Chapter 14: Introduction to the bat shaman, if you believe in such - otherwise, grab your best hold

I posted this below to my Anomalous-Unusual Happenings Facebook page, and paid Facebook to boost it. Some reader comments and my replies thickened the stew a bit. Then, for dessert, I toss in three watershed poems, which leaped out of me during dark moments in my life.

The Yin and the Yang of the Law, by a Southern Lawyer Who Became a Mystic, is a free read at   https://yinandyangoflaw.blogspot.com.  [Title later changed to Diary of a Redneck Mystic Lawyer.]

This book in progress interfaces the laws and courts of man with the Laws and Courts of God. The book tracks the author's matriculation from a privileged white southern Christian family, through law school; clerking for a federal judge; working for his father's company, Golden Flake Snack Foods, which competed against Frito-Lay; practicing law in Birmingham; writing books for legal consumers; and leaving all of that to search for his soul. The author was apprehended by angels mentioned in the Bible, who slowly but inexorably turned him upside down and inside out and every which a way but loose. Still in progress. The author was raised in Christendom but today belongs to no religion. He does not attend church, yet doesn't know when he's ever not in church. The author's metaphysical writings are not well received by Christendom or the New Age, Republicans or Democrats. The author no longer is of this world, but he still is required to be in it. So, he keeps shooting off his mouth, and is viewed by many, perhaps, as batshit crazy. Although in Peru, where lots of Americans go to be with indigenous shamans, the bat shaman is the most revered shaman, because he, or she, can see in the dark.

James Crabtree

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James Crabtree Not sure what you mean by the cross. If it's Jesus, then once upon a time (early 1987), my 45th year, I made a desperate prayer to God to please help me, I didn't want to die, failed. I paused, added to the prayer, I offer my life to human service. About ten days later, I woke up in the wee hours and saw two spirit beings hovering above me in the darkness, I figured they were angels. I heard, but not exactly with my ears, "This will push you to your limits, but you asked for it and we are going to give it to you." I remembered the prayer and saw a bright flash of light and was jolted by spiritual lightning, which made my body lurch. That happened two more times and the two beings faced out. My new girlfriend lying beside me in her bed asked me what was going on? I asked what she had seen? She said she saw my body lurching. I asked if she had seen the angels, or heard what they told me? She said, No. I told her what had happened. She said, Let's go back to sleep you strange man. That was the beginning, in, of all places, Los Alamos, New Mexico. I was raised in Christendom, but it had not held. I believed in God, thought Jesus was who I was taught he was, and felt I was not worth or deserving his attention. I had delved into the New Age, hoping that would help me. After that encounter, the changes began slowly,and picked up up pace. There were many stages of change, some harder than others, some horribly difficult. In time, I understood the two spirit beings were Jesus and Archangel Michael, who later were joined by Melchizedek. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament somewhat describes the Melchizedek priesthood, in which it says Jesus Christ is high priest. I seldom heard Hebrews mentioned in Christian churches, and even then, there was nothing said about the grueling of and not of this world ordeal of becoming a Melchizedek priest.

Bob Denison

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Did you read my reply to James Crabtree?

Bob Denison

Anomalous-unusual happenings just read it. My initial reaction is this is why we have the Bible. Experiences can vary from person to person. Experience can be manipulated by Satan even. The Bible says get born again then let the Holy Spirit lead you. Especially in matters of the spirit world.

Bob Denison

Everything God is doing in the earth today pertains to Jesus. If your experiences are not pointing you and others to Jesus, then they are of Satan. That's how you evaluate experience. There is a verse that says in days past God spoke through prophets but now through his son, Jesus.

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Bob Denison I agree, every person's experience differs. I briefly summarized for James Crabbtree my personal experience with Jesus, Archangel Michael and Melchizedek. Sometimes, what I hear, feel, is female, and that I attribute to the Holy Spirit. As I see the New Testament, Jesus planted seeds in his disciples, who did not seem to be getting the message, seemed to remain children and not particularly compatible with each other at times, and he sometimes berated them. Some women women seemed more tuned into Jesus. Only after the male disciples were invaded by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, did they start changing, and being born again in the true sense, and become useful to God. Acts of the Apostles explains some of that transition for Peter, and also for Saul of Tarsus. Being born again was not a magical, quick event. It was a grueling ordeal. I do not see that being taught in Christendom today. I do not see Christendom saying John the Baptist said he baptized in water, but the one to come would baptist in fire and spirit. I do not see Christendom today saying Jesus seconded what John the Baptist had said, and Jesus demonstrated the baptism in fire and spirit by living it, and by teaching it to a few other people. I do not see Christendom today saying Jesus said the road to God is difficult and few enter the gate; many are called, but few are chosen; the work is great and the harvesters are few. I do not see Christendom today acknowledging Jesus said in the Gospels that he had other flocks of which they were not aware. I do not see Christendom today talking about the Melchizedek priest calling and ordeal described in the Letter to the Hebrews. What I mostly see in Christendom today is what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap salvation" in his book, THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP. I was taken past belief to knowing God, Jesus, angels, demons, and the Devil exist, and that is is very easy to mistake Lucifer for the Holy Spirit. I have to guard against that every day of my life, and I'm still not very smart about that, apparently, because I get corrected ongoing, and some of the corrections are jolting. I think, and say often enough, if Christendom got to experience what I experience ongoing, what a few other people I have known experienced, Christendom might wish there was no God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, nor angels mentioned in the Bible. 

 

George Carnevale

“holy” HOGWASH is manifested in many forms…

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George Carnevale With God, all things are possible😀 

George Carnevale

Anomalous-unusual happenings but… Nothing “miraculous” happens Because “god” is only an Illusion in Gullible minds…Phony BS…

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George Carnevale Then pray you never get to live a little while in my skin and get a chance to revised your perspectives😀 

George Carnevale

Anomalous-unusual happenings Thankfully, that could Never happen. I’m Not batchitt wacko..😂

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George Carnevale Many times when I was a boy, my father told me never is a really big word and don't say it. Meanwhile, once upon a time, a woman I fancied a great deal told me that she had a dream the night before, in which she was looking down on me lying face up on a massage table, and she unzipped the front of my body and crawled inside of me, and yelped and leaped out of me, and a voice told her, "God wanted you to know what it's like for Sloan all the time."

Antonio García

Stop doing drugs!

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Antonio García never did drugs, if you don't count booze, which I gave up some years ago, because it made my G.I. tract and liver howl at me. Taking drugs to trip into other realms, without an adept shaman accompanying you, is a really good way to be latched onto by a demonic or at least an opportunistic entity, which comes back with you unawares, and feeds on and influences you for the rest of your life, unless an adept shaman, exorcist, etc. figures out what happened and persuades the entity leave you, or escorts the entity elsewhere.

A friend told me a few weeks ago that she had dreamed I went to a conference where I recited some of my poetry and told some stories about my life.

The World's Greatest Failure (2001)

I know what it is to love fully,

have my heart broken by death

and by loved ones' rejections,

Over and over again,

so I can love even more.

I know what it is to be engulfed in pain,

Awash in evil,

Terrified, enraged, despaired,

Believing God has again forsaken me,

Then be given the truth

that again makes me free.

I know what it is to doubt,

Be lost and wandering

time and time again,

Then be rescued yet again

and my faith grows deeper.

I know what it is to blindly trust,

Then be destroyed by betrayal

time and time again,

Until I trust only God.

I know what it is to have much

and be completely of this world,

Then have it all taken away

and be in the world but not of it.

I know what it is to fail in this world,

and fail and fail and fail:

The world's greatest failure,

I can serve only God.

I know what it is to give

and give and give and give;

I cannot stop giving

because giving is receiving.

I know what it is to explain God

time after time after time again.

Something demands I keep explaining:

Maybe someone will listen,

Maybe me.

I Am a Man (2003)

I am a man.

I said,

I am a man!

What means it,

being a man?

A man is a warrior:

he lives by a code of honor,

his word is reliable,

his actions confirm his words,

his commitment is holiness,

his enemies are welcome at his hearth,

he fears but moves forward,

he cries and gets up again,

he hates but forgives,

he loves and let’s go,

he doubts but trusts God,

he’s a good friend,

he seeks resolutions,

he demands nothing,

he risks everything,

he regrets his mistakes,

he seeks to make amends,

he puts others’ welfare first,

he accepts apologies truly made,

he expects nothing back,

he lives ready to die,

he laughs when he “should” scream,

he screams when he “should” laugh,

he sings just because,

he shrugs off insults,

he learns from misfortune,

he cusses God for making him,

he wishes he was done,

he loves children and animals,

he relishes a woman’s scent,

he smiles when he’s content,

he knows God’s his master,

he walks in rainbows,

his garden is the world,

his way is nature,

he loves fishing,

his wife is his soul,

his food is life,

his pay is whatever he receives.

Yep, he’s crazy.

SHANGHAIED (2004)

A calling to serve carries its own wisdom,

which legitimates both the calling and the serving

so that the two are one.

Only the one called to serve

can know this wisdom,

and for some who are called

the knowing comes easily,

while for others the knowing is a fiery baptism.

Each calling is different,

and while some callings can be declined,

others cannot,

and those whose calling is without repentance

know they are in it for the duration of the calling,

and while others may try to persuade them out of it,

the calling for ones such as these always prevails.

Thus is it advised to all called for keeps

that they view their calling as a blessing

even when it seems at times to be a curse,

and that they try to reconcile the loss of their captain status,

and allow the Spirit of God to man the helm of their ship,

and be glad and willing crew members thereon,

knowing that all sailing ships of souls

need a crew as well as a captain

to maintain and navigate the ship through

seas of many tones, depths and flavors.

So consider each league sailed

as part of the overall journey

going to where the captain deigns to go

by using whatever winds and sea currents available

to navigate the ship to the experiences

this ship and crew need to have

in order to fulfill their calling and its wisdom

revealed by the journey of many leagues,

many known only to the ship and its crew,

all of whom come to know,

some sooner than others,

that once conscripted

there is no safe jumping ship.

Sloan Bashinsky