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Is Personal Responsibility Absolute?

Posted by Palehorse - Friday, February 26th, 2010


Greetings all! Our regular readers will have noticed that I (Palehorse) haven’t been around for a while. For the past few weeks I’ve gone through a period where old understanding has been rapidly blenderized, and new insights, awareness and experiences were coming fast and furious, to the point that if I had started writing an article, by the time I finished it the first half would’ve been obsolete. I went on hiatus for a while to address things and process my experiences and what it all means; even still, I’m mulling over various experiences for insights and tools that I can use for myself and share with our visitors. Obviously, this post marks my triumphant return; ’tis good to be back and writing again! :) Onward…

With the widespread dissemination of ideas such as the Law of Attraction and the idea that “you create your own reality,” it has become a popular belief that we are responsible for creating ALL of our experience. From who our parents are, to how and when we die, and every aspect of everything in between, it is claimed that if you got it, then you created it, no matter what.

Admittedly this is a more empowering belief than to simply think we’re drifting through life as victims at the mercy of forces well beyond our control, even if it can be difficult to accept responsibility for painful experiences. But is it true?

There was a time when I decided to believe it was; I basically made a decision to take up the concept of “personal responsibility” and stretch it as far as it would go, if it was shown that it was a productive way to operate. I held that everything that came into my sphere of experience was either created or attracted by me, and I was responsible for every part of it, basically to see how this would affect my experience in practice. After feeling like I took this idea to the limits of usefulness, I have been swinging back around to a much more moderate view.

I will say that for a time, it accomplished some of the things I needed it to. When I first started exploring various approaches to spirituality, I quickly began uncovering signs of longstanding, severe negative interference which, not particularly wanting to be uncovered, quickly became hostile and much more overtly problematic. Taking responsibility for my life, and getting creative about extending the concept into every area that was affected, became the way to bring all those areas of experience directly under the influence of my own will, thus pushing out various hostile and unhealthy influences, entities and people, that would otherwise be vying for control. This period also helped me to form and clarify my personal boundaries, as I figured that if I could take responsibility for something, define how I wanted it to play out, and have that part of my life noticeably change, then that something can likely be considered part of my personal sphere. I also gained a lot of useful new tools and insight from stretching this idea as far as it would go – for instance, since deliberately and explicitly taking responsibility for my health a few years ago, I have not been sick, and have actually been able to head off symptoms of “pre-sick” from turning into “actually sick,” sometimes simply by sending the intent through my body that it’s not happening.

Are We Creating Unconsciously?

To say that we’re “creating” unconsciously betrays a poor understanding of how the subconscious mind actually works. The subconscious mind is where most of our experience originates, though it seems more accurate to say we emanate unconsciously; creation, on the other hand, is an inherently conscious act. Emanation and personal responsibility are mutually exclusive in the same way that it doesn’t seem fitting to say we “create” our dreams until we learn to become lucid and begin directing the experience. Before then, both are simply made of the “stuff” reflecting from the psyche, which the individual didn’t put there and has little knowledge of how to work with until we think to deliberately begin sorting it out. Said stuff would’ve been birthing experiences from wherever it happened to reside; that place just happened to be your subconscious mind. ;) Once we begin taking responsibility for our emanations, only then does it start to becomes an act of creation.

The subconscious mind is made up of many aspects which come and go and can even get cut off from their conscious Self of origin. As I explained in the Soul Fragmentation series, subconscious aspects mostly run on autopilot, influenced by programmed beliefs and socialization we absorb from our upbringing, and whatever they happen to encounter and even fall under the control of while outside the influence of conscious awareness. The subconscious mind is not really capable of thinking critically and making choices – rather, it automatically makes connections and associations, and processes information; the interactions and energetic component of this process reflecting outward to form the basis of what we experience. What most people are emanating comes from a disorganized and contradictory jumble of absorbed influences and information, much of which can be negative, toxic or simply false. This conglomerate of influences does not think, plan or discriminate what would be healthy or desirable vs. not, when giving rise to our experiences – it simply reflects what it has onboard.

To make matters more complicated, the subconscious minds of individuals are networked with the Collective Unconscious, as well as each other. At this level, individuality seems to be much less differentiated in general, especially for the conscious mind if it were to try and trace all the origins of a given experience. Taking responsibility for what goes on at the subconscious level requires developing a working understanding of what’s actually going on there; otherwise “responsibility” becomes pretty much meaningless.

Interestingly, many of those who claim 100% responsibility for their experience are also anti-ego, which is often equated with the conscious mind. Y’know, the part of us capable of critical thinking, planning, troubleshooting, reasoning and evaluating why things happen the way they do so perhaps they can be made to happen in a preferable way? Or to make a long story short – the only part of ourselves capable of taking responsibility? Yep – if you manage to get rid of your ego, then no soup responsibility for you. You simply become part of the collection of influences, causes and effects with no “I” to organize or direct them, which the rest of us then have to take responsibility for if the artist formerly known as “you” should wander into our respective spheres. It could thus be said that the movement to be rid of ego can be rightly viewed as a collective ducking of responsibility.

At the end of it though – my personal guidance, as well as my intuition after piecing my experiences together, have repeatedly stated and shown that there were many things that have happened to me in this lifetime that were not chosen, planned, expected or wanted at any level of myself. While it is comforting to believe that our lives are planned by a benevolent sky council, and everyone follows the rules to ensure that we get exactly what we signed up for, this does not at all seem to be the case. In reality, while some people come in with a specific plan and a “backup team” behind the scenes to support its fulfillment, we share space with a vast diversity of people and entities, with many different agendas, and the same freedom to act on them that we have. With so many variables in play, some of them occasionally acting deliberately to change or block our plans, the idea of “taking responsibility” for literally every part of our experience is not realistic or advisable.

Toward a More Balanced View

While the concept of personal responsibility worked very well for pushing negative and undesired influences out of my sphere, I eventually noticed that I had taken it beyond the limits of its usefulness, as it was starting to push out positive influences as well. To figure out why that is, let’s take this belief to its logical conclusion.

Advocates of 100% responsibility often speak of life as if it were a dream; every person and event merely a reflection of some part of the Self. If this is true then it follows that if we can just figure out which part of the Self is reflecting which part of our experience, the actors can be rearranged at will just by rearranging the psyche. While this is often the case, it fails to account for the fact that at least some of the “actors” are conscious enough to be free free to write in their own part as they please at any point. (This can be true in night-time dreams as well, but that’s a subject for another post!)

The factors in our lives that we influence solely by doing things like changing our beliefs and attitude, work to shift those variables that were previously undecided and thus open to our influence, as well as people who have no particular interest in influencing those specific factors or were otherwise operating unconsciously in that area. This is all well and good at times, but would you want to live 100% of the time in a reality with nothing BUT sockpuppet dream characters who always acted according to our own beliefs and intentions? I sure wouldn’t, for a lot of reasons, starting with the fact that after a while it would just get boring, lonely and without meaningful challenge.

If your life had movie-credits, then 100% responsibility means putting your own name after every role, and every crew member. What do you think some of those free-thinking and acting contributors would have to say about that?

Therein lies the other major flaw I found in this theory. The longer I held it, the more I noticed the general flow of my life shifting in a direction where there was less happening at all, and the existing dynamic was increasingly negative, in spite of any positive beliefs or actions on my part. It was as if negative influences and people, those who don’t want their role known and have little use for responsibility, collectively said “whoa, he’s taking responsibility for my actions! Free-for-all time!” At one point I even had my boundaries flat-out steamrolled and was smacked around a bit by an entity that seemed to be wanting to prove that not only does one being’s idea of responsibility have little bearing on another’s will and ability to act, the implication that it does could be considered offensive in some circles. “Take responsibility for me, will ye! Harumph!” Point taken, lesson learned, and truth be told, I can kinda relate to that, heh.

On the other hand, those people I would actually want as co-contributors with some creative liberties in my experience; those who are responsible and I would consider as working toward personal sovereignty whether they’d put it in those terms or not, those who enjoy gifting myself and each other with fun surprises, began to give off a somewhat resentful vibe, and then became much less active and visible in my experience. Given the above, I can’t say I blame ‘em. It seems that on some level they were picking up on the fact that I had framed things in terms where I was taking responsibility for their contributions in my life – so they stopped contributing as much. Definitely not the effect I was shooting for, and so needless to say, a change in approach was needed.

As of now I still hold myself to a high standard of personal responsibility, but I expect the same of those I share space with; for those who can’t follow this basic rule I take responsibility for making sure our time sharing space is cut short enough to minimize liability. For most people I recommend focusing heavily on taking responsibility for your thoughts, words and actions; i.e., the parts of your experience that are easily recognized as originating directly with yourself, and likewise viewing other people as being ultimately responsible for theirs. For most of us, mastering those three things is more than enough to keep us busy. As for one’s manifested experience – personal responsibility gets a lot more fluid, or should, if it’s going to remain beneficial. That which I understand to some degree and can have some deliberate influence over, I take at least partial responsibility for. Taking responsibility for one’s beliefs and learning how to use beliefs as creative tools is useful, though I can say from experience that some “beliefs” and similar material that influence our experiences are buried very deep, may even be unrecognizable or unassociated to anything ever held consciously, come from a variety of sources, and taking responsibility without having discovered them will not change the influence they’re having. After a point it begins to look like claiming responsibility for everything going on in the depths of the ocean, when we know less about the ocean than we do the solar system. There is a learning curve, and a process of exploration involved.

Beyond that I find it more useful to fill in the gaps, not with absolute responsibility, but with positive intent, such as the intent that my experience is being co-created by myself and a variety of people, entities and influences who share enough of the same values to make creating together a mutually beneficial experience. Combine that with gratitude to those who contribute to fulfilling my intentions, and we’ve got a pretty good recipe for what could be considered a more diplomatic approach to manifestation.

The effects of this shift have been encouraging. It seems that a lot of negative people and influences are scared off and repelled by the prospect of having responsibility imposed on them for as long as they’re in my sphere. On the other hand, the sort of people and influences I’d actually welcome in my sphere, helping to create mutually beneficial experiences and increased options for all involved to express and explore, have noticeably gravitated back in my direction. Good deal, methinks!

–Palehorse

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It's Okay to Feel Bad!

Posted by Gehenna - Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

With so many spiritual websites out there emphasising positivity, it is no wonder so many of us feel like we have failed at life when we wake up feeling less than love-and-light-y.

For those practising the “Law of Attraction” there are dire warnings against negativity, and thus manifesting what you do not want.

Of course, feeling good is important ..but for it’s own sake first and foremost. Changing your life circumstances is the long-term goal, but it should be remembered that happiness comes from within.. your circumstances are the symptom, not the cure.

In my experience, it doesn’t help to plaster on a smiley face and repress your problems.. they are still playing out internally and causing you pain.

Crappy emotions are a sign something is wrong, much like pain indicates an injury to your body. As you would salve your wounds, so you need to address the issues which are causing you emotional pain.

I find that giving the negative emotions a voice; allowing them expression, is cathartic and doesn’t scupper your long-term goals of improving your vibration. To indulge the odd day of unhappiness is to release it from your experience. We are so afraid to be human, and we really shouldn’t be. To deny a part of ourselves only makes it more determined to show up, and play out in a way you have no say in.

If you wake up and feel overwhelmed by sadness, jealousy or anything else that makes you feel less than smiley, try one of these techniques:

Play some music which reflects the emotions you are experiencing.
Draw or doodle your thoughts.
Cry and scream, or punch pillows.

..but most of all, do not beat yourself up for being human!

By practising these techniques you’ll soon realise how much energy it takes to feel bad.. and you’ll learn that letting off steam regularly is healthier for you than bottling it up.

Raising your vibration isn’t about having an unbroken string of joyful and abundant days.. it’s about loving yourself, warts and all ;)

Originally written for, and published in EarthSpirit Tarot’s newsletter.

–Gehenna

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Conflict of Abundance?

Posted by Gehenna - Saturday, November 28th, 2009



A friend of mine volunteers in a local charity shop (thrift store for those “over-the-pond”). He’d been offered a very large donation of ex-hire costumes from a firm which hires exclusively to professionals; theatre companies and the like.. not to the general public. I’d asked if they’d be getting a plug instore as often happens when a business donates. “Na-uh, conflict of interest!” he replied, “we do fancy dress hire at the shop! Corporate won’t allow it!” I found this a vivid example of this idea being imposed solely by belief. The business donating the costumes is not even open to the general public, whereas the charity shop’s fancy dress hire is aimed at people wanting a costume for a party or dress-up-day; there is no “conflict of interest” as they do not share the same client base.

To fear the drying-up of customers/money/resources is to see abundance as limited. That’s a bit of an oxymoron as abundance is ..abundant! “Sharing the wealth” opens doors; it creates connections and increases networking, drawing more of what you want into your experience. What you might “lose” would pale into insignificance. Fear and worry are also negative manifestation.. showing up very quickly in the form of everything you don’t want. Don’t corral your wealth, or impose restrictions on your client base. If you really believe that your source of work, and therefore income, is finite then maybe you should rethink whether you’d be better off working in a cube farm with a nice, steady guaranteed salary. ;)

Here at Beyond Within, we often link to people who sell similar services, and blog on similar issues as ourselves. I don’t see this as taking anything away from us! To jealously guard the in-flow of wealth and abundance is to stifle it’s natural flow. We have loyal readers, but they are not exclusive to us. In the wonderfully diverse spiritual scene that is found online, there is a lot of crossover.. like a buffet of metaphysics and self-improvement. Would you annexe all the fried mushrooms at a real-life buffet? Well, you might, but you’d be so full you’d not have room to experience the southern chicken bites, or the marinated olives. You’d miss out on far more by overdosing on mushroomy goodness than if you shared the delight those crispy pieces gave you. :)

As in Nature, competition for resources is an illusion and better results are achieved by working together.

–Gehenna
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The Law of Attraction and the Mobile Soul (Part 5)

Posted by Palehorse - Saturday, August 29th, 2009


Soul Fragmentation Series

1. Soul Fragmentation Explained
2. Three Rules Governing Soul Fragmentation
3. Englightenment, Salvation and the Rejection of Power
4. Soul Fragmentation, Neg Interference and the Paranormal
5. The Law of Attraction and the Mobile Soul
6. Adding a New Dimension to Your Perception
7. Hints for Smoother Integration


The common religious practice of releasing or repressing desires and attachments might make you feel more pious, and will probably take the edge off the desires, but it will also make you increasingly impotent when it comes to actually achieving and experiencing the things you love.

When we release desires, either via the usually recommended process of releasing attachments, or writing things off as unattainable for whatever reason, they don’t just evaporate like religion’s credibility in the face of critical thought. Aspects of ourselves with no such inhibition simply wander off — to fullfill the desire. The problem is that if your conscious self continues to reject and release the desire (or the concept of desire itself), these aspects capable of fulfilling them end up stranded, because you refuse to have them back. Often you’ve got a relatively simple self aspect, its existence based almost solely on a single desire, and thus not having much other context with which to direct itself. It ends up somewhere that it can fullfill the desire, but then has no way out of its self-generated nonphysical environment. Back at your conscious Self, you’ve got a situation where, after this process has repeated itself over time, the whole 1. loses power to achieve its desires, and 2. stops caring, but 3. ends up in a similar sort of limbo, having lost the ability to propel itself in any direction. Welcome to zombie-hood.

Once I figured all this out, I sent out a broadcast of my intent for all desire-based aspects of myself that I had ever rejected, to return, and felt some very empowering energetic effects over the course of the next few days. (I also had more experiential evidence of how disempowering some of the most widespread religious beliefs are; namely “desire = suffering,” or “desire = sinful”; pick yer poison). As of now I have a policy that all aspects of myself are expected to do what they love, in whatever form they’re best suited to, in alignment with my mission statement. If I have a desire that for whatever reason can’t be fulfilled in the physical at the time, I release it with the intent that it will be fulfilled somewhere on the astral, and return.

This has been very beneficial in a number of ways. The most immediate effect was that rather than carrying around a bunch of unconscious patterns and history that said most of my dreams and desires were infeasible and even “wrong,” I now had access to a large part of myself that had lots of experience and knowledge of how to go about fulfilling them, and “memories” of what they’re like to experience. Since taking up this practice my conscious mind does not feel the need to spend much time dwelling on desires, which removes any “suffering” component from the process without removing the desires themselves. Sometimes it is satisfying enough that they’ve been fulfilled nonphysically and there is no further want, though for the times when it’s something I actually do want to experience in the physical, it certainly fulfills the LOA rule of “feeling as if you have it now” if part of yourself already has. I’m finding that as the various aspects of my subconscious mind get used to experiencing the things they love freely, the effect trickles over and my success with the LOA increases in my daily life. I still have a ways to go before I would consider myself any sort of “expert,” but I have definitely seen enough to validate what I’m saying here, to be comfortable laying it out for my readers. Update pending the point at which I can write it from my epic Scottish castle. ;)

While many of the most commonly referenced factors for successful manifestation certainly seem relevant, in practice my biggest breakthroughs with the LOA have come as a result of working closely with my own subconscious mind and doing the integration work I have referenced throughout this series. Many people have trouble with manifestation, not because they’re not positive or grateful enough – but because their subconscious mind is a jumble of conflicting intentions, fears, beliefs and patterning that they may not even be able to percieve. I can say from experience that it is possible to be almost militantly positive and optimistic, and even feel great emotionally and energetically, but get no results, or even the opposite of the results you’re shooting for, because you’ve got subconscious aspects of yourself and others working against your intent.

The more we integrate and become aware of our full multidimensional Selves, the more pull we have when intending to swing probabilities in our favor. I view my subconscious mind somewhat like a highly efficient and cooperative team – I give it an objective, and ideally all aspects of myself point in the same direction to make it happen. This seems to work much like obtaining something I want in the physical world – start by assessing what resources are closest to hand that correspond with the goal, and then begin making connections and networking with others who might be able to provide assistance.

What happens when I turn a goal over to my subconscious mind seems to be much the same process. The first order of business is to get my energy, emotions and vibration aligned with my goal. After that, I send out aspects of myself which begin making connections and arrangements with any necessary parties between myself and my objective – except in a much faster, more efficient and versatile way. Aspects of our subconscious minds are coming, going and communicating with other minds all the time; the Law of Attraction is just one way of utilizing this mechanism deliberately.

This could account for what I’ve observed but not seen mentioned outright anywhere, which is that those who are best at manifestation almost invariably have great networking skills in practice. The subconscious mind tends to pick up the conscious mind’s habits, so if you’ve got a skill for maintaining a large network of people with a mutual willingness to help out, then chances are your subconscious mind is doing the same. Your subby just happens to transcend time and space, and have influence at the physical, nonphysical, energetic and quantum levels, to aid its efforts. All told, I would have to say at this point that manifestation could be summed up most succinctly as a process of networking.

This does not contradict many of the other factors that are said to influence one’s chances of successfully working with the Law of Attraction (one of our good friends has even written an excellent manual. ;) ). I find all the talk about “gratitude raising our vibration” to be a bit nebulous in the way it’s usually portrayed for instance – but it makes a lot of sense that it gets a better response, within and without, in the same way that it does in our normal interactions. This view also certainly allows for the input of “higher powers” and even the universe itself to pitch in. Conscious entities who are attracted to your energy and are willing and able to add their own “pull” to your efforts can choose to do so. Beyond that, there are good reasons to believe that “the universe” as a whole is not just a machine or a collection of “dead” matter – it is a field of consciousness that responds insofar as its parts are able.

As an aside, I realize many of my readers have experienced varying degrees of negative interference, and may have ended up as frustrated as I was by the effect this can have on one’s efforts to manifest desires. I can confirm that it is very possible for the process to be interfered with in ways that extend far beyond simply putting a damper on your mood, and thus your vibration. The process can be interfered with on various levels, with the effect of vetoing and even reversing one’s intent even if everything is done “right.” It doesn’t help that most sources on the Law of Attraction ignore this side of things entirely. A planned article will address methods I’ve developed to account for this.

That aside, if we combine all the usually stated aspects of using the Law of Attraction with the networking abilities of the mobile, multidimensional Soul, it becomes possible to account for the sought after experience of things “magically” falling into place, in the perfect way, in perfect time.

–Palehorse
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Power, Wisdom, Love

Posted by Palehorse - Saturday, June 6th, 2009

In the process of creating my own personal mission statement (and by extension, that of this site) I realized that there are three prime forces that operate at the foundation of our very reality. Aligning one’s living strategy and approach with the foundation of reality does wonders for its effectiveness I figure, so today I’ll tell you what those are and what I know about how they work.

My thoughts on this are greatly influenced by Gnostic tradition. Gnostics had various cosmologies which were misinterpreted as literal creation stories, though the cosmologies were meant to say more about the people who designed them, their understanding of reality and their relation to it. That said, I suspect they all had at least a piece of the puzzle that is objective reality itself. All of these cosmologies started with a single Source, from which emanated original primal forces, known as Aeons. The interaction of these forces were thought to make up the very fabric of existence, and give rise to everything else.

My own cosmology is much more complex than I’ll be going into here, but for the purpose of my Mission Statement, the primal forces I recognized at the foundation of all things are Power, Wisdom, Love and Mind. (What I’ve written on Mind is not as relevant for this article I’ve decided, so it will be expanded on and moved to a future post.) These four Prime Movers, as I understand them, are not dualistic; they have no opposites. They are fields of energy that permeate all things, and while we can be more or less attuned and aligned with their influence, even plug into them directly; all things exist in relation to them, and all virtues are various combinations and quantities of these. Recognizing and aligning with them gave me an extremely solid baseline by which to measure all other energies, entities, information, people, situations, desires and all other influences that make up my experience. So without further ado: here’s my statement of purpose, which I’ll then break down into its parts.

I intend and choose to keep growing, learning, experiencing and expanding in power, wisdom, love and service in the way that is most fun and enjoyable for myself.

Power: All Things in Motion

“Power” is a bad word for many people, especially spiritual people. We’re told not to seek power, because, as the saying goes, “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I’m also reminded of the opening monologue in one of the Lord of the Rings movies, where the voiceover is talking about how Sauron’s rings were given to Elves, Dwarves and “Men… who above all things (music gets ominous; voice drops to a tone of obvious disapproval) desire power.” Strictly speaking, Galadriel’s got a point there – desiring to accumulate power above all things leads us into problems, and the only place it can take us is to a rocky end. The reason for this is not that the use of power is, in itself, bad – but rather, seeing it as something to accumulate and hold over others is a misuse of the way that the very laws of the universe operate. If “might makes right” is your game, then you’ll eventually have to come to terms with the fact that you’re up against an entire universe which is, in fact, a lot bigger than you. ;) The transformation of both Bilbo and Frodo into almost possessed, demonic versions of their former good-natured selves, is a pretty good picture of what Power can do without the balancing effect of the other two virtues. The condition of Gollum; obsessed, addicted, and completely divided against himself, possibly the most disempowered character in the storyline who ultimately chased power to his own death, shows what can happen when we desire power “above all things.”

Power, as a virtue, is not something to accumulate or hoard; in purest form it is a force that we exist in relation to. Everything in the universe is constantly moving, flowing and changing; forces are always acting on other forces. When we learn how to harness some of those forces and flow with the changes, starting with the forces operating from within ourselves, we have power. When we resist the natural flow (and likely get pretty bruised and battered in the process), when forces outside ourselves take control of our internal forces, we are disempowered. As a Spirit having a human experience, you are, by definition, a tremendous natural source of power and energy. In most cases though, our power is scattered in all directions, and being dumped into black holes that don’t serve us, rather than being put to its best use. It is also worth noting that most of what we think of as “power” is actually status – or the illusion of such – based on success within “The System” as it stands. This condition is, however, dependent on the system remaining as it is – which no system ever does — and as such is fleeting. True power, or rather, plugging into and harnessing the universal source of Power, is adaptable and not dependent on external conditions. For the truly powerful, the appearance of status and the ability to influence are not something to be sought for their own sake. Status is simply a useful tool for gaining greater visibility, and thus being able to speak your truth to a wider audience. Influence is one of the tools useful for navigating your own ship within the context of all the other forces it is subject to. Universal Power doesn’t make anybody inherently “special” because we’re all harnessing the same source, and are part of that source. Although harnessing it in your own unique, creative way, and getting more proficient at doing so, can have a way of putting you in awe of your own special place and purpose within All That Is. :)

Wisdom: All Is Information

Information is everywhere; much like the other two virtues, we’re swimming in a field of the stuff. I would define the virtue of Wisdom as an ability to tap into this information, process it into something you understand, putting it to use, and continually improving on your ability to do all three. For those who have seen the Matrix trilogy, it may help to think of Neo suddenly gaining the ability to view the code behind the Matrix itself in raw form. Everything in our reality is made up of information; Wisdom comes with being able to not only process information, but put it to creative use as well.

Most people are not efficient processers and users of information. This is not usually something inherent in the person, but rather, because they’re misusing their tools: namely, the conscious and subconscious minds. Expanding on this theme will be the subject of future articles. Suffice to say that most people use their conscious mind to do all the gathering, processing, analyzing and application… while the subconscious mind, a living creator with the abilities of a supercomputer that never sleeps, and is intricately networked with All That Is, goes mostly unused and unnoticed.

Wisdom Relates to Power in that along with tapping into the force of motion, tapping into the flow of information is also a source of Power; or as the saying goes “knowledge is power.” Those who are able to advance in the fields of business and politics are adept at combining wisdom with power; information with influence. The problem is that in many cases, they leave it at that – and as a result, it’s framed as “every man for himself”; every man an island, in a fierce, cutthroat competition with everyone else to hoard information and resources for the greatest personal gain, typically in terms of money and influence over others. What they leave out of the equation is the third virtue, which has a balancing and uplifting effect on the others.

Love: All Things Are Relational

I covered the subject of Love in depth in a previous article, so I’ll keep this part short and mostly leave it at “go read that one.” :P In the interest of covering ground that I haven’t already, I’ll say that as a virtue, Love keeps us ever-conscious of the fact that everything in the universe exists, moves, operates and maintains its being in relation to everything else. At a certain quantum level it has been said that “there are no objects, only relationships” – every Thing that exists, is defined in relation to Other Things.

When the self begins to realize the interconnected and interdependent nature of all things, it brings us to the awareness that the way to gain is not by taking away from other selves, but through cooperation within the forces in which we all exist, and with other selves who support our ambitions. Two selves in conflict will never accomplish as much as two selves sharing resources and pushing each other to ever greater heights of individual and collective achievement (which even leaves a place for friendly competition!). On a broader scale, when humanity learns how to share and pool resources and innovation rather than warring over them and restricting their use with legal code like dogs fighting over scraps, we will transcend the limit of our self-imposed doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, and enter into a paradigm of Mutually Assured Creation without limits. This is not some fluffy, hippie-dippy New Age sentiment, but rather a practical and objective observation of the very nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. By plugging in and orienting yourself toward the universal source of Love, especially with the forward-moving and informing influence of the other two virtues, you can get a taste of that reality right now.

Fun: Increasing What’s Enjoyable

While possibly more a personal value than a universal principle, I would argue that all things and people have a vested interest in either being enjoyed, or getting as much enjoyment as possible out of their experiences. While it’s not realistic or even desirable to have every minute filled with all sorts of fun and bliss, that’s not my aim here. What I have found is that by making “fun” part of my mission statement, it orients me in such a way that if there’s a way to make something more enjoyable for myself, I’m more likely to find it. Not only does holding this intention help me to make unavoidable tasks easier on myself; it also raises the chances of steering myself away from situations I’d rather not be in, and toward more of those that I would prefer. It also has a way of putting things in perspective such that I don’t take myself, or most other things, more seriously than they actually warrant. Aside of weaker areas I’m still working on, this has done wonders for my stress level, and even allowed me to design the “playing field” some of my own life lessons.

Paradoxically, I take fun very seriously, since realizing how important and beneficial it truly is. All too often fun and responsibility are seen as being at odds with each other – we do the “responsible adult” thing (which usually means “hand over control of our time and energy for someone else’s personal profit”) during the week, and have our fun on the weekends. Most peoples entire lives are structured this way: trudge through your “responsibilities” now, have fun later… maybe.

As with most things: I reject your reality, and substitute my own. ;)

I challenge myself and stretch my creativity by trying to bring as much fun and enjoyment as I can, into as many areas of my life as possible. This does not necessarily mean that I try to make things “easier” on myself; I do that as well in many cases, but that’s a separate concept. I enjoy struggle for the sake of a good challenge (and then there are times when I’d prefer to relax and be on autopilot)… but the important distinction I came to recognize is that we have a tremendous degree of choice in the matter of whether we make progress through painful struggle, or fun struggle (or, as some people prefer, dispensing with struggle entirely and simply “going with the flow”). Why should work have to be difficult or tedious, and fun reserved for playtime? Why not find ways to play for profit and work for fun? Whose life are we supposed to be living here, anyway?

Far from decreasing my productivity or turning me into someone who veges out and floats through life without accomplishing anything meaningful; when I’m enjoying myself, I learn better, have more motivation to keep challenging myself, produce more, and the product of my efforts radiates the energy of my enjoyment. That should probably go without saying, though a brief glance at the corporate world betrays the fact that most people would probably need to be grabbed by the ears and shaken vigorously for this concept to sink in. This, in turn, allows me to produce a greater amount of value for others, which segues nicely into…

Service: Broadening Your Perspective

As I said in a previous post, I have recognized great value in orienting all my systems toward the concept of service. In contrast to the way “service to others” is usually portrayed though, like most things, I spin it in my own way. While it pleases me very much to have others gain value from anything I’m able to offer, my direct focus is not on “serving all people at all times, indiscriminately.” I’m a big fan of the philosophy encapsulated by the airline safety rule “secure your own air mask first, and then help the person next to you.” My concept of service starts with myself, and works its way outward, first to my immediate family, then to what I call “extended family,” which includes some friends and others I have strong previous-incarnational ties with, and then to everyone else who can be served by what I’m able to offer. Simply put: service starts in my own house. I’m not saying there aren’t times when putting others before myself isn’t advisable, there definitely are. But as someone who has lived with my focus on “others first” for quite a few years, I find my current approach to be a much more sustainable and fulfilling use of my resources.

I proceed in this way because I find that it puts me in the strongest position to focus my energy and provide the greatest amount of service. When I’m careful to take care of myself, I’m more likely to be physically and mentally healthy and content, which makes me more productive. I serve my family next, not out of obligation to the concept of “family,” but because 1. I value the people that I call family, and 2. this small group provides me with a strong, mutual support network, from which everyone in it draws a degree of security and a boost to each individual’s ability to serve how they will. I realize that not everyone’s biological family members fit this definition, but I would recommend to anybody that you find a way to cultivate this sense of “home and family” in whatever way you can make it happen, no matter how far “outside the box,” before trying to be of service on a wider scale.

While I’ve said before that I reject the idea of “service to self vs. service to others” as a false dichotomy, I do make a distinction between service and gratification, or even personal security. I enjoy those things, same as anybody, but holding them as something to seek for their own sake is a dead end. Orienting your systems toward gratification and security, programs you to take in energy and focus it only on the self without putting any back out again. The universe likes to keep things flowing and doesn’t respond well to hoarders – so you end up trying to secure your foundation on this hoarded energy that’s being broken down by the universe trying to take it back out again. Orient all systems toward service of the self and others, as someone who takes in what they need in order to find new, better and more enjoyable ways to use it as well as hand it back out again, and you’ll find that personal gratification and security take care of themselves in abundance.

While I encourage everybody to create their own individual statement of purpose, I suspect that the strongest ones will be aligned with these elements in some form. When I began working with them myself, I also suggested them to my brother, who is very new to self-development and metaphysics. For privacy’s sake I won’t say much about his personal struggles at the time, though I will say he had tried a lot of things to overcome them already. Within about a week’s time after specifically focusing on Power, Wisdom and Love, he came back to excitedly report some pretty drastic, positive changes. So, try it, see what you come up with and share your results with us! :)

In my next post I’ll take a look at the three primal addictions the ego is conditioned with from birth, that obscure, distort and block us from aligning ourselves with Power, Wisdom and Love.

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Cultivating Intuition and Discernment

Posted by Palehorse - Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Discernment and intuition are two of the most useful traits we can possess. The two are easily confused, but understanding what they both are, and how to cultivate them deliberately, is crucial for any seeker of truth and self realization. For that matter, it’s crucial for anyone who wants to be a good judge of character in others, and who wants a healthy navigation system for sailing the sea of information we’re bombarded with on a daily basis.

When you begin (or find yourself suddenly plonked onto) a spiritual path, you will encounter a wide range of ideas, and it would probably be fair to say that 1. the vast majority of them are sketchy at best and toxic at worst, and 2. most of it will be presenting itself as “The Truth.” It is also common for spiritual seekers to gain sensitivity, either through deliberate practice or spontaneous opening of latent abilities, which opens them up to contact from various nonphysical energies, influences and entities. As I’ve discussed previously, not all of these entities are going to have your best interest in mind. Much like people, nonphysical entities are a pretty diverse bunch, running the spectrum from dangerous adversaries to valuable allies, to those who mean no real harm but can still divert your path with their craving for attention. Entities with shady intentions posing as divine figures is also one of the oldest tricks in the book. So how do we tell the difference between a true spiritual ally, and the hissing lizard-creature in the Virgin Mary mask that may not be who it says it is? Let’s get acquainted with the two friends who will let ya know, once you know how to work with them.

What is Discernment?

Discernment is the process by which we evaluate incoming information and either accept it as it is and incorporate it into our personal “operating system,” revise it, or reject it. This is mostly a mental sorting process, which measures new information against what we already hold, and uses the support of our emotional center to let us know what “feels right” vs. not. Using our discernment causes us to ask: is this information logically consistent? Does it fit with what I already know to be true? The trick with that second question though, is not to confuse “knowns” with “beliefs.” A belief can and should be challenged, and changed, in the face of new information — a known is what is left after all beliefs are stripped away.

In an ideal world, the disciplines of logic and critical thinking would be taught in schools as a basic skill… but unfortunately, in this world, that would conflict with the purpose that schools were designed for to begin with. ;) Nonetheless, doing some study on subjects like logic, and recognizing logical fallacies, can be very helpful here. I did once take a college course on it which, while mind numbingly tedious at times (those times being the sections that involved proofs in the form of math equations *groan*) it was one of the most valuable classes I ever took, and I’d highly recommend it if you’re currently at a school that offers it. If not, Google and/or your local library are your friends. ;)

At this point I should say that I realize there’s a tendency in many spiritual circles to react against the over-reliance on logic in other fields, and shy away from it entirely. I would also be the first to tell you that not all spiritual experiences are logical. Where logic does (or should) come into play, is evaluating the information we gain from our most abstract, wild experiences; our interpretations of those experiences, and where we choose to go from there. While there are no absolutes, information and interpretations that are logically consistent are generally more likely to be closer to the truth than that which is full of holes and contradictions. This gives us a framework for keeping ourselves grounded, even while having experiences that will “blow your mind, man.”

The usual approach to cultivating discernment is through hard life experience; sheer trial and error. You have some good experiences, and you get knocked around enough times, so you start getting some idea of how to increase the former and decrease the latter. The problem is that most people have no real system by which to process and organize the information that makes up their worldview, and don’t bother to consciously evaluate what’s already there, much less what new information is permitted to come onboard. This leaves us with a worldview that is scattered, disorganized, full of contradictions and epic leaps in logic. It is most often founded upon the ideas that were socialized into us from parents, religion and society about what is “good” and “bad.” Even those who have begun questioning their programming are left with the dilemma of what standard to measure the programming against. With a mind full of conflicting ideas, trying to find its way in a world to match, how do we begin to chart our own course? I’ll tell you how I did it, but first I’d like to talk about the faithful companion of discerment: intuition.

What is Intuition?

Intuition is in a sense, the opposite yet complimentary process. There’s no sorting or even much thinking involved here; our intuition provides an immediate sense of “knowing” about the truth of a given situation or piece of info; it immediately gives us a sense of What Is. This process takes place mostly in the emotional processing center of the navel chakra; the source of “gut feelings.” Intuition uses the support of the conscious mind in that we have to be aware enough of what our feelings are telling us, to act on them.

After finding themselves in a range of sticky, screwed up situations, many people claim that they either don’t have intuition, or that theirs is “broken.” I’m here to save you a lot of trouble by telling you that your intuition is always functioning perfectly, exactly as it should. “But Horse!” you might say, after (hopefully) setting aside the urge to pop me one, “how can you say this, if I keep ending up in situations that aren’t good for me?”

I say this because your intuition, as the more unconscious part of your navigation system, is always guiding you exactly where it’s told to. Intuition simply tells you What Is — but it’s your personal collection of information, programming and old buried emotional material that you’ve got stored in your subconscious mind and energy centers, that determine how you respond to its signals, or whether you even recognize them at all. Refer back to what I said above about holding a scattered, disorganized worldview, and the picture becomes more clear. Whatever direction your entire mental, energetic, emotional and subconscious systems are most oriented in, is what your intuition will guide you toward. More likely, if your system is full of all sorts of mutually contradictory programming, intuition will seem harder to spot… not because it isn’t there, but because it’s leading you erratically in all directions, and you have to figure out and calibrate which of those directions you actually prefer in order to hone your relationship with your own senses. If, to use a common example, you were raised with a version of Christianity that taught you that you’re a sinful being who deserves to suffer, your intuition says “right boss!” (quite possibly in the Bronx accent I’m hearing in my head), iceberg suffering, dead ahead!”

Most people are stronger in either intuition or discernment, and sometimes there’s a tendency to downplay the weaker area. Women are often said to be better with intuition, while men are assumed to be more proficient in logic. In reality there is nothing inherent in either gender that makes them automatically better in either area; this has more to do with the fact that logic is a more mental process, intuition is more emotional, and our cultural conditioning categorizes men and women into the two separately. I started out much more logical than intuitive, but once I got rid of everything that was interfering with my intuition, and figured out how to use it, it began to feel just as natural. Among people who are better at logical discernment, intuition is often thought to be too “warm and fuzzy,” and among the intuitively gifted, logic is viewed as “cold.” It’s natural to gravitate toward what we’re already good at, but the best use of these two skills are as a complimentary, balanced whole. After all, information can be logically valid, while not being beneficial to incorporate in our daily lives, and conversely, something might feel right, but on closer inspection, not lead us in a direction we would want to go. Logic gives intuition a framework within which to focus itself; intuition provides our logic with a sense of direction.

In order to discern or intuit the nature of any person, entity, information or situation, you first have to be intimately familiar with YOUR nature. Who are you? What are your values? By what set of standards do you measure what’s good for you vs. what isn’t? You’re already doing this, probably largely unconsciously, but you’re doing so with a set of standards that you’ve been programmed with over the course of your lifetime, rather than ones you’ve chosen deliberately. When you have a clear sense of self, things that conflict with it will naturally begin to feel very dissonant, and things that synch up with your internal compass will feel comfortable and “right.” So how do we change our programming and begin choosing values that are truly our own?

Meet the Bouncer

There is a part of the subconscious mind I call The Bouncer, because it fulfills a function similar to a person with that job – it’s the part of you that operates at the border between the conscious and subconscious, and decides which information passes the threshold. The information that gets through becomes your personal programming, and holds a degree of influence over your experience and worldview from that point forward. Additionally, in contradiction with most of the “law of attraction” material I’ve ever read, I’ve found that simply changing a belief on the surface; deciding not to believe it anymore; doesn’t necessarily alter the influence it’s having over your life. When a piece of information gets past the bouncer, you’ve basically installed it as mental software. If you’ve reinforced it in various ways over time, it will be buried deep. Changing your conscious beliefs and actions is a bit like deleting a shortcut from your computer’s desktop – but if you want the program fully gone, you still have to uninstall it. Changing beliefs on the surface will condition the subconscious mind eventually, in an indirect way, but there are ways that are much more efficient.

Fortunately, working with your bouncer doesn’t require any fancy hypnosis techniques or deep trance that most people typically associate with subconscious work (although reading up on self hypnosis and familiarizing yourself with the methodology wouldn’t hurt). He operates close to the surface, but can “run errands” at deeper levels if you ask him to, so working with him doesn’t require much more effort than getting relaxed, addressing him directly and telling him what you want to achieve. I’ve even named mine and developed a specific way that I address him, which means that at this point he’s only taking information from me and sources that are aligned with my values, rather than absorbing it willy-nilly. If you realize that a belief or piece of information you’ve been hanging onto is limiting or unhealthy, simply ask your bouncer to remove it and all its influence from your system at all levels, and if you wish, replace it with something else. More information about changing your beliefs at the subconscious level can be found in my post, Beliefs Create Experiences. The recent guest post Coralie’s Manifestation Manual also has a great section on sorting through your belief system.

I assume most of my readers probably know themselves at least well enough that they can get a good start on sifting through their internal archives. However, if we take into account that the packages of information offered by all religions, politicians, societal institutions and especially modern advertising and media, are deliberately designed to bypass your bouncer and head straight for the depths of your subconscious mind, it starts to become more obvious that we need to give our bouncer some “rules of engagement” by which to accept or reject the constant flow of information. After peeling away so much of my own programming like layers of an onion, and realizing that there would probably be no end to the process in this lifetime if I didn’t find a way to blow through more programming in a shorter period, I began to recognize the importance of giving my bouncer a specific, concise Mission Statement to operate with. I’ll pick it up there in my next post.

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In Defense of the Ego

Posted by Palehorse - Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Until I figure out how to get a caption under an image: Image used in this post is “Undecided,” © Stefano Bonazzi. Used with permission.

The ego gets a bad rap in most spiritual circles.

When I began exploring various spiritual traditions and started hearing so much about how the ego was supposedly the source of all my woes, I recognized that before I would be able to figure out what to do with this part of myself, it would probably be a good idea to try and reach a more clear understanding of what the ego actually IS, and what its functions are. Far too many times I have been down the road of trying to get rid of part of myself that I felt was the source of problems, only to later realize I was only doing damage to something that had legitimate, vital functions. This never ends well, and I have long since abandoned that approach. If part of myself isn’t functioning in a way that I consider healthy or beneficial, I don’t try to cut off the part — I simply have it release whatever it’s doing that I find detrimental, and give it some healthier functions to operate with. This basically sums up my approach toward the ego.

So what IS the ego?

My views on this question stem from an odd situation I found myself in early on: my ego wasn’t always functional, much less tyrannical as it’s usually portrayed. I had very little sense of self. Few, if any, personal boundaries. Very little definition to my sense of personality or identity. My mind was “quiet” most of the time, though it would probably be more accurate to say that my thought process consisted more of abstract concepts and impressions, than words or pictures. I had a very difficult time translating thoughts into words in order to communicate with others. I had very little desire to do anything other than “go with the flow” and seldom made judgments about anything or anybody — I simply wasn’t very attached to anything going on outside myself. When I came across the idea of universal oneness, I had no problem accepting it, because I had very little concept of “me” as an individual to begin with! From all descriptions of “enlightenment” that I’ve come across — you might say I was enlightened before I started “seeking” anything. Be that as it may, it wasn’t a state I was happy to remain in, and I eventually found out why.

The cause of all this was major, verifiable damage to my energetic anatomy — the spiritual equivalent to a debilitating physical injury.

Namely, my throat chakra was completely disconnected from my other chakras. In other words, it was isolated, and unable to exchange energy and information with the ones above or below it (and by extension, any of the others). After fixing those connections, the changes resulted in a flood of information on what a functioning ego is supposed to look like.

The throat chakra is the seat of self-expression, communication, and by extension, our concept of individual personality. It serves the dual role of processing and interpreting information taken in by the other chakras and physical senses. More recently I have found that it also does a lot of “data storage” — i.e. it holds all the data that makes up our self-concept. To the extent that absorbed information from one’s outward experiences and interactions gets retained in the subconscious mind in the form of socialization, conditioning and belief, it creates our definition of who we believe ourselves to be. It apparently does not take in much information on its own however; those functions are tied into other chakras and sensory organs. Being isolated in this way, the part of myself that was supposed to be interfacing with the physical world was largely unable to do so, and existed in a state of detachment and sensory deprivation.

After repairing the damage to this part of my energy body, and paying attention to the specific and rather dramatic changes it quickly brought about, I would have to conclude that what most people are referring to with the word “ego,” is an integral part of our basic anatomy. It is the part that interfaces the physical with the spiritual; the inner with the outer. Its functions, and physical location, are heavily tied into the throat chakra.

But the ego is still bad! My guru, religion and/or some guy who wanted me to hand over my personal sovereignty said so!

Granted, the ego inevitably takes on a lot of strange, distorted and demonstrably false beliefs about who “I” am. It tends to attach to things that are fleeting; trying to find a stable sense of identity in temporary states that aren’t likely to last throughout a single lifetime, and will definitely be left behind at death. It creates a rigid sense of itself and then dumps most of your energy into maintaining it, against the flow of an ever-changing sea of probability that is the universe in which we exist. But is the problem the ego per se, or its false beliefs and bad habits?

Blaming the ego for its beliefs and habits, and using this as a valid reason to do away with the ego itself, makes about as much sense as observing that fingers are prone to hangnails, and concluding that we’d all be much better off without fingers.

When I reconnected my throat chakra I at least had the advantage of knowing already that “I” am not any of the transitory constructs, circumstances and relationships that the ego typically identifies “me” with. I was also excited to finally have use of all these functions that I had been trying to live without (and not doing a very good job of it) before then. Was I to then say to this aspect of myself “yeah, sorry about all the mangling and sensory deprivation — but now that you’re able to function, I have to kill you.”? Are we to become whole by doing away with a part of the whole?

I realize that most approaches toward dissolving the ego are a lot more passive than what I have described here. As it has been explained to me, once everything falls away that can fall away, you’re “supposed” to find that there is nothing left at the core. The implication is that “you” and “I” don’t exist.

This has simply not been my experience. I have stripped away aspects of myself, shut down other aspects, experimented with changing everything about myself that it’s possible to change, and spent years without a functioning ego. At the end of it I found myself with a lot of fragmented and damaged aspects who did not cease to exist; they were just waiting around somewhere in the astral (literally) for me to pull my head out of my arse, stop trying pretend there is no “I” and start reintegrating them. Hypothetically, I could have probably continued along that path until there was nothing left of this conscious self, leaving me an empty shell that would eventually die and be no more. But from what I’ve seen, those parts I stripped away would simply go off on their own evolutionary track, and the higher self that this incarnation is part of would continue to exist, probably saying to himself “damn, lost another one to that whole “enlightenment” fad.”

When I got my ego back up and running, I found a pre-existing core “essence” that flourishes and successfully coexists with others when I’m true to myself, and protests loudly when I engage in self-betrayal. It has preferences, desires, goals, ambitions — and finds the process of figuring out how to achieve them as fun as the end result is gratifying, before transitioning on to a new adventure. I’m free to experience what I want without feeling like I’m “suffering” if I don’t get it, because I view life as a game, and one that I don’t take particularly seriously at that; it’s all just experience. One of my guides (I use that term for familiarity, but I prefer “nonphysical allies”) once half-jokingly referred to the popular notion that “desire” itself is a problem to overcome, as “Sour Grapes Syndrome.” I would have to agree with this assessment.

Given my experiences, it’s not surprising to me that “enlightenment,” and with it the extinction of the ego, is traditionally achieved in silence and isolation. Without much external stimulation, input or interaction with others, the perception of individual self-hood, and the parts of our anatomy that sustain it, atrophy and disconnect. If that’s what you’re seeking, I could save you the trouble by pointing out that you could achieve the same effect much quicker by cutting connections and walling off your throat chakra until its health declines beyond your ability to repair it — but I wouldn’t recommend it.

To each their own. My preferred approach to my ego is to get rid of my socialization and conditioning — a collection of usually conflicting and mostly dysfunctional constructs imposed from without that I did not choose — and turn what’s left into my own creation. I am in the process of releasing everything I may have believed myself to be, and replacing it with whatever I choose to be. Far from losing my sense of self, if anything I am gaining one that is self directed, co-created, fluid, evolving and ever-expanding. In a word: free.

In my next post I’ll explore the three primary errors of the ego that we are conditioned from birth to accept and identify with — and become trapped in.

–Palehorse

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Coralie's Manifestation Manual

Posted by Coralie Ferrandiz - Wednesday, April 29th, 2009


Introduction

First of all, this is a manifestation manual. It’s not about the ‘why’ or ‘why nots’ of manifestation- it’s a how-to. I’m sure you can find many other articles about why it works or why someone may believe it doesn’t. This is not for that.

The methods that I will explain are methods that I have learned from various sources, and I will illustrate them the way I have put them to use. They have personally worked for me- because I ‘knew’ they would. If you want to derive some benefit from it, one thing to do is to believe it will work, or at least to believe it can- and to follow the steps in order. This is important- to not do it would be like to cleaning up your closet without throwing anything out- unless you already dispose of excessive things in your daily life it just won’t work.

Catalogue and List

Find out what you really want.

Do you really want an object, or the way it makes you feel? Ponder this, for it is very important. Once you have identified what you want, remember how it makes you feel, for that is very important for the process.

Denials, False Beliefs. Things that Stand in your Way

Why can’t you have it? Make a list of the reasons why you don’t feel you have it. Can you afford it? Is money the problem? Do you not feel deserving of the object? Is there something about the object that makes you stop and doubt why you can’t have it? List as many reasons you can for not being able to have it- from the inconsequential, ridiculous to the very serious.

Put this list aside for later.

Now you will get into your psychology. Your ideas, where they came from, and how to verify them. If you were born into a religion, you need to make a list of the beliefs about yourself and the world that come from it. Next put down the ideas about the world you got from your parents, no matter if they are ideas you no longer believe. It is irrelevant at this point- you heard it from them, so it goes into the list. Next, make a list of ideas you have gotten from your peers (friends, coworkers, etc.) For example, if you work in an office you may hear jokes like “another day another penny” etc. Then, lastly, write about the ideas you have obtained from society at large: What you see on TV, what your political party of choice tells you about society, etc.

The past and how it affects you

Now, here comes the longest, most tedious part, the part that may be painful, but must be dealt with: Take the first ‘worldview list’, the one from your parents and religion, and ask yourself how to reconcile those ideas with what you want. If you grew up in a religion that preaches poverty as a good thing, then wanting a big fancy car may be incompatible with your wish. If you grew up in a family in which privation was the norm, in which people with money were looked down on, then you becoming one of them may cause internal conflict. It is at this point in which you must decide where your desire is coming from. If you desire something that is incompatible with your deeply held beliefs, it will not come into fruition until it is reconciled. At this moment you must decide- is this desire ok for me to have? Is it selfish, will it deprive someone else? It is this moment when deep introspection is necessary: If you wish for a harmonious family life then it wouldn’t seem to cause an internal conflict- if you wish for a million dollars so you can have some sort of revenge on someone (negative need) then the results can backfire on you. If you recognize that some of the beliefs you grew up with are no longer what you believe now, then this is the moment in which you must challenge them, because plainly rejecting them isn’t going to work. This is where some of the homework is. At this point, you have to:

Take the list of beliefs you made, and disprove them.

If you believe that “money is the root of all evil” then you must look it up: It’s (for example in this case) “the love of money is the root of all evil”. This is a very important thing to realize; both sentences don’t mean the same thing, and the first one (which is incorrect, but the one you hear most repeated) can make you make unfortunate choices when it comes down to handling it. This may be painful, but you have to do this process with all the beliefs that are not in line with your goal. If this is not possible then you need to get another goal. It’s that simple.

When you have gone through all your lists, (which could take a while), you will then make a list of the beliefs you have discarded, and a list of the beliefs you have kept or substituted. You will then, make a ceremony and burn down the discarded beliefs, and flush them down the toilet. You will then keep your new list of beliefs for later.

No, you’re not done. This is the one that is most painful. Make a list of all the people who ever have hurt you (I mean cause you pain, not unimportant things), and write what they did to you. Then find a way to forgive them. I don’t mean ‘pretend that it was ok’; that is not forgiveness, that is denial. One way is to revisit what happened, see what part you had in the situation, and then forgive them for what they did to you, and ask (mentally) for forgiveness for whatever part you had in the situation.

Once that is done, and it may take a long time, you may then decide who stays in your life and who doesn’t, and emotionally let them go- I don’t mean leave your wife/girlfriend/husband, etc. I mean do a severing ritual/meditation and emotionally let them go. That way even if they are there they won’t have a hold on your emotions. Do this as many times as possible. This is extremely important because in manifesting, you must claim your God-given power, and a victim is a person who has given away their power to someone else. So victimhood must go. If you feel a sense of nobility in victimhood, it’s time to go back to your lists of beliefs-and find out where it came from, and go through this ‘debunking’ process before you continue.

These steps may have to be taken more than once, because sometimes in your life stuff comes up that you thought was resolved. It is ok to ’start all over’- There is never finality in this process. While we exist in this three-dimensional existence things do and will come up.

At this point your list of ‘why I can’t have/do this’ should be empty.

On to Manifesting

Now you are ready to do some manifesting. Realize that manifestation is what we are here to do- We (and I mean everything and everyone) create this existence. This is our job, and what we do every day. You either do it subconsciously (another day, another dollar) or consciously: “The Universe is an unlimited source”. It is important that we realize we are not talking about money or objects only- in fact money and objects are the result of our manifested emotion. So the emotion better be positive and constructive. This has to be very clear, and it not up for debate. We can discuss until the cows come home about this, but if you don’t believe this, then this manual isn’t for you.

To improve the quality and effectiveness of your creative power, these are the steps:

Cultivate gratitude.

Be grateful for what you have. You are the product or expression of the Universal creative principle (one of the attributes of God, for those religiously inclined) and it is essential that we recognize the source- gratitude opens up channels for more creativity. So thank your God for everything you have, and when you get something, thank God (the Universe, Spirit, the Creative principle…) for it. That doesn’t mean you don’t thank or feel gratitude towards the person/organization your good came from- Wherever it came from is an actualization of this principle. So if Grandma gave me $20.00 I must feel grateful for the fact that she thought of me and wanted me to have it, and also thankful for God for bringing her to me for this good thing. Love and Gratitude.

Realize that you are part (an essential part) of everything that is. Realize that everything you do is good (and if it isn’t, then it’s time to change that) for the greater whole. So apply this feeling of positive contribution to the whole to everything you do. Even if you don’t love it, you are doing somebody good. So when you pay your light bill, remember that your money is part of the money that one of the people working there might need to feed his/her family, and they can do it because of people like you. And God working through you for that/these person/people.

Tithe.

I don’t mean to a church or religious organization, but that’s ok too, provided that you feel that it’s for the benefit of others. Tithing applies to anything or anybody. If there is someone who is hungry, feeding them is tithing. Reading to the blind is tithing. You get the picture. Your prosperity is for the good of the universe. You deserve to be prosperous.

Why all this giving? Three answers: One: You are the manifestation of good in this world. Giving out of Love, or the desire to do good puts you in harmony to the highest part of yourself. Two: You are part of the greater picture: The more good you do, the more good there is to come back to you. Three: The universe abhors a vacuum. If you give, you give the Universe a chance to fill the empty space. And since the Universe is always creating itself, you will probably get more than what you gave. (The universe is always creating itself? Yep, that’s why it’s inflating).

It has been said that Love is the only thing that’s real, and I agree with this. I don’t mean what is popularly thought of as love (lust, wanting to possess, etc.) but what is known as the drive to want the best for someone else, the desire to protect someone else, in the material sense. Without getting into mythology, it has been reported by people that have had NDE’s that the only beings (people) that existed or they thought about were the people (animals, etc.) that they loved- nothing else seemed to exist in the state they were in. So let’s take that into consideration: When you want to manifest, what is the most important part of it is how the object of manifestation is going to make you feel. When you think of this, you need to recall that emotion- you have to make the emotion happen when you think of the object. So, if I want to manifest a pool, when I think of this pool, instead of thinking “I want this pool” which is a big no-no I have to think about the good times I am going to happen in it. The feeling of love has to be tied to it: (Love as in: Having fun with your family/friends that you love, etc.).

Visualize and Realize. (I know, it sounds cheesy, but it rhymes)

Always visualize what you want in the present as if you have it already. Realize you are putting positive energy in manifesting something that already exists in the astral- What you are doing is helping it manifest in the actual (material,time space continuum, yadda yadda…). This may take time in the actual, but if you think about it as something in the future, you are pushing the deadline forward- permanently. Remember that in the astral, it is always now. Only the actual takes time. So you think of what you want as if you have it already- because somewhere you have it already- you just want it in the actual- already. When you think of something as being in the future, you are affirming that it is not here now. So if you want something, you have to affirm it is here now. Just ’cause you don’t see it yet doesn’t mean it’s not here at all. It’s here, you just haven’t seen it yet.

The last part of the journey towards manifestation:

Affirmation.

This is the part many (including me) have made fun of, yet it works. It helps undo the damage that negative programming has put in your understanding. And it can help if you apply yourself to it. Depending on what you want to manifest, affirmation can be tedious or easy. This is how I do it, and it’s easy for me. (Started out tediously, but I trimmed it into what worked for me)- so here it is:

Remember the list of pro’s and cons for what we wanted to manifest? We got rid of the cons, now we turn the pro’s into affirmations. In the present tense, as if you have it now.

In the original example, I wanted a car. So I wrote: “It’s going to help the economy if I get this car”. This turns into: “My beautiful new car is good for the economy.” This is an affirmation. Do this with each of your pros. Then look around your life and see if there is negativity in places you wouldn’t expect, and write affirmations that deny the reality of this negativity. I do this in my home office, where I open the mail, and go in the internet. All kinds of negative programming flood the mail daily, so I have stuff dispersed in places I can see them where I do most of this type of activity: Kind of a self-styled subliminal programming. For example, amongst my daily-use envelopes I have a few that say stuff like “God is my Supply”, and “Only Good things Happen to me.” All my files say “Trust God” on the inside. Other general things like “There is no limit to God’s Good” and stuff like that. So when I open a piece of mail trying to sell me “help with my financial problems” I am counteracting with “God is my Supply=No limits”. It’s sneaky but I can be sneaky right back.

Of course, this is how I do this- if you are opposed to the idea of God for whichever reason, you can use “The Universe” “The Creative Principle” or whatever resonates with you (i.e. ‘floats your boat’). The idea is to continue to feed the inner creative power that you possess. Of course, if you don’t believe you possess it then you probably stopped reading this a while ago, and if you didn’t, then try it for kicks and giggles.
It’s just a matter of where you want to focus your mind.

Affirmations should be done before going to sleep, and should be at first written and read aloud to yourself, and later on in your process you can do them in your head. But they should be done for at least a month at first, and then tapered down to ‘as needed’. As I said before, they should be told in the present “I love my new car” and as simply as possible. For example, the above affirmation would be how I tell the one I was previously describing in the description.

I just want to add that this is a simple manifesting manual, it can be used for anything provided you have the ability to focus to this degree. It’s not meant to substitute whatever religious doctrine you subscribe to and works for you, and it definitely shouldn’t be substituted for any medical treatment you may be having- but it can be used in conjunction with whatever form of healing you have chosen. Not being a healer, I will stay away from that, and leave it to the experts, energetic and otherwise.

Cheers and giggles, C.F.

Written by Coralie Ferrandiz.
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Connecting from the Heart

Posted by Palehorse - Monday, February 9th, 2009



Lately I’ve had a lot to say about the heart chakra and the love energy that it uses to make connections. What isn’t so widely known about the heart chakra is that in addition to forming connections with other people, it is also responsible for attracting positive synchronicity, decreasing resistance and attracting positive influences and circumstances into your life.

Unlike most of the other chakras, the heart chakra can’t be strengthened by working on it directly — its strength lies in the connections it forms. In that sense, it can be considered as an energetic network hub. Usually these connections are formed unconsciously; for instance when we connect socially, if the heart chakra is healthy and open it will send out an energetic connection to the other person as well. Today I’ll share some ways to make those connections deliberately, as well some benefits of doing so.

In addition to being a fun toy, the plasma ball (pictured) makes a pretty good metaphor of how the heart chakra works. This is also the basis of the technique I use to connect to others with my heart chakra. Before I go out in public, I’ll do some pre-stimulation of my heart chakra by raising some energy into it and pulling at it with my awareness until I feel that it’s active (although the more I do this, the more active my heart chakra gets by default!). Then while I’m out, I imagine and feel my heart as a plasma ball that continuously puts out those tendrils of electric energy in order to make connections with the hearts of others, and give them a little burst of love-energy. Bonus points if you mentally send a kind word to people you pass by; something like “all the best, friend” or “have a good one, buddy.” The more I use this technique, I’m finding that I can hold the “plasma ball” concept in the back of my mind, and my heart chakra will send out these connections without my direct focus or deliberate mental action. I figure eventually my heart chakra will learn this habit, and do its plasma ball thing automatically without any input from myself.

When I first started doing this, the result was an immediate, dramatic difference in the way people would respond to me. I was getting lots of random smiles and hello’s, and even people striking up conversations. At the grocery store, a woman actually asked me to go in front of her at the check-out for no particular reason that I could gather. Things like this are becoming pretty commonplace, and it’s amazing to me because these things have simply never happened for me before. As much as I’ve worked on being open and friendly, I’ve seen no change in the way other people would avert eye contact and hurry past — until I brought my heart chakra into the mix. Now people are initiating contact with me more often than not, and interestingly it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with my current mood or any outward attempt to appear friendly on my part — it’s all in the energy I’m putting out. This kind of energy is in such demand that you end up giving a little energetic boost to everyone you connect with, and people will naturally respond favorably to you more often than not, even without fully knowing why.

Once you’ve had some practice, get creative and find new ways to incorporate heart-energy into your daily life. Some possibilities I’ve had good results with — try doing it before making a difficult phonecall to connect with the person on the other end beforehand. When you get up in the morning, imagine connecting at the heart to yourself at the end of the day — with the idea that this heart energy will smooth out the path in between, and the day will go in your favor. Experiment with connecting to someone at the other end of a crowded room and see what happens.

I’ve also been trying to build myself an “energetic heart-based network” that spans the globe, with the idea that when I need something, it will be provided through that network, and I will also be put in a position to support others in this network as well. I do this by imagining myself very large, and far above the earth, sending my connections toward the planet as it spins, to be picked up on by those so inclined. I know some may be thinking “but we’re all connected already!” — which is true. But the everyday reality is that for most of us, connecting at the heart level, and making that sense of interconnectedness part of our normal awareness, takes a lot of practice. This is one way I’ve found that strengthens my heart chakra as well as my sense of connectedness.

If you’re using these techniques and not seeing or feeling any results, your heart chakra may have blockages that are preventing the energy from being able to connect. If this is the case and you feel comfortable doing the necessary energy work yourself, I recently posted a technique to clear these sorts of blockages. Alternately, the energy healing sessions we offer will clear your heart chakra of obstructions and give you the relevant information to keep it that way.

Of all the work I’ve done with my own energetic system, working with the heart chakra has been by far the most rewarding and fun. Get creative with it, and share your experiences with us!

–Palehorse

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Love: Here's the Scoop

Posted by Palehorse - Sunday, January 11th, 2009



When a friend challenged me to come up with a definition of love that was as specific as I could make it, it opened up a great many new areas and levels of development that I could never have anticipated. As a follow-up to the reader survey on “what is love,” I now offer my own thoughts.

Love is usually defined primarily in two ways — something you feel, or something you do. I can recall that in my Protestant upbringing, “feelings” were scoffed at as fleeting and transitory (and not without some validity); love was defined as a conscious decision to act in a certain way toward others out of religious obligation. Outside conservative religious circles, love is often viewed in more subjective, feeling terms; something one falls into or out of. While both these paradigms have valid points to make, love may involve all those things, but also transcends them.

After going through the process of figuring out how to correctly process love by fixing things that were off kilter and blocked in my energetic system, and noting the dramatic differences after doing so, I concluded that love is a type of energy. This energy expresses itself in a variety of ways, along a spectrum, in the physical world. This spectrum can be defined as ranging from the more generalized “love for your fellow man,” to the total and mutual giving of one’s self to another person. Connecting the two ends of the spectrum into a continuous circle, are the forms of mysticism that focus specifically on the divine as the object of love with the goal of union.

It’s worth noting that the more traditional / conventional conceptions of love don’t necessarily involve the heart chakra at all. The traditional religious view is rule-based, and geared toward providing something secure and certain. Security issues are a function of the root chakra, and one’s rules of engagement (whether defined by the individual or imposed by an institution) are held in the solar plexus. As for the “love is a feeling” camp, sorry guys — emotional processing is mostly done in the navel chakra, and sexuality is another function of the root chakra. That last bit is worth emphasizing, since confusion between sex and love is so rampant, with often disasterous results. Love and sex can of course be combined, and that’s definitely an experience well worth having — but it should be understood that they involve two separate areas of processing, and two completely different types of energy. Trying to substitute any of these things for love, rather than having them informed and empowered by love energy, is to hinder the heart chakra’s ability to do its job. Love is not “safe” — to love freely and boldly, to go through life with an open heart is the epitome of courage. The heart reaches out with its love-energy to whoever and whatever it will; imposing rules on this process only serves to block and stifle it.

After reaching my conclusions about what love is and isn’t, I began contemplating what we can say about the specific properties of this energy. After some consideration, I realized that it does indeed have several functions and properties by which it can be identified and discussed.

The energy of love is processed and exchanged in the heart chakra, which is made healthy and open by first practicing self-love. As to where this energy comes from; whether it is produced by the self or is “channeled” from the divine — I lead toward the view that this energy is freely available and permeates creation, but is tapped into, exchanged and directed consciously by conscious beings with the necessary processing ability. I was recently watching a short film on quantum physics which stated that if you break things down far enough at the subatomic level “there are no objects, only relationships.” How a relationship can exist without two or more objects to exist between is something I’m still trying to wrap my head around (in reality it’s probably some sort of Zen paradox that requires getting your head out of the way entirely :P ) but what I do know is that love energy is relational — it naturally forms relationships; it may be accurate to say that love energy IS relationships. Based on this I theorize that there may be an underlying field of this energy we call love that permeates the universe, and is literally the “glue” that holds all things together at the quantum level. Definitely something to think about and investigate further, methinks!

Love is magnetic.

This can be understood on a few different levels. Love energy attracts what is consistent with itself, and repels what is not. In practical terms, it attracts people who are consistent with who you are, and repels those who cannot or will not accept and process that loving energy. I have experience on both sides of that coin. Before I was able to get my heart chakra fully open, up and running, just being in the presence of various people I can think of who are very open in that regard had a noticeable effect that was almost uncomfortable. While these are people whose company I enjoy, I noticed that being in close proximity would put me on edge, like being near some sort of vibrating love-battery. :P What I now believe was happening was that their heart chakra was putting out this energy and trying to connect with mine, as heart chakras do — but it was running up against my blockages and faux-defenses, thus mostly having nowhere to go. This was creating a conflict between wanting to connect with this energy and enjoy the company of the person behind it, while getting a distinctly uncomfortable sensation from having something tapping and vibrating against the walls that I didn’t realize I had up.

After I discovered and dynamited my heart-fortress, I was able to really get a feel for what fully open connections with others are like, and witness the unmistakeable tractor-beam-like pull that this energy has on others who are open to it. In the past I took it for granted that I was seen by others as unapproachable; someone who has to take the initiative if I wanted to connect on any level with another person — this has changed drastically since getting my heart chakra in on the act. Now, other people approach me first just as often as not. Before more recently I had always seen socializing and connecting with others as something that took a lot of work, time, energy and effort; a “luxury” to be pursued and maintained after “essentials” were taken care of. Needless to say, for me there was a lot of frustration and anxiety tied up in the whole subject. Now, it’s like all the “effort” has gone out of the process; it’s just natural and fun. :) Since my next post is going to be on how I’ve been using this effect deliberately and making it work for me, I shall say no more on that for now.

Love energy is the ONLY truly binding influence that holds relationships together. Those whose heart chakras are blocked or closed off, and thus not able to process or generate this energy, tend to try and substitute any number of things for it, such as money, sex, manipulation or control. In fairness, most people who substitute various things for love-energy have no real idea that this is what’s happening; they’re simply acting on what they know. I now know that I used to equate things like shared interests and a similar life philosophy with love, before I learned what a heart chakra was, what it did, and how to get mine healthy and functional. Now I recognize that while those things have their place, if the heart chakra is not part of the arrangement, there will be little to hold the relationship together through any kind of trial except possibly the fear of change.

As part of its magnetic properties I strongly suspect love energy is also a key to the Law of Attraction. It is the attracting force that works to bring us together with the object of our desire along the path of least resistance. If you’ve done all the usual work to hold a positive mentality, and still aren’t seeing much evidence of the LOA in your life — you may find your answers in the state of your heart chakra. Speaking of resistance…

Love is transformative.

Love is a catalyst for change in everything it touches. Whether you’re attracted or repelled by it, it’s going to get a reaction one way or another. For those who are conscious of it, it demands that a choice be made: you can move toward, and with love, or you can move away from it, with your thoughts, words, actions and choices… but either way you’re going to keep moving! ;) It is for this reason that I would say love is the major driving force behind human evolution. The heart chakra’s natural tendency to reach out for a growing network of connections drives us, not only to enjoy interaction with others for its own sake, but to pursue one’s true calling, and to seek out a rich and ever-growing variety of experiences and learning. Contrast a heart-based natural love of learning, connection, experience and abundance, with the dominant paradigm, where you might spend the first few decades of your life learning what you’re forced to learn in a rigidly structured environment, and then you “graduate” to a job that dictates how you spend most of your time, as well as how you dress and express yourself during that time and possibly beyond, because you fear where you might end up if you don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not meaning to disrespect anyone who is “doing what you gotta do” to survive, especially having been in that position myself. That goes double if one has a family to figure out how to support. This is something I’m pretty sure everyone experiences at some point in their path, and it does have value in that it can help one to develop their will power; you’ll certainly need that to keep doing what you’re doing if your heart isn’t in it. Ideally that phase would be used to develop the Will to the point where there’s enough courage to detach from that paradigm; the problem is that the drive for survival based on will alone is designed as a trap that one could easily get stuck in with no visible way out, for quite a long time. This system we take for granted is one of fear that ultimately stifles human evolution. I do, however, challenge anyone who finds themselves in this position to work on opening your heart chakra, and see what direction your life soon takes you. :) This segues nicely into my final point…

Love is the antithesis of fear.

A lot is said about love being the opposite of fear — I’m here to say that you can take this very literally. The two energies cannot coexist in the same place at the same time, and at this point I’m finding that when they encounter each other, love always wins. Feelings of fear are usually held in the abdominal area — I’ve found that if I’m feeling anxious or fearful, I can literally direct my heart chakra to pump some love energy into the area, causing the anxiety to evaporate immediately and be replaced by feelings of peace and well-being. Pretty neat trick, and one that can be done regardless of what circumstances look like. Remember, since love energy is key to decreasing resistance on the Path, when it’s allowed to flow freely it doesn’t particularly matter what circumstances look like.

That said — it’s easy to say that “love conquers all,” but in reality this way of being takes a lot of practice and self-discipline for most of us, and I’m definitely no exception. If your habit is to indulge the fear, then fear will have a stronger hold over you than love will. If your mentality and energetic system is dominated by fear, anxiety and worry, then it’s going to take some time and effort on your part to root out and dissolve it all. We all have a conditioned fear response to certain things, and it takes time to learn a new response, so that when faced with that stimulus, the heart chakra activates rather than the reactive fear response. The first step is a conscious decision to permit fear no place within your being. Once that decision is made, love can begin to do its job. This takes courage and self-determination, but the fun thing about it is that love itself makes things progressively easier as you go along, by growing and attracting an increasing amount of support and positive reinforcement. Making that first leap is the hardest part; after that the process requires courage and vigilance to maintain, though it doesn’t seem fitting to call it “difficult.”

We often hear statements like “God is love,” “love is all there is” and “love holds the universe together.” If we understand love to be a type of energy with certain special properties we can interact with, it stands to reason that these may not just be sentimental cliches, but rather an integral part of our spiritual, social and even physical reality. Learning to process, direct, exchange and manage this energy would thus be the key, not just to managing our relationships, but also achieving full mastery of ourselves, and becoming conscious creators of our reality. In the next post I’ll share a technique for using this energy to make your days run smoothly and positively; maybe even get a few fun surprises!

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