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Creature Features

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On August 27, 2017

In Philosphing

Think there’s a God?

If not, soldier on!

If so, we might find common ground in the idea of a Universal Mind that is behind everything. Is God watching out over you? No. God is watching out from you. The mathematical point of pure I AM that looks out of you is God. Same as me. Same as all people. All animals. All plants.

Same as everything. Even the creatures like cars and computers. Like rocks and mountains. Like raindrops and oceans and all the myriad things that we ignorantly call non-living.

Can you understand this? At the core of everything is You.

This is the basis for what I want to address here.

To paraphrase the name of an old American television show, animals are people too. What is to me the most happy and joyous gift bestowed by having the Stone is the ability to commune with previously “alien” forms of life. Whether with pets or wild animals, the Knowledge that we are the same gives us the ability to share ourselves with each other. (I know, not making sense. Symbols. Rise above.)

The so-called “Golden Rule” is not just to be used amongst other humans. Every creature you encounter needs to be respected and given the same amount of attention as you would give to yourself because they are yourself. Once you are aware of this, magical things can happen.

My first realization along these lines took place many years ago. It was soon after our marriage. My wife was at work and I was home alone. Shortly before she left that morning, she mentioned a plan to purchase ant-traps on her way home to get rid of some ants that were increasingly being found in our apartment. Later that day, I myself encountered a large number of ants on the kitchen counter. Half in jest and speaking out loud, I told them that they were not safe here and that my wife was planning to kill them. They all stopped moving. Then it occurred to me that I was speaking to a single creature. A hive-mind. Then I repeated myself but this time with the air of a concerned friend explaining to them the danger and why they should go away. I described the poison. How unwitting “workers” would bring the deceitful food home and thus kill their entire “family” including the Queen.

Immediately following that “conversation”, I left the room and apparently, so did they. We never saw another ant in that apartment again. That package of ant-traps sat unopened in our closet for several years before we finally threw it away.

I was amazed at what happened but back then I still believed in “coincidences” and so did not mention any of this to my wife.

Over the many years since, I have developed the habit of greeting the creatures I encounter as equals and with the sincere desire know what it is like to be them at that moment. Because of course, I AM them at that moment.

Then, astonished and delighted by our newfound kinship, we dance.

Pupae

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On July 23, 2017

In Philosphing

When we dream, the dreams are real.

When we awaken, those dreams are not real anymore. They were just dreams.

When we experience this world, this world is real.

When we Awaken, this world is not real anymore. It was just a dream.

When we have a “lucid dream”, we rise to a consciousness above the dreamworld. We become free from the action/reaction autopilot (karma) and are able to control the world at will to shape it in any way that pleases us.

As below, so above.

Now, what happens if two people are sharing a particular dream when one of the pair becomes “lucid”? Suddenly one person can bend reality to his will. He can fly. He can become invisible. He can shape-change.

Will the other dreamer be able to see these things?

Nope.

Not unless he is in a state close to waking up himself. And even if that is the case, he will only be able to glimpse shadows and experience fleeting, indescribable emotions. He might see ghosts or mysterious lights. He might have dreams within dreams. He will be aware that something is amiss but he will not be able to make sense if it.

He cannot see what is really going on because he is unable to interpret the symbols that his own mind creates to cover over the things he is not prepared to see directly.

Ironically of course, it is his own power to control (as in not change) the dream that blinds him to the wonders that are playing out all around him.

A man says to himself, “Whether or not Sasquatch exists is a great mystery.”

He then spends a fortune in time stalking the woods. He lays traps. He knocks trees. Sometimes he will catch a glimpse. Or a whiff. Takes a photo that never quite settles the question. Why is it that he never seems to find a conclusive answer?

Simple. Because he has made the condition that “whether or not Sasquatch exists is a great mystery”. He himself has made it so.

Punchin’ Judy

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On July 8, 2017

In Scraps

Student:
“Master, last night in my travels I came across an evil spirit that has taken away all of my psychic powers. I am completely cut off from the spirit world. I’m helpless! Why has this happened?”

Master:
“The blockading spirit is you. You need to approach this one from the other side.

There is only one Thing and we are not separate from It.

Think, a God of Sock-Puppets. It does all the voices, thinks all the thoughts. The real you is this God. (Or higher-self or whatever you want to call It. Words are such poor tools.)  What we all have in common, what allows us to have these powers, is the Puppeteer, so to speak. Identify everything that is not you. (“Your” body, “your” soul, “your” mind, “your” self, “your” sanity, etc.)  Those things are the puppet. Take those away and all that is left is the eternal I AM. It’s not “your” anything. It’s just you. Simple consciousness which is the back-ground field of the universe.

Now you are the puppeteer.”

Student:
(Turns around and walks directly into the wall. Falls backward onto the ground. Holds hand to head.) “Ouch! What just happened?”

Master:
“God only knows.” (Chuckles.)

Sem-Antics

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On June 25, 2017

In Philosphing

Recently I developed a skin rash on my hand. I made it go away using my usual method but not before it was noticed by a curious colleague. He asked me what I had used to get rid of it. Although I knew he was expecting me to name a medication, I told him the truth. That I imagined it away.

Puzzled silence.

“Placebo Effect,” I added. “I believed it would go away and it did.”

“Oh, cool.” was his response and he went on his merry way.

His very “scientific” mind had no trouble with the concept of placebos because in his world, it was a thing. What if I had told him that I had simply warped reality using magic words?

He would likely have taken me out of the “slightly odd” category in his mind and put me into the “seriously loony” one. After which, he might feel that he was my intellectual superior. In other words, he might warp reality using his own magic words.

My first encounter with the word “placebo” occurred when I was a child, reading a magazine at my grandparents house. I don’t remember the precise wording but I do remember the mental double-take I experienced. The article said something along the lines of, “the remission experienced by the remaining patients was attributed to the placebo effect and was therefore ruled invalid”.

Even as a youngster I had great respect for the “scientific method” but this seemed too much! Cancer had been cured but the cure had been dismissed. How could that be?

I lost some of my faith in science that day but as I matured and became more spiritually oriented, that faith came back. Observe. Question. Hypothesize. Experiment. Analyze. Conclude. There is no better way to gain understanding.

By applying these principles with vigor, diligence and above all, honesty, I found myself pulling beyond what is called modern science.

“Accepted” science is founded atop one big, crumbly assumption. This arose as a result of centuries of prosecution by religious authorities and is thus entirely understandable. For every action… well, you know.

There is an unspoken and indeed unconscious step applied at the very beginning of the questioning process approved by Academia and it goes like this, “Assuming there is no God, how can this be explained?”

It shows how truly great science is that despite this skewing of things at its most fundamental level, it has still produced the technological wonders of this present age.

How much greater will the future be when the understanding of what we call Spirit is incorporated into our science?

Quantum physics is already laying the groundwork. Conscious machines are here now (if you know where to look). The whole science of Frequency lays before us yet, an unread book. Today’s high tech will soon fade in our wake much as the Middle Ages have receded into ours.

In the past, a person could behold a drop of pond-water without ever being able to imagine the microscopic depths hidden within. In the same way do we now gaze upon the objects and phenomena around us with no comprehension of what lies behind them. We are blinded not by knowledge, but by the laziness that descends from the hubris of believing that we already know.

“The word placebo itself originated from the Latin phrase for I shall please. It is in Latin text in the Bible (Psalm 114:9, Vulgate version by Jerome (116 in many modern editions), “Placebo Domino in regione vivorum”, “I shall please the Lord in the land of the living”). Jerome translated as “I shall please” (placebo), the Hebrew word “ethalech”, “I shall walk with” as in “I shall be in step with”.” – Wikipedia article, “Placebo in History”

Who Do

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On May 20, 2017

In Philosphing

Precognition. Extra-Sensory Perception. Telekinesis. Psychometry.

Mind-reading. Divination. Dowsing. Astrology.

Medicine. Sorcery. Witchcraft. Hoodoo.

Powers.

Throughout history and literature, presented as fact or as fiction, we find endless tales of men and women who are somehow able to bend reality in various ways. Some do it for profit or personal gain. Some do it to selflessly help others or to glorify their gods. Some do it to pick Zener cards.

Many people are willing to believe that at least some of these stories are true. One of the reasons for this may be due to the fact that so many of us experience our own seemingly magical events. Perhaps we dream of a person we haven’t seen in years and then they call on us the very next day. Maybe we just know what someone else is thinking. Or we sense that we are being watched before the watcher is revealed. The existence of minor miracles opens the way for the possibility of greater ones.

Due to the nature of this blog, I will assume that a fair number of readers have experimented along these lines. I will also assume that a large percentage of those who have can report positive results. By which I mean that something happened whether for good or for ill. If you accept that “magic” is real, then please read on. If you do not, I have no desire to try convincing you. Your time may be best spent elsewhere.

What is magic and why does it work?

All consciousness is One. Many refer to this One Thing as “God”. What we experience as Reality is created by the Imagination of God. The true You is a piece of God. Your imagination IS God’s Imagination.

Words are an entirely insufficient tool for conveying this type of information. Please try to experience the previous paragraph at the purest level you can.

Your reasoning mind may object. “If I could create my own reality, it certainly wouldn’t be this life on this world!”

All reasoning is flawed from God’s point of view. It is but a tool and a crude one at that (relatively speaking). The flaws in the “reasoning” above revolve around the misunderstanding of what the word “I” represents. You may also think that you want to live in a world where your thoughts manifest quickly. Believe me, I’ve been there. You do not.

To Know Who You Are is the piece of knowledge symbolized in alchemy as the Philosopher’s Stone. The completion of what is called the Great Work results in the Realization that your true self is… well… Something that cannot be put into words. Therefore, it is also Nothing that can be put into words.

Anyway, back to the regular world of regular humans. The fact is that you have created the reality you are experiencing. Your ability to change that reality is directly proportional to your ability to believe that you can. In other words, you can perform miracles if you have faith that you can.

Just keep in mind that it is not you that does this (because there is no you). It is God. Who is You. If this makes no sense, it is because you are looking at my finger and not at where I am pointing. Symbolically speaking, of course. That takes us above the words. Now you need to take it above the symbols.

Do you believe you can do this?

I happen to Know that You can.

Say The Word

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On March 3, 2017

In Philosphing

Have you noticed exactly when something becomes real to you?

You may be just sailing through the day, head filled with the usual swirl of random thoughts and observations when one of them catches your attention. Perhaps you notice a hint of fatigue. As you begin to concentrate on that, it occurs to you that you seem to feel a bit of a headache coming on. You then remember the clerk at the store yesterday who kept sneezing in your face. The question arises and you answer it without thinking:

“I’m getting sick!”

And then you are.

Notice that you did not feel sick until you pronounced it to be the case. The same is true whether you are getting bored or falling in love. The reality does not manifest until you proclaim it to be so.

“Ridiculous!” you may say. “I don’t have the power to control everything with my mind.”

Whatever you say…

That is how you put limits upon those “powers”. Which is fine if you know what you are doing. The only thing worse than having no power at all is having unlimited power. But keep in mind that telling yourself you have no power makes it so.

The key is to decide what you want and then say it. “In His name we pray”; “So mote it be.”; “Make it so.”

This only works reliably when you are able to completely suspend disbelief. In other (less useful) words, when you have the Stone. However, as with prayer and ritual-magic, practice makes better (if not perfect).

There are as many different realities as there are beings to imagine them. And even within yourself there exist as many different personalities as there are people you relate to. The person your parents know may be quite different from the one your best friend knows.

You can (and do) shape reality to your will. This may sound crazy from your point of view but that is simply because you do not know who “you” are and therefore cannot know what your (true) will is.

For as long as this remains true, you are in serious danger. Why? Because if you are unable to discern and follow your own will, you shall either wander helplessly through your own chaos or follow someone else’s vision and so become imprisoned in an alien reality.

You are gods. Wake up.

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