How to Gain Spiritual Help

"What attitude do we need to nurture in order to move the spirit world? We need to change our concepts. Our attitude is an environment that must be prepared in order to receive spiritual help. We must use Father's words and make ourselves channels to receive spiritual power."

Is it possible that we can dominate the spirit world and what does that actually mean?  After Adam and Eve chose to ignore the commandment of God and chose the words of the spirit Lucifer to eat and have their eyes opened, humanity has been led by evil spirit world ever since.  Through religion and the work of saints and people of conscious, good spirit world has been able to work throgh people of goodness as well.  Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks further about this situation: 

"Actually, the spirit world wants to be part of everything we have and do. They want to be involved to such a great extent. So whatever we may look at, we must search for the nobility in it, and treat it as if it were owned directly by True Parents. Then everything becomes like an expensive antique, a God-given treasure. Each object is waiting for your touch, hoping to feel the vibration of God through you.

Consider all things holy. Why does a handkerchief owned by a holy man become so valuable? Because of the vibration of the holy man. So you, too, should give all things a holy value. When you touch something, feel that you are giving it glory.

The same holds true for the people we meet and live with. When you see another person, how much do you care for him or her? How do you feel towards that person? You must really love the people you meet, because they are the temples of God. When you touch another person, feel that through your touch, both of you will be blessed.

Each of us has two aspects, mind and body. Our true mind wants to touch our body with heart and give love to it. We should think of our mind as God's mind, because God loves it and that is where He dwells. Look at each man or woman as a holy person. Regard each person's body as sacred and their mind as hallowed.

If you live like this, soon you will hear inside of yourself a small voice, the sound of your mind. Wherever you walk, no evil or darkness can remain. Only good spirits can touch you if you create such an atmosphere. If you place yourself in such a position, then spirit world will pour down upon you its abundant blessing and power.

You must attract this power from the spirit world and then weld yourself to it. Make it one with your body, so that even your arms and legs feel special. When you are in bed, even if it is a sleeping bag, your surroundings will become like a king's palace; your body will be resting in a king's bed.

You must name yourself as the dwelling place of God. Then all good spirits will touch you. When you go to bed, lie down with a beautiful mind. Remove all ugliness from it. In the morning when you wake, come before the deep bosom of God, and then, when you go out to your mission, you will embark from the throne of God.

The spirit world is always around you, listening and attentive. Always be aware that it is within your reach. If you keep thinking this way, then you will be able to control your circumstances. Make yourself a tuning fork, resonating with and vibrating along God's frequency. Resonate with God's unselfishness.

If you partake of this resonance with God, then when you see someone, you will automatically be able to sense what type of person he is. Sometimes you will be able to see your own spirit man with your own eyes. Train yourself and discipline yourself to develop this capacity. If you live this way, you will be always able to act in the right way when an emergency arises."

Daily, you compete with the spirit world, so we must learn how to conquer and surpass it.  As God's children, he created us to subjugate the spirit world, but in our circumstances spirit world dominates the creative world. With deep prayer, within our mind, we can become a magnet, a mover of people's spirits.  We must become a spiritual magnet, drawing people with love.  If we retain this high standard of condition, our prayer will become reality.

"Pray with all your heart, focusing your mind and soul on the object of your prayer, otherwise your mind will become restless and hasty. In the life of prayer, you must make the time to pray. Sit down even if it takes eight hours and pray; this time will never be wasted. Then you can go out and work eight hours for God.

Therefore, be prayerful now and then go out, you and God together. If you have to write a sermon, for instance, the spirit world will help you prepare it. If you go out, the spirit world will lead you. You will discover the feeling of breaking through; you will become selfless, feeling the power of your mind and body pulling together in harmony. So the key word for this kind of life is respect.

Respect all things as holy things.

Respect all men as holy men.

Respect yourself as a holy person.

Respect your mind as holy.

Respect your body as holy.

Pay deep respect to all people, no matter what kind of person they may be. As a child, be respectful towards an elderly man.

Think over your words three times before uttering them and always have a humble attitude.

Always share with others the best thing you have. Empty your pocketbook to give; then you will deserve the best result.

If you do not do good for your fellowman, you will have no sleep; if you have done good, then your mind will rest in peace.

Unpack the dirty elements inside yourself and cleanse them. Open up the baggage of your mind and look what you find there. Don't harbor selfish feelings. Repent publicly for any selfish feelings you may have entertained. Practice the virtue of meekness.

If you push yourself to develop these attitudes, then the spirit world must descend to assist you. The spirit world is using so many channels by which to come down and participate in God's providence; they will choose the best one to use first.

In the Unification Church a true leader must be able to mobilize the spirit world. When you touch it, all kinds of phenomena start to occur some very strange, some very wonderful. Don't be manipulated by them. You be the subject. Don't let yourself be driven by strange phenomena; before this, you may have had to face these challenges all alone, but now you have a clearer understanding.

You already know the secret of tapping power from the spirit world; witness to others, pouring out all your heart, soul and mind for them. When I was in prison camp, I would pray, and prisoners would just come to me and stand there. When they were introduced to me through the guidance of spirit world they would cling to me.

You, too, can be like me. The problem is that you are often too distant from thinking about the spiritual dimension: holy things, holy mankind, holy temple, holy mind. When I was in the worst of situations, lonely and hungry, a revelation would come or an important guest would appear before me. When I needed money, the spirit world would guide someone to me. Spirit world is never far away; they can cooperate with us. We should always feel that we are not doing quite enough, and that we always have to try harder.

Act with the support of the spirit world. If they are behind you, you will never be lonely; you will always have energy and power. Even though you may be penniless, still have no fear. You can be adventurous and bold. On the road of success, the more you walk, the further you yearn to go.

Who knows how long he or she will live? Maybe tomorrow you will die, at a mere 25 or 30 years of age. Do you have some guarantee from God how long you will live? No one has such a guarantee.

A wise person thinks like this: "I have only a short time to live. Within this time I must prepare myself for eternity. The way I live in the next two years will be the model for my eternal life." Then explode your sense of love. Love God, and love another person as God. For an entire day, 24 hours pour out your entire energy for someone.

 If you love a person like this, even though you may die early, you will have made the highest accomplishment in all eternity. Then when God gives you more time to live, your response will be immense gratitude. Push yourself to live more fully. The person who expects death and then is given life dwells in the fullest gratitude.

Leave behind something that God can praise. Each moment is so precious there is no time for worry or frustration. The person who recognizes that earthly life is short compared to eternity and, therefore, condenses his accomplishments is a wise man indeed. Think about what "label" you wear spiritually on your forehead. Ask yourself how many people, how many clans, how many tribes, how many nations you have loved.

Seek to become that master of love. Program your life like that, and you will never be a loser. Plan as if you only had two years to live, and then by the third year, when you are still alive, think of the joy of living! This is "resurrected" living. I still have so much to do: love my wife, love my children, love all mankind. I have to love the Unification Church; I must pay indemnity for all mankind; I need to liberate man from sin. I am determined to leave behind tremendous assets."

We must change our mindset to do everything for the purpose of love. So, even when you work, you must love that business, love the products you work with, and, of course, love the people. Always give honor to other people.

Even though God created us, he gave us the ability to reshape and restore ourselves into the original image. 

We tithe to church a portion of what we earn back into God's providence.  This is a way to separate the money we earn from the satanic world by offering part of it back to God to claim it ass a sacred offering.  Three-tenths is the best standard. Give one tenth to the local church, one tenth to the national level work and one tenth for the worldwide level.

We should thimk that each time we give, we are giving a heavenly treasure, not just money frm our own pocket. Then the person who is receiving through you is actually receiving from God. The spirit world can then help you, and God will remember everything and return it to you ten times over.

Going to work can become tiresome day in and day out, but we must not feel like a worker or supervisor.   Make your company a dwelling of God. Invest your heart in your work. Determine to make it a business that will serve all people. Then wherever your business goes, it becomes God's "love extension." Whatever you are responsible for, give it your heart and soul on a 24-hour basis; feel like you are the parent and it is your baby.

Whatever you do, think that you are carrying it out in partnership with God. Feel that you are the second owner and pour all your love into it. The one who loves something the most is the ultimate owner. When you give love, you will attain infinite value.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Don't Doubt in the Dark What God Told You in the Light

This text was taken from How to Gain Spiritual Help given by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Hollywood Repents, Sort of

Colin Farrell "I'm just grateful I'm actually alive"

Hollywood Repents, Sort of

Written by Denise Rochelle M.

Is it just me or is Hollywood growing up?  There was the sexual revolution, and I think we are about to go in reverse in this new millennium.  What would that be called?  We rarely see Hollywood stars who travel down the wrong pathway of drugs and self-destruction survive and reverse their actions.  So, when we do witness those who do change their lives, we should make these actions known as well.


I truly love Hollywood, and I love movie making and I love, love, love Los Angeles.  I recently moved from Los Angeles a little over a year ago and saw it from a different view while living in Santa Monica.  I witnessed about Jesus and the Messiah's return in our time to several people in the business and people just passing through.  The lifestyles that I witnessed was a life that turned my dreams of Hollywood to being in the industry and revise my plan of reforming Hollywood. 

It was extremely easy to have people in the industry support your peace ideals, but when it came time to bring values onto the table such as waiting for marriage and God we would never see people again.  What's the big deal about morals and Hollywood, what's the connection?  These individuals' lives values are streamlined into your home and onto our society whether we believe Hollywood has that responsibility or not. 

When we adults were growing up, values were pushed hard about family, shows I grew up with promoted chastity and they were not afraid to profess God.  The argument that shows just reflect reality, I beg to differ.  Too many people complain that Hollywood does not show reality of people who do abstain from sex, do not take drugs, are respectful etc. etc.    Christian television networks do not count.  But I digress.

Hollywood needs a reformation in morals.  It spreads its immorality all over the world, and is one of the reasons why many are losing favor of the United States because some cultures hate how Hollywood introduces promiscuous sex and evil behavior to their society as pleasing and fruitful. 

Recently Colin Farrell said in an article that he was coming clean about his drinking and being in a fog everyday for 18 years.  There is only so much sex, drinking and 'exciting' devious ways we can experience before we see that while it is different and stimulating on the outside, it becomes boring and does not fill the hole that they feel within eternally.

Colin Farrell admits that even the birth of his first child made him determine NOT to change his lifestyle and be his son's best friend like the cool dad - a DILF(kids say Dad I Like to Fu*k).  His answer to this after maturing with his son now 8 shows he is growing, "Like a (expletive) 28-year-old drug-addicted drunk friend is exactly what my 6-week-old son needs."  Farrell is realizing that he wants to be present and is grateful to be alive for his children. 

Teens who follow Drew Barrymore, would probably never believe her past of drinking, drugs and wild behavior.  "I'm a Barrrymore, keep those drinks coming!" was her anthem.  Miraculously Barrymore was another star who had the guise of prayer from someone who loved her to protect her during those lost years even turning to divorcing her parents.  For her to rise on top and come clean, keep her stardom and get a chance to start over should be praised.  Where is her tell all to help those who are going down the wrong path that it is possible to have second and third chances?

I adore Barrymore because she has been genuine and truthful about her battles and losses since ET and I think this is what saved her as well by not hiding her transgressions or making excuses.  There is one quote that she said that is very enlightening that we should fight sadness like we are fighting an evil dragon everyday.  This explains her giddiness throughout her trials and how it is not fake. 

The picture above is Pink who says that she admits she was wild and crazy not too long ago.  She went from singing a song about losing her husband almost to divorce to being married and with a child.  She has to know that divine intervention helped her restructure her life and she testifies to her changed ways and loves motherhood.  She says she finds it hard to remember what she did with her time beforehand.

Why do these few cases matter?  Because like it or not, Parents, Hollywood and media is raising your children and reinforcing bad behavior as lucrative, sexy, happy and not harmful.  We should acknowledge the actors who are changing their dark path as well as show the fruit of fallen stars actions to demonstrate to children the consequences of choosing the dark path. 



Nicole Richie left wild past settles down with Joel Madden and their
two children

It is impossible to completely erase negative influences from our children.  I personally know tens of families who take television, privileges you name it, lock their children into a safe environment of others with the same values, follow everyday faith practices and still, somehow, their children end up cursing and acting like obnoxious teens who act out.  What? 

My parents were the strictest around and very scary when it came to values.  I had curfews and it all, you name it.  One value my parents did place was rules and consequences.  That was it.  They did not tell me not to watch bad shows, not to have sex, not to listen to bad music as much as encourage me what I could do that was positive.  They encouraged me to do more good things than brought up the bad things which became less interesting to me when I saw friends delving into it.  Piano, afterschool job, band, babysitting the whole neighborhood etc.  I think bad behavior comes from boredom, too much time on hand, and teens not having other choices for clean fun.


So, even though I ended up being in the same room as kids who drink, smoked weed and had friends who did everything they wanted by staying out all hours, my parents ultimately gave me a choice. 

Parents should do the same as far as not fear Hollywood, and society, but reinforce the good more than the bad, because we all know children want to follow the bad because let us face it, it is exciting for awhile before the consequences hits.

I see a revolution in Hollywood taking place.  Marriage, coming clean, regrets, and the realization how their wild lifestyle was...actually boring is taking place.  I think our society definitely should not shun the evils of the world from our children, they will find it in the worst way if we shelter them completely from the realities without giving them alternatives. 

Saying all of this, I do wish that Hollywood would include more positive options in movies and television other than just showing serial daters, non-married people jumping into bed and sexual innuendos even in children shows.  Isn't there other lifestyles and more fun ways people on earth spend their time? 

So, because there is so little positive in Tinseltown, we should celebrate the good things as well and praise these more.  I guarantee, being a dictator and taking all that is bad from their eyes and leave them no positive options, our worse nightmares come true.  I can only appreciate in my older age my strict Christian parents gave me choices at 16 and asked me what I wanted to do after raising me to make the right choices.  So to this fact, we can not blame Hollywood directly because we need to teach our children the right way and give them better options.

Now only if Hollywood would do something about the names they give their babies.  Well, it is actually cute.  Olive and Apple, which are two real names, are ready to inherit the lineage of their parent's genes for entertaining the world.


Return for Tomorrow's post: The Messiah Needs You

I I have studied the religious textbook, the Divine Principle, for seven years which has the philosophy of the Completed Testament.  Not an addition to the bible or New Testament, but put simply showing the hidden truth of the bible that the Messiah promised that would become clear in the Last Days that he would no longer speak in parables and symbols but tell plainly of the Father.