On Visiting the Baha'i House of Worship: May the power of positive energy be with all of us

The Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, is an energy-restorer for those who, like slackerQueen below and Ashley, are privileged to be able to be physically present in this remarkable edifice. -gw

I was energetically assaulted earlier today. This man walked into my office and stood brooding in front of my desk, ... because he had received a 24-hour notice about his rent, when he had actually mailed it in and it just never showed up. Long story short, as i was handling some business on a phone call, i barely looked up at him when i felt daggers of his negative energy impaled into me. It actually physically hurt! I fully understand it was not personal, nor intentional, but this guy had no idea what his thoughts were doing to me. I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my gut that lasted until just about 15 minutes ago. I had to actually leave the office in order to escape this lingering attack.

I can't believe how incredibly sensitive and in tune I've become with the world around me. I guess I've always been this way, only it's becoming more and more apparent after studying energy psychiatry recently. I'm reading Positive Energy, which is so on point it makes me wonder where I've been all this time. Then i started watching this movie The Secret last night, which apparently my brother has been telling me about for the past 3 months but I apparently haven't been paying any attention. Then my friend Mike burned the DVD for me, and i haven't gotten through the whole thing yet, but i fully understand already what the message is. ... I am so blown away by how true this all is and how important it is in life altogether. It's not just a concept or phenomenon, ENERGY IS REAL. It's the only thing that is real.

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Last week i went to the Baha'i Temple, which i haven't been able to do in a while since i don't have a car, but that's all changed now since I've signed up with i-Go Cars- but i digress. I went up to the Temple and got there around 6:00 after having had one of the most hectic weeks thus far. There were only about 1 or 2 people inside and only a few others came and went as i was sitting there meditating. After about an hour, i looked up and noticed that i was the only person in this massive temple. So i went and sat right in the center and looked up at the skylight, which is like 10 stories high and felt like i was in the center of the universe. It was so incredibly quiet and peaceful and when i returned home later that night i felt a renewed sense of inner strength that wasn't with me when i arrived. There are only 8 Houses of Worship in the world, and this being the only one on the North American continent, so you can imagine how incredibly lucky I felt to have this place all to myself, even if for just a moment. I'm going again tonight and I think I'm going to make this a weekly ritual. I always feel so much better once i leave this place, and i need to have somewhere to retreat when my energy is feeling diminished. Given the fact that this is non-denominational, non-traditional and open to everyone of all faiths and religions, i feel kind of like i belong without actually associating with a particular set of beliefs.

Thoughts are energy, and they affect our daily lives more than we know it. May the power of positive energy be with all of us.

Kelly, "Energy," slackerQueen on MySpace

About me: Chicago-American born into the Royal family of Poverty/Spoon-fed the thrill of living lies/Descendant of middle-class thieves and truth on the rise/Queen of all not seen by the eyes/raised in the center of the Universe/to think like the Sun/remembering my memory doesn't have one/living on the edge of tomorrow and somewhere/blurred like the peripheries of imagination's hemisphere/memory shot blank/tough like an army tank/caught beneath bridges while going through tunnels/I come from somewhere nine galaxies away...

slackerQueen, "Profile," MySpace
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