A celebration of procrastination

Well, that's what the weekend was about. Procrastinating.

I said the other day that I wish to finish Uni with at least a 2:1 level degree. I didn't say that I couldn't procrastinate. Procrastinating is a skill, and a gift as I see it now. There are many things that I would not ever do if it was for procrastinating. So much stuff I wouldn't have learned. So I thank the element of procrastination held within me somewhere.

I feel that the majority of people procrastinate. I wonder if anyone ever really wonders why. It's when there is something that has to be done that one is not interested in when those who aren't generally in touch with their intuition let it take over. I procrastinate often, and often just make things up that I've got to do, like tidy, or buy chocolate. Sometimes though I actually manage to make a start on what needs to be done, this is when it kicks in. I can sometimes be found on Yahoo Answers. Particularly in the religion and spirituality section, and the erm....mental health section.

Religion and spirituality as some people ask the most fascinating of questions, and I am amazed at how closed-minded religion can make people. Many people do not see past their own religion to view the world in any other way. It saddens me in way that religion has the ability to make people who should be open-minded to possibility so very closed minded. I'm not saying that every religious person is, and I'm not saying that every non-religious person isn't. I'm sure in many cases it is also the other way around. I am just amazed by what I see and hear.

Mental health because I feel that the diagnosis' of mental health disorders have a lot to answer for. There are many questions that are asked by people, all feeling out of place and doing quirky things, and feel that as these actions are not generally perceived as "normal" they are indeed "mental". I like to write and try to let them know that they are not mental.

I have been in the presence of someone who felt that they were "going mental". I listened to them for along time, and stood by them. There were other people who couldn't comprehend things that this person was saying and doing, and turned their back. I didn't. If they were going mental, then so was I. I knew that they wasn't, because I knew that I wasn't. I never made an effort to reassure the person at the time that they were okay. So I'm making up for it now, and trying to reassure others that they are just as "normal" as everyone else and gifted too.

So the other day I made a post on a question. Some girl was trying to work out what religion she belonged to, or had beliefs close to for a school assignment. I answered and told her the following...

The best religion to believe in is the religion of you. You know how you feel, and you have your own mind. It angers me that schools seem to want everybody to belong to a certain group. You don't need to. If you want to, you can take pieces from all different religions and just believe in certain aspects....or you can believe in nothing.

The most important thing that anyone can believe in is them self and their own mind, as that is in essence the only thing that really exists.

The reason why kids get taught religion and not morals is because the "powerful people" can't control them if they have the sense to make up their own mind. That I believe is what you tell your teacher. You do not wish to conform to the control of society, culture and/or religion, but you plan to live your life the way you want to live it in your heart.

I also had a bit of a moan about teachers. For some reason a short while later I decided to check back and see whether anyone else had made a post since. The one that was posted after mine said this....

Visit this website
www.theawaitedone.com
if you feel these teachings are within you.Then you dont belong to any religion you belong to the religion of Love which is above all religions.

I went onto this website and a had a little scan read. Just to see what it was all about. Religion of love eh? Sounded a bit interesting so thought I'd see what it's all about. So I was looking, and decided to have a bit more of a look into Gohar Shahi, so I toodled off to Wikipedia, and read all about him....

I then went on to read about the organization he set up with his beliefs called
International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam and then ended up taking note of the fact that the origional website that I was looking at was taken from his ideas, but not actually a true account of these. So I went to the following website goharshahi.net

I went onto the book page and read the first of the two books from start to finish. It took me about 5 hours, but I made it. Just the reading was an accomplishment in itself, but the ideas contained in the book are fascinating. WARNING: This should be read with a very open mind, as it possibly goes against most of everything you think you know.

I did question after about 4 hours whether I was actually interested, because there was a lot I didn't understand. Still I continued to read. This thought I believe to have been a test to me. I was procrastinating, and to procrastinate I was reading. I'm not a fan of reading at all, and even less of a fan of reading off a computer screen. So yes I was interested. And during the read I began texting the amazingness, and as it turns out, what he was doing at home, and what I was reading were very much connected.

The book talks about stages of enlightenment and the spheres and spirits that the body holds. It's very fascinating stuff.

On to A celebration of procrastination take 2.....