Q & A: Qualifications & Religious Avatars
August 5th, 2007 by John Wolfe
I’ve been receiving some emails recently, containing specific questions, about the site and about my views and opinions, on a variety of metaphysical, and even some religious subject matter. So, I decided to feature a couple of them in a question and answer series. I’d love for this to become a regular feature because I feel it helps me to clarify my views on certain subjects and it allows me to cover some grey area that my posts, so far, haven’t quite covered.
It also provides me with an idea of where my visitors are coming from and what areas I may need to be more specific about. If you have questions on anything related to the subjects I regularly discuss and would like to see them featured in an upcoming post, please feel free to send me an email. Your name and email address will always be kept private, unless you request otherwise.
Question: You’ve said you are not a psychic and you are not gifted with any psychic like abilities. What makes you knowledgeable or an expert at giving the advice you give?
Answer: Outside of being very empathic, it’s true I’m not all that psychic. I would never give advice to people about specific events or circumstances in their lives, from the point of view that I am some sort of viewer or seer. And I’ve never claimed to be an expert.
I’ve only claimed to be someone that’s passionately seeking and actively pursuing ways to provide some clarity on mysteries out there. I have been interested in this type of information for years and through hours and hours of reading and research, along with many personal experiences, I feel I can relate my ideas, in the hope they will benefit my visitors.
I feel it’s important to again mention how vital it is to weigh out what you read, even though I discussed it in my last post, Exploring Reincarnation: Part 1, because it helps to answer your question.
I encourage all of my visitors to only take away, from my posts, what resonates and feels true within themselves. I write what I feel to be my personal truths in the hope it stimulates my visitors to approach the subject from a different standpoint. While that standpoint may not agree with mine, that’s okay. In fact that’s great because we aren’t all going to see things in the same way. This is what makes our unique perspective so unique, creative and amazing.
As long as my visitors are feeling and thinking their way through my posts and listening to their own guidance and awareness- that’s what matters. It’s this stimulation of thought and feeling that helps us to expand.
Question: You have spoken some about religion, but I’d like to know your opinion on religious figures like Jesus.
Answer:I feel that the great icons, from all the religions around the world, were truly amazing people. The keyword though, is people. I don’t believe that Christ, Buddha or Mohammed were any different from you or me. I feel that each one of them however, were truly, fully connected (the majority of the time) to the mystical energy that flows through each of us.
We all have the same potential to be Christ-like or Buddha-like or whomever-like if we reach for it and feel our way there. We also have the option of being as little like them as we choose- we simply have to keep ourselves constantly in a place of struggle, battling with the natural flow of life and letting our undesirable emotions rule our temperament, until that mission is accomplished.
Each of us has the ability to be as unfettered, free and amazing or as bound, restrained and miserable as we choose. I believe these were the prominent tenants that people like Christ taught, not fire and brimstone sermons about repenting and fearfully trying to obtain God’s appeasement.
We are already worthwhile individuals that have never had to be forgiven or become something better than we currently are to please some deity. I believe we all are the creator known as god- our greatness is implied, we only have to relinquish the typical human struggle and look within to find it- that’s why Christ stated the kingdom of heaven lies within.
And that’s it for my first question and answer post. I’ve really enjoyed answering questions in the public format of my blog, because there may be other visitors that are curios about these same questions. I definitely look forward to doing this again soon and I encourage anyone who has a specific question to please contact me.
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