Considerations Eighty-Three …
A Most Valuable Precept …
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Just about everyone and everything alive in the Lower Psychic Worlds can benefit from this proclamation … it is one of the most valuable in understanding the workings of Self in the Lower Psychic Worlds themselves. This applies to all … myself included … and it is …
The art of illusion / deception lies in shifting blame.
Did you catch that? Many will exit this post and shrug it off as insignificant. Look at it again …
The art of illusion / deception lies in shifting blame.
How many post on this forum board have their fingers pointing outward … often with no more evidence to back up their stance than their own word or declaration … it’s most often one word against another. Name-calling … finger-pointing … ridicule … intimidation … on it goes. The main reason for that is … all in the Lower Psychic Worlds is theory and opinion. Mind … approaches and makes it so.
What’s going on in the world today? Pointing ones finger outward has become a lifestyle … a way of life.
And yet it all adds to the illusion / deception of the scenario you are outwardly living in is real. If ever one needs a position to protect … from anything … simply find fault and place the blame for it outwardly … somewhere else … or on someone else’s shoulders.
Wev’e got all kinds of names for it … the most popular is “projection.” One finds fault with and blames others for the very issue they themselves practice. People can hide behind that one forever.
A new term that I ran across recently … one that I have never heard of but admittedly I give little attention to the political arena … and that is the Munchausen ( man-CHAW-sun) Syndrome. This takes on two forms … well and highly used in the world today on all levels …
The first … an individual can falsely claim that either they or someone else is sick, impaired, or inept … for reasons of sympathy, or playing any other type of game where this gambit can be employed. If they claim it for themselves … that’s one side of it. If they constantly pound away on someone close to them to convince them that they are ill when they are not … that is another.
The second … an individual or group will convince others that they are sick simply to turn them into victims … often so that they can promote control over them. This … is the world today. Few accept responsibility for their own stances, positions, or actions.
On the forum board … this takes on quite the list of ogres. Let’s blame ego … let’s blame childhood … let’s blame my mate ( or lack of ) … let’s blame my state of consciousness … let’s blame my religion or my teacher ( or lack of ) … let’s blame Self ( whatever that means at the time ) … Person XX made me do it … Person YY didn’t let me do it … let’s blame my lack of abilities … etc. Make up your own list.
All these facets of Self … are *you.* If you want to consider “ego” as some foreign invader that controls you … be my guest … or any of the other factors you can find / name. “YoU” … control the ego. YoU … control your own state of consciousness. Etc.
What you are living now is a result of past choices. You can blame others for “forcing or coercing you to make your choice” … and that will work as long as you wish to allow it. Without a doubt … when an individual or an entire group … ( government, religion, educational system, work, etc. ) … comes in and says … “Guess what … you’re gonna do it *this* way … “ … you either comply or leave … if you even have that choice. Traps and intimidation are everywhere.
Many times you have little choice … so you settle into doing what is demanded but on your own inner terms. You may know it is not your choice but you must follow the edict or lose your job … or mate … or religious fellowship … etc.
But for the most part … since the journey is an inward one … you come to the realization that “ego” and “consciousness” … and “mind” and all of those scapegoats … are you … and you either continue … or find a way to change it. And without a doubt … a lifestyle of “DO-ing something about it” … is one that will begin a journey into the deeper areas of Life. Letting the new replace the old … one step at a time.
And often … the mainspring here is not
letting it work … it is *making* it work. You are forming a new cause … and beginning to live from it. So much that now controls your life was done in reaction to … _______ … whenever, wherever and by whom that happened.
Now … you begin to design your own effects by structuring the causes by which you live … one at a time.
There are numerous websites and books that will assist in building new habits. Try to always remember … that the journey is an inward one … as inside … it comes from the inner TO the outer … so if you try to change the outer without first changing the inner … the effectiveness of your attempts will often fall way short.
Go inside and redesign. Go inside and pretend. Go inside and play like … you are this new person … this new habit. As the Core Teachings often promote … as well as Neville Goddard and a handful of others … go in and act As If. Quietly lay back … or sit … go inside … make up a symbol / doorway for entry into this “As If ” practice … go through it … and then act As If you are already the new habit or viewpoint. Do this for ten minutes … daily … more … if you have the opportunity. More often and for longer periods of time … pays dividends. Expect one to two to three weeks on a specific before results may be seen. There are exceptions. Some can happen very quickly. A long-standing habit will take more time.
You can use this for anything … but remember … this is for YoU. This is NOT to proclaim control over someone else. Don’t try to go in and *make* someone love you … or *make* someone submissive to you … or demand to get *this* job, etc. If you try this … go out and buy yourself a ledger book and begin to make notes on how your are going to pay back these karmic implications. They *will* come back on you.
If you want to be more forgiving … go inside and do it. If you want to be more tolerant … go inside and do it. If you want more personal strength … go inside and be it.
But try to come to the realization that it is *you* that needs to change … and others will be who and what they are.
Admittedly … you can place the blame elsewhere. It is a much easier lifestyle … and the mind / emotions love it.
More Monday.
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Tidbit …
If all you do is all you’re doing … then all you’ll get is what you’re getting. Very little will magically appear or disappear.
Mind does not listen. Mind defends.
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