On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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I have long
believed:
“Everything I need
to know
is revealed to me.
Everything I need comes to me.
All is well in my
life.” There is no new knowledge.
All is ancient and
infinite. It is my joy and pleasure
To gather together
wisdom and knowledge for the
benefit of those
on the healing pathway.
I dedicate this
offering to all of you who have taught
me what I know: to
my many clients, to my friends
in the field, to
my teachers, and to the Divine
infinite
intelligence for channeling through
me that which
others need to hear.
Louise Hay
Front piece to ‘Modern Day Miracles’
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Twelve Principles of Prosperity
1. I
think prosperous thoughts and I AM becoming ever more prosperous; thinking poor
will make me poor.
2. My
thoughts of prosperity always preceded my demonstration and manifestation of
prosperity.
3. My
prosperity makes everyone better off, and no one worse off.
4. All
prosperity starts within my mind. What I think about comes about. The original
source of all prosperity is God; and God can do no more for me than he can do
through me.
5. My
setting prosperity goals is a necessary prelude to getting prosperous. My first
goal is to set goals that are definite, positive, specific, believable and attainable.
6. “I’ll
find a ‘need/want’ and fill it.” Bernard
Baruch
7. My
enjoyment of prosperity increases my prosperity.
8. I
see, feel believe, and take action toward my evolving prosperity.
9. I
think big and I achieve big results. Money is created in four ways: 1) I work.
2) Others work (management) 3) Money works (investment) 4) Ideas work
10. To
increase my prosperity consciousness I will increase someone else’s. I teach
what I most need to learn and it returns to me omni-directionally.
11. My
gift of giving is receiving. (I reap what I sow.) I sow generously, creatively,
boldly, with an attitude of gratitude; my gift returns to me multiplied.
12. I
have to do my own prosperity doing: no one else can do it for me.
From Mark Victor
Hansen, ‘How to Achieve Total Prosperity’, 1981. This book has a totally dorky
picture of Hansen on the cover looking sort of Dick Cavett-ish. You may recall
that Hansen went on to write, produce might be a better word, the ‘Chicken
Soup’ series of books. As best explained from his ex-wife’s bio: Since its first release in 1993, the Chicken Soup for the
Soul series has sold more than 112 million copies in the US and Canada alone,
with more than 180 titles and 40 languages. The brand holds a place in The Guinness Book of World
Records for having the most books on the New York Times bestseller
list at one time, and in 2007, USA
Today named Chicken
Soup for the Soul one of the five most memorable and impactful
books in the last quarter century. For more information, visit http://www.chickensoup.com/
Hey, this could happen to me if I get off my butt and
leave behind my developmental disability notions from my infancy and childhood.
After I become rich and famous you could say you knew me when I was a dork.
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The less effort, the faster
And more powerful
You will be.
Bruce Lee
To win one hundred
Victories
In one hundred
Battles
Is not the greatest skill
To subdue the enemy
Without fighting
Is the
highest skill
Sun Tzu
Softness triumphs over
hardness,
feebleness over strength.
What is more malleable
is always superior
over that
which is immoveable.
This is the principle
of controlling things
by going along
with them,
of mastery
through adaptation.
Lao
Tzu
These are a few quotes I ‘randomly’ found in a
little book, The Master of Life Manual, Dick and Trenna Sutphen, Valley of the
Sun Publishing, 1980, Scottsdale. Again ‘randomly’, I noted Sun Publ.’s Phoenix
address, Googled Sutphen, and found he lives in Sedona, emailed him and told
him my intuition suggested we should meet up. I’m guessing he’s now 90 years
old or so.
I haven’t yet gotten into this little book but I
ask all to carefully contemplate that the overriding principles of the country
thought of as our greatest rival for power in the world, China, are embodied in
the quote from Sun Tzu and this from Lao Tzu. Just the simple example of a
‘trade war’ the US talks about is ridiculous, as the way to win a ‘trade war’
is to never talk about one, to not see one AND to carefully and QUIETLY
outmaneuver your opponent. Put another way, to win a trade war is to lose it.
Another
example might be China and Russia’s quiet accumulation of gold while the US
probably no longer has any. One way or another the US dollar has to have some
backing beyond the ‘full faith’ and credit’ of the US, as the US no longer
possesses faith and its credit is slipping away also. I also say, very
privately, that our military is one ‘Victory’ [Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq*2,
Afghanistan *2] away from defeat.
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From “The Sacred
Pipe, Joseph Epes Brown
Fighting terrorism
since 1492
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Why people Don’t Heal and How They Can – Caroline Myss
“For more than fifteen years, Caroline Myss has studied
why some people heal, while others do not. In her previous book, The Anatomy of the Spirit, Dr. Myss
illuminated the hidden inter-actions of belief and body, soul and cell. Now, in
Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, she
builds on her earlier teaching to reveal the cultural and individual contexts
in which people become physically and spiritually ill.
For many
people illness can serve vital emotional and psychologically needs. It can
become an effective way of getting the attention they might otherwise not
receive; it can ensure that they remain in a particular lifestyle or behavior
pattern and avoid facing the chaos of change. Yet, as Dr. Myss points out,
illness can also guide us onto a path of insight and learning upon which we
would otherwise never have set foot.” From
the book jacket
“One of the main beliefs I want you to adopt in order to
heal your life or illness is a belief in the importance of forgiveness.
Forgiveness frees up the energy necessary for healing.” pg. xix
"The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to
present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what
they've really done is they've shifted
their relationship with time."
from the Myss bio, Wikipedia
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Life Between Life
Scientific explorations into the void separating one incarnation
from another
Joel Whitton,
M.D., Ph.D., Joe Fisher
“Death and emptiness are the firm ground upon which life
walks…” Alan Watts
You cannot see the seer of seeing;
You cannot hear the hearer of hearing;
You cannot think the thinker of thinking;
You cannot know the knower of knowing.
This is your self that is within all;
Everything else but this is perishable. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The Pavamana Mantra is also from the
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.3.28):
From untruth lead us to Truth.
From darkness lead us to Light.
From death lead us to Immortality.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.
From darkness lead us to Light.
From death lead us to Immortality.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.
“But in one fundamental aspect the privileged few who
have visited the afterlife receive the same unrelenting message: We
are thoroughly responsible for who we are and the circumstances in which we
find ourselves. We are the ones who do the choosing.”
“From which side of my family do I inherit the most?”
“You have inherited most from yourself, not from your
family! The family is only a river through which the soul flows” Edgar Cayce in a reading to a client
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience
them. Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme
diseases. Hippocrates
my note: “But the victory
over disease and the new day begins only when the ambition for it has been
abandoned upon the altar. The disease which the experience of death cures is
the rage to live…”
James Hillman, A Blue Fire
“While at liberty to reject the judges’ planning advice,
the soul is ill-advised to scorn their counsel. For rejection of the
recommendations means that reincarnation will take place without a ratified
plan-an open invitation to a life of unproductive and unnecessary trial and
hardship. To be reborn without a plan is also a matter of choice. The trouble
is, with no script to follow, the soul becomes a reed shaken by the wind-a
victim of fate rather than a participant in destiny. No penalty is incurred for
failing to heed the Three save that of a particularly remorseful
self-confrontation at the end of the life that, most probably will have been
wasted.” pg. 47
[Note: the author
suggests that a the end of a life the soul confronts and is judged by Three
wise men about their just completed life and suggestions are made for planning
the next life]
This is the most interesting and erudite book in Mary’s
collection so far. I just sold it and perused it as I was packing it. Whitton,
the author, is, or was, a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist. philarchive.org/archive/BARAD-2
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As A Man Thinketh
“Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; “
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream so shall you become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophesy
of what you shall at last unveil.” As A
Man Thinketh, James Allen
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. 5
The Effects of Extreme
Deprivation in Infancy on Psychic Structure in Adolescence, David Beres and
Samuel Obers.
“Children who have been deprived of the most important
factor essential for normal development─that is, continuous and satisfactory
contact with a person who can offer the opportunity for satisfactory
identification─suffer a distortion of psychic structure. …an immature ego along
with a deficient superego development. Normally the ego functions increasingly
in accord with the reality principle and less in accord with the pleasure
principle. This development requires the ability to tolerate frustrations and
postpone gratifications. Our cases … of character disorders, manifested as
striking weakness of this function. Disturbances in learning … are to be
expected…” pg. 231,
“The entire group may be … “psychopathic personality.” There
is an adherence to the pleasure principle rather than an acceptance of the
reality principle. There is an inability to tolerate frustration, a demand for
immediate gratification of instinctual impulses [“Uhh, I’ll have 2 doubles,
please” or “I always eat the whole half-gallon”]. Evidence of guilt appear to
be absent. … Object relationships take the form of superficial and transient
identifications.” pg. 218-9
“The most important single therapeutic factor we believe
to be the opportunity for the development of a close stable relationship to an
adult person, whether in a placement situation, a casework relationship or in
psychotherapy. pg. 235
This is the relationship I developed with my guru from India. I still recall even Gurujii’s bafflement with us being thrust together in what was clearly a very unorthodox way. One day sitting at the ashram Gurujii said, “So, you are here [at my ashram] but I do not know WHY you are here. Perhaps God knows why you are here.”
I said, “Perhaps
even God does not know why I am here.”
With a lot of
hindsight I see now I was there in India to be healed of the still substantial
“psychic maldevelopment” [pg. 231] I was still carrying. Furthermore, it was
ONLY due to the physical practices I was taught or encouraged to NOT perform,
that I got well, as my body is so strongly intertwined in my maldevelopment. In
particular, doing the headstand for up to an hour at one time greatly developed
my brain.
Actually, this book is not from Mary’s library, but my
own. I got it when I began trying to get a handle on what
the Hell happened to me. As with all things in this Reality into which we have
been thrown, ultimately against our wills, there is a counter-point, or
compensation. This compensation is the piquing or catalyzing of great
creativity or non-conventional thinking, and, therefore, manifesting, BECAUSE
to think IS to manifest. The major problem is, are the character distortions
created in childhood too great to allow the genius to function?
Recall once again the precursors to creative genius:
1. Loss of one of both parents at an early age.
2. Being brought up in a multi-cultural milieu,
especially multi-lingual.
3. Being given a great deal of autonomy at an early age.
I see now how frustratingly boring it must be to be a
psychiatrist or psychotherapist and see all this the moment a patient walks in
for their first session and how much blah-diddy-blah-diddy-blah-blah blah they
would have to sit through even for the small percentage of clients who ever get
where they are coming from, or, more properly, where they came from. It’s no
wonder psychiatrists put most patients on drugs.
I listed this excellent and rarish book for sale on
Amazon for $97.
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Forgiveness
Iyanla Vanzant
“Every feeling has its origin in thought, because each
thought that we have creates energy.” pg. 3
“The truth is that what you think determines what you feel-it’s
a basic law of life.” pg. 4
“First you think, then you feel, and finally you hold the energy in your body.” pg. 6
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Power vs. Force
Dr. David Hawkins
The skillful are
not obvious
They appear to be
simple-minded
Those who know
this know the patterns of the Absolute
To know the
patterns is the Subtle Power
The Subtle Power moves
all things and has no name
from the frontpiece
“…Unlimited information about any subject, past or present,
is universally available. But the realization that everything is knowable about
anything or anyone, at any point in time, creates a paradigm shock. This
reaction arises, generally, from the realization of the non-locality,
impersonality and universality of consciousness itself; and, specifically, from
the realization of the observability of one’s own thoughts and motivations,
their transparency across time. That one’s every thought and action leave an
indelible trace forever in the universe can be an unsettling thought.”
“In my own case, the fear of nonexistence was formidable,
and I drew back from it repeatedly as it approached. The purpose of the
agonies, of the dark night of the soul, then became apparent-they are so
intolerable that their exquisite pain spurs one on to the extreme effort
required to surmount them. When vacillation between heaven and hell becomes
unendurable, the desire for existence itself has to be surrendered. Only once
this is done, may one finally move beyond allness or nothingness, beyond
existence or nonexistence. This culmination of the inner work is the most
difficult phase, the ultimate watershed, where one is starkly aware that the
illusion of existence one here transcends is irrecoverable. There is no returning
from this step, and this specter of irreversibility makes this last barrier
appear the most formidable choice of all.
But, in
fact, in this final apocalypse of the self [“Hey honey, is my stuff in the
dryer done yet?”], the dissolution of the sole remaining duality-that of
existence and non-existence-identify itself dissolves in universal divinity,
and no individual consciousness is left to choose. The last step, then, is
taken by God alone.” final paragraphs
my note: "The wise who knows the Self as bodiless
within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and
omnipresent, does never grieve". "That self cannot be gained by the
Veda, nor by understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the Self chooses, by him the Self can be gained. The Self
chooses him (his body) as his own". But he who has not first turned away
from his wickedness, who is not tranquil, and subdued, or whose mind is not at
rest, he can never obtain the Self (even) by knowledge.
Katha Upanishad 1.2.22-24
I note that Hawkins
lives here in Sedona also, along with Sutphen. I gather, without being able to
yet get the details, that both were born in Dragon Year, 1928, and, hence, will
be under a lot of astrological stress this Dog Year. See my piece in my
Astrolos blog. ballantynesinspiredmusings.blogspot.com/2018/02/astrological-ruminations-on-pluto.html
I’ve been driving
around a lot of Sedona’s neighborhoods and they are old and crumby. It was the
hip place to be 40 years ago when these guys moved here.
“I was more and more powerfully struck by the capacity to change things in the world by merely envisioning them; I saw how love changed the world each time it replaced un-love. The entire scheme of civilization could be profoundly altered by focusing this power of love at a very specific point. Whenever this happened, history bifurcated down new roads.” pg. 300
When I first moved to California in 1989 I ended up living with a woman who greatly valued my then spiritual state and powers. The FIRST Iraq situation was just heating up and Saddam Hussein was threatening to invade Kuwait, etc. My girlfriend told me one morning as I was about to go meditate, “Why don’t you create peace in the Middle East?” Soooo, I ‘made an inquiry’ into the mind of Saddam Hussein and saw he was completely obdurate, absolutely fixed on his position. I attempted to get into his brain but it was impossible.
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‘Resurrection’ Neville
“Man creates himself out of his imagination.”
“Too late have I loved thee, for behold thou wert within
and it was without that I did seek thee.” St.
Augustine as quoted
The greatest prayer – “Let us assume the feeling, ‘I am
Christ,’ and our whole behavior will subtly and unconsciously change in accordance
with that assumption.” pg. 62
I’ve explained what
happens when you go around declaring this publically.
“Imagining is the beginning of creation. You imagine what
you desire, and then you believe it to be true.” pg. 58
“The perfect man … sees others as he desires them to be;
he only hears what he wants to hear. He only sees the good in others. In him is
no condemnation for he transforms the world with his seeing and hearing.” pg. 59
“Call your creation into being by feeling the reality of
the state you would call. …Therefore, call the perfect one into being by living
in the feeling, “I am Christ”
I suggest for more normal people, myself included, at
least for now, the greatest prayer is: God thou hast created us against our
wills. Free us!” Paramahansa Yogananda
A quick primer on how to pray effectively:
“Relax in a comfortable chair or a bed … Feel – I am
sleepy, so sleepy … When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have
realized your wish – not HOW it was realized – but simply the wish fulfilled.
Imagine in picture form what you desire in life; then feel yourself as having
already achieved it. Thoughts produce tiny little bubbles of speech movements
which may be heard in the passive state of prayer as pronouncements from
without. … All that is necessary is to
create a passive state and feel the
wish fulfilled.”
“All you
can possible need or desire is already yours.” “As the end is accepted you
become totally indifferent as to possible failure, for acceptance of the end
wills the means to that end.”
At last I think I
now understand the end of the Book of James: For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even
as also I am known.
My commentary: we
can’t know anything outside ourselves, so to manifest anything we have to
create it inside ourselves then picture its creation in the world. To not fully
incorporate God, or Christ, within us is the state of seeing through a glass
darkly. But, once we have the internal creation, then we see face to face – we
see our inner creation outside ourselves also.
SOOOOOO, I can
feel my April Himalayan trip getting closer despite facing significant obstacles,
such as $$$, etc.
For many people, certain people, this is a super
important book.
A few hours later I was gobsmacked by the thought that
the resistance I experienced when I declared ‘I am God’ came from within ME. It
must have if this above is all correct. Not only that, the resistance Christ
experienced must also have come from within him. All those soldiers spearing
him while he was on the cross, Pontius
Pilate must also have been manifested from the mind of Jesus. As I said it may
be easier and less brain-racking to stick to other prayers.
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Sylvia Browne, ‘Astrology through a Psychic’s Eyes’
Even though Scorpios are guided by their genitals, they are
actually directed toward business goals. It is true that the Scorpio has a criminal mind, but these
individuals can turn it to their advantage and do well in business. You will
find that some of the world’s greatest leaders have been of this sign. pg. 76
The Virgo,
known as ‘The Virgin’, is promiscuous. Virgos are also known as “the whores of
the zodiac.” Whenever I say that to Virgos, they say, “Yeah, that’s right.” pg.57
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Roy Eugene Davis, How to use the Technique of Creative Imagination
Set aside a period of time every day for practice in the
creative silence and learn to work on the subjective level, so that you might
see the results of your inner work projected in the world of three dimensions. Foreword
For I always experience in this life that which I feel to
be possible. I can only experience without that which I feel to be true within
myself on a feeling level. pg. 4
The common question is: “How long will it take to realize
the dream, once it is established according to the practice?” This is
determined by the individual’s own ability to accept it as true. When one gets
and holds the feeling during daily activity that the dream is a reality, then
it will be soon. The secret lies in the ability to make the feeling vivid in
the quiet state. Do not project yourself into the future to experience the
desired event, make then, now. Collapse time. Don’t go to another
point in space to experience the event; bring
there, here. Experience vividly here and now as though it were true. You
will know that you have succeeded when you cease to yearn for the experience
and instead, find yourself experiencing it. pg.
29
It is based on the principle that physical experience
always follows psychological assumptions. … Real progress is not the result of
evolution, but rather is the result of man’s ability to project himself into
new situations psychologically, and then move into the situation physically. pg. 30-31
In this higher understanding we do not depend upon
physical action to bring us a desired result. [but instead from altering your vision during the exercising of
creative imagination] pg. 34
All that takes place to make your dream a reality is the
result of your state of consciousness, or your new concept of self, gained in
the silent practice of altering your vision during the exercising or creative
imagination. Everything stems from self. pg.
34
It is not so much what we do that determines our lot in
life, but what we expect. pg. 35
To summarize the technique:
1.
Physical relaxation in a quiet place.
2.
Vivid creation of a scene, in the imagination,
one which would imply the dream fulfilled.
3.
Go deeper, into a state of sleep, to “set” the
new state in consciousness. pg. 36
But it is possible to get rid of the pain associated with
memory…
Revision is the method of releasing past painful
experience so that the memory of it does not monitor present time situations. …
pg. 55
In revising the experience, our main interest is not in
wiping out the memory of the past, but in erasing the pain.
Here is the
technique: You assume an attitude similar to the one which is assumed for the
practice of the technique of creative imagination – relaxed and in a quiet
room. Bring before your inner vision the scene of the past painful experience which
seems to give you the most trouble. Start just before the emotional part and
run through it like a motion picture scene. Without feeling there is little or
no reality. Run through it with feeling, as though you wished it had happened.
Not as it did happen, but as though you wish it had happened. Then run back to
the beginning and do it again. Do this with feeling, until you erase the pain.
When you play it back as though you wish it had happened, you neutralize the energy
pattern in the subconscious, or erase the picture which had been instilled
therein. pg. 56
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The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Gary Zukav
“The fourth translation of Wu Li is ‘I Clutch My Ideas.’
This is appropriate for a book on physics since the history of science in
general often has been the story of scientists vigorously fighting an onslaught
of new ideas. This is because it is difficult to relinquish the sense of
security that comes from a long and rewarding acquaintance with a particular
view of the world
The value
of a particular theory depends on its usefulness. In this sense the history of
physical theories might be said to resemble the history of individual
personality traits. Most of us respond to our environment with a collection of
automatic responses that once brought desirable results, usually in childhood.
Unfortunately, the environment that produced these response changes (we grow
up) and the responses themselves do not adapt, they become counterproductive.
Showing anger, becoming depressed, flattering, crying, and bullying behavior
are response patterns appropriate to times often long past. These patterns
change only when we are forced to realize that they are no longer productive.
Even then change is often painful and slow. The same is true for scientific
theories.
Not one
person, except Copernicus, wanted to accept the Copernician idea that the earth
revolves around the sun. Goethe wrote about the Copernican revolution:”
“Perhaps a
greater demand has never been laid upon mankind; for by this admission that the
earth is not at the center of the universe], how much else did not collapse in
dust and shake: a second paradise, a world of innocence, poetry, and piety, the
witness of the senses, the convictions of a poetic and religious faith; no
wonder that men had no stomach for all this, that they ranged themselves in
every way against this doctrine…”
“Not one
physicist, not even Planck himself, wanted to accept the implications of
Planck’s discovery, for to do so threatened a scientific structure (Newtonian
physics) over three hundred years old. Heisenberg wrote about the quantum
revolution:”
“… When new groups of phenomenon compel changes in the
pattern of thought … even the most eminent of physicists find immense difficulties.
For the demand of change in the thought pattern may engender the feeling that
the ground is to be pulled from under one’s feet… I believe that the
difficulties at this point can hardly be overestimated. Once one has
experienced the desperation with which clever and conciliatory men of science
react to the demand for change in the thought pattern, one can only be amazed
that such revolutions in science have actually been possible at all.”
“Scientific revolutions are forced upon us by the
discovery of phenomena that are not comprehensible in terms of the old
theories. Old theories die hard. Much more is at stake than the theories
themselves. To give up our privileged position at the center of the universe,
as Copernicus asked, was an enormous task. To accept that nature is
fundamentally irrational (governed by chance), which is the essential statement
of quantum mechanics, is a powerful blow to the intellect. Nevertheless, as new
theories demonstrate superior utility, their adversaries, however reluctantly,
have little choice but to accept them. In doing so they must grant a measure of
recognition to the world views that accompany them…” pg. 192
“In this world view [the modern view of particles, etc.]
there is no substance …
like a set of parallel mirrors, reflecting reflections,
gives the illusion of an unending progression to nowhere. … The search for the
ultimate stuff of the universe ends with the discovery that there isn’t any. …
If there is an
ultimate stuff of the universe, it is pure energy, but subatomic particles are
not “made of” energy, they ARE
energy. This is what Einstein theorized in 1905. Subatomic interactions,
therefore, are interactions of energy with energy. At the subatomic level there is no longer a clear distinction between
what is and what happens, between the actor and the action. At the subatomic
level the dancer and the dance are one.
According to
particle physics, the world is fundamentally dancing energy; energy that is
everywhere and incessantly assuming first this form and then that….The world of
particle physics is a world of sparkling energy forever dancing with itself in
the form of particles as they twinkle in and out of existence, collide,
transmute and disappear again.” pg. 194
Sorry for the
longish excerpt.
M. Planck - A new truth does not triumph from convincing
opponents and showing them the light but thanks to the fact that opponents are
dying off and a new generation matures within the surroundings of the new
truth. from BIM 5, my inspired musings
newsletter
Science changes, funeral by funeral. Max Planck
Planck finally
changed his view that his colleagues could be convinced about the new physics
Planck had so elegantly proposed and finally believed that only by people dying
would acceptance of quantum physics take hold.
This discussion of ‘changing views’ is
crucially important and one of the main reasons I stopped working altogether as
I was ever the inventor and designer and constantly barraged with criticism,
largely because new systems were different from the old systems. I also
recognized that I had emotional handicaps from my childhood that prevented me from starting a company or working closely with others so that I
could sell services or a product.
I also found that my clients, mostly
large conservative banks, did not REALLY want me to create innovative technical
solutions UNLESS things stayed roughly the same organizationally. So, I saw
that as a consultant my task was to deal with psychological barriers to change
instead of proposing really innovative solutions to computer and network
problems. Sooooo, my solution was to simply stop going to work as I had better
uses for my time – such as hiking alone through the forests.
My iconoclastic
thinking patterns have caused MANY problems. For example, y’all know, or SHOULD
know, the multi-thousand year old noble 8 fold path of Buddhism: right view, right resolve, right speech, right
conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right Samadhi
or meditation. I took this photo of myself in Death Valley at the peak 100 year
bloom in 2005 after researching the ‘Reclining Buddha’ pose.
The caption: I recently found out the many statues of the
reclining Buddha represent Buddha at the time of his death. Buddha dined at a
devotee’s house and upon leaving began feeling progressively sicker. Buddha
asked his chief disciple Ananda to spread out a cloth upon which the Buddha lay
for a bit before leaving this world in the reclining pose shown. Hearing this
information for the first time at a Japanese Buddhist church sermon in Reno I
ruminated for a bit and came up with a slight
modification to the 2500 year old 8 fold path to enlightenment - in
addition to the precepts of right living, right thinking, right meditation
etc., I thought to add RIGHT EATING.
This suggestion has so far been ignored, although not trivialized, by the
hierarchy of the Japanese Buddhist church. All of Chinese thought is arranged
around the number 8. Even the dosage for the Oriental medicine tea pills I take
is 8 pills.
It’s a disruption to Buddhism to have some upstart like
me come along and propose what seems to me to be totally reasonable
modifications to the 2500 year old noble path. So far I’ve taken a lot of shit
for my proposal – in the obliquely polite way of most Buddhists. Incidentally,
the Buddhist minister from Reno founded his church with his American wife. One
night she was working very late at the church writing a sermon and someone
knocked at the door. She answered and opened the door to some stranger who
murdered her. Her husband went back to Hokkaido, the northerly island of the
Japan archipelago, and he video conferences services to the Reno church on
Sundays. Clearly, you can better see Max Planck’s problem. Few can stand the
aloneness necessary for real creation.
My proposed 9th Buddhist precept is an example
of the types of disruptions I used to cause professionally.
The hardest views I
ever had to change were those about my childhood and my internal belief
systems. This is why therapy, if done correctly, is so wrenching. I was only
able to thoroughly inventory my character and thinking and emotional patterns
learned from my childhood with the support of a lot of other people and I was
73 years old when I even began the process.
Incidentally,
Einstein’s original 1905 paper on Relativity is easy to read. http://hermes.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Einstein_1905_relativity.pdf
“Subatomic particles forever partake of this unceasing
dance of annihilation and creation. In fact, subatomic particles ARE this
unceasing dance of annihilation and creation … Hindu mythology is virtually a
large-scale projection into the psychological realm of microscopic scientific
discoveries. Hindu deities such as Shiva and Vishnu continually dance the
creation and destruction of universes while the Buddhist image of the wheel of
life symbolizes the unending process of birth, death, and rebirth which is part
of the world of form, which is emptiness, which is form.” pg. 217
Note also the
Chinese emphasis on this dance also – The ‘I Ching’, one of the foundations of
Chinese thinking, is called the ‘Book of Changes’.
Since everything is but an
apparition
Perfect in
being what it is
Having
nothing to do with good or bad
Acceptance
or rejection
One may
well burst out in laughter
14th
Century Tibetan Buddhist Longchenpa
“Who are the dancers and who the dance?
What is ‘they’?
The things that dance, the dancers” pg. 314
Wu Li was Zukav’s
first book. His next was ‘The Seat of the Soul’: "Every action, thought,
and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that
exists as one with an effect.... In this most profound way, we are held
responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our
every intention."
Finally there is
one last major issue Zukav addresses: superluminal (faster than the speed of
light) communications. There is no concise explanation but this quote from
physicist David Bohm is good:
“Parts (of the
universe) are seen to be in immediate connection, in which their dynamical
relationships depend, in an irreducible way, on the state of the whole system
and, indeed, on that of broader systems in which they are contained, extending
ultimately and in principle to the entire universe). Thus, one is led to a new
notion of unbroken wholeness which
denies the classical idea of analyzability of the world into separately and
independently existent parts.”
I may be wrong in
some details but essentially modern physics can only explain certain parts of
the universe if the whole universe communicates instantly, by our current
definition, with all of its constituent parts simultaneously. This potentially
unifying theory is related to, for example, Jung’s concept of synchronicity.
Note particularly
how Zukav relates closely with the spiritualists such as Neville and Roy Davis
above. Note Davis’s suggestion to collapse
time. It’s as though you were to jump from the old physics of A>B to a
new physics where the distinction between A and B disappears and their
substitutes are in instantaneous communication with each other, and the rest of
the universe. Essentially, when you
think of something it immediately appears. And thinking about it further on a
long hike in the forest today,
the essence of this matter appears to be the time relationship between A and B. The gist
of at least 200 of Mary’s books about abundance and prayer and healing has to
do with collapsing the time between the
creation of the intention, the prayer or the focus; and the manifestation, i.e.,
the ‘check in the mail', the healing, the reconciliation, the Enlightenment,
etc.
I had a fascinating
exercise in this compression, or even identity (thinking or intending on A and
having it appear immediately) of time. My girlfriend had a major stroke and
ended up in the hospital then a rehab, spending most of her time in bed. I kept
encouraging her to keep praying for, envisioning, and intending on finding a
place to live. One day my GF announces she wants to leave the rehab, ‘against
medical advice’, and she’s in a querulous row with the staff encouraging her to
stay. We leave. The rehab wouldn’t even let her use a wheelchair to leave. I
drive 2 hours to Cottonwood, AZ and head to a mobile home park I had heard
about but had never visited. We drove down the main street, I saw a ‘For Sale’
sign in the window of a place and called. The owner had just put the sign up 10 minutes before, was on an errand,
but returned in a few minutes. The place had the handicap facilities we needed
so she made a shocking full price offer to the seller which he accepted. We
moved in days later. Her creative imagination obviously worked, she was better
off out of the rehab not taking the prescription crap they were forcing her to
take, plus we got the library.
Davis’s book is 116
pages, Zukav’s is 330. CHOOSE IT!
And finally, it’s
extremely centering to be pondering these weighty matters and have a shrill
voice come over the baby monitor, “I need my diaper changed.”
As it says on the
masthead of the Zero Hedge website: On a long enough timeline the survival rate
for everyone drops to zero.”
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Katherine Kuhlman - Allen Spraggett
Katherine Kuhlman was a noted evangelical healer in the
1950’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s. The biographer discusses the method of the healing
process as he sees it. My notes about it are:
1. I have reported before that in humans the mind does not
directly control the body but a ‘mental’ image of the body that is the
intermediary to the actual physical body.
2. Note the emphasis on emotional
energy to create healing
3. Talk about the collective unconsciousness and archetypal
symbols always refer to Western civilization. Conventional Tibetans, Indians
and Chinese do not have a Christ archetype in their collective unconscious. Westerners
never seem to consider this.
“Archetypes, or archetypal symbols, in Jung’s thought, are
universal images that have existed in the collective unconscious of mankind
from remotest times. … This area of archetypes … is referred to as psychoid, …
or psychelike. …”
“…this archetypal or psychoid area is the substratum of, and
the connecting link between consciousness on the one hand, and the physical
world on the other. And the mind-body problem is even more difficult than
supposed, because it’s not really a dichotomy-mind and body-but a trichotomy in
which there is an inaccessible intermediary between the two.”
Working as a healer … “She is the focus who draws together
the energy of the assembled crowd. She is also the focus, I think, for people
who are not even physically present in the service because, in the collective
unconscious, time and space change. Time is not sequential on that level of
reality as it is here, and space relationships are different so that people who
are aware of one another are somehow together in spite of separating distance.
Katherine Kuhlman is the catalyst who triggers the liberation of the psychoid
energies latent in the congregation.” pg. 159,160
“The hymns [at the healing service] repeat the archetypal
themes of God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit who heals. It is love that heals,
but love channeled through the archetypal symbols. The effectiveness of a
living symbol is its capacity to channel psychological or psychoid energy. The
greater the emotional intensity which the symbol arouses, the greater the
devotion and energy it channels. such spiritual symbols as God, Christ, and the
Holy spirit attract devotion and thus are capable of channeling tremendous healing
energy.” pg. 163
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The Hidden Teachings of Jesus Revealed – Roy Eugene Davis
“Man sins, or misses the mark, in his thinking and believing
and creates his own limitation in his body or environment. This is because of
the law of mental equivalent: inner
mental pictures tend to reflect as outer circumstances. Every person
projects in his environment what he secretly believes he is worthy of
experiencing. Just as a person can create sickness and limitation, so he can,
by releasing these concepts of sickness and limitation, experience health and
unlimited expression. It does not matter how long we have been bound in
negative mental picturing, when we break the pattern we can be released in a
moment. This is the secret of instantaneous healing. pg. 22
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You Can Have it All, Arnold M. Patent
“Everything in the Universe is a form of energy. Mastery
of money or anything else is mastery of energy.” pg. 9
“Our intuition, which is infinite intelligence talking to
us between our thoughts, speaks softly.”
“The talents each of us have are literally God given, and
they are given to be expressed. Failure to express them results in great
discomfort in our physical bodies. The talents want out. Holding them in
requires effort and is a major way we resist the natural order of the Universe.
…
The Universe, in its infinite wisdom does not create
talents without the corresponding need in others to experience the expression
of these talents.”
pg. 21
“The Universe supports itself by encouraging each of us
to fully and freely express our talents. If we want the support of the
Universe, we must do what it created us to do – express our talents.” pg. 35
“Cause and Effect:
This principle states that we cause everything that happens to us. …
Another way of describing the law of cause and effect is to say everything that
we have is what we want.” pg. 41
“The principle that we always receive what we want or
believe is relentless. It is in constant operation whether we notice it or not.
People who struggle for a living, doing things they dislike, perceive the world
around them at variance from the ease and simplicity which is open to them.” pg. 53
“To master abundance requires us to deal with two basic
issues. First, we must be willing to fully and freely express ourselves by
using the talent or talents that the Universe has given us to express. Second,
we must notice any beliefs which we have that are in opposition to the
principle of abundance. If we are not experiencing total abundance we are
literally pushing it away from ourselves.” pg.
54
“Since the Universe is perfect, anything that is less
than perfect does not really exist.” pg.
55
“We have the capacity at any time to attract sufficient
money into our lives to pay any debt we really want to pay. pg. 56
“Non-attachment: Allowing
things to flow freely in our lives gives us the maximum benefit from each
experience. …
Holding on to anything – people or material goods –
blocks the free flow of energy around our experience with the person or object
(car, house, clothing, or bank account) and reduces the pleasure we experience.
It also inhibits the free movement of new things and new people into our lives.”
pg. 59
Reading Patent is
like getting hit over the head with a hammer. His truth bombs just come at you
one after the other. Just off-hand, of all the books in Mary’s library this one
covers all the bases and is the only one really necessary for the subject of
intention, abundance, joy, etc. I definitely recommend everyone read this
important book. Every time I go to excerpt something it feels like I could just
continue and quote the entire book. Just randomly searching the Internet for
Arnold’s birth data [1929 – probably Snake Year] I came across this:
We don’t create abundance. Abundance is
always present. We create limitation.
Just this concept
alone negates the message of a lot of the books in Mary’s library. Like all
spiritual growth; it’s not growth we should be trying to achieve but a removal of the barriers to our
spiritual understanding.
“Good and bad deeds are not the direct causes of the transformations
of nature, but they act as breakers of obstacles to its evolutions - as a
farmer breaks the obstacles to the course of water, which then flows down by
its own nature. Patanjali
Commentary by Vivekananda: The water for irrigating the
fields is already in the canal, only held back by gates. The farmer opens these
gates and the water flows in by itself, by the law of gravitation. So all
progress and power are already in man. Perfection is man’s very nature; only it
is barred off and so prevented from taking its proper course. If anyone can
take the bar away, in rushes nature. Then the man attains the powers which are
his already. Those whom we call wicked become saints as soon as the bar is
broken and nature rushes in. It is nature that is driving us toward perfection,
and eventually it will bring everyone there. All these practices and struggles
to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bar and open the
doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.”
From Swami Vivekananda, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in the
book Raja Yoga, Ramakhrishna – Vivekananda Center, NY, NY
Patent on the same subject: Our Relationship with Our Source
“Do you believe that God or an infinite intelligence is
responsible for human life and everything else in the Universe? If the answer
is yes, do you see it as an unconditionally loving and supportive energy? It is
interesting that the way you view the energy, is exactly the way that you will
experience life. If you can bring yourself to honestly and completely believe that
it is totally loving, and supportive of everyone, under all circumstances, then
you will experience a life of total joy. The degree that your belief is less
than that, is the degree to which your life experience will be less than
totally joyful.
There are
people who believe that it is better to focus on a concept other than God to
explain the creation of the Universe. When this is an attempt to avoid the
concept of God, because thoughts related are unpleasant, then the replacement
will not work.
As long as
you harbor any thoughts that God is less than a totally loving and supportive
entity, these thoughts will block you from achieving the peace of mind and joy
that you wish to achieve.
When we
view God as less than a totally loving and supportive entity, we view people as
less than totally loving and supportive. Those of us who can see the perfection
and unconditional love of God can see the same quality in others and in the
Universe.
In our relationship with our Universe and
with other people, we are truly experiencing the mirror image of our beliefs.
It is a very simple but powerful concept. The best investment we can ever make
is to learn to see everything and everyone around us as perfect. For then, we
see ourselves that way, and we actually experience life that way.” pg. 138, To get the full Arnold I did not
excerpt anything of this.
I was going to stop
but I flipped to the end of the book and it’s just too good.
“We need do nothing to achieve a life that works
perfectly. It is a gift from the Universe. In other words, we start out being
whole and complete. Everything is always provided for us. The reason we are
without anything is because we believe we cannot have it at that moment, or
more accurately stated, we really do not want it.
Remember,
having, believing and wanting are synonymous. This is the law of cause and
effect. If we do not have anything we think we want, it is only because we do
not really want it. Abundance is the natural state of affairs in the Universe.
It wants to flow through our lives. When we are not enjoying total abundance in
each and every aspect of our lives, it is only because we are pushing it away.
…
Life is
always the way we view it. It is a perceptual experience. Perceive it as
perfect and it is perfect. Perceiving it as anything other than perfect is an
illusion. The more we believe that the world of illusion is real, the more
chaos and pain we create in our lives.” pg.
173
“The Universe, in
its infinite wisdom, is an experience of simplicity at all times. It takes
Infinite Intelligence to create true simplicity.” pg. 174
Were I able to meet up
with Mary, I would remind her that the Bible does not say “Read without ceasing.”
Almost EVERY book in her library was underlined in soft red and blue pencil, so
she must have read almost every book. I did not. In the four weeks or so I have
been dissembling the library I quickly looked through almost every book and
sorted it. In addition to all the books Mary had maybe 500 cassette and VHS
tapes. I just took these all to the thrift shop. I can’t even find a player
for a cassette tape.
è tutto finito!
In India and Nepal it is difficult to get people to stop
serving you seconds at meals. Saying “No more”, etc. does not work and it is an
especial sin to just let someone pile food on your plate and then leave it. My
Sherpa friends have adopted “tutto finito” as the most effective way to stop continuing,
sorcerer’s apprentice type, food service so I use it around the house.
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Well, never say never, or qualify what you mean by finito.
After putting a wrap to all this Mary’s library stuff I found another 50 books
on a tippy─top shelf near the ceiling. I went through them all, put about 12 for
sale on Amazon─3 have already sold within 12 hours─and set aside 5 or so for
more study, thinking NONE would displace the gobsmacking excerpts from Patent’s
‘You Can Have it All’ as the end of my commentary. I was wrong.
Healing Words, Larry Dossey, M.D.
“mental ‘efforts’ were able to influence past events”
“After practicing medicine for many years, he [Dossey] was
stunned to discover scientific evidence of the healing power of prayer.” front
inside book jacket
“For several decades researchers have wondered whether
reality, if it is tied to the actions of human observers, may to some extent be
flexible, susceptible to being shaped by mental effort.”
“Schmidt’s studies suggest strongly that humans can
mentally influence the behavior or output of random event generators.” … In a
stunning series of experiments, physicist Schmidt found evidence that these
influences may be displaced in time. His subjects tried to influence the output
of an REG [random event generator] in the
past─that is, they tried to affect random events that had already been
prerecorded but not yet consciously observed. The outcome: “Apparently, present
mental ‘efforts’ were able to influence
past events about which ‘Nature had not made up her mind.’”
Schmidt’s
experiments appear to indicate that past
subatomic events are malleable,
capable of being influenced mentally, even
though they have already occurred and have been recorded in some way, so long as they have not been consciously
observed. pg.120-121
“We now realize that many diseases begin with
disturbances at the subatomic level” … This perspective offers a possibility
hitherto unimagined in medicine:
1. if we can affect the dynamic qualities of subatomic
particles through our observations, as physicists maintain; 2. if these efforts
can reach into the past and change unobserved events presumed already to have
happened but about which “nature has not made up its mind,” … and 3. if the
behavior of subatomic particles is associated with disease causation, which we
know to be true; then 4. we may be
able to mentally shape our “medical
past” in order to bring about health not illness.” pg. 122
My synopsis of the story of a woman with a large breast
cancer she had had for 15 years and never treated. Doctor asks, “Why have you
not seen a doctor to have this treated?” “Because if I did the doctor would cut
it. This would let air touch the cancer, and make it ‘run wild’ and I would
die.” The woman had surgery and soon died. The fifteen years she lived
untreated is generally far longer than people live who are treated. “she seemed
to be saying that as long as nothing formal was done, her fate was not fixed.
As long as things remained shrouded with unknowns, she had a chance; but
looking, observing, and doing would create a downhill fatal course.”
“As long as these events are left undisturbed and
unobserved, perhaps the person has more of a chance to control them
intentionally in a healthy way, delaying their progress or perhaps neutralizing
them altogether. … Warnings about medical testing [because it is observing] by
distinguished leaders in the profession have surfaced for more than a
half-century. … Can a test actually serve as a “blocking agent” to the
beneficial effects of consciousness on the past? Does “medical looking” in all
its forms erase the malleability of critical physiological events thought
already to have happened? This may help explain why people of many other
nations who are “examined” far less than we, enjoy a higher level of health and
longevity.
… “At this pre-test stage, if we were to take seriously
the possibility that we may be able to reach back into the past and affect the
unfolding of subatomic events that precede illness, an interesting scenario
might unfold. The patient might take advantage of this window of opportunity
and initiate her own prayers, images, and visualizations. She might marshal her
friends to do the same─all in an attempt to affect the critical process in her
body before a cancer might actually develop.” … Another option might be to do
nothing─no exam, no tests, no looking and observing of any sort.” pg. 124-125
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Unobserved Processes
Carlos’s heart episode
Several years ago I noticed I had a once in 30 year
astrological aspect that was due to return in about 2017. The first time I had
the aspect I was 14 years old had a bad case of polio, described more fully at
my blog post. http://ballantynesinspiredmusings.blogspot.com/2015/02/polio-first-word-then-plant-lastly.html
At 44 I had a feeling intuitively I was to become very sick
and would have to go to the hospital. Not then knowing about the astrology of
this, I decided that I would be better off being in my Guru’s care in India, so
I cancelled out of work and went. Once there I remained sickly and bedridden
for about 3 weeks EXCEPT my Guru would roust me from bed twice a day and force
me to walk for several miles. My weight dropped precipitously to where people in
India were suggesting to Gurujii that I was too thin. I estimate I got below
120 pounds at 5’ 11”.
At 74, as I
waited for my recurring aspect, nothing happened UNTIL I had a ‘heart attack’
while taking my afternoon long walk in the woods in Florida. The few people I
talked to all suggest cardiologists for me. I did nothing. My heart remained ‘unobserved’, as it were. I did
change my diet, cutting back on what little I had been eating. I continued to
experience heart palpitations and arrhythmia but kept taking long 5 to 10 miles
walks daily although I stayed near the side of roads so that if I keeled over
someone would see me. After 2 months I presented at the VA medical center ER in
order to ‘burn off’ what I felt might be hospital karma I was destined to
experience. In other words, if I were destined to be in the hospital I could do
it voluntarily. So I went and had a battery of comprehensive tests that showed
nothing wrong. I continued to experience problems, my girlfriend demanded to
move from Florida to Arizona as she hated the humidity and my heart problems
disappeared completely about when I got to Arkansas, three days into our 6 day
cross country drive.
It’s not
easy to not observe YOUR problems of this level of seeming seriousness.
“Great religions were first preached and long practiced
in a world without chloroform.” C.S.
Lewis
Sitting in the Sun not Observing your Cold
My girlfriend has related to me that when she or her brother
or sister got a cold their Mother would make them stay home from school and go
outside and just sit in the sun all day. Clearly this is an example of ‘not
observing’ your illness. The mother was from a first generation immigrant rural
farm family in upper Minnesota with a tradition of independence.
Science changes, funeral by funeral. Max Planck
Just yesterday [6 March 2018] I saw that the American Medical
Association recommended that ALL hospitals offer a plant based diet option to
all patients. This is clearly revolutionary. It was only 10 years ago that some
few cardiologists began recommending a plant based diet for heart attack
patients and this was considered extreme and well outside the main stream. One
of the first advocates of plant based nutrition was Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn in his
book ‘Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease’, and he was then and even now
considered a kook.
This is the food plan I have been following since about 2
hours after I returned home from my ‘heart attack’─the time it took me to get
on my computer and do a Google search and read Esselstyn’s dietary suggestions
in summary, and to order his 2008 book. I was performing an act of
non-observation by changing and focusing instead on my food plan, AND, of
course, by not going to a doctor. I’m suggesting that resistance to plant based
nutrition by doctors is waning, one M.D.’s funeral at a time.
“According to an old
story, a lord of ancient China
The physician, whose reputation was
such that his name became synonymous with medical science in China, replied, “My eldest brother sees the spirit of
sickness and removes it before it takes shape, so his name does not get out
of the house.
“My elder brother cures sickness when
it is extremely minute, so his name does not get out of the neighborhood.
“As for me, I puncture veins, prescribe
potions, and massage skin, so from time to time my name gets out and is heard
among the lords.”
Among the tales of ancient China
from the translators introduction to
the Art of War, Sun Tzu, Shambala, London & Boston
"The world is nothing but an objectified dream,"
says Paramahansa Yogananda, "and whatever your powerful mind believes very
intensely instantly comes to pass. ‘The
Holographic Universe’, as quoted in BIM 54 http://ballantynesinspiredmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/bim-54-randomly-published.html
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‘Our Journey Back to Eden’, Carol Lovejoy
“Some years ago I had a vision. In this vision I could see California
being sprayed for insect control. … I was told that this spray would cause
disease and take our lives. … I told my group [of highly trained metaphysicians]
about my vision. They all agreed that paranoia is one of the drawbacks of being
intuitive.
…my vision kept coming to me. So I let go of all I had and bought a motor home. I took my two children out of school and traveled around the United States. We left with $1500 and the faith that a higher power would supply all our needs.
When we arrived in Missouri I met a woman who had a vacant house sitting on 160 acres of land. This wondrous woman let us live in that house for free … [and also] gave me money for food, clothing, gas and electricity.]
That was when I started to work on myself to receive. “I am open to receive my good” was an affirmation I used daily. … If I did not let this woman supply me, I would have shut down my good and this wonderful woman’s supply of good. When you refuse to accept your good from others, it blocks the flow. It will not only block your flow, but will also block the giving person from the flow of good coming to them.
Also, as a side note, I discovered that my intuition regarding the med-fly spraying was right on. Two years after my return to California, everyone in my group whom I considered pure and great metaphysicians contracted terminal diseases and all soon died.” pg. 96-97
…my vision kept coming to me. So I let go of all I had and bought a motor home. I took my two children out of school and traveled around the United States. We left with $1500 and the faith that a higher power would supply all our needs.
When we arrived in Missouri I met a woman who had a vacant house sitting on 160 acres of land. This wondrous woman let us live in that house for free … [and also] gave me money for food, clothing, gas and electricity.]
That was when I started to work on myself to receive. “I am open to receive my good” was an affirmation I used daily. … If I did not let this woman supply me, I would have shut down my good and this wonderful woman’s supply of good. When you refuse to accept your good from others, it blocks the flow. It will not only block your flow, but will also block the giving person from the flow of good coming to them.
Also, as a side note, I discovered that my intuition regarding the med-fly spraying was right on. Two years after my return to California, everyone in my group whom I considered pure and great metaphysicians contracted terminal diseases and all soon died.” pg. 96-97
My commentary: Stay
flexible.
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‘Living Fearlessly’, Paramahansa Yogananda
“Self-realization is the knowing─in body, mind and soul─that
we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it
come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God’s
omnipresence it our omnipresence, that we are just as much a part of Him now as
we will ever be. All we have to do is improve our knowing” preface
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‘Loose Ends’, James Hillman
Some Musings on Childhood, Abandonment, Betrayal and Independence
“Nothing can come without loneliness’. I have created a
loneliness for myself that no one can imagine.” Pablo Picasso, as quoted in ‘Loose Ends’, James Hillman, Abandoning the
Child
“If the child is repressed in the amnesia of “the second to
the fifth year”, as Freud wrote, then it is the little child who shall return.
… It is not merely that the childish returns in the left overs of childhood,
but everything that emerges from
unconsciousness comes back too young.” Hillman,
pg. 21
My notes: This is how
the puer/puella is created.
“We sometimes refer to ourselves as “adult children” or “an
adult child”, because we have a tendency to go through life with survival
techniques we learned as children. We’re essentially stuck in time. Without some form of help, we unknowingly
operate with old ineffective thoughts and judgments that can sabotage our
decisions and relationships.” Arizona website
of Adult Children of Alcoholics, https://aca-arizona.org/am-i-an-aca/
“Abandonment as Jung pointed out and Neumann [Neumann, ‘The
Origins and History of Consciousness’] elaborated is the precondition for the
independence and invincibility of the child-becoming hero. “‘Child’ means
something evolving towards independence. This it cannot do”, continued Jung,
“without detaching itself from its origins: abandonment is therefore a
necessary condition, not just a concomitant symptom.” …
“The child is abandoned in order to reveal its
independence.” Hillman, pg. 24
Pothos – yearning and longing
“Jung describes the phenomenology of wandering and
longing as follows: “The heroes are usually wanderers … and wandering is a
symbol of longing, of the restless urge which never finds its object, of
nostalgia for the lost mother” … The secret goal of wandering is the lost
mother. … the puer aeternus: the eternally youthful component of
each human psyche, man or woman, old or young, that is eternally wandering,
eternally longing, and is ultimately attached to the archetypal mother.” pg. 51
“Ultimately then, our pothos refers to our angelic
nature, and our longings and sea-borne wanderings are the effects in our
personal lives of the transpersonal images that urge us, carry us, and force us
to imitate mythical destinies.
pg. 61
Plato defines
pothos as longings for that which cannot be obtained.
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long
precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to
interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery
part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating
the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever
it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I
meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it
requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into
the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high
time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
Greenwich Village graffiti – early 1960’s: “Nostalgia
isn’t what it used to be.”
Betrayal
“I know from experience that all coercion - be it
suggestion, insinuation, or any other method of persuasion - ultimately proves
to be nothing but an obstacle to the highest and most decisive experience of
all, which is to be alone with his own self, or whatever one chooses to call
the objectivity of the psyche. The patient must be alone if he is to find out
what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. Only this
experience can give him an indestructible foundation.” Jung, quoted in Psychology and Alchemy (pp. 27-8), Hillman, pg 77
“Neither trust nor
forgiveness could be realized without betrayal. Betrayal is the dark side
of both. … A paradox of betrayal is the fidelity
which both betrayed and betrayer keep, after the event, to its bitterness.” Hillman, pg. 79-80 It appears to me now to
be a high state to be one betrayed as you would have passed through experience
with love and trust.
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