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                                   Preface

I am God’s atheist, a skeptic who finds the Bible’s narratives implausible and absurd. The notion that Jesus died for my sins and the concept of Hell seem utterly preposterous. Twenty-one years ago, my wife Mary Jo and I were on our first cruise, celebrating our second honeymoon after twenty years of marriage. Mary Jo was the light of my life, a woman whose laughter could brighten the darkest days and whose kindness touched everyone she met. As we danced, she suddenly collapsed and died at the age of 43. The pressure changes from our flight had dislodged a blood clot, which struck her heart. I watched in utter disbelief as her midsection grotesquely swelled, and a torrent of fluid erupted from her mouth, spraying over ten feet. It was as if a dam had burst within her, unleashing a flood of sorrow and shock that still reverberates through my soul.

The absolute insanity of the nightmare I witnessed is still painful to remember. The word surreal somewhat explains the devastation of my world but not adequately enough.

With that being said, I’ve acquired the knowledgeable wisdom that we are entering into an era of magnificent beauty, perfect harmony, perpetual joy, growing wisdom, pure truth, unending peace and unconditional love. Bob

Chapter 1: Logic

I’m 71, when I was very young my mother taught me a little prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray to the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I awake I pray to the Lord my soul to take.” So as a toddler the belief in a higher power was instilled. Upon reaching puberty, the discussion of God would come up and several of my friends commented, “Yeah, well where did God come from? I don’t believe any of it.” I certainly couldn’t answer that question but silently retained my belief in a higher power. My junior and senior year in college I developed an interest in higher end mathematics, calculus, geometry, advanced algebra and quantitative methods. I aced these classes because I enjoyed the logic of math. One plus one always equals two and there were no gray areas. Enjoying the reasoning of how one could determine the volume metrics of how much air was in a room was fascinating to understand. I graduated with a degree in finance and should have gone into engineering. But, I was somewhat lacking in common sense. Logic is the truth. 

Chapter 2: God: The Most Discussed Subject Of All 

Today, let's reason together and use logic concerning the subject of God. We must agree that the whole issue of God is the most discussed by all of humanity. I am intellectually in total agreement with an atheist's thought process. I was very fortunate to have been raised in a small Ohio town by a mother and father who were old enough to be my grandparents. Mom was in her late forties and thought she had cancer. She always referred to me as her little tumor. Dad was born in 1897, mom in 1904. Growing up, we seldom locked our doors as there was no need and virtually zero crime. Today I look around and what do I see? Major cities with vast homeless populations living in tents. When I was a teenager marijuana was the drug of choice, today it's fentanyl. In my 71 years I’ve witnessed numerous wars, the oceans being dumped with plastics that will never dissolve, vast corruption within the leaders of our nation and the world in general, an unending barrage of advertisements in all media to buy this and must have that. A prison population that is the largest in the world because prisons are for profit. A health care industry that is also centered around the almighty dollar. I saw a poster of a future doctor reading on his first day in medical school, “A patient cured is a customer lost.” Cancer patients being pumped full of drugs that simply do not work, chemotherapy destroys the immune system and is over 90% ineffective. Why is it administered? Money. I’ve watched mega church ministers preaching about Jesus. One needed a new swimming pool for his $750,000 estate so he could baptize the new converts, the congregation happily gave. One of the wealthiest organizations on the face of the earth is the Catholic Church. Why? They’ve indoctrinated entire populations to tithe so they won’t go to Hell. I’ve seen Christians going to church every Wednesday and Sunday pointing their fingers constantly all through the week at the sinners. That prostitute is going to Hell, she better get right with Jesus. God help that drug user's soul. These people will certainly wish they had listened to the good news of the gospel now that they’re burning in Hell forever. I’ve read that Hell is a place of demons, darkness, fire, pain, torture and unending increasing agony. Forever. I’ve known numerous people full of anger, rage, jealousy, hate, fear, anxiety, hopelessness, and deep depressions. I’ve had several close friends commit suicide and I’ve also endured the dark night of the soul where nothing means anything, all hope is gone, unrelenting loneliness and extremely deep re-occurring depressions. I came very, very close. 

Chapter 3: Hell Is A Lie

Any rational thinking individual looking at all this must reasonably say, “If God made all this, I want nothing to do with it because it’s insane.” I’m logically in total agreement with the atheists viewpoint. I believe George Carlin is the greatest comedian who has ever lived. He always explained the truth but in a hilarious fashion, he’s an atheist. An Invisible Man In The Sky .Years ago I taught an adult Sunday school for over a decade, I am extremely familiar with Biblical doctrine. I never mentioned Hell because I didn’t believe in it. My ingrained higher power belief simply became, God Is. How could the eternal Source of Love make a place of unending torment? He didn’t, Hell is a lie. The concept of Hell and Satan was simply made up. Centuries ago a council of scholars, on the advice of the Romans, agreed on the idea after Christianity had been declared the empire's religion. This would help keep the ignorant masses in line and be a good reason for them to give money. As I mentioned earlier, that worked well, considering the massive wealth of the Catholic Church. I’ll inform you of another little truth that is no longer a secret. God did not make this universe and isn’t even aware of its existence, the pure logic of this statement will be explained later. 

For the atheists' consideration, have you any idea how extremely powerful your mind is? Everything we’ve seen, heard, tasted, smelled and touched from the moment of birth is stored within our subconscious. We’ve all had the experience of trying to remember a name and couldn’t. Several days later the name pops into the forefront of thought. The reason this occurs is we’ve placed into our database the question, when the answer is found we’re consciously aware. If you’d like a more peaceful life, put positive into your mind instead of negative. This is the reason I haven't watched network news for over 20 years, all they talk about is the negative because the public is comforted by seeing others worse off than themselves. Great for ratings. 

Chapter 4: We Are All Bipolar

The truth is we are all bipolar. Our right mind, spirit, is based on love, and our wrong mind, ego, is based on fear.  Fear of what?  In the deepest part of our subconscious, God. Once we have consciously accepted the truth that God Is. Now what?  We start school. In this school, we’ll learn through experience the fruits of our ego: fear, resentment, anger, laziness, and hatred. Our school also teaches the fruits of our spirit: love, acceptance, peace, energy, and empathy. A peaceful mind is our natural state. If we’re growing more peaceful, it’s proof we’re on our correct path. The economy, world affairs, crime and drug issues, will become just mild interests. This is the truth because I’m experiencing it. So where did our ego come from? Hold onto your tickets, before explaining I’ll share my source of information.

There are many manuscripts of the Bible. For the New Testament alone, there are about 5,500. If we include lectionaries, which are Bibles arranged in the order they were read in the ancient church rather than in canonical order, then the number grows dramatically. Additionally, there are over 24,000 manuscript copies or portions of the New Testament in various languages including Greek, Latin, and others. The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by about 40 different authors over approximately 1,500 years. These authors came from diverse backgrounds and wrote in different languages on three different continents. Many of the writings are simply not true. For example, Romans 9:21 says, “Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?”  The potter is a reference to God, the vessel is us. “One vessel for special occasions” means Heaven. “Another for common use” means Hell. In other words, if one lives a loving, caring, giving life but was made for common use; that person is going to experience agony in an eternal Hell and there is nothing he/she can do about it. This is utter and complete nonsense. The Old Testament is constantly talking about a jealous and vengeful God full of wrath. The terms omnipotent and omnipresent are used to describe two of the divine attributes of God. Omnipotent means all-powerful and refers to the belief that God has supreme power and is not subject to physical limitations like man. Being omnipotent, God has complete authority over wind, water, gravity, and physics. His power is limitless. Omnipresent means present everywhere and refers to the belief that God is capable of being everywhere at once. Once again logic must ask, Who would God be jealous of ? Me? You? The Beatles? So the Bible was written by forty different people over a thousand years and re-interpreted to many times to list. 

Years ago, the lady I was living with came home from the library with a book simply because she liked the title. Beth was working on her master’s degree and is highly intelligent. The manuscript has 413 pages, and she read it in two days. I also found it a fascinating study but took much longer to read. The Disappearance Of The Universe was written by Gary R. Renard. It’s a record of 17 mind-bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade between Gary and two Ascended Masters who materialized before him in 1992. They revealed some shocking secrets of existence that taught the miraculous powers of advanced forgiveness. He’s learning the stock trade and a professional guitar musician. He was in his Maine home during Christmas week and his wife Karen was at work. They have no children. Sitting in his living room, looking out the picture window, two people suddenly appeared and were sitting on the couch. Male and female, Arten and Pursah. This is how the book starts. When I first read this, I thought, “Yeah right, this has to be fiction.” It's non-fiction. When I started reading Disappearance, a huge red flag occurred. The basis of Christianity for over 2000 years is that Jesus died for our sin. Gary stated that this is not true. All those years ago, I had to come to a conclusion about this critical issue before reading any further. I stopped reading and started meditating. After several weeks, the answer came to me immediately after waking from a  restful sleep and a dream I couldn’t remember. I knew the dream had been about my wife Mary Jo but couldn’t remember any specifics. At that time she had been dead for seven years. You may not believe this, but I know she answered my question. I somehow heard her say to me, “Bob, let's say you had been watching me horribly moan for 10 minutes while I was experiencing a nightmare. You didn’t want to suddenly wake me because you know how startled I startle. When I finally came out of it, you asked what the dream had been about. I explained I had been a horrible serial killer who received immense pleasure from skillfully torturing victims for many long hours before granting the release of death. Honey, did I sin against God?” “Of course not, you were dreaming.”” There’s your answer.”  I proceeded to resume studying Gary’s manuscript and will explain the logic of all this. He mentioned ACIM numerous times, if interested I highly recommend reading Disappearance first.

A Course In Miracles (ACIM-1333 pages) by Helen Schucman is in my opinion the most profound and truthful spiritual manuscript ever written. Christians are looking for the return of Jesus, he has returned via these magnificent writings. Dr. Helen Schucman began receiving the material for The Course quietly over eight years, from 1965 to 1973 at the age of 43. During this time, she was an associate professor of psychology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Schucman said that the book had been dictated to her, word for word, via a process of inner dictation from Jesus. At first, insanity crossed her mind so she asked this voice extremely difficult questions. To her amazement all were answered correctly. This is a self-study spiritual curriculum that presents a way of life based on contact with the Holy Spirit. ACIM teaches what the Bible truly means. I have studied and written about The Course for over fifteen years and have found nothing that is not logically true, I cannot say that about the Bible. ACIM explains how our ego came to be. The Course was written by one woman over eight years and never re-interpreted. Foremost, we do not need saving from a non-existent eternal torment. We require saving from our ego. So God Is, now what? 

Chapter 5: The Big Bang

The Big Bang. We’re taught that astronomers believe the universe began as a singular point and expanded to the size it is today and still growing. So everything came from virtually nothing?  We’re also taught the concept that most scientists believe that RNA, or something similar to RNA, was the first molecule to self-replicate and begin the process of evolution that led to more advanced forms of life, including human beings. What? So this is the answer to millions and millions of aquatic creatures, birds, animals, and humans? Scientists believe the earliest life forms we know of were microscopic organisms, microbes, that left signals of their presence in rocks about 3.7 billion years old. These scientific theories only strengthened my belief in a higher power.  If you think about and study these two believed explanations of all life everywhere, they make no sense until you come to the amazing understanding there was a powerful intelligence behind the Big Bang. Christ. If this statement has spiked your curiosity please read on for the reason Christ made the first ego. Jesus’s last name is not Christ, his name is Jesus of Nazareth. He understood perfectly that he was one with Christ, so are you, so am I and so is everyone who has ever lived. Christ is much more than just a name, it's a state of being. In other words we are not frail and limited human beings, we are incredibly strong and unlimited Christ Beings. Forever. I once read the time it would take a hummingbird to fly around the world and from the friction of its wings to wear the world into dust, eternity is just beginning. My friend, that is a long time.

ACIM states that it is even beyond its teachings to fully explain what Love actually is. However, with logic and reasoning we are given glimpses. Let’s discuss a Love that Is absolutely perfect. A Love that Is beyond purity, immeasurably magnificent and beautiful, immense total power, all knowing, all seeing, everywhere, outside of time, forever unchanging, cannot conceive of any loss, eternal, and always giving an unlimited joy and contentment and happiness. Totally complete in and of Itself, with a perfect light that extends to all existence. We are a part of this forever. Every time we hold open a door, offer our place in line, give to the beggar on the highway, turn the other cheek we love. When you’re smacked in the face either physically or verbally and don’t strike back you’re doing the exact opposite of what’s expected. Perhaps, down the road, when they’re on the receiving end they’ll act differently because of remembering your response. Ever non-partially listen to two people arguing? Neither is listening to what the other is saying because they’re thinking of a response. When you come out of an argument, do you feel good? I never argue because it's pointless. I’ve been banned from Christian groups on Facebook for the heresy of not believing in hell and atheists have called me insanely stupid for believing in God. To me, it's all good, I know what I know. To explain the logic of all this I wrote the following fictional story utilizing the teachings of ACIM. The statements about the black hole and what Christ thought about Jesus are of course my imagination.

Chapter 6: My True Fictional Creation Story

“Whoa, why is this? Who am I? Another answered, not by voice, but somehow He heard. You’re My Son. What’s a Son? You’re my very first creation. What does creation mean? I’ll show You around after a little more creating. You’re also My only joy. Astonishingly, He knew what joy was and felt absolutely wonderful. This Being started to share the very essence of Who He Is, and suddenly, He started to learn and comprehend very, truly, extremely fast. He mysteriously understood atomic forces, protons, electrons, neutrons, neutrinos, recurring and changing inorganic and organic molecules. He comprehended amino acids and the forces that regulate all. Vistas of astonishing beauty opened up for Him. He became ecstatic while gazing at forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains, skies, worlds, suns, stars, galaxies, and universes. He was everywhere with this magnificent One. He asked, Who are You? I Am was the reply. He instantly comprehended His own name is Christ. 

He became aware this is His Father, Whose very nature is to give and teach all He knows, and He knows everything. Christ knew He was not in any way separate or different from God and understands He is not a part of God but an extension of the whole. He knew love must be shared, and the love that is shared in His Father’s universe is exquisite and beautiful. Oh, the joy and laughter as They completed One Another. Christ supremely became as powerful, compassionate, wise, knowing, limitless, and most importantly as loving as His Creator. They are inseparable and continue to co-create vast galaxies and universes. However, due to the infinite wisdom of I Am, they stopped short of creating life to populate all that is. In Their beautiful Minds, They knew exactly what to do when God would say the moment was perfect. They envisioned all aquatic life, myriads of different flying species, all animal life, and the harmony of the varying interconnected environments all would live in. Their creations were also to be gifted with the ability to co-create. Each after their own kind. All of this would happen in a nanosecond, just as Christ had been created. There was no concept of time or space for They were everywhere, and They were One. God has created Christ to be exactly like Himself and to share His eternal love and joy in a state of unencumbered, boundless, and unimaginable ecstasy. Any question the Son asked was instantly answered as Their communication was perfect. 

Then somewhere, somewhen Christ asked a question that was not answered. What? Why? The question was like,” What else is there?” or “What would it be like to go out and play by Myself?”  I Am did not answer because there is nothing else, but God’s perfect creation. The Divine Son became horrified, certainly an awful new feeling previously unknown. He mistakenly thought His perfect communication was completely gone. Then He experienced a vastly more terrible knowing. Fear. Christ instantly created a universe of His own where He could hide. The Big Bang occurred, composed of billions of fragments. He needed somewhere deeper to escape, so He made the first human bodies after His Own Image and placed His magnificent Mind into all of them. The first ego was spawned. This Mind believes that it is completely on its own. Christ also actualized all the animal life, countless aquatic creatures, the avian companions, and the harmonious environments they would all co-create in. The idea of duality could not be carried out in God’s Reality, so Christ created a universe of illusion and entered it as if falling asleep and dreaming. 

Because They were no longer perfectly communicating God thought, “My Child is asleep and must be awakened.” But there was a major problem. Whatever God places His attention on becomes as if it is real. If God entered the dream to redeem His Son, then the dream would become real to Him as well, and He would also be trapped. There would be the risk of both the Father and the Son becoming eternally separated from their true Home and losing Their Identity. In other words, if God Himself were to acknowledge anything except the idea of perfect oneness, then there would no longer be perfect oneness. To solve the problem and allow God to keep His attention focused on Reality, He created a special agent, the Holy Spirit, Who would be a bridge between the two states of existence and the answer to the perceived separation. The Spirit was created with the miraculous ability to view God’s perfect Heaven while also viewing the Son’s imperfect dream. The Holy Spirit knew the original Christ Mind had created a black hole and was attempting to achieve nothingness, His fear was that immense. The brilliant light of God completely shattered the darkness and Christ began to love Himself again and woke up in the Heaven He never left.

So now Christ who is once again learning from the Father is thinking, “I’ve learned much from my first question of “Whoa, why is this?” I must help the children I have made who are sleeping.” Thus enters Jesus into our dream illusion. The Son thought, “I’ll have Jesus be born of a virgin, and he’ll be able to perform what my children will call miracles.” Christ knew He had been healed by the Holy Spirit, so the same Spirit conceived Jesus in Mary’s womb. Furthermore, Christ reasoned, “I’ll ask the Holy Spirit to descend on Jesus in the form of a dove after he’s baptized by John. I’ll have him led into the desert immediately after his baptism and live for 40 days and nights without food or water.” He knew His children would mistakenly think the reason was to be tempted by a Satan which doesn’t exist. Christ also thought, “I’ll have Jesus trained in the wilderness to only listen to the Holy Spirit; thus his ego will be totally eliminated. Jesus will be the only one in time who will completely manipulate his dreaming. He’ll walk on water, calm the seas, feed the multitudes, explain magnificent spiritual truths, heal the paralyzed, the blind will see, the deaf will hear and best of all, he’ll raise the dead. This will prove to my children that death is an illusion, especially after he will live again after his crucifixion.” He knew unfortunately His children would think he died for their sins. My Father knows nothing about my false universe and doesn’t even know what sin is. He understands, “I’ll have the same Holy Spirit Who healed Me, have Jesus thoroughly understand he is One with Me as I am One with Our Father. My creations will eventually understand the same Truth. When the last mind is healed and the false universe vanishes, My Father and I will receive great pleasure and joy in teaching our beautiful Children the perfection of Their being. Forever. They’ll understand Love is not an emotion but the most powerful force in all creation.” Jesus said while dying, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” He knew God doesn’t forgive because He sees nothing to forgive. This was said to put into the collective human consciousness the beauty and importance of forgiving.

Here’s another fictional story I wrote. 

Chapter 7: An African Mother

Let’s say you’re an African mother living in the jungle in the year 1694. You’ve been with your man 17 years and have 4 children. You work hard and are 48 years old. Not easy raising 4 children and a sometimes childish husband in this sweltering hot environment. All in all, life is good for you, and you laugh much more than you cry. One day, some white folks come into your village who are missionaries. They seem like nice people who have great food and smile a lot. They begin explaining about some man named Jesus who lived thousands of years ago. They tell you he walked on water, the blind could see, the deaf could hear, the paralyzed could walk, he raised the dead, and after he was hung on a cross to die, he raised himself 3 days later. Now these well-meaning people tell you he died for your sins, and you must believe this, or you’re going to eternal Hell. You ask, “What is sin?” They tell you. “What is Hell?” They tell you. You go to bed that night thinking this newfound information is a little absurd. This whole stuff sounds pretty out there to you. Who on earth came up with all this? You’ve lived a hard life but a good one. You have no enemies, many friends, loving children and a good hardworking and caring husband. Why on earth did these people tell you about this Jesus person? You’ve made some mistakes but now you’ve been informed these are sins. When you had asked what this sin stuff is about, they informed you that you’ve sinned against God. You asked, “What’s God?” They explain God had made you. You had thought all this time that your parents had made you. Also, this God who you have never seen is furious with you and is going to send you to a place of unending pain and misery. Forever. However, you’ve been told some good news. All you have to do is believe in Jesus, who died for the sin you didn’t know you had done. So, now you’re thinking, this God sent His only son to earth and commanded him to endure torture, suffering, and death? You don’t want anything to do with any of this nonsense. You had even begun to feel guilty about mistakes you were informed were sins. You had never felt guilty before and certainly do not appreciate the feeling. You truly like these kind-hearted missionaries and are a good judge of character. You never lie and always tell the truth. The minister asks you if you believe in Jesus. You tell him you’d rather not, as you were doing better before thinking about their so-called truths. They left. For several years you had been somewhat angry with the missionaries because they had disrupted your peaceful mind. You had started discussing this issue with their God after they had taught you how to pray. You understood the concept of forgiveness because you’d certainly forgiven your husband and children countless times over the years. To your astonishment when you told God you’d forgiven these folks, a feeling of amazing joy and peace briefly enveloped you and vanished. Over the next decade you and God became quite close, and you considered Him your best friend. You knew God understands your unchanged feelings about the sin issue and the death of Jesus. Years later, you reach the nice old age of 94 and die in your sleep. Where are you now? Atheists will say “in the dirt”. Born again Christians, “Eternal Hell.” I  feel the atheists have a much better response. A third glorious answer, “Enjoying the magnificent perfection and love of Heaven, forever.”  

Chapter 8: My First Writing Came From A Dream

Fifteen years ago, I had a dream about Mary Jo and immediately wrote it down.  All I could remember was, What if I told you? and wrote this in 25 minutes on my phone’s memo pad. The words just flowed without thinking. I know they came from Mary Jo because I wasn’t yet familiar with A Course In Miracles, but this writing coincides exactly with ACIM doctrine.

“What if I told you? What if I told you love is not an emotion but a force? What if I told you, God Is? What if I told you nothing can affect Reality and nothing unreal exists, therein lies the peace of God?  What if I told you there is no hell, only Heaven? What if I told you, you make your own hell?  What if I told you all you see is an illusion, compared to the reality of Heaven? What if I told you death is an illusion, you live forever? What if I told you God does not forgive because Source sees nothing to forgive? What If I told you if God made anything imperfect, He/She would no longer be perfect, therefore you are perfect, you have simply forgotten? What if I told you, you are dreaming in Heaven and are about to wake up? What if I told you as you help you are helped, as you give you are given too, as you love you are loved? What if I told you, you go through pain to teach you what you do not want? What if I told you, as you forgive others, you are forgiving yourself? What if I told you forgiveness is the final lesson you need to learn? What if I told you nothing you can do offends God because you are merely dreaming? What if I told you there is no such thing as sin? What if I told you Spirit heals your mind and mind heals your body? What if I told you, you need no one to make you whole, you are whole? What if I told you, you have a twin flame, you may not have met yet?  What if I told you we are all brothers and sisters, we are one? What if I told you, you are love, because you were made by love? What if I told you, you are forever the Divine Effect from Divine Source? What if I told you, you are Infinitely powerful, you have simply forgotten? What if I told you, you are part of the Mind of God, Source has not forgotten you?  What if I told you, Heaven would not be complete without You? Would you forgive and believe? Read that again.”

Chapter 9: The Meaning

Let’s reason together to understand what this all means to humanity in 2024. There is a vast difference between being spiritual and religious. Spirituality is for those who have experienced hell, the religious are those afraid of going there. I’m the former. As I reflected on my thoughts, it became clear to me that we are destined to become Co-Creators with God. This insight came despite my ego’s persistent claims that such a belief is perfectly insane. We’ll awaken from our dream in the Heaven we’ve never left after we have achieved perfection in forgiveness. Jesus explained to Helen in ACIM that he is not to be worshiped, just highly respected. The only difference between him and us is what is potential for us is his Reality. He has God and nothing else. Jesus explained in the Course that he set in motion over 2000 years ago the principle of the Atonement. This is the knowing that the one problem that ever existed was perfectly solved. We are not separate from God in any way, never have been and never will be. This is impossible for we are One with Source and have simply forgotten.

 Let's say you and I are strangers and enjoying a cold beer on a hot summer afternoon in a quiet little bar. We strike up a conversation and after an hour the alcohol is mildly kicking in. I say, “Our discussions are quite enjoyable, I’d like you to know something about me.””What’s that?” “I’m perfect.” Suddenly you remember you have an errand to run for your wife and can’t miss dinner. While driving home your thinking, “Wow does that guy have issues, he needs professional therapy.” However, perhaps you happen to be God. The response would be, “Thank you my Son, I know, because this is how I created you.” If God made anything imperfect He/She would no longer be perfect, therefore we are perfect. Yes we make mistakes in our dreams, but this doesn’t negate our perfection in Heaven.

A bit of trivia, Jesus had been married to Mary. Under Jewish law, only the wife could anoint the body. As I mentioned earlier, eventually we will evolve into a Co-Creator God Consciousness Being. It is a natural process to unfold into this state. There is so much we can learn by observing nature and all her teaching lessons. In all of nature, there is never a hurry to quicken a process as everything is always perfect in every moment and when the time is right, the rose will bloom. The Universal Christ Mind is constantly communicating with all creation in every moment. For the kingdoms without free will, this connection is called innate intelligence when the guidance comes directly from the Universal Mind. The guidance for a beaver to build a dam, a bird to build a nest, a flock of birds to fly in a V Formation, the spider to spin her web, or the hibernation of animals in the winter. The timing always comes perfectly. All these life forms are always in Christ's presence in every moment. This guidance is perfect, and it represents harmony, balance, order, and unity for the good of all. Nature comes together to represent the synchronicity of the Oneness as life unfolds. These kingdoms, mineral, plant, insect, animal, and angelic, do not have free will and are directly connected to the Christ Mind and stay consciously aware at every moment. Everyone on Earth is also directly connected to this Mind but have not yet learned to stay consciously aware. Before coming to Earth we were also connected to the Son's Mind through Innate Intelligence, but when we came to Earth we were gifted with free will, the ability to manifest using a conscious mind and learning to discern using the five senses and reasoning. Once understanding we are always connected to the Universal Mind and never separated from the Oneness of life, we’ll learn to trust our feelings and reconnect to understand our perfection. 

Gary Renard is also the author of Your Immortal Reality. In his writing, Gary explains, “Imagine you’re watching TV and you forgive a news story you see. The Holy Spirit then spreads your forgiveness throughout the mind that projects the universe, and through the projection itself. This act cuts through unconscious guilt and its karmic projections like a laser beam, affecting all your past and future lives, every dimension of time, and every parallel universe that seems to exist. As you practice forgiveness, the Holy Spirit collapses time, erasing the lessons you would have needed to learn. Although you might think, “This is boring, nothing’s happening,” something extraordinary is happening. Our ego is like an onion, peel away a layer, and it still looks and smells like an onion. The more you forgive vast layers of the ego are being peeled away, and your ego is disappearing. If you persist in practicing forgiveness, you’ll eventually reach the final layer of the onion. Once that layer is gone, the onion and the ego vanishes completely. After your final forgiveness lesson, the ego is gone; it's been undone, and there's nothing left to interfere with your experience of Who You Are. There's no reason for you to reincarnate in your dream. Practicing forgiveness the way I’ll continue to instruct you is how to break the cycle of birth and death. Perhaps a close friend was planning on stealing from you tomorrow, but this does not happen. The reason being you had already forgiven a closer friend who had stolen in the past. A lesson learned does not need repeating.” Your Immortal Reality.

 Each time a baby appears to be born into this world, it is merely reliving the time when it seemed to leave its perfect environment in God, where all was Nirvana, and it was completely taken care of and provided for, and then suddenly found itself slapped in the face by a seeming reality that was a living hell by comparison. We may consider birth to be a miracle, but babies don’t come into this world smiling, do they? They come in crying and screaming. The mind that is reliving the seeming separation has actually fallen asleep and is dreaming an idle, insignificant dream, or nightmare because anything that seemed to be apart from Heaven would have to be symbolic of an opposite to Heaven. It would thus seem to include opposite characteristics. There’s no doubt we believe we’re experiencing reality here. We must be shown the way out of this experience. Our “asleep at the wheel mind” doesn’t know it, but it’s going to wake up in the equivalent of a cosmic instant. That is because the Voice for God and Heaven, which we now understand is the Holy Spirit, is always with us to remind us of the truth and call us to return. This fail-safe memory of who we really are can never be lost, making an awakening to the Reality of Heaven completely inevitable. We have the power to choose the memory and strength of God or something else instead. That is what the part of our mind that decides did immediately after the seeming separation. Out of shock, fear, and confusion, it made a series of unwise choices that resulted in us appearing to be here. We still don’t realize that, given the remarkable power of the mind, certain choices made by us could end the seeming separation, and could have at any time. This means that we are capable of accomplishing it, with beautiful help from The Holy Spirit. God could not have created this world. It would not be in His nature for He is not cruel. If this were the real world, God would be cruel, for no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving.

Chapter 10: ACIM Fourteen Core Beliefs

1. This world is not real. God did not create this world nor even know of its  entire universe is an illusion dreamt by the Son of God.

2. Pure non-duality: Anything that comes from God must be exactly like Him. God could not create anything that is not perfect, or else He wouldn’t be perfect. 

3. Consciousness is the domain of the ego and was conceived after we dreamt of separation.

4. Spirit is unchanging, perfect, and eternal. This is the state of Heaven.

5. Truth is not different for everyone. Truth is truth.

6. There are no levels in Heaven. All conflict arises from the concept of   levels. We are either enlightened and back in reality with God, or still dreaming of separation. Only life in Heaven is real.

7. Life in all its myriad forms or possibilities is already scripted at the instant of separation. The only choice is in our mind, where we decide to identify with the Holy Spirit or with the ego, when interpreting each moment.

8. Life in this world is insane. Nothing makes sense in this world. The world was made as an attack on God.

9. There is only one higher self, the Holy Spirit. Also known as the voice for God, our memory of God, or the reflection of God’s love in our dream.         

10. Collectively, we are the Son of God. God created only One Son of God. 

11. There is no evil or devil, only illusory madness projected by our ego mind and thankfully, they are not real.

12. Every attack is an attack upon ourselves. We project our unconscious guilt onto (dream) figures or situations that seemingly attack us. So now they are guilty, not us.The cause of our guilt arises from our imagined separation from God.

13. Life is a lesson. Every opportunity is used by the Holy Spirit to teach forgiveness to undo the ego mind.

14. Time and space are illusions, and Spirit has nothing to do with them.   

Chapter 11: How Do I Know?

I’ve read that it doesn’t matter one iota to God if we believe in Him or not. The only thing He asks of us is to forgive. How do I know all of these teachings are Divine Truth? Because I have applied them to my daily life, and am experiencing a deeply real and continually growing peace. I have discovered the beauty of living in the now. My ego wants me to be living in the past and concerned over the countless mistakes I made, and more importantly desires me to be very worried about the future. If I’m living in the past or worried about the future, I’m not talking to the Holy Spirit now. When we live in the moment, absolutely nothing can harm us. Put this into practice and you will understand by personal experience. ACIM calls this the Holy Instant. So how do we eliminate our ego? The beauty of God’s grace informs us we eliminate our ego by the simplicity of forgiveness. This certainly didn’t happen overnight, but I started forgiving the guy blaring on his car horn, the cashier talking on the phone, different friends who stole from me, the two ladies who broke off our separate marriage agreements, the manager who fired me because I intimidated him for knowing more about his job than he did. The heroin addicts I lived with for over a decade that cost me everything I owned because I was an enabler. By constantly forgiving, I was systematically and permanently eliminating another of my ego’s layers. Another very important tactic to guarantee its elimination is never talk or listen to it because this makes it real to you and it’s not. Whenever you’re sorrowful, depressed, indulging in self-pity, angry, worried, anxious, hating, jealous or fearful; you’re listening to your screaming and lying ego that wants you absolutely miserable. Forgive all and pay it no mind, always. 

                          Epilogue

I don’t know when it became unimportant to me if it’s raining or sunny or what time it is. The day of the week means nothing, and I couldn't care less what month it is. Politics, inflation, the state of the economy, relations between countries, the drug explosion, the healthcare system is simply of no consequence to me anymore. It no longer matters if I sleep a lot or very little. I do not worry about money, as it’s always there when I need it. I haven't owned a car in years. I rent and all I own is a T.V., cell-phone and clothes. I’ve lost over a half million dollars in real estate, and wasn’t upset at all. I find I have a grateful attitude for good health and my cup is half-full. I no longer worry about anything and fear nothing. I have no guilt. I never argue. I have no enemies and many friends. I’m perfectly fine being totally alone and am never lonely. I love that one. It doesn’t matter if folks read my writings or not. I still write. If friends call, great. If they don’t, great also. I smile a lot. These writings are what I dwell on and if you read with an open attitude the growing positive attributes I’m experiencing will happen to you as well. By living and applying these words to your life, you become awake in your dream. When you finally achieve perfection in forgiveness, God will awaken you from your dream. This is a guaranteed fact.

 I pray we begin to see the attributes of Christ in everyone we meet. 

“Gandhi said, “Be the peace you want to see in the world.” We decide it and bring it to our experience. It just “seems” to be the other way around. When I integrate the goal of peace into my everyday life, it soon becomes a beacon of light making the way clear. For me, this journey is a cleansing of the window to the Soul. We are the Infinite Peace of God. The Truth of us is like a pure and beautiful screen of Love. It is always innocent and peaceful and shines out from the mind embracing everything it sees. It brings me back to the Home I've never really left. When I think of the many attractions of the world and all of its temptations. Peace is now the only one that draws me in. Nothing else makes any sense to me anymore. Peace brings with it the awareness of the Love of God. I am the perfect, loving, and unlimited extension of God. Only my thoughts and beliefs would convince me otherwise. I need only to stay in the peace and silence of this present moment. Everything else disappears from my awareness, and only the Peace and Love of God remain. They were always there shining brightly in the background of my mind and are no longer hidden by the meaningless thoughts and beliefs of a delusional egoistic mind. Don't let the clouds of delusion mask the Light of your Being. Just be the Light, for you are the Light that you seek. The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described and cannot be explained. I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. Truth will dawn upon you of itself, for God Is. Pray, Holy Spirit for my highest good and the highest of all grant perfection in listening to the sacred silence between my thoughts. I pray this everyday and find I’m answering questions I didn’t know I had. Your experience may not be the same as mine, but you will have a growing peace when you pray in faith from your heart. Guaranteed. God Bless, Bob

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Whenever I look at my body of work of ten books, the underlying human possibility intrigues me no end, and why not. I was born into a land-owning family in a remote village of Andhra Pradesh in India that is after the British had folded their colonial tents from there, but much before the rural education mechanism was geared up. It was thus the circumstances of my birth enabled me to escape from the tiresome chores of the primary schooling till I had a nine-year fill of an unbridled childhood, embellished by village plays and grandma’s tales, made all the more interesting by her uncanny ability for storytelling. As my maternal grandfather’s grandfather happened to be a poet laureate at the court of a princeling of yore, maybe their genes together strived to infuse the muses in me their progeny. 

However, as the English plants that Lord Macaulay planted in the Indian soil hadn’t taken roots in its hinterland till then, it’s the native tongues that ruled the roost in the best part of the vast land, and in Andhra it was Telugu, the Italian of the East that held the sway.  No wonder then, leave alone constructing a sentence on my own in English, whenever I had to read one, I used to be afflicted by stammer. Maybe, it was at the behest of the unseen hand of human possibility or owing to his own foresight that my father in time had shifted our family base to the cosmopolitan town of Kakinada to put me into the missionary McLaren High School in Class X. With that began my tryst with English, which, courtesy one of my maternal uncles, eventually led me to the continental fiction in translation that engaged me more, far more than the technical subjects I had to pursue for a career as a mechanical engineer.

While the Penguin classics inculcated in me a love for English language that is besides broadening my outlook of life, my nature enabled me to explore the possibilities of youth, and given that letter-writing was still in vogue then, I was wont to embellish my letters to friends and loved-ones with insights the former induced and emotions the latter infused. Clearly, all those letters that my novels carry owe more to my impulse to write them than to my muse’s need to express itself through them. Even as the fiction enabled me to handle the facts of life with fortitude, as life, for its part, chose to subject me to more of its vicissitudes, I continued tending my family and attending my job.

Fortuitously, when I was thirty-three, my mind and matter combined to explore the effect of the led on the leader, and when the resultant “Organizational ethos and good Leadership” was published in The Hindu, I experienced the thrill of, what is called, seeing one’s name in print. Encouraged, I continued to apply my mind on varied topics such as general management, materials management, general insurance, politics, and, not to speak of, life and literature resulting in some thirty published articles. But fiction was nowhere in the sight, nor I had any idea to turn into a novelist for Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Zola, Gustav Flaubert et al are literary deities (I hadn’t read Marcel Proust and Robert Musil by then), and where was the question of a devotee envisioning himself as a deity.

But when I was forty-four, having been fascinated by the manuscript of satirical novel penned by one Bhibhas Sen, an Adman, with whom I had been on the same intellectual page for the past four years then, it occurred to me, ‘when he could, I can for sure’. It was as if Bhibhas had driven away the ghosts of the masters that came to shadow my muse but as life would have it, it was another matter that as he didn’t want to foul his novel by dragging it to ‘publishable length’, it remained in the limbo.

With my muse thus unshackled, I set to work on the skeletal idea of Benign Flame with the conviction that for fiction to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil, not the hotchpotch of local and foreign caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas, the then norm of the Indian writing in English. Yet it took me a fortnight to get the inspiring opening sentence - “That winter night in the mid-seventies, the Janata Express was racing rhythmically on its tracks towards the coast of Andhra Pradesh. As its headlight pierced the darkness of the fertile plains, the driver honked the horn as though to awake the sleepy environs to the spectacle of the speeding train.”  

From there on, it was as though a ‘novel’ chemistry had developed between my muse and my characters’ psyche that shaped its fictional course, and soon, I came to believe that I had something unique to offer to the world; so, not wanting to die till I gave it to it, I used to go to lengths to safeguard my life till I finished it with a ‘top of the world’ feeling. What one Spencer Critchley, an American critic, thought about my contribution – “It’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs” - made me feel vindicated, though there were no takers to it among the Indian publishers and the Western agents.

So, I had no heart to bring my pen to any more paper (those were the pre-keyboard days) though my head was swirling with novel ideas, triggered by an examined life lived in an eventful manner.  Sometime later, that was after I read a book of short stories presented to me; I had resumed writing due to a holistic reason.  While it was the quality of Bhibhas’ satire that set me on a fictional track from which I was derailed by the publishers’ indifference, strangely, it was the lack of it in that book that once again spurred me onto the novel track to pursue the joy of writing for its own sake, and that led me to the literary stations of Crossing the Mirage and Jewel-less Crown. But in the wake of the hotly debated but poorly analyzed Godhra-Gujarat communal rioting in 2002, as I was impelled to examine the role religions play in social disharmony, my fictional course had taken a non-fiction turn with Puppets of Faith.

Then it was as if my muse, wanting me to lend my hand to other literary genres led me into the arena of translation, pushed me onto the ‘unknown’ stage, put me on a stream of consciousness, took me to crime scenes, and dragged me into the by-lanes of short stories. However, it was Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, who lent his e-hand to my books in search of readers. Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in English language for a rustic Telugu lad in rural Andhra even in post-colonial India? The possibilities of life are indeed novel, and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.

My body of work of twelve free ebooks, in varied genres, is in the public domain:  https://g.co/kgs/sFRxS4

When my feet first touched Indian soil in 1986, I felt as if I had finally found my home. Since that time, my destiny has led me back to India time and time again, first to study sitar in Shimla, then to study Sanskrit in Varanasi and then to live here continuously from 2001 until 2010. These trips etched in my heart and mind images, feelings and ideas which shaped my world view and the subsequent pattern of my life. The sunrise painting the cliffs of the Himalayas at dawn, the prayerful rituals on the banks of the Ganges, solitary treks to the sacred temples in the mountains; these images became an indelible part of my inner life.

Pilgrimage on the Path of Love unraveled in the jungles of the Himalayas in Manali. I used to come to sit beneath the towering deodar trees in the early morning when the sun poured its liquid radiance through the leafy bowers. The jungle in its cool still verdant beauty invited introspection, and my fingers raced over the blank paper in an effort to keep up with the rapid tempo of thoughts and feelings flitting like fireflies through my mind.

During my travels in the mountains of Manali and Ladakh, each person I met shared a fragment of their life with me and the multi-colored fragments, like beads on a thread, wove the necklace I carried with me, as an inner adornment, a cherished memory of a country to which I felt I belonged. If I had to choose a country to which my inner being is most resonant, I would unhesitatingly choose India.

In Pilgrimage on the Path of Love, we enter the interior world of a woman on the spiritual path and we see how the spiritual dimension of life in India fosters in her a deeper understanding of the ultimate quest of human life: enlightenment.

                       My Ray of Sunshine 

                                     Spirit

There is a certain slant of light

That split thru my window

Into multi-colored rays

Which bounce and tumble to the floor

The bright elusive beads

Dance and tease my poor cat

Hunched up in the corner

Tense and vigilant

Eyes gleaming with triumph

She pounces on the intruder

And swallows it whole

By Prafulla Vyas

It was buried deep inside me, the desire to write. Who has the time? Being married to a needy husband, raising children. working 24/7! 
It was only after I retired and my husband passed away from cancer, that I found time to write. Life without your partner of 40 odd years, is hard. You could wallow in depression, staggering drunk or fill your lungs with smoke till they are black like a burnt piece of meat.

I had to escape!  So I joined small, writing groups, looked desperately for venues where I could drown my sorry, my boredom.

And then one day I passed by an old garden, with overgrown wild rose bushes. There was a secret door, painted pale, blue and someone had scratched a message on it. Love you forever! I wondered who could have written it. What happened to these lovers?

And that’s how I discovered my Hidden Gem- my passion to write, create characters that lived in quaint, old cottages, in an old English village.

And that’s how I survived!

My cozy corner is by the window, where the sun rises and spreads it’s crimson glow over the horizon. I am happy alone, with my cup of chai and my notebook in hand.

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In the realm of creative writing, mindset isn't just a component; it's the cornerstone. For writers, the journey from a blank page to a masterpiece is not solely about skill or talent; it's deeply rooted in the mindset they nurture. This article delves into why mindset is everything for writers and how it shapes their path to success.

The Power of a Positive Mindset

Overcoming Writer's Block: Writer's block, the nemesis of many writers, often stems from self-doubt and fear of inadequacy. A positive mindset turns these obstacles into stepping stones. Believing in one's abilities allows a writer to view each block as a challenge to overcome, rather than a dead end.

Resilience in the Face of Rejection: The world of writing is replete with rejection. A positive mindset equips writers to see rejection not as a failure but as a learning opportunity, a stepping stone to refine their work and approach.

Continuous Learning and Growth: Writers with a growth mindset don't rest on their laurels. They constantly seek new ways to improve their craft, understanding that mastery is a journey, not a destination.

The Impact of a Negative Mindset

Conversely, a negative mindset can be a writer's downfall. Pessimism can lead to a fear of taking risks, resulting in uninspired and safe writing. Moreover, it can create a lens of harsh self-criticism where one's work is never 'good enough,' leading to a destructive cycle of doubt and dissatisfaction.

Mindset and Creativity

Creativity thrives in an environment of openness and positivity. A writer with a positive mindset is more likely to experiment with new ideas, styles, and genres, leading to more innovative and impactful writing. This experimental approach is often what distinguishes good writing from great writing.

Practical Tips for Cultivating a Positive Mindset

Set Realistic Goals: Start with small, achievable goals to build confidence.

Embrace the Process: Understand that writing is a process that involves both successes and failures.

Seek Constructive Feedback: Rather than shying away from criticism, embrace it as a tool for growth.

Practice Self-Compassion: Be kind to yourself during the writing process. Understand that perfection is unattainable and that each word written is a step forward.

Surround Yourself with Positivity: Engage with a community of writers who support and inspire each other.

Conclusion

The mindset of a writer is a powerful tool. It can either unlock the door to limitless creativity and success or barricade it. By fostering a positive mindset, writers can navigate the challenges of their craft with resilience, continually grow and improve, and ultimately, find joy and fulfillment in their writing journey. Remember, in the world of writing, your mindset isn't just part of the story; it's the author of it.

In the digital age, social media has revolutionized how we communicate, share, and consume information. Its influence has permeated various sectors, including the realm of literature. Books, once confined to printed pages and library shelves, now interact with social media platforms in unique and transformative ways. This article explores the dynamic relationship between social media and books, highlighting the impacts, challenges, and opportunities this intersection presents.

The Digital Shift: Social Media as a Platform for Readers and Writers

Social media has become a pivotal platform for both readers and writers. Platforms like Goodreads, Instagram (with its #Bookstagram community), and Twitter offer spaces where readers can share reviews, discuss their favorite books, and interact with authors. This democratization of literary discussion breaks down barriers, allowing for a more inclusive and diverse conversation about books.

For authors and publishers, social media serves as a powerful marketing tool. Book launches, reading sessions, and author interviews are now often conducted virtually, reaching a global audience. Social media campaigns can create buzz around new releases, and direct engagement with readers can build a loyal fan base.

Influence on Reading Habits and Book Sales

The influence of social media on reading habits and book sales is significant. Viral book recommendations or trending hashtags can drive sales and bring attention to lesser-known authors or genres. The phenomenon of “BookTok” on TikTok, where users create short videos recommending books, has even led to older titles resurfacing and becoming bestsellers.

However, this also raises questions about the quality of books gaining popularity. The trend-driven nature of social media may sometimes overshadow literary merit, favoring books that are more marketable online.

Challenges: The Double-Edged Sword

Despite its benefits, social media's impact on literature is a double-edged sword. The constant stream of information can lead to shorter attention spans, making it challenging for readers to engage deeply with longer, more complex texts. Moreover, the pressure to keep up with trending books can detract from personal enjoyment and exploration of diverse literature.

There’s also the risk of echo chambers. Social media algorithms tend to show users content similar to what they have engaged with before, which can limit exposure to new ideas and perspectives, contrary to the broadening potential of literature.

E-books and Audiobooks: A New Era of Accessibility

Social media has also played a role in the rise of e-books and audiobooks. With links to purchase or download books just a click away, access to literature has become more convenient. Digital formats cater to different reading preferences and can be particularly inclusive for people with disabilities.

The intersection of social media and books is a testament to the evolving nature of literature and its consumption in the modern world. While it presents challenges, such as potential impacts on reading habits and literary quality, it also offers unprecedented opportunities for accessibility, community building, and democratization of literary discussion. As this relationship continues to evolve, it will be essential to navigate it thoughtfully, ensuring that the core value of literature – to enlighten, entertain, and educate – remains at the forefront.

VISION AND REMEDIES ON DIVORC 

Marriages and performing marriages are very old traditions.  Marriages are performed in great style.  During the marriage functions, huge amounts are spent, for various purposes.  Marriage is a onetime function in one’s life.  Everybody hopes and expects that the bride and bridegroom should lead a happy marriage life.  After marriage, both bride and bridegroom should understand each other in every aspect, including financial, domestic, relationships and also professional career aspects.  It is, of course, to have a good insight on these aspects.  In earlier years, say during 1950’s to 2000’s, many marriages that took place and were successfully established their family in spite of many difficulties including financial aspects.  The problems were not there with the husband and wife till 2000 year.

            The problems slowly started emanating since the introduction of computerization.  Everybody became qualified, everybody became software engineers and everybody became earning members.  Moreover, huge salaries were being received especially by the ITeans in the IT sector.  Slowly, likes and dislikes started amongst many newlywed couple.  One does not know why?  There was lot of resentments with the newly married people.  The reasons are self-explanatory and may be plenty.  During the recent past, mostly in IT field who were working on software side and other related fields, love affairs became common.  Many marriages took place.  Simultaneously, there were many divorce cases.  The reasons for divorce are not well known.  Some people work at America, some people work at UK, some at Singapore, Australia, and Germany etc. 

Generally software people, who ones leave India for careers sake, never return to India.  People get settled at somewhere in some country.  They even become green card holders.  These people never bothered to get married up to the age of 35-40 years.  Many of the divorce cases are pending in various courts in India. These cases go on dragging.  Even parents are never bothered about their children’s marriage performance.

            One B Tech Itean marriage took place in India four years back with one B Tech girl.  Both went to America.  What transpired between them was not known.  The girl opted for divorce.  The divorce came after 5 years. The bridegroom had paid compensation around Rs 10.00 lakhs to the bride. There were several divorce cases pending in the courts for want of divorce. It looks that divorce has become common and regular feature.  On many petty, silly and waste matters, young couples are opting for divorce.  Most of the parents are the worried lot.  One does not know why things are leading to divorce.  It looks; we have been observing so many of misunderstandings with the new couples.  In some cases, in spite of counseling, people are not adhering and going in for divorce cases.  It looks, there is somewhere, some problem exists.

            In another known divorce case, one B Tech boy, software engineer married to one MCA girl.  Within three months, the girl opted for divorce from the boy.  One does not know any reason for this.  The bride’s parents looks to have played a major role in this. This incident happened one year ago.  Both bride and bridegroom are presently living separately.  The bride is yet to file a divorce case in the court of law.  It takes another 3-4 years easily for getting divorce in the court of law.

Before the Marriage engagement function, Both the Bridegroom and the Bride have to register their names with the competent authority of that jurisdiction or with Sub-Registrar of Marriages or any Authorized Nodal Agency or with any Government nominated Nodal Agencies either directly or through eSeva or Mee Seva Center’s, and a Certificate to the effect that so and so would like to get Marriage engagement on such a particular day, month and year and following by Marriage on a particular day, month and year.  This is only an intimation to the Government through proper channels, so that, the Government would be kept informed about the Marriage engagement and Marriage Function of particular Bridegroom and Bride. So also, local Station House Officer [Police Station] also to be kept informed about the Marriage engagement and Marriage Function with dates fixed for these functions. This will definitely, avoid future problems, troubles and other unforeseen marriage litigations and post-marriage complications, if any, arising out of misunderstandings in both the family groups. This system will work out well, and could possibly avoid post-marriage mis-understandings which may lead to divorce.

Presently, after Marriage is over, the new couple are going in for Marriage Certificates and approaching the Sub-Registrar’s Office or any authorized e-Seva or Mee Seva Centre’s for issue of Marriage Certificate. These are all called post-de-facto Certificates.

In advance, obtaining the Marriage Engagement Certificate and followed by Marriage Certificate, could reduce divorce cases.

            Parent’s involvement with the young couples looks to be the primary aspect.  Parents influence is the cause for many broken marriages.  One do not know why parents to interfere in the newlywed couple’s life.  Always new couples should be asked to live separately.

            Brides parents in India are afraid to perform marriage to bridegrooms working at foreign countries, fearing break-in marriage may take place. Moreover, there are many marriage sites existing in the websites.  It has become a very common feature to search for brides and bridegrooms.  All personal profiles look to be good and attractive.

            Now-a-days, every bride needs a software engineer bridegroom.  The main criteria are the salary package of the bridegroom.  How much bridegroom is earning.  Whether the bridegroom is having any property, lands, own building or flat including a car.  This is the criteria for any bride.  Moreover, brides are not getting married up to the age of 30-35 years. These brides want to earn as much as possible before marriage takes place.  This is the state of affair. When compared to present trend of marriages, alliances in olden day’s marriage, alliances took place in a very simple manner. Though in olden days, there was no much of money circulation, all the marriages were performed well and almost all the marriages got well established.  The problem has cropped-up, when the IT field is in full swing.  It looks, IT field only the root cause for divorce cases and break-in-marriages. One will pray The God that no more divorce cases are foreseen in the near future.

The Vision of a Bride before marriage alliance is needed, so as to assess the bridegroom’s habits.  This vision is to be counselled to all would be brides well before hand. This vision will enable would be brides to assess the bridegroom’s habits.  If this is assessed well before hand, then there will not be much of Divorce cases in the near future. This type of vision is essentially needed in these years.

To some extent remedies, after marriage, to avoid divorce would also work-out. But, however, such remedies go a long way and sometimes it may work out positively or may not work. But, divorce cases shall be avoided if proper care and remedies are taken. The first and the foremost point is to see that the Husband should not take any alcoholic drugs or drinks.  This is the main reason where marriage life get broke. For example, I will give below a small article like story, which will enlighten the couples and also would be bride and bridegrooms.

The main reason for the divorce are the habits of husbands. Husbands bad habits like drinking, drug addicting, gambling committing more debts and making uneasy environment in the family circles lead to Divorce. The remedies are essentially needed for such people. More of counselling is needed to such alcohol addicted husbands.

As an Author, I have number of friends who are regular drinkers in the social circles.  Drinking alcohol is not an issue. One can drink on few occasions. There is no problem.  But, continuously taking alcohol, day-in and day-out and dreaming high and building castles in the air, is not at all correct.  Many people lost even their lives due to high and regular drinking.  In this aspect, I would like to project few of the incidents below for the information and knowledge of all the readers.

            DRUNKARDS live in third world, enjoy and dream more. In this world of life, some people are accustomed and habituated to social drinking of alcohol including wine, vodka, brandy, and cocktails.  Taking alcohol in business sector for maintaining business relations is one thing.  Consuming alcohol of different types including foreign brands, standard brands, local made alcohol by upper middle class people are another thing.  Enjoying all types of alcohol brands each day by middle class people and lower middle class people on some occasions, looks to be common everywhere.  Taking local made liquor and other local made cheap liquor and toddy is very common and frequent by the hard labor.

            All the Governments are getting quite a good amount of revenue through the sale of different types of various liquor brands.  Few Governments depend for substantial revenue through various types of taxes.  Some Governments encourage liquor sales and some Governments do not encourage liquor sales.  Few Governments, on earlier occasions banned liquor sales in their respective States, landed in trouble due to huge loss of Government revenue thereby failed to run the governance and administration and even lost the political power. On later years, the same Governments which banned the liquor revoked the sale of liquor to raise the revenue substantially.

            Drinking alcohol in top circles (social, business, and political circles) has become the order of the day.  Lest, it is difficult to maintain the good business-socio-political relations at all levels.  Taking top alcohol brands, foreign brands, whisky and scotch in such top circles, looks to be a fashion and necessary; whereas, consuming liquor each day-in and day-out and partying every day may lead to problems.  Few people only can afford to lead such lavish style of life.

            Some upper middle class people in various business fields and sectors take regular drunks. Mostly now-a-days is seen in Information Technology field, consume liquor on week-ends and enjoy a lot.  But, this is also a costly affair.  Many people are in the middle class sector habituated to liquor of all brands and consume liquor on daily basis, by spending their hard earned money.  Even hard labor consumes local made liquor brands each day by almost spending their 60 percent of earnings.

            There are many risks involved after consuming liquor.  Number of people each day fall prey to road accidents, while some people who drive in intoxicated condition their two and four wheelers also meet with accidents.

            I have seen many people and few known friends who take alcohol on regular basis right from morning and evening are financially helpless condition to meet their family expenses and are unable to meet their regular needs for their children’s education.  It is quite a saddening affair.  Even some people who consume liquor daily are branded as ‘Drunkard’ and no social respect is given to them.

            I will give one example which I had. On one occasion, I engaged an auto-rickshaw to go to city shopping mall.  The auto driver had put on start the digital auto meter.  After passing some distance, I was getting some alcoholic type smell in the auto-rickshaw.  I thought, it was some petrol or diesel smell.  After some time, I thought it was gas auto-rickshaw. After few minutes, I thought it fit to ask the auto driver about the smell which was emanating from the auto. I was able to judge that it was alcohol smell coming from the auto driver.  No doubt, I was correct in my thinking. It was alcohol smell. Then I asked the auto-rickshaw driver whether he was intoxicated with alcoholic drunk.  He replied boldly, stating that Sir, I took a small quantum of liquor. I told him to stop the auto-rickshaw.  Immediately, the driver of the auto stopped.  I asked him, why you took alcohol when you are taking the passengers, while charging for auto service.  Is it not your duty to see the passenger’s safety?  He politely replied, sir, sorry.  It was a mistake taking alcohol and driving the auto.  I told him that, if you continue to take liquor or alcohol at this middle age, then, I don’t think you will live long and you will not be able to see your children’s marriages and your grandchildren.  Moreover, I told your spouse will have to do servant-maid job, or beg people for survival in case of any harm is done to your life.

            I told the auto driver straight-away that, people who are intoxicated with third brand liquor, or local made liquor will not live long.

            Then the auto driver replied, sir, I will stop drinking habit from now-on.  The driver realized the truth in my speaking to him on the facts.  I got down at my place and the auto driver refused to take auto charges for my good advice.

Drunkard habits are like this:

They abscond to offices.  They never work.  They make money by pledging various articles including gold and silver for the sake of drinking.  They quarrel when they are in bad moods.  They don’t speak properly.  They even speak vulgar language outside as well as at home.  They even quarrel with counterparts and their own children.  They live in third world and their dreams are high.  They make unnecessary chit-chat, speak on waste subjects and make time pass without any productive work.

            Intoxicated and drug addicted people never listen to others. They spend money towards alcohol, wine and on intoxicated items and never give money to their spouse and children.

            I have seen many of the drunkards lost their jobs, dislocated their family status, landed in many criminal cases.

Generally drunkards become gamblers in one way or the other. Gambling in the sense, playing cards, horse racing, Number games, Lottery, betting on various sports.  It is observed that quite a number of horse racing punters consume liquor and bet during horse races on horses.  It is very common that people play cards while consuming liquor of their choice and simultaneously smoke cigarettes.

One could see in many places very lengthy parked motor cycles and cards in front of wine shops, Bars and Restaurants, Toddy shops and in front of Janata Bars and Star Hotels.  Many of the Wine Shops are located in thick residential places, near to temples, and even adjacent to schools/colleges/offices/bus stands/railway stations.  Every drunkard spends money on local brand liquor and waste time, energy and loose health.  Even some regular drunkard’s beg small amounts of money and ask hot drinks from some known drunkard-mates.

Some Governments owned Wine Shops earn substantial revenue directly. All the people are influenced to take the liquor on one occasion or the other.

It is a very well-known fact, that in any major political election, municipal elections, local body elections, panchayat elections, company/factory elections, society elections etc., the liquor flows like water.  Without the supply of liquor, people looks like not tempted to work or participate in elections.  These are the back-door methods to tempt a person.

Some people consume liquor due to frustrations, family problems, financial problems, domestic problems and what not problems.  Of course, reasons are plenty to consume liquor.  Persons who are alcoholics have one reason or the other to substantiate them.  Naturally regular alcoholics will not find their growth easy.  Their family life gets dislocated and disturbed.  They often lose patience. They land in financial troubles.  They never get social respect in family and friends circle.  They are never able to meet good medical treatments in needs of time, due to lack of funds.  People never come forward to help morally or financially to drunkards.

In some States, liquor flow looks to be seen as more than cash flow.  In some States and villages drinking water is not available to common person; but, all types of liquor is made available at cost.  At some places, whoever purchases liquor, water of 100 Milli Liter or 200 Milli Liter sachets are given free of cost.

It is, many a times observed that drunkards and regular alcohol drinkers are always irregular to their professional works, due to uneasy, ill-health and hangovers.  Regular drunkards mind will be very simple, that they want to consume liquor some-how.  Drunkards always speak non-stop and good orators at that particular intoxication ti8me and power of speech will be more. They get extra energy at some particular point of time.  But, drunkards become weak and slowly lose their health and land in major health problems.  Drunkard’s longevity is reduced.  Drunkards lose their social status, family reputation will be lost, living standards will fall-down, and social respect will be lost, children’s education will be disturbed and many long run family troubles and disturbances are to be foreseen, which even can lead to divorce of husband and wife, all due to consumption of alcohol, infighting within the family and domestic circles will be frequent and regular.

For alcoholics and drunkards, there are de-addiction centers, rehabilitation centers, nature cure centers and many other Non-Governmental Organization centers could be seen at number of places.  Such centers addresses could be located through search engine websites like yahoo.com, google.com, rediffmail.com etc.

Drunkards can reduce their drinking habits, smoking habits and other narcotic drugs habits slowly, if they want to stop consumption of all types of intoxicated items.  Every person has got The God given Will Power.

All the good habits Pay on one day or the other to a person and for bad habits one has to pay the cost at one time or the other.

Thank  You

VISION AND REMEDIES ON DIVORCE

                                                                                                             By                         

MANTRI PRAGADA MARKANDEYULU

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Author, Story and Song Writer.

Hyderabad -Telangana State – India

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