August Is Upon Us & Our Spiritual Revolution Will Begin 08/21/11 Thanks To You, Blessed Be-
Who Is Yingin Yang,
Hello my dear brothers and sisters. I wanted to take a moment out to explain a little bit about who I am, where I have been, and what I do as well as my hope for a brighter tomorrow with you regarding TBR; The Bible Reincarnate. I feel it is only fair to share with you such information as I have learned so much about many of you via Facebook, Twitter, and Blogger. I will try to be brief as well as not bore you.
I was born on August 23rd, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia. My parents had a great spirit about them. My father whom was adopted at the age of three, worked many part time jobs yet always found a way to find money to provide food for the family. When the part time jobs didn’t pay enough, he sold his blood, being type O Positive, for groceries so that he had enough money for my mom and I to eat. It was from him that I learned what hard work and sacrifice as well as family mean to me and to this day, I do my best to follow in his footsteps. If I can just be half the person he was, I will consider myself very fortunate. My dad also had a fascination with spirituality as well as the possibility of life in space. He passed away in 2002.
My dear mom was a hard working woman but also suffered from mental illness. She was a double major in university and became a teacher before meeting my dad. Once married, she decided to sell Avon, winning awards for her hard work. As time progressed, the medications she had been on became weaker as her body became adjusted to the heavy cocktail of medications she had been on for such a long time. While attempting to wean herself off of the medications without her doctor’s permission, she suffered her most horrific mental breakdown the summer of 1988. She would recover and thrive back in the work place until her passing in 2009. Interestingly, she informed my love and I that she had had a clear premonition between 2008 and 2009 explaining in detail that Christmas 2008 would be her last Christmas with us. She was correct. My mother came from a long line of souls whom had experienced many “Supernatural” experiences.
As for me, I lived most of my life in the state of Maryland. My teenage years were unique as many of our lives are. I enjoyed going to parties as a teen growing up in the 1980’s but when my mom had her mental breakdown while I was still a teenager, I looked for avenues of escape via drugs and alcohol which lasted a number of years until I got myself back in place.
After studying broadcasting then medical assisting, I worked as a medical assistant then a dental assistant until the early 1990’s. Feeling deep within my core that I could do more, I decided to attend Salisbury State University. Midway through my second semester, I was called home by my parents because I had accumulated too much credit card debt. It would be four years latter that I would attempt University again first getting stable footing at Prince Georges Community College then moving on to Maryland University.
Although as a child I saw many spirits including the famous Beatle, John Lennon shortly after his passing in 1980, my love for looking outside of the box regarding spirituality really began for me as a teenager when I first was told by a Methodist church counselor that those whom commit suicide go to Hell. This bothered me because although I had not known anyone at that time who had done so, I felt that this was unjust, questioning a god as well as a prophet who were to be so forgiving. It was from that day forward that I truly began to look outside the box, reading books by George Anderson and John Edwards as well as Sylvia Brown.
I also began looking at other faiths and beliefs, finding little things in all of them that appeared to apply to me. As time went on, I began focusing on my own spirituality as well as creativity which assisted me in many ways to follow a path that not only got me through the day but one that I would find would evolve and change to some degree as I got older.
In 1989 I was introduced to Wicca, White Magic, Witchcraft and it was this particular faith that I learned something so profound that affects me to this day and is a major catalyst to why I decided to come up with the idea of TBR. It was in the Wiccan faith that I learned that no one is absolutely sure of which organized faith is correct therefore no faith should ever be mocked and so long as we are all pointing in one direction, we are all on the right path.
Currently I am the Program Administrator to a small residential organization working with the mentally and physically challenged, a field I have been involved in for fifteen years. Although I continue to have a passion for those I work with, my absolute love is spirituality.
Over the years I have heard many people tell me that their faith is the correct faith and everyone else is wrong. I, as you, have also seen and heard about particular “radical” faiths such as Al-Qaeda and the KKK just to mention a few. With that said, I found myself becoming disgusted with the idea and judgment of so many regarding which faith was the correct faith, that I began to fathom a true rational reason to why they believe what they believe while at the same time respecting each and everyone no matter what there faith, denomination, or faith system was while also accepting there belief in such a way that they truly were 100% correct no matter what. Don’t get me wrong, this was no easy task and took years to grapple and digest but as time progressed, I realized that no matter what belief system/faith/denomination one claims to be a part of, in the end, everyone is different regarding the particulars each of us choose to hold on to pertaining to what it is that we feel gets us the most. In other words, just because someone claims to be a Christian doesn’t mean that they believe the same exact thing all Christians believe such as a Catholic and a Jehovah’s Witness and if one was to look even deeper, one might find that there are those who might feel that although they claim to be one or the other, that something might actually appeal to them when they take the time out to look at the other denomination or another faith thus creating the individual path.
Before I go on let me just say that I am no angel nor claim to be anything other than what I have already written. I am simply someone who believes that although organized religion is a great place for anyone to use as a first stepping stone towards spirituality, there is more than what organized religion has to offer and what that is exactly depends on the individual and there creator/creators should they choose to believe in such a way. Even Atheists, I believe are on there own spiritual path despite the fact that they believe they are not on nor have a spiritual purpose.
I am just an ordinary person with a dream I believe we should all at least attempt regarding unity as one race, the human race. I rather not judge anyone, although being not perfect, I find myself sometimes doing, and instead respect everyone as well as our only Mother Earth. I believe in mankind and feel that despite what the world may be going through at this time, there is hope for a better tomorrow. Although none of us may ever see eye to eye regarding everything, one thing we can do if we take the time to do it is learn to better appreciate our own spiritual path while at the same time respecting the individual paths of others.
I hope that TBR; The Bible Reincarnate can be a platform for all of us to work with where each and every one can lay some time aside for themselves and there maker/makers/non-maker, and share with the world there own spiritual path. By doing so, we can see that although there are some things we won’t all agree on, there may be some things that we do find agreeable. Then by working with such familiar facets, we can then grow to appreciate each other more, finding a deeper respect for strangers we don’t know while making friends with the stranger within ourselves.
Someone once said that it would be much better for two enemies to go out to dinner and spend a little time to get to know each other before going back onto the battle field to kill one another then to not know each other at all before doing so. In this way, there views towards each other may change and a possible peace could be found between the two. It is with this idea that I wish to share with you my dear brothers and sisters as well as ask you to share with those you know regarding TBR; The Bible Reincarnate.
May our Maker/Makers bless us all in our endeavors and again thank you for being a part of what I now believe is not just my dream but Our Dream.
Blessed Be-
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