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This is maybe the 3rd time in the past 4 years that I've tiptoed around this. Each and every time I get crunched by the Bums, lol. I'm hoping that one of these days there will be someone who actually sees the same thing I do. Please feel free to express your feeling that I am crazy. My idea of the sorcery of wu-wei: 1. Do by not doing. 2. Let the problem come to you, in the form it presents. 3. Do not be premature in grabbing at the problem before it arrives at your doorstep. This would be to act out of fear or anxiety. This is absolutely wrong. 4. Always take the highest action, when you have to make the decision. 5. Do not let your ego affect your decision in any way. This can only be done after much inner work. 6. Then let it go and spin away from you, after you've taken the most loving action the situation calls for, knowing that it will probably return in a different form. 7. Repeat as many times as necessary. Is there anyone, anywhere, that can see this being done at the very upper echelon of the U.S government? Getting things done by not-doing?

Absolutely fascinating reading. As for myself, any achievement I have made along those lines has come in these three much more mundane ways: - Meditated for about 30 years on achieving no-thought. Whenever a thought would come into my mind, I would whisk it away. I can get into no-thought instantaneously, even while walking around. - Worked the 12 steps of recovery initially, with all earnestness. Did the personal inventory; assumed I had every character defect known to man and set about finding to what degree I had it. Continued 'giving it away' in an AA format and found that it broadened on its own to include everyone, everywhere. Found some modicum of humility by making some rough amends. Still continue to work step 11 (where we immediately make the correction within ourselves or to another when we see that we are wrong in our thinking or actions). - Read everything that my heart called me to read - luckily, I found the TTC at a yard sale. I looked for knowledge in every tradition I became interested in. Every man seems to be born with an imprint of 'god' on his heart, regardless of where in the world he is born, whichever structure he's born into. My guess is we can see where the work is taking place at this time by our outer manifestations. As above, so below.

Yes, I'm familiar with the gate, just not with that particular visualization. The Christ Consciousness is the All-Love and All-Openness mindset, and I think the goal is to be as close to that as often as possible. But it is through the Christ Consciousness, that place of no judgment at all, that healing can be done. Wu-wei as well, IMO. Yes, it is the tip of the wizard hat; the total transcending of anything on this physical level; a place where All is Accepted and there is no division, labeling of good or bad, or seeing us as separate beings. Either someone told me once or I read somewhere where there was an Enlightened woman who did nothing but laugh. At any situation, no matter how 'evil' or pathetic others would see it. She would just laugh. When being introduced to someone, she would laugh. she clearly saw through the illusion of separateness and apparently found it awfully funny that everyone else got so caught up in it.

Hello RV - what a beautiful new avatar you have. Did someone say potentiality? That bud has it all. This Bud's for you, girl. Manly P. said: (Isn't he fabulous?) "A serpent interwoven among the olive leaves on her head, devouring its own tail, denotes that the aurific unctuosity was soiled with the venom of terrestrial corruption which surrounded it and must be mortified and purified by seven planetary circulations or purifications called flying eagles (alchemical terminology) in order to make it medicinal for the restoration of health." Wouldn't this seem to infer that the Big Bang was all one Big Mistake, lol? And I can't help but notice that you have an aurific unctuosity of your own on the head of your avatar. And that the Fool is carrying a triad of olive leaves in his left hand, no doubt symbolizing the triad of the Original Cause, the three faces of the I Am, whether that be in the form of Father, Son, Holy Ghost; Creation, Preservation, and Decay; or Birth, Life, Death. I don't see the Ouroborous (sp?) interwoven in your olive leaves, but he is there nonetheless; the eternal principal of unmanifest potentiality. The Dao. Your picture is small, but is that a coiled snake with its head rising, the snake of Kundalini, at your right hand? To bring this down to a much more local level, have you noticed that since your K-activation that you can feel which chakra has a blockage at the time that it needs to be 'worked on' and further purified, to go along with the metaphor above? That the 7 chakras give us clues to that in our character that needs to be brought to the fore? When I feel the 'stuck-edness' of energy in, say, the power chakra, the 3rd - that this always means that I am out of balance in the area of 'power', involving an ego struggle, that needs to be examined and purged? Or when the heart chakra is stuck (which would mean I am acting in a less than wholly loving way in some situation), or sometimes the chakra in the throat area feels the stuck push of energy trying to get through - the chakra which involves how we present to the world, how we vocalize, how we manifest in the physical. I think this meshes very well with your mention of the 7 planets and the ideation that souls, after death, must travel through the 7 spheres to return to the sun, our home and place of purification (if the ancients had it right, including the ancient freemasons) It just at this moment occurred to me that the snake of the awakened Kundalini spirit within is the very same as the ourabourous biting it's own tail; the snake of unmanifest ideation, of creation, of eternity, of aurific unctuosity.. I'd never looked at it that specific way before. As we speak, I happen to be studying the 28th degree of the Scottish Rites in Morals and Dogma. There is sort of a synchronistic paragraph I read last night: "As formerly the number One designated harmony, order, or the Good Principle (the ONE and ONLY God, expressed in Latin by Solus, whence the words Sol, Soleil, symbol of this God), the number Two expressed the contrary idea. There commenced the fatal knowledge of good and evil. Everything double, false, opposed to the single and sole reality, was expressed by the Binary number. It expressed also that state of contrariety in which nature exists, were everything is double; night and day, light and darkness, cold and heat, wet and dry, health and sickness, error and truth, one and the other sex, etc. Hence the Romans dedicated the second month in the year to Pluto, the God of Hell, and the second day of that month to the 'manes' of the dead. "The number One, with the Chinese, signified unity, harmony, order, the Good Principle, or God; Two, disorder, duplicity, falsehood...." I didn't know there was such thing as the I Am Universe on the internet! I wish it were still there - was it a wonderful website? I can't comment too much on your colors or octaves - I've not taken the time to enlighten myself on the nature of color or sound - although I am an artist and a musician. Perhaps when I've finished the stack of books on my nightstand my new stack will have studies about true color and the next octave of experience. If you can shed any light on that, I'd much like to hear what you have to say.

Yes. Thank you so much for everything you did. He was scheduled to come home this week anyway, before his legs woke up. And now he can come home a fully functioning person. I am tempted to want to talk to him, although I've not met him before - to tell him about looking at his father differently from here on out, with more compassion and less fear. This is my own fear that he may re-manifest a condition again. But as I think about it, I think the healing energy took care of the inner dynamics of it all. That Lance Armstrong is absolutely right in walking away without a word, and there is no fear that it may occur again. The dynamics are cured, and he did it within himself, unbeknownst to even himself. In my personal case, I've come to utilize within a healing circumstance the Sun - that both the healer and the healee are both contained within the Sun, that we're all part of the Sun. That way, there is no separation at all, merely different faces looking out from the Sun's surface. This makes it a lot easier to get into the Oneness mindset; and not only that, it removes the illusion of time and space. Perhaps in the healing we are overriding both time and space, making it possible to do long-distance healings, without even the knowledge of the one being healed. As to time, it is all Now - even if it seems that the accident happened previously. It didn't. It happened Now. As to space, that too is illusion. There really is no difference between Ohio, Oregon, and wherever he was hospitalized, maybe Georgia if I recall. There is no difference at all between you and me and Joshua, and our triangulated awareness of that helped move the dynamic along. This reminds me of quantum physics, in a sense. Matter being both a particle and a wave, a concept that I've mentioned a couple times on TTB's. A particle would take up space only, it would be capable of stillness. The wave of probability, on the other hand, involves time; a measurement from point A to point B. So we sit at the intersection of time and space - we are both a particle and a wave at the same time. As to the Fool; yes, you and I are fools. We try very hard to comprehend the incomprehensible. And yet something keeps driving us further and further. It seems just an inch out of our grasp, so close, and yet it seems to retreat a little further each time we think we have it in hand. To tease us and keep us from complacency, I suspect. I wonder if it would even be possible for the Fool to get to the edge of the firmament; perhaps it would keep extending and the Fool would be safe always. But the Fool's willingness to go right up to the edge is our Trump card. And, luckily, we have our provision cart with us; it's right there on the Fool's shoulder. One more thought on the Plato cave metaphor that came to me this morning. There is a flaw in the metaphor in a sense, in that anybody with a brain would soon, within 30 seconds, realize that he himself was the one casting the shadow onto the screen. The sun was behind him, the shadow would have been his and those sitting with him. He would know real soon that whatever he himself did, the shadow did. If he raised his own arm, the shadow would raise its arm. Can we see this metaphorically as self awareness? But to extend the metaphor even further out, and if he thought it through far enough, he would understand the shadow to be the consequence of himself being between the screen and the source of the light, the fire behind him. What I'm getting at here is that all, whether seen or unseen, is a big cosmic soup. The unseen is merely the broth, but the matter is there.....just not as concentrated as the matter within our body or any other vegetable in the soup dense enough to cast a shadow.

Joshua just walked today.

An interesting aside for you....I have been having this incredible discussion with a being known as Traveler. This morning I woke up and saw on the news the white horse of Tommy Trojan (USC), whose name is Traveler. I said to Joe, if I see another Traveler anywhere, something is up. Sure enough, we walked into Tractor Supply this morning and the first thing that met my eyes was a big stack of Traveler anti-freeze bottles. I have a feeling I'm going to be taking a trip soon. I hope it's not my mother dying in California.

I think you are spot on there. We must remember that time and space is an illusion; that we are not separate from each other, and that if we wish to use a proxy such as Jesus or some Rinpoche, then all we need to do is to get into the consciousness of that proxy. The proxy is Here Now. Funny you should say this. Just this morning at breakfast Joe and I were watching a young boy, maybe 6 years old, dipping his knife into a small jam container and letting it drip into his mouth. I asked Joe 'can you remember doing that as a young boy?' and we both mentally tried to put ourselves into the boy's mind, with our own young histories to draw upon for the feelings. He was sitting across from his grandfather, assumedly - and just saying anything that came off the top of his head, as kids do. Granddad was trying to read the paper, wasn't much amused by the boy's inane remarks or questions. Can you not remember doing exactly the same thing to an older person when you were a kid? Like asking 'Are we there yet?' over and over to your folks in the car, much to their aggravation. Can you feel your own young impatience because of your excitement and anticipation? When I first started studying Plato's Allegory of the Cave, it first occurred to me that it was quite a convoluted way of saying 'Through a Glass Darkly!', the prisoners in the cave, chained with their limbs or their heads unable to move at all, back to the burning sun up behind them, seeing all manifestation as shadows on a screen sort of thing. But the allegory was more impactful the further it went on. Do you remember the conversation your parents had with you, telling you not to stare at the sun? Do do, I remember the very day my mom told me this. Was it Van Gogh who went crazy staring at the sun? I wonder why he did that. Was it because his genius realized at some point that the answers were contained in the sun, either metaphorically or physically; one of the degrees of the Scottish Rites goes into great detail about how souls are born and emit from the sun, go through the seven planets (chakras, I suspect) to enter the human body, and return through the seven planets to go back to the sun? That the sun is the very purging entity of the souls, purging that which had remained unpurged during the lifetime of the human? Macrocosm / microcosm. Plato further goes on to substantiate that which you and I have already discussed; that enlightenment is not an end at all, that it is merely the beginning of the true Walk. Think Quan Yin. She achieved her enlightenment and then by choice returned to the groans and moans of humanity, rather than ascend to the place of her own comfort, the place she had earned. And indeed Plato tells us later in the metaphor that that final comfortable ascension is not the purpose at all: "They must be made to descend again to the prisoners of the cave; Not to please themselves, but to be instruments in binding up the State". (Referring to both enlightened citizens and enlightened rulers). He goes on to say "When you are King of Yourself, you are fit to be King of other citizens". This is because when we get to know ourselves, to dig deeply within without fear of what we're going to find, to find the True Self---that we come to See all others as well. We understand their motivations because we understand our own. That we are not different from each other at all, that we are All One and do have the same needs and wants, however contorted by our circumstances and upbringing. The need for Love at the bottom of all remains, even if it becomes disguised in the form of riches, industrial achievement, or any type of ego bolstering. At the bottom we all want and need the same thing: love. To even want an entity called Wisdom is of the ego. It is a desire to set apart ourselves from our Brothers and stand out, to be placed above. And yet that is the very motivating factor that brings us to ourselves, usually. The desire for Wisdom; however I suspect that at some point the desire for Wisdom as an outreach of ego is supplanted with the desire for Truth, real Truth, if we're lucky. This is where and why conscious subjugation of our own egos is necessary for the final leap. My own metaphor for this is symbolized by the physical thing I am doing now.....when I earlier mentioned putting my forehead to the floor several times a day. It started out as a desire to heal the arthritis in my knees, but it is turning into so much more. I have added a candle to this ceremony, which I designate as the flame of Kundalini within me, which does burn constantly. However, by subjugating myself below this flame when I place my forehead to the floor, I am subjugating myself to the Kundalini spirit, the One within - and reminding myself every time I do it that I only wish to be a vessel for whatever wants to emit through me. For my ego to get out of the way so that the flow can go through straightly and unimpeded by my own contortions. What a Catch-22 we're placed in, it occurs to me. We must retain enough ego to stay out of oncoming traffic, and yet find the perfect balance so that we are channeling straightly, without contortion. As to rulers of the State, where Plato eventually ends up - this reminds me so much of The Art of War (and the Sage in the TTC) and the reluctant general. It is the reluctant general that wins, the reluctant leader that rules wisely. They let all come to them, they do not stir the pot prematurely. They know by Letting It Be that all will align as it is naturally supposed to; the best leader will be the one stirring the pot most infrequently. They will be accused of leading from behind. Which they are doing. As Plato says at the end: "Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are the most eager, the worst." Huzzah.

Doesn't seem like the twitterbox will let me highlight your entire quote, probably too much data. Responding to the Q & A of Emmanuel: Can you give me a mantra to use when I feel lost in my own depression and fear? This is one beautiful thought..."Remember the purpose of your soul". It is to bring love to the situation, that's all. How simple it all boils down. Mention of the golden rope reminds me of the web of Awareness that Don Juan (Castaneda) reminds us that this universe is: that this web is our eye-to-eye consciousness that keeps it all afloat. That everything is one giant entity with a zillion eyes. That being in Awareness of that, from moment to moment, is our daily challenge. It is my inner knowledge that enlightenment happens the moment we realize that we're enlightened; that in fact we are already enlightened, we have just forgotten. As to the darkness dispelling with the light (love), I've never seen this not work, once I realized the truth of this. We have a politician of a high rank who uses several mantras: one is "Never squander a good catastrophe"; the other is "Wait And See", which to me is the essence of the Tao, the wu-wei of sorcery. To never squander a good catastrophe is to see the light in the darkness; as the Sage, the illumined one will see the properties of another man's soul and, knowing how he will respond in a given situation, utilize those properties for the higher purpose which he is enabling. To "Wait and See" is akin to John Lennon's "Let It Be", as I see it. I took Mary Baker Eddy to breakfast again this morning. We turned to page 252. "When false human beliefs learn even a little of their own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as he true likeness of his Maker. "The false evidence of material sense contrasts strikingly with the testimony of Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice with the arrogance of reality and says: I am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. I can cheat, lie, commit adultery, rob, murder, and I elude detection by smooth-tongued villainy. Animal in propensity, deceitful in sentiment, fraudulent in purpose, I mean to make my short span of life one gala day. What a nice thing is sin! How sin succeeds, where the good purpose waits! The world is my kingdom. I am enthroned in he gorgeousness of matter. But a touch, an accident, the law of God, may at any moment annihilate my peace, for all my fancied joys are fatal. Like bursting lava, I expand but to my own despair, and shine with the resplendency of a consuming fire. "Spirit, bearing opposite testimony, saith: I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the infinite understanding, for I am Infinity. The beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable glory, - all are Mine, for I am God. I give immortality to man, for I am Truth. I include and impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give life, without beginning and without end, for I am Life. I am supreme and give all, for I am Mind. I am the substance of all, because I AM THAT I AM." Again, I sometimes think that Mary Baker Eddy may have needed just a bit more evolution, particularly when it comes to her sudden shift in Jesus being the one and only. She sees her healing powers Through Jesus; but on the other hand, it certainly seemed to work for her. I'm guessing that we are allowed to use a proxy, if need be. If she perceived Jesus to be her God, then how can it harm to go through him, or Buddha for that matter, or any other guru one chooses? To me, it just seems like an unnecessary step; but on the other hand, your ideation of feeling the crown of thorns, the holes in his side, may be another side of the same thing. Whatever it takes. It occurred to me several years ago that an interesting way to get over one's fear of death is to embrace it on a physical level. Road kill works. It's ugly, squishy, smells horrible, and has flies all around it. But to realize that this is nothing more than the beautiful process of decay, one leg of the tripod of life, is to transcend it. I put my hands on it (unless it is ridiculously squished) and carry it off to the side of the road where the vultures and crows can more easily get to it, without putting themselves in harm's way. No gloves, no copping out. Just embracing the decay. It seems to desensitize the senses after a while to the death smell, the seeming ugliness of the event. I'm a true believer in bringing these concepts into the physical. I remember too where somewhere in the New Testament Jesus knelt down and drew something in the dirt. Was this during a stoning of a woman? I can't remember. But my guess is that by drawing a picture of something, or a symbol of some sort, that he was 'bringing it into the physical', much like putting the water (spit) into the man's deaf ears. Further down in Emmanuel's quote, the channel says "Holding onto anger, fear, resentment, and all the stuff of which fear is made is the most impractical thing you can do." How very much this sounds like the Big Book of AA, the path of the Prodigal Son! The steps are entirely about removing resentments, leaving the space for love. Finding out why the fears (crystallized as resentments) are there, and peeling the onion, removing the layers. Finding our own shadow, realizing that it's nothing more than a shadow, and shining the light on it. When I look back at my first hung over days as a newly recovering alcoholic, little did I know that those steps on the wall, if taken earnestly, would put one's feet onto the path of enlightenment, assuming the recoverer took them seriously. The prodigal son, who would've guessed? After thinking myself a f***-up my entire life to that point, who knew what a golden path that actually was? And how fortunate I feel today to have been an alcoholic for this very reason? There is a statement in the Promises of AA that says something like "If you take these steps earnestly, you will meet some of us trudging the road to happy destiny", or something similar. I had no idea. I was just there because I had humiliated myself by throwing up all over my boyfriend. I am looking now at the quote of Ptaah. The essence of all of this, as I see it, is "take responsibility to know that, indeed, you create your own reality absolutely". Taking responsibility is not easy for people. It's so much easier to see ourselves as a victim, that they did it to us, and to stew in righteous indignation and get to feel all superior. But the truth of the matter is that within ourselves we created the situation, that we brought exactly to ourselves what we needed for our soul growth, that it is the great I Am that we are a part of; that nothing is created that is not created by the I Am, and that we are indeed It. What a mindblowing concept, barely grasp-able. And yet, that understanding must be obtained before healing of self or of another can be accomplished. Unless we use a mental Proxy? Your thoughts, please! The quote at the end by Lao Tzu within the Hua Hu Ching, that "It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors". We are all reflections of each other, every moment, every circumstance. We have created it. If we see selfishness in another, it is because we contain selfishness within ourselves. This is perhaps the best way to inspect ourselves and the state of our being; how judgmental are we on any particular day? What have we drawn to ourselves? What have we manifested? Yes, this thread is certainly making me think too. I am grateful that you are here. There is something inside me telling me that this twitterbox is about to explode.

I was just sitting down to reread your last post. I went back a few pages in our thread. Something jumped out at me that I had missed earlier. Metal; the confusion that the Initiate receives that you mentioned, wherein he had to give up all his metal and then was asked for it again. The word Mettle comes from Metal. His correct response would seem to be that the only metal he had to give was the mettle in his soul. I looked up a definition of mettle: a - vigor and strength of spirit or temperament b - (Shakespeare) - as in 'gentlemen of brave mettle' - quality of temperament or disposition c - 'on one's mettle' - aroused to do one's best Origin of Mettle: Alteration of Metal! First known use, 1581. Would that be Shakespeare? (Or Sir Francis Bacon, if you'd rather). Okay...now I'm really going to study your previous response.

Traveler, that is the most awesome post I've ever read on this forum. Or just about anywhere else. Thank you so much for taking the time to pull that all together. I will give a more thoughtful post later - I must study your post today, there's so much there to triangulate. Someone once said: Love your Brother as Yourself. Judge not, lest ye be judged. Wear the world as a loose garment. Love you, Brother.

Hi Mal - nice to know you're participating in our eclectic conversation, mentally at least! Traveler, thank you so much for taking the time to lay that out - I will definitely take a look at that website, very interesting stuff. Incidentally, I got to see the synchronistic reason for the wasp sting. I had to deliver a 'sting' to a woman yesterday who had met me at a health lecture, she was sitting next to me. She left early but as I was getting up to leave I noticed she had left me her email address and phone number (she did this because of something I had done during the class, I had breached protocol and interrupted the speaker and asked why in the world she would refer to anybody as her 'enemy', which she had). Apparently this struck the young woman next to me enough to leave me her information. It turns out this young woman is badly addicted to amphetamines, she told me so in an email. She wanted to suck me into her world, she saw some wisdom there she badly wanted. As in AA, I realize it is useless to work with wet ones until they find their own motivation to conquer their addiction; the synchronicity of all this is that I did deliver a Sting yesterday and told her to contact me after she gets 3 months sobriety under her belt. The poor thing is living so badly within her own universe she doesn't notice that anyone else is around, a truly addicted mindset. I can't give her the motivation, nor do I want to try. I expected her to try and talk me into sticking around, helping her. She did exactly the opposite. This morning I got an email from her saying She Was Cool with that, that it was probably exactly what she needed to hear that from me, and that she felt she was close to a breakthrough (which is exactly the wrong perspective, I know....you can't think your way out of the paper bag, all us addicted types have tried!) but the fact remains that she said she would contact me when she had 3 months sober. Interesting. The wasp knew. Maybe it was the motivation she needed. Now I'm going to get totally bizarre on you, as if we haven't been doing bizarre all along. Joe and I go to one of two restaurants for breakfast every morning. We always grab one of the many metaphysical books we have around the house and arbitrarily read a paragraph or two over breakfast and discuss it. Yesterday I picked up Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health as I was going out the door. (She still has a tendency to see Jesus as the all in all, so we have to put that in perspective as we're reading her) Here's the paragraph that I arbitrarily turned to, on page 411, and it's a dynamic that neither of us have broached in this lengthy discussion, but I think there's something here for both of us: "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized. The mental state is called a material state. Whatever is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is imaged forth on the body. "Always begin your treatments by allaying the Fears of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger. (I wonder about her usage of Silently? Did she mean Quietly?) Watch the result of this simple rule of Christian Science, and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the Fear, your patient is healed. The great fact that God lovingly governs all, never punishing aught but sin, is your standpoint, from which to advance and destroy the human fear of sickness. Mentally and silently plead the case scientifically for Truth. You may vary the arguments to meet the peculiar or general symptoms of the case you treat, but be thoroughly persuaded in your own mind concerning the truth which you think or speak, and you will be the victor. More often, within her book, she will refer to error-thinking, which I much prefer to her usage of the word sin - too much baggage for me, too much judgment. But her understanding of the dynamic of fear is something we haven't put onto the table yet (or if you have, maybe I missed it). With Joshua, he must replace Fear with Love, Tolerance, Understanding of his father's alcoholic condition; or the possibility remains that he may re-manifest the Fear in another way. She infers elsewhere in the book that the operative principle is the MINDSET OF THE PRACTITIONER, that the higher mindset will always prevail. Perhaps she meant to use the word 'Silently', I don't know. But it does seem that we MUST help the patient understand that the fear in their mind must be replaced with Love, or else the manifestation may reoccur, the same dynamic will be in action. But she contends that the higher mindset (visualize an aura of sorts) will override and include the lower mindset, thereby dragging the mindset of the one being healed into the higher framework. Do you have any ideas about this?

What a wonderful method! I will merge that into my own methods, after studying the meridians. I only wonder at your reference to Headache as being an Affirmation. Would No Headache be a better affirmation? Funny you should mention being bitten by the spider. I was lovingly trying to get a wasp out of my house yesterday which was up against the window. I tried to cup it gently, telling it I loved him. The cranky old thing bit me anyway, but the sensation from the sting only remained for about 5 seconds. Today it itches just a bit. No sagehood yet, apparently. Another method that I'm trying on for size - you're familiar with the works of Dr. Emoto and water? Where he speaks either loving or hateful words over the water sample, and then freezes the sample at minus 51 degrees; when he removes it from the freezer, the water just begins to thaw and it's at that time that crystals form. He then studies and photographs the crystalized water at very high magnification. There is an incredible difference in the crystal patterns, whether the words were loving or the words were hateful. The loving crystals are gorgeous, creative, often reflecting the particular word spoken! The hateful crystals are misshapen, dark, ugly. The experiments show water being infused with the entire intelligence, intent and the spoken Word being the causative factors. When I did the ceremony for Joshua, I had a cup of water up on the table where I had spoken the words 'Healing for Joshua' over the cup of water about an hour before my friend got to my house for the ceremony. In addition to pulling the electricity down from the lit upper globe with the rice, we also dipped our fingers into the water and traced from the top globe down the stalk of the lamp, into the lower globe which was out on a limb; then we traced all the way down the lamp to the ground with the water. I think it's all about 'bring our intent into the physical'. You bring up Jesus - wasn't there one time where he was healing a deaf man and Jesus spit on his own fingers (water) and placed them into the ears of the man? I wonder if he spoke his intent to his wet fingers; I'll bet he did. Your method of visualizing Jesus with the thorns and nail marks is wonderful; it certainly is a wonderful way to generate the welling up of love in the heart. With Joshua, we used a picture hanging from our gazebo (where the ceremony was) and stared at it for a few moments until we could feel the love, although Joe and I didn't know the boy. The love was felt anyway. Sometimes, particularly in the summer, I will lay face down on the thick Ohio grass and then in my mind shoot out into space. I can see myself clinging to the planet from a place out in space. I'm about halfway up the globe. For some reason this brings an incredible amount of love to my heart for the planet, sometimes bringing tears to my eyes. It's like clinging to the Mother, and my heart is very soft after I do this. We're getting close.

Yes, Don Juan spoke often of impeccability, which is the forerunner of becoming a Warrior - to match our words with our actions. It is done on either the inner or outer planes. To be vigilant of our own thoughts, in addition to be willing to pick up someone else's trash because it is defiling the Mother. The quote you found is wonderful. I think that when we're walking in the realm of Love Your Brother As Yourself, the realm we seem to be walking in, that the desire for healing is a natural outcome. I do not look for healing events either, nor do I charge anything for it. The situations come often enough just in everyday living; I merely respond when it is placed in front of me. Could you talk a little more about EFT? (I could google it but what the heck, I'd rather hear it from someone that has your insight) Energy Field Therapy, I'm guessing? I think we become the Light, the more we love our brother. Yes, non-action is the very thing, IMO, that will allow you to heal. Not to go out searching for it, but finding your own maladies within your own actions, specifically gauged by the interactions you have with others. Notice your ego when it flares up, when someone rubs you the wrong way. What is it in you that has the 'hook' that is getting caught up in the reaction? Can you find the hook? It probably was produced many years ago when you were young. The cause for the Effect, the effect that has rolled downhill like a snowball and has gotten larger and larger through the years. Then, figure out a way to Act to the Opposite. To turn around a negative judgment, like 'What a fat lady', to 'How pretty that lady's hair is!' To counterbalance the scales of our own negativity and judgment. And our body is talking to us, as discussed previously. The malady that is manifested, whether looking into yourself or another, is symbolic for something much deeper. Sometimes I need to google the malady, if I don't know much about it, and try and figure out what the body is really trying to say. The body also uses common phrases (like Joshua's 'paralyzed with fear' reference above, regarding his father) to tell us. This is triangulation, and it takes very distant eyes and pretty straight innards to be able to see this. But it's a nice thing to think about and start to see the connections in your life or the life of the person that is asking for your assistance. Sometimes the assistance isn't asked for at all, but it's helpful to do it anyway because it helps you understand their situation and relate to them with this knowledge.

It's really just one moment at a time, isn't it, as to your last paragraph? To do what's in front of us with the most impeccability that we can, to borrow a don Juan Mateus phrase. To realize that each and every person is just as important as the next; that none is more important than another. To treat our brothers with love, as we are all tentacles of the same octopus, so to speak? To develop our character to the highest degree of perfection that we can. To pick up a piece of trash and revere the earth, even though we don't own the parking lot it's in? To leave a place or situation in better order because of our harmonious attitude? I have to tell you about something kind of wonderful that happened today. As we have spoken earlier, I triangulate maladies. It's much easier to triangulate maladies for someone else,, as the Seer can see the entire tripod in front of them, and only one of the legs goes down inside of the triangulator. If we are trying to triangulate a malady within ourselves, it is much more difficult because of the difficulty in experiencing all three legs of the tripod; two legs of the tripod go within ourselves. I have been trying to triangulate why I am perfectly healthy other than arthritis of the knees. Okay, I'm 66. But beyond that, I know there is a reason that the only chronic thing that bothers me is my knees. I have tried to see over and over what arthritis of the knees signifies, what it symbolizes, particularly within me. It occurred to me as I was driving this morning that there is no problem with my knees when it comes to forward progress; I can walk just fine. The only real pain I have is going up or down a stair; in other words, it is an up or down thing. When one gets onto their knees, what are they doing? Metaphorically, praying? Giving credit to a god who is responsible for anything 'good' we can do, as opposed to taking the credit ourselves? Needless to say, I haven't 'prayed' on my knees since childhood - particularly now, as there is really nothing Out There to pray to. But I think the metaphor here is humility. There are times I lack humility, when my 'knees are inflexible' - or perhaps that I haven't done enough of the getting onto my knees symbolic movement. How very possible this is! One of the treasures of the sage is to 'never be the first' (Yutang), which says to me that he never strives, he never tries to win, he is happy in whatever situation he finds himself and knows to let the situation come to him; never to chase it down. How very contrary this is to how I was raised as a child - I was brought up tremendously competitively, and I know that this 'be the first' beast inside me is still very much alive. The ego is always willing to raise its head. It is something I try to stay on top of daily. I am hoping that as I wear this dawning awareness of my own character, seeing how it affects me physically, that the metaphoric and physical healing will begin. I will take more active steps to remain in humility and 'never be the first'.

Quote Traveler; I no longer see sin as sin. This is my experience as well. The concept of sin is nothing more than the darkness within the cone, the lack of light. Quote Traveler (ACIM): Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. Therefore it corrects what never was. I believe the above quote to be the exact secret of the 12 steps. The steps involve not only uncovering one's defects of character (illusions for sure, but still responsible for our way of seeing and thinking) but go a step further and have one atone for the defect (illusion) by making amends to the person we perceive that we've harmed. This is the hardest part, and the only one that creates a humility even further than relating your character defects to another person. It puts Windex to our own dark glass. Re: your way of doing Reiki - a wonderful method! I used to run energy from a short distance away, but now prefer the loving presence of touch as well. For more serious healings, I find that a triangulation of why the person is manifestation the condition to be crucial to removing the illusion. Then truth, then acting to the opposite. Usually it's replacing fear or hatred with love, in the end result. This has worked twice for cancer (failed once for cancer as well) and it seems to be working 50% with Joshua by reproducing his condition and changing it with ceremony - although Joshua wasn't even involved. I have only been doing this for a few years, and I keep making modifications on the fly. Haven't found the book yet that gives all the answers, and I know the answers are within; I just need to find my own clarity on day at a time and as conditions are brought to me. From what I'm seeing in Morals and Dogma, it appears that at some point the Masons continue in their expansion of what is brotherly love - to include all men as our brothers. And the black dot thing? LOL, this is a simple tool for staying in Awareness during the day. When you look into a black dot, you are looking at god. A smile can't help but creep in and your heart melt. Even to look into the eyes of your cat. Traveler quote: : It is like there is a progression toward the light following a definite timeline....." (and continuing) You asked for my sensation. The sensation I perceive is that I am in a river of the Tao, facing downstream. But walking backwards upstream. The exact opposite of what 'appears' to be true in this timeline. Going back to the beginning against the current of the downstream motion. Agreed with the I Ching reference. The I Ching is a way of measuring or pointing to the synchronicity of the moment at any one place in time. It is just a method. The synchronicity of the moment is just that which is in play at that moment: the dynamics, if unchanged, will lead to a particular place. If the dynamics are changed (done by injecting love into the situation, for example; but there again we have to get back to doing a little inner work to allow Ego to take a back seat in order to get over ourselves and love our brother as ourself), the changing dynamics will affect the outcome. Nothing is written in cement, unless we make it so by an unchanging attitude.

I am speaking to the ability to do by not-doing which is what the Sage can do. You're speaking of the individual phenomena that occurs, the physical manifestation. True maturation of the kundalini gifts goes beyond just the individual; it involves sorcery. Kundalini is a mean to an end. You are focused on the means.

Quote Traveler: (unable to work this dang machine!) 'Meditate upon the complete unity of yourself and all you see.....' Doesn't this seem to be a type of second nature that overrides everything after a while? I read The Impersonal Life maybe 20 years ago. The mantra spoken over and over again in this book was 'Be Still and Know You Are God.' I understood it at the level I was capable of understanding it at that time - I thought I understood it fully. But it's the constancy of practicing this mindset over a period of years, as your quote mentions, that truly drives this awareness into the consciousness. The burning ember (or the kundalini flame) seems to be alive and noticeable at all times now. Very rarely is it not felt, unless of course one allows themselves to be caught up in the illusion of the moment and falls into emotion....as in not being able to see the forest through the trees. This happens rarely now, but it does periodically happen. Usually it can be transcended almost the moment I realize I'm caught up in it. Apology is made, life travels on. The thing I appreciate most about the Morals and Dogma book is that there is such an emphasis placed on removing one's defects of character, often realized a degree at a time. I've read so many books where the emphasis is on the head-learning, not the inner clarification. I don't think it's possible to See without having cleared out our warped lenses.

I'll come back in a year.

Please feel free to chime in. It seems like a few like-minded souls have found each other. This is truly a treat. Regarding the above two quotes, the second one seems to address more specifically the blockages of the soul, the error thinking. I too was taken by that paragraph by Pike when I read it, maybe two months ago. The cone of darkness is exactly proportionate to the size of the sphere, or the amount of illumination on the planet. At what point will there be no cone of darkness? Is that even possible? and the closer the sphere gets to the source of manifestation (sun) the longer the cone of darkness will be. I seem to recall later in Morals and Dogma that the end result is for the earth to merge with the sun. At that point there would be no further cone of darkness. this speaks either to the planetary set-up or the inner configurations of us. That is the key - to merge with the sun, or the source of enlightenment. Perhaps a type of dynamic manifestations happens within the cones of other planets as well - but the balance of nature seems to happen just on the 3rd rock from the sun, or at least the visible manifestation for which our particular rods and cones are set up. Venus would have the longest cone of darkness due to its proximity. The third chakra down is the one in the throat area, is it not? That is the chakra for manifestation, or how we present to the world. Maybe there's an analogy there too. Desires are the blockages. No doubt Josh has a desire to be away from his father. His remedy would be to transcend that desire, to learn to love his father for what he is, an imperfect alcoholic; a nearly impossible task for a teenage boy. 'The most virulent poisons are the most sovereign remedies'. Hasn't this been what we've been talking about, both with Stephen Hawking and with Joshua? Their blockages were of their own manifestation, if looked at from a totally non-judgmental perspective. As in my dream, the young girl had to swim her own way to the top, there could be no help from Lance. Perhaps Mr. Hawking engaged in some error thinking, even pre-natally, which caused his lifelong malady, although his brain certainly took off into the ethers in a scientific sense. But maybe not in an inner sense? Darkness within darkness. That is beautiful. The cosmic soup is darkness, and our cone of darkness, of error thinking is the black within the black. Only blacker. BTW, I love Stephen Mitchell's translation of the TTC. He made a noble attempt to modernize it, to place it more within today's framework of speech and metaphor.

Just for starters, I was thinking earlier today about the zygote, when the cell first divides into two, then there is three. How very Tao that is! Perhaps all we have to do is think of the workings of the Egg to see creation continuing to manifest. It is interesting that during tantric intercourse, should one be lucky enough in their life to experience that, that there is no sensation of two separation bodies - no friction, no nothing. Only golden splendor and a sense of totally no shame. Truly angelic. Cell = Battery?

Please recall that when B.O. first came into office, the first visitor to the White House, within a week, was S. Korea. I thought at the time How Odd. The second visitor formally received at the White House was Japan. Shortly thereafter, N. Korea started shooting off missiles. Please recall that there was no peep from either S. Korea or Japan - no panic, no nothing. But our warships had formed a perimeter around N. Korea, no doubt with the intent of letting him shoot off within a particular distance, but anything beyond that would mean devastation for Kim Jung Il. Basically, what happened was that Kim Jung Il threw a party and nobody came. He lost face, a horrible thing. Several weeks later, the Dalai Lama 'showed up' at the White House, uninvited and unannounced. It was put out in the press that the White House had to send him away, as the Chinese delegation hadn't been formally recognized yet. I don't believe for a moment that the Dalai Lama was actually sent away; they no doubt spoke, but the press release had to be otherwise so the Chinese wouldn't get offended. Please recall that the Dalai Lama returned to the White House shortly after China was received. There is no doubt in my mind that the Dalai Lama saw in B.O. the same thing I saw at the time of the N. Korea missile firing incident. The incident was resolved in a masterful way. My guess is that the Dalai Lama helped B.O. to explain to his cabinet the workings of wu-wei, doing by not-doing. This has not worked out the way B.O. anticipated, his presidency. From day one his every move has been blocked by the right wing. But his wisdom has turned this into opportunity. Because he Sees, because he Knows how people will react to his every move, he gets things done by not-doing. He will flick a marble, let it spin, and then let it go. He knows that by not-doing, by not trying to manipulate anything, that things will align by the perfect workings of the Tao. This is how Health Care was passed; he just stood there and watched the right wing destroy themselves. This is what he's doing now. He sees the direction it's going - he knows he has to do nothing but observe. And when a decision comes to him, he makes it without ego, he makes the highest decision in front of him. He knows that he cannot move an inch on the shutdown, to capitulate at all to the right wing. To do so would be to allow a crack to open that would involve not only his presidency but the presidencies of all in the future. It would mean that any extremists could extort any future president by threatening to not raise the debt limit or to shut down the workings of the government. He must stand firm. This man has the backbone to do so. And he was terribly underestimated by his opponents who assumed that he was a less-than-intelligent buffoon. In this particular case he used the innate prejudices lying within to utilize to the benefit of the nation, assuming one is in favor of health care for all. I, for one, am. I'm real tired of paying Emergency Room prices for those who are uninsured, for starters. Paying for a $100 doctors visit makes oh so much sense to me. And that's not even getting into the Love your Brother as Yourself aspects of why it is a good thing for everyone to have access to a doctor when they need it. I've watched this phenomenon for over 4 years, and it hasn't varied. If no one else can see it yet, I'll bring it up again next year.

Yes, we are God. You are so right about 'god' perhaps having other plans for Joshua. Look at Stephen Hawking. Would his mind have been as great as it was if he had a normal existence? My guess is no. You are truly a beautiful person. Thank you so much for taking the time to channel into Joshua. If I get wind of anything further happening with the boy I'll be sure to let you know. I too had an experience of the energy in my legs as I was bringing my thoughts into the physical. We just can't judge it, can we? As to Morals and Dogma, this book has taken me several months to read, to this point. I started out reading a degree a night, but in the upper degrees they are quite a bit more lengthy and require much concentration - sometimes reading the paragraph over several times to get the gist of it. I'm getting closer to finishing, though. Do check out the incredible index in the back, more like A. Pike's notes to himself as to how to find a particular thought when he needed to convey it. Just astounding, his mind. I didn't realize before I started writing this paragraph that you had posted two next to each other. I need to chew on what you wrote earlier. I'm not familiar with the Hua Hu Ching as you are, other than when this thread was started I read some of it. I have studied maybe 12 different translations of the TTC over the years, though.

Traveler, as we are of One Mind, I would love your help on something. Please read post #11 in this thread where I did a ceremony for a young man that was in a motocross accident and ended up quadriplegic. His father is an alcoholic, and the boy is terrified of him. His father forced him to enter the race. Please look at my interpretation of this dream and tell me if you see it as wrong, or specifically to the opposite of what I see. I think this dream directly relates to my question of whether to have another ceremony for Joshua (young man) Yesterday, I made up my mind to do another ceremony to get the current down to his lower body (I would get Chrissy, his friend, back to do it again; this time with more focus on the lower limbs - same physical ceremony with the rice and the lamp). I had determined that today I would contact Chrissy and have her come back over to do it. This morning, I woke up with a dream fresh on my mind. I had dreamt of Lance Armstrong - it suddenly hit me that Lance was a 'biker', although not a motocross rider - but the analogy is there. I know no famous motocross riders, so it makes sense that this would come to me as Lance. Lance was standing at the edge of a pool. He was coaching a young girl who was in a wheelchair to learn to swim. She and her wheelchair were up on the diving board; she dove in, still sitting in the chair; but able to use her arms (as Joshua now is too). She swam across the length of the pool okay (still attached to the chair). Toward the end of her swim she went under; something had happened to the chair, it broke somehow, dragging her down. Lance did nothing. He just stood there, looking into the water, standing next to a duffel bag. Finally the girl popped up (I don't remember seeing the chair at all) and she was gasping for breath, coughing and sputtering. Still, he did nothing. He had no expression on his face, no panic, no nothing. After he saw that she came up, he bent over and picked up his duffel bag and left; didn't help her out or help her regain her chair. He just left. I remember turning to the person sitting next to me and saying "What an Asshole", referring to the fact that Lance didn't help her out of the pool to check to see that she was okay. The moment I woke up, my first thought was that I was wrong in calling him an asshole. It was a judgment, which was my error, I knew this immediately. What I'm thinking is that Joshua needs to go within, without judgment, and reexamine his relationship with his father. He needs no further assistance in the way of ceremony; the rest is up to him and getting through the blockage in his psyche, the paralyzing fear of his father. Lance did exactly the right thing; he took his 'medical bag' (or provision cart, in our case) and let it be. I think that's what I will do; I will let this be, unless the situation spins into me again in some form. I would be happy to assist Joshua in learning to love his alcoholic father without judgment (as hard as that would be for a teenage boy) so that he doesn't re-manifest anything of this nature again. But I will take no steps to do so unless, as I say, it spins around again, in the form of a request from my friend Chrissy or Joshua's mother. From your outside position, can you triangulate anything different in this dream as it pertains to the situation? Do you think I'm seeing this correctly, or can you see it a different way? I may be too close. Your idea of looking into the Hua Hu Ching and looking for commonalities with Pike is a good one; a very meaty idea. I was under the impression that Pike didn't create the Scottish Rites, but instead organized longstanding traditions which to that point had been verbal and handed down. Do try and find this book! It will astound you, I guarantee it. The way he ties in all traditions, mystic and religious, from around the world, throughout history, is a rare thing of beauty. Manley Hall does much the same but Albert Pike, as you say, is truly a genius. Actually, they both are.

When you speak of Mystress Angelique Serpent, are you speaking of the same MYS that hosted the Kundalini-Gateway website? If so, I was on that as Manitou as well (I think) - it could have been another name. As to Freemasonry, maybe you read above that I am currently studying Morals and Dogma (Albert Pike) and when I say studying, I mean studying. This is not a quick read, lol. I'm currently at maybe the 26th degree - this is the 800 pager that goes deeply into human psyche and parallels the various legends, like the ones we're talking about, which emit from the original awe and fear of the presence of the sun. Like, that's our original imprint, and each society had their own way of telling the story. I've never enjoyed a metaphysical book as much as this one, and Pike makes Blavatsky look like a materialist. Another wonderful source for these initial legends is of course Manley Hall, another great metaphysician. I'm assuming you too are K-active. If your inner fire is anything like mine, the last thing I want to do is draw even more energy to me by stealing them from the stars, lol. My flame burns constant and I have energy to burn. Working out the energy is my usual concern, but I am doing my best to utilize it and transfer it into the healing energies, as you are. I agree with everything you said above from personal experience. You are very knowledgeable. My memory is my current problem (although I shouldn't even affirm that by saying it) - it seems like any knowledge I gain is stored within somehow, and is available when needed. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to cling to my conscious memory. But within it remains, and it can always be counted upon to come forth at just the right time. Heart was my cornerstone for inner work as well - although mine came through the 12 steps of recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, a process that started nearly 32 years ago. Once the digging process is found and understood, it never quite stops, does it? Today I find myself asking why I manifest a particular condition or situation - knowing that I played a great part in it. To not try and place the blame elsewhere. What a difference from when one feels that they are separate from the All, that it is 'me' against the entire world. Now we are aware that we are part of the One, you and I. Today when my husband and I went to breakfast, I heard 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' on the radio. I've always loved that song; but when I was much younger I assumed it referred to one's actual brother. Today, this morning, I Felt the Oneness of the song - what a beautiful soul must have written that song. There are so many different degrees of understanding, that that song is a fine example. Yes, we are Stardust. Some part of me so hopes that all this political craziness we're going through right now is the death-prattle of our national ego, with a new and kinder nation emerging. We can only hope.