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    More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development V3
    More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development V3
    More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development V3
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    More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development V3

    By Elsabe Smit

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    In this enlightening book, internationally renowned psychic, coach and author Elsabe Smit breaks down some key concepts of spiritual development into short, highly accessible articles, and provides ways in which you can achieve spiritual growth.
    All life experiences, whether you label them as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, are simply stepping stones on a journey towards finding self-acceptance and compassion.
    Elsabe will show you how to discover your true self and to appreciate your life
    In "More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development v3" you will learn answers to these questions:
    •How to respect religion and religious boundaries even if you are not religious
    •How the flow of energy impacts on our relationships
    •How we set boundaries for ourselves, not only when we need boundaries, but also to rein in our own power
    •How the creation process works and how we can use that to our advantage
    And many other questions.
    The book is written as a series of short articles with useful prompts throughout that encourage you to pause and reflect, make notes, answer questions and complete exercises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsabe Smit
    Release dateApr 5, 2020
    ISBN9780463083321
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    Elsabe Smit

    Elsabe Smit is a well-known international coach, facilitator, author, and public speaker that uses her clairvoyant and intuitive skills in her daily life to assist all of those that she comes into contact with, in her professional life.She has an MBA (Master Business Administration), a MA in Industrial Psychology, and extensive experience as a Business Analyst. Using all her knowledge, skills and competencies, Elsabe helps people to understand the mysteries of life and Love, so that they can regain control of their lives.Elsabe Smit was born and raised in South Africa and has lived in Ireland, South Africa and the UK since 2000.After years of facing numerous personal challenges, involving her relationship with her drug- and alcohol-addicted mother, living with and getting divorced from an abusive husband, being a single mother, being a mistress for a period of time, and then facing unemployment, she one day realized that she had been given the amazing gift of intuition and clairvoyance.Using her newly discovered gifts, she then rediscovered herself. She learned that all her past experiences, "good" and "bad", were only steppingstones on her life's blueprint towards loving and accepting herself.Having always having had a keen interest in human behavior, this discovery took her on a different path, adding the study of life, death and spirituality to her interests. During that journey she explored NLP and embraced Quantum Physics. Elsabe studied some of the world's best acknowledged researchers and gurus in the fields of relationships, health and business.During her professional life Elsabe's career included lecturing at a South African University, being a Human Resources Manager various companies and being a freelance business analyst.In between the various permanent positions and contracts, she developed her reputation as a sought-after author, speaker, facilitator, coach and mentor.As an author, some of her books are today still in use as prescribed textbooks for university and college students in South Africa. Other books have been published and are available on your favorite e-book site, and some books have been published as e-books which she shares as free gifts.As a speaker, facilitator and trainer she has presented numerous programmes to groups ranging from a dozen to hundreds of people. The subject matter has been as varied and interesting as her life.As a mentor, she coached and mentored small business owners, blue-chip executives and employees covering a myriad of professions, employment levels and industries.Don't forget her contribution to the world of psychics. She's been on various radio and TV shows with international audiences. In addition, Elsabe has done thousands of personal psychic readings for people from all walks of life located in various countries - including one for a death row inmate in a US prison.Throughout her life Elsabe has been passionately focused on identifying the nuances that make a difference in people lives, the why's of birth, life and death - and now it's your turn to tap into the vast wealth of knowledge and experiences that she has gained during her lifetime, so that like Elsabe ...YOU can also Discover yourself and Love YOUR Life.

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      More of Life’s Questions - Elsabe Smit

      More of Life’s Questions: Spiritual Development Vol. 3

      ELSABE SMIT

      Published By Elsabe Smit

      Smashwords edition

      Copyright 2019 Elsabe Smit

      Visit my website at http://www.ElsabeSmit.com

      This book is available in print at most online retailers.

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. I am not associated with any product or vendor in this book.

      Cover: Terri Radcliffe at www.brandrepublica.com

      1 How would you like your potatoes?

      2 How dare you pray for me?

      3 Religious tolerance - on my terms

      4 When not to make decisions

      5 Let there be light

      6 Should criminals be shown mercy?

      7 Why should soldiers be more important than artists?

      8 Compromised faith

      9 The school of life

      10 Cheap but potent therapy - your journal

      11 Should I wear a cross?

      12 Je ne regrette rien - (no regrets)

      13 Bad energy rubs off

      14 What do you pack for a spiritual journey?

      15 Is Christmas the best PR job ever?

      16 In search of an imaginary country

      17 Tall tales and Bible tales

      18 Breaking down boundaries

      19 Journeys within journeys

      20 Be careful what you don’t wish for

      21 The sky is the limit

      22 The grieving process

      23 Your soul is in command

      24 The secret of quantum vibration

      25 Expand your awareness

      26 Why is it so difficult to forgive?

      27 Earth hour, lent and other red herrings

      28 Redefining God’s Word

      29 How to tempt the devil by connecting to God

      30 Pray the gay away

      31 They made me do it

      32 The gospel truth

      33 How to love your relatives

      34 Living your company values

      35 Illusions we buy into

      36 Say what you do and do what you say

      37 The ultimate control over customers

      38 Abundance and receding abundance

      39 Following your inner call

      40 Monday morning passions

      41 Looking back gives you a stiff neck

      About the author

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      Connect With Me

      There are questions for you throughout the book, where you can pause and reflect. Make notes, answer the question or complete the exercise.

      1 How Would You Like Your Potatoes?

      On a recent trip to South Africa I discovered a book called Faith like Potatoes. It is the biography of a South African Eastern Cape farmer who became an evangelist.

      It is not the kind of book I would normally read, because my perception of evangelists is that they are very charismatic individuals who are brilliant at convincing less charismatic people to follow their teachings. And as you know by now I like to make up my own mind about things, and I like to show others the same courtesy.

      The title of the book comes from a belief that faith should be like potatoes – easily available, nutritious and versatile, so that you can apply it to many different situations.

      This lovely man describes in language that comes from the heart how somebody he calls Jesus had called him to spread the word, and how he had done this first in his local community and eventually throughout South Africa and in a number of southern African countries.

      He describes how he heard voices that called him to do specific things, often things that could be perceived as irrational, but that turned out to be beneficial to individuals and to entire communities.

      On the farm that this man owns, there is an orphanage and living quarters for people who have fallen on hard times. If all this sound soppy and emotional, reading the book will also tell you that this man has good judgement based on years of experience working with people. He will not be fooled easily and will send people away if they simply want to use him and his mission for their own purposes. And that also does not mean that he wants everyone to agree with him and his mission. He sounds like a well-balanced, down to earth farmer.

      Why did I read the book? Because there are people who judge me as being unchristian, but they support this evangelist, and I was curious about his views and practices.

      I am clairvoyant (I see things), clairaudient (I hear things) and clairsentient (I feel things) and make no secret of it. I have a firm belief in a Higher Being that I choose to call God. I am not convinced that Jesus can absolve me from anything that I choose to do, or that Jesus will come from somewhere after two thousand years of absence and salvage me from this bad world. I believe in a loving, caring God that lives inside of all of us. I do not belong to any church, because organized religion makes no sense to me. And I believe in re-incarnation.

      So does being unchristian, or rather not Christian, make me a bad person? You judge for yourself, if you are so inclined. I have no desire to defend myself.

      The book did raise some questions for me. Probably the most important one was about the source of the voices or messages that this man heard. He gives an example where he was leading a service in an auditorium with an audience of a few hundred people. The voice told him that there was a father and son in the audience that needed to be reconciled. He told this to the congregation and lo and behold, the father and son got up from different side of the room and embraced each other.

      Cynics will tell you that the chances of him being spot-on in such a big and emotionally swept up crowd were very good. But what if he really heard this voice?

      He gives another example where the same voice told him to plant potatoes. The weather conditions and local opinion of other farmers indicated the opposite, but he followed the voice and had a bumper crop. And there are a number of other examples in the book for which there is no logical explanation, but there were witnesses.

      My suspicion is that the voice he hears regularly and the voice I live with come from the same source. He calls it the voice of Jesus, and I call it the voice of God. Does it matter where it comes from?

      It is important for this evangelist to recruit followers of Jesus, because he knows from experience that this changes people’s lives. Does that make his approach right or wrong?

      It is important for me to respect the path of each individual and not recruit anyone to follow my beliefs, but rather to learn from everyone around me. Does that make my approach right or wrong?

      Or are we both facets of the same diamond that is God’s creation?

      As far as I am concerned, God loves us all, whether we are potato farmers, evangelists, spiritualists or prostitutes. God created everything in this earth, including the devil and sin. If you tell me I am wrong in believing that, does that mean you believe in a being that is as strong and as creative a God? If that is the case, I am sure God still loves you. I have no idea whether you are right or wrong, but does it matter?

      God loves us all unconditionally. And when everything is taken away from us, love is all that remains. I can live with that.

      What inner conviction do you have which has guided you in your life? How does that inner conviction differ from what people close to you believe?

      2 How dare you pray for me?

      Are people allowed to pray for others without their permission?

      As you are reading this, I can hear three different answers to my question. Some people are thinking yes, why not? Others are thinking rather not - I do not want to get involved in praying for people. And a third group is saying: why is the question relevant?

      Let me answer the last question first: why is the question relevant?

      There have been two incidents in the UK where people prayed for others and got into serious enough trouble to potentially lose their jobs.

      In one incident, a five-year-old child apparently talked to another child about heaven and God. The child probably simply repeated what she had heard at home, but she repeated the information to another child who received a different view of religion at home. The second child got upset about hearing a different version, and the teacher told off the five-year-old for discussing God at school.

      Of course the girl was upset enough to tell her mother, a receptionist at school, about the incident. The mother then emailed a group of Christian friends and asked for their prayers on this incident. A few days later the receptionist was told that she was being investigated for professional misconduct because of the private email to friends.

      We all know that there are two sides to every incident, and that the press like to blow up the more controversial side. The intention here is not to provide a factual record of the incident, but simply to highlight the incident as a whole.

      Another incident that happened at more or less the same time related to a nurse who offered to say a prayer for an elderly patient. The patient declined the prayer and the nurse did not insist. The patient then complained to the care providers and now the behavior of the nurse is being investigated.

      The issues that I want to highlight are the different perceptions about what prayer is, and the lack of tolerance on all sides.

      Let us first look at the different perceptions. Is prayer a series of words that are uttered in a particular tone of voice while standing on your knees with your hands pressed together? In my view -

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