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Fans, flames & spirituality's dirty secret
I have always felt uncomfortable using the word "fans" to describe the people who not only enjoy and derive benefit from using our work but take the time from their own busy day to tell us so. It's yet another example of my strangeness because I don't mind thinking of myself as a fan of someone else's work. Words have power and until today I rejected the idea of my readers being referred to as "fans" because the image that the word conjures up in my mind's eye is that of royalty and their attending sycophants and courtiers fanning and fawning over these lucky birth-lottery winning charlatans who most often don't deserve even one swish of one fan.
Today, the word "fan" and my knee-jerk reaction to it finally took its turn in the probing light of my astrological chart's six-planets-in-Retrograde customary self-questioning, which has enriched my life and led me to avoid innumerable acts of self-undoing befitting my Pluto in Leo in my natal 12th House conjunct my Ascendant (and opposite Venus in Aquarius, no less!) Today I realized that the word "fan" works for its purpose and I will henceforth realize that it is you, dear reader, who may have just suffered through the previous tortured and astro-jargon filled sentence to read this one, whose kindness and support truly do fan the flames of my inner engine and Amy's. Without you our work would not exist and our efforts to bring light to the world would not have succeeded to the degree that it has.
I don't write this blog the way blogs were originally conceived. It is not a log of what I do, though what I do is quite interesting, at least to me, mercifully! I could tell you about our adventures to New York City and meeting with the wonderful and very interesting and talented people who help us get our work to the world through the venues of Sterling Publishing/Barnes & Noble (where we have our own top shelf in their every New Age section!) and Bergdorf Goodman, where Amy sells her amazing Spiritual Couture jackets, coats, bags, pillows and soon jewelry. And I could also write about the other things we try and do, which brings me to spirituality's dirty little secret.
When our fans fan our flame with emails and letters and saying nice things to us when we meet them IRL (in real life), it truly gives us a supercharged lift and helps us overcome the frustrations that accompany any worthwhile endeavor. We very rarely get "flamed," but when it happened because of a typo found or some problem real or imagined, even that has helped us to improve our work (and our customer service!)
One thing I would hope that anyone who has read our work and especially "The Soulmate Path," would know is that Amy and I would continue to do what we do even if all the forces that currently support us ceased to do so. The line between our work and who we are is not blurred because it doesn't exist. I love my life and my life's work and I hope you can say the same.
But spirituality's dirty little secret is this: You can do your practice religiously, you can practice religion as you or your religion's leaders see fit, but living a blameless life in keeping with your highest ideals does not mean that you will get what you want, either for yourself or for others. And disappointments, loss, suffering, illness, none of the "challenges" that make life filled with terror and uncertainty, are the result of not living a blameless life. Yes, our actions have consequences that can often be foreseen and not just by psychics like me, but sometimes bad things happen to good people. You can think of it as karma from this or another lifetime but I'm not sure of that. I'm not sure I believe in past lifetimes, though I used to. If the deceased people I speak to, many who have been dead for centuries, have been reincarnated, then who am I communicating with? Please email me with any ideas you may have about this.
But if you want to see the ultimate in spirituality, read the bible's "Book of Job." If you haven't read it, I suggest that you do, no matter what your beliefs are. I didn't come to the sort of happy conclusion that most come to after reading it. Those who've lost a beloved pet and been angered by the advice "You can get another one" know what I'm talking about. But the dirty little secret is exposed there, with an ending that could only be considered happy by unfeeling immortals (like our Annunaki ancestor/gods, but that's another blog about my friend, Zecharia Sitchin's ultra-important work).
I am psychic and have convinced myself through several observable facts that only I know are true (they happened in what I call my "psychic imagination"(TM!)) that there is some kind of continuity of life after death. That is why I have the utmost admiration for those who are not psychic but have faith that their efforts to be kind and loving and compassionate and generous and to improve their life and the life of others are not only their own sufficient reward, which it is, but that spirituality's dirty little secret doesn't phase them, that they will enjoy their life to the best of their ability, death and suffering and the rest of it will be dealt with, and there will be some kind of afterlife where merits and demerits will be reviewed and learned from - by whom is another question for another blog!
Wishing you love, light and laughter always and all ways,
Monte Farber
info@theenchantedworld.com
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