Some of those phrases that make you go …. Hmmm…

Some of those phrases that make you go …. Hmmm…

Years ago, Jeff Foxworthy started the “You must be a redneck if?” jokes – largely about the ridiculous interpretation given to events in life.  Maybe from the spiritual side, we could just leave it as “You got to be kidding if you think that?” A commonly used phrase such as “you could wake up dead!” in relation to doing something which might make you cease to exist. “Wake up Dead?” -  Mortally or spiritually, you would never “wake up” dead. Somewhere along the lines of accepting, someone has found this to have credence.

Reading a column today on another site – figures were given to the high percentage of the American population who talk to the “dead” and referred to as ridiculous in essence in referring to material from research. Hmmm… this American “population referred to, amounts to 1.2 % of the population of people connected to landlines who answered their phones, which takes the actual percentages down to under .10 of the population, talking for the other 307,000,000 of the population as a whole. Personally has anybody talked to the “dead” – I have always felt them as the living beyond this world. I would say that research numbers could fall even further – it is the living, which speaks.  

Criticism, more times than not to spirituality comes from strict religious orders in this world, staunchly stating, it is sac-religious to communicate or attempt with those who have passed, but they pray to the saints, Jesus and many more who were seen to be a part of this world and departed. Hmmm.. A bit of double standards. Are they alone and living beyond this world, while all else has ceased to exist? Accepted as living and communicative, rather than praying to the “dead”? 

Religions across this planet all have different names for the higher power prayed to and consulted, yet wars - are fought between followers of the different namesakes given for the power or higher energy. Saints, are respected as mediums for intercession with God – yet mediums are seen as being of a lesser God in intercession. Why? Saints, were named after a mortal seen as a physical being, which then left this world and given sainthood through acts seen as validated as a divine connection between the saint and the living in healing or miracles. SO, I guess this would conclude that naysayers who find it entertaining to ridicule mediums – quite possibly are the greatest percentage engaging in medium ship in their lives.   

And how about the saying “things that go bump in the night” – “things” in reference too the energy of the night. Sorry to break the bumping theory – bumping of those “things” is 24/7, what seems to make this more prevalent to the night is the period when people actually slowly relax senses and awareness is more heightened. Yet, still with almost a phobic fear of calling the bumps what they are, the mind finds it more calming to term this as being “things.” 

In concluding my rather rare space of “you got to be kidding if you think that,” I would like to hear from you on phrases or terms related to spirit/spirituality that you find to be more mush than mesh in the human cycle of understanding! 

Don’t step on a crack, you’ll break your mothers back -  hmmm..

Don’t cross the path of a black cat – hmmm..

Don’t walk under a ladder – hmm..

Don’t break a mirror – hmm.. 

I’ve stepped on the cracks, love my black cat, walked under ladders and broken mirrors, now what was it that made these “you got to be kidding if you think that” statements hold so much energy! It is all perception.