“Robertson is a Living Avatar on whose shining example our future may depend.” ! Larry Dossey, MD (National Best Selling Author of “One Mind” and “The Power of Prayer”)
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SUCCESS and YOUR LIFE PURPOSE
Page 2 National Best Selling Authors praise: The Power of Choice, Success and Your Life Purpose
Steve’s book is … “A TEXTBOOK for the Soul” - Caroline Myss, PhD (National Best-Selling author of “Anatomy of the Spirit”)
“Robertson is a Living Avatar on whose shining example our future may depend.”- Larry Dossey, MD (National Best Selling Author of “One Mind” and “The Power of Prayer”)
Steve book uses…”beautiful metaphors and analogies that lead in every instance to awareness, self-responsibility, and our Divinity” - Gary Zukav (National Best Selling author of “Seat of the Soul”)
Steve’s book is …”required reading for anyone who has longed to find and fulfill their life purpose.” - Don Miguel Ruiz (National Best selling author of “The Four Agreements”)
Page 3 Steve’s book…”can empower you and help you bring your gifts to the world.” - Jack Kornfield, PhD (National Best Selling Author of “A Path With Heart”)
Steve’s book offers …”rich and spiritually authentic insights into the meaning of life and how to find and live your life purpose.” - Gerald (Jerry) Jampolsky, M.D. and Diane Cirincione, Ph.D. (National Best Selling Authors, Pioneers in the Human Potential Movement)
Steve’s book is …”a treasure trove of timeless wisdom and spiritual guidance.” - Alexander Astin, PhD (Considered the world’s most widely quoted person on Higher Education. Co-founder of UCLA Higher Education Research Institute. Best Selling Author of “Cultivating the Spirit”.)
Steve’s book…”looks at all of us in the eye and asks us to awaken to our own power and force.” Jack Healey, former Executive Director of Amnesty International. Former Franciscan Monk.
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SUCCESS and YOUR LIFE PURPOSE
Copyright 2015 by Steve Robertson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or any other form of replication. The intent of the author is only to offer information on the general nature of self-empowerment and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
Page 5 CONTENTS About the Author ………………………………………… 7 - 19 Introduction ………………………………………………. 20 - 36
Part One: Discernment (Listening to the “Word”) ……………… 37
Chapter 1 …. Healing the Record of Our Soul’s DNA ……………… 38- 42
Exercises………………………………………………………… 43 - 45
Chapter 2 …. Stillness and Mindfulness……………………………… 46 - 50
Exercises ………………………………………………………… 51
Part Two: Discipline (Trusting in the “Word”) ……………………. 52
Chapter 3 …. Awareness………………………………………………… 53 - 61
Exercises…………………………………………………………… 62 - 63
Chapter 4 …. Creating Our Reality……………………………………… 64 - 75
Exercises…………………………………………………………… 76 -78
Part Three: Discipleship (Acting on the “Word”)………………… 79
Chapter 5 …. Duality and the Sword of Truth………………………….. 80- 84
Exercises…………………………………………………………. 85 - 86
Chapter 6 …. Success and Leaps of Faith……………………………. 87 - 97
Exercises…………………………………………………………. 98 - 103
Part Four: Towards Enlightenment ………………………………. 104
Chapter 7….Returning to Love ……………………………………….. 105 -113
Chapter 8….Music’s Divine Healing Power………………………….. 114 - 122
Prolog…………………………………………………………………… 123
Appendix
Meditations and Affirmation of the I AM…….…………………… 124 - 139
Selected Quotes……………………………………………………… 140 - 161
Recommended Reading …………………………………………… 162 - 167
Page 6 About the Author
Steve R. Robertson is a social entrepreneur and entertainment industry executive based in Los Angeles
California. He created Project Peace on Earth, LLC (PPOE) to give back to society and help facilitate greater world peace through globally broadcasting concerts of sacred music from sacred sites to a worldwide audience.
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He is a Producer of International Peace/Cause Related
Events, Concerts and Albums which have been supported and acknowledged by the leadership of foreign governments and the UN. He is a TV broadcast Producer, Talent
Coordinator, Video Director, Producer and Writer; a former
Fortune 500 sales, marketing and branding executive; a
Social Media Entrepreneur; an Entertainment Industry
Executive; Music Therapy Researcher and Life Coach who is based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a Huffington
Post Blogger and public speaker who has been featured on
RT (Russian TV), Pacifica Radio networks, the Zeitgeist
Media Festival and numerous radio programs and feature articles around the world.
Robertson's research, writing and lectures on consciousness and the spoken word are considered of seminal importance in how we can choose to co-create a new world of greater love, peace and compassion.
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Steve Robertson has over three decades of experience in the music industry and spend eleven years writing a thesis paper on
“The Effects of Music on Consciousness and World Peace.” http://www.projectpeaceonearth.org/about-us/musics-power-to- heal-and-empower-spiritual-growth/
Robertson conducted a clinical music therapy research project at
UCLA’s Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, CA to determine how sacred types of music could reduce pain and stress during the delivery process. And...It quantifiably did.
Robertson formed the organization ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org
(PPoE) to implement the results of his research... a plan, through globally telecast musical prayers of peace, to achieve a global consciousness of greater love, peace and compassion.
Respectively, he has produced three internationally broadcast concerts of sacred music featuring world-famed musicians out to
80 million homes. http://www.projectpeaceonearth.org/achievements-overview/
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! (Click on image above or link just below) https://youtu.be/q7xUOgNj-kM In addition, Robertson also conceptualized and produced the famed Picasso Peace Dove image at the base of the Mount of
Temptation. This image, comprised of some 1,000 Palestinian
UN/RWA Refugee Children, was selected by the UN as one of the
49 most iconic images (out of 800,000 images) in the history of the UN.
Page 10 ! Robertson has written, produced and edited over 30 short film videos that are related to the subjects of music, consciousness and peace. PPoE is represented by over 40 world-famed and
Grammy winning Musical Ambassadors.
Page 11 ! Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist, the Movie) and Steve Robertson produced
The Philosophy of Oneness video (click on image above) televised to 80 million homes multiple times.
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He Executive produced the 2 Unite All benefit album which features: Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Stewart
Copeland (co-founder of The Police), Philip Lawrence of Bruno
Mars, Thomas Bergersen (2 Billion YouTube video hits), Gary
Nicholson (Country Grammy winner), Sasha Cooke (Opera
Page 13 Grammy winner), Ricky Kej (New Age Grammy winner), Rick
Allen (Def Leppard) and many more.
! (Click on image above or link just below) https://youtu.be/6B8w_kdNr24
! Philip Lawrence of Bruno Mars (2015 Grammy Winner Album of the Year) at the 2 Unite All album release party featuring Philip's original song for the album called "Begin Again.”
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Robertson has also launched, what is thought to be, one of the world's first international peace song contests...a search for our world's most spiritually inspired musicians and songs of peace:
! (Click on image above or link just below) https://youtu.be/tpLCmXxVoUE Robertson, in partnership with creator / producer Ricky Key, is an
Executive Producer and the Artistic Mentor on Volume 2 of the globally acclaimed “Shanti Samsara” Environmental
Consciousness album. The album was commissioned by Prime
Minister Modi of India wanted to honor all sentient beings from a
Buddhist and Vedic perspective. Once the album was completed
Page 15 the Prime Minister delivered it to every Presidential attendee at the 2015 UN Climate Change conference in Paris. Volume 2 of the Shanti Samsara album features Philip Lawrence of Bruno
Mars, Stewart Copeland of The Police and the Royal London
Philharmonic Orchestra and many additionally famed musicians.
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This epic album is designed to raise Environmental Consciousness and focus worldwide attention on the presently occurring and pending Climate Change and Endangered Species issues.
Page 16 The Shanti Samsara 2 CD set is part of a 160 page pictorial coffee table book that tells the story of climate change, the plight of endangered species and the story of world-famed musicians who joined to support the album to increase awareness and inspire a difference.
The albums feature the profound musical works of artists like:
Philip Lawrence of Bruno Mars (2015 Grammy Winner, Album of the Year), Stewart Copeland (Grammy Winner of The Police),
Gary Nicholson (Grammy winner, Texas Hall of Fame), Ricky Key
(Grammy Winner and Composer/Producer of the Shanti Samsara album), Sussan Deyhim (famed Sufi Singer), the Royal London
Philharmonic Orchestra and many more. The mission of PPOE is to unite the most spiritually inspired musical performers and then broadcast their music from sacred sites, in a global musical prayer for peace, to a massive worldwide audience of several hundred people.
Robertson believes Sacred music has the power to inspire and empower a more compassionate, loving and wise state
Page 17 of consciousness. This state of awareness in turn has the power to inform and unite people in the realization of worldwide peace. The philosophy of PPOE is that: Inner peace creates outer peace.
To learn more about PPOE and see a complete list of our Musical and Dance Ambassadors, Steering
Committee and Advisory Board members please visit: www.ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org
Page 18 Introduction: From early childhood I had a fascination with music, though much of my life was focused on playing sports (football, baseball, basketball, tennis, racketball, and racing motocross). Music always pulled deeply at my heart.
One day, when I was a junior in High School in 1975, my
English teacher played Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album to our class. This experience changed my life and clearly demonstrated music’s power to spark the imagination.
I had been racing motocross in the amateur/expert ranks for a year or so. After a weekend of racing and driving I had returned to junior high school exhausted. I was prepared to suffer through my English class, which I hated, even though we had a really cool teacher. Once I arrived to our assigned
Page 19 room our teacher announced that we would not be having our normal class that day and that instead we would be listening to music, and experiment she said that would engage our imagination. Being a bit of Rock & Roll expert, as was the case with the rest of my racing friends, also in this class with me, I resigned myself to being bored. I took comfort in the fact that I could at least take a nap given it was explained that she would be turning out the lights and wanted us to close our eyes. I immediately had a quick chill of concern came over me, “Oh, I hope she doesn’t play classical music”. I eventually thought to myself whatever she plays I’ll be taking a good nap.
Our teacher then turned the lights off in the room and asked everyone to put their head down on the desk. Everyone awaited for what she would play. From the moment she dropped the needle onto the record my mind raced in a joyous flurry of images. The album, which I had never heard before, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” From
Page 20 note to note and song to song my mind raced with
Technicolor and awe inspiring images. I had never ever had music touch me like this before.
During my senior year of High School I turned 18 and was able to apply for my professional motocross racing license.
Rock music was the anthem of my life and the racing experience. It was my constant companion during the long drives to the race weekend tracks. I ultimately sustained an injury to a nerve in my elbow while playing basketball during high school gym class. I had numbness in my hand and a severe loss of grip strength, in my right throttle hand, a fundamental necessity in the sport of motocross. After two unsuccessful operations to resolve the issue I was forced to deal with the reality of ending my professional racing career.
I decided to go to college full time. I moved from Northern
Virginia (Fairfax) to north central Louisiana where I would
Page 21 attend Louisiana Tech University. The school which was based in Ruston, Louisiana, was hardly a cultural-mecca of the world, however it had a highly progressive radio station.
There, one night in the boiling heat of summer, while studying late for an exam, the school DJ dropped the needle on an album from Mike Oldfield called, “QE2”. I had never heard of this artist before, and honestly, I thought I had a pretty comprehensive knowledge of all the cool music. Much later, I would find out that Mike was the first artist signed by
Virgin Records, and actually, made the label famous and profitable for Richard Branson. Almost 30 years later, and during a dinner fundraiser in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to sit next to and talk to Richard about this.
I just knew when I heard this QE2 album, which the DJ played in full, that it was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It was complete musical genius. It was part rock, classical music, jazz and….something joyously Divine that I
Page 22 just could not put my finger on. I had to own this album. I could not get this music out of my head. I wanted to listen to it over and over again.
I bought the album and then listened to it almost one hundred times. It was so layered in such a genius way that every time I played it I heard something new and amazing.
The QE2 album and his earlier albums, which I soon bought thereafter: Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn; just blew me away. I couldn’t believe that having come from the culturally sophisticated Washington DC area, and all of its progressive radio stations, that not one time had I ever heard a DJ mention Mike Oldfield’s name or play a song by him.
Soon after hearing this album I became a DJ at the school radio station and its first promotional director. I became aware of the musicians: Vangelis, Kitaro, Gentle Giant, Sky,
Tangerine Dream, Yanni, the artists of Windham Hill Records,
Page 23 many more artists within this instrumental and ambient style of music. I became a literal walking audio-file on this type of music and developed an encyclopedic knowledge of it. I loved this style of music. There was something extraordinary and mystical about it.
As a DJ I had a unique program. While I loved ambient music, I was also an expert on what was termed “New
Wave” music, groups like; The Ramones, the Vapors, the
Producers, Modern English, the B52’s, The Cure, The Clash and others. My two-hour radio show featured an hour of hard-core New Wave music and then an hour of instrumental
/ ambient music. It was an interesting dichotomy. I began to notice that when listening to the fast pace and moderately rebellious tone of New Wave music, that I was quick to get agitated with myself and others. When listening to the contemplative and uplifting melodies of the more instrumental/ambient music, I felt a deep sense of calm and
Page 24 an expanded awareness of what I considered universal truths.
My musical preferences began to wane from the New Wave music towards an almost exclusive listening to Ambient. I also began to track a striking familiarity between this mostly instrumental music and certain rock groups that I had always been pulled towards when growing up as a teen, groups like: Emerson Lake and Palmer, ELO, The Moody
Blues, Genesis, Yes, Cat Stevens, The Who’s Quadrophenia and others. They seemed to track on a similar wavelength.
“What was it?,” I continually thought, “what is the common denominator between these styles of music.” I thought about this twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
This question and my burning desire to bring this special music to the world is the subject of my next book called
“Music’s Healing Power – Project Peace On Earth – My
Personal Journey”.
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All this said and flash forward twenty-four years later, on
Christmas Day of 2011, Christmas Eve of 2012 and
Christmas Day 2013 from Bethlehem Palestine, I produced the annual worldwide Project Peace On Earth concerts.
These events were designed to be global musical prayers for peace. I had conceptualized and worked to produce the first concert over a twenty-four year period of time. I took leap of faith after leap of faith, placed my complete faith in God’s vision being expressed through me. I tenaciously shouldered-in to this mission with all of my heart in order to bring the vision into reality.
The each of the concerts I’ve produced have featured
Grammy Winners and Legendary Rock Stars. Project Peace
On Earth’s (PPOE) first peace concert, in 2011, was televised and broadcast out to some 80 million homes worldwide.
PPOE’s second, 2012 concert went out to some five million
Page 26 homes. PPOE’s third, 2013 concert went out to some 80 million homes.
During the time of 2009 to 2012, I worked with the UN and the Palestinian Government to bring a Medical Mission into the Middle East region, produced three aerial art images and produced three televised PPOE concerts.
In 2010, I lead, produced and coordinated a medical mission into Hebron, Palestine. With the help of the brilliantly skilled
Dr. Paul Dougherty and his staff, and several of our PPOE board members, we delivered eye-sight (free cataract surgeries) to forty elderly Palestinian people within a two day period of time.
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During this same 2009-2012 time frame, I also organized and produced three famed aerial art peace images. Our first aerial image in November of 2011, which I worked on with long friend John Quigley (famed aerial artist), UN
Representative Fritz Froehlich, ABS Marketing owner Sami
Khoury, Palestine’s Minister of Tourism – Khouloud Daibes,
Ph.D. and sponsoring hero Sami Abu Dayyeh – owner of the
Ambassador Hotel and Netours in Jerusalem, consisted of bringing some 1000 Palestinian Refugee Children to the base of the Mount of Temptation in Jericho. There, the children were directed to form the image of the Picasso Peace Dove and spelling the words “Love All” and “Love” in Arabic.
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In September 2012, this image was selected by the UN (out of some 800,000 photos) as one of the 49 most iconic images in the history of the organization.
This image and videos of the making of it can be seen on our website: www.ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org
Our second 2012 PPOE Concert and Aerial art peace initiative occurred from Bethlehem on Christmas Eve. The concert featured numerous world-famed musicians (from Jon
Anderson – lead singer of legendary rock group YES, to
Grammy Winners Gary Nicholson and Joanne Shenandoah to famed Sufi Singer Sussan Deyhim (U2 360 tour) and Richard
Horowitz to Serj Tankian, lead singer of System of A Down to Fox Lima of the Enigma MMX Social Song and many more.
Musicians acknowledged the “Free All” theme of the concert by stating on camera and in conjunction with their
Page 29 performance: “Until we love our neighbors as ourselves, we can truly never be free”.
This 2012 concert was accompanied by our second and third aerial art images from Bethlehem, both of which dear and long-time friend John Quigley, helped me produce. The image from Manger Square, on Christmas Eve, consisted of a large Peace Sign and the words “Love All” formed by local Palestinian Boy/Girl scout troops along with
Muslim children, from the watching crowd.
The second aerial image, on New Years Eve 2012, was from the separation wall and gate marking the original road into
Page 30 Bethlehem. Here, a short walking distance from the famed
Jacir Palace Hotel, we had Palestinian Boy/Girl scouts form the words “Free All” while in the background troop members placed their paint covered hands on the wall to create a permanent visual plea to the world, to bring the wall down.
On December 25th (Christmas Day) 2013, I produced the third Project Peace On Earth concert called “The World
Forgiveness Concert for Bethlehem”. The concert was globally televised through MelliTV out to some 80 million homes on both Christmas Day and New Years day.
Page 31 This concert broadcast featured numerous performances of sacred and inspirational music from famed Rock and conscious HipHop stars, the world of Country, Opera and
Contemporary/World music along with Grammy Winners and
Nominees including: Stewart Copeland, co-founder and drummer of The Police; Pearl Thompson of The Cure/Robert
Plant and Jimmy Page Tour who now teams with legendary guitarist Finbar O’Hanlon; Gary Nicholson, Country Music
Grammy Winner; Sasha Cooke, 2012 Opera Grammy winner; Joanne Shenandoah, Native American Grammy
Winner; David Arkenstone and Charlee Brooks, Grammy nominees; Beth Nielsen Chapman, Country Music Grammy nominee; Fox Lima, of the MMX Enigma Social Media Song and video; Miriam Stockley and Richard Gannaway of AO
Music; Randy, Pamela and Sarah Copus of the group 2002;
Kenji Williams of the Bella Gaia/NASA world tour; Itai
Disraeli and Hagia Izraeli of the group Maetar; SEAY, award winning singer; Fritz Heede and Nijole Sparkis of Ritual Path;
Kellee Maize, conscious HipHop/Rapper; Hani Naser, world-
Page 32 famed Oud player; and rising pop-star, Elijah Ray, of the group Band of Light. The World Forgiveness Concert also features messages from national best selling authors and thought-leaders: Gary Zukav (Seat of the Soul; 10 Million books sold, Oprah appearances); Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four
Agreements; 4 Million books sold, Oprah appearance);
Caroline Myss, Ph.D. (Anatomy of the Spirit, 3 Million books sold; Oprah appearances); and Jerry Jampolsky MD and
Diane Cirincione PhD (Center for Attitudinal Healing, Oprah appearance). The concert also featured video messages of support from the Palestine Minister of Tourism Rula Ma’ayah and Bethlehem Convention Palace architect and GM, George
Bassous.
Looking back, I can trace the success of these experiences to a deep inner message I received at age 18. It occurred when I was living in Fairfax, Virginia. One day when I was driving my van and I was also contemplating about the meaning of life and how to go about the goal of
Page 33 accomplishing my dream to become a top professional motocross racer.
In response to my inner questioning, a very calming voice spoke within me. I had trained myself to always pay close attention to this wise and insightful voice from within. It said, “Limitations are bound only by the mind. The mind is bound only by our perceptions of these limitations.”
I immediately pulled my van over to the side of the road and wrote down this message. “Wow,” I thought, “this means if
I can dream it, then I can achieve it. I can achieve anything
I set my mind to”. This made sense to me at the deepest part of my intuition. And, from that moment forward I decided to live my life from this insight.
This particular day of paying close attention to my inner voice of wisdom, served to radically change my success in motocross racing. I went from falling down frequently and
Page 34 having middle-of-the-pack race results to winning and consistent top place finishes.
This new inner wisdom later served to springboard me into becoming a top-producing Fortune 500 sales executive. The guidance of the Word within inspired and empowered me to bring into reality, the Project Peace On Earth concerts. We all have access to such inner wisdom. If I have the ability to pay attention, listen and follow inner guidance toward accomplishing my dreams come true, you can too!
The following chapters represent a distillation of what I’ve learned from life, personal relationships and conversations with profound spiritual and world-thought-leaders, deep contemplations, meditations and writings, the school of hard-knocks, and enlightened perspectives from which I gathered instructions and took numerous leaps of faith.
Each of my Leaps of Faith, served to reveal miracles that where already there.
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It is my great prayer that each word within this book will help to serve you to awaken into your full inner power. I trust that it will support you in discovering and living out your mission of good. I am, and we, are all depending on you give birth to and bring into reality your unique life purpose because, as the Course In Miracles states: “The
Salvation of the world, depends on you.”
With Peace and God’s Loving Grace,
Steve R. Robertson
Founder/CEO
Project Peace On Earth www.ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org
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Part 1 Discernment (Listening to the Word)
Page 37 Chapter 1 Healing the Record of Our Soul’s DNA Like a musical note seeking union with the harmony of itself, the soul returns to human form, to earth, in order to heal and integrate into a more perfect remembrance of the
Divinity of love it already is. The soul, on this plane of reality, innocently expresses itself through the lens of the body’s DNA. This crystalline prism holds the harmonic records of our soul’s evolutionary journey towards enlightenment.
All thoughts, loving or fearful, are recorded onto this record.
In Sanskrit, the oldest recorded language, the Hindus refer to this as the Akashic Records. Imagine the Akashic Records if you will, as your soul’s cosmic cloud memory. Each and every thought and experience is recorded and becomes imprinted onto our DNA. As our thoughts advance towards greater love so does the DNA helix, back and forth, in
Page 38 reflection of this awareness. The greater our consciousness of love, the more direct and clear we receive and transmit in alignment with the Divine.
Certain spiritual texts remind us that the Divine, or Kingdom of Heaven, is within. They remind us that we may not enter this Kingdom of Heaven until we become as a child, a metaphorical reference to a consciousness of innocence. In such innocence we are able to find stillness from which we know the creative power of our God-self within.
Towards this ultimate state of awareness imagine, if you will, your soul’s record is literally imprinted onto an old vinyl record. From birth, the needle of our awareness is dropped
(gently or otherwise) on the outer edge of the soul record of this particular time and space reality. The needle both plays and records each note of our life’s symphony. Like all records of this type, the needle tracks from the larger/outer
Page 39 radius of our heart song toward the inevitably smaller/center of our radical enlightenment.
Through love and gratitude we become aware of the rhythmic flow of our soul’s grand melody. Through fear and judgment, we find the needle sinks into a groove of disharmony and unpleasantness, discordant notes that painfully repeat over and over again. In Sanskrit, such grooves in consciousness are called “Samskaras”.
Stuck in these self-created grooves, the needle of our awareness digs ever painfully and deeper into the record of our subconscious. We become attached to disharmony, begin to suffer and adjust to the discordant notes as being normal. Attached in this unconsciousness and suffering, our heart ever longs for the melody of our soul’s joy.
This crossroad of unconsciousness and joyful longing marks the awakening our intent to rejoin the symphony of our life
Page 40 song. Mindful of the disharmony of fear and lesson of greater love, we drop the awareness pebble of the
Ho’oponopono into the groove to interrupt the monotony of discordance and pain.
The Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian process of reconciliation and forgiveness. At its mystical core are the elements of mental cleansing, putting things right and rectifying errors. Attending with this awareness activation is the recognition that we are always 100% at cause and responsible for any problem. Similarly it is defined that we are also 100% capable of rectifying any and all errors. Four short phrases activate the process of this healing process and release us from the groove of suffering: “I’m sorry.
Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.” Through the melody of these words we transmute and transcend the error of our thoughts and now co-create an inspired new heart song.
Page 41 Now, as the needle begins to track back through the old groove of unpleasantness the pebble now serves to bump the needle back onto the record surface. A new and ever more gorgeous melody begins to play. Our heart feels lifted and we are inspired by a song of new possibilities.
Frail in this new moment, the needle runs ever close to the edge of our old groove and the ear is tempted by the discord we were trained to find so familiar. If our resolve is weak, the needle is pulled back into the groove, its depth and darkness will grow with strength. If our courage is strong the needle continues to float on angelic notes that proclaim our symphony of enlightenment.
“Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain.
It’s the messing of the frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produces the rich, complex, and seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra.” – Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA
Page 42 Exercises Chapter 1 Get a formal journal or a new tablet of notebook paper.
Carry this with you, along with a pen, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Keep this next your bed. If an observation or idea wakes you up, immediately write it down. Take lots of notes about thoughts and observations.
Pay very close attention to intuitive suggestions or ideas that show up in regards to what you most want to create and accomplish, relative to your life purpose. Commit to becoming a lifetime student of the Divine. The Universe, is always paying attention to whether or not, we are paying attention. The more you pay attention, the more the flow of
Divine information. The result of this flow is exponential growth and possibilities realized. The less you pay attention, the Divine deduces that your cup is full, that you are not interested and do not have the capacity for more information. The result of being a full cup is that the Divine information will stop. Clues that were once pointing you
Page 43 toward the ever-present miracles in your life, they will also stop.
For the next two days become very mindful of your thoughts and where they appear to be sticking in a groove of fear.
This groove of fear can look like self-judgment or inner-critic thoughts, judgmental thoughts about another person, anger about a situation or anything that you perceive is in a non- loving state. Be clear that if you are seeing something negative in another person or situation, this essence is in you. It is an aspect of fearful consciousness that you are still attached to and one that you are being called to bring your attention to so that healing and love can become complete.
The Universe is a perfect mirror. You cannot recognize something negative in someone or anything else unless, it is first in you. This also means that if you see something
Page 44 wonderful and loving in another person or situation, this is also in you.
When you find yourself in any sort of fearful groove, stop, write down your observation about this and immediately do the Ho’oponopono four (4) times on each subject matter.
The Ho’oponopono: I’m Sorry, Please Forgive me,
Thank You, I love you.
Page 45 Chapter 2 Stillness and Mindfulness
Our minds are abuzz with thousands of thoughts each day, all of which compete for our attention and a corollary action.
The Buddhists call this untrained mind of buzzing thoughts the Monkey Mind.
The Monkey Mind, the ego mind, constantly flickers between conscious thoughts of love and unconscious thoughts of fear.
This non-focused flickering is an intentional tool of the ego used to perpetuate confusion, attachments to duality and a resulting state of suffering. The ego's life depends on a consciousness of confusion, for with stillness and peace comes enlightenment and a death to the fearful attachments of our ego mind. Here, in this peace, only love exists.
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought."
- Buddha
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Curiously, the metaphor of the Monkey Mind and how it traps consciousness in illusion and suffering holds great similarity to how monkeys are actually trapped in the jungle.
In this process a hole is drilled at the bottom of a tree where monkeys are known to gather above. The hole, drilled to be just large enough for a monkey to stick its hand in, is filled with nuts that they love to eat.
At the back of the hole is a cavernous pocket, just large enough for the monkey to wrap its hand around the nuts.
Smelling the nuts from the branches above, the monkey scampers down the tree to discover the origin of the enticing aroma. The monkey, desperately excited, has to have these nuts and so quickly, plunges its hand into the hole.
Feeling the nuts at the back of the hole, it grabs them. Now even more excited, the Monkey attempts to pull its hand out
Page 47 of the hole. Desperately though, as hard as the monkey pulls, its hand will not come back through this hole.
Its balled fist, which is now wrapped around the nuts, is too large to make it through.
Try as it may, the monkey cannot pull its hand out of the hole and at the same time, it will not let loose of the nuts.
The monkey has trapped itself. All that is required to be free is to let go of the nuts.
With the monkey's hand now stuck in the hole, the trapper simply walks up to the monkey and slips a rope around its neck. Sensing the peril of the situation, the monkey releases the nuts and its hand pulls back through the hole.
Free of the hole, the monkey is, however, now the slave of its captor.
"It is your attachments that causes your suffering."
- Buddha
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Like the monkey who has trapped itself, the untrained mind is tempted by the allure of fearful and dramatic thoughts.
The ego mind, sustained by the consumption of such thoughts, enslaves our consciousness and our actions soon there follow. The result of this entrapment is attachment, an unconscious sleepwalking from which our actions bring suffering and we experience separation from love. We could free ourselves and find peace however, the unconscious mind is greatly attracted to the entertainment of our buzzing thoughts, and those offered to us.
"The ancestor of every action is thought." - Emerson
The Native Americans remind us of how to release ourselves and be free from such suffering. They say, "You have picked up the hot rocks of pain and suffering (fearful and dramatic thoughts), all that is required is that you turn your hand over and let them go."
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Let go of the hot rocks, brave spiritual warrior, and be free of all pain and suffering. Be still, find peace within and know that you are God, co-creating with each thought everything you imagine and see around you. Choose mindfully, that your thoughts are always loving, and see with great clarity and power, how you create a world of great and everlasting peace.
Page 50 Exercises, Chapter 2
For the next two days become very present to where your mind is focusing its attention. Look for patterns, especially around subject matters that you find draining and attaching your perception too. Write each item of your attention down and then immediately do the Ho’oponopono four (4) times on each subject matter. This will empower you to release and dissolve the hot rock of pain and suffering.
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Part 2 Discipline (Trusting in the Word)
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Chapter 3 Awareness
Spiritual awareness often begins at the point where our inner thoughts reflectively seek meaning in the external world of our drama. This search empowers the transformation of unconscious perception into awakened- vision. Such clarity creates the understanding that we are always, consciously or unconsciously, choosing and co- creating our existence.
Most people tend to live their lives as though sleepwalking through a fog bank. They grope for direction and meaning while frequently and painfully stubbing their toes on the potholes of life's dramas. Life appears to happen randomly, and from these beliefs, it is easy to see ourselves, as the victim of circumstance. As a result, one tends to live their life in a state of reaction rather than response. Life from this perspective can, at times, seem like a constant barrage of
Page 53 painful experiences, each of which seemingly validates that we are not in control of our own destiny. It becomes easy to imagine unforeseen forces that plot against the joy we most want.
Life from this challenging perspective tends to run its course until the day enough pain and negativity stacks up and, like the last straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back, the sleepwalker wakes up and declares "Enough... That is it...
NO, I'm not taking this anymore. I'm done with this." Any number of infinite life lessons around the subjects of romance, parents, siblings, children, money, career, health, home, responsibility, recovery, you name it, can trigger the opportunity for an awakening and spiritual breakthrough.
In truth, the declaration of "NO" begins our first baby step in getting clear about what we do not want to create so that we become clearer about what we DO want to create. This moment of truth prompts a courageous stand from which
Page 54 one resolves to face what may be their greatest fear.
Regardless of what instigates the declaration, it appears that this courageous stand opens a momentary space of grace from which the proverbial sleepwalker's head now pops up out of the fog bank of emotional pain and suffering.
With the head now above the fog bank, and looking beyond, the sleepwalker can now see with clearer vision. They sense, with great excitement, new possibilities. Pain and suffering has been replaced by peace and insight. To the ego, (our fearfully-attached part of consciousness), such moments of awakening signal that suffering will soon be released and that with this, a wise new vision will soon take place. Attentive to its job, the ego quickly shifts into high gear in order to neutralize such an awareness, for its life literally depends on it. The neutralizing is accomplished through redirecting attention back at the original unresolved fear that eventually prompted the awakening. Once consciousness is turned, the tactic is to replay the fearful
Page 55 experience over and over again until attachment and suffering reoccurs. Does this sound familiar?
Not to blame, the ego is doing its job of self-preservation, for it knows once full awareness or enlightenment is achieved, it ceases to exist. So, prepared for such moments, the ego has strategically projected our deepest fears (not being loved or finding love, failing, not being successful, etc.) into the future. The ego, which has harvested all of our prior fearful thoughts, words and actions, has placed them there. These future fears are at the command of ego and they await its order to release, collide with and obliterate our newly-awakened insight. Our collected fears sit waiting, a metaphorical kitchen sink that is clogged with our drama.
At the time of our new awareness, choice has sparked a new sense of peace and joyful perception. With this, the ego now calls for the release of our fears, and like a mighty slingshot,
Page 56 the drama-filled kitchen sink is now launched back toward us at warp speed. Quickly, the fearful and attached part of the mind reacts and redirects our attention. We were once at peace, in the moment, and our head above the drama (fog bank); however, now our attention is turned to a concern, and an object is moving at us from a distance. As it draws nearer we sense its high rate of speed and a pending danger. As it gets ever closer it appears to be on a collision course with our head, which now rests just safely above the fog bank. As it draws even closer, we finally recognize that it is a kitchen sink, and we prepare for impact.
As the kitchen sink approaches closer and closer, so also does our survival center alarm: "Danger: Kitchen sink coming toward head at warp speed. Prepare to duck." As it reaches the point of impact, we instinctively duck. Instantly, we notice we are alive and that our head, which once rested peacefully above the fog bank, is now back (body and all) in the same drama and suffering of the past.
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Again, our life slips back into a familiar and unpleasant groove, and our life situation reaches another prompting point of change. Our lessons learned have reduced our suffering, and we are more quick to declare, "No, I'm really, really done with this situation, this time." Again, instantaneously, we find our head has popped out of the fog bank of emotional pain and suffering. The view is as we remembered: peaceful, full of hope and possibilities.
Our mind becomes momentarily distracted by the memory of the kitchen sink, its possible return and the experience of dropping back into the fog bank.
We begin to recall that at the fearful moment the kitchen sink almost hit us that we had ducked. We also vividly remember that at the moment we ducked we dropped back down into the fog bank and returned to suffering. Inwardly,
Page 58 we courageously commit that we will not duck if the sink comes again.
As the thought of this conviction passes, the sink in fact does reappear and rapidly approaches on course with our head. Just before impact and true to our commitment, we do not duck; instead, we blink. In a nanosecond, we again find ourselves back in the fog bank of our drama and suffering.
The groove of our drama now seems deeper and more painful, yet our awareness is now peaked and accompanied by a resolve to end the suffering as quickly as possible. We will no longer allow our drama to chain the freedom that lifts our perspective. As our life situation boils again to another point of clarity we again proclaim, "No, I'm really, really, really done with this... this time."
Page 59 Again, as if by a miracle, we find our head above turmoil and glimpse an even greater beauty and peace than we had prior seen or experienced. As we bathe in the experience of this moment, we again become mindful of our once-projected fears, now coming back on us in a collision course with our present time awareness. As the kitchen sink materializes, once more it draws ever nearer and in a reflective pause, we recall in clarity that the act of ducking and blinking (avoiding the confrontation of our fear) immediately returned us back to the fog bank of drama and suffering.
With lessons learned we now draw from an even deeper courage and conviction. We vow to ourselves that we will not duck or blink in the face of fear, even if it means losing our life. We confirm in a valiant surrender that if the kitchen sink were to strike us and literally take our head off, we will not even flinch. As quickly as this thought passes, the sink appears out of nowhere and is clearly on a direct course of impact with our head. Firmly we hold to our faith and
Page 60 resolve, and just at the moment of pending impact, we watch as the sink just vaporizes. We now understand that our fears were only but an illusion.
Instantly, we now discover that our entire body has popped out of the fog bank. With our greatest fear now faced, our breakthrough realized and an even greater vision of possibilities on the horizon, we more fully own our courage and triumphantly declare: "I take full responsibility for my co-creativity and from this moment forward I WILL choose to create from what I lovingly want to experience."
Ultimately, it is our courage to face our greatest fears and choose another way, is what empowers us to claim our hero within, and with this journey ever forward toward breakthrough realizations that reveal the kingdom of enlightenment within. Onward, courageous heroes!
Page 61 Exercises, Chapter 3
For the next two days become very present to painful experiences and people that seem to continually show up in your life. Write these down as each thoughts or situation occur. Observe how each situation makes you feel: tired, negative, repelled, jealous, envious, judging, reactive etc. It could be a phrase that someone says to you or about something that you find causes pain or irritation. Write all of this down.
Reflect on how often this same or very similar situation appears to show up in your life. Commit to facing your fears around this subject matter and to do so with clarity, love and courage. RESPOND to this commonly occurring theme in your life in a way that is opposite from how you would normally, the ego’s reactive and fearful state. Be loving and courageous in facing each situation that you fear. Write each item of attention down and then immediately do the
Page 62 Ho’oponopono four (4) times on each subject matter. This will empower you to release and dissolve the hot rock of suffering.
Page 63 Chapter 4 Creating Our Reality Each moment of the day, nanosecond after nanosecond, we are co-creating a reality we either conscious want or unconscious don’t want. To the degree we are conscious, lovingly paying attention to the moment, our co-creativity tends to reflect a flow of ease and grace in our experiences.
To the degree we are unconscious, we reactively and retrospectively discover the fearful hand that scripts the dramatic sequences of our existence.
Some experiences show up and bring peace and joy into our lives. Others experiences can bring sadness and anger. To the conscious mind we curiously wonder how certain people, places and circumstances show up in our lives. We look to connect the dots of a pattern, a picture, that is showing us an answer to what we have prior thought or prayed about.
Page 64 To the unconscious mind the world is viewed through the lens of being a victim. From this perspective, things appear to happen by random chance and there appears no way by which no one has the power to effect a given outcome. A person is thus justified in feeling either lucky or like a victim.
Various religious and spiritual texts have for eons pointed toward the reality of how we each can and do co-create our realities. Often, even the most current and evolved of teachers and new thought leaders seem to miss very critical part in the co-creativity equation... that of how our thoughts
(conscious or unconscious) and our spoken word call reality into form. In order to understand the power of thought and spoken word, let us reflect:
"In the beginning was the WORD," (the "word" translates into "primary harmony," according to John the Evangelist of the first century A.D.) "and the WORD was with God," says
Page 65 John 1:1. "Then God said, Let there be light," says Genesis
1:3. Buddhists call the primary harmony "OM."
In “The Mysticism Of Sound and Music" by the great Sufi Master
Hazart Inayat Khan he states, ”The power of sound is greater than the power of color because sound arises from the depth of one's being in because sound can also touch the tip of one's being. The mantra yoga of the Hindus is based on this principle.
The Sufi term for this is dhikr (Zikar). But it is not merely for bringing about any desired result that words can be used in Dhikr.
People often make this mistake of using words without any spiritual idea behind it, simply for the attainment of some magical power. The Sufis of all ages warned against this mistake, and it constantly taught that there is only one object worth striving for, the essential object of life, namely God. It is only one in the science of words is being used for the attainment of truth, that is: for the attainment of God, that it is being used in the right manner. For it to be used for any other purpose whatsoever, is just like paying out pearls to buy pebbles."
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For a moment, let us put all words under a microscope. Every very word is made of letters and every letter has its own specific phonetic sound based on whether the letter is a consonant or vowel. Therefore, when you say any word it is really analogous to striking several keys on a piano simultaneously. In essence, when you think or say any word its like you're sending out a cord of causation.
Therefore, the words that we think and speak are really like mantras, spells, incantations and commandments. Certain words, by their very definition, have high intension vibrations while others lower. As we bring deeper awareness into our lives, consciousness tends to transition from a passive state of hearing into an active, participatory level of listening and paying attention. As a result, we become more sensitive to how things, such as information and thoughts feel. As our consciousness advances, we pay more attention to the words we select to communicate, and how these words impact our own energy field
Page 67 and those around us people. Through this process we begin to listen (hear with intention) more carefully to how other people’s communication affects us.
With this new awareness, we suddenly find it paradoxical when a friend responds to an invitation to participate in something we thought they would enjoy by saying "NO, I would love to do that," or "NO, that's a great idea."
Similarly, we begin to feel drained by a friends proclaimed goal of "I NEED to create more money," or "I SHOULD have a better job or career," or "I HAVE TO," or I MUST do...
(whatever the subject might be)."
As we wake up, we feel a sense of joyful empowerment around consciously proclaiming "I WILL create more money," or "I CHOOSE to create a better job or career," or "I WANT to," or "I DESIRE to... (whatever the subject might be)."
What is the difference?
Page 68 For a moment let us consider the word "need." When you think of the word "need," does it feel closer to the definition of abundance or lack? If as most, you conclude that it feels closer to lack, then logically next ask: If the word "need" is closer to lack, does the word “lack” feel closer to the definition of love, or fear? If you conclude fear, as do most, then logically next ask does the word "fear" feel closer to the definition of responding or reacting? If again, if you are like most, you will conclude that the word "fear" feels closer to reaction.
This process of logical deduction and the granulation of words' core definitions ultimately empowers the understanding that anytime we or someone speaks the word
"need" (should, have to, or must) within the context of a core creative command, then we are commanding into form the future possibility from an intent of fear, lack, and/or reactiveness. This paradox becomes frustratingly apparent when we continue to ask for, or command, a more positive
Page 69 future through using these words that are defined by fear, lack and reaction. Again, as an example, “I NEED to get a better job or make more money.” In essence, through using the word NEED, a word defined by fear, lack and reaction, the only future possibility that can be co-created is one of fear, lack and reaction. Yes, we may rightly desire to envision and proclaim a better future state however when we use unconscious and fear based words to articulate this then it is like placing the carrot of our desires ever out of reach and getting angry and forcibly louder in stating what we want.
Now for a moment, let us consider four new command words such as: I will, I choose, I want, I desire or that is required. When you think of using these words to call forth a future possibility, do they feel closer to abundance and empowerment, or lack? If you conclude, as most do, that these words feel closer to abundance and empowerment, then next ask do the words of abundance and empowerment
Page 70 feel closer in definition to the words of love or fear? If you conclude they’re closer to the definition of love, then next ask yourself does love they feel closer to the definition of response or reactiveness? If you conclude the definition is closer to response then you now understand the power of co-creating from words of empowerment and the present moment versus co-creating from words of disempowerment and a time frame of the past or the future. Choosing command words that reflect the authority of an intent of the present moment and self-empowerment reflects conscious awareness and co-creativity.
Choosing command words that are based in fear and lack reflect an unconscious choosing from what someone ultimately DOES NOT want to create. Choosing command words of what someone DOES want is like co-creating from the state of being the Heretic (meaning “the person who knows they can choose”). The Heretic chooses from within
Page 71 and looks not outside the self for validation. The Heretic has found the kingdom of heaven that is within.
The Heretic is the archetype of the Hero within Joseph
Campbell’s Hero Journey. The hero chooses to leave the village in pursuit of his or her dream. Choosing command words that proclaim self-empowerment and authentic choices reflects the wise intent of creating from the end goal of what one actually does want to create. Ultimately, this clear volition inspires and empowers the hero to overcome each challenge and test in realizing their dream. As the hero passes test after test they come to the final and grand challenge, the bridge of no return. Here the true hero crosses the bridge and then turns to it and burns it down.
By burning the bridge down the hero insures that they have no way to retreat back to the village, they can only forge ahead toward their dream.
Page 72 The hero, from this moment onward, focuses with a singular commitment to achieve and create from only what they really do want. With this insight the hero declares and owns within the self the reality that “My envisioned success will be a reality.” As such, God/the Universe makes it so.
Humanity appears to be at a pivotal time where we are transitioning from the "persona" -- which in Latin means to
"pump air through one's mask" into becoming the "Heretic," which in Latin means "one who knows that they can choose." If we listen carefully to our truest inner selves and speak with a greater presence, we can empower ourselves to create exciting new possibilities and become a witness to the reality of our heart's greatest desire come true, miracles revealed.
In summary our words call all forms of matter: people, situations, circumstance and material, into form. When someone unconsciously or consciously chooses to think and speak from a
Page 73 perspective of fear, lack and reaction by using words like I "Need,
Should, Have to or Must" these thoughts and words will cause a like matter or form to manifest. When someone consciously chooses to think and speak from a perspective of authentic empowerment by using words like I "Will, Choose, Desire, Want, or that is required" these thoughts and words will cause a like matter or form to manifest.
Our thoughts and spoken words are like seeds that we plant in to the ethers or matrix of creation. Thoughts, in and of themselves, have a certain frequency of causation. They call matter into form.
When we speak our thoughts we amplify the field of causality and thus accelerate matter into form. In-other-words, imagine your thoughts are like planting a tomato seed into fertile soil. Now ask yourself if you do this is there ever any way that you can ever get a palm tree from the tomato seed. The answer is obvious.
Likewise, the same is true of your thoughts and spoken words.
Page 74 Co-creating from unconscious thoughts and spoken words of disempowerment like “ I need, I should, I must or I ought to” serves to create with an intent of what we really DO’NT WANT.
Co-creating from words of empowered choice like: “I will, I want, I desire, I choose and/or that is required” requires that you first be VERY CLEAR about what you DO WANT so that you co-create from this state of BEING.
Page 75 Exercises, Chapter 4
For the next two days become very mindful of every word you speak, especially words that reflect fearful language.
Such words of the past and/or future have been prior described as: NEED, HAVE TO, SHOULD, MUST.
Consider the clarity you will gain when you choose to write these words down in your daily lesson journal (or a simple notebook tablet) and put a counting tick-mark by each word, when you say it. Observe at the end of the day how many times you have used each word. Be clear that when you think or speak any fear based words, that you are co- creating this corresponding form and matter (in terms of people, situations and/or circumstances) into reality.
Become very mindful of other people saying these same words and observe the specific context in which they are speaking them. What clues are these words providing
Page 76 regarding their true and authentic intent? When you say these words and observe yourself saying them, what clues are they providing you relative to your true and authentic intent? Be very honest with yourself.
Each time you observe yourself speaking fearfully, immediately reframe your words from the state of the present moment, self-empowerment and the vocabulary of the Divine as prior described: I WILL, I WANT, I DESIRE or
THAT IS REQUIRED.
Remember, the Ego Mind does not have access to the words of the Divine. Be very mindful and conscious of speaking and commanding into form from the state of greatest love and benefit for all people. This means thinking and speaking from the end-goal desire of what you really really do want.
Be the hero who has stepped across the bride of no return and burned it to the ground so that the only focus of your
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WANT TO CREATE.
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Part 3 Discipleship (Acting on the Word)
Page 79 Chapter 5 Duality and the Sword of Truth
In almost all legendary stories of kings, knights and that of
Joan of Arc, the sword plays the role of a great tool in the defense of truth and the conquering of enemies. It is interesting to note that the word "enemy" means "not friend." In certain stories, like that of King Arthur, his famed sword Excalibur was known for its special powers. The word
"Excalibur" means to "cut steel."
All swords are formed in the process called casting. This process consists of taking ore, rocks that contain the raw minerals of metal, then placing them in a forge to be heated so that the minerals liquefy and become separated from the rock. Once the metal minerals are liquefied, they can then be poured into a mold. A mold is a hollow cavity, a vessel that is shaped to hold the design of an expressed creative intent -- in this case, the shape of a sword.
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Once the liquid metal is poured into the mold, it is allowed to cool and solidify. Only then is the casting process complete and can the newly birthed sword be released from its mold.
Upon release and inspection, the sword's edges are rough.
From a metaphysical and metaphorical perspective, the process of casting, relative to our spiritual evolution, can be likened to our soul being poured into the mold of our present-time body, which is itself cast to play a specific role and intentioned life purpose. With this incarnation for soul development, the raw minerals of ore rocks can be understood as the fearfully attached thoughts from which we begin this lifetime mission. The forge, from this same perception, can be seen as the dramatic arena from which our life experiences test our resolve to release. The process of heating can likewise be understood as the alchemy of transformation. Finally, we know that the liquefied state of
Page 81 metal reflects the freedom, moldability and creative potential of our now-unattached and loving thoughts.
Similarly, from birth our soul seems the result of a cosmic casting that seeks to mold our inner most self into that of a divine plan and purpose. Consciousness, in this chrysalis molten-like state, appears to flicker between a duality of love and fear that purposely points toward a greater truth.
Like a new sword, the edges of our perception are dull and cannot cut through duality.
As we strive toward understanding our greater calling, we fashion ourselves into the master sword-maker of our life.
With skill, we learn to sharpen in measure for balance, purpose and precision of thought. Through mindful self- awareness, we learn to harness the contrast of duality, that of right/wrong or good/bad and so on, in order to focus the edges of our perception toward wisdom. With such mastery, perceptions eventually shift to a point of singularity and
Page 82 vision. In this state, the limitations and boundaries of perceived duality cease to exist. Here do we know and finally understand the truth to which life has pointed us, that there is only love.
Mindful awareness of this flickering journey to conquer duality will take the courage of a great knight, for only the brave of heart and wise of spirit will have the discipline to stay the course of truth. Only the pure of heart will have the courage to follow the call of the divine and lead the charge of transformation. Only the bravest of knights will have the courage to wield Excalibur's great power to cut through the steel of the self's most attached armor and slay the enemy self, our fearful thoughts. Only the bravest of knights will be transformed into kings and triumphantly stand in the kingdom of their own enlightenment.
Forge on, brave knights, toward your great kingdom of heaven within. May the sword of truth ever free your heart,
Page 83 liberate your soul and bring victory in your service towards love and peace on earth.
Page 84 Exercises, Chapter 5
For the next two days observe and take note of any and all things that appear to be unloving in your life. Look for the benefit that this negative and unloving situation brings to you. Be aware that the ego will immediately react to such a crazy notion of finding benefit in such negativity, one that you, as it well knows, have created and become attached to.
The ego is hyper aware that if you ask this question with courageous intent, that you will discover and be empowered to uproot the cause of your fear and suffering. This is the last thing that it wants to occur, for this means that healing and love will bring awareness to consciousness, and death to the ego’s power over you.
Ask with courage what the benefit of such suffering is in your life. The deepness of it my surprise you. As you get to the core of this, commit to uprooting this fearful and illusionary state completely and to bringing love and Divine
Page 85 truth to it. This process is like sharpening the edges of a sword to its tip, there you will only find love and that duality is illusionary.
During this process of discovery and a sharpening of your awareness towards love, write down your observations around the subjects you are bringing healing and clarity to, immediately do the Ho’oponopono four (4) times on each subject matter. Proclaim, through self-created affirmations, what you are really committed too and want.
Page 86 Chapter 6 Success and Leaps of Faith
Each step of our life’s journey, whether we are aware of it or not, is a series of leaps of faith. Certain moments of our life, seemingly dramatic in nature, serve to punctuate and mark major turning points that define who we believe we are, what we have accomplished, relationships of meaning and opportunities that lead to a particular experience.
We are always guided. Some pay close attention to the clues that help us to discern which paths we take, that most serve our highest learning and greatest good. Others give occasion to such awareness, and as a result, happiness and life’s successes seem hit or miss and chance like. Still, others appear to live in a state of sleepwalking, their lives are filled with dramatic experiences, a rollercoaster of great emotional pain and suffering.
Page 87 Along our life journey, with each step we take, we present ourselves with clues that point the way towards our ultimate goal of learning, BEING and re-remembering the love we already are.
In the book “Island” by Aldous Huxley, the story revolves around a group of enlightened people who live on an island.
Their collective desire is to remain in an enlightened state of consciousness. The island, isolated as it is from the rest of humanity, offers its own set of distractions, which compete for the attention of its aware inhabitants. Ever conscious of their commitment toward enlightenment, the islanders decide to meet and create a strategy to keep them collectively focused on their goal. Deciding that they collectively require constant reminders to remain in their enlightened state, they note that their island is filled with thousands upon thousands of parrots. Brilliantly, they decided to teach the parrots two words which they know the
Page 88 birds will repeat twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The two words, PAY ATTENTION.
Our awareness, our paying attention, to the feelings and flow of information that we are constantly receiving and transmitting, nanosecond after nanosecond, provides us with detailed clues about the direction and progress we are making towards love, our ultimate life mission. These clues or spiritual road signs are designed to guide us onto the highway of our life’s mission and the following of our bliss.
When we fail to pay attention and heed these signs, we eventually discover that we have driven ourselves off the main road and are dramatically now driving to avoid obstacles of fear and states of suffering.
As our thoughts consider a particular person, a past or future event, a subject matter or planned activity, etc., certain feelings arise and come into the frame of our consciousness through our body’s five senses, and more
Page 89 importantly, the intuition. When this information shows up, it is always accompanied by certain feelings and emotions.
Feelings represent our interpretation of energy vibrations.
Emotions, represent the way our mind aggregates, assembles and interprets vibrations into a scripted form from which the mind better understands the information.
When feelings and emotions are properly tuned to and guided by the intuition, we have a precise way to find the true course of love.
Our intuition extends our awareness far beyond the reaches of our body’s senses. It is the soul’s tool, liken to a tribal scout who travels great distances beyond the reaches of its people in search of food, water, shelter, safety and other resources. Miles away, the scout communicates telepathically back to the tribal leader, they have no other way.
Page 90 In one book called “Mutant Message Down Under” by Mario
Morgan, a female city person (her claimed biographical journey), observes this phenomenon as she travels with
Australian Aborigines. As the tribe eventually catches up with the scout, she inquires with him to see if he was indeed communicating telepathically with the tribal leader. The scout replies, Yes, in a very matter of fact way. He further states, “You could do this too, but you have lies in your consciousness”, “Lies” meaning, none truth and/or attachments to fear and drama.
Therefore, the quality of our mental stillness and aware mindfulness is what determines the level of clarity from which we receive and transmit information and navigate along our life’s journey. If our mind resides in a place of lies, then it is like our consciousness is being tuned into a TV or radio channel of static. When we are present, peaceful and mindful, we readily tune into the Divine broadcast of love. In this space of mental tuning, we do have the ability
Page 91 to transcend the intuition and experience KNOWING, the awareness of pure truth, non-duality and only love.
In this state, our thoughts begin to manifest into a form that represents that which we most want and lovingly desire to create. In other words, we create from what ultimately serves our highest and best good. In an unconscious and fearful state, the exact opposite occurs, we get what we do not want. All thoughts are really prayers. They call into form specific realities of either love or fear. It is always our choice. As such, the choices we make can be seen as a series of leaps of faith. Anyone who has ever achieved anything of importance and note has made the choice to make such leaps of faith.
In the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, the actor
Harrison Ford, who plays the role of Indiana Jones (Indie), leads a team of fellow adventurers and archeologists to find the Holy Grail. They are in a race to find it before the Nazis
Page 92 do. The Germans get to the secret hiding place first and begin their search of a special passage within the cave, which leads to the Grail. Indie and his team hide carefully and watch from above. Unable to interpret the spiritual meaning and symbolism of the ancient map, which leads to the Grail, one German soldier after another literally looses their head as they enter the cave’s special tunnel. Suddenly, one of Indie’s team members accidentally dislodges a stone, which rolls down to the Germans below and reveals their hiding place above. Unarmed, Indie and company are captured and brought down to the German commander.
Once there, the German commander demands that Indie retrieve the Grail. Having just watched one German after another die after entering the special passage, Indie refuses.
Immediately, the German commander turns his gun to
Indie’s father, played by Sean Connery, and shoots him in the stomach. The German commander now says to Indie
“it’s your choice, either your father drinks from the Grail and
Page 93 lives, or does not and dies.” Indie has no choice. He is forced to take the Hero’s journey.
The ancient map that disclosed the location of the Grail, that which originally launched Indie’s quest, and that, which was recently stolen from him by the Germans, was now returned to him. Carefully reading the map and deciphering its message, Indie is able to avoid the first booby trap of decapitating blades as he enters the tunnel. Next he must step on specific stones that spell out an ancient and old dialect name for God. A misspelling and misstep, which he almost does, is designed to cause the stone floor to fall away and plummet the spiritually unworthy to their death.
Having passed what he thought was one of the greatest challenges, Indie now comes to the end of the cave’s special tunnel. There, between where he stands and the opening to the cave of the Grail, is a huge ravine hundreds of feet across and thousands of feet down. There on the other side,
Page 94 Indie sees the last of the mystical Knights of King Arthur’s
Round Table, who still stands as a watchful guard over the
Grail’s cave entrance. Suddenly and at the same time of this observation, Indie hears the cry of his team who yell through the tunnel, that time is running out, his father is near death, he must hurry.
Frantically, Indie looks for a way to cross to the other side.
There is no rope to swing across and clearly no way to jump across. He consults the ancient map. It clearly depicts a person walking in midair to the other side. Indie has no other choice and steps to the edge of the ravine’s precipice.
His facial expression quickly shifts from fear and panic to a fearless resolve and KNOWING that he has no other choice.
He commits to taking this leap of faith.
Bravely, Indie courageously steps his foot out over the ravine’s edge, to what looks like, a perilous fall. Instead, as he steps out and down, his foot is met and supported by an
Page 95 illusionary bridge, a bridge that could not have been seen nor experienced unless someone had first had the courage to take the leap of faith.
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patañjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras (Sanskrit: 150 BCE)
Step out to the edge of your heart’s greatest calling, brave and courageous adventurer. Still your mind, listen deeply within, follow your intuition and take the leap of faith that will always bridge you from fear of the unknown, to the
Page 96 KNOWN and Holy Grail of your life’s loving purpose and realized bliss.
Page 97 Exercises, Chapter 6
From this moment forward, observe and take note of any and all things that appear to be providing you clues about what your life purpose is and what actions to take to bring this into reality. The Universe is always providing us clues.
The more we PAY ATTENTION, the more the clues show up.
The greater the action we take on these TRUE and
INTUITIVE CLUES, the faster things manifest into form.
In order to manifest your life purpose and dreams come true, knock on the inner door of your heart with the greatest of intensity and ask, “Reveal to me what my life purpose is and show me how to use my talents to make a loving contribution to our world?”
Next, listen with great discernment for any and all messages that come back to you. You will know them
Page 98 because of their loving and inspiring nature. Follow only these!
Next, once you have received this guidance, prepare yourself to take any and all lovingly guided leaps of faith.
This could mean that you make a phone call to someone you thought would never give you the time of day and/or take your call. This could mean that you express a deep and/or loving thought to someone you feared might judge or reject you. This could mean to go someplace that seems completely illogical and yet, at the same time, this thought at your gut, feels both fun, exciting and sure.
Know, that taking a leap of faith towards the fulfillment of your life purpose may feel scary. Ultimately, you will wisely come to know this feeling is really, great excitement.
“Be bold”, as Goethe said, “and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
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Always remember that persistence and tenacity are water and fertilizer that will sprout your ideas into reality. Let your mantra always be, “Success is my only option!!! Read and reread the inspirational quotes below from some of our world’s greatest thinkers. Anytime you feel yourself stumble, immediately pick yourself up, brush yourself off, get altitude and perspective on the experience so that you understand the gift and the wisdom that it has shown you and then, take another step.
“You don’t have to see the entire staircase, just take the next step.” Martin Luther King
Start reading additional inspirational books that call to your attention and heart. Many are listed below in the appendix.
Write your thoughts in the books you read. Underline important points that call to your attention. Remember,
Remember, Remember these inspired truths and act from
Page 100 them. Spend regular time in nature and listen deeply to it.
Listen to beautifully inspiring music. There are many free downloads of such music on our website:
ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org
Spend quiet time with yourself. Turn the TV off and if you can, keep it off. Be very mindful of the films you choose to watch and any other media you watch or listen to. Choose mindfully to watch or expose yourself to media that is loving, empowering and educational. Pay attention to your breath and breathe consciously moment after moment.
Drink lots of water everyday. Be mindful of what you eat and give prayers of thanks over your food at each meal.
Avoid eating sugar or drinking alcohol. Try eating a plant- based-diet for a while and see how you feel with it. Meditate in the morning, immediately upon waking up and then meditate before you go to sleep. Meditation is what brings a clearing and an awareness of the present moment to yourself. It is a beautiful way to begin and frame each
Page 101 experience of your day. By meditating at night, just before you go to sleep you clear yourself to be a dream catcher. Be grateful every single moment of the day and see everything as a miracle. Tell people you love them, allot! Give people
Hugs, allot! Look people in the eyes and connect with them with great sincerity. Listen carefully to what people say, be very present and PAY ATTENTION to them. Speak only when you are guided to do so. Be kind, caring, considerate and respectful of everyone and everything. Speak lovingly, kindly and compassionately to all, all the time. Help those who are challenged and homeless in any way that you can. This could be expressed through the simple kindness of extending a smile, or having a conversation with them or sharing with them food. Share with them an article of clothing that you have intentionally carried with you in your car for this purpose. Be very reverent towards mother earth and all of it’s loving creatures. Choose to BE LOVING, because this is the ultimate choice of the Heretic and the
PRIMARY LIFE LESSON TO LEARN.
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You are powerful beyond all measure!!! You will succeed at discovering and realizing your life purpose!!! Fulfilling on your Life Purpose Mission is the only reason that you, or any of us, are here. May you go out into the world and shine the love of your heart to everyone and everything. You can and will make a difference!!! REMEMBER: The Salvation of the world depends on YOU!!!
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Part 4 Enlightenment (Being the Word)
Page 104 Chapter 7 Returning to Love
Again, I was born in California and began to question the reality of religion at the early of about seven. My father, a Physicist and
Aerospace engineer, would later move our family to the lovely and small city of Friendswood, Texas near Clearlake City, home of
NASA. Here, he would work for TRW to help put a man on the moon. In fact I grew up with astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s son, Andy, playing midget league football. My Dad helped coach the team.
Before moving to Texas, my mother and father raised myself, and two younger sisters, in non-denominational Christian church. The minister seemed to forever drill the importance of being saved by accepting Jesus as my savior. As a result, I became obsessed with whether or not I was saved. There was no way I wanted to go to a fiery hell of eternity if I some how died prior to being saved.
Page 105 The city of Friendswood, as it turned out, was a Quaker established city. For me, this opened the floodgate to ask about the Quakers and how their teachings differed from those I learned in the Christian church. The essence of their teachings seemed to focus on listening “to the small loving, wise and still voice within.” This made sense to me given its similarity to the biblical teachings of “Be still and know that I am God.”
Once in Texas, our parents found another non-denominational
Christian church and we began attending regular service there.
My father enrolled me in the church’s Christian Brigade, a boy- scout-like program. For me it was just an additional outlet to play competitive sports. Before each Brigade meeting we were required to sing the organizations theme song “Onward Christian soldiers marching on to war with the cross of Jesus....”. The song always bothered me and seemed weird given the “marching to war” part of the lyrics because Jesus, as I learned, was a teacher of love and peace, the opposite of war.
Page 106 There in Friendswood more questions arose about Christianity disclosed that there were other versions Christian teachings like from the Methodists, Protestants, Lutherans, Catholics and so on.
Various adults, who explained the essence of these variations, inferred that their religious version of Jesus’s teaching was correct and the others were wrong, and that by believing in such teachings people would ultimately go to hell. How could this be, I innocently thought, the common denominator was clearly Jesus?
Adults failed to provide me any reasonable answer to this question and others. It was mentioned that Jews, supposedly killed Jesus. No one spoke of the Buddhists, Muslims or Hindus teaching. No mention was ever made Indigenous teachings, in my opinion, some of the most advanced in the world. I was confused and wanted to find the truth.
My obsession with the question of whether I was saved or not, lead me to read the Bible cover to cover three times before turning eighteen. Fortunately, by this time, a greater obsession for racing motocross set in and placed me at the races on
Page 107 Sunday’s, rather than church. This adrenaline filled meditation seemed to bring me into an athletic and spiritual zone of atonement. One day, the small voice within spoke “Limitations are bound only by the mind, the mind is bound only by our perceptions of those limitations.” This wisdom seemed natural and familiar, so I began listening carefully to this wise voice within. In hindsight, it was racing that saved me from a path of religious and dogmatic indoctrination.
After an injury ended my professional racing career I went onto college. Philosophy classes pulled deeply at me and pointed toward the big question of “what is this whole life process on earth was really about?” After graduating college and entering the workforce, I began reading book after book on the world’s religious and metaphysical teachings. I was looking for the dots that connected things together to the truth of why myself and everybody else was here.
Page 108 Later in life I formed a humanitarian organization called Project
Peace On Earth that would produce global peace concert and initiatives starting in the Middle East (Palestine and Israel). This region of the world, birthplace to the three major monotheistic religions, is also the origin of the ruinous philosophical teachings of “I have the right God and therefore you don’t. This makes me good and you ‘the other’ bad and so therefore ‘I must be righteous and you ‘the other’ are evil.” I’ve learned, and history has proven millennium after millennium, that once someone arms themselves with this insane and psychopathic belief then they can rationalize going into villages to murder men, rape women, kill babies and burn the village down. After these monstrous acts they can then go home and sleep like a baby because they believe God said this was “Ok”.
Similarly, I’ve come to learn and see with my own eyes that anyone who claims themselves as “the Chosen Ones” and calls other people “Goyim” (meaning “cattle”) or who believes that they’ve found “The Way” rather than “A Way” or deems their God,
Page 109 in any way “the only pathway to heaven” ...these people have proven that they are capable of committing all manners of psychopathic horrors onto another in the name of God.
In 1492 Nicholas, the fifth Pope, established ‘The Doctrine of
Discovery’ which established the resulting protocols of death and enslavement when discoverer’s traveled and encountered non-
Christians. Pilgrims who landed on American soil and were saved by Native Americans, a day celebrated by Thanksgiving, were repaid with gratitude by having their land stolen for worthless glass beads, shooting and killing buffalo (the Native American’s staple food stock) for fun and by moving train (because video games weren’t invented at this time) and then committing genocide on some sixty million Indians. Those who we, the invaders, couldn’t kill we rounded up and forced them into concentration camps we called ‘reservations.’ Yes, our proclamation of Manifest Destiny (we’re the chosen ones and you aren’t), America’s version of The Doctrine of Discovery, brought
Christians to behead, seal land and commit genocide. Presently,
Page 110 we’ve seen some Israel and Jewish people, who believe they are
‘The Chosen Ones,’ treat the Palestinian people with great indifference and murderous cruelty.
Religious Doctrines of superiority always precede a rationalized indifference towards people who occupy landmasses that are discovered to possess strategic resources that a militarized and colonizing power deem profitable. Britain, Spain, France and the
United States have all played lead roles in colonizing other countries for such purposes. To date the U.S. maintains some 900 military bases worldwide.
Ultimately, I’ve concluded that every horrific thing on the planet to date has occurred because we’re literally following Jesus’s quote “Love thy neighbor, as thy self”. This is because we are loving our neighbors exactly how we love ourselves...and that is
‘we love ourselves horribly’. Therefore, until each of us truly find the kingdom of heaven that is within, that which is defined by expressing the loving, peace, compassion and innocence of a
Page 111 child, then we will continue to project our crazy self-hatred on to other people...defining them as the “Others” and then psychopathically harming or murdering them instead of lovingly embracing them as our brothers and sisters, God’s gift to us as an extension of her/his family.
Ultimately I’ve concluded that there is only one God and that is a
God of love. I pray that each of us find this sanity and remember that ‘until we become as a child’ we will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven that is within. In this inner kingdom of loving innocence, only then will we find the expressed freedom and salvation of the soul as expressed by the Jesus figure who stated,
“Greater things I have done and even the least among you can do greater than I.” In other words, I did it (enlightenment) and you can do it and even go further than I.
In this ultimate state of self-realization we can truly know the wisdom of the Buddhist poet Thich Nhat Hanh who states, “The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation.” In this
Page 112 awareness each of us can be empowered to bring our love to our planet as expressed in the Course in Miracles teachings, “The
Salvation of the world depends on you.”
The salvation of our world is truly possible when each of us have the courage to drop the hot rock of dogmatic religious beliefs and identification, and instead look within to remember and return to the love that we already are. Only then, as John Lennon reminds us in his song “Imagine,” will we live as One.
Page 113 Chapter 8 Music’s Divine Healing Power Research has shown that music has the power to change emotional states, perceptions, physiology and elevate spiritual awareness. Certain types of music, devotional and sacred in nature, also have the power to transform individual and collective consciousness into the heightened states of love, forgiveness, compassion and physical healing.
According to all major spiritual and religious texts the earth and universe were created and brought into form through sound. The Upanishads, considered the oldest spiritual text on our planet (10,000 years older than the Bible), actually translates into "The Last Song." The Hindu Bhagavad-Gita, which predates the Bible by some three thousand years, literally translates into "Celestial Song" or "Song of the
Lord." Its' text states: "In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the "Word," and the "Word" was Brahman and
Page 114 Brahman SAID this world shall be and the world came into being.”
"The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form." Pythagoras, the Father of Mathematics (569-475 BC)
Similarly, in the Bible's Gospel of John it states: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." According to John the Evangelist in the first century A.D., the Biblical translations of the 'Word' means 'Primary Harmony.' Egyptian religious texts state that the Singing Sun created the world with its cry of light.
He sang: "This world shall be," and the world came into being. The religious texts of the Aztecs also referred to God as the 'Creator' and state that "He SANG the world into existence."
Page 115 "Sound or vibration is the most powerful force in the universe. Music is a divine art, to be used not only for pleasure but as a path to God-realization. Vibrations resulting from devotional singing lead to attunement with the Cosmic Vibration or the Word. "In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(John 1:1)" - Paramahansa Yogananda, author of
Autobiography of a Yogi.
Hindu teachings describe the 'Word' in terms of the sound
'OM,' which is the vibratory essence of God and the creative energy used to bring the universe into existence. Buddhists refer to this energy as the 'Primal Vibration,' teaching that it was divided into 12 tonal derivations, each of which gave rise to and corresponded with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, the
12 months of the year, the 12 hours of the day (yang), the
12 hours of night (Yin), as well as the 12 notes of the chromatic scale.
Page 116 "All things are aggregations of atoms that dance and by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes . . . Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms." - Alexandra David-
Neel, Belgian-French opera star and explorer (1868-1969) the author of over 30 books. A quote his book "Magic and
Mystery in Tibet".
Music and all audible sound, according to these spiritual texts, represented the audible manifestation of the "Word,"
'OM,' or 'Primal Vibration.' In fact, the great Sufi master,
Hazrat Inayat Khan, went so far as to say: "What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music; our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music."
Page 117 "And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth." - John 1:14
From birth, our consciousness is hard-wired to hear and listen. The first bone to develop in the human fetus is the ear bone and the first sense to develop in the fetus is hearing. Hearing is also the last sense to go when we die.
The cochlea, the central part of the inner ear looks like the shell of a snail. In it there are some 60,000 hair cells. Each of these hair cells resonate to a specific frequency or sound, like a microscopic tuning fork, a corresponding neurological impulse is sent to the brain. This impulse causes the release of neuropeptides, or what are called "communicator molecules."
Music differs from other art forms, such as paintings, sculpture, photography, or literature, in that they express more of a linear or more of a one and two-dimensional form
Page 118 of matter/energy than does music. As such, other art forms are processed by either one or the other brain hemispheres.
Music, as a type of matter, remains in a vibratory state and is thus processed holographically, or by both the right
(intuitive) and the left (analytical) hemispheres of the brain.
"In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music." Cicero (106-43 BC)
In physics, Albert Einstein's statement, "Energy and mass
(matter) are different forms of the same thing mass/ energy," creates the foundation for understanding the energetic/vibratory nature of all matter. As energy increases, matter begins to take form. The great German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) went so far as to say, "Architecture is crystallized music."
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In the 19th Century, physicist Ernst Chlandi discovered that when he sprinkled sand onto a flat surface affixed to a pedestal base, and then drew a violin bow perpendicularly across the edge of the surface, round, mandala-like shapes were formed as the grains of sand were moved by the sound-waves generated. This work was followed by Dr. Hans
Jenny in a field he named 'Cymatics' or the study of waves.
Jenny was able to capture on a device called a "Tonescope," the patterns of a circle when "OM," the sound associated with God, was chanted into this device. He also discovered that concentric diamond shapes also formed within the circle during the process.
The 14th Century Sufi poet Hafiz proclaimed "People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song."
Page 120 Great composers like J.S. Bach wrote at the head of their compositions "A.M.D.G.," the Latin initials for (Ad majorem
Dei gloriam) meaning "For the Greater Glory of God." Thus, when musicians create and perform from a devotional and self-realized state, this intent at the level of quantum physics, formats their music into a sacred energetic formula that expresses the enlightened perspective of love or what
Pythagoras called the 'Music of the Spheres.' When this music is experienced by the listener, the Law of Sympathetic
Vibration dictates that their mind will resonate correspondingly.
Therefore, the process of listening to spiritually-inspired music establishes the protocol whereby the mind stills and the body relaxes. In this state, the mind, is moved into a present-time reality where the sacred vibration of harmony
(OM, Aum, Amen, or Cosmic Vibration) is least distorted and the mind is quiet enough to both witness and remember the
Page 121 Song of the Self, or the mystical principle of the "I AM," the
Divinity within. Here, the mind is moved from passive hearing to a conscious listening of the "Word" or "Primary
Harmony." In other words, the process of listening to sacred music empowers the mind to perceive and release illusions of fear, pain, and suffering so that it experiences and remembers the reality of the love that it already is. Thus, atonement and the integration of Divine Will is made possible.
"The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
Page 122 PROLOG: Thank you for your kindness and consideration in allowing me to share my knowledge and insights with you. I trust they have deepened your awareness and will continue to lovingly contribute to your life. To each and every person I have ever known, I thank you for the gift of encouragement, love and wisdom you have taught and challenged me to KNOW. Each of us have a Divine Life Purpose to fulfill on this planet. This is again, the only reason we are here. Once you discover your Life’s Purpose and commit towards its’ fulfillment, you will know great joy and become a witness to miracle after miracle. With this in mind, The Course in Miracles reminds us, “The Salvation of the world, depends on YOU!.
Page 123 APPENDIX
MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Meditation is a way of bringing the thoughts of your mind to a place of stillness and awareness. The Buddhist’s remind us that in order to be whole we must first be empty. The
Creator Awareness will not and cannot pour into a cup that is already full (a consciousness full of thoughts) for to do so defines a waste (spillage) of Divine energy.
The goal of meditation is to bring our mind to a state of inner peace and surrender. Ideally, you will choose to meditate at least twice a day. The first meditation is important to occur in the morning immediately after waking- up and before you engage with any activity, what-so-ever.
This means meditating before talking to anyone, turning on your cell phone, computer, radio or TV, reading the newspaper etc. This starts your day off with a clean mental slate. The second meditation is important to occur just
Page 124 before you go to bed. This ensures that you end your day with a clear mental slate.
Mediation empowers you to connect with your True-self and find your Kingdom of Heaven Within. In this place of clarity, you can knock on the door of Heaven’s heart, ask questions about anything you can imagine, and receive full and complete answers. Achieving mental stillness is the key to discovering your Life Purpose and in creating a road map to succeed at accomplishing it.
When you think of meditation, imagine, that you are looking down into a reflecting pool. As you look down into this reflection pool, observe that your thoughts cause the image of your face to ripple, much like pebbles that are dropped into a still body of water. The goal of meditation is to connect eye to eye with yourself, your God-Self. This is only possible once your thoughts are still and the reflection pool becomes a perfect mirror.
Page 125 BEGINNING STILLNESS MEDITATION:
First, find a quiet place to sit. Sit on a chair or on the floor, however you feel most comfortable. If sitting on a chair sit up straight with your spine erect and your feet flat on the floor. If you are sitting on the floor, sit cross-legged as best as you can. Place your hands comfortably to the top on your knees. Bring your index fingers to your thumbs on both hands and face the palms of your hands upward. Close your eyes and begin to concentrate your inner gaze at the point that is near the center of your forehead. This point, just above and between your two eyes, is commonly referred to as your third-eye. Become mindful of your breath. Take five minutes to breathe in slowly and with concentration, in through your nose and then out through your mouth. Begin to observe any and all thoughts that cross your mind.
Consciously see each of these thoughts dissolving and not important in this moment. Your goal is to be present to the
NOW. Continue your inner gaze through your third-eye and
Page 126 watch for the image of your reflection pool to still. This stillness will occur as your thoughts dissolve into nothingness and the present moment of your breath. With each breath become aware of any tension in your body. Feel the power of your breath to bring release and peace to this area of self-created tension. Continue your inner gaze and conscious breathing. Allow the peace of your breath and stillness of your mind to connect you to your true-self, that of only love. With this new inner stillness you will likely see a rich blue or violet color in your third-eye. Stay in this space of awareness as long as you can or choose.
Page 127 ADVANCED THREE STEP MEDITATION: Breath-of-Fire, Humming and Ho’ponopono Chakra healing.
(This process utilizes hyperventilated breathing, which Yogi’s call “Breath of Fire.” If you have any medical condition – it is recommended that you consult with your physician first before attempting this mediation and/or simply breath slowly as described in the Beginning Still Meditation.)
Overview Understanding of the Advanced Three Step
Meditation process:
1) The Breath-of-Fire is designed to help further clear your mind of distracting thoughts while bringing higher concentrations of oxygen into your brain.
2) The “Ho'oponopono," according to Wikipedia, is an ancient Hawaiian process of reconciliation and forgiveness."
At its’ mystical core are the elements of mental cleansing, putting things right and rectifying errors. Attending with this awareness activation, is the recognition that we are always
Page 128 100 percent at cause and responsible for any problem.
Similarly it is defined that we are also 100 percent capable of rectifying any and all errors. Four short phrases activate the process of this healing process and release us from the groove of suffering: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
Thank you. I love you." Through the melody of these words we transmute and transcend the error of our thoughts, become free of attachments and now co-create from new and loving possibilities.
3) The Body’s Chakra System Overview
The 1st Chakra energy center (know as the Mulandhara or
Root Chakra) is located at the base of your spine near the tailbone. The Root Chakra is symbolized by lotus flower of four pedals and is associated with the color red. The 1st
Chakra deals with base survival energies of the self; fight or flight instincts, security, mental stability, sensuality and sexuality.
Page 129 Working upwardly, the next energy center, the 2nd Chakra
(known as Swadhisthana), is located just slightly above the
Root Chakra, in the area of the sacrum near a man’s testes or a woman’s ovaries. This Chakra is symbolized by the crescent moon of the lotus flower and is associated with the color orange. Its’ energies deal with relationships, emotional stability and pleasure, violence and addictions.
The 3rd Chakra, known as Manipura, is located in the stomach area and is symbolized by the downward pointing triangle of the lotus’s ten petals. Its’ associated color is yellow. This Chakra’s energies deal with translations and transformation of emotions fear, stress and anxiety into personal powers of spiritual growth and mental expansiveness.
Working upwardly, the next energy center, the 4th Chakra
(known as the Anahata) is symbolized by a twelve petal green circular flower. It is located in the chest and heart
Page 130 area of the body and is associated with the color green or pink. The 4th Chakra deals with energies of unconditional love, emotional balance, compassion, tenderness, how we handle rejection and our sense of inner well-being.
The 5th Chakra, located in our throat, is known as
Vishuddha. It is symbolized by a silver crescent with sixteen pale blue or turquoise petals. This energy center deals with and governs our communication, our ability to articulate our thoughts and speak authentically, our spiritual expression.
The 6th Chakra, known as Ajna (our third-eye), is linked to the pineal gland and is located in the center of the forehead, at the point just above and between your two eyes. It is associated with the colors indigo, violet or deep blue and is symbolized by a two-petal lotus. The 6th Chakra is associated with our intuition and the abilities to envision, bring balance to our higher and lower self and our ability to be spiritually discerning.
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The 7th and final Chakra, called Sahasrara or Crown Chakra, is located at the top of our head and is associated with the pure consciousness of the color white. The Crown Chakra is symbolized by the thousand petal lotus and deals with the energies of releasing karma (negative energies created by non-loving thoughts and actions), meditation and connection with God Consciousness, unity, the integration love as the singular truth and the realization of Dharma (lovingly living in alignment with our life purpose).
Page 132 Beginning The Three Step Meditation: After completing the beginning stillness meditation now bring your hands to your hips. Keep your eyes closed and concentrated on your third-eye. Begin the Breath-of-Fire by breathing rapidly in through your nose and out through your nose 65 times. (You can also breath slowly if you have a concern over some medical condition).
Next, with your eyes still closed, bring you your hands comfortably to the top your knees. Again, bring your index fingers to your thumbs on both hands and face the palms of your hands upward. Now begin to HUM intensely. This humming sound causes your right and left hemispheres of your brain to synchronize and work simultaneously. The humming further eradicates any thought bubbles from occurring. HUM intensely for 65 times.
Next, with your eyes still closed and hands on knees, you will focus your breathing and the Ho’ponopono clearing to
Page 133 restore and align the body’s seven Charka energy centers.
This meditation brings healing and balancing energies to all of our Chakras.
Repeat the slow Beginning Meditation Breath and
Ho’ponopono Process for Each Chakra:
Begin at the Root Chakra and then work upwardly through each energy center until reaching the Crown Chakra.
Breath in deeply and slowly in through your nose and then out through your mouth. With each breath inwardly imagine white light flooding the Chakra. You can imagine dark light being expelled. You will be breathing into each Chakra 12 total times, four breaths and three rounds.
Round one / modified Ho’ponopono: As you breath in your first breath, simultaneously inwardly speak the words “I
AM”, then exhale. As you breath in your second breath,
Page 134 simultaneously inwardly speak the words “I Accept Your
Grace”, then exhale. With your third breath in, now inwardly speak the words “Thank You”, then exhale. And with your forth breath inwardly say “I Love You”, then exhale. Repeat the breath and inwardly spoken modified Ho’ponopono words again to complete round two, and again to complete round three. In essence, with each accompanying breath, you will have said the complete Ho’ponopono a total of three times through each and every Chakra.
Once the Advanced Three Step Meditation is complete it is recommended that you be still in the moment and give thanks to Creator Awareness for all that you are, have and desire to be. Pray for others, yourself, peace on earth and for the reverent safe keeping of all nature and Mother Earth.
Page 135 AFFIRMATIONS Affirmations serve as powerful ways to lift your consciousness out of Samskaras, fear-based grooves which limit our ability to co-create from what we most loving want.
In essence, affirmations help us to reformat our awareness and reshape our thoughts so that we can co-create from a greater or greatest state of love.
AFFIRMATION OF THE I AM The infinite creative power of GOD is within me – Aham
Brahmasmi (Sanskrit - meaning I Am Brahman or I Am
Spirit Soul). I AM one with Divine Will attuned to and reflecting the purpose and creative possibilities of GOD working through me – SanKalpa (Sanskrit - meaning Inner
Resolve). My life is great, good, miraculous, joyous, peaceful, and abundantly prosperous in the service and treatment of all others with loving care – Tat Tvam Asi
(Sanskrit – meaning Thou Art That). Divine ideas are delivered to me and GOD provides me with the means of
Page 136 manifesting them into reality – SanKalpa. I AM the Son/
Daughter of GOD from whom all things originate and infinite possibility is manifest – SanKalpa. My life is filled with creativity, achievement, infinite possibilities, abundance, and financial prosperity – SanKalpa, Shiva Shakti (Sanskrit meaning Divine Coupling).
I choose powerfully from the present moment, thinking and acting with love – Sat Chit Ananda (Sanskrit meaning
Absolute Being, virtue and truth; to comprehend: true bliss and happiness). The truth of God’s Divine Love and
Plan for His/Her Will expressed through me is at the center of my consciousness – Ritam (Sanskrit meaning Routine
Rhythm). I AM the space from which ALL things easefully manifest with grace so that the highest good for all is served
– Ritam, Aham Brahmasmee. I AM open, innocent, powerful, courageous, and abundantly prosperous in manifesting each of my goals into reality – Ritam. I AM one with SOURCE easefully ATTRACTING: ALL LOVE, ALL JOY,
ALL PEACE, ALL TRUTH, ALL WISDOM, ALL COMPASSION,
Page 137 ALL FAITH, ALL HEALTH AND FITNESS, ALL BEAUTY, ALL
INTEGRITY, ALL JUSTICE, ALL ABUNDANCE and FINANCIAL
PROSPERITY – Sat Chit Ananda, Moksha (Sanskrit meaning
Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth). GOD in me and through me is at this very moment answering all of my prayers and creative impulses so as to easily and effortlessly attract to me all of the money and resources required to bring each of my ideas into complete and realized form – SanKalpa. I AM filled with a joyous overflowing of Divine power, abundance and financial prosperity and love of GOD – Shiva Shakti. I AM in creative and financial partnerships with kind, loving, amazingly creative, talented, and wealthy people of honor and integrity, who fully support, honor, respect, appreciate, and love me, as well as, the ideas and projects I create in the service of others and humanity. I love and hold my business partners in equal and in all regards. My partners eagerly invest all the required money into each of my projects bringing each idea into reality so that they serve others, are
Page 138 enormously profitable and bring loving peace to our world.
My partners and I generate great returns on investment for all who have believed in and have invested in each idea. We graciously, joyously and generously serve humanity. I give thanks for all of this Divine grace, which manifests under
Divine Will, in a perfect way and always serves the highest and best good of love and others. Thank you Father, Mother,
God. So be it. Amen.
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Personal Development and Spiritual Growth Goal Setting
Transformational Quotes
Page 140 Thich Nhat Hanh – “The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. … It is possible to transform our heart…Not much time is needed…(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.” – Transforming Our Suffering
Vice President Al Gore – “In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect – and have led to – this grave crisis.”(Earth In The Balance)
Hillary Clinton – “There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.”(Los Angeles Times)
Governor Ann Richards (Texas) – ” We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.” (The
Dallas Morning News)
Retired Assemblyman and Senator John Vasconcellos (California legislator, Chairman of the Way and Means, founder of the California Task Force to Promote Self-esteem) – “We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures – our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”(Task Force Report)
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Former Police Chief Willie Williams (Los Angeles,CA) – “We can not begin the healing process until we make peace with ourselves and others.” (Acceptance speech 6/30/92)
The Dalai Lama – “What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.” (Time magazine; The Meaning of Life)
Actor Nick Nolte – “First make peace inside yourself.” (Parade magazine)
Actress Barbra Streisand – “I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.”
(The Dallas Morning News)
Peter Gabriel – “When my self-esteem is sinking, I like to be liked/ In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted/ Cos I love to be loved.” (Lyrics from his new album release
US)
Feminist Gloria Steinem – “Self-esteem isn’t everything. It’s just that there’s nothing without it.” (Time magazine)
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – “In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious
Page 142 future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.” (Time mag, The Meaning of Life).
“Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.” – VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE
“All that we are is a result of what we have thought.” – Buddha
“All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.” – Albert Einstein
“The destiny of a person is connected with those things he himself creates and does.” –
Rabbi Steinsaltz in the kabbalistic 13th century
“We create our own reality because of our inner emotional – our subconscious – reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so
Page 143 we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.” –
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
“Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.” – Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” – Mathew
21:22
“The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual – dealing with the spirit of thought.” – Charles P. Steinmetz, famous General Electric engineer
“As a man (the word ‘man’ is a Sanskrit word which means ‘consciousness’) thinketh in his heart so is he.” – King Solomon, The Bible
“I came to take seriously, even to believe that the consciousness of man, the mind, is not something to reduce to brain mechanisms. …It is clear that in order to survive after death the mind must establish a connection with a source of energy other than that of the brain.”
- Dr. Wilder Pinfield, Father of Neurosurgery; Princeton, Oxford, and John Hopkins.
Page 144 Pinfield did extensive mapping of the brain in the 1930′s through electrically stimulating areas of the brain during surgery.
“As a man acts, so does he become. As a man’s desire is, so is his destiny.” – the Hindu pre-Christian Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
“When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues.” – Larry Dossey, M.D., national best selling author of ‘The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine.”
“Happiness is self-connectedness.” – Aristotle, 300 B.C.
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” – Jesus,
The Gnostic Gospels
“There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.”
– Sigmund Freud
“Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” – Mark 11:24
Page 145 “The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to be transformed be not of this world. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – The Bible
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” – Charles Darwin
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” – Confucius
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking it makes it so.” – Shakespeare
“All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.” – 4th century Greek philosopher Iamblichus
“Before we can do something or anything we must first be something.” – Geothe,
German philosopher
“Believe and your belief will actually create the fact.” – William James
Page 146 “Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.” – Earl Nightingale
“We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we’re in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.” – Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho Cybernetics
“Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hands and the mind.” –
Giorgio Moroder, the legendary film producer of the 1920′s – from the movie Metropolis
“One must learn to love oneself…with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.” – Nietzsche
“Only connect.” – E.M. Forster
“Look within, and seek that.” – Jalaluddin Rumi
“He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.” – Lao-tzu
“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” – Jesus
Page 147 “If you become steadfast in your abstentions of thoughts of harm directed toward others, all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in your presence.”- Patañjali (Sanskrit: 150
BCE) is the compiler of the Yoga Sūtras from the Yoga Sutras (Aphorisms) of Patanjali
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patañjali (Sanskrit: 150
BCE) is the compiler of the Yoga Sūtras from the Yoga Sutras (Aphorisms) of Patanjali
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead
“The chooser’s happiness lies in his congruence with the chosen, the peace of iron-filings, obedient to the forces of the magnetic field. Calm is the soul that is emptied of all self, in a restful harmony. This happiness is here and now, in the eternal moment of co-inherence.
A happiness within you – but not yours.” - Dag Hammarskjöld, one of the UN Founders.
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man’s body and to reduce it to harmony.” -
Francis Bacon
Page 148 “What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.” - Confucius
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Quotes about Peace and Healing War
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“To get rid oneself of an enemy, one must love him.”— Leo Tolstoy
“All wars are fought for money. “- Socrates
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ~Voltaire
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein
“Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.” ~Spinoza
“When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor’s will and call it peace.” ~St. Augustine
“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”– Albert Einstein
“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that the men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” – Aldous Huxley
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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.” ~Thomas
Carlyle
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” ~Thomas Jefferson
“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.” – Philip Randolph
“In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons.” – Herodotus
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be…surer of the noose than a private homicide.” – H.G.
Wells
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” – Howard
Zinn
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Issac Asimov
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison
“The coward threatens when he is safe.” – Goethe
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“Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.” ~Thucydides
“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.”
~Thomas Paine
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” – John Adams
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy (JFK)
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” –
JFK
“Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon itself.” – Lao Tzu
“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, the greater the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” – Leo Tolstoy
“War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.” –
Lewis Mumford – worlds leading authority on the fall of the Roman Empire
Page 153 “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.” - Martin Luther King
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” - Martine Luther King
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” - Martin Luther King
“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” - Noam Chomsky, Ph.D.
“Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?” – Norman Cousins,
MD
“Either war is obsolete, or men are.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”– R. Buckminster Fuller
“I do not believe any policy which has behind it the threat of military force is justified as part of the basic foreign policy of the United States except to defend the liberty of our own people.” – Robert A. Taft
Page 154 “What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness god has given us in this world.” – Robert E. Lee
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. –
Ronald Reagan
“We first fought…in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” – Serj Tankian
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” –
Sigmund Freud
“So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see”…
Mahatma Gandhi from The Essential Gandhi, Louis Fisher, ed. (New York: 1962)
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”
- President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” – William Leahy, I Was There, pg.
441. (Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman)
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension…would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” – President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Press Conference, Washington, DC, 14 November 1956
“Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below and above.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Page 156 “A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes…could wipe out more than
300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere.
And the survivors–as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.’ For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.” –
President John F. Kennedy, address to the nation on the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 26th of
July 1963
“Humankind continues to face the threat of nuclear annihilation. Today’s hesitation leads to tomorrow’s destruction. The fates of all of us are bound together here on earth. There can be no survival for any without peaceful coexistence for all.” –
Takeshi Araki, Mayor of Hiroshima, 6th of August 1985
“In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second–more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.” –
President Jimmy Carter, Farewell Address to the American People, 14th of January 1981
“The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.
Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our
Page 157 common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering.” –
Oscar Arias, Former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Laureate
“The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.
” - Queen Noor of Jordan, Patron, Landmine Survivors Network
“Estimate of immediate casualties if an intermediate-sized accidental launch occurs involving the 16 missiles on a single Russian submarine: 6,838,000 people would be killed in firestorms in eight U.S. cities – ranging from 3,193,000 in New York to 341,000 in Seattle. Millions more would presumably be exposed to potentially lethal radioactive fallout. The danger of an “accidental” nuclear attack has increased in recent years, threatening a public health disaster of unprecedented scale.
” - New England Journal of Medicine, April 30, 1998
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And for peace to be real, it must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Page 158 “If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” – President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is our deep conviction that the following is urgently needed and must be undertaken now:
First, present and planned stockpiles of nuclear weapons should be greatly cut back;
Second, remaining nuclear weapons should be gradually and transparently taken off alert and their readiness substantially reduced both in nuclear weapon states and in de facto nuclear weapons states;
Third, long-term international nuclear policy must be based on the declared principle of continuous, complete and irrevocable elimination of nuclear weapons.
” – Signed Statement by 60 retired Generals and Admirals from the U.S., Russia, 15 other countries December 4, 1996
“We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
- President Jimmy Carter
Page 159 “I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.” -
Thom Yorke, Radio Head
“The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.” – Dag Hammarskjold, one of the original founders of the United Nations
“The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.” –
John F. Kennedy, January 11, 1962
“A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat….
Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.” – General Lee Butler, Former
Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996
“Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us…No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream — it is a
Page 160 practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.” –
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 1961
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of
Damocles hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us… The mere existence of modern weapons … is a sources of horror and discord and distrust.
” – John F. Kennedy, September 25, 1961
“It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
” – former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, 1995
Page 161 Recommended Reading
Spiritual Psychotherapy: __A Course In Miracles __ The Upanishads
__The Bhagavad-Gita
__The Bible
__The Koran
__The Kabbalah
__ Three Magic Words – US Andersen
__ The Secret of Secrets – US Andersen
__The “I AM” Discourses – (1935 The Saint Germain Foundation)
__Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda
__The Yoga of Jesus – Paramahansa Yogananda
__The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita – Paramahansa Yogananda
__Man’s Eternal Quest – Paramahansa Yogananda
__The Holy Science – Swami Sri Yukteswar
__Diamond Heart, Book One – A.H. Almaas
__Dialog With Myself – J. Krishnamurti
__Think on These Things – J. Krishnamurti
__Guaranteed Solutions – Swamiji Nithyananda
__The Way of Life – Lao Tzu
__Anatomy of the Spirit – Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
Page 162 Spiritual Psychotherapy (con’t)
__Seat of the Soul – Gary Zukav
__The Perennial Philosophy – Aldous Huxley
__Islands - Aldous Huxley
__A Path With A Heart – Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.
The Physics of Spirituality:
__The Holy Science – Swami Sri Yukteswar
__Dancing With The Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav
__Recovering the Soul – Larry Dossey, M.D.
__Beyond the Quantum – Michael Talbot
__The Holographic Universe – Michael Talbot
__The Geometry of Art and Life – Matila Ghyka
Transformational Thinking
__The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
__The Voice of the Master – Kahlil Gibran
__Personal Power Through Awareness – Sanaya Roman
__Living With Joy – Sanaya Roman
__You Can Have It All – Arnold Patton
__Death, Taxes, and Other Illusions – Arnold Patton
__You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought – John Rogers
__The Book of Life – Roy Eugene Davis
Page 163 Transformational Thinking (con’t)
__A Path With Heart – Jack Kornfield, PhD
__Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda
__Where There is Light – Paramahansa Yogananda
__Your Secret Door to Success – Florence Shinn
__Your Word Is Your Wand – Florence Shinn
__As A Man Thinketh – James Allen
__The Power Of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peal
__Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
__The Magic of Believing – Claude M. Bristol
__Notes of How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy - Hugh and Gayle Prather
__Real Moments – Barbara DeAngeles, Ph.D.
__Return to Love – Marianne Williamson
__Illuminated Prayers – Marianne Williamson
__The Screw Tape Letters – CS Lewis
__Mere Christianity – CS Lewis
__The Art of War – Sun Tzu
__The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz, MD
__All You Need Is Love - Nancy Cooke De Herrera
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Find Your Life Purpose:
__The Power of Choice – Success and Life Purpose, Steve Robertson
__The Game of Life and How to Play It – Florence Shinn
__Way of the Peaceful Warrior – Dan Millman
__Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior – Dan Millman
__The Life You Were Born To Live – Dan Millman
Prosperity:
__ Three Magic Words – U.S. Andersen
__The 40 Day Prosperity Plan - John Randolph Price
__ The Power of Intention – Dr. Wayne Dyer
__ Secrets of the Millionaire Mind – Harv Ekart
__The Richest Man In Babylon – George S. Clason
__Creating Money – Sanaya Roman
__Open Your Mind to Receive – Catherine Ponder
__Money and the Meaning of Life – Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.
__Rich Dad / Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki
__The Courage to Be Rick – Suze Orman
Page 165 Spiritual Quests:
__Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East (Vol 1-5) – Baird Spalding
__The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
__The Fifth Mountain – Paulo Coelho
__The Valkyries – Paulo Coelho
__Illusions – Richard Bach
__Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan
Love and Relationships:
__Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus – John Gray, Ph.D.
__By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept – Paulo Coelho
__Bridge Across Forever – Richard Bach
__Spiritual Partnership – Gary Zukav
Health and Healing:
__Love, Medicine, and Miracles – Bernie Siegel, M.D.
__Love, Peace, and Healing – Bernie Siegel, M.D.
__Healing and the Mind – Bill Moyers
__Reversing Heart Disease – Dean Ornish, M.D.
__Quantum Healing – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
__Perfect Health – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
__Vibrational Medicine – Dr. Gerber
__Anatomy of the Spirit – Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
Page 166 Health and Healing (con’t)
__You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
__Diet for a New America – John Robbins
__Space, Time and Medicine – Larry Dossey, MD
__Healing Words – Larry Dossey, MD
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION:
__We First – Simon Mainwaring
THE POWER OF MUSIC:
__The Secret Power of Music – David Tame
__The Mysticism of Music – Hazart Inayat Khan
Page 167
FULL ENDORSEMENTS OF STEVE’s BOOK
"At a time in history in which we seem unable to escape an unending cycle of violence and war, it is essential that we heed Steve Robertson's message in The Power of Choice. Robertson does not merely write about a vision of peace and personal empowerment, but he has lived it on the world stage. His story is captivating and inspiring. Robertson is a living avatar on whose shining example our future may depend."
Larry Dossey, MD is the recent author of ONE MIND. He is the author of eleven books dealing with consciousness, spirituality, and healing, including the New York Times bestseller HEALING WORDS: THE POWER OF PRAYER. Larry is also a former Vietnam Battalion Field Surgeon, Hospital Chief of Staff and Co-Chairman of the National Institute of Health Mind/Body Alternative Medicine Division.
"Steve Robertson is the quintessential global peacemaker. His magnificent book, “The Power of Choice, Success and Your Life Purpose” is as inspirational as his larger-than-life spirit and I have no doubt readers will respond to his message by aiming their life choices in the direction of global peace and a better world for all humanity. This is a textbook for the soul." Caroline Myss PhD, National Best selling Author of “Anatomy of the Spirit”
"Steve Robertson's new book "The Power of Choice - Success and Your Life Purpose" is required reading for anyone who has longed to find and fulfill their life purpose. Steve's work with sacred music on a global scale and his international Middle East peace work is a living testimony to the courage of the human spirit to find and live their life purpose. If you want to find and follow your life purpose towards bliss, The Power of Choice - Success and Your Life Purpose, will help you find your way."
Don Miguel Ruiz, National Best Selling author of "The Four Agreements" (4 million plus copies sold) and numerous others including his latest: The Fifth Agreement - A Practical Guide to Self- Mastery."
“The Power of Choice, Success, and Your Life Purpose” is filled with beautiful metaphors and analogies that lead in every instance to awareness, self-responsibility, and our Divinity. Gary Zukav, author of The Seat of the Soul
Page 168 "Steve Robertson's new book 'The Power of Choice' is a dangerous missive to the hearts of those not in touch with their own power and grace. 'The Power of Choice' looks all of us in the eye and asks us to awaken to our own power and force. Steve pleads the case that this is not optional but imperative to truly be alive. He wants us to be at peace and to create peace. A dangerous book for these times. Buy it."
Jack Healey, former Exec. Dir. of Amnesty International, lead Amnesty International World concert tour (Sting, Bono, Springsteen), Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma It Can't Wait campaign, and now, Founder of Human Rights Action Center, WDC.
"Steve Robertson's little gem, The Power of Choice, is a treasure trove of timeless wisdom and spiritual guidance. Having devoted much of his life to promoting peace and justice, Steve shows clearly why World Peace will be difficult to achieve until more of us understand that we must first achieve inner, spiritual peace in our hearts and minds. To this end, Steve argues persuasively that, whatever our life circumstances, each of us has the capability and the freedom to choose a path of peace and life purpose."
Alexander (Sandy) & Helen (Lena) Astin, Ph.Ds are Distinguished Professors Emeriti at UCLA. They are Founding Directors of Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA; considered the seminal center for research on college students. Sandy is considered the most widely quoted person in the world on the subject of Higher Education.
"Diane and I have known Steve Robertson for many years. We deeply respect, appreciate and support his important international peace work and sacred music concerts. Steve's first book "The Power of Choice, Success and Your Life Purpose" clearly draws from the deep and courageous experience of his personal journey. If you want to experience freedom, find peace of mind and happiness, read this book from someone who has truly walked the pathway of making a difference in our world. Steve's book offers rich and spiritually authentic insights into the meaning of life and how to find and live your life purpose. We highly recommend you read and share this book with others. It will touch your heart, bring clarity to your mind and inspire you to courageously live your unique life purpose." Gerald (Jerry) Jampolsky, M.D. and Diane Cirincione, PH.D.; Best Selling Authors and Speakers. Founders of International Center for Attitudinal Healing. Authors of " A MINI COURSE FOR LIFE." ahinternational.org "Steve Robertson has used his unflagging dedication, creative spirit and vision to manifest beautiful and transformative peace-work for the world. In
Page 169 “The Power of Choice”, Steve tells the secrets behind this work, and offers the simple and powerful spiritual perspectives and practices that can empower you and help you bring your gifts to the world." Jack Kornfield Ph.D., best-selling author. He was trained as a Buddhist monk, has taught Mindful meditation since 1974 and is considered one of the leading Buddhist teachers in American. He is the best selling author of "A Path With A Heart" and numerous other books on consciousness and meditation that have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.
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