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My Angels and What's On My Mind
My mother passed away a week ago. Let me just say that she was almost 94 years old and her passing was expected. This is why I haven't written much lately. In a way, I WANT to keep my personal life separated from what I do as Brother Ralphie, however, there are times when the two overlap. I had a discussion with my therapist/friend not long ago about what I WANT to do as Brother Ralphie. He suggested that I really need to open up Brother Ralphie for discussion and dialogue with ANYONE, whether those people agree with me in terms of what I write as Brother Ralphie or not. He said that Brother Ralphie carries on these discussions and dialogues and that I personally am totally removed. This is what spiritual people do when they change their names. And it's why they DO change their names, because what they do and say as this new spiritual person has very little bearing on the person hood of who that new spiritual person might be.
I am seriously thinking about making who I am as Brother Ralphie MORE accessible to discussion and dialogue. I just am not sure how I go about doing this. I couldn't be Brother Ralphie at my mom's funeral, because I was there as her son with my given Christian name. I understood this about myself perfectly. I stayed away and avoided any talk about my Angels or anything I felt was related to WHO I am as Brother Ralphie. In other words, Brother Ralphie did NOT show up for my mom's services. I was there totally as myself. And there are times when I cannot be Brother Ralphie. In fact, I don't want to be Brother Ralphie to those who know me personally. I would say that like any professional person, there is a separation of the personal from the professional.
As Brother Ralphie, I don't want to become a leader of a new cult. I see the role of ministers in churches as either being cult like figures or conforming to their congregations and preach to the choir. I don't see much about ministers that is in the middle. If ministers get out there too far from the thinking of their congregations, they become cult like figures or they won't stay in their churches for very long. Congregations accept change only if the change is something they can accept. As Brother Ralphie, I am my own person believing that in all I do as Brother Ralphie is for my Angels. There are times when my Angels aren't relevant to a situation. However, I would say my Angels took care of any doubts I would otherwise have about my mom's passing. I felt that since I understood what I do understand, I was the one to remain strong in silence. But this means too that I was not devoid of my own emotions about her passing. I was fully aware of the fact that in this earthly life I will miss her. But I am comforted by what I claim my Angels told me about my mom and her place in eternity.
I don't always know when I am to be fully Brother Ralphie or fully my own self. However, if I dialogue and discuss as Brother Ralphie, anything anyone writes or says to Brother Ralphie is NOT taken personally as myself. In this sense, Brother Ralphie is MY profession and who I am to those who know me best is personal. This is why when someone changes dramatically, as I claim happened to me through my experience with my Angels, he or she tends to change their persona, either through a name or some other aspect of their lives that indicate they are not the same old person they have been. In many respects I AM different. But in other respects, I am the same person I have always been. The difference about me is indicated by a change in my name. The question most anyone would ask then is, “When am I being Brother Ralphie and when am I just being myself?” The knowledge of a doctor doesn't leave a doctor when he's not at the office or the hospital. My Angels are ALWAYS a part of me, and I would say I am Brother Ralphie when there is something I must say as Brother Ralphie. And I think that is all the difference right there. A doctor shows her emotions because she deals with life and death. A doctor doesn't stop thinking like a doctor, but there are times when a doctor isn't a doctor. This is true of who I am as Brother Ralphie as well. Peace. Brother Ralphie from The Angels of life Institute Brother Ralphie works from his study for the promotion of Peaceful living and inner Peace with God. He calls this the “Sanctity of Human Life Movement.”
Source: http://brotherralphie.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-angels-and-whats-on-my-mind.html
Well I believe it is more honest to use your real name, otherwise you seem to be hiding behind a mask or persona. Secondly we are warned not to heed the doctrines of angel or devils. You might gather up a small following but you are not going to entice those who know the word of God. This all smells of new age ideology and doctrine.
You seem to be between the place of being honest about who you are and not. But it really does not matter now since we have seen the foundation you have sown or rather established for yourself. Your message is esoteric.