Question: Why Do We Suffer?

Posted on August 6, 2026 by cdsmiller17

How’s Your Faith?

The simple answer? It’s a test of your faith. Do you believe in a spiritual response, like Job, when he was tested?

Hmm.

Hmm, again.

Amen.

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Who Decides If Humanity is Going the Right Way?

Posted on August 5, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Which Way, José ?

In these times, modern morality seems to be more a personal compass than a general rule. I got to thinking about this question overnight after reviewing “Devil’s Den: the Reckoning’: we used to rely on the Bible for direction. Do we now? I think not.

Fine words, for sure, but who determines what ‘one’s moral conscience’ is? See what I mean?

Religion has failed modern man. When scrutiny of how the Gospels came to be, it is evident that they were later creations by writers who had nothing to do with the original disciples/apostles. In fact, only the Gospel of Thomas is considered to be an accurate collection of Jesus’ sayings. But then the question gets asked: did Jesus actually exist or is he a fiction to echo the legends and myths of the past?

Even the Second Coming, as told in “The Revelation of St. John”, is a 1st Century updating of eschatological writings from the Old Testament. And if the Romans had it written that way to ‘prove’ that Titus was Jesus reborn, then we are on shaky ground for sure.

Is there a cosmic clock ticking down to the end of humanity’s ‘rule’ of Earth? We seem to be very self-destructive, for whatever reason you can name. Is it a case of the inmates turning on the prison management to shake the very foundations of our ‘hard time on Planet Earth’? Is it coming to an end?

IF the US government in the 1950’s made an agreement with an alien species to trade human guinea pigs for advanced technology, the Universal Law about not interfering with a more primitive species would not be broken. In other words, through their agency, we have been experimented on. Will we pass inspection, physically? I doubt it.

The spiritual element of our being, since that is what all of this ‘stuff’ is leaning towards, is our only saving grace. This ‘game’ may prove to be a simulation, after all. When the computer is shut down, or unplugged, we will still exist, like Tron. We’re Users, not Programs.

Amen.

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This Second Book Fills in the Missing Details…

Posted on August 4, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Devil’s Den: The Reckoning (2020)

This book can be read on its own, if you’re not interested in the hypnosis in 1977 that opened Terry’s memory banks of his UFO close encounters. I’m not surprised that his experiences took place (especially the last one) the same year that “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” came out in cinemas.

There is a subsequent close encounter in 2019, but it is not detailed in the book except for photos near the author’s home.

This event chart is based on the preview of the second book. Uranus at the Midheaven may be significant. There are three inconjuncts: the Sun/Venus inconjunct Pluto; and the Moon inconjunct Mercury. Interesting.

Comparing the 2019 encounter with the alien abduction of 1977, there are connections: 2019’s Jupiter is almost exactly conjunct 1977’s Neptune; 2019’s Ascendant is within 3° of 1977’s Saturn; and 2019’s Uranus/Midheaven conjunction is conjunct 1977’s Moon/Venus/Mars conjunction. Does that support connection? I think so.

Terry Lovelace’s stories are consistent with others’ stories, as evidenced by the ones he shared in this book. It also confirms what David Wilcock has been saying for years, through Corey Goode and other whistleblowers. THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES THAT IS BEING KEPT FROM US. Simply stated, we are going to continue to exist as a species, but not on Earth.

This sounds very much like the Ascension of New Age thinkers. We have fouled our home and most will be left behind to experience the end. Others are preparing for a new home on Mars.

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This is What “Disclosure” Looks Like:

Posted on August 3, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Incident at Devil’s Den (2018)

I’ve read enough disturbing accounts of alien abductions to recognize the truth when it slaps you around the head. Starting with Whitley Strieber’s “Communion” in 1986,I have watched from the sidelines, half expecting that others would experience similar ‘adventures’. Thank God they haven’t happened to me.

The ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof’ statement is born out with this book by Terry Lovelace. As an early alien contactee, he has buried more details than most of the rest of us have remembered in our lifetimes. I do not have his birth details, so I cannot look at the man, himself.

The ‘event’ was very vague in the book as to the date that it took place. But another source spelled it out.

I chose 11:00 pm to see what the middle of the event looked like. Interesting. Only one inconjunct links the Sun with the Midheaven. I won’t delineate the aspect because the timing is speculative, but ‘close enough for jazz’ as my friend, David Lowe, would say.

I think this should be on everyone’s reading list. The hypnosis Terry went through is quite accurately presented, including his attempts at resisting hypnotic suggestions. I’ve been there, done that. It’s surprising how memories can be tapped, even without a word being said. Terry remembered a lot, but perhaps not everything. There is a second book, so maybe it will fill in the blanks. Fascinating stuff.

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When the Levee Broke…

Posted on August 1, 2026 by cdsmiller17

My 7-Day Fever Rash

About two weeks ago, I was bitten twice by some bug. I didn’t see which bug it was, but it wasn’t done by a simple mosquito, more likely a spider. The spots were very itchy, and it took almost all of my willpower to not scratch them. Finally, I couldn’t stand it anymore, and gave into the urge. This was almost a week later. The heads of the bite spots seemed inflamed. And the next day a rash started to spread across my body, in the position of my liver. It looked like my right hand had ‘placed’ the rash upon my body. It was the same size and shape.

For a week, I tolerated the increasing itchiness of the rash, using, first, “After Bite”, then wet wipes and finally baby lotion. Nothing was helping to relieve the rash, nor was it going away on its own.

At midnight, I’d reached the end of my tether. I got up and scratched and scratched until it felt better.

Here’s the event chart.

This morning, the worst of the rash is gone, but it is now covered with scaly skin. Hopefully, it will now fade away and completely heal.

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Was This an Accident or a Cosmic Correction?

Posted on July 30, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Think That You Might Be Wrong(?)

I was loathe to join the “Happy Hour” group last night, I just wasn’t feeling ‘right’ if you know what I mean. Susan finally persuaded me to come outside and sit with everyone there. OMG…

Les’ son, Justin, was holding court. Most of the discussion centred on ‘things my father taught me when I was young.’ On its own, the discussion was informative. The fruit didn’t fall far from the tree. I said as much. Then the discussion turned a corner when Les brought his birth chart and analysis out for Justin to read. Curious, Justin started asking me questions about ‘life paths’ and destiny. It went on from there.

It didn’t take us long to realize that we were basically saying the same things, but using different starting points and different language. What got me was his emphatic way of speaking. It was challenging, to say the least. Normally, I don’t bring ALL my spirituals guns to a knife fight, but I felt I somehow had to justify my opinions. The discussion lasted an hour. Justin’s final argument was that the creation of the universe was no accident, no “Big Bang”. He sees the hand of a ‘creator’ at work. So, God exists and Jesus was his son, followed by the Holy Spirit as the third part of the trinity. In fact, Justin says that the three parts of the trinity remind us that everything has three components: body, mind and spirit; past, present and future; etc, etc, etc. I felt like I was watching myself in a mirror.

And then this cartoon sequence showed up on Facebook this morning:

Oh, wow, just wow!

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Sometimes We Need Reminding:

Posted on July 29, 2026 by cdsmiller17

No Family Is Perfect

This won’t be a longwinded post. We have a tendency to think that everyone else has a family that’s better than ours. Surprise, surprise! They don’t.

There is a spiritual theory that families are made up of individuals who are karmically connected. In other words, we have made life contracts to come back together in the present to iron out issues that came up in past lives. Literally, if you fix it in the present time, you fix it for all time!

In the family I grew up with, we have finally put some of our personal issues to bed, permanently. But our children, and our children’s children still have a few things to work out, to the third and fourth generation.

Hmm.

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Fifty Years Ago This Earthquake Devastated China

Posted on July 28, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Tangshan, China (July 28, 1976)

Although this is considered ‘old’ news, now, this 7.6 magnitude earthquake was something spectacular and deadly, at the same time.

That stellium in Leo occupying the 1st and 2nd Houses of the event chart demonstrates the power of the forces of nature. There are no inconjuncts (surprisingly), but the trine from Neptune to the Moon, Venus and Saturn and the square from Uranus to the Sun and Saturn may have been the triggering energies.

Respect.

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Are Wedding Vows a Thing of the Past?

Posted on July 27, 2026 by cdsmiller17

What Do They Really Promise?

In the past, women were considered chattels. I’m sorry if that offends you, but only 50 years ago could a wife finally take out a loan at the bank without her husband’s permission. It was essentially enslaved labour, and the public pronouncement at a wedding of the groom promising to take care of his bride was a binding contract.

Read these words and view them through 21st century eyes:

Hmm

No wonder divorce rates went through the roof.

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New Age Thinking?

Posted on July 26, 2026 by cdsmiller17

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

Wrapping ideas from millennia ago in “New” robes doesn’t make them right. It’s just a different way to be rebellious with the ‘status quo’. Gnosticism has been around for a long time. The Roman Catholic Church sought to eradicate it by killing anyone who disagreed with its ‘religion’ [Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence’, perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind’].

We all want the freedom to think and do as we want. There’s nothing worse for a human being than the thought that they can’t have their own way: “I have the right!”

When faced with a choice, “Not my will, but Thy will be done,” most would choose the selfish option. It’s only natural, after all. But sometimes we have to let go of our personal needs for the greater good.

But who exactly gets to decide what the ‘greater good’ is?

Complicated, isn’t it?

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