I’m too Fat ( Part 1)—The Work of Byron Katie, Body image issues playlist

Finding that Turn-Around in any thought:

Finding that Turn-Around in any thought:

A statement can be turned around to the self, to the other, and to the opposite (and sometimes to “my thinking,” when that feels appropriate). Find at least three specific, genuine examples of how each turnaround is true in your life, and then allow yourself the time and presence to feel them deeply.

For example, “Paul doesn’t understand me” turns around to “I don’t understand me.” Find at least three specific, genuine examples of times that you have not understood yourself.

Another turnaround is “I don’t understand Paul.” Relax, close your eyes, and with an open mind witness as the images and feelings within you begin to show you, example by example, where you have not understood Paul. Be very gentle and thorough.

A third turnaround is “Paul does understand me.” Be still and witness as your mind reveals to you examples of how this turnaround is true. Those examples might look like:

He understands that when I’m angry I always get over it.

He understood me last week when he laughed at the joke I was telling him.

He understood me yesterday when I told him I really needed to get away with friends. He even stayed home with the kids.
As I began living my turnarounds, I noticed that I was everything I called you. You were merely my projection. Now, instead of trying to change the world around me (this didn’t work, but only for 43 years), I can put the thoughts on paper, investigate them, turn them around, and find that I am the very thing I thought you were. In the moment I see you as selfish, I am selfish (deciding how you should be). In the moment I see you as unkind, I am unkind. If I believe you should stop waging war, I am waging war on you in my mind.
— Byron Katie

The turnarounds are your prescription for happiness. Live the medicine you have been prescribing for others. The world is waiting for just one person to live it. You’re the one. 

 

 

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HOPE>>>

When I read this I say to myself :

Hope…

Help

me

to

evolve

Is there any greater gift in life I can give than to evolve self?

I am willing to see every projection I have onto others, and to turn this around,

in this instance, when I want to help others to evolve, I am really getting the message….

I want help for me to evolve.

I am willing to stop projecting. 

To learn to take more and more self responsibility and accept others as they are.

Every flower in the garden opens in its own time.

THE MASTERS OF DECEPTION by Paul Levy

Click to access MASTERS-OF-DECEPTION.pdf

 

 A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author and shamanic practitioner Hank Wesselman. He mentioned that what I am calling “wetiko” the Hawaiian kahuna tradition was also familiar with, and called these mind parasites the “‘e‘epa.” He mentioned that he talks about these archon-like entities in his latest book The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman, which I immediately went out and bought. When I found the section on the ‘e‘epa, my eyes almost fell out of my head, as the description of the ‘e‘epa by an esteemed Hawaiian kahuna shaman was almost word for word what I had written in my book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil.

As my research deepens, I am realizing ever more fully that every wisdom tradition in the history of our planet has its own language and symbol system for illuminating what the Native Americans have been calling wetiko. Having just finished an article on how the Kabbalah described the evil of wetiko in its own unique way, I had recently started doing research for a new article on how a particularly powerful practice in the Islamic tradition was specially crafted so as to dissolve the pernicious effects of wetiko. After learning about the ‘e‘epa, I was left with the feeling that I was fated to continually find an ever-expanding number of wisdom traditions that articulate the wetiko psychosis, each in their own way. By whatever name we call it, wetiko is undoubtedly one of the most important discoveries ever made. Indicating the supreme importance of developing knowledge about how this predator of the mind operates, Don Juan from the Carlos Castaneda books refers to it as the “topic of topics.” Wetiko is literally “at the bottom,” at the very root of the seemingly never-ending destruction we are wreaking on each other and the very biosphere we depend upon for our survival as a species. It is truly helpful to find other lineages and traditions that illumine wetiko disease in their own creative way, as our multi-perspectival vision simultaneously gives a higher resolution, providing us with a greater scope and capacity to see what no one particular map or model by itself can reveal.

Wesselman’s book is an introduction to the profound wisdom teachings of the Hawaiian kahuna elderHale Makua. To quote Makua’s conversation with Wesselman, “The ‘e‘epa are deceivers. Some call them the masters of deception.”[i] Interestingly, etymologically speaking, one of the inner meanings of “the devil” is “the deceiver.” Makua, who is a wisdom keeper of an ancient Polynesian lineage, continues, “They are free-ranging psychic entities, invisible beings who function as mind parasites. As such, they prey on those who are vulnerable to their influence.” We all have a tendency to potentially deceive ourselves via the reality-creating genius of our own mind; the ‘e‘epa hook into and amplify our seemingly innate propensity for self-deception. Due to our almost unlimited capacity for pulling the wool over our own eyes, psychiatrist R. D. Laing writes, our species has, “tricked ourselves out of our own mind,”[ii] a state covertly inspired by the ‘e‘epa, I might add. People are particularly susceptible to fall under the spell of these “masters of deception” who are not in touch with the living and self-authenticating reality of their own experience. Not sufficiently knowing the nature of their own minds, they are overly suggestible to taking on other peoples’ perspective of the world and themselves, therefore easily falling prey to the prevailing groupthink of the herd and to the ‘e‘epa parasite.

Others, who are “sensitive” and have a permeable boundary between the conscious and unconscious, such as psychics and channelers, can, even with the best of intentions, become unwitting instruments for these incorporeal masters of deception in ways that can create havoc in people’s lives. To quote Makua, “This is because the deceivers reside in the same realm in which psychics operate─the mental-emotional levels of awareness and experience.” Taking on and customizing their very image so as to have the most personal impact, Makua continues, “They can simply pluck them out of the mind of the psychic, then appear to them in that form…The ‘e‘epa then simply tell psychics what they wish to hear.” When we are inspired by “spirits,” it is always a good idea to check our sources, to discern if they are of the left or the right hand path.

Makua comments, “The ‘e‘epa are accomplished shape-shifters who are good at mimicking. They can assume forms that are meaningful to the ones they choose to deceive…they are devious, and their motivation is deception. They operate through illusion, and they are masters of this practice.” The ‘e‘epa, another name for the wetiko virus, have the most disagreeable and trickster-like quality of appearing in our guise. They cloak themselves in and assume our form, getting under our skin and “putting us on” as a disguise, impersonating us as they fool us to buy into their false version of who we are. Falling prey to their artificial, yet uncanny intelligence, we become unreal to ourselves. Bamboozled and hoodwinked by this imposter and copycat of ourselves, we then mime ourselves, becoming a master copy, an ersatz duplicate of our original and authentic selves. No longer belonging to nor possessing ourselves, we then simultaneously identify with who we’re not while disassociating from, and forgetting who we actually are. In so doing we effectively have then “lost our soul.”

Though “relatively” real, and most definitely needing to be dealt with and faced within the level of relative reality, from the ultimate, “absolute”[iii] point of view, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus has no objective, independent existence separate from our own mind. This is analogous to how a vampire can’t exist autonomously, from its own side, separate from us; a vampire can only take on apparent existence relative to – and feeding off of – us. There is no entity outside ourselves who can steal our soul; the dreamed-up phenomenon of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, which arises entirely within the sphere of our mind, tricks us into giving it away ourselves. The most depraved part of falling under the sleight-of-hand of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is that, ultimately speaking, it involves the assent of our own free will, as we willingly, though unknowingly, subscribe to our enslaved condition; this is to say that no one other than ourselves is ultimately responsible for our situation. Ultimately speaking, with the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus we are not being infected by an objectively existing, independent or substantial entity, which is why there is in reality nothing outside of ourselves to be afraid of.

If we reify the ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug as being real, “other” and truly existing independently of ourselves, and therefore a substantial threat to us, this virus of the mind will then inspire, magnify and feed off of our fear. Conversely, if we think that the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is merely a function of our imagination and is hence, “unreal,” something to be ignored, we have then fallen under its spell, albeit in a different way, such that it can then unrestrainedly act itself out through us, beneath our conscious awareness. This conundrum points at the extreme paradox that we have to be able to embrace within ourselves in order to get a handle on these trickster-like forces. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus exists in an intermediate realm in which it is both real and unreal at the same time (I go into this paradox more extensively in my book). Though not objectively existing in an absolute sense, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko pathogen has a “virtual reality” such that it can destroy not only us as individuals, but potentially our entire species. The fact that something that only exists as a function of ourselves can unleash enormously destructive forces upon the world and in so doing can ultimately destroy us is pointing at – and introducing us to – the incredibly vast, invisible, yet mostly untapped, unharnessed and unrealized creative power that is our inherent human birthright.

Jung refers to this deceiving spirit by the name Antimimos, which he describes as “the imitator and evil spirit.” Antithetical to the light, Antimimos refers to a type of deception that could be thought of as “countermimicy.” Referred to as the antimimon pneuma in the Apocryphon of John (Apoc. John III, 36:17), this counterfeiting spirit imitates something─in this case, ourselves─but with the intention to make the copy, the fake version, serve a purpose counter to that of the original. When we fall for the ruse of this snake oil salesman of the spirit, we become dis-oriented, losing our sense of spiritual vocation, our mission in life, even our very selves. Writer and poet Max Pulver, presenting at the 1943 Eranos Conference, said that “The antimimon pneuma [i.e., the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus] is the origin and cause of all the evils besetting the human soul.”[iv] The revered Gnostic textPistis Sophia says that the antimimon pneuma has affixed itself to humanity like an “illness.”

Referring to the ‘e‘epa, Makua says, “Demons─they could be called interdimensional demons.” Unconscious psychic forces, “demons” (please see my article “Are We Possessed?”) have a psychological reality, in that they affect and alter our experience of ourselves. In my book, I refer to the origin of the wetiko demon as being split-off parts of the psyche, what Jung would call “autonomous complexes.” Due to trauma or some other form of transgression of our psychic boundaries, a part of the wholeness of our psyche dissociates and develops a seemingly independent and autonomous life of its own. Indigenous people the world over refer to these autonomous complexes as “demons.” These demons inhabit the higher (and lower) realms of mind in such a way that, as Makua points out, they are truly “interdimensional,” easily able to pass through and fluidly operate across the apparently solid boundaries of mind and matter, of inner and outer, of dreaming and waking. Not constrained by the conventional laws of third-dimensional space and time, thesenonlocal “interdimensional demons” manifest – and reveal – themselves by in-forming and synchronistically configuring events in the seemingly outside world so as to express themselves.

Just as in a dream, events in the outer world are symbolically reflecting a condition deep within the psyche of each one of us. The (worldly) “powers-that-be” – the people and corporate institutions in positions of power to influence perception and deceive the masses – are themselves lower-level reflections of and instruments for these higher-dimensional “masters of deception,” who are actually the ones in-forming and guiding much of the deception within, between and among ourselves. If we don’t understand that our current world crisis has its roots within and is an expression of the human psyche, and instead become entranced into believing that the many problems we face as a species have a concrete, objective and extra-psychic origin, we are doomed to unconsciously repeat and continually re-create endless suffering and destruction in more and more amplified form, as if we are having a recurring nightmare.

The virus of evil at first insinuates itself into the soul in incremental, unnoticed and insidious steps, but at a certain point this leukemia of the soul becomes seemingly irreversible, leading to its host’s destruction. Makua elucidates, “The ‘e‘epa encourage human beings to go into the negative polarity…and as we continue to go there, we reach that point where we can no longer self-correct. It is at this point that the deceivers encourage us to continue in that direction.” Once we fall into our unconscious, identify with and act out our unreflected-upon point of view, our uncorrected error becomes an open door for the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus to lend its deviant force to what is increasingly going off course, taking us with it in an ever-downward death spiral. Inspiring an inverted, upside-down logic, a flawless and truly deadly illogic (what in my book I call “wetiko-logic”), the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus will influence those under its sway to use fallacious deduction to subconsciously select data which will then invariably lead to conclusions which only perpetuate chronic avoidance of the crux of the matter. Just as viruses or malware infect a computer and program it to self-destruct, mind-viruses like the ‘e‘epa/wetiko pathogen program the human biocomputer to think, believe and act out in ways that can result in our self-destruction. People so afflicted, like someone in the throes of an addiction or in a state of trauma, unwittingly create the very problem they are trying to resolve, clinging desperately to the very false conviction that is leading them astray as it tortures and destroys them.

Makua ends the preceeding comment by warning, “It is then that we step across a threshold and into the realm of evil.” Evil, simply put, is anti-life, life turning against itself, live “spell”-ed backwards. In the traumatized soul (and to the extent we are not fully awake, we are all in a state of trauma, the trauma of not being one with ourselves), both Freud and Jung recognized that there is a factor within the psyche which, once it gains a certain momentum and seeming autonomy, continually keeps neurotic, unproductive suffering alive. There is an aggressive anti-wholeness agency within us, as if “made” out of our disowned, unexpressed, in-turned and inverted aggression twisted back upon ourselves, which actively cultivates and breeds dissociation within the psyche. The fluid, ever-flowing, self-reflective/reflexive process of the continually-evolving psyche en/unfolding itself over time becomes suspended, rigidified and frozen, stuck in time, in a seemingly never-ending and self-generating feedback loop. This inertial, entropic and thanatic factor seems to be actively resistant to and set against us recovering, discovering and attaining our intrinsic wholeness. Jung refers to this dis-integrative factor as a “morbid” fragment of the personality which inspires a “will to be ill.” It is as if there is an unconscious counterforce to the faculty of the will, a “shadow of the will,” so to speak, that prohibits the synthesis of the fragments of our experience into the meaningful constructs and perceptions that make up a healthy, wholesome and coherent psyche.

To the extent that we unconsciously identify with, become taken over by and act out the impulses that are inspired by the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, it is as if a psychic tapeworm or parasite has commandeered our brain and tricked us, its host, into thinking we are feeding and empowering ourselves, while we are actually nourishing the parasite. This virus of the mind is a virulent, psychic pathogen that insinuates thought-forms and beliefs into our mind which, when unconsciously enacted, feed it, and ultimately kill its host – us.  To the extent we are not aware of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, it literally colonizes our mind and sets up a seemingly autonomous regime, a “shadow government” within our psyche (outwardly reflected by the “shadow government” in the world) such that we become oppressed within the sovereign domain of our own being. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus paralyzes and freezes the ego into an immobilized, powerless and life-less state, in which our life force and energetic potential are literally being vampirically drained from us. Imperceptibly, we become led by impersonal psychic forces which gradually take control of our psyche. We become pushed around by an invisible player like a figure on a chessboard, played and manipulated like marionettes on a string. We are then being constantly “held in check” by these intangible forces, which unbeknownst to us, are “gaming” us from a hidden position within our own unillumined psyche. As compared to existing “by virtue” of something, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug can only exist by the “lack of virtue” of our own obscured and unexamined minds. This pathological part of the psyche can subsume all the wholesome parts of the psyche into itself such that the healthy aspects of the psyche serve, become under the dominion of, and become slaves to the disease. This morbid and perverse part of the personality, to quote Jung, “devours what is left of the normal ego and forces it into the role of a secondary (oppressed) complex.”[v]

As if an invisible coup has taken place within the psyche, we, as rightful rulers of our own psychic landscape, have been deposed and are living under a “foreign occupation” (what Don Juan calls a “foreign installation”), no longer masters in our own home. Split in two, it is as if our left hand doesn’t know what our right hand is doing. As this split-off, rogue, and pathological part of the psyche “incorporates” itself within the psyche, it takes on, and over a living body such that it “dictates” to the ego in such a way that the ego is tricked into believing that it is directing itself. We are allowed our seeming freedom and ability to live our “normal” lives, as long as it doesn’t challenge, threaten, or thwart the deeper agenda of these sinister forces to centralize power and control. This internal process is getting externally out-pictured in the creeping tendency towards fascism within the United States government and the world at large.

Synchronistically, during the writing of this article, it has become front-page, worldwide news about the NSA’s out-of-control, 24/7 spying on not just American citizens, but on people and governments the world over. In a total abuse of power and an example of upside-down wetiko-logic, the Government absurdly claims to be “protecting” its citizens by spying on─“bugging”─them. In the total opposite of what a free society looks like – transparent government and privacy for its people – the U. S. government is demanding secrecy for itself while destroying the privacy of everyone else. Spying is a classic archetypal feature of the modus operandi of a mind infected with the logic of fear and separation, the sine qua non of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus’s operating system. Spying itself is an action that if done in return to the party committing the spying is considered to be an unacceptable outrage. As light is being shed on their nefarious actions, the NSA is acting like it’s the victim, while the truth of the matter is that, in having committed violations of basic human rights, the NSA is in fact the perpe-tra(i)tor, the “victimizer disguised as the victim.” Such a glaring double standard, logical contradiction, hypocrisy and inverted logic are the spore-prints of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus in action. A lawless and criminal violation of our sovereign rights of freedom and privacy, this complete surveillance of our lives, presented to the public as the very thing needed to keep us safe, is an example of countermimicy in action, as its underlying and unspoken agenda of power, domination, manipulation and control is creating the exact opposite of its publicly stated intention. A more vivid living example of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug in action as it unfolds throughout the world theater is hard to imagine.

The ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug doesn’t acknowledge or abide by the spurious subject/object dichotomy, acting itself out free from these constraints. One of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus’s unique ploys is to take advantage of the fact that there is no actual boundary between the inner and the outer. In the NSA spying scandal, an “interdimensional” process taking place deep in the soul of humanity has had the whistle blown on it, as it spills outside of our skulls and reveals itself in, as and through the events and circumstances of the outer world. Appearing external to ourselves, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, having its origin within us, utilizes the medium of the outside world as the canvas for its full-bodied revelation of itself. The inner process of how the ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug covertly operates within our psyche is getting synchronistically dreamed up and currently en-acted in full-bodied form, writ large on the international stage, visible for all who have eyes to see it as a reflection of a dynamic taking place within ourselves.

Talking about the ‘e‘epa, Makua elaborates, “If we look at the state of the world today, we can see their influence everywhere, and at every level…they especially attach themselves to our political, economic and religious leaders─to all the major players in the game─and in all fairness, these worthies are quite unaware of their negative influence.” People who are taken over by the ‘e‘epa/wetiko parasite are unconscious of being taken over, as this ‘psychic coup’ takes place through their unconscious blind spots. When we are taken over by more powerful psychic forces, by definition, we don’t know that we are possessed by something other than ourselves, which is precisely the way the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus wants it. Those who are drawn to power are particularly susceptible to being taken over by these deceivers, which feed on their attraction and addiction to power. Having a predilection for power brings with it a self-serving blindness which can easily be seized upon, manipulated and amplified to malignant extremes by the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus. The people who find themselves in positions of worldly power and influence are easily able to propagate their pathology far and wide throughout the world at large, thus significantly helping to spread the reach and dominion of this psychic plague. Wesselman comments, “What the chief had said made perfect sense─an arch-deceiver had straddled our major religious or political systems for hundreds or even thousands of years creating havoc as the ‘e‘epa encouraged us to go even deeper into the negative polarity.”

So many of us seem to have a resistance to seeing and consciously dealing with these darker forces that have insinuated themselves into the greater body politic and are playing themselves out through every level of our society. To quote Makua, “Our cultural resistance to doing this is partially due to the dark programming of the deceivers.” This “dark programming” is the cultural brainwashing, the hypnotic spell that is woven throughout the warp and woof of every aspect of our civilization via the mainstream media and corporate-controlled entertainment industry, the “entrainment industry,” both of which can be considered to be the massive propaganda organs of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus. Our resistance, our looking away, is an avoidance of relationship with a part of ourselves. Our ostrich policy of turning a blind eye to events of enormous negative collective significance is itself nothing other than the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus in action.

Wetiko is a form of psychic blindness that not only believes itself to be sighted, but arrogantly believes it is more sighted than anyone else. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus flavors and covertly manages our perceptions under the darkness of our unconscious so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus bedazzles, bewitches, and bedevils consciousness in such a way that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoints through which we habitually perceive, conjure up and give meaning to our experience of both the world and ourselves. Once having infiltrated and insinuated itself into the body politic, be it of a person or a society, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus perversely fancies itself to be the healing antibody, ironically relating to the genuinely wholesome parts of the greater overall system (which are in fact the actual antibodies), as cancerous tumors to be exterminated. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus subversively turns our “genius” for reality-creation against us in such a way that we literally become bewitched by the projective tendencies of our own mind. As if under a spell, we become entranced by our own intrinsic gifts and talents for dreaming up our world, unknowingly hypnotizing ourselves with our God-given power to creatively call forth reality, so that it boomerangs against us, undermining our potential for individual and collective evolution.

Speaking about the ‘e‘epa, Makua makes the point, “If we look at the state of the world today, we can see their influence everywhere, and at every level. They could be thought of as psychic vampires. This is who and what vampires really are.” As I read Makua’s words, the excitement I felt was palpable, as it was like I was reading my own words in someone else’s book. Legends and mythologies about vampires from time immemorial are symbolically describing and pointing at the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus. Just like vampires, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus has a thirst for the very thing it lacks─the mystical essence of life─the “blood” of our soul, our very life-force. A member of the “undead,” the vampiric ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is fundamentally “dead” matter “taking on” apparently living form; it is only in and through a living being that it acquires a quasi-life. These psychic vampires aren’t able to replicate themselves through their own energy, however, so they are compelled to propagate themselves through us so that we can dissimulate, “pass on” and transmit the bug to others.

The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus animates a virulent form of psychosis that is highly contagious, spreading through the channel of our shared unconsciousness. When afflicted with this virus of the mind, there is an alien-ating code or logic which affects/infects awareness in a way analogous to how the DNA in a virus passes into and infects a cell. Its vectors of infection do not travel like a physical pathogen, however. This fluidly moving, nomadically wandering bug reciprocally reinforces and feeds off and into each of our unconscious blind spots, which is how it nonlocally propagates itself throughout the field. As Jung has reminded us, the greatest danger that threatens humanity today is the possibility that millions (maybe even billions?) of us can fall into our unconscious together, reinforcing each other’s madness in such a way that, as if afflicted by a psychic plague that we cannot see due to the blinding nature of the infection, we become unwittingly complicit in creating our own self-destruction.

Makua continues, “The ‘e‘epa are mental forces that have the ability to intrude into the human mind…and all the time. They operate through subterfuge and psychic stealth. They are adversaries who are drawn to humans because they wish to acquire our human capacity for creative imagination. You see…this they lack completely. Humans are creators, and they are not.” Coveting the creative imagination which they themselves lack, if we don’t use the divine gift of our creative imagination in the service of life, these adversarial mental forces will use our imagination for (and against) us, with deadly consequences. These predators are in competition with us for a “share” of our own mind, wanting to “sit in our seat.” Instead of being a sovereign being who consciously creates with our thoughts, we will then be unconsciously created by them, as the adversarial forces literally think in our place. Interestingly, an inner meaning of the word “Satan” is the “adversary.” Like a vampire, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus can’t stand to be illumined, however, for in seeing how it covertly operates through our own consciousness, we take away its seeming autonomy and power over us, disabling it while at the same time empowering ourselves.

Speaking of the ‘e‘epa, Makua says, “We always have to deal with our own lower impulses that are continually encouraged by the deceivers, and we all run up against them, and every day. They have been here a long time, and they know the human mind intimately, as that is where they reside.” It is as if, to the extent we are not awake, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus knows our mind better than we do. With the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, it is as if an alien, meta-physical “other” is subliminally intruding thought-forms and beliefs into our own mind, which if identified with, compel us to act against our own best interests. Similarly, the “Gnostics” (the ones “who know”) are pointing at the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus when they describe mind parasites called “Archons” who infiltrate and subvert the workings of our own mind.

Referring to the ‘e‘epa, Makua continues, “Dealing with them and recognizing who and what they are is the first stage of the transformational process─yet it is the one that may lead us to cross the event horizon you have mentioned, beyond which nothing is ever the same again.” Once we recognize “who and what” the ‘e‘epa are, to quote Makua, “This is where our potentials for spiritual and evolutionary growth becomes limitless.” The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus can only be seen when we begin to realize the dreamlike nature of our universe, step out of the viewpoint of the separate self, and recognize the deeper underlying field of which we are all expressions, in which we are all contained, and through which we are all interconnected. The energetic expression of this realization, and the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus dissolver par excellence, is compassion. Speaking about “the high spiritual guardians who brought us to this world,” Makua comments that they knew that “humanity already existed as a dream. We as individuals are the manifested aspects of that dream─aspects that have now grown to the point where we have become creator beings unlike any that have existed on this world before.” As creators, we are autopoietic agencies in reciprocal co-evolution with ourselves as well as with the universe at large. Once we recognize the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus for what it is, to quote Makua, “We can participate in our own evolution as well as our personal and collective destiny.” As I become more familiar with Makua’s empowering and enlightening teachings, I find myself filled with gratitude for having connected with his amazing work.

The origin of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is the human psyche[vi] (see my article “The World is Psyche”), and recognizing how this virus of the mind operates through our unawareness is the beginning of the cure that literally changes everything. Our shared future will be decided primarily by the changes that take place in the psyche of humanity, which is truly the world’s pivot. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is literally demanding that we pay attention to the fundamental role that the psyche plays in creating our experience of ourselves and of the world. The less the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is recognized, however, the more seemingly powerful, and dangerous it becomes. To quote the Gnostic text The Gospel of Philip, “So long as the root of wickedness is hidden, it is strong. But when it is recognized, it is dissolved…It is powerful because we have not recognized it.”[vii]

To a person who’s entranced by the spell of the collectively agreed upon consensus reality, such talk about demons, vampires, mind viruses, psychic parasites and the like sound like so much superstitious dogma, new age, spiritual nonsense and gobbledygook, or the ravings of a fevered, paranoid imagination that believes in strange conspiracy theories. It should be pointed out that everyone of us experiences the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus in our own unique way, regardless of what concepts or words we use to describe the experience, or whether we believe in such things or not. It is worth noting, and should get our highest attention, however, that some of the greatest thinkers, philosophers, visionaries and teachers among us have been pointing in their own way at the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus for millennia. Speaking about the state of humanity, philosopher, mystic and social activist Simone Weil writes, “It is as though affliction had established itself in him like a parasite and were directing him to suit its own purposes.”[viii] The revolutionary spiritual teacher Gurdjieff says that if we observe carefully, “You will see that you are different from what you think you are. You will see that you are two. One that is not, but takes the place and plays the role of the other [the real you].”[ix] Physicist David Bohm, one of the most original, radical and important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century, speaking of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko parasite in his own words, writes, “It’s similar to a virus─somehow this is a disease of thought, of knowledge, of information, spreading all over the world…It’s spreading like a virus and each one of us is nourishing that virus.”[x] To the extent we are unaware of this thought-virus, Bohm realized that we are all complicit in its propagation. He recognized that this virus of the mind is the very thing “preventing mankind from working together for the common good, and indeed, for survival.” He realized that this contagious “disease of thought” had surreptitiously intruded itself into the realm of mind itself, where, to the extent we are unaware of it, it can work its black magic unrestrained.

Bohm then wonders, “Do we have a kind of immune system that stops it? The only way to stop it is to recognize it, to acknowledge it, to see what it is. If any one of us starts to look at that, then we are looking at the source of the problem.”[xi] The seeing and knowing of the presence and activities of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus, in Buddhist tradition called “Mara” – The Evil, or Dark One – are major elements in the process of the Buddha’s enlightenment. It is emphasized in the Buddha’s teachings that it was ignorance and darkness, along with their capacity to “blind” humanity – all characteristics of being afflicted by the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus – that were dispelled at the moment of enlightenment. The image of Buddha routing Mara’s hosts is often likened to darkness being dispelled by the sun. Once he attained enlightenment, the Buddha always recognized the moment that Mara appeared; to fully recognize Mara is to immediately defeat him. This is why Mara exclaims with the utmost dismay and despair, “The Exalted One knows me!” (The Exalted One is the Buddha, the one who has awakened to the dreamlike nature). Remember also what the Gnostic Gospel of Philip says about evil, “When it is recognized, it is dissolved.” Though on one level apparently opposing Buddha’s enlightenment, Mara (the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus) was actually Buddha’s secret ally, a projected aspect of Buddha’s own consciousness, for Buddha wouldn’t have been able to develop the “muscle” of his realization without Mara’s challenge.

Makua concludes, “Sooner or later, all of us become aware of the presence of a darkness within ourselves─the darkness into which we have fallen with the help of the adversaries, the deceivers.” I would suggest that the sooner we shed light on and become aware of the “darkness within ourselves,” the better. Our “enlightenment” makes no difference whatsoever if it doesn’t help us to illumine the darkness within ourselves. As Jung reminds us, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”[xii] Light is ultimately revealed through darkness; it needs darkness, for otherwise, how could it appear as light? Shadows are simultaneously an expression of the absence, as well as the presence of light, for we can never have a shadow without light nearby. The darker the shadow, the brighter is the light of which it is a projection. We normally think of illumination as “seeing the light,” but “seeing the darkness” is a form of illumination, too. Hidden and encoded in the darkness is a higher form of light that transcends the light vs. dark duality: the light of awareness itself. This formless light has the property of not only being invulnerable to the negative forces of darkness, but it touches and transfigures everyone who “sees” it. This is the light of self-reflective lucid, primordial awareness that awakens us to the dreamlike nature of reality.

Speaking about this very light in his dialogue with Makua, Wesselman says, “The higher vibrational states of being are connected to the Light that emanates from the Source. This in turn reveals unequivocally that our being of light, our Oversoul [our Higher Self], is a fragment of the great spiritual Light that is not subject to the distortion of the dark forces.” The greatest protection against becoming negatively affected, and in extreme cases possessed, by the evil aspects of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is to be in touch with our intrinsic wholeness, which is to be “self-possessed” – in possession of the part of ourselves that is not possess-able, which is the Self, the wholeness of our being. Being in touch with our true nature acts as a sacred amulet or talisman, shielding and protecting us from evil’s pernicious effects. We “defeat” evil not by fighting against it (in which case, by playing its game, we’ve already lost), but by getting in touch with the part of us that is invulnerable to its effects. The value of bringing our attention to, putting our awareness on and contemplating the multi-faceted ways that the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus deviates the psyche is that, in so doing, we can discover and directly experience the part of ourselves that is incorruptible, which is the very place from which we can bring real and lasting change to our world. Testers of humanity, it is as if these nonlocal vampiric forces are guardians of the threshold of our conscious evolution.

In illuminating the darkness, we need to rely on a “higher power” (Wesselman’s “Oversoul,” or Higher Self), a strength in us that is greater than and transcendent to our own ego, which is the Self, our intrinsic wholeness. Paradoxically, we would not have connected with the wholeness of the Self without the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus’s intervention. Without a break in its symmetry, the higher order and true nature of our Being would have no way to encounter and become aware of itself. If the obstacles presented by the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus didn’t exist, we would have to invent them intentionally, because it is by overcoming obstacles that we develop the higher qualities that we need in order to unleash our untapped potential. Interestingly, another meaning of the word “Satan” is one who creates “obstacles.” Instead of a typical virus mutating so as to become resistant to our attempts to heal from it, the shape-shifting and mercurial ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus forces us to mutate─and evolve─relative to it. In a very real sense, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus “cures” us of our wrong attitude towards both it as well as ourselves. It is as though the evil of the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is itself the instrument of a higher intelligence designed to connect us to a sacred, creative source within ourselves. The ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus literally demands that we step into our power and become immune to its oppression such that we discover how to step out of bondage and become free. Although the source of humanity’s inhumanity to itself, at the same time the ‘e‘epa/wetiko bug is the greatest catalytic force of evolution ever known─as well as not known─to humanity. It confronts us with a stark option: evolve or self-destruct.

Though seemingly opposed to our true nature, seen from this more expanded point of view, the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus introduces us to, and is itself, the disguised expression of our true nature. Once this is realized, the question arises: Is the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus the darkest evil, or being that it is introducing us to the greater unity and perfection within ourselves, of which we were previously unaware, is it an instrument of the highest good? This point of view within ourselves in which the opposites coincide and become indistinguishable─a “coincidentia oppositorum”─is itself the transpersonal viewpoint of the Self. Seeing through the “transpersonaling” lens of the Self allows us to not personalize, and solidify ourselves as a separate and seemingly concrete individual. A true quantum phenomenon,[xiii] the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is the deadliest poison and the most healing medicine co-joined in one superposed state. Will the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus take our species down and continue to inspire our self-destruction, or will it awaken us? Everything depends upon whether or not we recognize what it is revealing to us about ourselves. Being a dreamed up phenomena, how the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus manifests depends upon how we dream it from now onwards.

A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the author ofDispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (North Atlantic Books). He is also the author ofThe Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung, and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years. Please visit Paul’s website www.awakeninthedream.com. You can contact Paul atpaul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections. Though he reads every email, he regrets that he is not able to personally respond to all of them. © Copyright 2013.

 

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[i] All of the quotes from Wesselman’s book The Bowl of Light (Boulder: Sounds True, 2011) are from pp. 224 – 237.

[ii] R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York: Pantheon, 1971), 73.

[iii] The relative and absolute points of view interpenetrate each other so fully such that they should not be considered separate. For example, it is a mistake to solely identify with the absolute point of view (in which the ‘e‘epa/wetiko virus is seen to be “unreal” and hence, doesn’t exist) and thereby marginalize the relative; both points of view need to honored simultaneously. 

[iv] Joseph Campbell, ed. Spiritual Disciplines: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Vol. 4 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985). p. 254.

[v] Quoted from Minder, “Sabina Speilbrein, Jung’s patient in the Burgholzli,” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 46 (1): 45.

[vi] I am using the word “psyche” similar to Jung, in that it includes the totality of all psychic processes, both conscious and unconscious. Being nonlocal, the psyche is not only contained within our skull, but we are surrounded by, and contained within the psyche.

[vii] II, 3, 83.5-30.

[viii] Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” in Simone Weil Reader, ed. G. Panichas (Mt. Kisco, NY; Moyer Bell Limited, 1977), 441.

[ix] From an essay by Jeanne de Salzmann originally published in Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teaching (New York: Continuum, 1996), ed. Jacob Needleman and George Baker; posted at http://www.gurdjieff.org/salzmann3.htm.

[x] Bohm, On Dialogue, 58.

[xi] Ibid., p. 58-59.

[xii] Jung, Alchemical Studies, CW 13, par. 335.

[xiii] By quantum phenomenon, I refer to the nature of light – is it a wave or a particle? The answer: it depends upon how it is observed (or in my language, how we “dream it”).

Awakening to letting go of “the fighting”…core spirituality…my personal journey

 

Today is…my opportunity to watch the stressful thoughts inside my mind, the stressful feelings I have about the thoughts and to choose how I will translate this as my life expression, learning to take 100% responsibility for the life I am living.

So when I read this I am reading it to myself. “When I take the responsibility of the entire world off of my shoulders, and focus upon the responsibility that has to do with me, my infinite soul, and my divine purpose, I begin to understand how things can, indeed, fall into place according to the Divine Will for the Good of All.. ”  …

To learn to make peace with my own past, my own words, thoughts and actions, NOW and to make amends.

This waking up to “doing my own inner work” is my part, my own human space here on this planet. This is me, a spiritual being, having my human experience.

The themes of my life are all showing me, no, providing me my own specific wake ups in life, my uncomfortables !

I realize the awakening mind has so much to learn in each day and that as i progress thru the time I have here I realize there really is a maturing of the mind.

The maturing mind grows to understand the complex and yet simple way the universe unfolds.

In us, as us.

Dropping my previous held positions. Identifications, beliefs, and attachments to how life is supposed to be.

I recognize how life is suppose to be is HOW IT IS.

I relinquish the fight with reality as I feel myself naturally letting go… this is not a struggle. This is a moving on to the present moment and feeling what I can learn.

I do not change the world by any actions towards you, or towards any group, or towards any other beliefs of right or wrong.

I change the world by accepting the world within myself, and allowing the next best thing to happen naturally including letting go of identifications of all kinds. There is nothing to be afraid of when I feel myself beyond all my drama, your drama, the dramas of this world and whatever is going on.

I experience the turn around, the self as dictating to the world, to others how life is suppose to be, and I find this is not really my truth.

My truth is I am dictating to me and projecting on you and even here my truth continues deeper.

As I come to realize that I have convinced myself, thru unconscious self talk, internalizing the voices of others in the outer world and I am learning to drop even this.

Beyond the voices in our heads is the silent voice of self.

The silent voice of self is love.

Everything else is destroyed eventually.

Leaving what is natural.

And this is love.

Unlimited, unceasing, non-dictorial, accepting, freeing, and evolving and maturing.

This love is not a heart inside my body, it is a presence….

I call it a spiritual being….having a human experience.

core spirituality

aloha

For the fighting ( wars for example) of this world to stop…

I stop fighting. I stop fighting reality. I stop fighting WHAT IS.

Turn It Around Byron Katie

How does the 100% responsibility look? How can we resolve our world, our experiences in this world? How can we heal our stressful thoughts and feelings? This is a way of learning all this. Caution…. this works when we have an open mind and only requires that.

How to shift the reality of this planet? look inside to these ideas….

 

 

core spirituality… thank you Bryon Katie…. thank you thank you thank you

Life Is A Stage Play – Near Death Experience – Rich Kelley

Rich Kelley sends us his Near-death experience that occurred at the age of 15 in a drowning incident. Remembering what he forgot up to this incident.

God is a Frequency…

When I choose to be still I feel it, when I laugh I feel it, when I let go of my stressful thoughts of shame, hurt, anger, distrust, and blame I feel it.

When i let go of my selfish reactions to you, when I let go of my shoulds for you, when I let go of my bitterness, my painful memories, my angst about the world, my stressful thoughts about all this,  I feel it.

God is a frequency that exists within me…. I tune in, this is my experience.

When I read the words… God is a Frequency That Exists Within You, I am telling this to myself.

That is all anyone can do, learn from our experience, we each of our experiences from which to draw conclusions.

What stressful thoughts you invest are yours and what experience that arises from your stressful thoughts are  yours. All we can do is what arises from each of our minds and the stressful hurtful thoughts we believe.

I choose to wake up to thoughts and beliefs in which I have invested that cause me to suffer. I recognize my own innocence, and yours.

I am waking up to see the innocence in us.

Grace is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

core spirituality

(thank you Bryon Katie and The Work)

 

What is it i am waking up to ?

 

Whilst i listen to the news and read your posts each day i remember this about the mind, and when i defend …i see how the start of war and violence begins with a stressful thought.

When i tend to the stressful thoughts inside my  mind and i believe the thoughts that pass thru it i reflect… on how i actually feel and i know i have a choice… i can wake up.

In this way i do my part. i catch the stressful thoughts inside my mind and i ask ……..is that true? is it absolutely true?

i make peace inside with my stressful thoughts and in this way, i do my part.

 My prayer for the world is help me wake up to my stressful thoughts and I let the peace be here, now. In this way i do my part.

it is all any one can do. I cannot change your stressful thoughts.

 We are all responsible for the stressful thoughts we have. and there are no new stressful thoughts we are all alike.

Each day I start all over.

Happy Aloha Friday… a beautiful voice for you today

Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole Performing with Sean Na’auao at Bishop Museum

A Kinder World ….. Bryon Katie and The Inquiry

Recently I had a two hour ecstatic experience during a healing session I was facilitating where I experienced the vast infinite PRESENCE inside the space of this world and then spread out into the cosmos and beyond thru many galaxies. In this experience I was shown the joyous mercy-full compassionate MIND of CREATION,  which brought me to THE WORK  with Byron Katie where in this video she shares how what we believe in our minds,…. our thoughts…..  create our identity, our personal reality, and our collective reality. The process of self inquiry is a way to wake up to the thoughts we have inside ourselves that cause us suffering, our own suffering. Stressful events in our daily lives become the wake up possibilities showing us how we are thinking in the moment……. creating and recreating our own suffering in this world. SELF INQUIRY IS A DISCOVERY THAT ALL PAIN IS A PROJECTION OF OUR MIND.

My own ecstatic experiences have continued thru out all my life, however this most recent one was powerful beyond my words shifting my identity into greater self responsibility where I am devoted to self inquiry to unravel my own mindful thoughts which I have believed, and used to create my own suffering.

This is the great undoing and loss of identity which manufactures pain and suffering in my world. I am eternally grateful.

core spirituality

Healing “my mother shamed me” with The Work

 

Issues between adult child and parent get healed

Healing ” He should be more understanding” with The Work

 

How do we put our own thoughts onto other people, inside our heads…. simply profound healing session

Healing “He critcizes me” with The Work

 

Watch it all

Healing the Racism + Prejudice….The Work with Bryon Katie

Watch till the very end….. powerful stuff

Finding Asylum—The Work of Byron Katie

I’m Afraid of War Hebrew-English Subtitles—The Work of Byron Katie

Byron Katie Oprah Soul Series Interview parts 2 & 3 of 3

 

Byron Katie Oprah Soul Series Interview part 1 of 3

 

how do we start wars? check this out….

Byron Katie – Introduction to The Work

24;15……… watch him “get it”

Why Isn’t He Vulnerable?—The Work of Byron Katie

The Covert Origins of ISIS

 

Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done. How many average individuals have researched the activity of the world as it relates to this situation, moving past the mass media of our times. Here is an expose of relevant information, providing a picture of what goes on behind the scenes of world propaganda. Real documents, interviews and further information.

The Road to World War 3

 

How informed is the average person about the development of enemies, perpetration of war? How informed is the average person to  the differences in actual history, the flow of the dollar in the world market, and the propaganda messaged thru mass media as it relates to perpetrating war? Do you believe this is our future? Investigation…..

Rule from the Shadows The Psychology of Power Part 1

 

How well does the average person understand the creation of an enemy, the psychology of developing wars, and the development of the current state of the world? How well does the average person understand the history of the underlying motivations of creating an enemy, or perpetrating wars? How well does the average person understand the actual history of American involvements in war?  How well does the average person understand what the word sheeple means?

Alicia keys…. we are here……

Acceptance… and your drama….

What have you come here to learn? War….core spirituality…my personal journey

 

What have you come here to learn? War….core spirituality…my personal journey

Last night I was watching a TV program called THE GHOST INSIDE MY CHILD where a wee little lad of about 4 years old was recalling events from his past life and told his mom that god had sent him down here because he had to do it again, until he learned what he came here to learn, and he had to do it again and again till he got it. The look in his eyes was pure and innocent, and clearly he remembered this admonishment. I too have remembered past lives as far back as I can remember as a little guy.

Most strongly for me as a little boy were memories of war and military operations both in space, and in the air. I always had the tremendous images and  feelings of the emotional and soulful price of this as a heavy weight on me. I remember one of my earliest times going to a fireworks display, the 4th of July.. The first year of living in Florida on the beach, I suppose I was around 4 years old. I recall the crowds on the beach, the high sea wall, and the very first sounds of the fireworks. Instantly I recall the absolute terror in my tummy and the images of war…or battle I was seeing in my mind and my primal feeling to just run and run hard, and being completely confused as to why everyone was so happy. I was so small, I recall how large people were all around me. ( to this day I have to control my feelings whenever I am around fireworks, as those images of battle jump into my head) . I always knew that I would not participate directly in any sort of military action this life, this time. I always had the feeling of understanding the long range soulful consequences of this, and I felt like I knew I did not want to do this, this time!

I had a best friend who was totally obsessed with all things military all thru grade school, I would spend the night at his house with his family and see all his play toy soldiers, model airplanes and air craft carriers, posters on his wall. I felt removed from all of this and always refused to play war, steering our play towards throwing the ball around, or watching sports.

In my neighborhood all the other boys would ride their bikes in small groups, as most young boys did at that age, and we would play in the woods around our neighborhood. The predominant game to play was war.

Fort building, war strategy, attack were all part of the play. I recall vividly my own inner visions of destruction, awful stomach aches and feelings, seeing such powerful weapons that could destroy, down to the molecular levels of life and there was a tremendous pain and knowing that I felt in this….. for years. I found myself not interested much in this kind of play. Though this was what all the other boys were consumed. I deeply felt yet could not articulate my feelings….. except to withdraw.

Later as I matured I started to form an identity around peace, and non violence as I grew I came to feel the alternative to war was my own commitment to these values. I studied the lives of the saints, ( having gone to a catholic school we had hundreds of biographies in our library) and I developed a strong leaning towards spirituality. I loved how the saints loved god, creation, and were kind to others, and served the poor, the down trodden. I look back at this as a counterpoint to my vivid memories of previous wars, battles and acts of annihilation that I would see inside my little mind.

Growing myself up, I developed an anti military attitude under the umbrella of awareness of our deep involvement in Vietnam and the tremendous price I could see we were paying as human beings. I was horrified by the news, upset and disturbed continuously. We were required to watch the evening news for our class in school where we were to discuss the current events daily. I was not able to get away from this theme. My ideas became even more infused with my own strength of character… I knew in 7^th grade …..that war was monstrous.

As a young adult I realized how consumed people of this planet are invested in war, in fighting, and all the issues of power, greed, take over. Death and destruction in the name of whatever country, ruler, or regime was postulating at the time. My only counterpoint was to be as kind as possible, and find service to others, and thus my career arose. One where I am in the role of male nurturer. Soother to the pains of life, and the results of living in a global society consumed with tremendous negativity while leaping forward in massive waves of self awareness and personal development. My generation has been filled with self development, challenging the status quo and improving much of what we see around us.

I came to understand how much healing was needed in this world in deeper and deeper ways as I grew in my practice. Eventually coming to understand that my own personal healing was first and foremost something I must be accountable. This was a concrete response to how “off” I felt things were in the world where I had little else of any effect. Personally I could do something in my own life to change things. The journey of learning to be authentic, feel honestly, admit my ways, and correct became a path I would walk commited-ly to this day.

Perhaps this would be my little way of correcting in the world, at least I could make peace when others around me could not!

Then of all things in my life to transpire one of my children marries a military man! This would call up in me all the earlier feelings of my little boy self and the previous decisions I had made. The memories of battles I had lying in my little boy bed after a day out in the neighborhood. With young boys intent on playing war and my own need to not participate. And my staunch abhorrence for all things militaristic.

Once again in my life I had to make some corrections in my thinking and learn to visit this place again.

I put my own feelings aside temporarily so as to open up and learn what I could. Visiting military friends of my own daughter, eating together, laughing and playing. Visits to military functions, war craft and installations honoring previous battles, military machines of power and might, lives lost. This was all very perfect for me as I had to rethink all mindsets I had created as a young person. And I did.

I learned to see people for themselves, men and women soldiers not just as “the military” but as real individuals with great hearts and minds, families, and love and honor. Thus I let go of many ideas, and distilled my ideas on war.

Some things in me have not changed, my own soul memories and the knowledge of those experiences in previous lives are far too strong to ignore, however many other components of the “war experience” and “the military” have been revised inside me. I realize this has been a theme in my life.

The recurrence of issues, and my need, no…. my responsibility, to continue to learn. It is a challenge to hold non violent ideas, peace loving views of what our humanity is capable of while starring in the face of actions which are contrary yet justified towards the same goals. I still hold we cannot create peace by killing others and going to war. We create peace by creating peace, alternatives to powering over others, and protecting the weak, and the innocents. I still hold to the possibility that it is futile to speak words of peace yet behind the curtain invest more money and energy into destructive war machinery, and human intention of strategy over and over and over again towards an enemy. More money than we as a civil society do in our education of children, more money than we invest in assisting our weaker members. More money than we do in our own infra structure, more money into military science than we do into human science. Money being an indicator of our human energy exchange.

Personally while I have become furious at the actions of another, or felt hurt by their actions, or been subverted by them, I have had to always look within and make some sort of internal change in order to live peacefully with myself. Versus changing others as is the case so often in the world. To change the world, I change myself, I keep learning, reinventing my ideas while letting go of conclusions,and judgments. For a long time I have held that a massive war begins somewhere with one or two individuals pointing at one another, thus my path is within self, and not “the other”.

So here I am closing in my my 60^th decade of life. I am by far an imperfect human being with my own biases, my own foibles. However even with all this, I hold to the same sense of self I recall as a little boy.

I am a spiritual being.

And now I see myself as a spiritual being having a human experience.

And the question has not stopped, as I continue to reflect and ask myself “what have you come here to learn?”

core spirituality… my personal journey

Before you assume……..

Trust YOUr gut…..

Eckhart Tolle TV: What can we learn through betrayal?

 

so many people so many stories we tell ourselves, I have learned so much from this lesson.

My healing experience yesterday…

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz…