DWQA Questions › Tag: cultural beliefsFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotes“Knock on wood.” Pappas writes, “This phrase is almost like a verbal talisman, designed to ward off bad luck after tempting fate: ‘Breaking that mirror didn’t bring me any trouble, knock on wood.’ The fixation on wood may come from old myths about good spirits in trees or from an association with the Christian cross. Similar phrases abound in multiple languages, suggesting that the desire not to upset a spiteful universe is very common.” What can Creator tell us about “knocking on wood?”ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs179 views0 answers0 votes“Cross your fingers.” Pappas writes: “Those wishing for luck will often cross one finger over another, a gesture that’s said to date back to early Christianity. The story goes that two people used to cross index fingers when making a wish, a symbol of support from a friend to the person making the wish. (Anything associated with the shape of the Christian cross was thought to be good luck.) The tradition gradually became something people could do on their own.” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs153 views0 answers0 votes“Throwing salt over your shoulder.” Salt is thought to create a spiritual barrier that evil spirits cannot cross, or find difficult to cross. Many magicians and sorcerers use it to create “magic circles” with the thought that if they stay inside, they will be protected from the very demons they conjure. What can Creator tell us about the spiritual properties of salt, if any?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs211 views0 answers0 votes“Don’t step on a crack!” This is from artsandculture.google.com, an article entitled 18 Superstitions from Around the World: “As with mirrors, cracks—in the earth, on a sidewalk, or almost anywhere—have long been seen as portals to the realm of the supernatural, for both good and ill. To step on those cracks might be to invite or release unwelcome spirits into the world ready to do one harm.” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs144 views0 answers0 votesSuperstitions may seem silly and innocuous at first glance, but some people worry about them a great deal. Some to the point of having genuine panic attacks if they discover they violated one. How does someone get in this state? Does subconscious mind control contribute? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs218 views0 answers0 votesEastern Europeans, it seems, have a much longer list of superstitions that concern them than those of the West. Does the fact these countries have been war-torn and decidedly less free have anything to do with this? A woman who came here from Ukraine twenty years ago, won’t use leftovers “because it’s pig food” even though she no longer has a pig, so leftovers end up in the garbage. She worries about knives left out because they foment discord when unsheathed. And anything used she purchases she leaves outside for “cleansing,” regardless of whether rain is in the forecast or not. As a result, more garbage is created when it inevitably rains. Yet there is simply no talking her out of any of these worries or practices. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs175 views0 answers0 votesA great many superstitions seem to revolve around an obsession with evil, and warding it off, especially. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol will do more to protect you and your loved ones than slavish adherence to timeworn superstitions, even and especially if there is something to them?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs215 views0 answers0 votesThere was a story on National Public Radio today pointing out there are record wildfires on the West Coast of the US, record rainfall with accompanying damage in the UK, and record drought in Australia, and asking the question, “What’s with this crazy climate change?” Is all of this a sign of increasing environmental pressure in accordance with the Extraterrestrial Alliance plan to use natural disasters with increasing ferocity to soften us up prior to unleashing the Mercenary Army (Secret Space Program) human warriors to begin the annihilation of humanity in earnest?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Agenda116 views0 answers0 votesIn the animal kingdom, safety is largely arranged by instinct, though some of the more intelligent species do seem to engage in some tutoring of the young. In truly sentient beings, the role of instinct is seemingly performed by a complex and often contradictory and conflicting collection of beliefs, some of which the individual is aware of consciously, and many they are not. Can Creator comment on the similarity of belief to instinct, as well as the critical differences when it comes to feeling and arranging safety for oneself and others?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs170 views0 answers0 votesIn legal contracts, the boilerplate language can get quite lengthy and detailed. It has been said that every sentence in the boilerplate represents something bad and disastrous that happened, which necessitated the invention and introduction of that language into the model contract. Does the complex collection of beliefs held by every sentient being regarding safety and what constitutes it, and what is needed to provide for it, evolve in a similar fashion—that with every disaster, beliefs about safety and what is needed to assure it are created and/or augmented?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs189 views0 answers0 votesIs the overwhelming need for power and control, in fact, an overcompensating desire to provide an adequate level of safety for the self and ones the self cares for?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs187 views0 answers0 votesIt is said that addictions to things we need are the hardest to overcome. One can quit cigarettes cold turkey, but not eating. Likewise one cannot overcome an exaggerated need for safety, by renouncing it completely. It seems that being safe is actually a compromise at all times and places. No one can be perfectly safe, yet we see overcompensation and negligence everywhere all the time, often on display in the same person. It seems acquiring an enlightened perspective on one’s safety is actually akin to enlightenment itself? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs198 views0 answers0 votesIt seems safety is, in essence, a complex miasma of beliefs, often contradictory. Can Creator tell us how belief replacement can work effectively on this problem? We are told, however, that beliefs that are held and embraced by the individual, are often left alone or avoided because they are considered a product of, or adoption by, free will choice. This seems to be one of the biggest barriers there is in terms of getting help from the divine, for people identify quite strongly with their outlooks and beliefs about safety and what constitutes it. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs195 views0 answers0 votesCan Creator tell us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol can not only provide genuine safety but also divinely align our haphazard beliefs and outlook about it?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Limiting Beliefs205 views0 answers0 votesThe late Dr. Ian Stevenson was a Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist who spent much of his adult life and career studying cases of childhood memories and birthmarks suggestive of reincarnation, mostly in India, where such memories are not as quickly dismissed as they are in the Western world. A commentator said, “Dr. Stevenson was not upset that critics dismissed his work, but that they did so without ever reading it.” A skeptic wrote of Dr. Stevenson, that his work “is full of errors, flaws, gaps, messes, and difficulties. It does not correspond to the sort of work required in courses on research methods given to third and fourth-year college students.” And with that broad stroke, the skeptic dismisses a man’s life’s work, amounting to the study of some 2400 cases! What is Creator’s perspective of Dr. Stevenson’s efforts, and is the late Dr. Ian Stevenson safely in the light?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Mind Control244 views0 answers0 votes