I am going to start off with a dream. Because it is a more interesting way to start off. Considering what I want to discuss. It is not idea ref free will. But the subject is so boring without the dream involved that I am going to include it.
I have written here before about experimenting with coming off prayer and immediately. Bad things started to happen. I had a health problem that really put me out of action.
But I have started to wonder if there is something wrong with the way I have been praying. And I can find another compromise. I will explain.
During my last workplace. I had this dream. In that workplace. I was quite ill. I worked quite hard. I was in a kind of very robotic zone. I used to sit at the end of my shift sometimes and pray. It would not be obvious to anyone, it would look like I was just opening up a journal and reading it.
I was not getting on with everyone there socially. Because I only had enough energy to work and go home. And the work was, there was not a single seconds rest. It was just 9-5 work and nothing else. So I was too exhausted to speak to anyone, and did not have the free time to do so on shift.
I had this dream that was related to this. Where I was trying to pray in the dream and it was utterly ineffective. I have wondered for a long time what this was about. It was a strong dream. At the time I wondered if it was about free will, since I was praying sometimes at work, around other people. Who might not consent in free will terms to that energy being around them.
It could have been anything. It could have been negative or positive. It could have been that the people there hated me and didn't like that protection being around me, so they could contrive a reason to get rid of me, so attacks could be more effective (I had stopped praying when something exactly like this happened!) It could have also been that the protection wasn't necessary. And was preventing positive things like connection.
I have a stress linked physical health problem, and I wondered, after my last post and thoughts on it. Whether putting that much energy into protection is necessary and if it is in fact arming me with stress as I protect from a thing that is not there?
In the Law of One, there was a passage that related to Jim who had managed, by making a decision, to command his body to do something unexpected with his kidneys. Every little word is relevant in these endeavours it seems. While perhaps I am not at that vibration. This is still relevant wisdom.
The prayer of Archangel Michael is one of those that I was saying: "Cast into hell Satan and all evil beings that wander the world for the ruin of souls". But I have no real demons in my life at the moment like that. In fact, I am in a fairly good position relative to where I could be. Since I have a health condition.
There are also a lot of other prayers that I made up which, I suppose, function a bit like a Christmas list. Which is an aspect of Christianity I don't like. Also, some of it might be redundant. Talking about bringing gods plan to earth as thought that is not happening anyway. Regardless of if we pray for it. It might be a little against free market types of wisdom as well.
There have been other things I have wondered about in relation to prayer. For instance, the Law of One stated at some point that they did not want anyone to dislike what they were offering. To them, it might be an issue if someone succeeds and people around them get jealous. Even though, there is nothing that it seems to me that is virtuous about that jealousy. To consider it. It may be that if we are doing things and opposing evil doers. This is something for the positive forces to consider?
If we live in this world and are in competition with others. They may not like if we were massively aided by some forces. It may work better if, when we are against others, that we rely on our own more human/ personal resources.
But with all the thoughts on the counter productiveness of prayer. What then of what I mentioned at the beginning? Not praying is also not good. For this, I am simplifying to only the Lords Prayer. It starts to make sense now when Jesus said that "they think they will be heard for their much speaking".
I have also noticed that healers in general are not so focused on protection from negative forces. So perhaps that is because the energy going to healing is opposite to that used in opposition to others
What is the function of prayer? For me, it is the basic free will assertion that you accept what the positive spirits have to offer should they be inclined to want to aid you in some way. Perhaps there is only one prayer that is needed for that? Not a whole set of pages.
But we'll see, this is an idea I am exploring.










