Being Prepared...

Being prepared for all the things we must endure in life is essential to our survival. The lessons we have learned up to now, help us conform to an understanding of how life (in part) works. Our experiences have tempered us with skills we apply to every facet of our future. Yet the genius of humanity is not built from experiences, but built from ingenuity. Even though our perception of reality is limited by our senses, our mind has the great gift of imagination and dreams.

We can visualize scenarios and outcomes that our senses cannot help us perceive. It is the gift that allows a painter to paint "true" beauty even though he has never seen it. The gift musicians have to write words and music that inspire all those around them. A gift that helps a child stay alive and have great compassion for others, even though abuse is all that child knows. Our abilities to daydream and imagine help us know more about our place in the unfathomable cosmic reality of the universe. Our faith in a better life, distinguishes our need to survive.

Our future is not dependant on what we have as "credentials", but what we have as hopes and dreams. The future of humanity is our clarity on life, and the value we have for our expectations of happiness and love.

-A. Malik
inversehalo

Distribution Solutions @ INVERSEHALO.com

"Distribution Solutions", is an Inversehalo project that is aimed at freely giving the homeless in our area, clothes.

By taking aluminum cans, scrap metals and copper, we exchange them for money to fund this project. If you would like to contribute to this particular project:
- save your coke cans...
- contact us and we'll send someone to pick them
up, and use the proceeds to create shirts!

For more details on our project,"Distribution Solutions" click here.

-Jessica Croix
inversehalo

A State of Suffering

Looking around ourselves we find the world to be in a state of suffering. Everyone we see has hidden troubles written upon their faces, and even the countries of the world seem to always be in a constant state of anxiety and depression. The world we see everyday when we turn on our televisions or read our newspapers is wanting to scream out for help--for someone to save it--yet it never does, simply because it's afraid that no one is out there to answer. The ways of the world today reflect the notion that salvation from God does not exist.

The main contribution to today's way of life, is the individuals lack of personal appreciation for their involvement and place in the world. No one takes the time today, to see the greater purpose of their day to day routines. Mankind's shortsightedness never allows him to see what he did today, saved or destroyed a life around him. We never really understand that a smile could save a persons life, and never acknowledging someone contributed to their death...


Thus, the world goes on in it's stress, because people don't see how much they really need each other.


When we start involving ourselves with the welfare of others we will have put God back into our lives and into the world. When we wake up with the idea, "Who's life can I change today?" instead of worrying about what bills to pay, we will have brought hope back to this civilization. Our effort to care about each other must be greater than our effort to satisfy ourselves and what we think are our own personal needs. Because, the needs of humanity involve all of us, but the gratification to ourselves only leads to our loneliness and to our troubles.


We should begin each day in personal reflection to the ideals of charity, benevolence, and happiness. Then go out into the world and try to implement those ideas instead of "personal goals"...

If all the stars in the sky can hold up the heavens, then all of us can hold up mankind.

An Inversehalo teaching, lesson 2

"We hold that no power ever comes to man through the intellect (the intellect being cold, while wisdom is of the heart and founded in love). We say that the adage "knowledge is power" is false; but that goodness alone is power and that that pertains to the heart only; hence that power comes only to the Soul through Love (not lust) but love, the underlying, primal Fire-life subtending the bases of being--the formative flowing floor of the worlds--the true sensing of which is the beginning of the road to personal power. Love lieth at the foundation and is the synonym of life and strength and clingingness."

taken from the True Rosicrucian order
"The Rosicrucians and their teachings" - pg. 83