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Here are some testimonials thanks to a Practitioner who runs a wellness clinic with regard to results she has obtained through wanding clients.

From July 2010 onwards:

Female 60′s Back ache 20years +, heavy right thigh (always needs to be manually lifted when moving off a chair/getting in the car). 20mins wanding, left with 100%pain relief. 3weeks later, thigh till excellent, back still 80% good. Four weeks later 2nd wanding, 3weeks later reports great improvement in general well being, able to exercise as no longer in pain, lost 5lbs in weight, feels happier. Bought own wand.

Female 60′s Arthritic knuckle pain, wanded for 3mins. Pain shot up hand and flew out of elbow joint, leaving hand pain free. 3days later, still very comfortable.

Female 50′s Chronic plantar fasciitis – (foot pain) for 2months, hardly able to weight bear. Wanded foot 10 mins, left with no pain. Pain returned 48hours later.

Female 80′s Cancer of bowels and lung. Wanded self 2x daily for 7 days, reported a dramatic drop in pain levels. Continues to use for constant relief, also finds very soothing on recent wound caused by hip replacement. Is also sleeping much better now. Bought own wand.

Male 70′s Very poor circulation to feet. 15mins after a few mins of wanding white foot colour changed to a healthier colour, and he reported sensations in toes and feet. Shoulder needs replacing, wanded,” felt electricity” running from shoulder to hands, knees felt less achy.

Female 50′s Arthritic ankle, foot/ankle – felt lighter on the inside of foot after 10mins wanding, knee felt better after 5mins Wanding

Female 51 Swollen and painful hand after falling on tarmac. Hand wanded 5mins, felt infused with heat, able to move fingers a little easier, after 2 hours hand back to normal. Bought own wand.

Female 50s General body wanding – “have never felt so relaxed for over 20years.

Female 40s Tight feet and ankles, much relaxed after 2-3 mins W.

Female 40s Painful cramp pain in calf leg 10mins W, 24hours later leg back to normal, usually takes about 5-7 days.

Female 50s General body W released pent up emotions, left in tears, but feeling a lot better.

Male 60s Arthritic toes, always burning. 2mins W burning sensation much reduced. Did fingers as well – better and looser.

Male 60s 5mins wanding Felt nothing at all, but very interested for wife.

Female 40s Much damaged shoulder, manages it with constant painkillers, GP advises nothing can be done. After 2 wandings the shoulder pain has gone, and mobility is restored in the shoulder. Bought own wand.

Female 50s Severe allergic reaction to black fly at 10.30am, within 15 mins 50% of body and face/neck bright red with lumps wheals, fingers swelling, getting generally very hot and uncomfortable. (1st time ever for allergic reaction of any kind.) Tried lavender and camomile oils – no help, no antihistamines available (Sunday so all chemists closed)In desperation tried wand – it was like painting the body with white paint, the redness etc, slowly receeded, within 30mins or so, almost back to normal. By 12.30pm. skin100% back to normal with no discomfort. – Able to go out for lunch,without any tell tale signs at all!

Female 60s 100% Sceptic Wanded very painful hipfor only 3-4 mins. Nothing happened. A few hours later, pain had climbed up through spine and got to the neck, causing a headache, took aspirin, sometime later, almost no pain anywhere – gone. “How odd.”

Female 60s Swollen arm and very swollen fingers without movement or feeling – due to car accident. Ist wanding felt “something in fingers. 2nd wanding, 2 weeks later, feeling returned to 2 fingers and was aware of tendons or ligaments slowly tweaking along finger joints. 4 weeks later with no further wanding, fingers are
amazingly changing shape and thinning out from the distal end, and there is a little feeling. -Bought wand and pendant for own use.

Male 60s Achy legs and neck due to car accident. 4mins wanding, felt something, 2 days later reports less aches, and generally more energetic.

Female 50s One hour after final tooth implant work, – stitches and several injections,in alot of pain, and hardly able to talk, lisping badly. Wanded own mouth on the outside for only 2/3mins, felt blood running in mouth, so stopped, 30mins later, absolutely no pain whatsoever, and able to talk properly. Chronic foot pain for 2years + – Wanded 10 mins, 30mins later. able to weight bear without any pain. Pain returned later following day, but slightly less than normal. Bought wand. Will also use with child who has metal rods in back.

Female 40s Deep tissue wound following operation to remove abcess, very painful. 2x 20mins wanding 6 days apart, after each one pain was less and movement was much more comfortable. 1st time felt like a pulling and knitting sensation, with some tingles. Both wandings were very relaxing and female wanted to fall asleep afterwards.

Female 40 17 year old verruca incredibly painful, tried all treatments over the years, nothing has shifted it. 7mins wanding, felt like a pulling sesation from the inside as if a piece of string had been attached to the verruca and some one was pulling it back in to the body. Visited GP a few weeks later, who said verruca had reduced in size by about a third.

Female 40s Blocked sinuses, wanded 5mins, and sinus went pop. A clearing sensation began. Painful foot awaiting operation scheduled shortly, wanded 6mins, pain completely vanished, and able to weight bear normally. (I don’t know how long this lasted.)

Male 50s Using wand and pendant regularly – reports – very relaxing and has a sense of extreme well being. Female 50 Initially only able to wear pendant every other day, the energizing effect was too much. “I couldn’t keep up with the energy whizzing around my head/mind/body.” But able to swim twice as far without putting in any extra effort. 5 weeks later able to wear pendant all day every day. Also less tired at the end of a working day, and able to work faster and more efficiently.

Male 50s Full body wanding at the end of every days hard physical work – really loosens up and relaxes muscles and joints extremely quickly.

Female 40s Puts one glass of wanded water in the bath water to instantly soften the water, and energize the water, end result – a very relaxing bath.

Female 70s A 5min body wanding resulted in several trips to the loo that night, -a bit of a detox. Female 80s Full body wanding, 15mins drifted off to sleep, -”very very relaxing”

Male 60s Wanded own wrist, for 5mins, a painful condition appeared to be much improved. – Bought a wand.

Golden Labrador Full body wanding, – was very aware of the energy – blinked like mad when her face was done. Next day she barked much less and didn’t wonder off as normal, and actually spent time in the garden – very unusual. Next morning the wand was in my dressing gown pocket, she sensed it immediately,and came over and really begged a wanding session from me. She absolutely loved it.

Female 50s Very bad back pain for years. During full body wanding the pain travelled from lower back to top of shoulders, where it got stuck for a while, eventually able to wand the pain down the arms and out through the fingers. The pain is still in the back but much more manageable. Bought own wand.

Female 21 Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 3 full body wands, huge improvement, able to go out eat and drink on Saturday evening without any flare ups.

Female 70s Fell/pulled into the road, terrible groin pain and neck pain. Both wanded, groin pain reduced quite a lot, neck pain didn’t.

Male 70s Sceptic – feet wanded – said- feeling a cool breeze around wanded area.

Male 70 (different one!) Knee wanded, able to see the hairs on knee moving with the energy coming from the wand.

Female 90s 24hour head ache. Completely relieved,- 5mins wanding, 100% relief 30mins later.

Cat 8 Deeply asleep, but sensed the wands energy around him, and tried looking for it.

Cut Flowers Last at least twice as long as normal when in a vase of wanded water.

Female 70s Terrible eczema, arrived with hands cracked, on the point of bleeding, intense itching, hands and wrists so red they almost looked as if they had been boiled, extremely painful. During 20min+ wanding session, the redness reduced, and so did the itchy sensation, patches of white skin began to appear. Left feeling a little more comfortable. Awaiting feedback report.

Well, I think that’s enough testimonials/results for now!

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A spiritual teacher very close to my heart is Sri Ramana Maharshi. This blog provides a little background about this great Sage, and a list of 225 spiritual truths in Ramana Maharshi’s own words.

Sometimes it is hard to express how certain teachers have helped on the spiritual journey, so this post is in lieu of my inability to express my appreciation.

I particularly like the video (click post title first).

I hope you will be as changed as I have been, through his teaching.
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“Distracted as we are by various thoughts, if we would continually contemplate the Self, which is Itself God, this single thought would in due course replace all distraction and would itself ultimately vanish;. The pure Consciousness that alone finally remains is God. This is Liberation. To be constantly centered on one’s own all-perfect pure Self is the acme of yoga, wisdom, and all other forms of spiritual practice. Even though the mind wanders restlessly, involved in external matters, and so is forgetful of its own Self, one should remain alert and remember: ‘The body is not I.’

‘Who am I?’ Enquire in this way, turning the mind backward to its primal state. The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the only method of putting an end to all misery and ushering in Supreme Beatitude. Whatever may be said and however phrased, this is the whole truth in a nutshell.”
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Ramana Maharshi was known throughout India and further afield in the last century as a great sage and his presence graced the renowned sacred Arunachala hill. His mostly silent and peaceful presence and powerful gaze changed the lives of the many who came into his presence. He encouraged people to look within and decide whether they were actually the body or the changeless eternal self within. Many people were led to experience this inner self as the same self behind all awareness, above the transient mind, emotions, and body.

He was born to an ‘ordinary’ family. This is how his spontaneous self-realization is said to have occurred:

‘In his seventeenth year, in full health and in normal waking state he was suddenly overwhelmed with the fear of death and fully convinced that death was imminent. The inexplicable feeling would not leave so the boy began to ponder on the meaning of death. He was alone in his upper story room at the time so he decided to act out death and inquire into the meaning of it. He laid down with his arms stiffly at his sides as if dead, held his breath and said to himself; “Now death has come but what does it mean? What is it that is dying? The body dies and is carried off to the cremation ground and reduced to ashes. But with the death of the body, am I dead? Am I the body? This body is now silent and inert but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of the ‘I’ within me, apart from the body. So I am the Spirit transcending the body. The body dies but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. That means that I am the deathless Spirit”.

The awareness of this knowledge took full possession of him, not at the level of mere mental awareness but at the deeper level of complete spiritual self-awareness. He suddenly became the Spirit and knew himself as That, no longer identifying himself as merely the body form that had been called Venkataraman. [His birth name] Self realization was instantaneous, complete, and irreversible. His ego was lost in a flood of pure Self awareness.’

(Thanks to: http://www.cosmicharmony.com/Sp/Ramana/Ramana.htm)

Here are 225 truths from his own words.

1. The mind is nothing but the thought “I”
2. Thoughts arise because of the thinker.
3. The thinker is the ego, which if sought will automatically vanish.
4. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist; they appear within Consciousness but have no reality of their own.
5. It is like a screen on which all this is cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show.
6. The Absolute Consciousness alone is our real nature.
7. Grace is within you; Grace is the Self.
8. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence in you.
9. You are never out of its operation.
10. The mind cannot seek the mind.
11. You ignore what is real and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. You think you are the mind and, therefore, ask how it is to be controlled.
12. If the mind exists, it can be controlled, but it does not. Understand this by inquiry.
13. Seek the real, the Self.
14. The Eternal is not born nor does it die.
15. We confound appearance with Reality. Appearance carries its end in itself.
16. What is it that appears anew?
17. If you cannot find it, surrender unreservedly to the substratum of appearances; then Reality will be what remains.
18. Reality is simply loss of the ego.
19. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity.
20. Because the ego has no real existence, it will automatically vanish, and Reality will shine forth by itself in all its glory. This is the direct method.
21. All other methods retain the ego. In those paths so many doubts arise, and the eternal question remains to be tackled. But in this method the final question is the only one and is raised from the very beginning.
22. No practices (sadhanas) are even necessary for this quest.
23. Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
24. “I am That I Am” sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in “Be Still.”
25. The state we call Realization is simply being one’s self, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
26. If one has realized, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. One cannot describe that state, but only be That. Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization for want of a better term.
27. There is no help in changing your environment.
28. The obstacle is the mind, which must be overcome, whether at home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not in the home? Therefore, why change the environment?
29. The cause of misery is not in life without; it is within you as the ego.
30. You impose limitations upon yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them.
31. Why attribute to the happenings in life the cause of misery, which really lies within you? What happiness can you get from anything extraneous to yourself? When you get it, how long will it last?
32. The body itself is a thought.
33. Be as you really are.
34. There are no stages in Realization or degrees in Liberation.
35. There are no levels of Reality; there are only levels of experience for the individual.
36. If anything can be gained that was not present before, it can also be lost, whereas the Absolute is eternal, here and now.
37. It is not a matter of becoming but of Being.
38. Remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
39. One comes into existence for a certain purpose.
40. That purpose will be accomplished whether one considers oneself the actor or not.
41. Everything is predetermined.
42. But one is always free not to identify oneself with the body and not to be affected by the pleasure and pain associated with its activities.
43. Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
44. Find out who is subject to free will or predestination and abide in that state.
45. Then both are transcended. That is the only purpose in discussing these questions. To whom do such questions present themselves?
46. Discover that and be at peace.
47. Your true nature is that of infinite spirit.
48. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
49. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind.
50. This is the direct path for all.
51. If one inquires as to where in the body the thought “I” first rises, one would discover that it rises in the heart; that is the place of the mind’s origin.
52. Grace is always present.
53. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
54. You speak as if you are here, and the Self is somewhere else and you had to go and reach it…
55. …But in fact the Self is here and now, and you are always It.
56. It is like being here and asking people the way to the ashram, then complaining that each one shows a different path and asking which to follow.
57. The realized person weeps with the weeping, laughs with the laughing, plays with the playful, sings with those who sing, keeping time to the song.
58. What does he lose?
59. His presence is like a pure, transparent mirror. It reflects our image exactly as we are. It is we who play the several parts in life and reap the fruits of our actions. How is the mirror or the stand on which it is mounted affected? Nothing affects them, as they are mere supports.
60. The Consciousness of “I” is the subject of all of our actions.
61. Inquiring into the true nature of that Consciousness and remaining as oneself is the way to understand one’s true nature.
62. All that is required to realize the Self is to Be Still.
63. What can be easier than that?
64. If one gains the Peace of the Self, it will spread without any effort on the part of the individual.
65. When one is not peaceful, oneself, how can one spread peace in the world?
66. Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
67. Happiness is born of Peace and can reign only when there is no disturbance. Disturbance is due to thoughts, which arise in the mind. When the mind is absent there will be perfect Peace.
68. Reality lies beyond the mind.
69. So long as the mind functions, there is duality. Once it is transcended, Reality shines forth.
70. Self-effulgence is the Self.
71. Satsang means association (sanga) with Being (Sat), which is the Self.
72. For whom is association?
73. The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
74. It is a great wonder that to teach such a simple truth a number of religions should be necessary, and so many disputes should go on between them as to which is the God-ordained teaching. What a pity!
75. Just be the Self, that is all.
76. Because people want something elaborate and mysterious, so many religions have come into existence. Only those who are mature can understand the matter in its naked simplicity.
77. There is neither past nor future; there is only the present.
78. Yesterday was the present when you experienced it; tomorrow will also be the present when you experience it.
79. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond and apart from experience nothing exists.
80. Even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental.
81. Because people love mystery and not the truth, religions cater to them, eventually bringing them around to the Self.
82. Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self; so why not abide in the Self here and now?
83. There is no greater mystery than this: Being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.
84. We think that there is something hiding Reality and that it must be destroyed before the truth is gained. This is clearly ridiculous.
85. A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.
86. If we look upon the Self as the ego, we become the ego, if as the mind we become the mind, if as the body we become the body.
87. It is thought that builds up layers in so many ways.
88. Take no notice of the ego and its activities but see only the light behind it.
89. The ego is the “I”-thought.
90. The true “I” is the Self.
91. The world does not exist in sleep and forms a projection of your mind in the waking state. It is therefore an idea and nothing else.
92. It is false to speak of Realization; what is there to realize?
93. The real is ever as it is.
94. All that is required is to cease regarding as real that which is unreal. That is all we need to attain wisdom (jnana).
95. The universe is only an object created by the mind and has its being in the mind. It cannot be measured as an external entity.
96. The world phenomena, within or without, are only fleeting and are not independent of our Self.
97. Only the habit of looking at them as real and located outside ourselves is responsible for hiding our pure Being.
98. When the ever-present sole Reality, the Self, is found, all other unreal things will disappear, leaving behind the knowledge that they are not other than the Self.
99. Either surrender because you realize your inability and need a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery.
100. The Divine never forsakes one who has surrendered.
101. To identify oneself with the body and yet seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator.
102. In truth, you are Spirit.
103. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit. If the wrong identification ceases, there will be peace and permanent, indescribable bliss.
104. Those who have realized the Self, which is the ground of fate and free will, are free from them.
105. Ramana’s reply to his mother, when she requested that he return home with her:
106. The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their destiny (prarabdha karma). Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain.
107. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
108. The real state must be effortless. It is permanent.
109. Efforts are spasmodic and so also are their results.
110. When your real, effortless, joyful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
111. In the interior of the heart-cave, the one Reality shines alone as “I-I” the Self.
112. The Heart is the only Reality.
113. The mind is only a transient phase.
114. To remain as one’s Self is to enter the Heart.
115. Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called “world.”
116. In deep sleep, there are no thoughts and there is no world. In waking and dreaming, there are thoughts, and there is a world, also.
117. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then withdraws it, likewise, the mind projects the world out of itself and then withdraws it back into itself.
118. The Self is all-pervading.
119. Therefore, no particular place can be allocated for leading a life of solitude.
120. To abide in the tranquil state that is devoid of thought is to lead a life of solitude and seclusion.
121. When your standpoint becomes that of wisdom, you will find the world to be God.
122. The question is one of outlook.
123. The universe exists within the Self.
124. Therefore, it is real, but only because it obtains its reality from the Self. We call it unreal, however, to indicate its changing appearance and transient form, whereas we call the Self real because it is changeless.
125. We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written.
126. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal — an illusion — since it rests upon the paper.
127. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.
128. Our real nature is Liberation, but we imagine that we are bound…
129. …we make strenuous efforts to become free, although all the while we are free.
130. A person goes to sleep in this hall and dreams he has gone on a world tour, traveling over various continents. After many years of strenuous travel, he returns to this country, enters the ashram, and walks into the hall.
131. Just at that moment, he wakes up and finds that he has not moved at all but has been sleeping. He has not returned after great efforts to this hall, but was here all the time.
132. If it is asked, “Why, being free, we imagine ourselves bound?” I answer, “Why, being in the hall, did you imagine you were on a world tour, crossing desert and sea?”
133. It is all mind.
134. With a smile, Ramana placed his little finger over his eye and said:
135. Look. This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents Reality from being seen.
136. See how powerful it is!
137. What is, is the Self. It is all-pervading.
138. We fill the mind with all sorts of impressions and then say there is no room for the Self in it.
139. If all the false ideas and impressions are swept away and thrown out, what remains is a feeling of fullness, which is the Self. Then there will be no such thing as a separate “I.”
140. Meditation on the Self, which is oneself, is the greatest of all meditations.
141. All other meditations are included in this.
142. True silence is really endless speech.
143. There is no attaining it because it is always present.
144. All you have to do is remove the coverings that conceal it.
145. Surrender is giving oneself up to the origin of one’s Being.
146. In due course, we will know that our glory lies where we cease to exist.
147. The pet squirrel is waiting for an opportunity to run out of its cage.
148. Ramana remarks:
149. All want to rush out. There is no limit to going out. Happiness lies within and not without.
150. All spiritual teachings are only meant to make us retrace our steps to our Original Source.
151. We need not acquire anything new, only give up false ideas and useless accretions.
152. Instead of doing this, we try to grasp something strange and mysterious because we believe happiness lies elsewhere. This is the mistake.
153. Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
154. What appears will also disappear and is therefore impermanent. The Self never appears and disappears and is therefore permanent.
155. It is the only Reality.
156. Environment, time, and objects all exist in oneself.
157. How can they be independent of me?
158. They may change, but “I” remain unchanging.
159. Make no effort either to work or to give up work; your very effort is the bondage.
160. What is destined to happen will happen. Leave it to the higher power; you cannot renounce or retain as you choose.
161. The feeling “I work” is the hindrance.
162. Ask yourself, “Who works?” Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you; it will proceed automatically.
163. Realization is nothing to be gained anew.
164. You are the Self. You are already and eternally That.
165. There is never a moment when the Self is not; it is ever-present, here and now.
166. If Realization were something to be gained hereafter, there would be an equal chance of its being lost; this cannot be Liberation, which is eternal.
167. Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
168. What is called “mind” is a wondrous power residing in the Self.
169. It causes all thoughts to arise. Apart from thoughts, there is no such thing as mind. Therefore, thought is the nature of mind.
170. Self-inquiry directly leads to Self-realization by removing the obstacles which make you think that the Self is not already realized.
171. It reveals the truth that neither the ego nor the mind really exists and enables one to realize the pure, undifferentiated Being, which is the Self or the Absolute.
172. Free will and destiny last as long as the body lasts.
173. Wisdom transcends both, for the Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
174. Pain or pleasure is the result of past actions and not of the present…they alternate with each other.
175. One must always try to abide in the Self and not be swayed by the pain or pleasure met with occasionally.
176. One who is indifferent to pain or pleasure can alone be happy.
177. Thoughts change but not you.
178. Thoughts form your bondage and are not external to you, so no external remedy be sought for freedom.
179. What does it matter if the mind is active? It is only so on the substratum of the Self.
180. Hold to the Self even during mental activity.
181. The “I” casts off the illusion of “I” and yet remains as “I.”
182. Such is the paradox of Self-realization.
183. You give up various possessions. If, instead, you give up “I” and “mine,” you give them all up in one stroke and lose the very seed of possession.
184. Disinterest in the non-Self must be very strong to do this.
185. One’s eagerness must be equal to that of a person kept under water while trying to rise to the surface to breathe.
186. Be what you are.
187. That which is, is ever present. Even now you are It, and not apart from It.
188. The expectation to see and the desire to get something are all the working of the ego.
189. Be yourself and nothing more.
190. Pleasure or pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
191. We forget the Self and imagine the body or the mind to be the Self. It I this wrong identity that gives rise to misery.
192. Happiness is inherent in everyone and is not due to external causes.
193. Because you have lost hold of the Self, thoughts afflict you; you see the world and doubts arise, along with anxiety about the future.
194. There is no use removing doubts.
195. If we clear one doubt, another arises, and there will be no end of doubts. All doubts will cease only when the doubter and his source have been found. Seek for the source of the doubter, and you find he is really nonexistent.
196. Doubter ceasing, doubts will cease.
197. Investigate the nature of the mind and it will disappear.
198. Because of the emergence of thought, you surmise that it has an origin and call that the mind.
199. When you inquire to see what it is, you find there is really no such thing as mind.
200. When the mind has thus vanished, you realize eternal Peace.
201. When the mind, turning inward, inquires, “Who am I?” and reaches the heart, that which is “I” (the ego) sinks crestfallen, and the One (Self) appears of its own accord as “I-I.” Though it appears thus, it is not the ego; it is the Whole.
202. It is the real Self.
203. The Self is free from all qualities.
204. Good or bad qualities pertain only to the mind.
205. The numeral one gives rise to other numbers. The truth is neither one nor two.
206. It is as it is.
207. Dvaita and advaita are relative terms. They are based on a sense of duality. There is actually neither dvaita nor advaita.
208. I Am That I Am…
209. Simple Being is the Self.
210. The limited and multifarious thoughts having disappeared, there shines in the Heart a kind of wordless illumination of “I-I,” which is pure Consciousness.
211. If one remains quiet without abandoning that understanding, then egoity—the individual sense of the form “I-am-the-body”—will be totally destroyed. And ultimately, the final thought, the “I”-thought, will also be extinguished, like camphor that is burned by fire.
212. The great sages and scriptures declare that this alone is Realization.
213. Meditation is your true nature now.
214. You call it meditation because other thoughts distract you. When these thoughts are dispelled, you remain in the state of meditation, free from thoughts.
215. When the practice becomes firm, your real nature shows itself as meditation.
216. When meditation is well-established, it cannot be given up. It will go on automatically, even when you are engaged in work or play. It will persist in sleep, too.
217. Meditation must become so deep-rooted that it will be natural to one.
218. Birth and death pertain only to the body…
219. …they are superimposed on the Self, giving rise to the delusion that birth and death relate to the Self.
220. If one dies while still alive, one need not grieve over another’s death.
221. Discover the undying Self and be immortal and happy.
222. Why do you worry about life and death?
223. Deathlessness is our real nature. The real “I” exists here and now.
224. There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement.
225. This is the final truth.

[Source: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Edited by Matthew Greenblatt

Comments or questions, as always, very welcome.

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Ho’oponopono is a little known but extremely powerful self-transformation technique.

Originally from Hawaii, it is a simple teaching consisting of just four phrases, which encourage forgiveness of ourselves and others until zero point is reached. Zero Point is the state where there is no addition or accumulation by us of anything. Ho’oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships. The key point is that it involves taking 100% responsibility for every experience of our lives. This practice was originally used as a Hawaiin problem solving method for families: during a family meeting problems would be brought up and discussed and then everyone would be forgiven and the problem would be solved. Now, it is used as a personal tool for transformation.

How To Use The Technique:

The four phrases are:

I love you
I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you

You just repeat these phrases like a mantra, without undue concern about the whys and wherefores. It doesn’t matter in what order you say each phrase. You can apply it to life situations, places, relationships, financial situations or anything you can think of. When something comes to your awareness, just accept 100% responsibility for it and repeat the mantra.
When we use these words each time we entertain a negative thought or make a judgment, we forgive our ego to the point of its annihilation, or zero point.

Note that when you say these phrases, you are not saying it to the other person, but to the Divine.

By using this technique you are cleaning up your unconscious garbage which is the unconscious memories that determine your thoughts, words and actions without your being aware of it.

Ho’oponopono – ‘Test’ Case

Dr. Hew Len was the first person who documented and confirmed proof of the healing miracles initiated by the Ho’oponopono process, and this ‘test case’ is pretty amazing in its results to say the least.

From 1984 till 1987 he worked as a staff psychologist for Hawaii State Hospital overseeing high security ‘criminally insane’ patients – murderers, rapists and those convicted of assault. After 3 years of practicing Ho’oponopono, wrist and ankle restraints were no longer used in this facility, violence almost ceased to exist, and eventually there was no need for this high security unit which was closed. This was documented, described my multiple witnesses and personnel. Sounds pretty miraculous, doesn’t it?

According to Dr. Hew Len:

• He did not do any therapy or counselling with patients
• He did not attend any staff conferences on patients
• He practiced the Ho’oponopono process on a daily basis – ie he accepted 100% responsibility he experienced
- (‘Zero Limits’, page 142 – Dr Hew Len’s book)

Dr. Hew Len, when asked how exactly he managed to heal the violent patients without actually seeing them one-to-one, his answer was:

“I didn’t heal them. I healed part of myself that created them.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti said the very same thing:

“Is that which is happening in the world outside different from that which is happening inside? In the world there is violence, extraordinary turmoil, crisis after crisis. There are wars, division of nationalities, religious differences, racial and communal differences, one set of systematized concepts against another. Is that different from what is going on inside us? We are also violent, we are also full of vanity, terribly dishonest, putting on different masks for different occasions.

So one is responsible for changing it. That means, one is responsible, completely, for the way one lives one’s daily life. Not try to modify the chaos that is going on, decorate it or join this group or that group or institution, but as a human being, who is the world, go through a radical transformation oneself; otherwise there can be no good society.”

This is what is most remarkable about the Ho’oponopono teaching: that we are 100% responsible for everything. This means everything, everyone and everywhere, not just your personal problems, mistakes, errors, and so on, but for all that comes into your awareness! It is about being 100% responsible for everything that comes into your sphere in any way shape or form.

Now, responsibility may need to be distinguished here from blame. We are not saying you are to blame for everything. Neither is Ho’oponopono a ticket to a good ol guilt trip. It doesn’t mean beating yourself up. Guilt is a waste of time, it only lets you off the hook, whilst you convince yourself you’re really a ‘good person’ because you feel bad (which your guilt has a good thing). Feeling bad is just a con trick of the ego. Being 100% responsible and guilt are two diametrically opposed states of being. Responsibility means, “Yes, we are One, and I am willing to see that which is in me, just as I am seeking to accuse you of that very same thing.”

Ultimately, we know that we are connected, and someone else’s problem, somewhere along the line, is also to do with us. If it wasn’t so, we would not feel pain when someone else feels pain, or feel the suffering of others. The fingers may appear different, but the wrist is one. That’s why those who live in a gilded cage of luxury cannot be truly content when around them are people everywhere with so little. Innately we have a natural conscience, a ‘responsibility guiding post’ that is awakened to a greater or lesser extent depending upon how conscious we are willing to be. Ho’oponopono provides a tool to activate our conscience and become more conscious.

Let me just say that some people do not feel conscience, and can take actions without concern for others, and this goes on not just with those that commit terrible crimes, but also in other smaller ways, and to those people I say, practice Ho’oponopono. In the end talk is cheap, and we must take action. Ho’oponopono is a most transformative practice.

You Are Cause, Not Effect

Choosing the energy of blame, guilt or judgment is to convince yourself why it is someone else’s problem, someone else’s fault. Isn’t it always someone else’s fault?!

But we could say that there are actually just two camps in life:

Either: The world is being done TO you, and it is coming AT you;
Or: The world is being done BY you and it is coming FROM you.

When we take a position in the second camp, of being at cause, rather than being at effect, we are no longer the victim, but instead the one who is empowered. When we believe the world is being done to us we leave the betterment of the world to others and say, ‘It’s not my problem.’ But the world IS our problem, because what you see around you, you will notice is the same as within you, as Jiddu Krishnamurti said. If we take the stance of being at cause, we heal, we empower ourselves (and others) and our experience becomes pure and alive. We find peace.

Let’s look at worry. Ok, we may not go around blaming or feeling guilt (but I think you’ll probably find some of that there too if you are honest), but rather we may be a worrier. When we do this however, it is like putting up a wall, and saying to the Divine, “I’ll work it out myself, thanks.” But worrying never sorts it out, does it? Grace will not penetrate the opaque block of worry, not that It cannot, but rather worry is a use of our free will, and with this, the Divine will not readily interfere. Why? Because our very free will IS our Divinity. So the question is how do you want to use your free will? In worry? Or in empowerment? If the latter, then there really is no other option than being at cause.

Ho’oponopono allows us to be at peace. Anything that is not peace is a memory that prevents us from experiencing anything as it truly is, ie new. What if we saw everything anew and fresh in each moment? What if all our pain was gone, and emotional memory was no more? We would be clear, and in the here and Now. We would have a clear, empty mind. By practicing Ho’oponopono we invite Grace into the moments of our lives to release for us the unconscious emotions associated with people, situations, information, news. Every single issue we are faced with is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean even further. Even if we feel the problem is not ours, because it has arisen in our conscious mind, it is ours to heal. If you are not happy in your job, it is yours to clean. If you are not happy with your relationship it is yours to clean. If you are not happy in any other aspect of life, it is yours to clean. When you do this, there is space for inspiration to come, and when this occurs, you must act on it. So, stop seeking other people’s advice and clean up – make a habit of this, and it will become natural. The energy of blame and guilt will not then sit well with you. You will transform in the truest sense of the word – permanently. Ramana Maharshi said, ‘Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render this world.’ This means the same – clean up on yourself.

Stop the ‘Why’ Question

All too often, we would rather put forward reasons ‘why’ we cannot do the cleaning. This is just the ego’s cheap trick. Don’t be fooled. There is absolutely no way that you can know the ‘why’ of everything. It is impossible. Since we have shared lifetime after lifetime with people, even those we don’t know well, we simply do not know what experiences we have shared with others, and what may need balancing in the energy dynamic of the relationship. Many people want to find out past life connections with people in their lives, or work out why something is happening. Or take this lifetime itself, how much of the past do you actually remember? To keep asking why is to keep going round and round in one of those revolving doors – you’ll never find the answer, so you just have to exit the revolving door. Our brain is full of promise and potential, but our conscious mind knows and remembers very little. So to try to understand everything all the time is crazy. (Why me? …Why did this happen?….Why am I ill?… Why now….Why here? Why Can’t I….Why am I…. Why Do I….etc) is just a waste of time and energy. Only to some extent, can such questioning be helpful, but only initially in order to draw one into self-questioning with the intention of letting the ‘why’ question go. However in truth, we never know everything (anything) definitively, and knowing knowledge, information and memories, which is the ego-based mind habit, does not further us spiritually. The “why?” really doesn’t matter, let it go.

Stopping asking “why?” is therefore a most important spiritual practice. This allows for the free-flow of energy. It changes us from being energy-leaches, desperately pulling towards us answers, knowledge, remedies, solutions, practices and information, and always being in a state of needing or wanting something, towards a clearing. A clearing is a humble statement to the Universe that says, ‘Assist me’ and ‘I am open to your inspiration and guidance.’ Such humility allows for a reverse energy dynamic, from pulling energy towards you, to simply receiving that which flows towards you. It is surrender. Stopping the ‘why’ question, stops our thoughts for a moment, and through such emptiness, we may become the empty vessels for Divine inspiration.

Ho’oponopono is a simple but most profound practice that shows us that the only vital thing to do is to clean our slate of all our accumulations. When we do this, and enough people do this, the world will naturally change. How could it not? Once we are the empty vessel for Divine energy to have its way with us, the creative ideas flow, wisdom comes from within, natural self-governance (conscience and wisdom combined) takes the helm, and solutions are obvious. Jiddu Krishnamurti said,

“Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in relationship, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge.”

Those we are in relationship with, as well as those that we meet in the course of daily life – shopkeepers, strangers, bankers, the homeless, neighbours we don’t know – are simply showing us a mirror of something within us already. Ho’oponopono is the tool that helps us see that what is within us already, rather than seeing others as the perpetrators. With the cleaning up of our ‘inside’ we come to know peace in the here and now. Human beings who experience peace within, will lead – automatically – to a peaceful world. It could not be any other way, just as the lack inner peace and joy is reflected in the insane world that we see at present.

A Personal Note

On a personal note, I have to say that I spent many years completely brain-washed by my own beliefs and judgments, blaming somebody or other for almost everything that wasn’t to my satisfaction in my life – and boy, I can tell you there was a lot of this. On top of that, I knew I was right in my assessments! I knew so much! And it was too much knowing, too much judgment, too much justification.

People say knowledge is king. I used to believe this too at some level. For example, I used to regard the intellect as very important and would judge people very harshly based on whether they had a university degree or not. This was part of my conditioning. Many Asian families lay a lot of store by professional qualifications whilst stifling a child’s natural talents and preferences and make their children basically do what they want them to do. (Read Jiddu Krishnamurti – he speaks at length about this.) Over the years this became an ingrained value judgment and source of personal pride (I had a 2:1 from a Uni – no less, but of course!).

Then three years ago, a spiritual catharsis hit and I had to admit – reluctantly – that the fact is I knew (know) so little, if anything at all. I had to ask if knowledge and intellect were the modern-day elixir then how come I felt defeated? For the first time in my life my own responses failed to satisfy even my own ego. I asked further: How come everything suddenly lost all meaning? How come I didn’t know what exactly was happening to me? What good was my intellect now? How did it help me now? What benefit was it to me except in practical terms? I could speak to a Frenchman in French, or I could create websites, or I could get a job because of it, or I could speak impressively on certain topics, but now, where it counted, in this catharsis situation, did it actually help me at all?

This was the first time I began to look at my self with honesty. In an experiential way, I gradually came to see, in a nutshell, that real intelligence wasn’t the accumulation of letters after your name, but the extent to which one was able to choose the Here and Now.

This is because to be able to stay in the Now moment requires a level of self-knowledge, and this knowledge is that which is beyond mental knowledge (logic, intelligence, value judgments, analysis, left-brained stuff). It simply cannot be LEARNT – it is what is KNOWN. This is the true meaning of the word, knowledge, after all.

Don’t get me wrong. Knowledge is essential! This world would fall apart without it!

I am not talking about knowledge per se, but our attachment and attitude to it. These are the stumbling blocks to true self-knowledge and it crumbles with great reluctance due to its position on the pedestal.

The process of de-accumulation of the mind’s accumulations and un-learning had begun for me at this time, and my need to know everything weakened. I don’t mean un-learning intellectual knowledge, but un-learning my conditioning and attitudes. I found freedom in the knowledge that I needed to no longer keep my mind and thinking run some imagined Olympic race. And in the end I found the mind’s incessant workings, justifications and explanations not just exhausting but preposterous!

To think we know even a minute fraction of what there is to know given the minute fraction of our brain we actually use, given the mysteries of the universe, given the incredible human body, given this mind-blowing Earth and all the rest of this intricate and highly intelligent creation that stretches way beyond our imagination is not just the height of arrogance, but the height of stupidity! It’s the antithesis of intelligence! Always, always, I kept coming face to face with the ironies of Universal Truth and Reality, and it made me smile. That we – a tiny little human being in this vast, mysterious Universe could have such a hard time saying ‘I don’t know’ but rather we go around pretending we know so much and that we’re right – well, it really is hilarious. On the one hand, there is the human being’s grandiose but truly pathetic self-image (lovable as it may seem sometimes) and on the other you have the awesomeness and unfathomable-ness of the Universe and all that one doesn’t know. Hmmm! No, knowledge is not king! IMHO!

Jiddu Krishnamurti said: “To be an integrated human being is to understand the entire process of one’s own consciousness, both the hidden and the open. This is not possible if we give due emphasis to the intellect. We attach great importance to the cultivation of the mind, but inwardly we are insufficient, poor and confused. This living in the intellect is the way of disintegration; for ideas, like beliefs, can never bring people together except in conflicting groups.

As long as we depend on thought as a means of integration, there must be disintegration; and to understand the disintegrating action of thought is to be aware of the ways of the self, the ways of one’s own desire. We must be aware of our conditioning and its responses, both collective and personal. It is only when one is fully aware of the activities of the self with its contradictory desires and pursuits, its hopes and fears, that there is a possibility of going beyond the self.”

When our mind is full of thinking, what we say and do is usually a reaction arising from this thinking (which in turn is determined by past experiences that have not been released), it is not authentic. As such, it fails to satisfy, and moreover, creates further reactions. But when we are emptied out, there is space for authentic expression. This does not mean perfection, but it does mean a level of genuineness. Thus, the process is one of emptying, not continuous analysis. Meister Eckhart said, “To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

A New Experience

I would say that forgiveness of self (ego) is the most powerful and quickest way to evolve spiritually. This is because it dissolves that version of ‘I’m not good enough’ that we believe deep down, and it is this which is in the way of the flow of Divine Love and Light. Self-forgiveness is synonymous with freedom and compassion, and with forgiveness of others. As we learn to forgive ourselves, we become softer on ourselves, and this simultaneously leads to greater kindness towards others. This whole shift provides a new experience. This is a critical turning point. You may recognize these realizations:

• Freedom and compassion are experienced DESPITE all the negatives we thought we were. (Can I really feel peace despite all that I have known myself to be? Can I really give up the hard time I usually give myself? Our experience answers with a Yes.)

• We are able more comfortably to ‘be with what is.’ We see that the ‘me’ that was doing all the believing is not the ultimate after all, since if it was, we could not witness it as a separate entity.

• The new distinction between the ego (‘me’) and that which is aware provides a sense of non-personal experience of ourselves.

• This new experience is synonymous with an inner knowing, which we cannot readily explain in a logical, analytical way – but the fact is we just know know.

• We see that being in the new non-personal space is peaceful, but getting involved as the ‘me’ is not.

• A greater momentum for peace as our experience and thereby responsibility for our own internal state of affairs arises.

• Taking full responsibility becomes more automatic.

• We see that what stands in the way of peace or lack of it is just a belief, which is a role that the ‘me’ plays. In such seeing, these beliefs lose their hook for us.

And if you don’t get the above? Well, you have Ho’oponopono. I have practiced this teaching on and off here and there, but not in an intentional way for very long, so I shall now be putting Ho’oponopono into practice for the next month (till 21st September). Why not join me?

Remember:

I love you
I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you

And remember too, what Dr Hew Len said, “I didn’t heal them. I healed part of myself that created them.” Ponder this!

To Emptying Out And Tumbling Into Reality,

“Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the last few months, as synchronicity would have it, information and people have come my way, which has been, quite honestly, like a second awakening. A wake-up call to the game within the game. I don’t have all the answers yet, but I do know that what I have seen thus far, is mightily challenging, empowering, and spiritually aligned. It is in fact to do with the process of society changing towards true and actual Freedom.

The question I would ask you is:

Do you understand the game that you are voluntarily acquiescing to?

You may already have some awareness of the fraudulent way in which society works. But in this blog post I’m going to show you some aspects of the game that you inadvertently but voluntarily acquiesce to without realizing what game you’re actually playing. You see, power and freedom come when you KNOW what game you’re playing, right? But the vast majority play someone else’s game, on someone else’s terms, without even knowing it, and we call this freedom.

Now, this whole subject is HUGE, and I’ve just scratched the surface, but I’m going to present you with some fundamental truths that I would suggest are worth taking seriously. Why? Because it’s to do with regaining your power in the system. The truth is that NOONE can control you. But because the system is created with its many statutes and regulations that are designed to confuse and keep us victim (and wage slaves), it needs some self-education in order to regain this power.

We are talking about your fundamental identity, your natural rights as a human being, the truth about how public bodies actually work, our actual obligations (or not) under Common Law (the original, moral laws that apply to actual human beings as opposed to to their representing entity – see video top right, click blog post title first). Word of warning – please suspend disbelief and denial – yes we live in a world that is NOT as we have thought. Just bear with this, and keep an open mind.

As Morpheus says to Neo, “The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth…The Matrix is a system, Neo. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.” He continues:

“What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.”
[holds up a Duracell battery].
Neo: “No, I don’t believe it. It’s not possible.”
Morpheus: “I didn’t say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.”

So let’s consider some of the fundamental truths that you may or may not be aware of:

- All bodies (courts, police, borough councils, even the United Kingdom itself, the government, MP’s themselves) are a for-profit corporation. It is all about MONEY and COMMERCE. There is NO justice, it is ALL about MONEY.

- The law as you believe it to be, is actually statutes and regulations – these are not the original Common Law (eg Magna Carta) that refers to you, the human being. The statutes and regulations do not relate to you, the human being, but to your ‘person’, the fictional name, eg Mrs Jane Smith. This is NOT you. Watch the video top right.

- The UK is a Corporation and it is operating in Bankruptcy Chapter 11. This means they do not need to use their own money, they take other people’s money and get them to take credit which they then fractionalize (issue more debt against it), thus gaining more power.

- In order for these statues to apply to you, you have to GIVE CONSENT to enter into another party’s jurisdiction

- NO court has any right to deny your right in a court of law. In a court of law you ARE the one.

- If you reclaim your sovereignty (there is a process for doing this), you are not subject to statutes and regulations. But this needs some research and learning to understand.

- Money has NOT been in existence since the 1930s. Only debt exists, not money. No money = no debt. No debt = no money. The paper and coins, are backed by NOTHING, unlike in the olden days, when a money bill (which was actually a receipt for gold) represented gold coins. Banks loan money they never have. But a lawful loan means the lender must have something to lend. Thus, banks simply give you a promise, an IOU, which is allowed to be passed off as money itself, and we accept it as such.

- A mortgage does not have money behind it, the money is NOT there. A mortgage is a promissory note. As soon as you sign the acceptance form, you have given the bank the ability to multiply that amount (which does not exist as money) by the fractional rate – 9, 20, 30 times (or whatever the rate is) the original amount, through credit to other customers. This way debt exponentially grows.

- You cannot pay off the debt in the world without reforming the banking system. Why? Because paying off debt means extinguishing the money supply.

- The problem with the banking system is Fractional Reserve Lending. This is where a bank lends money it doesn’t have and then charges interest on it, not just once, but several times over (Fractional Ratio). If you or I did this, we would be charged with fraud.

- The Federal reserve is no more federal than Fed Ex, and in terms of reserves – there are none. The name is a deception. It is NOT part of the US Government. It is a purely for-profit corporation. It operates outside the control of Congress and its accounts have never been audited.

- The Bank Of England is, like the Federal Reserve, a private group of bankers, it does NOT operate for the good of the people, it is NOT part of the government, it is a private for-profit bank.

“We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known…I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished…the people of the United States…and has practically bankrupted the Government…It has done this through the corrupt practices…of the moneyed vultures who control it.” – Rep. Loius T. McFadden

“The process by which banks create money is so simple, that the mind is repelled.” – John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

“It is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the Commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible, but there it is.” – Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Georgia

Money As Debt:

“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of the Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.” Reginald McKenna, past Chairman of the Board, Midlands Bank of England.

“Everyone sub consciously knows banks do not lend money. When you draw on your savings account, the bank doesn’t tell you you can’t do this because it has lent it to someone else.” Mark Mansfield, Economist and Author.

The truth is there is NO freedom for anyone, except those bankers at the helm of this Matrix.

Isn’t it funny that we believe that slavery is physical? The worst kind of slavery is the brainwashed submission that most people have come to accept, totally unquestioningly, as normal life.

Neo says to Morpheus: “Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life.” Morpheus responds: “I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?”

There are thus two choices: remain in the gilded cage, or fly out and find real freedom.

In many people, the inner calling towards Truth that exists in each of us, remains submerged by our illusory need for security and our refusal to think beyond what we believe.

But if you, like many growing numbers, are wondering why the freedom we are told we have just doesn’t feel like freedom, then there are many steps that can be taken, to use the system to regain one’s power. I am not saying what one should do, this is individual choice and responsibility, plus one needs to research this subject to know all the implications of any action that can be taken. Like Morpheus says to Neo, “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.”

But suffice to say there are 100s and 1000s of people (in the UK, US, Canada and other countries) who are taking a stand for their own freedom, eg many who have not paid their mortgage, some who have discharged their mortgage, people who do not paid council tax or their TV license (and they’re not fined or prosecuted either). These people are evidence of a fundamentally corrupt system that cannot enforce its own rules.

One important point to note – we are not talking about conning anyone, or doing anything illegal, or doing anything immoral, or wrong. If these feelings or thoughts arise, then this is part of the wake-up process. It is what the system is designed to have you think. But if you can go beyond these (and that is the challenge for most) then you will see that it goes much, much deeper than that. It goes to the subject of Freedom and Truth itself.

It is the same as the process of spiritual awakening where the ego must be seen. Equally, in the commerce-awakening process, the strawman – the fictitious person – is different to the real you. Same process in the end.

And next steps if you want to find out more? Research, read, watch and learn. Start with the videos on this page, look at this site: www.tpuc.org and here are two audios that cover the works:

Lawful Rebellion Guide Part 1:
Download audio file (Lawful-Rebellion-Guide-Talk1-Part1.mp3)

Lawful Rebellion Guide Part 2:
Download audio file (Lawful-Rebellion-Guide-Talk1-Part2.mp3)

Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.

Slavery By Consent: (Watch the other parts on youtube)

The Money Masters – How International Bankers Gained Control of America (3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today: the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. Probably the best history lesson you will come across.)

“I have never had anyone, who could through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money,…I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone connected with the Congress, for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue.” – Wright Patman, Democratic Congressman, 1928 – 1976, Chairman, Committee on banking and Currency, 1963 – 1975

Yes, the people are beginning to demand this. Indeed, as Thomas Jefferson said:

“I sincerely believe that the banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” – Thomas Jefferson

THAT is the solution – let’s hope we see this occur – a banking reform. Basically the people need to have control of issuing money – NOT the corrupt few as at the present time. For this, we must educate ourselves and take action. This is wy I wrote this post.

But the Revolution cannot be whispered any longer, it needs us to stand for what is right. The heart knows what this is.

To a new and just economy,

Comments, as always welcome.

This coming weekend, August 16th and 17th 2010, is the 23rd anniversary of the Harmonic Convergence that first took place on 16th and 17th August 1987.

This event is said to have been a convergence of heavenly bodies and earth which brought to a critical mass an intention for a return to Light on Earth.

The Harmonic Convergence was prophesied by many indigenous peoples and civilizations, including the Mayans. The 1987 Harmonic Convergence marked the point at which the floodgates opened to allow Light, Love and assistance to Earth and all mankind.

In the time since 1987 much has happened and we are looking at a very different Earth. On the one hand we are seeing many difficulties and tribulations arising for people and countries, and on the other hand there is a growing conscious awareness of our own responsibilities for ourselves, each other and our planet.

16th and 17th August 2010 represent a time to further envision an intent for Peace and Light on this earth.

It is a time to spend some time alone or with others, to help open the floodgates even more and through intentional thought, to further push for even greater acceleration into Light.

At this particular time it is more important an act of service than ever, given the natural disasters that are continuing at the time of writing: floods in Pakistan with 14+ million people affected, heatwave in Russia, more floods in China…not to mention plane crashes, economic instability, job losses…the list goes on. This time, more than any other, welcomes your peaceful thought intents for all peoples on earth.

So on 16th and 17th Aug 2010, spare a little time in quiet meditation, or join forces with other like-minded people, and visualise the Earth simply being showered with bright Light, Compassion and Beauty. The video on this page is great for meditating and visualizing.

May you be spurred on by these words from John Smallman’s channelled message of 11th Aug 2010:

“Humanity’s determination to awaken is intensifying as the moment for the move into full consciousness approaches. There are a few, only a very few, who wish to thwart the divine plan, but their efforts are fruitless, and even though they may appear to be causing delays and diversions, remember that within the illusion everything is illusory!

With so very much love, Saul.”

To An Intent-Filled Weekend,

Ouch!!!

Most people don’t like that – to talk about anger.

They would rather deny it, or transfer their angriness onto others, their neighbours, their friends, their families, the world, the government, God. They would rather do that than acknowledge responsibility. This is not a judgment, this is not personal, it’s a statement of fact. The bare facts, without the sweet sugar coatedness we usually go in for.

I used to be a pretty stressed out individual. Anger was a frequent experience, right from childhood onwards. Then one day I couldn’t do the usual sly sarcasms, the stressyness, the unsupportive comments and the judgments directed at nearest and dearest, nor the arguments I often got into with people. I got weary of anger, of arguments, of feeling the heavy stress. It was draining me. Utterly. So utterly, I had no choice but to turn the finger and point it at myself and see how churned up inside I had become. What was it all for? I wondered. All that this way of being was producing wasn’t what I was actually after, but pure stress and sleeplessness! That which I was wanting (underneath my anger) was not my experience, but stress most certainly was! What a joke I found it in the end. This was when I awoke spiritually.

Now, I am talking about the unconscious, past-based, suppressed anger that becomes a way of being. It has many, diverse ways of showing up, not just overt shouting etc. Some of the ways anger shows itself are:

- It tries to show up as an absence of anger!

- The judgmental look at a stranger

- Sarcastic comments, sly slights of the tongue

- Silence as a way of showing someone you are angry – a subtle form of punishment. The pauses in conversation that let the other person you’re not a happy bunny.

- The abrupt cutting short of a conversation with someone you have never spoken to before on the phone

- Expectations – life should provide you with certain things, people should behave a certain way, you should have what you want

- Blaming the government, your family, friends and work colleagues

- Holding resentments and remembering times when someone ‘did you wrong’

- Wanting to be right, having arguments to win pointless points

Now I will probably add to this list as I go along, since that is a fairly short list, and you will know yourself that anger is a pretty cunning little ol thing.

You might ask – Ok, ok, so that’s all fine, I get the picture! But how do you lose this angry way of being?

Great question! (Even though I ask it on your behalf LOL).

Well the trick is to GET the impact of your angry way of being on yourself and others. That’s when remorse kicks in (the precursor to taking responsibility), and that’s when we become distanced from this behaviour, rather than at the mercy of it.

To get the impact, one needs to see how destructive anger is.

Anger is a heavy energy, that leads to sleepless nights, a persistent preoccupation in your mind with a certain situation or person, and it usually remains with you for some time, sometimes even (and in fact, often) for years, albeit in a suppressed, clever way (It’s always someone else’s fault isn’t it!?)

It is like a thick shroud that cuts off your umbilical cord prematurely. Cuts off the cord that leads to passion, self-expression, peace of mind and the courage to love.

Anger is a law unto itself, and steering your way on its terrain is what most people are habituated to doing, but this only makes it persist. You have to finally get out of the car and leave the country.

Anger can be channelled to something positive. For eg, your anger at a certain situation may lead to conscious and beneficial actions to help others. For eg those who have suffered a killing in their family may become active in a charity to ensure others don’t suffer the same way. Or you see wretched things that occur in the world and become an ‘active pacifist’. But this type of anger is also somewhat consuming and can be in danger of becoming militant. It can still take away your peace of mind and can become OTT. For example, people fighting for a just cause but using unjust means to do so.

But that is a slightly different topic, and what I’m talking about is the causatory anger that arises from within ourselves. This is underneath such ‘militant anger’ and is the same as that which is experienced within personal relationships.

You see, whatever we experience, it arises from within us, it is not placed there from outside without our say-so.

Ok, so here is how to shift yourself into a new, predominantly ‘anger-less’ way of being:

- Don’t deny your anger any longer. Look and see – it is not so hidden when you are willing to listen to what you say and watch what you do, and the way that you say it and how you do it. Become your own witness.

- Don’t judge yourself for your anger either or feel guilty. Forgive yourself and give yourself some slack. Know that noone is perfect, and that it is part of being human. Don’t replace the anger with self-judgment or guilt.

- If you feel great anger, then seek support, counselling or share it with a friend. The act of sharing in a safe space is itself a most transformative moment, because it releases us from pretense and we become more the witness, not the victim.

- Admit your subtle anger – not just the blatant type. Notice when it shows itself cloaked in sweet language, or silence towards another. It loves fancy dress, so make sure you recognize the outfit it’s gone and got itself.

- Acknowledge you have anger issues. Most people do, so you’re certainly not alone. If you find yourself saying things like ‘I don’t have an anger issue’ then you most likely have one. When we are not in the grips of habituated anger we don’t need to make statements like that.

- When you notice your anger – at someone or something – acknowledge it, and feel it. Just be with it. This way it has no hook (our resistance) and loses steam.

- Recognize that anger is a hidden ‘should’. Ask yourself, can you give up this ‘should’? Anyway, who says life should be the way you say it should? In fact, life flows much better when you just go with the flow, rather than against the current.

Eventually as you become more conscious, you learn emotional intelligence and you develop true unhindered self-knowledge. Ramana Maharshi said,

“Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.”

Thus, your efforts to be brutally honest with yourself is the path to your own self-knowledge. Without honesty there can be no self-knowledge. As true self-knowledge dawns, you will begin to see you are not the anger in any case. Then you will smile, laugh even.

Ramana Maharshi also said:

“Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world.
The Sun is simply bright.
It does not correct anyone.
Because it shines, the whole world is full of light.
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

You are a Light being, just like the sun – don’t let anger hide your brightness.

Your comments, as always, are welcome.

To your self-realization,

PS. In case you’re wondering why this video ? (top right, click post title first). Well, sometimes, we just need to let it all go and relax. We take life far too seriously. So just switch off for a few moments, and listen to this beautiful singer, Loreena McKennitt (and it’s not just because my name appears in hers

We so often believe things must change before we can be happy.

And this is so very erroneous.

There needs now to be a change in thinking about change itself.

Change occurs in the moment, in the Now, NOT in the future at some point when things get better. Have you, after all, not noticed that when the future does occur it occurs as the present, not as the future?

It’s so simple when you truly get this – and not just as a theory but as it relates to your own life.

The below channelled message states it most clearly. Here is an excerpt, the full message is copied below.

“You have now learned your lessons, but because the illusory state that you constructed has been so intense and realistic in your experience of it, you are having a very hard time letting it go. You see all the apparent pain and suffering in your individual lives, as well as that which humanity generally is experiencing, and it seems to you that this situation needs to be corrected in order for happiness to prevail. But it remains an illusion! Every aspect of it is illusory, and consequently it can never be corrected; it can only be dissolved. By trying to correct or repair it, you are holding on to it, investing in it, and, therefore, still attempting to make it real.”

You see the problem with any kind of positive, lasting change or transformation is that there cannot be any waiting for things to get better first. Be honest, have you not been waiting for things to improve pretty much all your life, like a conveyor belt of demands that you give to life? And did the waiting for further change ever actually stop? Did you ever experience a state of peace and okay-ness? If you have then you are indeed evolving and realizing. If you didn’t, then know that the waiting has to stop. THIS is it. YOU are it. Your Life as IT IS, is it.

The message below helps to bring into full realization that what you wait for is all but illusion.

This has been my own very real and undeniable experience too. All that we get, achieve, the luxuries, the money, the better this, the better that, the less of this, the less of that – this wanting, it never satisfies.

Why?

Because illusion can never satisfy. Only Reality can. And Reality is that you are absolutely fine WITH all your problems. So you can finally give yourself permission to relax and give up those painful attachments.

And then? Then you can just be in the moment, enjoy and be free. You can finally see that you have been searching for this very permission to allow your own liberation AS YOU ARE.

And problems? Well, without being painfully hooked into results, you can use your energy to free-flow and find solutions in a calmer way, where your joy in the present is not sacrificed in the process.

FULL MESSAGE:

“You have collectively made the decision to awaken from the dream

With so very much love, Saul.”

Do share your thoughts below…

It’s vacation time isn’t it. If you are going on holiday, you will be thinking of packing. This channelled message was timely, and it is about unpacking what does not serve…

Specifically, let’s discuss judgment. Now, many cultures are rife with judgment and emphasis on respect being shown as a matter of course due to a person’s wealth, status in society or in a family, or age. Essentially each of us feels the artificiality of such expectations and they leave us empty, but we consider this to be a normal state of affairs and fail to question what is real.

True respect starts with self-respect, and when we respect our own intrinsic worth that is independent of external factors such as wealth or standing, we simultaneously feel respect for others innate respectworthyness. This doesn’t mean we like everything or everyone, but we do not judge. There is a difference. It means we let them be, we don’t invade their space, we don’t stare, we don’t behave coldly. We accept that people are different on a surface level, but that innately everyone is the same within, and is respect-worthy.

Let me say it further with excerpts of a channelled message that came into my Inbox this morning:

“The sands of time have nearly run out, and unlike when you prepare to go on vacation and sort out what you want to take with you, Ascension is quite the opposite. You are instead sorting out what you cannot take with you, but of course we do not mean physical objects. It comes down to any attachments that are of the lower vibrations, that cannot exist in the higher vibrations. As part of your life plan, you have arranged that they present themselves to you for cleansing. Many of you have come into life with a dark side, but that should not dismay you as you will have every opportunity to deal with it. Reflect on what it is that does not serve your higher good, and move it out of your life. Let us take the example of pornography because it feeds your lower instincts. Instead of seeing people as objects to satisfy your lust, you could try seeing them as fellow travelers on a journey like yours, and focus on all that is of beauty and love. Clearly this is only one area of life that will prevent you from uplifting your vibrations, and if you are serious in your intentions to ascend you must cleanse yourself of such energies.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and now you know that the Galactic Federation is a peace-keeping organization, which is why we sometimes refer to ourselves as Galactic Policeman. In your terminology, it is probably more accurate to call us Galactic Trouble Shooters. At the heart of our operations is the desire to see all civilizations join us, so that all can become One in the Love and Light. Life does not have to continue as you experience it, and we will ensure that you leave it behind with the coming of the end times. The solar cycle is ending and cannot be prolonged, and will not result in the destruction of the Earth. A new Earth is to arise with all souls that are ascending with it.”

(SaLuSa 26-July-2010, Channelled by Mike Quinsey. To subscribe to the ET First Contact List click here.)

To Mutual Respectworthyness,

I was about to write a blog about what it means to be truly conscious, as opposed to unconscious, when a friend sent me this video, which is in the box to the right (click post title first).

It’s a great video, challenging, honest in a raw way – do watch it.

It shows you what your ego is – the monkey mind. This is that impulse in you that…

- Talks when you have nothing much to say

The list can go on. Sounds very harsh, right?

But nonetheless it is so.

And we’re all the same.

But in truth what we are is not the above, but shining Divine Sparks who hide our Light underneath the above monkey traits, which are in fact BOGUS (unreal) aspects of a fictional person that does not exist in reality, only in our perception.

Then, one day, Life comes knocking at our door, and says:

“Oi you, I am the one you’re supposed to be living, not some twisted, confused, painful concept you have in your mind.”

And Life says some more:

“THIS is where you find that love and fulfillment you have been craving in that desperate, confused way all this time. I’m here, so let all of that go, it doesn’t work for you – and never did. You can finally relax now.”

So to go back to my inspiration for the blog – what it means to be conscious is to say Yes to Life each time it comes knocking.

This is done by seeing the ego at play within our own life.

When I saw my own ego – all of the above goings on for sure! – at play within me, albeit painful for a time, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It provided the freedom and peace I had never known, and yet had sought high and low for.

One point on this is that we can only fully enjoy what we consciously know. So having searched for peace and freedom yet not known or understood it, how could I ever experience it fully? It was when I came to know that peace and freedom are already present, that those were suddenly there for the taking. Thus knowing is not an intellectual process, but really a revealing or allowing of whatever is present to just be. It is in other words, removing ourselves out of the way of what is.

If you’re in a place of conflict (and if you’re honest, you will see that you are to some extent or other), then watch this video and apply it to you. Then take heart, take courage, and give that chimp a spanking and put it in its rightful place!

And what’s its rightful place? Well, the chimp’s role is as follows:

- To give us a laugh – first and foremost, we need to laugh at all of what it has been trying to do. It’s an insane ape! Your inner monkey is a total nutter! As such it provides us with the comedy to take life less seriously

You get the gist….it is useful, functional. But that’s it.

Of course we don’t actually have a monkey inside us (no, really?), but a metaphor like this is very effective in distancing ourselves from the impetus in us that has us behaving and thinking in the above ways. We are ordinarily too identified with the self-image to notice the difference between reality and non-reality.

And you may ask – but how will my life be if I don’t have the usual definitions and identities that I am used to?

Ah, now, that’s what you need to discover! I cannot tell you that. That’s when life comes alive, and you enter into the exciting unknown, where the goalposts have moved. That’s called awakening. And that’s called a sigh of relief.

In this new paradigm, now it’s you who’s kicking that ball, not watching some chimp make an ass of it. And if you make an ass of it? Well, you just get behind the ball and kick again. What’s the big deal? Who cares what they think? Does it make any difference at all in reality what they think? They’re going to think it anyways!!

Where we face real challenges in daily life, with the monkey put in its place, solutions too are easier to put into place.

Or maybe you choose a different game to play – how about lacrosse?

So the moral of this blog post is: Make sure you give your chimp a good spanking today!

To your peace and freedom in the Now,

I received this from David Spero, whom I consider a friend, as well as being a spiritual teacher in California:

I want our government to emerge from the Gulf oil disaster with a powerful and unmistakable lesson: to end the era of oil and transition to sustainable sources of energy.

I hope you can join me in taking a stand.

Hear, hear.

There is no doubt that governments need to take a far firmer stance towards the very grave problems that oil presents, and transition to sustainable sources of energy.

So do sign it…It is in the end People Power that will change this world.