DivineDelusionDeception?
By Alan Forrest Smith | March 9, 2010
Have you noticed…
God for cash, God for love, God for living, real God, no God, I’m God, Your God and… this is just an observation but…
I met this lady.
She was wonderful. We went for a long walk in a long open space and she spoke to me in a gentle kind manner about how her life has been revealed, opened and guided.
She used to believe in God.
Now she believes in herself as a god.
She used to rely on God.
Now she relies on herself as a godlike being.
She used to pray to God.
Now she chants endless repetitions about how she has arrived to save the World.
Now this is JUST AN OBSERVATION… but is there more and more of these people coming out of the woodwork?
She had given up everything.
Her car, her home, her husband, her regular life. She was now flat broke and had no plans. I asked her why? She replied because the Universe has plans for her, big, huge plans. The Universe will bring them to her at the right time. All she has to do is wait for the universe.
I said… is that realistic? She said… I have no expectations, no thoughts, the universe works alone and deliver when ready.
I must admit my brain was working overtime at this point.
Here was a beautiful young woman that had given away everything, walked away from everything. She must have needs. I asked her… what about your needs… she said I no longer need anything. I said anything, she replied yes anything.
Now I don’t know about you.
I need Tea.
I need gadgets.
I need my guitar.
I need my lover.
I need carrot cake.
I need to be close to Scotland.
I need my kids.
Why?
I just do, maybe I need therapy also… 
But I do know I really have needs.
I have needs and wouldn’t give them up for anything, anyone, anytime soon.
I asked her what all the changes?
She told me about this big seminar she had been to. Her eyes had been opened. She was almost convulsing on the floor at the thought of her new enlightened state during this event. Like Saul on the donkey… her eyes had been opened, the scales had fallen off, she could now see where she was once blind.
She got the manual.
She went on the course and the next course and the next course and was shown how to find herself amongst the mass of mankind.
She discovered that she had a purpose and the purpose was to save mankind… SOMEHOW?
She discovered that nothing else mattered only her own self fulfillment
She discovered that God was now just part of the Universe and now the universe should be asked for all things.
She discovered a lot.
But you know what I observed?
A woman completely lost, lonely at home with an animal or two, living a mythical life where nothing leads to nowhere.
A woman that had become an evangelist for the new age faiths being spread from stages all over the planet.
She like countless others is broke, lonely, sad and has nothing in life apart from a shelf full of manuals, self- help DVDs and a stack of credit cards bills she’s unable to pay this month or any month in fact.
What the hell is going on?
I have just come back from the wonderful Dam walk. This is a lake that goes around a dam near where I live.
I enjoyed every moment being in the 3rd dimension. When I say 3rd dimension, this is real now, this is where my senses are engaged, my sight, my hearing, the nerves endings on my skin are all engaged. I can taste, smell everything. Small bird moves in the corner of my eye, my body is quick enough to see, hear, sense it and move around fast enough to be able to take a photo, this is the 3rd dimension.
Yet there is an invisible dimension, some call the 4th or even the 5th. There are also an awakened people coming to new life and seeing this new dimension. These are maybe like you, like me, like others that want more from life.
Yet sadly in business there are also those that are becoming aware of this 4th dimension and willing to use, abuse and manipulate if for hard cash.
Look can I give you my take on this?
If your life sucks, if it’s crap, if you are not happy, if it is killing you, draining you, exhausting you… CHANGE IT.
But when you are in that place you are hungry and eager for change. Yet you are weakened by what is taking place, physically and mentally exhausted by the drudgery of your life.
So when something drops in front of your eyes that is exciting, new, fresh, invigorating and at the same time you are swept along by the energy of the mass of people… you are like a hungry fish snapping at the bait and BANG… you are in.
Are you brain-washed? Not at all. Brainwashing is when you remove all the crap from your brain and start to add new thinking, new thoughts that make you happier long term.
This is more like brain toxin being injected into the brain.
Think about it.
You arrive feeling crap.
You leave feeling amazing.
You pay for everything on offer.
Your life two years down the line if solitary, lonely and devoid of any reality.
Why?
You were told by another human being that this is the way… follow it.
I have seen this in action. I once saw a girl sign up for a ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUND mentor course. The course and the mentor promised to show those that bought into it THE WAY, their life purpose, their key to success, their divine path. HONESTLY!
But think about it … is that the way the Universe or even God work?
And what is taking place here is there are those that are now using 4th dimension (spiritual paths) to make heaps and heaps of cash in the process!
THEY WILL fall flat on their faces. Truth always overcomes as we are seeing in the case of James Arthur Ray right now.
This 4th dimension twist is leaving many, many, many totally broke yet they (and the girl above) still held tight their chosen messianic saviors mentors despite the fact they break them completely!
Interesting times, interesting thoughts, interesting observations.
This really is a God delusion at a very deep level. It’s growing and growing fast. What I do find interesting is that at the same time the illusionists that pump out this brain filth and destroy lives in the process will also vanish like the morning mists.
They might make their cash promising millions a new way, a new life, a new direction yet at the same to they create a false reliance on ‘NOTHING’.
Are you enjoying life in the 3rd dimension? Are you interested in life in the 4th dimension?
Be careful but be true to yourself always.
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10 Responses to “DivineDelusionDeception?”
I understand it was a bishop who said that “those who believe in nothing can be mislead into believing anything”.
Sorry to be skeptical, but whenever I see a pronouncement from anyone professing to be some kind of guru, I always question their motives. We live in a world where people do things for their reasons, not ours.
If you are going to believe in anyone, believe in yourself – and then question your own reasoning and motives.
By Michael Sells on Mar 9, 2010
It has been said that if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything! How true.
By mark samwell on Mar 9, 2010
I love that comment!
By Alan Forrest Smith on Mar 9, 2010
We must always be very careful to take note of our observation point when drawing conclusions. The journey is long and the road has hairpin turns, sometimes it is impossible to make judgement about the external appearances of someone else, especially when changes are being wrought from the inside out.
In my experience with addiction recovery, the people I work with have to stay in the ring. They can’t just avoid a substance. Behavior modification works to a point, but in and of itself does not address the core issue, which is the recovery of the Self, so that the true freedom to create becomes available. Yet, it can surely play a role in the process. If it rained from the top down, it can be the midwife for change.
I do agree that people can become as equally “addicted” to spirituality as anything else. The addiction to a “God” outside of oneself is probably one of the most common ones. In this world addiction does not descriminate in its substance. But more and more I am seeing the collective breaking with that addiction. And perhaps what is being observed here is the swing of the pendulum.
Always looking at our own point of attraction, receiving the messages from the mirrors of our relationships allows us to look at ourselves where we are blind. If we continue to feed ourselves with the knowledge that this body is a manifestation of our consciousness, then there is ever only one thing to change…and that is our mind. That new mind, that new awareness is the one that will make it possible to hear the whispers of our truest desires and clear the conduit for the instructions of the soul’s expression and any actions required to actualize it will be made so. And that might include hiring a coach to help you do something you don’t know how to do or cannot do by yourself.
It is in this space that entropy finally cannot overtake you. It is in this space where giving and receiving become one. And finally, we come to understand this true power of the one within and the oneness of it all as we do what we are driven to all along and that is to reach out to each other, to receive each other’s perfect gifts, each other’s expressions and allow ourselves to be made whole by and with and through each other and the forces of the universe.
I work with something called the medicine wheel. I became extremely spiritually oriented (where before I was not), and have since as a result of working with the wheel grounded into my physical reality some pretty amazing and unexpected things, things I would never have imagined in my previous state of being.
It might take a little longer than behavior modification, but what emerged from my chrysalis state was a complete transformation and metamorphasis. This included not only abundance in spiritual matter, but money as well. My whole relationship with money shifted as I tapped into my soul. This is quite simply the power of alchemy.
Sometimes we remain in the chrysalis, the gelatenous state for quite a while. And so it is important to know that, to have the eyes to see where someone (and ourselves) might be on their path to realization and to honor it, both for others and even as importantly ourselves. We are all a work in progress. Life is a process.
Whenever something catches our attention I believe it is a love note from the soul, fluttering out of the ethers of our psyche to instigate conscious contact. It’s always about ourselves, not about the other. As maddening and obnoxious as this statement is (and on a bad day I’d want to bite someone’s head off for saying it to me), it is true. If we look deep within we are all messengers for each other. Our only job is to receive the messages as objectively as we can so that we can have the eyes to see and the ears to hear so that we can have the feet to move and the hands to receive.
My gift to those I come in contact with is the complete freedom to be who you are, wherever you are in the process. I can give this to them, because first I gave it to myself. You cannot give what you do not have. The medicine wheel taught me how to do this and how to love, for this in my observation is what true love is all about. For me the highest form of love is the ability to hold the space for something better and deeper to emerge as a result of this level of acceptance and love.
What we resist persists. So I have learned it is better to go ahead and face whatever needs facing. But this has been a process and continues to be as I build my experience and strength to be able to do this.
Each journey is unique in it’s content, but the actual processes of alchemy can be clearly understood and predicted. And this knowledge is what opens us up to the wisdom of knowing what can be changed and what cannot. It is this knowing that informs the parts of the body/mind when to act and when to be still. And it is this dance, this flow that brings us into a state of wholeness.
Great topic, Alan. Thank you for inspiring us to THINK!
By Renee Bledsoe on Mar 9, 2010
Hi Alan, good article you have written there. Yes, there are people peddling New Age rubbish to make a fast buck, out of peoples loneliness and confusion. If everyone takes the time to go within and listen to themselves, they would have all the answers they need. Intuition is the best guide of all, and best of all its free! No need for ascended masters or any of that rubbish!
By sharon on Mar 9, 2010
Alan aren’t YOU a Guru? Ha ha, I mean ALL Self Help people are Mentors, Gurus etc and ALL speak in that same Nauseaus Anthony Robbins manner. I DON’T TRUST ANY OF YOU! Ha ha….But I do think that at least you have a Conscience…At last I do Hope..
By Clifford Martinist on Mar 9, 2010
Hi Clifford, great feedback … keep it coming.
By Alan Forrest Smith on Mar 10, 2010
Here is a dose of truth and reality! What we are witnessing is the ever increasing battle in the spiritual realm. You may say because I’m a Christian my opinion is one sided, but it’s not. We were told this was coming, and it’s boldly in our faces and we can’t deny it. The real problem is people are too afraid to except it for what it is…a spiritual battle! If people had the guts to tell themselves the truth, they wouldn’t be giving up on God, or thinking they are god. The whole world knows and feels something big is about to happen…but they don’t know what it is…and that scares them. Every human being knows deep down inside God is real. The problem is, people are afraid to give there life to God because satan adds that little bit of doubt in them all. Don’t look with your eyes, look with your heart and you will know God is!
By Pastor Dave Gray on Mar 23, 2010
Quote towards the end… “They might make their cash promising millions a new way, a new life, a new direction yet at the same to they create a false reliance on ‘NOTHING’.”
Ironically, you have described religion perfectly. Kudos on a wonderful post, I enjoy your blog.
By Charlie on Mar 28, 2010
only thing is amongst all of this, i wish i could make spiritually deaf people able to hear. Yet sometimes, there are some who wont listen until they have tried something, some people just dont want to listen, they just think they know best and they get hurt because they want to find out for themselves, and yet, the y are innocent, cos they great people who promise so much and deliver so little are such unspeakables, they cant offer me a thing now, cos i know its all trash, and i know that i will only find the answers for myself in my life, and yes there are people like Alan who can offer advice, but there are very few who can take someone’s cash and give them something valuable in return to bring wealth, health and happiness into someone’s life.
By Simon Highsmith on Jul 2, 2010