Reasons To Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig a New Zealand-born author and novelist of nine works has hit on a 'beyond-self-help' common sense approach to the disease of depression. The book should be mandatory reading for every person taking anxiety or depression drugs and every grade 10 student in the country in my opinion.

You can listen to the podcast presented by Australian Broadcast Corporation radio from the show; 'All About The Mind' hosted by Lynne Malcolm. Here's the link; All About The Mind
-A.N.

Cosmic Rant

It's not really about your heart or your brain or your intuition or even your etherial self. These are mere undeveloped synoptic impulses we detect as consciousness. It's very much mind-boggling to me that we Humans are still here on Earth considering the consciousness-dead sea shores on which we lay shipwrecked, stripped and sun burnt. Evidently, within more developed cultures than modern-day Humans, there must be rules distilled from scientific realizations that we cannot yet imagine because our processors are simply not developed enough to comprehend them. Having a glimpse of this kind of consciousness It would be a 'leg up' about existence. To grasp it would mean that we were being let in to the Cosmic Club instead of navel-gazing until we suffocate ourselves within ourselves. Look within? Perhaps. But what about 'look beyond'?

Humans, and possibly the entire planet Earth would have been terminated shortly after the First World War by one extraterrestrial force or another had it not been for a few chance occurrences that will one day be seen for what they really are. Intervention by a cosmic force of one kind or another. Perhaps it’s best to be as ameba is to us. 

We’re not really in the way except when we detonate nuclear weapons or gang up together to cause attention by killing one another. Cosmic rules that for reasons once again we cannot comprehend, must be interwoven with a clearer understanding of the reality behind Creation. It's God's back-story. Even God has got to have one. 

Wow. What if the highest world power, like the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland for instance, is in actual fact, just a spec of fly poop to the force that actually runs what we perceive as reality? It may be quite beyond the Matrix scenario without a doubt. The concept renders absolutely everything many Humans think of as normal or expected down to total primordial pig swill. And that is probably a good place to start thinking about what's going on with Humans right now. We definitely need to look beyond. –A.N.

Utopia, The Fitness Thing and Biodegradable Corpses

I heard someone on the radio today say, "Utopia 's just not gonna happen. It just isn't." I felt great empathy for him. I heard another bit about another guy who wrote a book, a thesis or wait... Yes, it was a 'manifesto' of modern living' what kind of living I do not know. I believe the host of the show mentioned which kind with aplomb and a heady bon-vivant sort of like it was a butter-dripping fact or something. Humans are nuts. His thing was about how creativity is not a special gift but a learned thing that we get better at with practice. Whatever the case, I just turned him off. Literally. On the radio. But first in my mind.

Can you imagine how little we know about the human mind and its connectedness with laws of the Universe that we have yet to discover? The laws and the Universe I mean. Sure it's fine to set the Hubble Space Telescope adrift in the far-reaches of our home galaxy, the Earth's that is, and call it lemon pie. But really. It appears to me that Humans are really not using their noodles very well at all.

Take the anti-Utopia guy for example. Holy shit just give up right? We become what we think about I've been told by wiser people, and I believe it. So if you think we're fecked, well then I guess we're all fecked. It's sad. We sit here on this blue marble and allow crazy power-hungry sadists to run our world (not the politicians, they're all too stupid) and we complain about the weather or the ball score. We're fecked all right.

Can you imagine if most of us spoke of Utopia a lot? What would that mean? Obviously we would have to allow for an indeterminate number of Utopias to exist, since if they were filtered through a million minds, there must be at least a million versions of Utopian society one would think. And what if we put together several billion of those into a simple catch phrase or tag line as people refer to that sort of thing now? Can you imagine how quickly crooked bankers and the 'Three-Sister' institutions that brokers our future on this planet would crumble and fall? "One Earth, One Future" I say. We need to start promoting the concept of Utopia around more. Every school child over the age of five or six should understand the basic concept. The idea that we are giving our kids, the future of this planet, toys that glorify war (as in realistic video-games not toy guns by the way although, still) is really ludicrous. Who's running that scam anyway? Ever thought that one through? You should try. It's good exercise. For your brain I mean.

And speaking of which, I just heard that insurance companies, (the other bastards that run everything) are going to decrease your life insurance premiums if you use specific high-tech wearable gadgets that will tell them if you rode your bike to work or how many sit-ups you can do. Good God. Just give it all away people for a fifteen percent reduction in your yearly bill. Life insurance made better. Feck. When I die, I want it to be a REAL tragedy. Feck life insurance and the greasy slime-balls behind that racket. Caveat: Just like with banks, there are lots of really decent folks working in Life Insurance. Don't get me wrong. There is however is the question of morality, general decency and love of fellow man that appear to be missing at the tip of these corporations like one of Teddy's button-eyes.

So go ahead, connect with the company that built your automobile so they know where you go, what you do, how fast you accelerate and how many passengers you may or may not have. They'll sell that info to the top bidder. Really. And you just gave it away. The Insurance industry sure has balls though eh? They know how to make a profit. You sure don't. Fifteen percent they offer if you can prove on a daily basis that you are healthy and less of a rick to insure. Lesson One: Don't live near a cement company. Those trucks are big and they may run you over. And your insurance company will know when one hits you. Lesson Two: Never accept the first offer. Fifteen percent indeed.

Once your dead, that is to say your soul or essence has left your physical bio-vestle and transformed into a a different energy modality, I heard that instead of fire or rotting you can chose to become compost. Now that's fun! Just throw Uncle Bill into the compost heap. He'll be cooked by springtime. Sure would save a lot and warm cucumber sandwiches and miles travelling to places you never went when guys like Uncle Bill were still alive in their bodies. Vegetable food. Maybe that's Utopia.

The Seed of Life

Once you understand the significance of this image, there is really nothing else to say. Gaze at it for five minutes and see what happens. Don't lose your concentration. Gaze at it. 

Breathe, relax, feel, watch, allow.

The Energy of Miracles

Creating miracles in our lives is no more complicated than understanding the metaphysics of the Universal Law. And because that law is indestructible and therefore infinite, we know that the power used by miracle makers in the past is still available today. Yet, in our modern society, we're brought up to believe only in those things we can logically understand. Neither are we taught that the Universal Law has limitless potential or that this power is at our disposal and can be used to work miracles in our own lives.

Understanding the Universal Law

To understand miracles, we have to look at two aspects of the Universal Law. First, there lies deep within all humankind an immense power; and second, the power is impartial and unemotional. Call it the Universal Mind, Christ Consciousness, Conscious Energy, or what you will, but it is this power that allows human beings a recognition of the universal life force that we call "God".

 The life force is eternal, and, because of its limitless capacity, it is a part of all things. Moreover, it's a major part of each of us. Consequently, we all have within us an unlimited power. Creating miracles in our own lives becomes a matter of identifying with the power, understanding its characteristics, and learning to use it effectively. This identification is achieved by knowing that the power is within us and acknowledging that fact by saying, "I am eternal, immortal, universal and infinite and therefore I am beautiful." By doing this, and believing it, we lock into the power source and are poised for the next step, which involves looking at its characteristics.

The Universal Law is impartial and unemotional. It has no way of knowing what you want, nor does it discriminate between your hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes - it is pure energy. It accepts whatever thoughts, feelings, and actions you project and reflects them back to you unemotionally in the form of events that you experience day to day.

In much much the same wayas electricity illuminates both a brothel and your grandmother's tea party, The Universal Law doesn't differentiate between different types of energy in your life. It will give you anything you believe in - no more and no less. Therefore, the key to understanding miracles is to examine closely the beliefs you express as thoughts and feelings. 

Photo: Rachel Hulan "Fying Baby"

When you were born, your thoughts and feelings are limitless because your mind is a clean slate. What a small child projects to the Universal Law is a natural purity unbounded by the constraints of beliefs. Children often attempt the seemingly impossible: they drive off in the family car or walk on a high ledge. It's only later, through education, that they learn the confines of human expectancy.

But these confines or boundaries are illusions. They're formed by belief patterns - most of them born of ignorance - handed down from generation to generation. This pool of belief patterns, or the "collective unconscious," as Carl Jung called it gains validity as it moves through time, and eventually the concepts that later generations experience as physical reality become rigid and domineering. It's as if the billions of people who preceded you have determined what you're going to experience on this Earth plane, and that's all there is to it.

This rigidity doesn't allow for genius or for the understanding that we're now in an era of rapid unfoldment. Fundamental structures are being swept away in an avalanche of awareness, and we're no longer prepared just to read about great miracle makers; we want to have the same experience. For most people, this isn't possible because they're locked within the limitations of the body and mind; their upbringing is so dominant that it encases their entire evolution, and they experience little spiritual growth.

Understanding Life's Mission 

We are not our bodies or our emotions or our minds or any of the structures and restrictions we experience around us. We are an infinite part of the God-Force, using the physical form to experience spiritual development through a special teaching called "daily life."

When you entered the Earth plane or dimension, the energy that is the real you left isa abode in the higher dimensions of pure light, and entered, by choice, the body you're now in. You chose the circumstances of this life because it was the next step in your infinite evolution, and because this life would allow you to expand what you are spiritually so that you could become an even greater expression of the infinite life force or Living Spirit.

Now you may say: "That's nuts! Why would I choose these circumstances of my life - this family, this society, and this neighborhood? Why didn't I choose a more affluent environment or a prettier body or more intellectual capacity?" The answer lies in a dimension beyond the physical plane. As you entered this dimension through birth, you has within your consciousness a heroic mission - a goal. The nature of that goal is firmly written in the very deepest recesses of the inner you; and what you are today, no matter what you feel about yourself, is actually a part of that goal in various stages of completion.

Your mind began recording events, thoughts, and feelings only at birth. It doesn't know of your heroic mission nor does it understand the Universal Law that interacts with your limitless potential. Why? Two reasons: First, if your mind, feelings and emotions knew the nature of your heroic mission in life, there would be no challenge or quest, and your evolution would suffer. Second, most understanding of metaphysics is based on tribal or religious beliefs that do not totally reflect an accurate perception of the delicacy of energy and the way its ebb and flow affects daily life; no real understanding of the Universal Law has ever been incorporated into the various belief patterns of the world's collective unconscious. 

For example, let's say your heroic mission in life is to learn to love yourself and to accept full cosmic responsibility for what you are. And, let's say, you have had a number of previous experiences on the Earth plane in which you were weak and indulged yourself metaphysically by leaning on others rather than contributing to your own energy or support. If you knew this in advance, you'd begin to favour one course of action over another, You'd intellectualize yourself into positions or feelings that you wanted to achieve, and your mind would dominate your every move.

Evolution doesn't work that way. You can't overcome weakness by fighting it or thinking your way out of it. You overcome weakness by leaving it behind you. This means that you become aware of the inner tendencies that bring you down, that don't support a belief in self, and that don't endorse a love of self, and you say, "I don't want to be that anymore." You then move yourself out of the slovenly ways of the collective unconscious, into a discipline of power. From time to time, you may drift back, but once you decide on the side of strength, the power of the Universal Law will always be with you to varying degrees.

It may be a battle at first because your mind doesn't understand these laws or the nature of your mission on Earth, nor does it understand the laws that govern your potential. It will have a tendency to "advise" you logically from its own experience, and logic is death to that part of you that is the miracle maker.

Understanding the Nature of Beliefs

The next step in creating your own miracles is to look at the nature of beliefs. By reviewing beliefs and feelings, you begin to understand how to use the Universal Law effectively. It's natural to yearn for the impossible, and in so doing, you establish strong beliefs about what can be done and what cannot. You can jump a certain height and no higher, run at a certain speed and no faster, accept a certain position and no better.

Because most commercial aircraft fly at about 600 miles an hour, the shortest time in which you can get from New York to Paris is about six hours. Those are facts in the collective unconscious. But what if we told you of a man who could move his body many thousands of miles in just a few seconds? Your mind would scan its memory banks and draw a blank, whereupon you might think impossible! Then perhaps you might review all the scientific data available and conclude that this feat is unachievable. All scientific knowledge and current thinking are products of the same collective unconscious, and just the fact that a billion people have no concept of a man moving 3,000 miles in a few seconds makes it seem impossible. But the billions of people are wrong.

There is a dimension, right here on the Earth plane, in which such a feat is possible, and there are a few people alive today who know of this dimension and use it. It's a matter of perception and belief. Your ability to work miracles is predicated entirely on how easily and quickly you can give the collective unconscious the slip. It's your attachment to the collective unconscious, or world belief patterns, that holds you back.
Read Stuart Wild's Website. Interesting Stuff!