Most of us are much more attached to our ideas and opinions than to any person or thing— but that can and does harm us. Denial is a hidden enemy attacks under cover of what is accepted or even seen as "right" & good, normal & natural...

Tests & Trials of our Time...
...often involve the turning away from truth... For example, not facing our own weaknesses or our life situation honestly keeps us more deeply wrapped in our behaviors & difficulties, adding to them ... Truth is the only way out…

Whatever we tell ourselves that helps to shut out truth does nothing but cause harm, for to turn away from truth is deadly. Tests and trials often come to us to point us back to truths we have missed or turned away from in the paths of our lives. If there is something we need to see, we ourselves— the spirit part of us— can actually draw difficulties to us until we become humbled enough to be willing to see.

The biggest “roadblock” in the path to truth is our own mind’s hiding in conformity, overconfidence, and avoidance of the change that can come with greater knowledge. For knowledge changes lives, and may call us to change what is dear to us; our ideas, actions, our dreams, plans, and more. This is the “roadblock” or hurdle that turns many away. The unknown can be scary, and so we make excuses or reasons “explaining” or rationalizing our refusal to give proper weight to realities that could threaten our “status quo’. We think we are protecting ourselves, but denying any important truth actually drives another nail into our coffin. At this time in history, especially, humanity holds in its hands many deadly weapons— and the denial of that import can end life as we know it. Yet it is a very cunning “disease’”— its nature is such that the denier usually is unaware of his own denial!

Warning— Denial Ahead !?

Most of us can never be certain just how open or closed– minded we are. We may be wide open on some subjects, yet in other areas tight as a clam. Being "sure” of our open-mindedness guarantees nothing-- in fact, the “sureness” of one’s own objectivity can exist even in the most closed-minded of people!

Some self-proclaimed "open minded folks” :)) are simply attached to ideas that seem different from the "norm", or those that we were raised with. Our thinking may have gone ahead of others in younger years, but have we closed our minds in the process? We all need to make some decisions that exclude further investigation, yet allowing for some softness and flexibility around them, and openness to possible new developments as well. Can we become free and independent of even our own self-programmed belief systems?

Next page: Healing Truth’s “Roadblocks”: Survival & Vitality for an Open Mind

If we are Open, then Merely to know what another thinks is possible can
 Create a shift in the Heart ...the deeper our knowing & understanding, the greater the shift...  
How far we take it is our own choice...



  Dear Friends,










What if I said to you,
 
There is a such a power on this planet
That combines major forces of Spirit & Unity,
Melding diverse peoples as the "fingers of one hand"
Showing forth  amazing Miracles of Unity in our time...
A Great & Wondrous Power for the Healing of Earth...