peteyzen
30-07-2011, 04:28 PM
I`ve posted this article by Geoff Thompson, I believe it is something that every spiritual aspirant should read, and stop kidding themselves.
The enemy is not out there in the avenues and alleyways. He is closer than that. In fact he is as close as our neck vein. To paraphrase an old adage; ‘I have seen the enemy and he is us’.
I learned long ago that the unschooled thinking mind is our only enemy.
The mind cultivated and mastered is our only friend.
All the street savvy, colour codes of awareness, commentary walking, the big bag of physical tricks – as wonderful and as worthy as they patently are – will not help, not even a little bit if you don’t recognise that the enemy is your own projection. You could lock yourself in a padded cell and still be in clear and present danger because the unrecognised attacker (you) is the deadliest of all.
If you think that this is not true my friends you are in big trouble.
The devil was never as powerful as when he convinced people that he did not exist.
I have been around a few corners, I have created abundantly though not always knowingly, and certainly much of my early creation was not in the spirit of service. As an insecure man I enacted heinous violence, against myself and against others. At one stage in my life I could not leave the house without making a violent shape. I have literally destroyed realities with jealous projections, I have unconsciously cultivated illness in my body that was so real it showed up on X-Ray and in blood results, all with my diseased thinking. I have used fat thinking to take myself to a bloating sixteen stone, violent thinking has placed me in hundreds of street fights, and ugly thinking – for the longest time – moulded me into an unlovable ogre. I have burnt princely palaces by using my mind’s eye (consistently and emotively) to see lack and to create penury.
I ‘know’ how powerful the mind is.
I know, not because i have read it in the bibles, or heard it preached in the churches and synagogues. I know because I have witnessed it, not once but many thousands of times. And I see it all around me every day. People throwing out negative prophesy that becomes self-fulfilling. Folk seeing misfortune in their eye and selling misfortune with their tongue until all they see and all they hear is misfortune. People believe that they have to defend themselves against someone ‘out there’ when all the time the enemy is within.
And he is not really an enemy at all. Just an abundant and innate energy in need of a master.
How do you master him?
Conceptually it is so basic that, like the secret to the philosopher’s stone, it could probably be written on the back of a postage stamp. The knowing is simple, it has always been simple, it is so obvious in fact that, like all the great secrets, it is hidden in plain sight. It is so fundamental that people won’t and can’t believe it. So they wander off in search of a better secret, something more mysterious, something exotic and ostentatious.
People are always complaining that they need to be shown.
How many times do you need to be shown before you actually do something with what you see? How many times must you read it before you adopt it?
How often does the article, the book, the CD, the film. the teacher have to re-iterate the right direction before you turn yourself away from the wrong path?
People are complaining that they need to be shown. That they need to know.
They have already been shown many times. They are saturated with knowing.
It is it not the knowing that is hard, it is the doing.
How many people do you know that have a mastery over their palate?
I can count those I know on one hand. And yet that there is so much potency here that ‘when you control your palate you literally control the whole world (Ghandi).’
How many people do you know who have killed their addictions?
Most people are in denial, they are not self knowing enough to even acknowledge they have addictions. And yet all our power is locked into our addictions (the Kabala) and until we kill them we will not get it back.
How many people do you know – even amongst the (so called) rich and powerful – who understand/acknowledge basic cause and effect (what you give out is what you get back)?
Most are afraid to acknowledge what is not visible, even though its results are obvious. It is scary to recognise the reciprocal response, because to see that this universal law exists it to accept that all our past deeds - things we thought were forgotten, things that we hoped time would lose – are making their way back to us as we speak. In fact they are already in us, those old recordings, working their way to the surface, demanding their say.
Our vices have voices. If we refuse to hear them they will shout at us through illness and disease, they will scream at us through bad luck and catastrophe.
How many people do you know who access their Power, their God/Universe/Akashic through meditation?
Probably not many. And yet, it is THE technique for expanding consciousness, as recommended by the most influential members of our species throughout history. Of all the exercises I can offer meditation is the most potent because once you expand your conscious net through the practice of stillness, all the other disciplines, like palate, addiction etc will become easier. In fact it is in the still place that many of our karmic bads are able to surface and dissolve.
Things that demand tremendous will power at a lower level of consciousness will be very easy and natural at a higher level. But there will never be a point where you will not have to employ ‘will’ (which might be seen as the working arm of the true Self or the Atman)
People are complaining. They need to be shown. They need to know.
They have been shown. They already know. Knowing is not enough. You need to ‘do’.
So people come to my classes because they think they have a manifest enemy. They do not. The first lesson I teach them is that sovereignty over their own mind is more powerful than leadership of an army of 10,000 men. And if they can get their mind right, there will be no more enemies.
But developing sovereignty will not happen in a vacuum. And you will not be given power over the magnificent whilst you are still fumbling in the dirt with the mundane. Your level of power will be in direct proportion to your level of personal commitment and development. The weakest place to reside is in an area known as denial. It is a crowed location; its comfort draws the majority. Don’t be in denial and hope that you are going to grow. In denial there is only atrophy. And don’t sit there with your penchant for sexual porn (like I did) and your passion for pizza (like I did) and your self-pitying, judgmental, accusatory, jealous, angry, pointing finger (like I did) and pretend that you can change the world, just because you read it in a book.
How can you change the world if you don’t even have the will to change your socks once a day?
You can only change the world if you first change your mind.
I know how powerful the mind is.
I have been around many corners. I have created abundantly, at first unknowingly, and not in the spirit of service, but later as a disciplined and secure man I radiated profound love, for myself and for others. I find it hard to leave the house these days without making the love shape. I have literally created whole new realities with anabolic projections; I have consciously cultivated wellness in my body that is so real it is as though I am reversing my age. I have used healthy thinking to take myself from a bloating sixteen stone down to a sylph-like thirteen, peaceful thinking has eliminated violence from my life, and beautiful thinking has – for the longest time – moulded me into a lovable man. I have built princely palaces by using my mind’s eye (consistently and emotively) to see so much abundance that even when I take abundance from that abundance, abundance still remains.
Be well
Geoff Thompson
The enemy is not out there in the avenues and alleyways. He is closer than that. In fact he is as close as our neck vein. To paraphrase an old adage; ‘I have seen the enemy and he is us’.
I learned long ago that the unschooled thinking mind is our only enemy.
The mind cultivated and mastered is our only friend.
All the street savvy, colour codes of awareness, commentary walking, the big bag of physical tricks – as wonderful and as worthy as they patently are – will not help, not even a little bit if you don’t recognise that the enemy is your own projection. You could lock yourself in a padded cell and still be in clear and present danger because the unrecognised attacker (you) is the deadliest of all.
If you think that this is not true my friends you are in big trouble.
The devil was never as powerful as when he convinced people that he did not exist.
I have been around a few corners, I have created abundantly though not always knowingly, and certainly much of my early creation was not in the spirit of service. As an insecure man I enacted heinous violence, against myself and against others. At one stage in my life I could not leave the house without making a violent shape. I have literally destroyed realities with jealous projections, I have unconsciously cultivated illness in my body that was so real it showed up on X-Ray and in blood results, all with my diseased thinking. I have used fat thinking to take myself to a bloating sixteen stone, violent thinking has placed me in hundreds of street fights, and ugly thinking – for the longest time – moulded me into an unlovable ogre. I have burnt princely palaces by using my mind’s eye (consistently and emotively) to see lack and to create penury.
I ‘know’ how powerful the mind is.
I know, not because i have read it in the bibles, or heard it preached in the churches and synagogues. I know because I have witnessed it, not once but many thousands of times. And I see it all around me every day. People throwing out negative prophesy that becomes self-fulfilling. Folk seeing misfortune in their eye and selling misfortune with their tongue until all they see and all they hear is misfortune. People believe that they have to defend themselves against someone ‘out there’ when all the time the enemy is within.
And he is not really an enemy at all. Just an abundant and innate energy in need of a master.
How do you master him?
Conceptually it is so basic that, like the secret to the philosopher’s stone, it could probably be written on the back of a postage stamp. The knowing is simple, it has always been simple, it is so obvious in fact that, like all the great secrets, it is hidden in plain sight. It is so fundamental that people won’t and can’t believe it. So they wander off in search of a better secret, something more mysterious, something exotic and ostentatious.
People are always complaining that they need to be shown.
How many times do you need to be shown before you actually do something with what you see? How many times must you read it before you adopt it?
How often does the article, the book, the CD, the film. the teacher have to re-iterate the right direction before you turn yourself away from the wrong path?
People are complaining that they need to be shown. That they need to know.
They have already been shown many times. They are saturated with knowing.
It is it not the knowing that is hard, it is the doing.
How many people do you know that have a mastery over their palate?
I can count those I know on one hand. And yet that there is so much potency here that ‘when you control your palate you literally control the whole world (Ghandi).’
How many people do you know who have killed their addictions?
Most people are in denial, they are not self knowing enough to even acknowledge they have addictions. And yet all our power is locked into our addictions (the Kabala) and until we kill them we will not get it back.
How many people do you know – even amongst the (so called) rich and powerful – who understand/acknowledge basic cause and effect (what you give out is what you get back)?
Most are afraid to acknowledge what is not visible, even though its results are obvious. It is scary to recognise the reciprocal response, because to see that this universal law exists it to accept that all our past deeds - things we thought were forgotten, things that we hoped time would lose – are making their way back to us as we speak. In fact they are already in us, those old recordings, working their way to the surface, demanding their say.
Our vices have voices. If we refuse to hear them they will shout at us through illness and disease, they will scream at us through bad luck and catastrophe.
How many people do you know who access their Power, their God/Universe/Akashic through meditation?
Probably not many. And yet, it is THE technique for expanding consciousness, as recommended by the most influential members of our species throughout history. Of all the exercises I can offer meditation is the most potent because once you expand your conscious net through the practice of stillness, all the other disciplines, like palate, addiction etc will become easier. In fact it is in the still place that many of our karmic bads are able to surface and dissolve.
Things that demand tremendous will power at a lower level of consciousness will be very easy and natural at a higher level. But there will never be a point where you will not have to employ ‘will’ (which might be seen as the working arm of the true Self or the Atman)
People are complaining. They need to be shown. They need to know.
They have been shown. They already know. Knowing is not enough. You need to ‘do’.
So people come to my classes because they think they have a manifest enemy. They do not. The first lesson I teach them is that sovereignty over their own mind is more powerful than leadership of an army of 10,000 men. And if they can get their mind right, there will be no more enemies.
But developing sovereignty will not happen in a vacuum. And you will not be given power over the magnificent whilst you are still fumbling in the dirt with the mundane. Your level of power will be in direct proportion to your level of personal commitment and development. The weakest place to reside is in an area known as denial. It is a crowed location; its comfort draws the majority. Don’t be in denial and hope that you are going to grow. In denial there is only atrophy. And don’t sit there with your penchant for sexual porn (like I did) and your passion for pizza (like I did) and your self-pitying, judgmental, accusatory, jealous, angry, pointing finger (like I did) and pretend that you can change the world, just because you read it in a book.
How can you change the world if you don’t even have the will to change your socks once a day?
You can only change the world if you first change your mind.
I know how powerful the mind is.
I have been around many corners. I have created abundantly, at first unknowingly, and not in the spirit of service, but later as a disciplined and secure man I radiated profound love, for myself and for others. I find it hard to leave the house these days without making the love shape. I have literally created whole new realities with anabolic projections; I have consciously cultivated wellness in my body that is so real it is as though I am reversing my age. I have used healthy thinking to take myself from a bloating sixteen stone down to a sylph-like thirteen, peaceful thinking has eliminated violence from my life, and beautiful thinking has – for the longest time – moulded me into a lovable man. I have built princely palaces by using my mind’s eye (consistently and emotively) to see so much abundance that even when I take abundance from that abundance, abundance still remains.
Be well
Geoff Thompson