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smile, i don't remember that particular part. it has been sometime since i read all the works of castaneda. could you elucidate what this teaching means to you and the context of it's presentation? i think i get it, but i would like a little more elaboration. thanks.

fantastic thoughts, callan. this is the matrix.... our "worthy opponent" and our battleground. every single experience in our lives is a lesson. and this is what recapitulation is about.... it's about going back in your life and discovering all the lessons you missed and thus absorbing the energy from them and at the same time erasing the past (no longer allowing it to hold you).

cool. cultivate that and continue to use it.... perhaps even see if you can expand it into other areas of 'sixth sense' for really all psychic abilities come from the same "organ" and if you can do one, you can do all. i think the 'sixth sense' is actually our communication point for conversing with "god" (the greater universe) and i think it's a very important thing to develop on the path. for me i seem to have been developing an ability to see ghosts/energy beings. not always.... but it usually happens outside of the city (my house. although i do have memories of a ghost inhabiting our house back when we first moved in.... i was just a young teenager at the time but i think i cleared it from our house somehow because it's no longer there). i don't really know what to do with these beings yet and don't feel energetically i am at a stage where i am ready to begin helping them.... so i just kind of ignore them (or if i feel menaced by them i do some psychic protection techniques) and they go away eventually, dissatisfied perhaps hahaha. occassionally i can also 'know' things about other people.... but have not developed my telepathic faculties to the point where i can hear others thoughts, although communicating telepathically is logically a next step. how much more can we communicate if we could do it telepathically? anyways.... keep it up, sounds to me like you are on the way. but as sean outlined in the pitfalls.... don't get trapped by the psychic abilities, rather it is just a necessary step on the path to becoming a sorcerer.

nice. thanks for sharing. and these are all pitfalls ON the path..... not to mention all the pitfalls that exist to draw an individual OFF the path entirely. anyone who thinks that achieving liberation is not an intsense and constant struggle is deluded (thats not to say it isn't worthwhile or enjoyable).

i'll just start with saying that i don't resent nor do i have any problems with suggestions or advice given to me..... i just think it would be more worthwhile for all if we were to discuss things about our own point of view rather than picking too much at someone elses. this way we can come to agreements about where we stand, rather than get lost in misunderstandings and silly semantics. freeform, i don't know if you are aware but you just outlined the warriors path but using 'nice' language rather than 'violent' language. the analogy of the caterpillar to butterfly is a very important one for the warrior. a caterpillar has enough of it's existance of being a caterpillar... at this stage it builds a coccoon and within it rots, ferments and putrifies down into liquid. from the putrid liquid eventually emerges a butterfly.... this is where we are at. a warrior is a caterpillar that recognises the need to transform. by doing so realises it is within a coccoon (the matrix) and within it rots and putrifies (destroys all attachment to past and future) to eventually emerge as a butterfly (sorcerer). a warrior struggles to be free of struggle (paradoxical to the end!). to this end a warrior must be determined, disciplined and ever vigiliant. anything worthwhile requires hard work, this does not mean it cannot be enjoyable, it does not mean one must suffer within it.... it just requires passion and an unbending intent. anyone who believes that 'flow' or the 'tao' or effortlesness will just come to them like that without the need to commit to achieving it, is fooling themselves. this is where our practice comes in. this is why we meditate, why we discuss our spirituality (as much as possible), why we focus on our health. all of these are a means, they are our hard work. oh despite the grubbiness and violence that comes attached with the word "warrior", the path is only that of bliss and joy. a warrior begins to recognise all the false trappings of the matrix and realises that none of them ever lead to true bliss or joy.... only by ridding oneself of all attachment to this illusion can one really begin to experience the infinite bliss that exists. a warrior goes to battle with the matrix aware that it is his 'worthy opponent'. that is the matrix is both the warriors best friend and worst enemy. the matrix allows the oppurtunity for the warrior to evolve.... it is the testing ground, seperating the strong from the weak. the weak remain asleep.... trapped within the matrix. the strong struggle and evolve (transform if you will) and so become the next step. to that extent the matrix is necessary and there is no hatred or resentment towards it. the matrix is just a small process within the infinite spiral of conscioussness back up to union with god (end of the hyper-dimensional universe - end of existance). to this extent a warrior understands that it's all useless, that this whole journey really leads nowhere. that eventually it ends as it began... as nothingness. yet there is nothing else, there IS NO OTHER PURPOSE. i wonder if some of you guys out there are beginning to get it? that by being on this board.... by questioning your existance and taking some steps to discover truth.... YOU ARE A WARRIOR! that is all a warrior is, that who becomes aware there is more and takes action to discover what it is. the problem is... there is no time. there is no time to be complacent. yet everything needs to occur in it's due order. there is no time yet one cannot make haste. death stalks us constantly (using death as an advisor). i feel i have embraced this fully and as a result i am intensley focused on my path. but still, i come back here to this job to this fake life and i can feel myself already falling alseep.... so on my walls i have reminders. so i come here and be reminded by the other participants. so i continue to practice and think of nothing else. constant vigiliance because the second one lowers his guard... thats it, the matrix nabs you! again a misunderstanding. when someone is discussing spirituality (warriorship) then i can relax and concentrate on their words... i can use my ears (something that i'm used to using) and it's not very exhausting. when someone is discussing the weather or handbags (matrix talk - and yes, it is meaningless and designed just to keep us asleep), their words are meaningless and of little value. so i have to exert myself by using my extra-sensory faculties and listen to their non-verbal communications, to find out what they are saying as a person.... as this is something newer to me and has not been exercised as much, i get exhausted a lot quicker. i use this as an exercise in observation. once again though, thank you for instantly assuming the worst of me. if we are getting at each others patterns.... well it's one i have found coming frequently from you. that you feel you know exactly where someone is at and that you have the perfect solution to help them out, and no it hasn't just been aimed at me only. is that really freedom? i'm sorry but don't you see the trap in your words.... that after work you are free to do anything you want...??? you are held by a job, i.e. a need to fulfill some security in your life (food, money, sex). to me, thats not freedom.... not by a long shot. and it's not even close to spontenaity. i'm just a kid... no "mr" for me i think all of you are awesome and i do have nothing but respect for anyone who has the courage to embrace the path to liberation. know that nothing any of you can write can offend me, so if anyone really feels drawn to attack me... go for it. but as i stated at the beginning, i just think it would be more productive for all of us if people kept it directed at themselves rather than projecting it out onto others.

two trees - i will be writing eventually. i learn so much from both writing and reading.... also by talking and listening (the listening part i have only just begun to get good at... and it requires A LOT of focus to truly listen to someone, if they don't have anything meaningful to say it gets really exhausting quickly). as soon as i get the free time i am sitting down to write out all my spiritual views in the form of science fiction stay tuned. cloud - i took no offense at any of the analysing and suggestions going on, i just feel that it would be more worthwhile to make this a personal (in that we each talk about our own viewpoints without trying to alter anyone elses - because as you put it none of us can know where we each are) discussion, rather than a discussion aimed around me. hagar summed it up pretty nicely, as he is quickly gaining a reputation in my opinion to do so. hagar says that being a warrior is about being able to die and be born again. this is very much it..... to get more sci-fi, the 'matrix' has our whole pattern mapped out. in other words for any given situation there is a finite number of responses that an individual can go with (remember that scene in the matrix movies where neo visits the architect and for everything the architect tells him, he has a response on one of the numerous tv screens around the wall.... it's like that). in that sense an individuals life is pretty much mapped out. oh there is the possibility for variation within the map, but it's all been planned and free-will is pretty much moot. a warrior, by learning to die (death of the various personalities we have taken upon us since birth - the final big death being the death of the ego) and be reborn begins to free himself from this set pattern.... the more a warrior does this, the more irrational his acts will become as he is always taking the path where there was no choice... if you get me? this is where one begins to free himself from the matrix. of course, it's a lot more complex than this and i'm only getting my head around it myself. a warrior is simply the first step. all a warrior is is an individual that realises there is more, it's an individual that begins to see that he or she is a slave in an unfriendly system. a warrior is just an individual that begins the process of untangling him/herself from the system. this is why a warriors mentality is needed because it's hard hard work and all the odds are against the warrior and death is at his shoulder and time is running out. but the warrior is just the first stage.... next comes the "sorcerer", one who begins to enter the dream world and is able to move to other dimensions freely. following this is the "lucid" and here we are getting to the buddhas and the krishnas. those who have quite simply broken it all and are no longer contained by rules, save those they choose to use. but the most important point i want to make is: a warrior may appear to be ruthless and uncaring, but a warrior follows the path with a heart. a warriors only concern is freeing himself from the matrix in order to help others do the same, and a warrior will do anything to achieve this goal. and a warrior is the only type of human individual (the sorcerers and lucids becoming more than simply human as they break free of the matrix) that truly has a choice. a warrior chooses to have no choice..... that is, once a warrior makes the choice to be a warrior and seek liberation... there is no longer any other choice. this is all that is left. this is where i feel i am at... i no longer have any choice in the matter. to give up my path is to die.

when did this turn into a therapy session for me? i see a lot of people analysing my words and providing suggestions for what i should do.... as if they know all the answers already. it's fine, i accept that this kind of response is inevitable when someone comes out with guns blazing as i have for anyone offering me advice... have you found liberation? have you discovered the path to freedom? have you loosened up your life and are able to live spontaneously and freely without fear or worry? if so then perhaps you should be talking about your own path for the rest of us still stuck in the struggle and offering insights into why your practice and your choices lead to freedom. and if you haven't.... well what then gives you the right to decide how i should or shouldn't live my life? what makes you so sure in your conviction that your path is the correct one? are my choices intimidating or somehow conflicting with your own personal truths? if so, why? for myself every day i feel freer and freer, i feel more present and content, i have more ability to laugh with abandon whenever i want. very little bothers me and i care about less. the less i care, the better i feel. it sounds so harsh but where everyone goes wrong in their interpretations is that the warriors path is really a path with heart. a warrior acts selfishly the way he/she does for the greater good of all. the warrior thinks only of liberation for the self as an act to liberate all. a warriors duty is not done until all are freed. a warrior acts only from the heart..... however the heart does not "feel sorry for others", in other words... pity. this is demeaning to both a warrior (who if he/she is feeling pity, is no warrior at all) and it is demeaning to the individual receiving pity. a warrior has no energy to expend for one individuals plight as a warrior is only concerned with the plight of all. i have gleaned the warriors path as it has come to me in various formats, constant affirmations. the latest affirmation came on the weekend, and it hit so hard. i discovered that i was engaged in the warriors path all along, that intuitevly i was doing all the things a warrior does. it's not just castaneda, it's ever present everywhere..... in any path that leads to truth i see the same pattern. my vigour and determination has been stregthened by this latest affirmation that i am heading in the right direction and more than ever now i realise that this path is the only one i can bear to live. everything else is a pale shade of grey compared to the colour of the path with heart. i don't know if i could ever fall into mundanity and be satisfied..... and so i blaze forth with fire and gusto because there is no longer any other choice. the castaneda references i used because they are all so appropriate and make sense to me now more than ever, and i realise that before the terms even made sense i was already engaged in the process. stalking is about discovering your habits, your routines and your thought patterns (i.e. your matrix program) and obliterating them, thus moving into spontenaity and in any given situation making the only choice which is not a pre-prgrammed matrix decision. stalking is about discovering the "I's" or the personalities we have taken upon us to act out as if it's who we are and killing them off, one by one. stalking then as the warrior begins to turn into a sorcerer, becomes using the matrix for specific purposes.... kind of like manifestation i am guessing. recapitulation is about going back through your whole life and discovering the meaning in all your actions. can also be likened to the process of surrender..... that is giving up attachment to the past. it's also about discovering how the past has shaped you now, and removing that shaping influence... once again creating more freedom. i am actively engaged in both these processes and was before they even made sense to me within the whole context of the warriors path. however thanks for the tip on cunning, T, i have taken it on board. how about rather than picking holes in my idea of a warrior and offering suggestions as to myself.... people can discuss their own impression of a warrior, discuss whether they believe they are truly being a warrior or even discuss that the warriors path is a flawed one and not worth following at all. how many people out there really feel that they are on the path and feel with all of their being that the only thing that motivates them is to seek liberation? how does that feel? to me it feels immense and at the same time comforting. i have a purpose, and whether it's real or imaginary.... whether i succeed or i fail, i have no choice but to seek that purpose. it's utterly useless and i expect nothing as a result of my pursuit but there is nothing else to do with my time in this existence.... THERE IS NOTHING ELSE! i feel like for the first time ever i am truly embracing this purpose and it's incredible and at the same time overwhelmingly frightening.

laughter. detachment - controlled folly. vigiliance. determination. discipline. impeccability. and the processes of: stalking. recapitulation. gathering energy. building physical health/strength. refining non-thought (that is: removing thought with words). embracing the present. and so on....

the war is against the matrix or machine or system.... maya.... the collective illusion we hold so dear. it is our worthy opponent and it's trap provides the putrification that allows us to transform. just like the symbology of the yin and the yang we are in a constant struggle (or flow to use less violent language) for harmony..... i see the yin-yang as being multi-dimensional however, like a spiral.... ever upwards till eternity or nothingness. there is a battle raging and there is no time, death is constantly at our shoulder. thank you for your words freeform and cloud. the warrior is where i am at now because this is the discipline and determination i am using to fuel my journey. embracing this is embracing deficiencies in myself and letting go of the cowardly pathetic human being i was. i am aware that the warrior is just another illusion.... and when the time is right i like to think i will have no second thoughts on letting him die also, but for now i will use this personality.... just in the manner you outlined, freeform. as a verb rather than a noun. about parents. identifying with parents is just that, creating an identity. it's becoming a 'noun' to use freeforms metaphor again. "i am the son of margaret"..... but it's false. i am the son of nothing and everything. my father provided essence to fertilise the egg of my mother who transformed energy to nurture me. but i am built out of universal energy and to it i will return, and not to my parents. eventually to truly find liberation and freedom one will have to remove all ties to the world, including ones parents. it does not mean, however, that one cannot "pretend to care" (exercising controlled folly). last night i discussed this with my mother, and even from a buddhist perspective she could agree. she knows that eventually for her self if she wants to go where she wants to go she will have to give up attachment to me.... although it's something she is very reluctant to think about. so for those of you who have been curious enough about my previous comments to get involved with my path, thats where i am at.... the utterly useless pursuit of escaping the matrix. i have nothing else to do with my life, i have nothing else to live for and i embrace the path eagerly, more so than ever before. i am determined to succeed and aware at the same time that it means nothing. ahhh the paradox. i am so comforted by it.

good point.

sean, thank you for your concern, but i am in more conviction than i have ever been that i am a warrior. nothing more, nothing less. there is, as always, a misunderstanding. impeccability is that state of living the moment. a warriors path is entirely driven by the moment and nothing else. to continuously refine the moment until there is nothing less. to do so knowing that it is utterly and totally useless (as you put "the path out of the matrix is itself an illusion"). a state of presence is the only place to be.... we agree on that perspective. however we will just have to agree to disagree on the whole concept of "every body is perfect and unique" cos quite frankly.... that's just matrix-talk and i aint buying it for a second.... (remember fight club? you are not special, you are not unique, you are nothing but a piece of shit.... and so on, that's it). every person i have ever met holds a pattern on me as i do on others. this is a process of liberation, to chase down those cords and sever them completely. to become myth and imaginary. this includes the parents and the grandparents, friends and enemies, lovers and casual fucks..... even children when/if i have any... and i would expect they would do the same to me (provided of course that they choose to live the warriors life). it sounds so cold and ruthless..... so opposite to that state of love we are all trying to foster, but it's not. real love is both cold and warm, unquestioning.... do you think the sun has any second thoughts about burning us? and yet with it's intensity it provides life for us out of love. one interesting thing...... consider this, lucid ... lucifer. why? the road out of the matrix is so hideous that it threatens everything a humaton holds dear, it threatens them with the pettiness of their lives so much so that it is deemed as evil and on the path to being a warrior will be threatened with revoltion and adoration both. ..... lucifer the light bringer. hmmmm.

i want to go to exactly the same place as you. freedom, liberation. escaping the insiduous holds the matrix has on me, the preprogammed paths set out for me.... this pathetic life we hold so dearly. i don't know where this destination is, i don't know what it will have and i don't know what it will lack.... all i know is that it exists (or does it?). all i know is that i have no choice but to seek and continue on this path that i now realise i chose a long long time ago. the path of a warrior. it's all i have left and it's all so totally and utterly useless. i have been amassing the resources needed to get there though, i see that now. i have been accumulating knowledge and now i must begin the hard work of turning that knowledge into power. i who have nothing but the comfort of my sins.

giving up attachment does not mean giving up respect or gratitude. i honour and thank my parents for the energy they invested into me. i love them in the same way i love everything and everyone else. but i want out of the matrix, so when it's time for me (soon) to leave their house i will wish them all the best and be gone without another thought about them unless i need to take of their services yet again. to spend my time worrying or thinking about them is to invest energy i don't have to spare. every speckle of energy is precious, every thought is valuable and there is no time.... death is upon us. i am aware that i am now becoming quite mad, but ive never felt so lucid.... ahhhhh.... like a breath of fresh air. it's utterly selfish and self-centred... but to be truly selfless thats just the way it's got to be. the answer is always a paradox. to make it relevant, i feel like i am still discussing this quote.

exactly. and everything you associate with that life too. it's all fake and is all binding. sean - roll your eyes at me as much as you desire. i'm getting out of this matrix, and to do so i will be as ruthless as i need to be (and i'll laugh the whole way hahahaha). i have no other purpose any longer than to seek freedom by whatever means necessary. it wont be long before i will be considered a schizophrenic.... but to be entirely unpredictable is the way out. i received so much verification this past weekend that i know i am on the right path. a big part of me died on the weekend. GT - on the path one must give up ALL attachment. all of it.... all attachments to beliefs, ideals, to energy, to sex, to money, to food, to friends, to family, to dreams and desires. it's all just a hypnotic illusion. choose the blue pill, or choose the red pill.

would that really be a bad thing? i am realising that to truly be free, one has to give up attachment to everything and anything in ones life.... that includes parents. anything you hold dear, is holding you stuck in the matrix. a warrior can pretend to care.... but thats all it is, pretending or "controlled folly". i think i'm well on the way... i couldn't care less about my parents. i'm currently just using them as a place to live cheaply. when i'm done using them i'll leave and probably not have another thought about them. perhaps my mother will be upset, but thats her issue.... i don't have the time to waste my energy on trying to help everyone feel good. a warrior must be ruthless sometimes. that's the nature of the game. "selflessly selfish" is what i have come up with. to truly help everybody out, one has to be entirely self-focused. everything that detracts from a warriors impeccable nature and unwavering focus, is a trap of the matrix. true freedom is scary and threatening to most people, and someone on that path of liberation will meet resistance from everyone not. a scathing report from a mother could be just this..... indignation that her own son could care so little about her. for if he is truly a warrior, that is exactly what would have happened.

true... to an extent. problem is that in our current living environment, particularly in cities.... one can never be toxin-free. every breath one takes one is inhaling carbon monoxide, various pesticides, sulphurs, and so on. while driving a car one is breathing the off-gassing of all the synthetic plastics and carpets in the car, same at home and in an office. there is less oxygen available in the air and much more other garbage.... this is why oxygen is an incredibly potent tool to use for health in this day and age. we need constant help to stay healthy (until we begin to free ourselves from the matrix that is). i've never looked into hydrogen supplementation but will have a read sometime.

death of the 'I'. we got heaps of these I's and they each relate to a particular personality we use in a given situation. i have just become aware that i truly killed a part of myself this weekend. i just sent an email from work and i signed my "name" to it and found i have no attachment or identification with that name.... it's truly not me. on the path we have to obliterate every single thing we thought we were.... all of it. the final death (leaping off the cliff) is the death of the final 'I', the ego. then we can realise when we thought we were alive, we were actually dead.... and now that we have died, we can truly live. finding the I's and destroying them is known as "stalking" per the teachings of Don Juan. i've realised that this process is essential for true freedom to become available.

like my alliteration? well.... anyway... i got a call from someone at work today (i'm a debt collected, i collect debts). same old sob story, life is hard.... but this customer used the phrase "life is shit" or "my life is a piece of shit" repeatedly. obviously things are not going very good for her. for me this ties back into creation.... with this attitude do you think this person could appreciate the lessons being taught to her? the joy that exists in every moment? do you think life could possibly be good for someone who thinks like this? yeah, her circumstances created her point of view.... or did it? did her point of view actually create her circumstances? can a "shit" life still be good? can a "good" life still be shit? of course it can. one of my friends went to visit cuba one time. he said these people had NOTHING. hardly any food to eat, nothing to do. they had nothing. yet he said he never met so many happy people in his life. their shit life is good. on the other hand here in the western world in our opulence and good fortune, our ability to reach out and grab any food we want, any silly consumer product we want.... for many, life is really shit. they are unhappy, unsatisfied. good life is shit. for me this is how we create our reality. it may not be as drastic as thinking about a giant house and a flashy car and millions of dollars and then suddenly it coming true. but without a doubt we can influence our life with our thoughts. it's always a choice. whether we choose to enjoy it or not dictates what coloured glasses we are wearing, how we view the world and in turn how the world treats us. i also find that the more you embrace this, the better the world treats you. the more synchronicity you attract, the better success and abundance becomes available to you. using arguments about people suffering everywhere is invalid. if people really felt strongly enough about their suffering, they would change it. they would view the world with optimism and rise above their situation.... and there are countless instances of this occurring. of an individual living in squalor and poverty to become incredibly successful and abundance. why? attitude or perspective. choosing to take responsibility for their reality and embracing the oppurtunities for success and abundance that exist for all of us. there are plenty others who live in povery and squalor and embrace that, feeling they deserve it. they have no right to abundance and thus make no effort to pursue it. verdict: your damn straight we create our reality!

you are most graciously welcome. hahahahaha! i know what you mean

hagar i really get you now. i think you have just explained a process that has been occurring for me.... right now i am more content than i have ever been and i've kind of just stopped caring about it all (to get here though i had to go through a phase of really caring a lot... and i mean A LOT!!!). it's not that i have let myself go, i still do all the good stuff.... eat healthy, exercise regularly, meditate, search for truth.... but i do them less because i hope to achieve something and more and more just because there really is no other way, there is no other choice for me any longer but to live my dreams. and it's not like i'm there all the time.... but truly, i am content virtually all the time. oh i have superficial anger and frustration, even superficial joy and anticipation.... but they are all that, just superficial and rise and fall as quick as the waves on a beach. i like that... to "give up hope". it sounds so negative but i don't see anything negative in it at all. it's so embracing, so comforting.... to have no hope is to be there, experiencing, living. it's to want nothing and to get everything. reminds me yet again of the carlos castaneda books and don juans path of the warrior. a warrior acts as he does because there is no other choice. not because he cares, not because he wants to change anything (because how can one want to change anything when it is all already perfect?) but just because that is the way of the warrior. i also loved don juans talks about controlled folly.... beautiful, and ties in with what you are saying i think. (i don't care what anyone says about carlos being a fraud, those books were riddled with pure gems!) so thanks for this hagar, i feel like this moment was set up just for me (and of course it was) cos i took something beyond your words.

http://www.oxypowder.com/ i normally get it through an aussie distributor... but wow has their main site gone commercial!! nevertheless, don't let that deter you... it's quality. however it has no nutritional benefits so it's complementary (not supplementary) to a good diet in cleaning the body up.

*takes lots of credit* oxy-powder was my intial suggestion... i don't remember how i came across it, but it was more than a year ago. it's just high concentrations stabilised in magnesium and germanium for slow-release into the intestinal walls. it's a top down gut cleanse.... and it hits the small intestine, large intestine and colon. the oxygen oxidises all the mucoid plaque off the walls and supported with a good diet.... a lot of cleansing happens. also the high levels of oxygen going into the blood stream through the guy walls really make the skin glow. i just started a mini-cleanse with it again cos my diet is so awesome right now, i thought it would be good.... i'm only gonna do half a week with it rather than the full week (just cos i'm going away camping, and i'm also just about to run out of it). you take it for 7 days... start with perhaps 4 capsules before bed and keep adding one or two until at least 3-5 bowel movements are had a day (my very first cleanse i ever did with it though i was having about 12 movements a day... but i was very very dirty then). that is your day 1... stay on that amount for 7 days. thats it. i've only ever had one colonic before so i can't properly compare. but it's said to be better than a colonic because there is no danger of distortion of the colon and also because all the intestines (small and large) are cleansed as a result of taking it. freeform is in the middle of a cleanse with it too.... so he might be able to also say that it's a quality product.

just like aneros... just like warrior wellness....

yeah perhaps it's not super manifestation.... all your desires coming true with simple thoughts. but you are missing the point, it IS a result of thought/desire/intent. to change reality, work needs to be done. if one wants a lot of wealth one has to apply a lot of work towards that.... either a lot of work mentally to allow oneself to be more receptive to wealth... or to actively work, by investing researching working, etc to accumulate that wealth. either way, the work needs to be done to achieve the goal..... my point was we are all so caught up in the quick-fix "think and you will get" mentality that we forget that it actually takes a lot of work to get it. i hesitate to say effort... because i think effort and work are something different, effortlessness is a state we should strive for... but that too takes HARD WORK!!! if i want to alter my own reality, any aspect about it whatsoever.... i have the though/intent/desire to do so and then i put in the hard work. i put in the work on the mental plane and on the physical plane. if i want to have a good looking body.... i think about having a good looking body, and that gives me the discipline and determination to do the exercise to get there. see.... we are so caught up in the mystical and quick-fix that we forget that where we are RIGHT NOW was a process of our own personal manifestation... on every level!!! we allowed this circumstance to come about, and with a strong enough intent and hard work we can alter it to suit the way we want it to be. now thats what its really all about. any successful person out there, i am 100% certain both had incredibly strong focus and unwavering intent... and at the same time put in the hard work to get where they are. as the hard work goes in, the energy expands and more of what you are focused on is drawn to you. if one wants to believe in fanciful ideals of believing something and it'll just easily come true, without any hard work.... well be prepared for failure. it's not that it's not possible, it's just that it takes hard work! sean wants to manifest a million dollars... what does he do? he spends time every day working on manifesting that million dollars. he puts in the hard work to change his thoughts in regards to wealth, to create a situation where he feels he can accept a million dollars into his life. he seizes every oppurtunity that now presents itself financially... and sure enough, if he worked hard enough at it with an unwavering intent... it'll come into his life. it's not that we cannot think things into our life.... it's that each and every single level of our lives is a result of a thought we had (or didn't have)... in other words we are responsible for our lives and we can alter it on any level.... even as simple as a fat man deciding to exercise and eat healthier to get himself in shape. that is bending reality to your will!!! don't neglect the mundane, for thats where the magic truly lies

how about putting it in the article section also so it doesn't dissapear off the page once new topics come up? it's a very very good article.... and well.... i'm sold and gonna buy one of those crystal wands today i have a lot of money to play around with at the moment and an internet shopping addiction to deal with hahaha better i buy something worthwhile.