Clear as mud

One of my many readers complained that they could make neither head nor tails of my last blog. It seemed to them that I was warning people away from seeking higher spiritual gifts in that they were laden with pitfalls that involved satanism. Nah, we bring our pitfalls with us. Its just that a higher spiritual awareness can take us quickly out of our league and will need to be mitigated through a dedicated prayer regimen. I hope that makes it clearer. I was not saying that LUCIFER is looming in the darkness ready to leap upon anyone who dares to pray outside the box.
Speaking of outside of the box, how about those scientists who have now "proved" Einstein's theory wrong. They have shown that there are faster things than light in the universe. So, in theory, a bullet made of this stuff can hit a plate beside you even before you see the gun's trigger pulled. The present is but an echo of the future.
Spiritualists have used this reality since the cave days. Its what makes magic real. A sensitive person can allow enough of their awareness to travel ahead of them in "time" so that they know the future. At least small bits of the future but enough to astound the most critical of scientists and it certainly can make a believer of us mere lay folk. Spooky even.
But it works the other way too. Since some use the future to guide themselves, it only stands to reason that to those persons in the future experiencing this deja vue have contact with the past. Because that is where they are in relation to the future. Split the difference and you have the present. I wonder if some of these notions of spirit guides warning us could actually be ourselves travelling back in time to help us avoid a bad decision.
Great news? So how come so many of us still screw up? That brings us to the present.
According to the newly revealed "truth"," the past, present and future are one at least in some place in the universe.  But so many of us insist that the present is all we have, this perception becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Talk about irony. We will not listen to our "enlightened" selves. (aka conscience)
So, hooray. Science says that we can jump back and forth if we have the skills and practice hard enough. Ummm What about theology/religion? How can all of this fit into our carefully preserved treasury of truths canonised by the institutional churches? Oy.
I am not sure, but I know that I am going to enjoy exploring this new freedom. I doubt if the guardians of the Holy Writ and the sanctified oral traditions will be enthused about the prospect. But then their gifted ones can always go back and change things so that we will never know the difference :) If they can't find any gifted seers in the institutional line-up we will be more than pleased to lend them some.
I think that Jesus is very pleased that we are finally growing into our potential. GO HUMANITY, THE SAINTS IZ WITH US AND THEY IZ US!
Fr. Rod