The Difference Between Technology And Religion

Technology: The practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area. A manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.

If something claiming to be a technology says, do X, Y, and Z to get a result, you merely have to do what is listed and you get the result. There is no belief required, or the wearing of special hats, or chanting of prayers to get the result described.

A Simple Technology

A religion, on the other hand, is a belief system and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe. There are hundreds of religions and many hundreds of GODS to believe in. These have been created by worshipers over the ages to provide support for various ideas and different ways of life.

Spiritual Rescue Technology, on the other hand, is simply a technology for freeing spirits from the traps they have been captured in. Once the basic precepts have been carefully learned, the practitioner can apply them and get the results desired without having to go to a professional counselor to interpret the rules or to be coached into applying them correctly.

Solving complex problems is always easier with professional help, but applying a technology can be done by anyone who bothers to learn the rules of the technology and the boundary conditions for applying it.

I developed Spiritual Rescue Technology to help the spiritual beings I encountered in my counseling practice. I wrote three different books on the subject and while I was using this new technology to help my clients, I discovered that there were a number of individuals who were able to use the technology without ever contacting me for help or advice. I only learned of them when they wrote to thank me later for developing a technology they could use to change their lives.

Their awareness was high enough that once they were acquainted with the fact they were surrounded by spirits who could benefit from being freed from incidents trapping their attention, they went on to freeing those spirits and recruiting others to help them with their careers and their lives.

There are probably millions of people who are aware, at some level, that there are spirits influencing them and even controlling their actions in life. If a significant fraction of those people could take control of their relationship with their spiritual companions our civilizations would change in significant ways.

The disembodied spirits surrounding us are usually stuck in incidents that cause them to react to the environment in fixed ways. If they are linked to you in some way, this can cause you to react as they direct. You will be afraid of the things they fear and will be attracted to people and things they desire. As a result, you will find yourself resisting temptations to do things and associate with people who are destructive to your personal well-being and sanity. When you hear someone say, “The Devil made me do it!” as an excuse for immoral behavior, that person is not being crazy. They have just recognized that there were forces working on them they could not resist.

Once you truly understand the importance of these surrounding spiritual companions, you will not be so critical of those people who fail in life and repent and fail again and again. These unfortunates have been designated as “sinners” for uncounted ages and have to be rescued over and over again as they are drawn back into behaviors that can destroy their lives and careers.

If you do not understand the significance of disturbed spirits who can influence and control you, you can be hopelessly embroiled in efforts “to clean up your act” and “get straight with life”. You muster your intention and recover from one “sin” and immediately fall into another.

Knowing about “spirit guides” is just not enough. You have tens of thousands of spirits who have access to you and many of them are in very bad shape emotionally and mentally. If you do not have a means for immediately recognizing and handling the really disturbed ones, your life can become a mess. Spiritual Rescue Technology gives you the tools to address emotionally disturbed spirits for yourself and for your loved ones.

For those of you who do not get the impact of disturbed spirits affecting your life, here is a very short list of things you can encounter, EVEN IF YOUR PERSONAL LIFE IS SPOTLESS.

  • You can find yourself sexually attracted to someone even if you and/or they are happily married.
  • You can find yourself emotionally attracted to someone regardless of gender and marital status.
  • You can find yourself contemplating and even doing an illegal action without any restraint.
  • You can find yourself doing harmful things to a person or persons and feeling completely justified.
  • You can find yourself having a completely irrational response to a message or to someone’s comment.
  • You can find yourself wanting to hide from the world
  • You can find yourself making plans to commit suicide.
  • You commit suicide

Spotting an urge like one of the above will not handle the urge. It can only delay the onset. Handling the disturbed beings and getting them stabilized is a more lasting solution. Recruiting helpful beings to assist you in running your life will lessen the probability of your being influenced by stray spirits as your team of helpful beings provides you with emotional and moral support for the upsets that can happen in life.

When you understand and manage your team of spirits well, everybody benefits. Like a chorus of aligned souls, you and your spirits can focus your intentions to achieve results that are impossible for any single spirit to achieve. If you know how to communicate with spirits in a caring way, you are well on your way to building a united team of spiritual companions. Life is a lot more fun when you are enjoying it with close friends.

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ANOTHER PASS AT OBSERVING THE SPIRIT REALM

It’s the beginning of a new year here on Earth and I have been having conversations with some friends about our observations of spiritual matters as far as they are concerned with activities observable here on this planet. I would like to share what we have observed so far and want to state that these are merely OBSERVATIONS that we have made and have some agreement on and are not FACTS unless you also have made these observations and can agree with them because you have verified them.

Spiritual observation goes far beyond the five human senses of Seeing, Tasting, Hearing, Touching, and Tasting. It involves experiencing, at a deeply profound level, the beingness and intentions of other spirits.

When it occurs, your life is changed forever, even if you do not understand fully what has happened. It occurs when you are open to reaching out spiritually and putting your attention fully on the subject of your scrutiny. You will know when it occurs because you will experience a revelation that has never occurred before and suddenly you will be in possession of data that has never been presented before.

If you are like most people experiencing this for the first time, you will feel like backing up and wondering just what has happened and where did this all come from.

You may sit there in wonderment for a very long time and try to make sense of this new data in terms of the new future that has just been exposed to you. On the other hand, you may feel this is the message from GOD that you have been waiting for and choose to take up a new way of life to make use of this revelation.

From my personal experience, spiritual observation is an ongoing process that bites deeper with each reach into the spiritual realm. The process, as I and my friends experience it, is a reaching out for information to a known or unknown spirit and a recognition of the spirit’s life force and intentions with regard to my own intentions. The first contact is often tentative, with more information being exchanged with each repeated contact. Whether the spirit is free-floating, animating a body, or a plant, the exchange of communication is quite the same. There is a contact, then a recognition of kinship, then an exchange of identity information, and then intentions. If there is an alignment of intentions, admiration often ensues and an exchange of life forces follows. Your understanding of the spiritual realm grows with every exposure as long as you validate your observations with follow-up contact to expand your knowledge of what the spirits have to communicate. The more you communicate with spirits in a caring way, the more your certainty will increase of what you now know.

If you try to increase your certainty of spiritual matters by reading what others have written, you are trying to rely on second-hand knowledge and that will lead you down a long and unsatisfactory road. If someone claims they have spoken to Jesus, or Baal, or Henry Ford, and gives you enough information so you can call on that being and verify what was said, you are free to reach out and communicate for yourself and add to the available knowledge of what they are doing currently.

After the first contacts are made with other spirits, an awareness grows that there are literally millions of spirits within reach and they all have some effect on us through their intentions and emotions. This gets quite overwhelming and some newly aware spirits quickly retreat into a state of unconsciousness when made aware of their exposure to other spirits. Others reach for support from the many groups that have sprung up to protect us from the “evils” of the spiritual world. This is quite understandable because spirits come in all temperaments and ability levels because of their past experiences. Spirits who have made mistakes that caused them pain seem to spend their time preventing us from experiencing the pain they experienced.

People raised to worship a particular deity can become fervent believers after exposure to spiritual matters they do not understand. They take the advice of their local priest or minister and shun anyone who talks about spirits or demons or matters they fear. This does not protect them from being influenced by the spirits who surround them but it does give them a focus for their feelings of fear which you may have caused them by mentioning your spiritual experiences.

I am giving you data on our observations of the spiritual realms and you are free to question and examine them for information as you see fit. If you make observations of your own, feel free to share what you have found so we can expand our knowledge of this vast and generally uncharted universe of spiritual matters and concepts which keep coming into view.

I would like to acknowledge Charles Stewart, Gerrie Oliver, and Alka Madan for their recent conversations which triggered this new series of articles.

The next article will address how people create their Gods and why they persist.

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We’re Back From Tangling With Covid

One of the problems with taking on a human existence is that there are events which strike us down in unexpected ways. Along with the usual microbes, parasites, viruses, and old memories, there are spiritual traps which pin us down until we manage to wake up and shrug them off.

As most of you know, we are immortal beings who take on human or other existences every few years and play that game until we run out of energy or inspiration and switch to another body. Many of you have some memories of your previous existences and with the spread of media organizations like Medium, your awareness of your true state keeps expanding and in some cases, your abilities keep expanding also.

Unfortunately, as our awareness increases, there are more ways in which our past mistakes can get triggered and we can find ourselves feeling the effects of careless things we have done in the far distant past. Life is never smooth for long periods of time, but we live in a tightly connected world in which governments and media organizations can push emotional buttons we do not even know we have. For example, we are currently experiencing a series of COVID -19 pandemics which are resulting in wildly exaggerated claims of mortality and are now seeing extreme measures being enforced to limit the spread of this disease.

Some government officials want to imprison anyone who has not been vaccinated even though the vaccines and boosters have not provided the protection they were supposed to generate. Others want to censor anyone who questions the validity of the government data being provided. Any data about deaths caused by vaccinations and boosters is being severely censored so it is difficult to get an accurate idea of how the disease is progressing and what is actually effective against its spread. The use of alternate medical treatments for treating COVID-19 is being attacked quite ferociously and the doctors who are recommending such treatments are being threatened in ways that would make you think they are prescribing witchcraft instead of recognized medical solutions.

There deserves to be differences of opinion in medicine as research proceeds in different directions over time. The medical profession has not been in the forefront of sanitary practices or even observation of physiological processes for long periods of it history. Witch hunts and pillorying of dissidents does not aid the progress of treatment for pandemics that are still largely not understood.

Until we calm down as a people, and start looking at results instead of listening to media warnings of disaster, we will probably continue to churn and cast blame on those actually trying to help. Once we regain our senses, we will probably find that basic sanitation, plenty of bed rest, and sequestering of the ill will turn out to be the best solution for this world-ending pandemic promoted by the media and power-hungry politicians.

Those of you who can avoid reading the daily news will find that your mood will lighten and you can concentrate on getting better rather then living in fear that the world is coming to an end.

You may not choose to believe it but we have all lived through the Black Death and dozens of plagues throughout history and reading your local newscaster’s scare stories is probably going to stir up ugly memories you do not need to remember.

Try being creative and look for someone to help when you are able to do so. If you keep your exchange in with your environment and your neighbors, you will find yourself with a purpose and will survive. People who help others are the first to recover from disasters and come out of the experience stronger than those who have no concept of helping others. If you keep your exchange in with the world, you will find that you will receive help in many unexpected ways.

If you have experienced COVID, you have knowledge that can help others get through it. Do what you can to help others and we will all get through this pandemic together.

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Rule #1 in starting your own business – revised and updated

Posted on August 2006, October 6, 2009, and December 30, 2021, by David St Lawrence

Prepare to change your lifestyle.

I have written so many articles about starting a business and striking off in new directions that I can’t believe I failed to mention one of the most basic rules of them all when it comes to starting your own business. This actually applies to startups of any size.

Rule #1 – Lower your cost of living to the point where you can pay for rent and food doing outside work while you struggle to generate enough income with your new business.

If you live in a comfortable suburban house and you bailed out or were ejected from the corporate mothership, don’t expect that you are going to develop a viable business in less than six months and a decent customer base in less than a year. Many people report that it takes two years or more to start generating decent cash flow.

During that time you will be laying out money for equipment and training and you will still have to pay the mortgage and all the other expenses for your lovely home. You will burn through your 401K and any savings faster than you can believe.

You need to completely restructure your living arrangements so that your cost of living can be covered during the startup period and for some time beyond.

This calls for a great deal of resolve and understanding by all members of the family. Life is not going to continue in the same old way.

Sell the Land Rover and the McMansion and look for a living and workspace that doesn’t leak too badly that you can buy for cash or on terms that result in a mortgage payment of a few hundred dollars a month. Buy a used van or pickup truck or a used car for cash.

Put enough money away to live on for six months and rethink your identity. You are starting over and you are no longer a senior manager of anything. You need to get busy and learn your new trade in a big hurry.

Take classes at a good craft school. Learn the ropes by working as an apprentice if you can. If your significant other is not engaged in learning a craft, she or he should find work that provides enough income that your bank balance does not dwindle.

Make everyone part of the new solution. Ideally, your new venture should provide work for all members of the family, but if the teenagers aren’t interested in helping with your new venture, they need to find employment and an educational path that fits your new circumstances.

You don’t have to follow this advice of course, because you can always search for another corporate berth instead of risking everything on your own business acumen.

However, you will probably have to sell the house and the Land Rover anyway if you are over fifty because it may take you a year to find a new job and it will pay less than your last job.

This may sound unduly grim, but it has been done by tens of thousands of people and they have emerged from the experience stronger and more self-reliant than ever before. The freedom that comes from managing your own destiny more than makes up for the temporary hardships of starting your

own business.

Find any successful small business owner, craftsperson, or artist and ask how they lived until they became successful and you will hear a story much as I have described here.

Talk to business owners who quit after a short, unsuccessful attempt at starting a career and you will find that they ran out of money before they could become self-supporting.

You will also find that their lifestyle had a lot of creature comforts that did nothing to advance their careers.

Whether this change in life is a forced decision or a free choice, changing your lifestyle and cutting your costs to the bone will give you the best chance of a successful transition.

If you have gotten this far, it has probably occurred to you that this same advice applies if you are embarking on a career in any new field.

Your lifestyle has to be leaner and meaner than you ever imagined if you are to succeed. 

Wishing you the very best.

( I wrote the original post in August 2006 and am still encountering people who envision launching new businesses which will provide seamless continuity of their comfortable suburban lives. Get over it. Startups are the most exciting adventure I can conceive of, but they involve drastic changes to your lifestyle. As we prepare to enter the year 2022, this advice still applies. The world still needs your innovative solutions. You will only be around to provide them if you apply Rule #1.)

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