If we all treated each other every minute and hour of every day with the same spontaneous kindness that one extends to someone who is obviously near death…just imagine how wonderful a place it would be for all in which to live.  Life itself would be nothing but a manifestation of love itself.

When you submit to God, you dominate the world.  If you would control your world around you, or your life (and your Fate along with it), then submit to the Inner Voice of Intuition that comes from the Soul which is a middle man that goes between the Universal Spirit and the Physical Body (which is one and the same as the world that appears to surround it).

Practicing Hatha Yoga (those physical postures that look like “tying yourself into a knot”) is a way to submit to God and control your Fate.  This miraculous power comes about from the training-acquired ability to perform any posture at any level of difficulty perfectly while remaining totally calm, relaxed and breathing evenly and deeply and slowly.  The hidden idea here is that the postures represent all of the challenges, trials and tribulations we may experience in life.  If you can remain calm through a posture that corresponds to some aspect of life, then if it is your fate to experience that aspect of life before you die, you will know that you can pass thru it, transcend it, perhaps even eliminate the very need to experience it—hence the reason some claim that Hatha Yoga grants powers to the yogi.  They are right of course, though the power manifests from a passive kind of application, for to actively such power for selfish gain is hardly becoming of a yogi.

To sum up, if you submit to the challenge/pain/suffering of yoga postures, then you govern your own life, control your fate and therefore may even eliminate the need to experience said challenge/pain/suffering that otherwise occur during the course of one’s life, or at least one would mitigate his/her perceptions of that experience in some way, perhaps diminishing the sting of the event to more manageable levels.

Life itself is an opposition of sorts, an opposition of the Soul to Spirit, God.  The soul incarnates in a body on the 3d physical plane, finds nothing but opposition and suffering in life and feels abandoned by God.  The truth is that the Soul never really is in opposition to God, it is just tricked into foolishly believing in such a notion.

It is like God itself wants to know what it is like to oppose itself (I am divided for Love’s sake—Liber Al) so it created us all as a giant Singular Soul, divided that into myriad holograms and/or fractals (each part being a both a copy of the original Soul as well as containing all of the information/knowledge/intelligence/wisdom of the original Soul within itself) and then scattered all of us individual souls across the purely imaginary universal body of God…and then a 3d physical representation of that ideation was manifested—a physical body within a physical universe.  All this was done so God could experience Itself.  It divided for the sake of feeling the force of attraction called Love, which is meant to bring back to One all the little souls across the universe, returning eventually to the original big Soul from which it originally sprang.

Imagine the Soul of the whole universe compresses itself into a physical body, just to have a point of perspective, a frame of reference, enduring the horrible pain and suffering of a sense of separation (which is just false perception).  The whole process can be likened to a gigantic Inhalation and then a huge relief that comes with the Exhalation, the letting go of the physical body, letting go of the separation of life, returning back into the Absolute Joy of the original Soul, returning to God.

After realizing that the separation was purely an illusion (which is Enlightenment), then the only reason any Enlightened Soul would return to this temporary separation again (via reincarnation) is to help others to realize the same Truth, so they can end their own illusion and stop suffering as well.  This desire to assist others arises from the Compassion/Love one feels upon realizing that the separation was a Grand Illusion, that we are all One, which naturally causes the realized person to feel tremendous pain knowing that the whole world is suffering needlessly.  This pain naturally spurs one into action directed towards liberating others from the pain of the Illusion that overwhelms us all.

When you honestly express yourself all the time, you really don’t need “drugs” to loosen inhibitions.  You are already free to behave as you choose.  When you realize that you don’t need the beer, it is ok to slam the brew.  When you realize that you don’t need the pills, it is ok to pop the bean.  When you realize that you don’t need to toke, it is ok to smoke.

I think the problem with so-called addictions may be simply that the addict is unaware that they don’t need what they are consuming.

Once this is truly realized (far beyond mere ‘knowing’), then nothing external can hold sway or control anymore, and all external things can be enjoyed for what it is—a gift from Divinity.

“If you ain’t first, you last!”  So says a racecar driver character from a recent Hollywood film.  The meaning in the context of the film is easily deciphered…if you don’t cross the finish line first, you may as well be in last place.

But then the Polar Opposite meaning came to me in a flash—If you don’t occupy yourself with competing against others, chasing after money, acquiring things, or other myriad selfish activities that would make you First (in the eyes of the world),…then you last, in that you survive a lot longer, and going further perhaps even meaning that your very Soul itself consciously survives beyond Death, which is in fact, just one much touted effect of Enlightenment.

“If you ain’t first, you last!”  Sounds like good advice to me…from a certain perspective.

Sounds like slang for “Be humble” or “Let it be” or “Don’t worry, be happy” or “Be still, and know that I am God” and so on and so on in that spiritual vein.

“If you ain’t first, you last!”………and to that, I say “Goddamned right!!”

Magic powers help us realize one way or another on some level or another, that the 3 Dimensional experience we call life is not as real as we think, nor is the 3D Universe.  Even before reaching enlightenment the spiritual student can still realize this in some way.  I wonder if the student who focuses more on enlightenment rather than acquiring magic powers, isn’t in some way moving faster towards the Goal than the wannabe-wizard obsessed with powers?  It seems to me that such a wizard is either blind to the Truth, or else knows the Truth and simply denies it while working his spells.  I think that either the unconscious or consciously denied failure to realize the Truth is the Folly of All, and especially those who use their powers for selfish aims.  It was Hermes Trismegistus who wrote that “Unacquaintance with truth is the greatest sin.

Those who are aware of the Truth and still consciously choose to be here (rather than the wizard who denies) in the 3d plane are what we call Enlightened, because they no longer need to be here and would rather not continue doing so, but they remain here anyway out of Love, out of Compassion for those who either don’t have the Truth.  It is a thankless job and so the Master must accept it as such with humility.  He serves God by serving others with his acquired Divine and sublime powers of Truth as his tool, weapon, shield, armor and most valuable possession as he fights to bring the Truth that will bring Freedom and Light to a Darkened world.

People who stay awake during the very late hours of night are not freaks of nature.  They are simply manifesting an ideal, in that they are not afraid to shine their own light even into the inky black of the nighttime hours.  These people are usually very creative and imaginative, great thinkers and philosophers, a group of folks who are just more tuned into the mind, the truth of themselves and the world around them.  They shine their light into the collective unconsciousness of the world while safely ensconced in the secrecy exclusive to the night.  Their ideas (if acted upon) change the world.

These night owls are a lot like yogis who remain not awake at night but rather stay consciously aware during the night hours, usually in deep meditation (resembling sleep) or else being engaged in some secret work they are doing for the world.  They are usually lost in concentration upon some Divine thing or other or even nothing at all, whatever it so happens to be at that moment.  Their only thought is serving others thru their work.

I think that people who stay awake at night, doing their best work at night are the ones who are truly Spiritually Awake (at varying levels of awareness) and are quite literally the ones on this earth who are the bravest, the most open minded, the ones who most desire to end suffering and bring about harmony and freedom to others in need.

I feel that ‘day people’ are (generally) spiritually asleep because they are usually stuck doing some mindless, repetitive job that doesn’t inspire them creatively or imaginatively. The live their lives at the behest of daylight masters, exhibiting no will of their own, existing as zombies, seemingly alive but in truth…dead.

And yet the daylight zombies think the night owls are crazy.

Who are the freaks of nature now?

Women are the symbolic physical representatives of the Soul stuck in Darkness that need God’s Divine Solar Light, which men can provide.  She feels she is the world and that men are looking at her.  She sees the man’s Light (if he has any) and subsequently feels receptive to his Light so she can fill her Darkness and end her pain.  The ending of her pain is felt as the orgasm of ecstasy, bliss.  She gives Pure Love in return which releases more Light from within the man, Light which comes straight from the Source, thereby both partners become filled with more and more Light, even up to the point that they become enlightened.

This process can be performed on the physical (tantra partner), astral (imaginatively) and/or mental levels (allowing the Higher Self to speak to you, unencumbered by the old fear-mongering of the now dead and resurrected Ego), bringing Final Liberation.

The process of enlightenment is one of de-programming, eliminating by starvation old useless programs while simultaneously creating new programs to run.

The whole world is filled with people who don’t know anything about the fact that they are little more than a collection of constantly running programs.  And when someone appears in their lives who is not suffering from the same programs as they, what happens?  Usually an attack occurs on the newcomer, as robots do not trust anything new.

The whole world is programmed for selfishness, materialistic, hatred, stagnation.  It is a rare person indeed who is genuinely selfless, un-materialistic, compassionate and free to react to any situation according to a free choice instead of just running an old preset programmed reaction.  Such a person is a self-programmer and a potential de-programmer of robotic humanity, a hacker of sorts that the Matrix-Computer considers dangerous, like a virus.

An enlightened person is one who has used the very fact that we are programmable robots against itself by creating programs that neutralize the actions of the external stimuli that is always attempting to forcefully program us.  He programs himself to not get stuck in one programmed way of behaving—free will, the ability to freely choose how to react to external stimuli.  In the practice of yoga, the yogi is generally concerned with focusing his attention internally, ignoring external stimulus.  He reacts only to what he chooses, even being able to react to absolutely nothing at all if he chooses to do so.

Such action is frowned upon by society in general, as the overwhelming majority of them are not cognizant of the fact that they are robots running someone else’s programs instead of their own.  Hence, all they see is someone behaving in a way that is not parallel to their own programmed ways, and since they have no personally created program that would let them be tolerant of noticing strange behaviors in others…they react viciously against this new manifestation in front of them.  Belittle them.  Berate them.  Beat them.  Kill them.  The same repeating and predictable pattern, the same program that has been running on earth for millennia.  Intolerance.  Anger.  War.  Fear.  It never seems to end.

Certainly there is a better way than this?  How long will the earth human race last behaving in such a way?  Will we even survive, providing future physical channels for us to become enlightened master programmers?  I have no idea.  But at least I am programming myself, and attempting thru my writing to help a few realize their self-programmability with my writing.

Perhaps the reason we have fears of being buried alive is related to the possibility that after death occurs, the Soul actually watches the body die, begin decomposing and be buried.

Maybe the ancient Egyptians who were mummified were really acting out a fear of death as much as a fear of having to watch their old bodies deteriorate which would mean that their Souls would have to return back to its Creator, thus killing the Ego.  It has been recently suggested that mummification was a technique employed to trick the Soul as it were, into thinking that the body still existed, and therefore reincarnation was unnecessary.

It seems the fear of Death is just a fear of having to end this otherwise endless merry-go-round (sometimes not-so-merry) called life.  Sometimes I think that the ancient promise of eternal youth is just a fantasy born out of the fear of death and is little more than a slap in the face of the Almighty because we all must return back to the Creator eventually.  Therefore, live life to its fullest.  Be good to yourself and serve the world/universe by following the selfless dreams which will give you the most inspiration and Joy.

You are a Soul, which is a middleman between the pure Spirit world and the Material world.  God’s Will is Joy, for thru the interaction of opposites comes Creation which is Joy.  If you follow your inspirations (which are ideas from the In-Spirit or Spirit INside), you will be receiving from Spirit and giving to the World, which is Creation through the interaction of the opposites occurring in the only place it can, the middle ground, the middleman,  your Soul.

Every time you create you “get off on it” to use a vulgar expression.  Creating is a Joy that makes one Happy.  Therefore Create for the world what Inspiration suggests to you because this will give you Joy.  Do it everyday before you die and nothing will be regretted upon your last breath.

Or instead of doing so much before we die, we can practice deep meditation and introspection and learn thru Spiritual Wisdom to let go of all desires, the occurrence of which will negate you needing to be here any longer which will then result in Enlightenment/Death.

Which one of the above two views is correct?  They both seem to contradict each other.  But they don’t.  Only when we are enlightened and CHOOSE to stay a while in a body in order to help others can both views be perceived with the same eye revealing their truly combined nature.

By this revelation it would seem that ALL of us are already enlightened but don’t realize it (generally speaking).  When one realizes his or her own enlightenment, one loses all fear of death for death is just an end to our experience of the merry-(and not-so-merry)-go-round here in the Physical world.