrence. Yet, how many preachers over the past 500 years have predicted the end of the world?

Eschatology is pure crap! It is the hope of some believers that God will recognize them for their righteous and pious behavior and elevate them above the ‘evil’ doers. It does not accept the fact that the Spirit of God is within EVERYONE. It uses separation and division to justify self-righteousness.

And why would God take rotted corpses out of the graves? It sounds like a bad Roger Corman movie about zombies. And what about those righteous who were cremated? Will the winds gather their ashes and reassemble them for their piety? Hardly. There comes a time in any belief system where the believers need to GROW UP and stop telling others from their self-constructed pulpit of ignorance what God is going to do to you when you don’t fear and obey Him. Believers need to grow up from being a child in their belief systems and embrace the love of God as revealed to their inner spirit.

The true rite of passage is when you make the transition from self-righteousness into recognizing the presence of the Spirit of God within everyone and extending love to all. This way the world of the ego comes to an end and the acceptance of God’s love reigns supreme.

Those who feel we should do nothing to respect our planet because of a belief in this 'second coming' are forgetting about those who realize that they are full of B.S. I’ll say it again! Eschatology is a total and complete lie! It was set up by church doctrine to instill fear and maintain control over the masses.

We have been given the gift of this warm, beautiful planet and it is our responsibility to maintain it, love it and keep it clean. Those who choose to be lazy about this because of what some book says written over 2000 years ago are foolish indeed. I have one thing to say to them: Grow up!

Don’t be a fan of eschatology. It is an egotistical assessment of naturally occurring events that have occurred over the course of the history of this planet. It sells books and movies and keeps people living in fear. Live and let live and promote growth and expansion from the singularity projection of spirit into the dualistic reflection of perception. Be perfect as God has created you to and listen to the still small voice of guidance to learn the truth, know the truth and live the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

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THE EXPRESSION OF
DIVINE LOVE

The expression of Divine love through us can be channeled by us in many ways. Our very existence is the expression of Divine love.

How we channel that Divine love is either manifested by our mind-heartset as faith in the Divine to manifest beauty in Divine order or fear of what 'may' happen.

Our 'energy' is Divine love and since we are co-creators with the Divine we can either follow thoughts, beliefs and feelings that project Divine love (through faith) or follow thoughts, beliefs and feelings that reject Divine love (through fear). ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE FIELD OF SEPARATION

Separation is the field in which the ego plays. Without good and bad, black and white and higher and lower, the ego has NO power to influence our decisions. The ego has three levels of power that it uses to manage our self-survival at all costs: control, domination and manipulation.

What is control? It is a perception that we need to restrain or direct someone or something to manifest our desired result because there are too many variables that could change our desired outcome. It is the first level of the ego’s expressed power that sneaks in under the guise of self-survival.

The next level of the ego’s expressed power is to dominate someone or something in order to manage their behaviors to ensure our desired outcome. What is domination? It is the state where we decide that we have the knowledge to rule over or govern events, circumstances, situations, occurrences and people. We feel that we have more value than someone else and we now begin to feel we are superior to others. This mindset leads to the next level of the ego’s expressed power; manipulation.

Manipulation is the state where we feel we have superior knowledge and understanding. As a result, we feel we have the right to skillfully manage and influence the thoughts, beliefs, words, actions and behaviors of others by supplying them with the information we need for them to fulfill our desired outcome. It is where our agenda is more important than the truth.

The ego now has reinforced itself enough to where it looks to itself as the master of its own destiny; it becomes its own God. How many successful people and governmental leaders have you seen that exemplify these characteristics? The world is full of people that are full of themselves and feel they have ‘THE’ way for everyone to live in order to fulfill their selfish desires.

Stop placating the selfish desires of the ego and move towards Oneness with the Spirit of God within. Stop feeling threatened by everything that occurs in your environment! Each and every time that you doubt, worry about or fear the outcome of events, circumstances, situations, occurrences and the behaviors of people, you give an energy boost to your ego. By choosing ‘the dark side’ you are giving your true power away to a construct of your being that has one job and one job alone; your self-survival!

It is not the be all and end all of your whole life. It is an integral part of it that you need to protect yourself from expressions in your environment that could ‘potentially’ harm you; not ‘definitely’ harm you! Trusting completely in the Spirit of God to unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order is the best way to check the ego’s perceived ability to control, dominate and manipulate everything in your environment.

It naturally occurs when you make the time each and every day to go within in deep meditation to commune with the Divine. Without these regular and consistent ‘dates with the Divine’ we naturally feel overcome with the stresses of the world. Develop your romance with your Creator each and every day. Look forward to those times of divine communication and they will bathe you with the Divine perspective that what you ‘cannot’ control is the greatest blessing of all. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE FINER THINGS

When you get up each morning do you tell yourself that there is time to get the things done that you want to do? Do you procrastinate important steps in your life because you assure yourself that you have time? Do you say, “Why do today what I can put off until tomorrow?”

We have an illusion of time and that we are somehow in control of the perception of it. In Steve Winwood’s song “The Finer Things” we see just where we experience the illusion of time. While we ‘have’ the time we need to ‘go out and feel everything’. As Winwood says ‘time is a river rolling into nowhere’. Where is nowhere? Is it just a construct of something we don’t understand? Winwood then says “We must live while we can and we’ll drink our cup of laughter.”

We all choose to experience life as we see it and have the opportunities to live, laugh and love. Do we experience the finer things of life? Do we choose to seek them or do we feel that they are ‘separate’ from us? Are they just dreams or can we make them reality? Winwood states that “the finer things keep shining through, the way my soul gets lost in you”. When we get lost in the love of another we truly experience the ‘finer things’ in life. We feel them inside and know “the golden dance life could be.”

We experience the joy, peace, understanding and love that we have in our connection with all of life. Experience the ‘finer things’ in life by letting go of any and all ‘beliefs’ that constrict your full experience of the joys of life. Be the divine being you are and come to know that the finer things are there with you right now; deep inside of you when you ‘connect’ with whom and what you truly are. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE FOUR MAIN
ASPECTS

My eBook "Aspects Of Reality" is a treatise about the four main aspects of humanity. The physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects reveal our whole being and how we integrate into our environment. The degree to which we understand each aspect is how it will affect our being as a whole.

It has been observed by many philosophers that humans, over the course of history, have displayed many different types of behaviors. These aggregate behaviors constitute our humanity. What is humanity? It is the collective behavioral expressions of all human beings. Whether the behavior is considered bad or good, all of these expressions represent different aspects of human behavior. Aspects are qualities or characteristics of human behavior. They are based on observations of those with different perspectives. Perspectives are conclusions based on one’s viewpoint of an event, circumstance or occurrence. Viewpoints are a result of one’s individual internal chemistry and stimulus-response learning that occurs in a person’s external surroundings. The old argument of Heredity vs. Environment comes to mind where observers argue which one determines how we act. Both heredity and environment play significant roles in human behavior.

What are the aspects of humanity? They are the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual expressions or behaviors of humankind. Physical aspects represent the human body and its chemistry. We need physical sustenance in order to survive. We need air to breathe, water to drink, food to fuel our growth and exercise to provide the maintenance of our bodies. If we deprive, restrict or ignore the physical needs of our bodies, our bodies respond with chemical reactions that affect other aspects of our beings.
The physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of humanity are always stimulating our brains with a cornucopia of stimulus. How we react to this stimulus is how it will affect us. Choose to pro-act by understanding that your perceptions are just copies of reality and NOT reality. We all have the capability to become better than we are by educating ourselves with the collective knowledge of all aspects of humanity. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE HISTORY OF DESIRE

We hear time and time again how we need to free ourselves from desire. We are told that in order to align with the Divine we need to let all desire go. Most of this came from the teachings of the Buddha, but was this his original teaching? Was the ‘stain’ of desire the very thing we need to let go in order to know the Divine? Or was it misinterpreted by followers down through the ages?

In his article on Desire, Prabhuji Ramakrishnananda, he states the following: “According to Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 CE), the origin of desire is found in man’s disobedience to the law of God. We may read in his famed work De Civitate Dei, or The City of God, book XIII, chapter 13: “He rejoiced in his own freedom to act perversely and disdained the service of God. Therefore he was deprived of the obedient service that the body had until then rendered to him.” Just as man disregards the will of God, the body ignores the needs of the soul. In the same way that the human being is separated, disconnected from the divine will, the mind and the body develop desires which are in conflict with the interests of the soul. As is mentioned in the New Testament, in Galatians (5:17) “Because the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit and that of the Spirit is against the flesh; and these are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.”” To read more of this click this link.

In the treatise on the Philosophy of Desire in Wikipedia.com it states the following: “In philosophy, desire has been identified as a philosophical problem since Antiquity. In Plato's The Republic, Socrates argues that individual desires must be postponed in the name of the higher ideal. Within the teachings of Buddhism, craving is thought to be the cause of all suffering. By eliminating craving, a person can attain ultimate happiness, or Nirvana. While on the path to liberation, a practitioner is advised to "generate desire" for skillful ends”.

Desire as a verb is defined as, “desire (v.) early 13c., from Old French desirrer (12c.) "wish, desire, long for," from Latin desiderare "long for, wish for; demand, expect," original sense perhaps "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (genitive sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider). Related: Desired; desiring.” And as a noun: “desire (n.) c.1300, from Old French desir, from desirer (see desire (v.)); sense of "lust" is first recorded mid-14c.”

Buddha referred to what we now call desire as a craving; a yearning for something outside of ourselves in order to make us feel complete. It comes from the word “Taṇhā (Pāli; Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā, also trishna) literally means "thirst," and is commonly translated as craving or desire.” In the Greek translation of human ‘cravings’ and ‘yearnings’ we see the word, ‘orexis’, which means ‘appetite’; a implied physical state that controls you until you fulfill obtaining the object of the appetite.

After the formation of the Catholic Church the word desire literally meant, (de – of) (sire – the Father). It meant that desires that you felt in your heart were ‘of the Father’; not cravings or yearnings. It wasn’t until the 15th Century that the word came to mean ‘lustful cravings’ in the Catholic Church. From that point on, many people have firmly believed that desire is something that is to be considered ‘bad’. In fact, the Therevada monks, the one’s closest to the Buddha, were charged by him to ‘generate desire’ for ‘skillful ends’. This reveals that there is a distinct difference between ‘cravings’ and ‘yearnings’ and true Divine ‘desires’.

Now in Galations 5:17, the Aramaic translation was made into the Greek and then into the Latin years later. The Aramaic translation literally reads, “For the flesh craves anything that opposes The Spirit and The Spirit craves whatever opposes the flesh, and they both are contrary one to another, lest you would be doing whatever you want” (Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)). If you notice, the word is ‘crave’ and not ‘desire’. The verse illustrates the ongoing contraposition to the cravings and yearnings of the ego and the Divine desires of the spirit. It is like the Buddha identified as cravings and yearnings but NOT what the word desire means. It was the later Buddhist sect of the Mahayanas that misinterpreted the meaning of desire with the meaning of craving.

Now, why would the Catholic Church change and bastardize the meaning of the word desire? What advantage would it have for the priests and leaders of the Catholic Church? It is simple. The most natural craving and yearning for humans is the drive for the sexual act of reproduction. It blinds one to their morals, it makes people do things that they would not normally do and it is contrary to what the Catholic Church had been teaching for years. It literally made the desires, which are the drive ‘of the Father’ within to create, something ‘sinful’ What better way to gain control over their constituents, dominate their thoughts with fear and manipulate their very existence by placing themselves as the middle men between people and God. They originally did this when the Council of Nicea tossed out the Gnostic Gospels in 325 C.E.

Why did Constantine and his priests remove the Gnostic gospels? Because they taught that the Divine is WITHIN you and that you don’t have to go to a priest or anyone else for your ‘salvation’. This is the TRUTH of what Yeshua taught. Desires literally mean the seeds of your Divine purpose that the Divine planted in your heart to fulfill your Divine purpose in Divine order. Desire is therefore a GOOD thing. Desire from within is the Divine giving you a gift that ‘primes the pump’ of creation.

When you get over your ego and start to ‘expect’ the fulfillment of your Divine desires is when the wheels are put into motion through Divine order. Divine order then affects natural order with the ‘impetus’ of manifestation that ultimately leads to the fulfillment of creation of your Divine purpose. Desire is the seed, expectation is the sustenance and growth of desire and allowance is the manifestor of desire.

Don’t listen to those who don’t understand the true meanings of these words. Words create vibrations and the entire omniverse is vibrating and aligning your ‘point of attraction’ which is your predominant vibration, with what you project into the perceived dualistic reality. The omniverse reflects what you project and if you minimize your Divine desires and not your cravings and yearnings, you will never become what the Divine created you to be.