Be at peace with everyone in life, even enemies and annoying relatives.  Be kindness itself.  Seen from the highest perspective, there is no reason to treat anyone with anything other than kindness.  This harkens back to the concept of Divine Neutrality.  When you are neutral to everyone you meet in life, there are no labels attached to that person.  If you are neutral, you cannot be busy putting people you meet into neat little categories for future reference.  What can it profit that person or yourself to treat them other than with an initial feeling of neutrality, a blank slate upon which that person can show you their true character.

Now do not make the mistake that you should treat a person who proves to be dangerous with no regard for your own life.  This is not neutrality.  God has given you life and you should at least respect that god has put you here for a reason and not squander away that life with stupid actions on your part.  Such a thing would be a slap in the face of the Source that has put you here in the first place.  Contrary to popular belief, there is no spiritual law that dictates that we should literally sacrifice our lives for anyone else on any given day.  Such is the romantic nonsense of misguided religious understanding of deep spiritual truths.

Remember that we are dealing with a mode of initial neutrality here.  Common sense dictates that we should be wary of those who show themselves to be dangerous and not to forget your basic intelligence by giving them any chance to slip into their own destructive behavior.  If you approach someone with neutrality and they then proceed to demonstrate their own dangerous tendencies, then since you have the intelligence to recognize their faults, it is necessary and noble on your part to make sure that your own actions give them no avenue to further indulge in their negative behavior.  Is it not wrong to allow that person to harm you, thereby creating negative karma for themselves?  What good have you done for either one of you?  Think about it.

In life, everyone you meet is trying to find their own happiness.  Do you think that you can help that person by instantly applying a label to them as soon as you meet?  This is the ego doing your thinking for you.  When you approach new people and even new situations with neutrality, then it opens up endless possibilities to you since you are not busy putting mental restrictions to what is in front of you.

Being kind is an action whose vibration spreads outward, even to others nearby.  Remember, energy is contagious.  It has been demonstrated that everyone who receives an act of kindness gets a dose of serotonin (a naturally occurring “feel good” chemical) and anyone who provides the kindness also gets the same dose as well.  And the third party observer of the act also gets a dose as well.

When you judge, it turns you into someone who has to judge and put labels on people.  When you label someone, it negates them.  Stop labeling everyone and everything upon initial meeting.

You might be surprised at what results from such a mental attitude.

Respect yourself at all times, love yourself.  Trust yourself.  Then you are trusting the same source that created you.  When you fail to love yourself, you are denying your own divinity and are attracting the opposite of what you are.  Establish the harmony of conscious contact with Divinity within, the Source, God.  When you do this, all you feel is Love.  Love for yourself and others as well.  When you establish such a contact with Source, you feel as if you have become Love itself.

Many people profess to love, but few really know what that even is.  You can’t give away what you don’t have for yourself already.  If you would love others, first love yourself and know that you are loved by God.  Then you will be in a position to love others too.  Then you will be able also to learn what you dharma is and follow it with Joy.  Doing your dharma is love in action.  Being in a state of harmony with Source within, you realize that “I am whole, I am perfect as I was created”.  You see that you came from a source that has a great idea of who and what you should be.  You must be in a state of love to find out what that is.  Connect to god within, and be love itself.  All else in life will flow as easily as water in a river.  When you are in harmony, the right things will happen at the right time.  Carl Jung called this synchronicity, meaningful coincidences.  Being in a state of love allows such synchronicities to happen because you are not busy trying to find a perspective or label in interpret anyone or anything.  You are open as the sky.  And anything can happen when in this state of mind.

When we recognize beauty, we perceive god in one of its forms.  Every beauty seen here below on earth by people of perception resembles more than anything else that source from which we all come.  There is a mostly unknown story of Jesus and his disciples coming across a dead dog rotting in the open air.  All the disciples were disgusted for obvious reasons.  But Jesus approached the dog and remarked with total amazement at the dog’s teeth, mentioning how fine they were.  Can you see beauty in a dead dog as Jesus did?  A similar story from Zen philosophy has a student asking his teacher, “What is holy?”  The teacher responded, “A mountain of shit on a silver plate.”  The idea here is that if you look hard enough and with great attention, you can find beauty everywhere.  It is said in occult circles that god has made no unclean thing.  It is even said by those mystics who have examined such, that the king of hell is beautiful as well, in his cold, icy perfection of purpose.

The poet Keats said, “Beauty is Truth, truth beauty.  That is all you know on earth and all you need to know.”    When you are in a state of love, you are in harmony with that which created all of the universe, and you are able to see for yourself the beauty of it all.  All around you is a creation singing glory to the god that created all things.

Rumi said, “Sell your cleverness and be in a state of bewilderment.”  Said another way—suspend your ego’s attempts to selfishly declare its own greatness and instead be in a receptive state to the harmony, joy and love found by establishing harmonious connection to the god source within.  You will then be able to see beauty everywhere.

When you are in a state of pushing out of yourself, of expanding yourself, you have no choice but to express the true genius that you are within.  Align yourself with the source within and then give forth of yourself.  Let your own inner genius lead you to your dharma, which is your life’s work, which is joyous.  Look for the genius in others and remind them of it.  Often people cannot see their own inner strengths.  If you recognize the genius in others, encourage it.  It inspires them.  This will have the effect of turning them inside out, and expressing their own selves the same way you are also doing.  This is the polarity of a god-attuned person, pushing out of themselves, trying to make a heaven out of the hell that is earth.

Don’t let the process of living day to day “de-genius” you.  Don’t let the mundane activities of your daily life sap all of your resources and creativity.  Make time for the mundane, and then no more.

Learn to see yourself the same way your source sees you, as a genius waiting to expand itself outward for the benefit of all.  Genius does not mean intelligent.  It means being open-minded enough to be able to receive from the source those ideas and projects that others call genius, only because they are not aligned with source and doing it themselves.  Having much knowledge is not so important.  “Imagination is more important than knowledge”—Einstein.

All true genius has radical humility, and in the presence of such humility, ego has no chance.  If you are humble before god, you receive from god, and are able to expand outward and give forth of yourself.  If ego is in control, you are not humble but self-important and therefore think you are an island unto yourself and are unable to humbly receive from the source those ideas and projects that will truly fulfill your life and make others’ lives a little easier.

Take the path of least resistance and connect to source, so you have no resistance to your own dharma, which source will guide you to quickly and magickally.  Think of others instead of always of yourself.

The source reacts to your belief in shortage or abundance according to what you believe.  Approach the source not with what is missing, but with a state of gratitude for what you have.  Believe beyond ordinary belief that Source can and will bring abundance into your life when you have a need of it.  The difference between a selfish person and a selfless person is thus.  The selfish person is always trying to force the source to give it what he/she truly does not need, but only wants.  The selfless person has absolute faith that the source will provide to him/her exactly what he/she needs to follow the ideas or projects that his/her dharma dictates.

Abundance is a spiritual law that never fails.  It operates in a manner similar to someone who is always trying to empty their glass for other to drink while god is busy keeping that glass full the whole time everyone else is drinking.  And as for yourself?  Well since you are the holder of the glass that is never empty, neither are you ever thirsty.  How can you ever be thirsty with a glass that is never empty, but always full?  This is the law of Abundance in action.

When you connect to source and follow your inner guidance to your dharma and then actually set out to do the work you are meant to do, miracles occur in conjunction with this.  People appear out of nowhere.  Materials needed manifest with apparently no effort on your part to make it happen.  This is Abundance in action.  This is how it operates.  You do your half of the work, and god steps in to fill in the other half while you are busy with what is in front of you, causing miracles to occur “behind your back”, as it were.  When you make god your co-partner, god provides everything you need.  This requires faith on your part, but if you do it…you will see it works.  Every single time you do it.

When you connect to the inner source, a fundamental change occurs in your character.  Due to the fact that you are busy projecting yourself and your work “out there” then by spiritual law god is busy providing your needs “in here”.  Naturally, there occurs an automatic state of receptivity on your part, an openness to gracefully accepting what god gives you to do your dharma.

What god gives you depends on what it is you are trying to accomplish.  You may receive certain people who are ideal for your project.  It is easy to bring the right people in your life.  Just decide to do what you are inspired to do for the benefit of all, and the right people will show up.  Be receptive to these very people with a state of neutrality, achieve a mutual energy exchange and see why it is you have met this person or persons.  They just might be who you needed or were waiting for.  This open and receptive attitude creates allies, not enemies.  If you wish to attract someone kind, be kind.  If you wish to attract someone adventurous, be adventurous.  Gandhi once said, “We must be the change we wish to see.”  Be the kind of person you wish to attract.  Act as if those people are already here by being that way now.  Then everyone you need (not to mention everything you need) will just magickally show up.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking you are not important in this world.  You are very important indeed.  Your very presence here is evidence of such.  “You affect others by your presence”, said Walt Whitman.  What kind of effect you are having depends on the degree of connection to the source within yourself.  I would put forth the notion that you affect the whole world by your presence.

All it takes is one person to change the world.  One person with a dream, who follows it come what may.  Such a person is always remembered for their subsequent actions, whether said actions be for the common good or cause unwarranted destruction.  Even evil tyrants were just following their dreams.  But we remember them as easily as the saints and miracle-workers who have lived and changed the world by following their own visions.

If you connect yourself to the source within, and follow your dharma, your inspirations, for the benefit of all…can you even imagine what you can do for the world?  How will the world remember you?

In his book on the teachings of Atlantis, author Jon Peniel mentioned that the stars of our galaxy (and therefore all other galaxies) get their energy from the Black Hole at the center of the galaxy, which flies in the face of what science currently holds to be true, namely that black holes simply gobble up matter and energy and give nothing in return.

Science holds that the gravity in a black hole is so strong that light itself cannot escape.  I wonder whether or not light is even supposed to go back into a black hole in the first place?  If all the things in the galaxy come out of the black hole, then why, and for that matter, how would anything even get back into it?

A black hole seems to me to be the most obvious macrocosmic example of the female generative organ from which all earthly life springs.  I use the Principle of Correspondence here.  All of creation springs forth from a union of opposites, creating a “child” of sorts depending on the nature of the union itself.  On a Cosmic scale, the child would appear to be all of the visible universe itself.  All of these stars, planets, moons, comets, and stardust originate in physical form from the Black hole at the center of each galaxy.  But why does the black hole even create anything around it?  Where does it get the idea to do so?  As far as I can tell the answer is as simple as it is evasive—the idea comes from God itself.

The whole of creation is the result of a union of opposite forces, of male and female forces.  The ultimate female force in the visible Cosmos would appear to be the Black Hole.  And yet the curious thing is a black hole is invisible…just like God, the ultimate male force in the Cosmos, though not necessarily visible in any way.  In fact, there is a saying in the occult world that “God is the Sun behind the sun”.  It is the Limitless Light behind the visible light we see with our senses.  Kabala teaches that the Limitless Light is what is beyond even our highest human conception of God.

If you think it is difficult to understand how a whole galaxy could originate from and orbit around a completely invisible point in space that must exist because it exerts staggering influence on the entire galaxy, then imagine how much more incomprehensible God is when one considers that all of that material stuff in the whole universe originated from a thought, and idea that originated with the Godly male force which is behind the Godly female force that gives birth to that thought-idea.

And then imagine that there is something behind the actions and the very existence of both of these opposing forces.  What is that something?

Could it be Love?

“It’s Love that holds it all together.  It’s Love that’s holding back the weather, and the same will let it go.”—lyrics from It’s Love, by King’s X.

In the Bible is found the simple phase, “God is Love.”  Of course this is referring to the Ultimate, the Infinite, the Source Itself (and not simply to the male half of the manifested opposites that give us the Dualistic universe to perceive).  As it currently am able to perceive it, the whole universe along with all of us sentient beings as well, are the result of a splitting of this Love into Dual forces.

Eternal life is eternal death.  We come together as lovers like mad people trying to kill ourselves with little orgasms so we can catch a pathetically small glimpse of the Ultimate, the Infinite.  And what is that exactly?  The complete loss of individual ego, merging with the Source that gave birth to the ego itself, due to the Polarizing effects of existence, of life itself.

Life is suffering…so said the Buddha.  Life is suffering because it is a pale attempt at existence “outside” the sphere of the Infinite.  Inside of the sphere of the Ultimate, there is no Duality, no existence except in a bornless state, an existenceless existence that is the Singular and therefore Naught nature of the Infinite God itself.  The Infinite gave birth to existence and to life, and all appears to be “outside” of oneself.  But Yoga teaches that the True Reality of the Absolute God is to be found “within” oneself.  It is to be found “inside” of the non-existent “place” that gave birth to the Dualistic reality in the first place.

Eternal Life, which is Peace Everlasting, is to be found in Eternal Death.  When one can merge both one’s Life with one’s Death, then Enlightenment and Liberation can follow, liberation from Life and Death itself.  The “light” in enlightenment is the Limitless Light taught in the Kabala.  It is the Ultimate Light of Source, of the Infinite.  It is found “within God” itself.  The practice of Yoga helps one to find this Infinite Source of Light, which is the Home that all of our souls yearn for to end this suffering called life.  To end life, one must die.  But how to do that while yet living?  One word—Yoga.

Yoga is, seen from one perspective, imitating death while yet living.  And the uniting of these grand opposites produces the experience of non-experience itself, of the Duality become One, which is in fact Naught or Nothing, for anytime and anywhere there exists one, there exists its opposite.  Unite the two and there is nothing left for there cannot exist just one.  The unification of the opposites finally brings about an end to the suffering experienced as a result of Life which appears as an exteriorized separate existence from the Infinite Source called God.  God is Naught.  God is the something that is nothing.  God is the Two that is Equal to Naught, or expressed another way, God is 2 = 0.

We say that Love is the force that unites.  But more than this, Love is the nature of God Itself, as expressed in the Bible.  God has apparently shattered and separated its Eternal Love nature in order to have experience outside of itself, which appears separated from the very Source which created the experience in the first place.  For Love’s sake, it divided.  For Love’s sake, we must re-unite.

It is Love that is behind it all.  It is Love that is the Sun behind the sun.  It is Love that is the Limitless Light itself which is the Ultimate Source, the Eternal Peace.

We are all headed for this Ultimate destination.

How soon that is all depends on you.

The pure Self, or Atman, exists in its purest state of Naught, or No Thought.  As soon as the thought itself appears, mind appears.  There are 3 states of being.

Dreamless Sleep, which is Pure Awareness of the Self, the Self awareness of its Self with no taint of ego, the experience of which seems like a Void or Nothing, reality being masked by the Absence of thought;

Dreaming state, in reality is obscured by thoughts, which appear as real to the dreamer as do ‘objects’ do in the Wakeful state;

Wakeful state, in which reality is masked by objects, which are crystallized thoughts.

Enlightenment is in one interpretation, a process of realizing each state in such fullness and completeness that one’s Awareness (as opposed to one’s Mind) can move from one state to another at will with no restrictions.  Again, Enlightenment & Liberation almost seem a process of becoming bored with Egoism and the “existence” that results from the very inception of Thought itself.

Again…Thought itself is the problem.

When one becomes tired with the constant dreaming-creating that results in our own imprisonment in the matrix, all desires and attachments, which are the offspring of thought itself, finally cease.  Yoga is the science of the “Cessation of the fluctuations of Mind-stuff.”

The mind itself must be destroyed, as it is the vehicle of thoughts that arise from the Self’s Egotistic self importance, until the Self one day finally learns that it is one with God and has no use of thinking anymore.  All thoughts are exhausted.  All endless patterns of manifestation are explored and experienced, either in physical or astrally or just mentally.  Once Egotistical experience is satiated, the Self can rest and stop endlessly creating within the confines of the Laws of this manifestation.

It is because the Mind itself that must be destroyed that Yogis often employ a technique that brings the mind and the thoughts that generate it, to a standstill.  If one would desire Eternal Peace, the True Heaven spoke of by the mystics, one must DESTROY thought itself, which arise out of the Ego, which wants everything except such Peace because it knows that this Peace means its total destruction.

The Buddha used a method of meditation by which he brought to a standstill the thoughts in his mind.  Enlightenment ensued.  The destruction of Desire, which is the Cause of Life itself, brings about an end to this existence which is the True Hell, and a birth into a new existence of Eternal Peace.

Every time you desire anything at all, it causes ideas or thoughts and that requires mind.  To destroy desire and attain enlightenment and liberation, one must cease having thoughts and ideas in general, which means one stops having desires (which arise out of ego) of different sorts, such as mental, astral, and physical.  In part, desires are caused by reactions to everyday life.  When one can relieve his egotistic soul of the need to react to any life-stimulus, which is caused by “leftover” subconscious programs, then one will experience a much more balanced, peaceful existence, which ultimately manifests as the naught, void, the realization of the Self experienced in Enlightenment.

The degree by which you are not affected by the fluctuations of everyday life, no matter how seemingly important one perceives the occurrences to be, is the degree by which you can measure how far away from enlightenment you are.  There is an old Zen story.  A student once asked his teacher, “What is holy?”  The teacher replied, “A mountain of shit on a silver plate!”  The lesson here is that when you arrive at the state of enlightenment, you stop applying artificial labels and identifications to all phenomenon you experience here in the matrix.  Things considered gross by the common people simply do not affect the yogi.

Continuing in this vein, there is a saying from yoga philosophy which states that in the small pond-like minds of the unenlightened, the stirring of a small fish causes titanic waves of mental disturbance, but within the oceanic mind of a yogi the surging wave actions of whales cause hardly a ripple.  Stated in more common terms, a terrorist attack such as what occurred on 9-11-2001 do not cause the same reactions in a yogi or adept as do the rest of the world.  The whole world reacted with horror.  But the enlightened experience such an event as just another occurrence which is ascribed no more significance than if only one person had died.

Again, when one possesses an awareness level approaching the Eternal, there are fewer and fewer distinctions, interpretations and labels applied to observable phenomenon.  Stated another way, the Enlightened are Neutral to the endless dramas of life which affect the rest of us with such intensity.  On the surface, their demeanor is one of total apathy.  In fact, one could say that as one approaches Enlightenment, one would experience an attitude towards the world bordering on the boring, caused by their own lack of psychological and emotional interest in the phenomenal dream-world.

But that is not to say that they are without Love of Compassion.  In fact they are more possessed of such feelings than most of us can ever imagine.  They do feel compassion for those who suffer, which is everyone who is not enlightened.  Remember Buddha’s words, “Life is suffering.”  But there is a way out of suffering.  There is a Path out of suffering.  The way is to follow the example of the Enlightened.  It is the ONLY way.  No one can do the work for you.  It must be done on your own with total concentration and devotion coupled with the same persistence found in the most diabolically evil people of history.  Evil people never give up.  That is why they succeed in causing so much turmoil for everyone else.  Likewise the Enlightened succeeded because they never gave up.  They persisted in the face of all adversity, trials and tribulations.

This is the way out of Hell, which is Life, which is Suffering caused by the very inception of Thought itself.  Choose a method of meditation or some spiritual practice that can quiet the mind utterly.  Practice it everyday.  Never give up.  Focus on becoming ONE with God.  Sooner or later, depending on one’s own efforts at such, Enlightenment will happen.

Follow the example of those enlightened people who have come before.  This is the only way…by example do they lead us and by example do we follow, thereby becoming like them and setting examples for others to follow us as well.

By following the example of the enlightened do we succeed in attaining our own enlightenment, where all other attempts at such have failed.

In the Western magical tradition there is a teaching, or more accurately a warning that the magician must avoid the temptation to “sell his soul” to a spirit or demon during the process of pursuing God.  In the Eastern spiritual tradition there is a philosophical teaching of paramount importance which stresses the avoidance of “attachments” that detract the seeker along his journey up the path to enlightenment.

With the Principle of Correspondence being what it is, it should come as no surprise that there is a correlation between these two teachings from either side of the globe.  The fact is they are identical, being just differing perspectives of the same Spiritual Truth.

Western magical adepts have for centuries admonished the magician about giving away his power to one particular spirit or being because it would stunt his evolution on the way to Godhood.  Normally this giving away of power is done with an agreement or contract, sometimes written down on paper (sometimes even in blood), between the magician and the spirit.  The western master Franz Bardon even mentioned the possibility that if the magician spends too much time working with any one being, a bond would occur nonetheless, even though no contract was actually created.  Spending too much time with one being or within one particular sphere of spiritual influence can send the magician out of balance on a permanent basis, unless he can see the error of his ways in time.

In the East, the yogi is warned to let go of his attachments to anything in God’s creation, to not become obsessed (to use a more modern term) with anything at all, with the possible exception of God Itself.  The yogis teach that it is our attachments or desires for anything other than God Itself that keep us here trapped in life, tied to the earth, and forever stuck on the not-so-merry go round that is the wheel of life.  The wheel of obsessions, desires, & attachments goes forever around, carrying us along until we decide to simply let go of these neurosis that trap us here.  Should we refuse to let go of our attachments or even worse become obsessed with them, then what we have here is the Eastern equivalent of the Western concept of “selling your soul”.

While these two seemingly different spiritual occurrences from different hemispheres are truly one and the same, it should be pointed out that there is really no such thing as “selling your soul” since it was not created by “you” and it is therefore not yours to give away as such.  A more accurate description of this western concept of “selling your soul” is to say that you are “selling your freewill” or “selling your right to choose”, in this case giving away your right to make a purely voluntary conscious choice to align with God in exchange for mistakenly aligning with one mere aspect of the Infinite Creator instead of the Whole.

When a magician or yogi commits this error of becoming obsessed or attached to something other than the Infinite, then pain and suffering follow him all his life and even into the afterlife and on into the next rebirth of life unless he directs his consciousness towards the Infinite God to “save his soul” and find “redemption”.  This salvation is accomplished thru the help of developing one’s own Pure Consciousness, which is the East is also called Krishna Consciousness, which in the West is called Christ Consciousness.  “Christ” is nothing less than a “spiritual vehicle” of Pure Consciousness that “saves us” from making judgments about the reality we perceive, and helps prevent us from allowing attachments to pollute our soul.  In this context alone is the Christian concept of “Salvation thru Christ” to be truly understood.

The only way for a magician or yogi to succeed in his quest for the Infinite is to develop his own Divine Vehicle or Consciousness of Christ within himself.  When this is done, then there is no chance of ever losing one’s soul, or more accurately one’s free will choice to experience nothing less than God, to some spirit or demon because with the presence of the Christ Consciousness, the spiritual aspirant will simply not be focused on trying to “get something” from a spirit or demon, which is just an aspect of the Infinite God, because he is already in touch with the Infinite and effortlessly receives all he needs directly from the Supreme Source, no bargaining with spirits and demons needed.

Dr. Timothy Leary once said that the Universe is like a Rorschach’s ink blot test.  Life itself is a test.  It is a test of the Soul to see whether or not we will use our Free Will to serve ourselves or to serve God.  The choice is simple, really.  If you focus on God, you serve God, and come to Truly Know God to the point where can Eternally merge with God Itself, becoming One with God as it were.  However if you focus on something less than God, then that will become your reality, your obsession, your attachment for Eternity, a “contractual obligation” with a miniscule spirit or demon until you release yourself from such a foolish “bargain” and seek the Infinite Source Itself.

Until that day comes when we stop subscribing to our personal interpretation of what we think “reality” is, thereby obsessing and attaching ourselves to an interpretation of said reality, and simply let Pure unfiltered Consciousness inform us of what “reality” really is, then we shall all suffer from the spiritual sickness of having “sold our souls” or “sold our freewill right to choose”.  We will all be slaves to various spirits or demons that live within our selves.

One of the biggest temptations along the Path is to obsess with one spirit or demon in exchange for something, usually riches, power or love.  Generally magicians and yogis find themselves tempted to spend time and energy in trying to develop some magical power that will grant whatever they wish.  More often than not they will obsess or attach themselves to such an endeavor for a time.  It is unfortunate that many get lost in this manner, forcing their souls to have to try again in another lifetime.

Perhaps the point of this essay will be easier to grasp fro most readers from another perspective.

One does not have to be a magician or yogi to fall prey to obsessive-ness or “selling one’s soul”.  Look around you, especially in the field of entertainment and the media.  Do you not see many actors, artists, musicians, and various other famous personalities falling prey to an unhealthy hunger for money, fame, prestige and power?  Some of them, after years of trying, seem to develop a “Midas touch” when it comes to their careers.  No matter what these “golden” ones do, they always succeed, for good or ill.  Many of them revel in their power and fame, using it to get other things such as more money or sex.  On a daily basis the viewing public is told that these people are leading the “good life” and we should all aspire to the same.

But seen from a spiritual perspective, these people are to be pitied.  Through many years of constant effort, they have literally and unwittingly become slaves, obsessively attached to all of the worldly evils imaginable.  They have fallen victim to the absolute worst demons without even knowing it.  Upon close examination, do these celebrities not seem almost possessed?  In Truth, many of them are possessed by demons and have no idea of such.  They are hopelessly stuck in a prison of their own making, caused by their own desires for everything the world has to offer.

Just as most magicians and yogis fail along the Path to God, so also precious few of these celebrities ever break free of their demons.  Usually when they do, it manifests as a loss of money and fame and respect.  The heartless media will tell the world that these people have failed in some way and are forgotten.  But from a spiritual perspective we can say that these defamed celebrities are very fortunate indeed because their demons have abandoned them, no longer providing the money, fame and power that have been trapping the poor souls for so long.  It has been said that “Fame is a bitch”.  Truly, fame can be considered a demon, the freedom from which is truly a blessing in a spiritual sense, allowing the now defamed to quietly pursue a spiritual life, if he/she is so inclined.

To sum up, the old occult bugaboo of “selling your soul to the devil” is not to so feared as first imagined.  All the serious seeker must do to avoid the pitfall of getting mired in the muck of the world is to simply focus on God, in whatever way is easiest for the seeker to comprehend.

If you think of God, then God, which is the only True Reality, will become your perceived reality.

If you think of ANYTHING else, you get what you asked for…