In the alienated consciousness, we perceive our own being like an ego. Then, we see our “self” like a product, a wrapper, a thing that we are evaluating from outside. In that situation we are thinking about how is our “self”, what their qualities are, their defects, etc. Then, we come across those typical ruminations: “but after all I am an intelligent person!”, “I am handsome”, “I am nice, most of people like me”, “I am valiant” and the like. Saying these, you keep describing yourself like a thing, like a product, like if you were something else that you take through life with yourself and which you must to do something important with. Then you talk with yourself according with this point of view, you nag yourself about those moments you screwed it up, or you repeat yourself how good some of the things you achieved in the past were. But in all these cases you are always trying to reach a value from outside, a good opinion from the people, a high price from society as a person... in this situation you are, of course, inhibited for living. However, if we try to focus our attention not on the evaluation from outside, but on being completely in the action from inside, then we forget our ego. In this case, you create a complete different relationship with yourself. Now the goal isn’t to get a good assessment from outside, but a total implication from inside in each action you perform. Now you experiment yourself in the process of living, of being related, of doing anything... here you must to forget the ego because it would hinder you to accomplish this. So the more you deny and forget your ego, the less in fear you are, and the more you can live your life as being your true self. As the Guita says: perform all action with your all mind immerse in the “yes”, being free from any expectation or selfishness; consider as the same happiness or affliction, victory or defeat, win or lose, life or death, and enter into combat, thus fulfilling your duty and avoiding all sin.

The swallow. Part 2 ...where she continued feeding it with insects that she bought. The bird then became one more member of her family with its own room where it was flying, eating and living. Then, some months later she decided that maybe it would be better to let the animal free, and she went to a forest where she released the bird. However, after the bird was flying around for a while, it always came back to Laura, staying with her, taking for granted that its home was with her… so then Laura accepted the fact that this swallow wanted to live with her and she continued to let it in that room being fed with insects that she bought. Now day, people get very surprise when they get Laura´s house and they discover that there´s a room for that bird… that lives there like another family member. For me it´s amazing how a person can do so much for an animal and make that kind of bond with a bird. I suppose it´s a beautiful story. This is a real story, so that I thought it might be a great opportunity to write it in English for my practice.

The swallow. Part 1 Some days ago a friend of mine told me an interesting story. She (my friend) works in an office, and it seems that one day some people found a bird in one of the rooms. The bird was injured, and barely was able to fly. Then the people who have found it, tried to feed it and take care of it, they gave it bread but after some days they realized that the bird didn’t eat anything of what they were giving to it, and it was getting weaker each day. Then these people told my friend what was happening. Let´s call my friend Laura. Laura was working there and she likes birds and animals a lots, and she has quite knowledge about how to take care of them. When Laura saw the bird injured in the office, dying, she realized immediately why it had not eaten anything until that moment: the people had tried to feed it with bread, but that bird was a swallow! And it seems that swallows don’t eat bread at all, but only insects, and of course nobody had offered it any insect yet, and that’s why it was dying… then Laura started to feed the swallow with insects, she caught some flies and gave them to it, then she went to a specialized shop and bought different kind of dead insects, and she gave them to the bird, who little by little started to eat and get better. As the time passed by, the swallow got completely recovered, and Laura took it to her own house. It seems that she got attached to the bird, and put it in a whole room where she continued feeding it with insects that she bought

Thinking about free will The last days i have been reading some books and articles that have made me think about free will. I am passionate about this topic. Of course the assumption is that we all have free will. But this can be easily questioned. Psychologically talking, it´s very easy to prove that we have a lot of limitations when it comes to talk about free will. Our genetic, our mother, our family where we grow up, and the 2-3 first years of our life are things completely out of our control. Those things are going to predispose us for all our life. All our mind, our brain, our nervous system is going to be structured in these 2-3 first years of our life, and yes, further ahead maybe we will be able to make decisions but always since that structure already created. But that’s not all. Let´s put aside the culture, society and people around us that as well is going to determine us. After all, at least when we become adults, we have some choice of making some decision about all those things: we can change our country or the people we have around us. But look, the food has an incredible influence in us as well. People can be in good or bad mood, and they can make decisions only because of the food they eat. I mean, we are not aware of the incredible influence that food has in us. Even if we pay attention of what we eat, the problem here is when it comes to talk about the quality of that food, the chemicals, pesticides, OMG, etc. We could think in toxic as well in the air or in the water, and for sure all those things have influence in the way we feel and think. Much more than people can imagine. Yes, but then here we have something that goes beyond everything else: the wave’s technology. It seems that we are very sensitive to some sort of waves, and our brain, feelings and emotion are strongly affected to that. It seems that some corporations and governments are working about this technology and now then can simply change (for example) the emotional state of people with those waves. The people target in these case will not realize of anything, among other reasons because it´s very difficult to imagine, that suddenly what is happening to you, what you are feeling, is due to something that you cannot even see… it´s incredible to see how manipulable we are… and I didn’t have mentioned even the half of the possibilities… then, where is the free will? Where is the capacity that we should have to struggle and fight against these source of control?

Thinking about free will The last days i have been reading some books and articles that have made me think about free will. I am passionate about this topic. Of course the assumption is that we all have free will. But this can be easily questioned. Psychologically talking, it´s very easy to prove that we have a lot of limitations when it comes to talk about free will. Our genetic, our mother, our family where we grow up, and the 2-3 first years of our life are things completely out of our control. Those things are going to predispose us for all our life. All our mind, our brain, our nervous system is going to be structured in these 2-3 first years of our life, and yes, further ahead maybe we will be able to make decisions but always since that structure already created. But that’s not all. Let´s put aside the culture, society and people around us that as well is going to determine us. After all, at least when we become adults, we have some choice of making some decision about all those things: we can change our country or the people we have around us. But look, the food has an incredible influence in us as well. People can be in good or bad mood, and they can make decisions only because of the food they eat. I mean, we are not aware of the incredible influence that food has in us. Even if we pay attention of what we eat, the problem here is when it comes to talk about the quality of that food, the chemicals, pesticides, OMG, etc. We could think in toxic as well in the air or in the water, and for sure all those things have influence in the way we feel and think. Much more than people can imagine. Yes, but then here we have something that goes beyond everything else: the wave’s technology. It seems that we are very sensitive to some sort of waves, and our brain, feelings and emotion are strongly affected to that. It seems that some corporations and governments are working about this technology and now then can simply change (for example) the emotional state of people with those waves. The people target in these case will not realize of anything, among other reasons because it´s very difficult to imagine, that suddenly what is happening to you, what you are feeling, is due to something that you cannot even see… it´s incredible to see how manipulable we are… and I didn’t have mentioned even the half of the possibilities… then, where is the free will? Where is the capacity that we should have to struggle and fight against these source of control?

Battlefield of the mind This is a religious book that talks about how to use your mind in order to be happy and follow God´s or Christian´s path. By and large it is a good book. Basically it is a self-helped book or psychology book that is using from a Christianity point of view. So, in this book you are going to see the same principles from other books, but trying to relate them to Christianity. Then, they talk about fight against the Devil, follow God, love each others, pay attention to the Bible, etc. On one hand, the problem of the book is that, to me, it´s a little childish in some aspects… the author only is giving you some obvious advice trying to encourage you to face life: “never give up! Go little by little! Be patient! Be optimistic!” etc… in this sense the book is lack of true strength and realism. On the other hand, the book has some others valuable aspects. The author is quoting the bible all the time, and there are some passages, some ideas, some advice, that really worth it and that are very useful and deep ones. The topic about Satan vs God is passionate for me, but according to the author, everything is too simple: Satan is the evil, God is good, and your goal is to defeat Satan and join to God. Of course, that’s ok but I would like a deeper explanation of all this. So, this happens in the book with a lot of topics, the main idea is fine, but the author shows it in a too superficial way… mind you, there are some aspects and parts of the book that, I repeat, are deep and very interesting. So the conclusion is: in the book I can see these both sides. I would like to learn more about the spiritual world. The author takes for granted that any bad thought comes from Satan, and every good thing comes from God. I think the spiritual world really could exist and influences us in many ways but surely in a more complex way, and I would like to know more about it. On the other hand, the book talks about some very interesting topics, for example: why you should stop reasoning so much, instead of following what you are feeling and what your spirit/heart/God wants you to do… why is so important to have faith and why doubt is so dangerous and can weaken you!

Battlefield of the mind (Joyce Meyer). Summarize. 2 On the other hand, the book talks about some very interesting topics, for example: why you should stop reasoning that much instead of following what you are feeling your spirit/heart/God wants you to do… why is so important to have faith and why doubt is so dangerous and can weakens you! What is the meaning of trust in God and put your heart on Him instead of worldly things. How important is to surveillance thoughts and beware about what kind of thoughts we allow to be in our mind. What is love, and how you can really love yourself and other people. How important is to be thankful about the things you have in your life. How not even your behavior or words toward other people can affect them but even thoughts you have about them. How important is to study and to meditate about religious texts. The third part of the book is interesting. It talks about the “wilderness mentalities”. People from Israel were walking across the wilderness for forty years, this is too much time and even many of them died in the way, and why? Why this journey took them so much time? Because they had a wrong mentality! So, in this part, the author talks about this “wilderness mentality” that you mustn’t hold if you want to achieve your goals and not being stuck in life like Israel’s people that were in the desert for such a long time. By the way, this way of reading the bible trying to interpret the psychology lesson is really valuable. In fact there are many people that do this along all their life with the ancient texts. So, in this third part of the book the author tell us the kind of thoughts, attitudes and ideas that you must not hold. Many of them are obvious and psychologically already good known. But some others of them are not that obvious and are interesting. So, the Israelites were plodding along for the desert, complaining about their situation, blaming Moses, and with no faith in God at all. In short: total disaster. Then the author add the Israelites didn’t want take any responsibility of themselves, they wanted to achieve their goals easily, they wanted to give up, etc. It seems they needed to do that hard journey in order to be prepared to reach the Promised Land, precisely because they weren’t yet ready for that. In this sense, that travel across the wilderness was a way of spiritually developing, and obviously this can mean a metaphor for everybody.

Battlefield of the mind (Joyce Meyer). Summarize. 1 This is a religious book that talks about how to use your mind in order to be happy and follow God´s or Christian´s path. By and large it is a good book. Basically it is a self helped book or psychology book that is using from a Christianity point of view. So, in this book you are going to see the same principles from other books, but trying to relate them with Christianity. Then, they talk about fight against the Devil, follow God, love each others, pay attention to the bible, etc. On one hand the problem of the book is that, to me, it´s a little childish in some aspects… the author only is giving you some obvious advices trying to encourage you to face life: “never give up! Go little by little! Be patient! Be optimistic!” etc… in this sense the book is lack of true strength and realism. On the other hand the book has some others valuable aspects. The author is quoting the bible all the time, and there are some passages, some ideas, some advices, that really worth it and that are very useful and deep ones. The topic about Satan vs God is passionate for me, but according to the author everything is too simple: Satan is the evil, God is the good, and your goal is to defeat Satan and join to God. Of course that’s ok but I would like a deeper explanation of all this. So, this happens in the book with a lot of topics, the main idea is fine, but the author shows it in a too superficial way… mind you, there are some aspects and parts of the book that, I repeat, are deep and very interesting. So the conclusion is: in the book I can see these both sides. I would like to learn more about the spiritual world. The author takes for granted that any bad thought comes from Satan, and every good thing comes from God. I think the spiritual world really could exist and influences us in many ways but surely in a more complex way, and I would like to know more about it.

The beast´s day This is an old Spanish movie that i really love, and i would like to summarize here in order to practice my writing skills. This movie it´s about a priest who has found out, throughout ancient texts that the antichrist is going to be born in Madrid in a few days. The priest´s goal is to kill him in the moment of the born, or hinder that process somehow. In order to achieve that, the priest thinks that the best way of finding the Demon´s son, it´s to become evil himself, so that he will be trustful for the Demon and he will allow him to come up close enough to his plans. Then, the priest tries to do a lot of evil actions in order to be trustful for the Demon. In doing this, he meets Jose Maria, a guy who likes heavy metal, takes drugs, and who is a great sinner. He also meets a clairvoyant who has a TV show. The priest convinces both of them to join him and help him to save the world together hindering the Devil´s plans. Different events happen. The three guys do a satanic ritual, look for more clues, run away from the police, and finally they discover where the Antichrist is going to be born. But at the same time all these happen, it is not clear if everything is a delusion which the three guys are plunged in, or on the contrary it´s real. I will not reveal the final of the movie, but anyway, that´s not the best of it at all. To me, the best is how these three guys finally are scarifying their lives for something meaningful for them, something that in fact is not clear if it´s something real or only something in their minds. But anyway, it´s something valuable enough for them to make them put their lives at risk. I suppose this argument is the same in a lot of movies, but in this case, there is something that makes this movie better, I don’t know how to explain it, maybe it seems more realistic even considering the strange argument and characters, I don’t know. But anyway is one of my favorites movies.