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Thanks, Jeff, for sending this picture.

 

Only after laughing five to nine times I suddenly choked on my giggles. What the heck am I doing laughing about my own inability to fix something like that?

This relationship of voters and politicians is not supposed to be like that. How did we let this happen? Right now it really seems like it is this way and we all laugh about it because we don’t see a way to change it.

Let me make a decision here: I will not laugh about it any more but make this a constant reminder that I will do something about it. I will not attempt to reverse the roles because that would make me not an iota better than the ones I want to do something about.

I really like the ability to delegate some work to others that I don’t have to time or inclination to do at this time. This is how government has started. I just have to keep an eye on them so that they don’t run away with their delegation and do something not intended. In other words I have to maintain my responsibility for what I delegate.

Mx describes a method of causing a mental creation to stick and solidify in the so-called ‘real universe.’

He recommends to go some time into the future, and from that vantage point look back with joy and gratitude and admire how effortless this mental creation has been manifested.

Let’s see, I want that nice house somewhere in the green, oh year with a big meadow in the front and a great ocean view below from the back. One of the most fascinating features of this house is a spacious room in a tower at one corner of the house with windows to all direction – my sanctum. This is where I write/produce the items that have transformed the world. Right now I don’t quite know yet what that is, but that is not that important anyways for the emotions I feel about that room and my work in there are the essential element.

Now to make that mental image stick I zip forward 10 years, come to a halt and turn around (time-wise) and look back. With great joy and gratitude I see that this creation has manifested. There is mail coming in from all corners of the world with stories of positive transformation. Also daily there are some invitations for speaking engagements, and right there is one from Australia that I will accept. Even though a first class air ticket is included I think I will take my own jet this time and build a bit flying time. This time I can let my little one fly for a while and mom can conduct her business from up above with ease thanks to the high speed satellite link I have installed and we might even stop over in Thailand on the way back to pick up some new samples that should be done by now.

Once in Bangkok we can hang out with Gong and have some nice dinner with him.

…

I’m sure, these two guys in this picture below are sitting together some 20 years ago and doing something similar – maybe they did not realize what they did but I’m sure they did…

Anybody recognizing them?

 

Here one more of the little gems you stumble across during your journeys through the vast reaches of the internet.

Look at this energy, look at the flexibility and look at the expressions…

First take a look…

I wonder how often that actually happens around here.

After watching this short film for the uumtiest time now, I guess I can’t use the word ‘meat’ with the same innocence as before ever again.

Really meditating about the whole situation and looking at it the same way as these two guys, I can only agree with this guy in the red circus uniform …

O, my GOD!

(Re-posted with permission from January 2005)

From the book ‘The Disappearance of the Universe” by Gary R. Renard:

PURSAH: … It should be pointed out that people who are not as successful in the world have a tendency to get more out of the course [meant is here 'A Course in Miracles'] than highly successful people. Some of the people who appear to have it made in the world, and who are relatively satisfied with their lot in life, are actually falling into the trap. The ego sucks them into thinking the world is a good place. What’s really happening is that they’re living one of the few lifetimes where good karma is called for in the script, so they have a good time. Maybe they have an easy job, and it makes them rich and they appear to have all the luck.

GARY: You mean like Vanna White?

Interesting observation, but I think there must be some kind of middle ground here. If you are really down, struggling for survival you might not be so much inclined to start a bigger job like the work book of the Course in Miracles which will take you at least 365 days, which is, by my last calculations, about one year.

But then again, looking back over my life, I had maneuvered myself in some rather tight corners, but usually chickened out before it got too bad. I remember a time many, many years ago where the only thing left, more or less, was Babba as a good friend. One day, when walking up the steps to the apartment, which at this time we were not sure how much longer we would be able to pay for, when I clearly and without much emotion looked at the possibility of being in the gutter. Guess that scared me enough that shortly thereafter everything changes and then developed into a pretty comfortable life.

For many years.

The spiritual development did not slow down too much in the beginning. I guess the reason, or one reason, was that I was still a mono-pole in terms of a significant female other. Some failed attempts there but finally it worked and from then on the spiritual development definitely stopped.

This is so interesting – I only realize it now as I write this – wow!

But I mean, life should not be boring, right? So I pulled in some serious disagreement with the IRS, went through a pregnancy with major hormonal imbalances (no, not me personally, silly!) and had a kid with a very strong character move in with us.

Then two years ago the most important client went away, which also made the financial comfort a lot less prevalent – - so is this still not enough to make major steps forward in my spiritual development? Which I would expect to be a level where I can fix anything neccessary in the physical world, of course.

Babba did a reading for me at the beginning of 2004 and that saw strong spiritual development. So the signs are right and the path is leveled – I’m ready …

Funny – reminds me of the RPF (for those who don’t know it: in the Scientology church, when you really messed up in somebody’s eyes so that you were material to be kicked out, you still get another ‘chance to redeem yourself’, with a strict regimen of hard physical labor and lots of study – as a pariah).

Somehow the rumor had spread that a big cognition gained through hard work or intense study would get you out of this pariah-dom, to be taken back into the arms of the nurturing group – in good standing again. All without going through the whole program. So everybody waited for this miracle of a sudden reversal of the judgment that threw you into the RPF.

And it surely was not wrong to help this miracle along a little bit, right? So every night at the end of the day was success story time – everybody could stand in front of the group and tell his successes and cognition of the day. I am sure there were many genuine stories told, but in quite some instances you could feel the expectancy that as soon as the story was told, the door would open, a messenger would appear, call his name and hand him the paper and tell him “we made a mistake, RPF is over, you are back on your post – - and you can talk to your wife again”.

But at least as long as I was there it never happened – but am I now doing the same thing?

Using all this time I have currently to advance spiritually and waiting for this pop in the universe that makes life – on the physical level – suddenly comfortable again?

Guess things we are waiting for never happen, right?

I suppose I wrote this to manage to get over this – what do you think?

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19 Jan 2005 @ 21:26 by Dennis Dragomani @68.111.136.45 : Re: Success
Sometimes all the artistic nuance Vanna brings to her job
isn’t fully appreciated. For example, I certainly don’t see it.

Regarding “waitng for things to happen”, procrastination is overly
criticized. I intend to indulge in it myself, when I get around to it.
But all seriousness aside, evolution takes place at its own pace.
There’s the case of the Polish inventor who developed the toilet seat;
more than five years passed before an Italian inventor improved upon the
seat by putting a hole in the middle of it.

20 Jan 2005 @ 07:05 by Tim @80.1.233.72 : Workability
I studied ACIM for years. It’s simply not that workable for most people. The theory is ‘water tight’ (like many other theories). Some of the confusion arises because of the levels that are mentioned in ACIM. That’s my evaluation anyway

20 Jan 2005 @ 20:33 by Kathie Lynch @68.101.175.211 : ACIM and HUMOR
I think Dennis states succinctly what the course teaches. We need to remember that the world is our illusion. So, why try to make it more real than we already have? That’s where humor comes in. We’re rejecting something totally insane.
Reminds me of this insane illusion of our physical world!! Like the course says, we forgot to laugh.

22 Jan 2005 @ 21:10 by mx @200.226.36.211 : waiting and waiting
there are several ways of waiting for things to happen.. at least two… with and without attachment to the outcome…
I prefer the ‘Way of the Hammock’ (see my BLOG on ‘Hard Work’)
mx

25 Jan 2005 @ 03:44 by Ed Dawson @68.136.84.155 : spiritual versus material
It’s a simple polarity, Gezi. Non-survival physically promotes spiritual growth. Buddha had his great enlightenment immediately subsequent to nearly starving himself to death.

Good physical survival is a vector away from spirituality and growth as a Being. And vice-versa.

You want more spiritual growth, maybe we should have you go back on the RPF’s RPF???? heh heh… just kidding!

Merge the polarity and you should be able to do both at the same time…
cheers
Ed

(Republished with permission from a post Oct. 2004)

Do you remember this great post from Flemming? I ran into this a few days ago looking for something completely unrelated but I had to chuckle again.

I have meditated. I’ve done Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Kung Fu, DahnHak, Pranic Healing, Tensegrity and Access. I’ve been healed, acupuncturized, massaged, rebirthed, exorcised and hypnotized. I’ve done the Scientology advanced levels. I’m an NLP master. A Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. I’m an energetic healer. I’ve seen hundreds of past lives. I have had out-of-body experiences, I’ve done astral traveling.

I’ve been abducted by little grey aliens. I’ve talked with dead people. I’ve met my future selves. I’ve channeled, done automatic writing and psychic readings. I’ve seen the beginning of the universe, and the end. I’ve bent spoons and walked on burning coals. I’ve watched UFOs over Area 51. I’ve seen shamans and psychics and channelers. I’ve gotten all my questions answered. I came from Arcturus and I spent some time in the Orion Empire. I’ve talked to crystals, gotten aromatherapy, ayurvedics, color therapy. I only use holistic health care: naturopatics, homeopathy, herbs, oriental medicine. My DNA is supposedly evolving to 12 strands and I’m well on my way into the 5th dimension. I’ve gone to hundreds of rituals and danced, chanted, drummed and prayed. I’ve gone to sacred sites, feng shuied my house. I’ve gotten my horoscope analyzed many times, my numerology has been done, my palms read. The tarot has given me valuable insights, and I know what shape my chakras are in. And there’s probably a lot more I’m forgetting. (Read the full post here.)

And again this got me thinking. Why do we do all those things? We hear about something that is supposed to be the great break-through and we want to have it or do it. But after so many different things – at least this is what it feels to me – I still have not reached what I wanted to reach with my first spiritual endeavor.

For me, if I remember right, this was, after reading the book Dianetics, to become clear. Officially I have reached this state many years ago, but if I compare my highly advanced state now with what I imagined it to be then – no, I am not there yet.

Looking at another area where I am also enticed to try the latest and greatest: miracle cures for your body. Here I really don’t remember what I tried first, but lets assume that it was the super blue-green algae. Reading the advertisement for it I imagined my body all clean and powerful, needing only a few hours of sleep, alert all the time, and all the things the copy-writer put into his copy.

Did not turn out that way, but I kept on buying into all this convincing copy that sold me human growth hormone, bowl cleaner and parasite eliminators, multi-vitamins of the third kind and so on.

None of those did what it promised. Now I can assume that the copy writer just lied, that he invented all these benefits just so that he could sell the product, but I don’t want to make this assumption, I believe these witnesses are telling the truth.

So what is wrong with me?

I know I come close to sounding like Douglas Adams’ robot Marvin (or so) “I’m not getting you down, do I?”

So better get out of any possible gloom and see what is this really all about. You didn’t think I would just write about gloom and doom, do you?

But before I dive into what I am finding out, here one more piece of the puzzle that explained something to me. My first real and long-term girl friend was a really well read person. While I had devoured mostly my science fiction, she had read many of the great masters like good old Nietsche et al.

Made me feel a little bit behind, until I found out later that I did not really need to read all that, because I never had a problem seeing their points myself, maybe not quite as eloquent, but – yeah – I got it, dude.

OK, OK, I’m getting there, just bear with me a little bit longer. One of the most prevalent ideas in all schools of spiritual development is that we create our world ourselves. Misunderstanding this, supported by all my scientology training and processing, I tried to use power to create my world by changing the one that I observed.

We all know how hard it is to change something with quite a bit of inertia, something that is supported by so many agreeing minds. Obviously I could not believe that I was able to change this world by myself, and so, naturally it did not change. Sometimes things did change though and did change to the better. And always there was the element of letting go before I experienced these successes. In scientologese I would then call this “making a postulate”.

And then I sat down and concentrated on making another postulate – yeah, right, concentrate!

Now, I think, I will finally get to the good stuff. Let’s see what were all those things that failed? Looking at others and trying to get what worked for them. Going against a flow. Holding on to something. Putting effort into something.

And what worked? Letting go. Independence of other’s opinions and ideas. Effortlessness.

There still seem to be too many symptoms that cause a course of action to be de-railed, but I am always after this single one that makes all the difference. For me the one item that appears to crystallize is ‘others.’ As long as I give somebody outside of me more importance than me, I will have all the elements that cause endeavors to fail. If I want to be the one who creates my world then I can not look for others to do it for me or not even help me with it. It wouldn’t be my creation, I would have to deal with others’ intentions and thus all the elements that cause failure to enter the equation.

As a side note, it appears that our Mr. George W. Bush is a very spiritual person. With an obvious lack of mental capacity and total disregard of facts and the opinion of others he has managed to change the world significantly and additionally pull plenty of people into his camp to strengthen his reality. Creating a new world has obviously nothing to do with good or bad, that just does not have any weight in the consideration.

Back to my main point. I have to develop this completely ego-centric idea of the world in order to change it. That means that I am the sole creator of everything I can observe. So, if there is this annoying prez in my universe who want to get re-elected, then obviously I put him there.

But did I create him also – maybe out of thin air?

That does not matter, really. He is there and I have to remove him. Do I? Oops, there is the effort again. No, my understanding, which I am still working on, is that this is really a uni-verse. Something that has everything already in it, anything possible, any possible past and any possible future – if there is something like that. That means that there is no need to un-create anything.

There should be no effort required to change my path through all these possibilities. I just take a different yellow brick road. There are clues spread around this universe on how to deal with it. All the ideas and teachers we meet throw us gems of wisdom – or put in a different way, I look at these pieces of information when I want to see them – and it is my choice to understand them.

With this in mind all these clues are starting to make sense. Their cryptic-ness falls away and they become simple to understand.

Like “Letting Go” – stepping back and letting go of fixed viewpoints often induced by others.

Or “Making a postulate” becomes the choice to look someplace else and go towards it.

“Seeing the glass half full” becomes having a glass that is half full, there just is no half empty glass.

As I write this I notice that I still have a way to go to really live these ideas. Here is why. The thought crossed my mind that this way of thinking, seeing oneself as the sole center of the universe, is probably considered a serious mental disorder. A movie that depicted the importance of these considerations very nicely is Brazil. I watched it as one of my first movies after coming to LA and I thought long about it if I liked it or not and finally decided it was a good movie.

In the final scene the main character just leaves while the antagonist still tries to hold him. His leaving is effortless, there is no consideration for the antagonist and he is just happy.

As long as we do something solely for somebody else’s benefit we can not create our own world in which we can be free. There always has to be the governing element of “what’s in for me”.

The clue for this piece of wisdom I put into my universe in a form of a Heinlein quote: “Generosity is inborn, altruism is a learned perversion”.

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16 Oct 2004 @ 13:31 by shawa : “Thanks for Sharing”!
I like it very much when people speak about their personal journey. Thanks.

16 Oct 2004 @ 17:17 by ming : Creating your world
I used to have a more firm belief in how I think this works. I’m probably more open minded now, but I still believe that, yes, we’re essentially creating our world. Or *choosing* it might be a better way of saying it. It is all already there. It is just a matter of which path we take, and what part of the spectrum our glasses focus on.

For that matter, I think we more than ever have the power to choose which world we’re living in. Which is exactly why a George Bush can happen, however unlikely he seems. He invites people to choose the reality he’s proposing, and they do. But most don’t notice that they do, thinking instead that it has somehow been proven to them that it is the correct reality. Clever. The reality one chooses doesn’t even have to particularly make sense.

It seems in one way like it has gotten more complicated how one creates or chooses the reality one wants. In another, it might really have gotten more simple. And maybe it simply is letting go and walking down the path we prefer, without worrying about it. Nothing to it, just start walking. I’m working on that too.

18 Oct 2004 @ 22:00 by Ge Zi @24.127.146.67 : this nasty trap
Hi Ming,
reading your post I noticed that I had gotten in this ‘other people trap’ again. We look at what others do and how they do it and what happens when they do that and how the people they do this to are effected.

But the real point is that I chose THIS Bush – by the laws of attraction I ‘created’ him into my world. So I guess he is only there because I wanted him there.

I am just reminded of a very good thought of one ‘Arnold’, the ‘good friend’ of Bill Robertson, I once had the pleasure to meet and hear talk. He considered things that happen in our world as reads, so if you get hit over the head, you should be glad about it because it’s a read and you know there is something to follow-up and handle, which when done will improve you.
I guess we can see Bush the same way. The fact that he is in my world is a read and I should just follow that up and find out what’s behind the whole thing.

18 Oct 2004 @ 23:02 by ming : Ah, it was you
.. who created Bush!

Yeah, I think that was a good way that Arnold was looking at it. Everything that happens is a message, a pointer to some underlying current. Shows that stuff is happening, and if one looks a little deeper one might discover something more interesting. One could say that the more true meaning of things is not our immediate reaction, but rather what they make us do, and the change they set in place. So, Bush might be just such a beep on the radar, which might make us change course, so as not to run into the iceberg maybe, and in the long run it might look like a very good thing.

26 Oct 2004 @ 15:55 by Helô @200.155.205.107 : Co-creating
Nice seen you’re coming back (again,) GeZi.
Your quote has come at a right time, just because it is timeless or it always was, and I had just forgot for a while. I have experiencing the experience of just experiencing the experience of letting go, by ‘traying to “create” a new piece in my world” or just becoming more aware of it. As I start bring back the love of mine, more true caring myself abilities and the increasing feeling and sensation of been co-creating my life/world it just starts working better for me. It seems quite simple afterwards that is uncreating, creates (the very first law in this Universe). Ah,Yes, generosity, altruism, a sort of attatchments and… some kind of something called love, become in danger fallen apart within mind domain. A really new Love and Care and whatever could come again since new elements out are taken. I can look foreward it will be obvously good (appropriate) for every body/one/thing utterly. Tank you!! Ah! be aware of Brasilian movies, some are plenty of very good stuff, though

27 Oct 2004 @ 04:56 by Ge Zi @24.127.146.67 : Hello Helô
so nice of you to come by here in my little world.
Thank you so much for your comments.
About Brasil – there is one guy from my professional family (the family of physicists), his name is Richard Feynman – big guy, Nobel prize and all, he was down there in Brasil playing samba and all that wild stuff. A very unusual guy for a dry scientist

This put tears in my eyes…

 

 

I guess, discrimination does not have to be a bad thing ….

There is no doubt that politicians are celebrities. And just as we want to know how Brad Pitt lives or how Tiger Wood’s House looks we don’t mind looking into the private lives of politicians like George W. or Al Gore.

Now fast backwards some seventy years – do you think that it was different at that time?

I don’t think so. We can easily imagine that there were articles published showing how FDR lived his private life or what Winston Churchill did to wind down after a hard day at the helm of his country.

Wait, in the era there is another figure which is rather famous – - this leader of the the country in the center of Europe – what’s his name – oh yes, Adolf Hitler. Were people interested in him? No, that could not possibly be – he was the epiphany of evil!

Or could it be that at this time he was not considered the manifestation of pure evil. After all, FDR designed the American social security system after what he found in Germany. And even today Sarah Brady works on gun control that Hitler had already then modeled for her.

Maybe he was a celebrity as well and this could be the explanation that indeed in a British magazine ‘Home and Garden’ we find an articles from the 1930’s that immensely reminds me of todays magazine articles visiting stars and starlets homes to have voyeurs take a look.

Without further ado, here a glance in the life of a relaxed Führer.

 

I remember when politicians started to use ad agencies for their campains. Is it really that long ago – in other words, am I really that old already?

Anyway, that’s way back in Germany – it had probably happened here in the US way before that – when I was a student. I was driving my very first car and without any access to the internet and bill boards that car had to do as my very own bill board. In order to protest the commercialization of the political campaigns the hood of my car bore the slogan

CDU Washes Whiter

CDU being one of the political parties wooing for voters.

I just ran into something a lot better than that. Protest is good, but if it’s so serious as mine was it is probably rather ineffective. Yet when you get the people to laugh – that will stick.

So, see this one here…

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