About Me and My Blog

Hi, my name is Niamh (“neev” IPA: /ni:v/, alternatively /ni:əv/).

Welcome to my blog! I am a grad student who loves languages, travelling and learning. I have lived in various countries and currently am working on my MA/PhD.

Aside from academia, I find myself on a journey of exploration and enlightenment, learning about life, truth, love and spirituality. I feel we all choose our incarnations to learn certain skills and exercise specific lessons. It’s exciting to begin discovering these things and to figure out why we are here and what we are learning.

How did I get here? Since I can remember, I’ve had a strong belief in a higher dimension. Being brought up Catholic, that spiritual leaning manifested itself in a strong Catholic faith. I will forever be grateful to my parents for fomenting that faith, even thought my current beliefs lie outside of that framework. As I grew up I found that the church was restraining me somehow: I felt instinctively uneasy with many of the teachings and judgments. They seemed to me to be at odds with the underlying message of love, acceptance, kindness and peace. The more questioning and reading and conversing I did, the clearer it seemed to me that these doctrines were not originally part of the message; these were manipulated by men who wanted to maintain ultimate power. I also began to realise that it is not necessarily healthy to just accept common belief: it seemed that people tend to accept a faith purely based on what part of the world they are born in (which is fine if works for you.) I started looking elsewhere, and I found that the best way to learn is to study different views, and choose the parts which feel right. “The truth feels as if you already know it”. I am still on this journey, learning more every day and figuring out why I am here. I am inspired to share these discoveries perhaps to get them straight in my own head, but also because I feel more and more people are joining this path, and giving expression to our thoughts is a powerful way of connecting with others.

And what is this path- what do I believe now? I believe everything is energy and we are all connected to one another because of this and the Source whence we came. I believe we can connect to the higher dimensions through this energy and that we have spirit guides who encourage us through meditation and dreams. I believe in soul groups, reincarnation, and that people like Jesus, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and so on, are advanced souls who came here to teach. I believe in the power of light and thought, in seeing the greatness in others, realising that each of us is at a particular level of spiritual advancement and thus have different priorities and lessons, and I believe the force that unites us and that changes the world is love.

This blog is inspired by my discoveries through reading and conversing with people who are on a similar path. Many of the posts are about spirituality, tuning in to your higher purpose, learning why you are here, connecting with higher dimensions.

Another inspiration of mine is music, a topic that appears in many posts too. Music is a way of tuning into that energy that makes you who you are; the vibration of your soul.

I cannot conclude the About Me section without mentioning a person who has literally changed my life: Michael Jackson. This blog is in large part inspired by him, for it is Michael who directed me onto this particular path. My posts on him explain this in more detail, but to summarise, I was looking for a new understanding of life and truth for a long time. I had done a lot of reading and reflecting and had certainly started on the path of discovery, but still felt a bit lost.

Sadly, it took Michael’s passing for me to see beyond his music. Because Michael is so, so much more than his beautiful music and exquisite dance. If you take a second to see the true man, this beautiful soul who genuinely wanted to heal the world, and truly believed in love, then he may just change your life. He has changed mine, and that’s not an exaggeration. I am a rational person, I know that people perhaps think I have gone off the deep end when I start talking about Michael, but I also know what I have felt and how my world has changed since June 25th. Just give him a chance. See the light in his eyes, the love in his touch. When I first started finding out more about him, I was catapulted into an ocean of grief. What have we lost? What have we done to this innocent soul? How are people still not seeing him, really seeing him? How could the media tear him apart when the case was vacuous and the accusers without credibility and with a history of trying to make money from celebrities? The media has a lot to answer for.

But putting all that aside for a second, if you take a second to watch Michael dance, you will see him channelling that higher energy, hear him sing and you will see the tenderness of his soul, listen to him speak about children and the world and you cannot but profoundly feel his LOVE. It is this love that revealed to me the path I had been looking for. Seeing someone whose sole motivation is love, changes how you see the world and makes you realise that if we always act from that love, everything is possible.

My blog is in his honour; if even one person sees Michael for who he is through my words, or is inspired by what has inspired me, then I will have made a difference.

Thanks for reading!

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