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understand your true potential power. When you understand that you have unlimited potential power, this is the first and major step in personal empowerment.
“Many individuals are completely blind to their own beliefs about themselves, and the nature of reality. Your own conscious thoughts will give you excellent clues.” – Seth
The magical approach to personal empowerment and living is both simple and natural, but it does require a radically new way of thinking.
You may have become accustomed to thinking of yourself as just flesh and blood; that you just have logic and intellect to sort your way through the challenges of life.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
These are very exciting times because science is now approaching an understanding of many of the concepts put forward in the ancient wisdom philosophies.
Quantum physics in particular is at the forefront of the sciences in discovering this radically new way of explaining reality.
There are an increasing number of quantum physicists who are at last presenting these new findings to the public without fear of ridicule from their fellow scientists.
Ideas such as an object is not independent of the observer; past, present and future exist simultaneously; the existence of multiple universes; and a unifying energy that underlies all realities are discussed openly at the highest levels of physics.
Physicist Professor Amit Goswami has stated quite clearly that matter, energy and consciousness are the same thing.
This concept alone completely revolutionizes the old ways of understanding the nature of reality and humanity’s role within it.
It opens the way for established science to also recognize a new way of living, a way of personal empowerment!
It is this new seemingly magical approach to personal empowerment and living that will now be discussed.
The magical approach requires a radically new approach to dealing with problems, achieving goals and in fact everything in life.
Life should be thought of as a journey of discovery, in particular a discovery of Self and your true potential.
This journey has often been described in the myths and legends of ancient times as the journey of heroes.
But it is really the personal journey of Self discovery and is no less heroic, this is the basis for The 2nd Passage.
The experiences of the journey will be unique to each person, but the goal will always be the same; to Know Your Self.
Unlike the heroic journeys of myths and legends, your journey does not have to be filled with dragons and hardships.
In fact it can be just the reverse; your journey can be inspiring and joyful.
You may create certain challenges along the way, but you should recognize them as opportunities to learn more about your true nature and your ability to create your own personal experiences.
After all, you are the creator as well as the hero of your own unique journey!
You can now recognize that these challenges represent your fears and worries which are created by limiting beliefs about yourself and what you think is possible and what is not.
Your new understanding of the nature of reality now allows you to change those beliefs and become what you are capable of becoming.
You can now truly start to realize the full potential of your creativity.
However, you should not expect that the full magic of your creativity can be contained within clock time, nor should you think that intellect alone has the full extent of your creativity.
You may sometimes find that the challenge with which you have confronted yourself does not seem to make much sense, from a logical point of view.
This is because the intellect, which uses time and space to view reality, attempts to break the wholeness of reality into small bits and pieces much like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
Just as you would have great difficulty in guessing what the whole picture is meant to be just by looking at one piece of the jigsaw, so the intellect can make wrong assumptions about a situation because it only sees one part of reality at a time.
You may be so used to thinking that only logic or intellect can solve your problem that you fall into the trap of forgetting you have at your disposal that other powerful tool called intuition, which can see a much larger portion of reality and so can make better judgments.
As you learn to recognize that the intellect cannot deal with everything by itself, nor does it need to, you will more easily let the intellect do what it does best, which is to deal with time and space.
Just because you may not be physically doing something about a certain challenge within your waking state of consciousness, it does not mean that you are not dealing with it using other areas of your being.
Therefore, on those occasions when logic cannot make sense of a particular situation, you must implement the natural way of working; which is to let go of the logical approach and engage the magical approach.
The more you understand this, the more comfortable you will feel about intellect working in cooperation with intuition, expecting the best outcome and not worrying about trying to understand the details.
This is a truly magical approach to personal empowerment by integrating your whole being rather than just trying to use a part of it.
Another important and liberating aspect of the magical approach to living is the concept of living in the present moment.
This is utilizing the concept of past, present and future existing simultaneously.
You now know that you do not have a fixed past or future and that all your experiences stem from the beliefs you hold in the present moment, which in truth is all there is.
It therefore follows from this that all your attention should be focused on living and creating in the present moment.
You should not be distracted by what you think of as a fixed past, because this does not exist any more than a fixed future exists.
Believing in a fixed past would be like carrying with you the stepping-stones you have just walked over in order to cross the river.
Believing in a fixed future would be like an artist believing there is only one picture they could paint.
The only rule that you should remember, while creating the experiences you want, is to create with good intent.
As you realize that the only limitations you face are your limiting beliefs, then by acting with good intent in all your actions, you can overcome those limitations.
Acting with good intent can perhaps be best thought of as ensuring that whatever you do is not intended to cause harm.
This does not mean you have to devote yourself to a life of self-sacrifice or put up with bad behavior, as it is important that you act with good intent towards yourself as well as to others.
As part of understanding who you are, it is important that you fully understand who other people are within your personal reality.
It is a common misunderstanding to think that because you create all aspects of your experiences, then all the people you meet are just figments of your imagination; that you are basically just talking to yourself and therefore relationships are meaningless.
This is definitely not the case.
It may seem this way if you insist on trying to understand the nature of reality only from the bottom up point of view of the intellect, because the intellect deals in terms of personalization, separation and objectification.
Your true nature is in the oneness of the Self, but any sense of oneness is an alien concept to intellect because it implies loss of identity.
Intellect alone cannot understand how you can be one and experience individuality at the same time.
In order to explore its nature, states of consciousness are created by the one appearing as the many.
These states of consciousness are experienced as if individually using what appears to be personalized and individualized sets of beliefs.
Just as you create all the ‘other people’ in your dream, you also create your own body-image in your dream.
You then interact with the ‘other people’ as if they are ‘real’ and solid and separate from you.
While you are ‘dreaming’ everything appears ‘real’ and you are not aware that you are the creator of all the objects and all the ‘other people’ in your dream.
The state of consciousness called ‘waking reality’ is just the same; you create all the objects and all the ‘other people’, including your own body image, in just the same way.
While you are personalizing and objectifying your creations you are unaware of yourself as the ‘one consciousness’ that is the creator of all realities.
Again, words are inadequate to fully explain this relationship as they trap you into speaking in terms of ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘you’, which give the false impression of separateness.
This inadequacy of words may give the impression, when dealing with ‘other people’, that you are just talking to ‘yourself’ or having a relationship with ‘yourself’.
This is because intellect can only take the ‘bottom up’ view of personalization and separation and therefore cannot understand your true nature of being ‘one’ but appearing as ‘many’.
In order for the ‘one consciousness’, that you truly are, to explore itself, it appears as all the objects, people, animals and plants that you experience in your ‘daily reality’.
As the ‘one consciousness’ you do this in order to create scenarios for interaction and learning in just the same way that you do in a so-called dream.
Therefore all interactions and relationships are important, whether they seem to be between people, animals, plants or minerals. There are no hierarchies in consciousness, there are just different forms.
This is what the ancient wisdom philosophies were eluding to when they stated that you should love all, that you should treat everyone and everything as ‘yourself’, because in truth everything is ‘yourself’.
Even when you are operating in your bottom up mode of dealing with reality, you are, in truth, constantly connected with everything in all realities, so how can you possibly ever be alone?
You are connected to all consciousness, in whatever form you may perceive it.
As you learn to view reality from the top down, the apparent divisions between what you consider you and not you will dissolve.
This allows you to draw strength and inspiration from your truly limitless nature.
As you become more aware of your true nature of ‘oneness’, you will find it easier to perform the juggling act of seeming like a separate individual, when you take the ‘bottom up’ view, but actually knowing that you are not a separate individual; that you are ‘one’ with all, when you take the ‘top down’ view.
This knowledge will allow you to understand how not to accept ‘bad behavior’, but also not to fall into the trap of believing that there is a solid, separate person ‘out there’ outside of your control who is intent on causing you harm.
Your true nature is the Self, which is timeless and immortal.
The realities you experience are states of consciousness constructed from the beliefs you hold about what is possible and what is not.
This is true about each of the realities you inhabit no matter how you manipulate time and space, or if indeed you use time and space at all.
This reality should not be thought of as inferior. in some way to other realities.
It should be understood that you operate in all realities simultaneously and they are all interdependent.
It is not the case that you have to progress from this reality to another in some hierarchical system.
You are the great mystery of All That Is, where you are One and individual at the same time.
This mystery cannot be comprehended by intellect alone, which can only deal with the wholeness of reality in a piecemeal fashion.
This state of Oneness is beyond time and space and therefore cannot be described in the words of intellect; it requires your intuition which knows it by being it.
You have been shown a very different way to view reality and your part in it.
This new information has probably turned on its head your original understanding of how things are.
Incredible as this new information may seem, it is nonetheless true.
You have been given a toolbox to assist you with creating the experiences you want.
But like all toolboxes, unless you open it and use the tools, you will not achieve anything.
When confronted by any problem, a quick way to regain perspective is to ask yourself the question,
“Who is in charge of my experiences and what do I want?”
The answer of course, in case you were in any doubt, is that you are in charge and you can have anything you want, but always remember to create with good intent!
Know Your Self and enjoy your creations.
When you’re ready to start your journey of magic and personal empowerment The 2nd Passage is an exciting and mystical sojourn into your Self.
Reflective Questions:
- Give a couple of examples of how these posts have altered your approach to life.
- Give an example of the difference between desire and expectation.
- What aspect of these posts do you find the most challenging?
- Explain how you view a relationship between yourself and another person
- When confronts by a problem what us a quick way to regain perspective?
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