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    • Can St. Francis of Assisi Save Our Divided World Today?

      Are You Willing to Take Up the Shepherd's Staff -- and Help Spread Love & Peace
       
      By James Twyman
      Set aside your computer for a moment and see if you can guess who wrote these words: "I made a mistake. Without doubt, an oppressed multitude had to be liberated, but our method only provoked further oppression and atrocious massacres. What was really needed...were ten Francis of Assisi's."

      I love asking this question and I'm not surprised when people give credit to revolutionary characters like Gandhi or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When I tell them they're wrong their answers become even more interesting - Napoleon, George Washington, etc. "How about John Lennon?" someone recently asked.

      "You're close," I said, "but only because their names sound similar. The answer is Lenin, not Lennon - the architect of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin."

      Lenin? Is it possible that the communist leader who referred to religion as "medieval mildew" and called the clergy "gendarmes (French policemen) in cassocks" had fallen in love with a twelfth century Italian mystic who gave everything he owned to the poor in order to live the Gospel of Jesus as perfectly as he could? Clearly St. Francis has inspired millions of people for more than eight hundred years, to the point that statues of the saint occupy gardens everywhere you look today, but how did an atheist like Lenin become so enthralled?

      Maybe Lenin has something to teach all of us in this regard. The end of the quote is: "What was really needed in Russia were ten Francis of Assisi's," but we could just as easily substitute that in our own world today - and it would be just as true.

      Does it sound like a ridiculous dream in the world of bullying, fake news and racist attacks? When you know a little about the history of Europe, especially at the time of St. Francis, you realize things weren't that different - the pope was at odds with the Holy Roman Emperor, city states were constantly at war with other city states, and tension between the very rich and the very poor was at an all-time high.

      Which leads to the question Vladimir Lenin seemed to be asking - Are we trying to solve the problems of the world with the same thinking that got us into trouble? If so, maybe ten radical people like St. Francis of Assisi are enough to turn things around.

      Margaret Mead famously said: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Was Mead's thinking influenced by St. Francis when he wrote: "Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world?"

      When you examine the current direction of the world -- especially politically -- it's easy to agree that the current wisdom isn't so wise, so maybe thinking outside the box isn't such a bad idea.

      Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has taken considerable heat for challenging the status quo. She encourages us to "love with conviction" and "wage peace," the same ideas St. Francis would have expressed if he was alive today. But at least she is willing to stand for these ideas on a national stage, inching these concepts forward, planting seeds in the minds of people who may not have viewed the world from this perception.

      So I've decided to throw my hat into the ring, but not as a Presidential candidate. I want to take up the challenge issued by Lenin and become one of the ten St. Francis's needed to turn the world around.

      Here are a few things I'll need to do if I'm to accomplish my goal: Be willing to give everything for love; think less about my own comfort and more about the wellbeing of others; and finally, challenge my own limiting beliefs and be willing to see everyone through the eyes of love. If I can do that, even in some limited way, maybe others will make a similar decision and step forward in their own way. All I need are nine more.

      St. Francis's example directly challenged the powers that ruled Europe eight hundred years ago, and yet his vision is celebrated today. He lived at the end of what we now call the Dark Ages, but he was also one of the inspirations that initiated the Renaissance, an era of great light and creativity.

      Is it possible that hundreds of years from now people will look back at this time in a similar way, calling it another Dark Age? And if they do, will they also celebrate the few dedicated people who stepped forward just as St. Francis did? Are we on the cusp of a New Renaissance?

      James Twyman, bestselling author of Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis, will bring his stirring new musical on St. Francis Brother Sun, Sister Moon to Broadway on February 20-March 1, 2020. And with the beloved saint as his model-he will travel a continent penniless, on foot and with whatever food, housing and further transportation that God will provide to get him there, presenting the play in 10 cities along the way. Twyman is also the NY Times bestselling author of 15 other books including The Moses Code and Emissary of Light. He has also recorded more than 18 music albums including the Billboard chart bestseller I AM Wishes Fulfilledalong with Dr. Wayne Dyer; as well as produced or directed seven feature films. For more information on Twyman, and the Brother Sun, Sister Moon Musical Tourstops and performances-- and Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis--visit: www.JimmyTwyman.com

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    • Double Vision: Man is Always Beside her in Dreams
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      In most of my dreams, I am aware that there is a man beside me. I never actually see him, but I know he is there. He travels through my dreams with me, and though I don’t talk to him, we seem to communicate telepathically. For example, I’ll decide to go somewhere in a dream, and he will know what I am going to do and just go with me. I used to assume this man was a part of me, like my masculine side or something, but then it hit me – maybe it’s a spirit guide or someone I have a close relationship with in the astral or something. What do you think?

      – Jolene

      Dreamchaser:

      You already know the answer to this, for you told us yourself. This man is actually the other half of your soul. It is not particularly a male or female being, but since you are female and heterosexual in this life, your human mind naturally views this other half of your soul as male. In actuality, souls are genderless.

      People often wonder how nuns and priests go their whole lives without experiencing romantic love and sex. I personally feel that some of those people are actually highly evolved spiritual beings who no longer need human/romantic love in their lives. They are so spiritually evolved that romantic love seems to pale in comparison to the connection they have with the Divine.

      There are also quite a few of these types of people walking around amongst us today. Do any of you know people who just do not date and seem REALLY content to be that way? I am not talking about bitter, jaded folks – I’m talking about together, functional, happy people. Well, these people often have a very fulfilling relationship with someone on the Otherside.

      When you dream, this other half of your soul can link up and become one with you again. You can’t see him because he merged with you. He is not standing beside you; you “know” he is there because you can feel him as part of you.

      Although he may feel separate from you, he is very much a part of you. Imagine a yin sign meeting up with a yang sign. That is pretty much how you two click together when you are in the Otherworld.

      Your spirit guides deal with you when you are awake and moving around on the physical plane; they do not generally show up in your dreams. That is for other entities that are on the Otherside. If you get a message in a dream, it is therefore generally NOT from a spirit guide, but from some other spiritual being.

      You have a very close relationship with this “man.” If he were in human form, you two would live a great love story. Spirit/God or whatever name you want to use knows what is best for our souls in the long run. This other side of you is in the Otherworld and not in this world for a reason. The contact you two have in your dreams is enough for your soul, or you would have more.

      I hope you keep a dream journal! I wish you more exciting dreams.

      *****

      Astrea:

      Access to Spirit in any manifestation is very difficult for most people. I would say the number one problem I hear about at Psychic Chat involves a person who wants to have the kind of communication that you have with your guide and can’t seem to figure out the best way to achieve that.

      The key to seeing and talking to Guides is BELIEVING. A person has to believe they are worthy of a Guide, for only then can he or she begin to gain conscious awareness of that Entity.

      You are dream-traveling at night with a Spirit Guide. You are correct to think that he isn’t the masculine side of you, but rather the Being who comes with you in your dreams and in your daytime travels too. He is always with you. You’re very fortunate that you’re at least able to sense him – most people don’t see those Beings when they’re awake OR asleep.

      Your ability to “talk” to him helps prove my personal theory that Guides usually don’t “speak” in the way people speak to one another. Telepathic communication with such an Entity is not at all unusual. Many don’t have language as we do, and more times than not, the Beings who use that type of communication have some sort of Divine or Angelic background.

      If he spoke to you in words, it would be more likely that this person had lived as a human being at one time or another. That you speak through thought is a good indication that this being has some kind of Holy calling. This is good! If this is a Guide, it means he is traveling with you not only at night, but is also protecting you in the day.

      I feel that someone has sent this particular Guide to you. A relative who crossed over sometime within the past ten years probably felt you needed more “support” than they could give you from the Other Side, and found someone to keep up with you. This loved one in Spirit was most likely someone with whom you spent a great deal of time during your childhood.

      Make a point of thanking him for keeping you safe, for if you look at your life, you’ll discover MANY “close calls.” More of those seem to have happened recently. He is the one who has guided you so that you’ve kept your health, stayed out of car accidents, and been reasonably safe overall.

      You’re one of those lucky people who have a “shining star” looking out for you!

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