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A viewer asks: “As Creator advised, all churches have been corrupted, but isn’t there much good to be obtained from religious practices that foster faith in the Almighty?” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • 
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We were told that group prayers for healing illness, led by highly religious clergy, typically do not address deep karmic causation. Is that so, and if not, why not?
ClosedNicola asked 7 months ago • 
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Saint Faustina wrote, “If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Dr. Richard Gerhauser recommends practicing gratitude. He cites scientific studies showing greater gratitude scores were associated with: lower hemoglobin A1c blood levels, a marker of blood sugar control in diabetics; improvements in heart rate variability scores reflecting balance of the autonomic nervous system; and higher heart rate variability correlates with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and overall better health. Healthcare workers and teachers who practice gratitude have less burnout; gratitude increases mental well-being, which can help boost the immune system and help fend off illnesses; practicing gratitude has been shown to help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, while also improving mood; gratitude practices can boost optimism, which has been connected to factors consistent with healthy aging: less chronic disease, healthy cognitive function, and good physical function. Are the mechanisms causing these benefits from practicing gratitude purely physiologic or are other factors entering in, assuming these are valid findings?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Dr. Richard Gerhauser says practicing gratitude can be done by keeping a journal, a daily list of things one is grateful for. Things written down can be put in a gratitude jar as a visual reminder. Other approaches include meditation and prayer. What is Creator’s perspective on how best to benefit from an attitude of gratitude?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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A practitioner asks: “As a longtime Buddhist practitioner and now a mindfulness teacher myself, I continue to struggle with trying to make sense of some of the core teachings in Buddhism. One of the three “marks of existence” that all Buddhist practices are centered around understanding through increasingly direct and deep insight/realizations on the path to enlightenment is “no self” or “not self” (annata), which includes that there is no such thing as a permanent, unchanging entity or “soul.” It is said that in his quest for enlightenment, the Buddha looked deeply for the “housebuilder,” the one behind the whole thing, this experience of “I, me, myself,” the doer, and he couldn’t find one, and found instead that all phenomena, including the experience of a fixed entity called a self or soul, were simply the result of interdependent causes and conditions coming together temporarily, including even consciousness itself, which arises temporarily to meet with sensory experiences (which includes the 6th sense of mind) and that this consciousness we experience, too, dies with the body. Of course, there is something that experiences rebirth, as Buddhism was very, very clear on that … Since the goal, enlightenment, involves the ONLY permanent death … The cessation of rebirth. One of my primary teachers stated that what gets reborn is not a “soul,” but our “habits.” I am really hoping that Creator can shed some light on these things, since the teachings of the Buddha are what I resonate with the most, and yet I am also an LHP practitioner and do believe in the divine realm and love the idea of having/being an “immortal soul.” The LHP itself I do see as basically a lovingkindness/compassion/sympathetic joy/equanimity (Divine Abodes) practice, and therefore an extension of Buddhist practice. I accept that especially because the teachings of the Buddha were not written down until hundreds of years after his death that they could have become corrupted, and that given the depth of dark manipulation on Earth they most certainly were. However, this teaching, that there is no soul, that there is no self, is basically THE most important teaching in all of Buddhism. The Suttas (sacred ancient Buddhist texts) quote the Buddha as saying, “Nothing whatsoever is to be taken as I, mine, myself. Whoever has understood this has understood all the teachings.” How are we to make sense of this?”
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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A viewer asks: “Does praying the rosary keep you from being earthbound after death?”
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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A viewer asks: “November first is “All Saints Day” and the night before is “All Hallows Eve” that has since become Halloween. All Saints Day is supposed to be a day of “remembrance” for all the departed, including saints. But lately, it has become just another dutiful day for the typical Catholic to attend Mass. It will be a remembrance of the exalted nature of the saints as role models for righteous living, but little else. There will be precious little discussion of death itself, the hazards of transition, the dark fate and existence of many earthbound departed loved ones who are assumed to be safe and are not. What was the original intent for these holidays and how has that intent been lost over time?”
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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What are the benefits and liabilities of homeschooling compared to the government sponsored school system?
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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Is there a true phenomenon of transubstantiation of the host given to represent the body of Christ and wine to represent the blood of Christ, during Holy Communion as practiced by Christians?
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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What does Jesus Christ think about the ritual of Communion done in his name during church services?
ClosedNicola asked 4 years ago • 
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