Defeating demons: God just wants to have fu-un

 

Would you want this in your brain? (Photo: André Karwath aka Aka)

What is to love someone, but to desire that they're happy? That they enjoy life? That they feel good? That they're having fun?

I've been thinking about this today as I encountered two creators whose work is largely inspired by Neville Goddard. Reddit's "allismind" wrote, "The Highest Spiritual Practice is to Have Fun." I commented:

The ends are the means, and "feeling is the secret." We desire something because we believe it would bring more pleasure or fun. We must be the person we would be if the desire was fulfilled. That is, we must have more fun!

Tom Kearin's Be Something Wonderful YouTube video today told stories of two people whose lives changed when they decided to have fun. Each decided that they would stop condemning or trying to change external reality because that was no fun. In Tom's words, "They moved to the idea that Source just wants to have fun."

Or, to steal from Cyndi Lauper, God just wants to have fu-un.

I'm also currently reading Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. Among its insights:

 "Well-Being is the only Stream that flows. You can allow or disallow this Stream, but when you allow it, you are well; and when you disallow it, you are sick."

Also:

You have the option of remembering something that pleased you or remembering something that displeased you. You have the option of anticipating something you want or anticipating something you do not want."

That is, you can always choose the fun option at any moment.

It's true that the external world can rough you up. Car collisions, food poisoning, all sorts of mishaps. Things happen out of the blue that you can't control. But in response to misfortune, you can still choose to enjoy life as much as you can. Specifically, you can feel like you're having fun in your imagination.

But if so, why is it that some people - many people - still dwell in negative thoughts and feelings? Why don't they see the good, the enjoyable, or the most fun aspects of their lives and build on them?

We tend to blame ourselves for our own sadness, which makes us even more sad. But I suspect that it's usually not our "fault" when we feel bad or make bad decisions. I'm influenced by Irene Lyon into thinking that past trauma messes up the nervous system which then recommends an errant survival strategy to the mind. You endure the abuse of a partner the way you had to endure the abuse of a parent when you were a small child. The occasional dish of ice cream as your only source of pleasure as a child now becomes the entire carton.

In September 2022, Jessa Reed was a guest on Paranormal Karen. In 2020 Jessa became very ill when a tick got into her brain. This affected her thinking and behavior, but having survived it, she brought forth an interesting idea: Parasites and microbes might be thinking beings who can thrive only in an unhealthy body; if the body is healthy the parasites are dead. And so the parasites send messages to the brain such as, "Let's get more candy."

Jessa: "Who benefits from the food not being nutritious?" 

Karen: "Parasites."

Jessa: "Who benefits from it being full of chemicals and mostly sugar?" 

Karen: "Mm Hmm"

Jessa: "Who benefits from everyone just kind of mindlessly, endlessly working a job they hate?"

Jessa continues:

If that consciousness is the dominant consciousness in our energy field until YOU become conscious and do the work to stop being a parasite, we will walk around being parasites to each other. We're taking from the earth, we're taking from other cultures, we're taking from each other, we're taking from our partners. Everyone is so grabby and sucking the life out. We're manifesting that in our lives because we are mostly parasitic consciousness until you become mostly self-aware.

So the Past Trauma Theory and the Parasite Theory suggest that your unhealthy choices do not really come from you. It wasn't your sin or moral error. You did not sabotage your own health, your own loving relations, your joy, your fun; the destructive thoughts that came into your brain were from a foreign entity.

The saddest part is that many of us were taught that since birth we were morally weak if not downright wicked. This brings on low self-esteem, which only strengthens the trauma or parasitical thoughts: I am not worthy of happiness.

We can't really control our thoughts. They spring up on us like the smell of cow manure when driving in the countryside. But we can control our thinking. And I propose that thoughts that wreck our fun and steal our joy are demons. And the one thing you don't want to do with a demon is invite it in.

I am beginning a little experiment of unknown duration. Possibly lifelong. When a thought of worry, regret, bitterness, hostility, or worthlessness pops up, I'll counter it with the thought: "Demon!" Or, "Demon, I cast thee out!"

By recognizing that these thoughts are attacks on my joy, and are the very blockages to the flow of well-being, I am finding that not only are they quickly dispensed with, but are popping up less and less.  

Casting out my own demons may be the most important act of self-love that I can accomplish, which in turn will help me love others more.

James Leroy Wilson writes The MVP Chase (subscribe) and JL Cells (subscribe) and thanks you for your subscriptions and support! You may contact James for your writing, editing, and research needs: jamesleroywilson-at-gmail.com.