dying ??? Regrets of The Dying - THE 7 passages of LIFE - What the world needs NOW is SUPPORT CIRCLES !!! - Susan Lynne Schwenger

John 15:2 "He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,

while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes

so that it will be even more fruitful."

Sometimes our branches are barren

or our heavenly Father wants us to produce more fruit.

So God “prunes” us.

Pruning really pains many times in our lives.

Pruning can mean God removing things in our lives

that produce no fruit

– like pointless or destructive habits, friendships

or problematic family relationships

that sap our energy, jobs going nowhere

and other things that are fruitless.

"iT would be advisable to toss, the following words:
could, should, or would
anyone who says these things,
never can, never shall, nor wills anything into eXistence
instead say...we can, we shall, we will"
Susan Lynne Schwenger
~ The eXchanger

@13linesofspirit
13 is an orator one of 12- known as 13

june 7, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCT2eRZeG9A

Rev. Bill McDonald - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
Mar 8, 2019 

Also see https://batgap.com/rev-bill-mcdonald/

ON A MISSION: TEACHING THE POWER OF LOVE & FORGIVENESS

Rev. Bill’s life has been a spiritual journey, spanning slightly over 7 decades. His whole life has been a mystical trip in search of gurus, the paranormal, and self-discovery. He has written about his many spiritually transformative experiences and “near-death-experiences” including supernatural events during his combat tour of duty in the Vietnam War. In his books, he has shared some incredible spiritual events that are beyond both common understanding or explanation.

His autobiography “Warrior: A Spiritual Odyssey” takes us on a life quest for love, understanding, forgiveness, and enlightenment. His follow-up book “Alchemy of a Warrior's Heart" continues that mystical journey including four trips to India for even more profound experiences with holy men, miracles and his personal relationship with the Divine. What he knows for sure after all these years is that the only thing that is truly real is LOVE.

He is an author, an award-winning poet, international motivational speaker, artist, film advisor, veteran advocate, a Vietnam War veteran (Distinguished Flying Cross, The Bronze Star, The Purple Heart Medal, 14 Air Medals, The Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, etc.). He has spoken around the world including Germany, England, Wales, Bolivia, and India. He has been involved with a dozen films and documentaries. (Such as: “In the Shadow of the Blade”- showed on the History Network and “The Art of Healing” shown on PBS TV)

Rev. Bill has been on over 800 radio and TV shows over the last 18 years and has stories about his life featured in over a dozen books by other authors and in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. He has had articles in such diverse publications as “Parade Sunday Magazine” and “The Self-Realization Fellowship Magazine” as well as military magazines and new age magazines. His YouTube Channel has over 70 videos and had gotten over 550,000 views in its first 18 months.

He speaks publicly about the need to forgive and power of love. His mission in life is to inspire others to seek the Divine and he does that through his personal stories of his own life experiences.

He is a seeker but not just for himself. His “mission” is to allow others to experience his journey through his stories. He has had many near-death and near-death-like--like experiences and encounters with the supernatural. He is a friend to many - including famous celebrities and people in power positions in life but he treats everyone the same whether they are homeless or the President or a CEO. His beliefs are simple: There is but ONE GOD – and our only mission is to LOVE & SERVE ALL.

Rev. Bill McDonald was born In San Francisco and raised in California, Oregon and Hawaii. He graduated from San Jose City College with an AA Degree in Labor Management and later from The University of San Francisco with a BA degree in Public Service Administration. He spent over 30 years working for the federal government and retired in 2001. He has spent his time since then working for 5 different non-profit organizations helping veterans while serving the purpose of world peace. He works with PTSD veterans and is a unpaid lobbyist for veteran issues in California. Has also has worked as a volunteer chaplain in Folsom Prison and worked for a time answering phone calls for The National Suicide Hotline. His life is filled with service. He has been married to his high school sweetheart Carol, since 1970. He has been living in Elk Grove, California since 1979.

"Love is The Highest eXpression of Truth"
~susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13linesofspirit

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.

·
“Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles.
One is just water and one is water laced with heroin or cocaine.
The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks.
That is our theory of addiction.
Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on.

We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.”

So he built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park.
Lovely food. Lots of sex. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water
and one with drugged water. But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water.

They hardly use it. None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction.

What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong.

The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard.

The left-wing theory is that it takes you over, your brain is hijacked.

Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage.

Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.
Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives
without being on something, drink, drugs, sex, shopping...

We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is,
for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.
And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people.
You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff.
In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume.
Drug addiction is a subset of that."

Credit: Johann Hari

#Addiction #MentalHealth #Recovery #Community #FYP #WorkingTogether #TeamWork #Moncton #Dieppe #Riverview #NewBrunswick
YES! The ted talk that talks about this called "Everything you thought about addiction is wrong" is amazing. Goes into more detail about this.

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari

YouTube
· 9,899,000+ views
· 2015-07-09
· by
TED

what if there
was something
you always wanted
to do,
but, did NOT yet choose
to do it,
and, then life ended...
would you be full of regrets ???
~susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13linesofspirit @in12d
#thefinalfire #theoriginalspark
The Journey to #The13thBridge

"Karma is the great eQualizer"
-susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13LiNESofSPiRiT

@A #LUCKY #FROG Story



Photographer Angus James was fortunate enough
to capture this shot. He said :
“As l was pulling my lure from the fish to release back
into the water, l noticed two little eyes looking back at me
from inside the fish’s mouth.
After capturing this picture,
the little green tree frog leaped straight past my head
onto the nearest tree.
It was one of the coolest things l have seen in my life.
This is one lucky frog !” & a good #sunday #story !!!
Credit : WildAware

"YOU NEVER LEAVE ANYONE BEHiND
~ YOU SiMPLY MOVE UP,
TO MEET WITH THEiR HiGHER EXPRESSiONS"      
~ SUSAN LYNNE SCHWENGER

@13LiNESofSPiRiT @iN12D
#THEFiNALFiRE #THEORiGiNALSPARK
THE JOURNEY TO: #THE13THBRiDGE

The exquisite padparadscha lotus...
the symbol of unconditional love and wisdom of the heart
Fom Larry Jennings at Norfolk Botanical Gardens

"BE, WHO you are, and, DO iT eloQuently"
~ susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13linesofspirit @in12d
#TheFinalFire #TheOriginalSpark
iGNiTE your magnificent #SPARK
The Journey to #The13thBridge
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"The most beautiful quality of all in a human being,
in my humble opinion?

The ability to listen deeply.

To listen from Presence. From stillness.

To listen without trying to fix someone, or change them, or ‘save’ them.

The ability to allow another to be exactly as they are.

Not giving unsolicited advice. Not lecturing them about the latest
psychological research or the ‘most true’ spiritual teaching.

Not trying to mould them, manipulate them into matching
a concept of who they ‘should’ be.

Not projecting your own trauma
- or traumatic answers - all over them.

Just listening.

Listening with an open mind and an open heart
and a receptive nervous system.

Allowing them to breathe, to express, to weep, to question,
to be completely unique, to expand into the space,
to discover their own truth.

I have met world experts in intimacy, relationships and honest communication who are unable to do this.

I have met spiritual gurus, so-called “enlightened masters”,
expert psychologists and life coaches who are utterly unable to do this.

I have met popular teachers and authors on ‘listening from the heart’, ‘holding space’, ‘pure awareness’
and ‘embodied spirituality’ who are unable to do this.

It is a rare gift - the ability to allow others to be exactly as they are.

Broken. Whole. Sad. Angry. Afraid. Lost. Awake or asleep.

Whatever.

To listen to them with every fibre of your being.

To receive them through the senses,
to listen like the wild animals of the forest.

To swaddle them in undistracted, fascinated attention.

To envelop them in a silent, warm Presence.

To make them feel - in those precious moments that you are together

- like they are the most beloved One in the whole Universe.

When you sense this kind of sacred listening from someone,
it’s unmistakable.

It cannot be manufactured.

It cannot be faked.

It is utterly rare and holy.

It is nothing less than unconditional love.

Your nervous system senses it and rejoices."

- Jeff Foster

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The Journey to #The13thBridge !!!

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"You never leave anyone behind,
you simply move up, to meet their higher eXpressions"
~susan lynne schwenger
the eXchanger
13
@13LiNESofSPiRiT @iN12d
#TheFinalFire #TheOriginalSpark

THE JOURNEY TO: #THE13THBRiDGE

yup when The Red Bird appears, an ancestor is watching
@13linesofspirit

Our Dog Passed Away A Few Hours Before This Was Taken

video



https://www.facebook.com/reel/3270959643139631/?s=single_unit

BE, WHO you are, and, DO iT eloQuently"
~ susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13linesofspirit @in12d
#TheFinalFire #TheOriginalSpark
iGNiTE your magnificent #SPARK
The Journey to #The13thBridge
Visit my posting board: Forum of SUSAN LYNNE SCHWENGER - THE eXchanger | Cosmogenesis - Library of Akbar Ra in Alexandria Thuban (cosmosdawn.net) https://www.cosmosdawn.net/categories/forum-of-susan-lynne-schwenger-the-exchanger.144/


"The most beautiful quality of all in a human being,
in my humble opinion?

The ability to listen deeply.

To listen from Presence. From stillness.

To listen without trying to fix someone, or change them, or ‘save’ them.

The ability to allow another to be exactly as they are.

Not giving unsolicited advice. Not lecturing them about the latest
psychological research or the ‘most true’ spiritual teaching.

Not trying to mould them, manipulate them into matching
a concept of who they ‘should’ be.

Not projecting your own trauma
- or traumatic answers - all over them.

Just listening.

Listening with an open mind and an open heart
and a receptive nervous system.

Allowing them to breathe, to express, to weep, to question,
to be completely unique, to expand into the space,
to discover their own truth.

I have met world experts in intimacy, relationships and honest communication who are unable to do this.

I have met spiritual gurus, so-called “enlightened masters”,
expert psychologists and life coaches who are utterly unable to do this.

I have met popular teachers and authors on ‘listening from the heart’, ‘holding space’, ‘pure awareness’
and ‘embodied spirituality’ who are unable to do this.

It is a rare gift - the ability to allow others to be exactly as they are.

Broken. Whole. Sad. Angry. Afraid. Lost. Awake or asleep.

Whatever.

To listen to them with every fibre of your being.

To receive them through the senses,
to listen like the wild animals of the forest.

To swaddle them in undistracted, fascinated attention.

To envelop them in a silent, warm Presence.

To make them feel - in those precious moments that you are together

- like they are the most beloved One in the whole Universe.

When you sense this kind of sacred listening from someone,
it’s unmistakable.

It cannot be manufactured.

It cannot be faked.

It is utterly rare and holy.

It is nothing less than unconditional love.

Your nervous system senses it and rejoices."

- Jeff Foster

One of the most calming and powerful actions
you can do to intervene in a stormy world,
is to stand up and show your soul...
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"BE WHO YOU ARE...
and, Do iT eloQuently"
~susan lynne schwenger
The eXchanger
@13linesofspirit @in12d





Life is short.
Stop doing XXXX you hate.
Start doing more of the XXXX you love.
Spend your days with people who make you laugh.
And walk away from the ones who make you cry.
Without guilt.
Love with your whole heart, not just pieces.
Do NOT finish a book you are not enjoying.
There are billions more out there to try.
Eat the cookie.
Take the nap.
Keep your kids home from school
and watch movies all day in a blanket fort.
Stop buying crap you do NOT need.
Downsize.
Cook over the fire.
Look at the stars.
Sit on the shore and listen to the waves.
Watch sunsets.
Watch crappy rom-com movies.
Cuddle.
Cuddle some more.
Stop caring so much about what others think.
Their opinions do NOT matter.
Do NOT take your health for granted.
Take care of your body.
And mind.
And heart.
Crying is okay.
It gets the bad energy out of your heart.
Never stop learning.
Let go of the past.
There iS not enough room in your future
to drag that baggage around with you.
Life is short.
Stop doing the XXXX you hate.
Start doing more of the XXXX you love.
Do NOT take your days for granted.
Live each one in the way that makes you happy.

@in12d @13linesofspirit #TheFinalFire #TheOriginalSpark
The journey to #The13thBridge
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& some of #The_Good_Boys & Girls
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"you are the sum total of all of your choices...
if you do NOT love The Consequences,
simply change The Choices"
~susan lynne schwenger
the eXchanger
13
@13linesofspirit



In order to love who you are,
you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
- Spiritual Awakenings

@13linesofspirit = susan lynne schwenger = CULCULCAN,
said back on Nov 22, 2021
11/22 = 33 in 2021=5 or 33+5=38=11

but, LOOK AT THIS:

4 JULY 2022
4+7=11 IN 6 or 11+6=17




"IF WE WANT THiS WORLD TO CHANGE...
iT HAS TO BE...A SPARKING of THE ORiGiNAL SPARK which TRiGGERs The 13 LiNES of SPiRiT,
that runs from zero point thru 1, 2, 3...A TRiAD,
4,5,6...A TRiNE, 7, 8, 9...A TRiNiTY, 10, 11, 12 - and, then all that,
iN A JOURNEY FORM...
WiLL lead you to: The 13Th Bridge"
~ susan lynne schwenger
@13LiNESofSPiRiT @iN12d
#TheOriginalSpark #THEFiNALFiRE
THE JOURNEY to #THE13thBRiDGE
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